Word: baptistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call. For one thing, Belin told reporters that he was a graduate of the University of Arkansas. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch checked with the university, found that no Clyde Belin had ever attended. Belin also said he was ordained a Baptist minister at the Southern Baptist Conference in Hermitage, Ark. The Arkansas Baptist State Convention not only denied the existence of the conference but added that conferences do not ordain ministers. Belin said" that he had earned three theology degrees from the Southern Bible Institute in New Orleans between 1929 and 1931. But the nearest thing New Orleans...
Born 71 years ago in a small town in Bessarabia, Bronstein grew up as an Orthodox Jew. He came to the U.S. at 22 to work in a Baltimore sweatshop with his brothers, began to take free English lessons at a Baptist church. Soon he was reading the New Testament as well as the Old. One day he came home and told his young Russian wife that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. She was horrified, contemplated divorce. "Next day, after his father came home from the synagogue," says she. "I told...
Revival. In Rutherfordton, N.C., Eugene W. Smith, 28, was charged with three counts of assault and one for disturbing worship after he stormed into the Second Baptist Church on a Sunday morning, smacked the bell ringer for waking...
Farewell to Alms. In Fullerton, Calif., Car Salesman Robert W. Huff, 30, charged with bilking seven Baptist churches of some $93,000 worth of building bonds, explained that he had to finance his trips to Las Vegas dice tables in order to win money to keep up payments on his new Cadillac, yacht, house trailer and jeep, told police he got the "gambling fever" after "I started pitching quarters...
...boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell and a young Midwesterner named Reinhold Niebuhr, were ready to step out of their pulpits and into the machine shops and marketplaces...