Word: fundamentalistism
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Butch's casualness ends at the gym door. A fundamentalist who scoffs at patterned offenses ("I'd rather just play basketball") and fancy zone defenses ("In a man-to-man defense, you know exactly who makes a mistake"), he is, according to one Tiger player, "the best coach in basketball-from Monday through Friday." But when game time rolls around, he turns into a Tiger-screaming at his players, snarling at referees. A loss sends him into a paroxysm of frustration; even a victory leaves him wan and wet with perspiration. Not until the season is over...
...families, most of them from Tennessee, Texas and Alabama, have now settled in Stamford. While saving up to build their own house of worship, members of the Stamford Church of Christ gather for Sunday services at a public school. They have also been working hard to spread their fundamentalist interpretation of the Gospel. They have placed ads in the local paper announcing their services. A "dial-a-devotion" telephone number (322-9559), sponsored by the church, provides callers with a daily inspirational message on tape. Congregation members have rung 4,000 local doorbells, distributing literature and inviting people to their...
...demands of prison life, says Gilkey, frequently exposed the strict Protestant ethic as legaiism wrapped in hypocrisy. Many of his fellow prisoners were critical of the compound's fundamentalist ministers. On principle, they refused to lend their canteen cards to heavy smokers-but they would not hesitate to barter the cigarettes they got from the Red Cross for extra tins of food. Far more popular were the Roman Catholic missionaries, who generally displayed a spirit of freedom from material wants that enabled them to play a creative, neighbor-helping role in the community...
...Erotic Thoughts Dirty? Now 52, Abbé Oraison continues to write prodigiously on sex. A onetime surgeon who was ordained at a comparatively ripe 34, he is a Freudian fundamentalist. Oraison campaigns for a new church morality, believing that the old approach imprisons man in a network of actions either "permitted" or "forbidden" and is psychologically valid only for a child. He holds that man is not the servant of moral codes but vice versa...
During the past century, every revision of the Methodist hymnal has tended to reduce its Wesleyan content. Reversing the trend, the 1966 edition includes 81 hymns by John and Charles Wesley, 20 more than the 1935 version contained. Also included is a nostalgic fundamentalist favorite that was left out of the previous hymnal because it did not suit the musical palate of the time: The Old Rugged Cross. All in all, proudly sums up the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, retired Bishop of Western North Carolina and one of the supervising editors, "it's the greatest hymnal...