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Preaching the Bible. Michael Delamarian is not the only Biblical preacher to find newer and bigger congregations in the suburbs. Across the U.S., in working-class townships and bedroom communities that surround the great industrial cities, fundamentalist religion-in tiny, independent churches that feature emotion-laden sermons and preach a faith based upon an unerring Bible-is beginning to threaten the traditional suburban hegemony of the mainstream Protestant denominations...
...social democratic leader said that what he called "fundamentalist socialists" believe in nationalization of industry. Calling himself a "pragmatic socialist," he held that "the majority of Scandinavian socialists don't believe in ideological phrases," and emphasized that the Norwegian government had never nationalized an industry, though it has taken an active part in developing new ones...
Except among Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and a few fundamentalist churches, which follow the traditional practice to the letter, today's approach to tithing is more flexible. A number of Catholic parishes with parochial schools attached split the tithe-5% to the rectory, 5% to the school. Many Protestant ministers believe that other charity can be counted in. "The tithe should be a means of free expression of thankfulness to God-with the accent on freedom," says Episcopal Canon Rudolf Devik, of Seattle's diocesan stewardship department. "Charity may include anything the person feels is the work...
...Schwarz's anti-Communism attracted the attention of two fundamentalist ministers, Rev. Carl McIntire of Collingswood, N.J., and Dr. T. T. Shields of Toronto,* who were touring Australia together. They persuaded him to travel to the U.S. for a two-month lecture tour on Communism...
...Presbyterian McIntire was expelled by his church in 1936 for "disturbing the peace of the church" by loud and vigorous protests against modernism. He organized his own fundamentalist Presbyterian Church, helped establish the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches in opposition to the ecumenical National Council of Churches. Baptist Shields for years, until his death in 1955, carried on a strident campaign against Catholicism and for stricter Bible interpretation...