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Another major part of the Jesus movement is the highly organized, interdenominational youth movement of the established churches???a sort of person-to-person counterpart of mass-rally evangelism. Though they have been around for decades, supported by local congregations and generous private contributors, they are finding a huge new growth in the Jesus revolution...
Host to Rulers. In the papacy. John asked to be known not as a diplomatic, political or learned Pope, but as "the good shepherd defending truth and goodness." He sallied out of the Vatican to orphanages, jails, schools, churches???139 times. He dispensed with such customs as that of barring visitors from St. Peter's dome while the Pope is walking in the garden below. Said John: "Why shouldn't they look? I'm not doing anything scandalous." He pronounced himself embarrassed at being addressed as "Holiness" or "Holy Father.'' and admitted that he could not get used to thinking...
Fundamentalism. A most elementary and powerful tenet of the Baptist faith insists that, to be received into the fold, an applicant must be completely immersed in holy water. Yet certain churches???most particularly the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Manhattan, pastored by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, attended and largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton...
...Canterbury to the uttermost parts of the Commonwealth. It has frequently been said that the dream of his life is that the Church of England, so sane, so sensible, so "rightly insistent on moral earnestness," shall become, with the growth of the British Commonwealth, the greatest of all Christian churches???more catholic than Rome...
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