Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiled, floodlit baptismal pool. Above him was a stained-glass window showing Christ and John the Baptist. Next to him in the pool stood a friendly-looking, greying man-the Rev. Theodore Floyd Adams of Richmond's First Baptist Church. There was organ music, and then both the pastor and the new Christian went to change into dry clothes...
Boom in Russia. In Washington last week. Pastor Adams met with members of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, of which he has been president since last summer, to make plans for his five-year term, and to consider the state of Baptists throughout the world. The picture before the committee was impressive. In Asia there are now close to 650,000 Baptists, in Africa 223,000, in South America 134,000, in Central America and the West Indies almost 100,000. In Europe there are approximately 1,100,000 Baptists, 500,000 of them in Russia, where...
Changing Pattern. Who are the people who have built this record? Are they back-country farmers with a Bible-banging, hellfire preaching kind of religion that snaps its galluses loudly and contemptuously at other Protestants, all liberals and the Pope? Theodore Adams is one of their most noted pastors, yet he never flails the air with more than a finger when he preaches to his congregation, which includes young executives and their wives, painters, postmen and the managers of chain stores. Are they diehard Confederates to whom a Northerner is necessarily a Yankee and a Yankee is always unnecessary? Pastor...
...range the whole gamut of the reformer's work. Says Washington-born Theologian Helmut T. Lehmann, 41, who is in charge of the project: "We're not aiming this series at scholars. They can go to the original. This edition is intended for the searching layman, the pastor and the theological student." Nor need these readers anticipate heavy wading: "In many respects it is easier to understand Luther than much present day theological writing...
...evangelists produced former prisoners who testified that the services had helped them. Robert Garling, a stocky teamster-pastor (who had been in jail three times in the late 19305, for burglary), told the court how he had been won over, despite his early hostility. Charles Henderson, a maintenance worker, was also affected by the services: "One night I seen a vision . . . right on the bulkhead there in the jail." As for denying prisoners their rights, said counsel for the evangelists: "They can put their coats over their heads if they don't want to listen...