Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Green expects Carter to be more populist than corporate in his interests as a born again Christian. Since the Bible teaches compassion and that all are created in God's image, Green says he would expect a born again president to try and deal fairly with the needs of all people...
...also a totally immersed Christian who knows his Bible, along with all verses of Amazing Grace, and considers neither religion nor kinship particularly joke-worthy. While Carter does not stem-wind like a "How long O Lord?" Frank Clement or Huey Long, he is a truly Southern orator. He is given to nostalgia, imagery and hyperbole. He declared in his acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden, for instance, that the U.S. income tax structure was "a disgrace to the human race...
Abyss of Sin. Like many a Christian before him, John Wright has been touched by the "good news" of Jesus' life, teachings and atoning death-the redemptive message that Anglo-Saxons dubbed the godspel and early Greek Christians called the euangelion. Among modern American Protestants, enthusiasts like Wright are identified as evangelicals because they give an urgent priority to spreading the gospel announcement. They want every human being to experience the truth that Jesus died to redeem him from the abyss of sin; they preach that faith in Jesus as Lord and Saviour is necessary for salvation, that...
...discrimination are past. "Whites simply don't pay much attention to blacks," he observes. He himself is assistant dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School (the first black in the seminary's administration), but he notes that "it is difficult to get seminaries to take into account that black Christians existed and do exist." Smith is disappointed that some young blacks have become converts to other religions-the Black Muslims, for instance. Still, he believes that in the South the number of black youths in the Christian churches is about the same as it was ten years...
...Values. Many women are bending that code to accommodate new values and new jobs. As a born-again Christian, Alabama State Auditor Bettye Frink prayed hard as she tried to decide whether it was fair to her family for her to pursue politics. She concluded it was-"if I would leave my problems at work and not take them home." Not long ago Leone Ackerly, 31, a bored middle-class housewife, decided to hire herself out as a maid. Her mother went into shock. Now Ackerly runs a string of six cleaning services. "My mother just thinks...