Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third trust, the Williams Trust of 1716, a fund to "convert Indians," is not listed at all in the offical Register. Steiner said the University has been dispersing money from the fund--about $1400 per year--to outside religious groups
...most bizarre immigrant is Shira Lindsay, 32, daughter of a Dallas Pentecostal evangelist. Shira converted to Judaism in Boston, then moved to Israel in 1970 to spread the Gospel. The rabbis in Boston have now annulled her conversion. Says Shira: "I do not want Jews to convert to Christianity. I merely want them to believe in Jesus and accept the New Testament...
Harvard lost it in the first period, as the Crimson came out looking tight and unorganized. Cornell played better positional hockey and forechecked well, allowing them the better of the chances. The Crimson power play failed to convert on three opportunities, one of which was a three-on-two situation...
...Synagogue Council of America, warns against taking "the alarmist view" of Key 73. Writing in the current issue of the American Jewish Congress's Congress Bi-Weekly, Siegman doubts "that any significant number of Jews will be won over to Christianity by Key 73. Those few who will convert will do so because we have allowed Jewish life to become so secularized, so emptied of transcendent meaning, that some of our children will turn to Christianity and to other faiths in order to fill a terrible spiritual void...
...late and eminent Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, who last week got in a posthumous word on the proselytism question through a television interview taped just before his death in December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there are some Protestant sects who still cling to this silly hope of proselytizing [Jews]," he said, "I would say that they are blind and deaf and dumb...