Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madison, Wis. The timetable calls for separate church votes on a union document in 1986 and a convention to approve the constitution of the new body in 1987. The resulting church, with 5.4 million members, would become the nation's fourth-largest Protestant denomination (behind the Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist Church, and National Baptist Convention, U.S.A...
...indeed? White was a so-so student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...
...lightning. There you are, tooling north on Route 26, dazzled by an occasional stand of white birch, sniffing the pinelike incense, just about convinced that this is God's country the way the glaciers carved it out 12,000 years ago. Then the road descends and a white Baptist church materializes on the left, as if designed for Our Town. At the bottom...
...sure that politicians who have become involved in disputes over public-school prayer [July 26] did so out of concern not for those little souls but for their own jobs. As a Baptist public-school educator, I am against prayer in public school. I don't want someone else's faith taught to my children in the captive environment of a classroom, nor do I intend to teach my faith to those who have no choice but to listen...
...largest U.S. Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is particularly divided. It opposed school prayers until the annual meeting last June, where conservatives engineered a reversal. But Southern Baptist Minister James Dunn, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (and thus Washington spokesman for the Southern Baptists along with other groups) is undeterred: "We're opposed to this theologically, because it trivializes prayer into a civil religion." As Dunn sees it, "Kids trapped in a captive audience by compulsory-attendance laws can hardly be considered to be doing anything voluntarily...