Word: christs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee, the 5,000 delegates of the Northern Baptist Convention discussed proposals (but took no action) for church reunion-with the Southern Baptists and with the 1,693,807-member Disciples of Christ. Dr. Culbert G. Rutenber of Philadelphia's Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary warned the delegates that U.S. churches are "fearful, humiliated and frustrated...
...Rotarians let them down. Staid, stout and respectable, they ignored the hotspots, loosed not a wolf whistle. Festooned with cameras and shopping bags, they took the funicular to Sugar Loaf mountain, gazed at the Christ of Corcovado, swarmed into the curio shops to buy butterfly trays and carved knickknacks...
...weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war . . . We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family . . . And we will be considered fools for Christ...
...Eisenhower was brought up in the Brethren in Christ church...
Most of Jones's essayists base their pacifism on Christ's actions rather than on His words. They cite the Crucifixion as history's greatest example of victory over evil by nonresistance to force...