Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody gave a second glance to the four rows of ribbons on the silk stole of the curate as he greeted the members of the congregation. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist's, Anglican Church in the little Berkshire town of Crowthorne-like churchgoers throughout England-are growing used to having a middle-aged pastor with military decorations. In Britain today, the church is second only to "the City," London's commercial center, as the favored career for senior officers retiring from the armed services...
Miller, the new Dean, has been minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church since 1933. Appointed as lecturer on Pastoral Theology in 1953, he became a full professor in 1958, and has written on problems in religion and science. Considering the Divinity School's future, Pusey characterized Miller as "eminently qualified to lead in consolidating our gains and establishing a firm educational pattern...
...Protestants in Spain operate solely on the document issued by Franco's generals after the civil war, granting permission to reopen established Protestant churches. This means that there is no legal authorization for the establishment of a new church, or even for an established church to move. A Baptist church in Barcelona was closed down last year when its congregation moved without permission from a building that was about to collapse. And in 1954, Madrid's Second Baptist Church was closed because a new Catholic charity foundation across the street complained that the Protestant church was interfering with...
...just 23 Negro pupils-and not one of the 1,044 white students locked out by massive resistance last September -went in to register. The whites chose to boycott rather than integrate. The 780 white pupils still in town kept right on attending private, segregated classes in the Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches, a museum and a former youth center. Cracked Front Royal's Town Manager G. Douglas Hamner: "This is what you call technical compliance...
Singing Salesman. As a youngster, Johnny had something to cry about. Born near Kingsland, Ark. ("just a wide place in the road"), he grew up on a hardscrabble farm. Johnny's Baptist family were mainly hymn singers, but his mother reckoned that it was all right to teach the boys how to strum her battered old guitar. At twelve, Johnny was writing poems, songs and gory stories. At 22, after a tour in the Air Force, he was married, making a poor living as an appliance salesman in the poorer sections of Memphis...