Word: converting
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...least a few chapter members to join foreign missions. The fellowship has a full-time adult staff of 105, including 70 traveling "coaches" who help out the individual chapters. Members usually meet once a week for prayer and Bible study, spend many of their off-duty hours trying to convert fellow students. At the University of Illinois, for example, the Inter-Varsity chapter sends a welcoming letter to freshmen, sponsors lectures by conservative theologians...
MARCH--The University purchases the River Street power station and plans to convert it into the Tenth House. "All it needs is a little fixing up to blend in with the rest of Harvard's new architecture," observes President Pusey. Ethel Kennedy is awarded the "See What We Mean" Trophy by the Planned Parenthood League of America...
...transformation began in 1950 when Herbert Leslie Minard, 56, a Disciples of Christ minister from Fresno, Calif., took charge of programming and membership for the Y. "We are not a proselytizing organization," Minard ruled; he halted Bible classes and refused to let Christian missionaries distribute convert-seeking literature. Minard, who is now the Y's general secretary, persuaded both Christians and Jews to join its community council, set up adult education courses to help in the acculturation of Jews from 50 countries who had gone to the new land. The Y now teaches 15 subjects, all in Hebrew, ranging...
...forget in the ecumenical age. Perhaps the only priest who takes the maxim literally is outside the church himself: the Rev. Leonard Feeney, 67, a defrocked Jesuit who in the '30s and '40s was one of the nation's best-known Catholic theological popularizers and convert seekers. Feeney was excommunicated in 1953 for disobeying his religious superiors and refusing to accept a Holy Office decision that non-Catholics who worshiped God in good faith could be saved...
...which the whisky taste is either disguised or nonexistent. This theory is behind the biggest ingredient in Heublein's success: vodka. The company paid a White Russian $14,000 for his Smirnoff distillery in Bethel, Conn., in 1939, but did not really decide until the 1950s to convert whisky-drinking Americans to the almost tasteless drink...