Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often go to local ministers for help. They usually stay in the same area for the entire summer and live with two or three other dealers Mark Tiedemann, a sophomore at Trinity, sold books in Saginaw. Michigan last summer Fortunately, Tiedemann says he got free board from a Baptist minister, who let him stay in an old part of a church...
...there is in our recent past an exception. Beyond any doubt, the most important force in the civil rights movement was the Black Church, personified by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and organized around the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Who organized the Montgomery bus boycott? Ministers. What did they sing at Selma? Spirituals and hymns. And there is an exception in the world--Latin America, where the Catholic Church has emerged as part of the vanguard movement for freedom. In the name of Jesus, priests and bishops have finally begun to withdraw their support...
Evangelism is broader than the Southern Baptist church, the Billy Graham Crusade, or the Moral Majority, and it transcends divisions between Christian churches. Most evangelists describe their work as spreading the gospel or "telling the good news," as the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, head of the United Ministry here and the chairman of the ad hoc committee which invited Graham to Harvard, explains Graham himself says he used to resent being called an evangelist until he learned that the word can mean "another...
...Mary Beth Moehl, a Southern Baptist minister and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry, says evangelical methods as she sees them should consist of personal interaction, especially sermons in local churches. Moehl criticizes the fundamentalist churches for their methods of television evangelism, saying that the "electronic church" draws people away from localized religion. Many of the misconceptions about mainstream evangelism stem from a confusion of theological conservatism--the intensive concentration on the Bible as the source of religious views and sermons--with fundamentalism. Moehl says. While she is not sure of the historical origins of this tendency...
Graham probably never imagined when he was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister in 1939 that a shift in his views would be the most visible sign of a general, political shift in Christianity. But he is now using the concept of a nuclear freeze as one way to explain Christian theology. His close association with then-President Richard M. Nixon during the Vietnam War led many people to assume he supported the war and to exhibit surprise at his recent public statements in favor of an eventual freeze on the production of nuclear weapons. Graham has been asked...