Word: baptiste
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...Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November that "all other issues pale" by comparison. Billy Graham sees a moral crisis that "demands the attention of every Christian...
...joined "the George Bush apparatus" in the 1980 G.O.P. primaries, and added about Allen: "This makes you wonder how he got a job in this Administration." Reflecting the feeling that the press had vastly exaggerated Allen's alleged conflicts of interest, the Rev. Norris W. Sydnor, a Baptist minister from near by in Maryland, used the invocation to declare: "We think about the free press and sometimes the threat that it has on our freedom in America...
...happen to be fashionable at the moment." In 1975 he called the previous decade "a period of ecclesiastical decadence in which the people who had started it later on became incapable of stopping the avalanche." After Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop of Munich in 1977, he barred Liberation Theologian Johann Baptist Metz from a professorship and engineered the Vatican crackdown on his former colleague Küng. Ratzinger's shift prompted charges of opportunism; students broke up one of his campus appearances last year with booing and jeering chants...
Thomson has always been a man of broad artistic sympathies. Four Saints astonished its first listeners with its folksy, hymnlike tunes drawn from the composer's Baptist background and sung by an all-black cast. Although the 1928 work has dated badly-a little of Gertrude Stein is, after all, a lot of Gertrude Stein-it is still a landmark, something that served to define what "American" was between the wars...
...historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People." The high point occurred at Yad Vashem, the memorial for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. There, British Baptist Minister David Pawson preached fervently on Christian identification with Jews...