Word: evangelistic
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...WALLIE CRISWELL, 50, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, the world's biggest,* with 12,000 members. A skilled evangelist who began preaching at 17, practices closed Communion and opposes dancing, Criswell is strongly anti-Kennedy, calls Catholicism a "political system that, like an octopus, covers the entire world and threatens our basic freedoms." He also condemns integration: "We'll all stand together in judgment before the Lord, but I think we can worship better our separate ways...
...have wondered whether they were in for a new era of eccentric journalism: as new boss of the Star's news-gathering staff, the paper named Dr. (of Divinity) Charles B. Templeton, 44, who once cut a wide swath in Canada and the U.S. as a boy-wonder evangelist...
...left the seminary to be ordained a Presbyterian minister. "He so evidently cares about people," said one of his teachers, "that every last man in an audience of 6,000 or 8,000 feels Templeton is speaking directly to him." He toured the U.S. as the first fulltime evangelist of the National Council of Churches, then as secretary for evangelism of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; along the way he acquired an honorary D.D. from Lafayette College...
...Templeton brightened the Star's travel, gardening and real estate sections-and even spruced up the church page. He still goes to church himself, but irregularly. He also has a new wife: CBC Thrush Sylvia Murphy, a divorcee whom he married 19 months ago. As news boss, ex-Evangelist Templeton has set a high goal for the Star: "We are not after sensation. We want to make the Star the most responsible and brightest newspaper in Canada...
Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster turns in one of the best performances of his career as Sinclair Lewis' Bible-banging, skirt-chasing evangelist...