Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting in Atlanta last week, members of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Evangelism spent their sessions discussing race relations and experimental ministries that seek to serve men rather than convert them. "The concept of evangelism is broadening to include the totality of a man's life," explained Dr. Gerald Jud of the United Church of Christ. "Old evangelism tried to get everybody inside the ark. Today the church is trying to get the significance of God's love to people outside...
...into what they traditionally believe to be Christ's one true church. "Focusing their attention upon corporate reunion " says the Rev. John A. O'Brien of Notre Dame University's Bureau of Religious Research, "Catholics seem to have overlooked the importance and necessity of continuing the convert apostolate to the individual...
Cutbacks & Layoffs. As it often does, inflation gave the ailing economy a deceptive look of health. Last year the value of industrial production rose 16%, investment 29% and retail sales 22%, partly because consumers scrambled to convert their depreciating cash into durable goods. There has also been a burst of new building in Belgrade...
...taste and imagination than their recent issue. Whatever their illusions, the marchers are sincere (financially committed) and often intelligent in their concern with a major human issue. Surely, watching the Poonies parade their indifference with such consummate vulgarity is the greatest support for Mr. Velluci's sage proposal to convert their building, officially, into a public urinal. Jeffrey S. Mohiman...
...hypothetical. Once again his hero is the middle-aged man of intelligence and high attainment who is facing his psychological climacteric. Maxwell Gordon Amberley is a career Foreign Service officer and Old Far Eastern hand. While he was serving in Japan, his wife died and he became a convert to Zen Buddhism: such are the personal roots of his spiritual crisis and subsequent breakdown. But the personal story of Amberley is far overshadowed by the public story of the American official, for as the action starts, Amberley is named U.S. Ambassador to South Viet...