Word: baptistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Glisson, 33, was minister of the tiny Baptist church in McLemoresville (pop. about 300). Among the town's inhabitants was a stormy young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Casey. Their marriage was marked by continual quarreling, and, though they seldom attended his church, the Rev. Mr. Glisson offered them counsel and tried "to get them in the right relationship with God." Despite Glisson's efforts, the battling Caseys ended up in a divorce court...
...just felt duty-bound not to betray a confidence," said Pastor Glisson. Other churchmen were outraged. "If this happens," said Dr. Fred Kendall, Tennessee Baptist leader, "how can church members ever confide in their ministers...
...time to give the Southern Baptists a new name, urged the Rev. Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, executive secretary of the Texas State Baptist Convention. " 'Southern' is a sectional term that no longer describes our location. We are now in nearly every state in the Union and in Canada." The name is a handicap "to our ministry in areas beyond the South." Dr. Feezors suggestion: the Continental Baptist Convention...
Naves. In Birmingham, Church Official Richard King, 72, was knifed outside the Friendly Baptist Church by a group of ousted deacons...
...carabinieri showed up with orders to stop construction; Pastor Cannito rushed to the district judge, who promised to review the case, meantime warned Cannito that if one more stone went up, the pastor would go to jail. By last week, work had been stopped on the half-finished Baptist Church of Sant'Angelo in Villa. Said Manfredi Ronchi, president of the Baptist Union of Italy: "If dark forces prevail, we will have to suffer...