Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...THEODORE FLOYD ADAMS, 62, president of the Baptist World Alliance (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1955), has been pastor of Richmond's First Baptist Church since 1936 and has seen his congregation rise from 1,600 members to 4,100. Regarded as perhaps the Baptists' most distinguished preacher, Adams is firmly on record as opposed to segregation...
...idea for the program originated with a group of undergraduates in the spring of 1959, and was tested last year in seven or eight seminars in the fall and eleven in the spring. The Rev. Richard E. Mumma, Presbyterian University Pastor, called last year's seminar's "quite successful" in that they were well attended and provoked interest...
...bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...
...These religious hatreds fortunately belong to the past," said Pastor Bourguet. "But our ancestors paid a great price for our faith and our freedom. We must never allow it to be forgotten...