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...road-tripping racquetmen then sandwiched one-sided losses to Furman and potent South Carolina around a 6-3 victory over Presbyterian...
...replied Fundamentalist Presbyterian Carl Mclntire. In his Christian Beacon, he offered an ingenious exegesis of the Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...
...time high of 35,698 Protestant missionaries from the U.S. (v. 7,010 Roman Catholic ones), and that church members' annual giving to mission boards totals $633 million, a 60% jump in three years. Though several denominations such as the Episcopal, United Methodist and United Presbyterian Churches have been trimming their missionary work, the Evangelical movement clearly treats overseas missions as a growth industry...
After receiving the vision, Presbyterian Bright became a lay evangelist at U.C.L.A. He concentrated on gaining converts who would influence other students-athletes, political activists, beauty queens. His Campus Crusade spread quickly to other U.S. universities (currently 426) and beyond. Its slogan became "Today the campus, tomorrow the world." The staff now numbers 5,300, of whom 1,100 are foreign nationals working in their own countries (84 of them). Among recent staff recruits is Ralph Drollinger, a 7-ft. 2-in. basketball center from U.C.L.A., who passed up pro bids to join the crusade's Athletes in Action...
Blumenthal's formative years were spent in Nazi Germany and then Imperial Japan. His parents were nonpracticing Jews, while he is a baptized Presbyterian. His father, who owned a women's clothing shop, was hauled off to Buchenwald in 1938 and was released only after the four-member family, including Sister Stephanie, agreed to leave the country. They booked passage to Shanghai. In his teens, Blumenthal became a streetwise Shanghai kid, but when the Japanese occupied the city, he and his family were herded into a compound, where inmates suffered disease and starvation. Blumenthal emerged from the confinement...