Word: baptistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attend. But numbers of those making "decisions for Christ" at Graham's meetings turn out to be Roman Catholics (whose "pledge cards" are duly passed along to Catholic churches). Father Kelly feels that "it seems time to be specific." ¶ "Rev. Billy Graham is an ordained Baptist minister. Billy's crusades are definitely Protestant services [in which] Catholics are not permitted to participate...
...First Baptist Church Oneonta...
...motorcade of 153 robed and hooded Klansmen drove into Americus just after church, held a demonstration at the fairgrounds, then disrobed and went out to Koinonia to urge the community to move. Last week Koinonia's president, Virginia-born Norman Long, 32, still a member of the Baptist Church, and Clarence Jordan, 44, were planning a move that looked to some like the beginning of retreat. Koinonia will open a branch farm at Neshanic Station, N.J. Jordan insisted that this is no retreat; the Northern farm will be used chiefly as a rest center for Koinonians with "battle fatigue...
This is not to say that there was no connection between the Essene community at Qumran and the first Christians. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness near Qumran at a time when the community was flourishing; he was, like the covenanters, an ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other...
With Lady Eden he stepped immediately into a chauffered limousine and rode under state police escort to the New England Baptist Hospital where Dr. Richard B. Cattell of the Lahey Clinic was waiting...