Word: fundamentalistism
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...Woodland Hills, reality came with the Watts riots last August. The church was the first in the Los Angeles area to organize a food drive for riot victims, has since set up, in cooperation with Brother James Mims's Fundamentalist Negro Bible church near Watts, the Willowbrook Job Corporation, which has found jobs for 177 people and opened up communication between members of the two parishes. Steel, says one parishioner, "showed us that the church is only a place where we go for an hour to rehearse for a meeting with God in the world the other 167 hours...
Mark Odom Hatfield is a lay preacher of the fundamentalist Baptist Church, a teetotaling former university dean (Willamette) who gave up smoking because he did not want to lead his students into temptation. Hatfield has since adopted a habit that is a lot harder to forsake: running for public office. At 43, he has won five consecutive contests for assorted posts as a Republican in normally Democratic Oregon, is just finishing off his second four-year term as Governor. Since he was barred by Oregon's constitution from seeking a third successive term, Hatfield obviously had to find another...
Martin Quarrier is a fundamentalist missionary who enters the jungle to save the Niaruna. He is a kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...
...moon. You can't kill no meat on the new of the moon. It will be tough. I studied the calendar and the almanac, and the soonest I can do it is around the ninth or tenth of next month." Then there is the hillbilly's fundamentalist religion, ever inveighing against sins of the city. Two years ago, at a revival meeting in Handshoe Hollow's Holiness Church, snake handling was part of the ritual -until one of the faithful grabbed a purely satanic copperhead, got bitten and nearly died...
...United Church publicity campaign is intended as much to explain and identify the denomination as to gain converts. Although it is a 1957 merger of the venerable Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, the liberal United Church is still confused by many people with the fundamentalist Churches of Christ. And in Washington, a city of high mobility, many United Church parishes are losing members...