Word: fundamentalistism
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Billy Graham? Oral Roberts? Not quite. The speaker is Lester Maddox, former Governor and now Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, onetime wielder of ax handles to keep blacks away from his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta, and one of the hottest speakers these days on the U.S. fundamentalist circuit...
...CHURCH. "The only hope of America is the fundamentalist church, where the people teach the word of God and not the word of man. Some churches I can't get into-some of these modernist churches. They're trying to get God to adjust to man rather than man to adjust...
...electronic "white sound," sleep-inducing device he keeps near his bed. Also near his bed is the Bible he has carried with him constantly since he joined the Worldwide Church of God, a California-based fundamentalist sect...
...after dinner in their Wheaton, Ill., farmhouse for evening prayer and a bit of Bible reading. The trouble was, Taylor observed some years ago, that his children could not quickly grasp the archaic English of the King James Bible. An ordained minister who was then director of the fundamentalist Moody Press in Chicago, Taylor decided to try paraphrasing the Scriptures for his youngsters-an experiment to which the children-then numbering nine-quickly responded...
Taylor does not expect his Bible to be a substitute for the translations currently available. He argues that Christian homes need both a "reading Bible" and a "study Bible," for which he recommends one of the standard translations. His personal "study" Bible is the New American Standard, a fundamentalist favorite, though he used the older American Standard of 1901 as the basis for much of his paraphrase...