Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faith Healer Coe angrily lumped Taft and the Herald with the Devil. But at week's end he had yet to accept the challenge, inspired by Taft's stories, of three ministers of the Miami Churches of Christ. They offered to pay Coe $2,500 if his "faith healing" would cure anyone who had been duly certified as ill by two physicians, and then certified as cured...
...Many Indians seem to have the idea that Christianity is a western religion," he told them. "That is wrong. There were Christian churches in India before America was discovered." And when he invited his audience to "make decisions for Christ," they surged forward in record numbers. In three days, he spoke to more than 100,000 people, received about 4,000 "decisions...
Most who came were Indian Christians. But there were also huge crowds of Hindus, whose flexible faith allows them to enshrine Christ alongside Buddha...
Evangelist Graham bluntly tackled color questions: "Christ was born between East and West. He was not as light as I am, and was not as dark as you." To the folks at home Billy reported: "I am taking my wife a sari, the world's most beautiful garment. I mean to turn her into an Indian." And in U.S. newspaper columns he wrote: "The people of India love and respect America." He added: "I have fallen so much in love with India that I can be its good ambassador in my travels round the world...
...cites his book, Socialist Decision, a work highly critical of the Nazi government, as the reason for his dismissal. "I then left Germany for many reasons," Tillich said, "but the most important was because of the Fascist's enmity against any self-surrendering love towards the Cross of Christ...