Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word of the change spread along Broadcasting Row in Manhattan and through the Hollywood production centers, condolences for Silverman were mingled with hosannahs for Tinker-as if John the Baptist had been beheaded and the Messiah proclaimed on the same day. Said George Schlatter, producer of Laugh-In and, for Silverman, Real People: "Freddie is imaginative, inventive, aggressive. He tried a lot of things, but unfortunately they didn't work. But then, TV is a monster. It eats up shows, performers and executives. Grant will be taking on a tremendous amount, but there's an enormous sense...
...Baptist power struggle...
Being president of the Southern Baptist Convention is a largely honorary job, and most presidents typically tend their 13.6 million-member flock in obscurity. Not the Rev. Bailey Smith of Del City, Okla. Last August, Smith offhandedly told a conservative political rally, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." In the furor that predictably followed, Smith met with Jewish leaders and said he regretted hurting anyone's feelings, but never took back the remark...
Over the Jewish prayer question? Not at all. The issue was the Bible and how it shall be taught. A Southern Baptist president has one notable power: indirect control over nominations to boards that run the six Southern Baptist seminaries. Smith, like his predecessor, is a scriptural hard-liner who believes the Bible is "in-errant," free of errors in all matters spiritual and historical. Inerrantists believe, for example, that a whale actually swallowed Jonah and that Adam and Eve were individuals, not symbols. That is the faith of most grass-roots Southern Baptists but not necessarily of the seminary...
...Southern Baptist terms, Smith, 42, is a formidable figure, a fiery redhaired, old-style prairie stem-winder. Last year his First Southern Baptist Church in Del City listed 2,027 baptisms by immersion, a record for the S.B.C. and, presumably, any other U.S. Protestant group. In opposition to Smith's candidacy, anti-Smith moderates fielded distinguished, disarming Abner McCall, 66, former president of Baylor University. McCall was described by his backers as "a Lincoln who can preserve this Baptist union...