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The Swaggart phenomenon is part of a wave of Protestant expansion across the traditionally Roman Catholic region. According to Brazil's Ecumenical News Agency, Latin American Protestants have increased in number from 12 million to 30 million since 1978. Most of them have joined Evangelical and Pentecostal groups rather than...
"I was an agnostic Protestant leaning toward atheism. My father was a doctor; my upbringing was very scientific, and I couldn't see any scientific reason for believing in God," says Coggins, now known by his spiritual name Dhananjaya Pandita Dasa.
Between these two dramatic points, Burgess strings a panorama of impressions, both personal and pertinent to his age. John Burgess Wilson (his pseudonym came later) grew up Roman Catholic in a Protestant country, "more of a Celt than an Anglo-Saxon." He was neither the first nor the last Englishman...
The energetic Knapps, agriculturalists sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention, are among the record total of 39,309 U.S. and Canadian Protestants engaged in overseas mission careers. Adding "short-term" workers, who usually put in stints of less than a year, the North American Protestant foreign legion numbers 67,242...
Reagan's father Jack recalls the characters W.C. Fields liked to play. He sold shoes but grandly styled himself a "graduate practipedist," was known to tipple and shuttled his family to some 13 homes in five towns; Mother Nelle was a teetotaler and a devout Protestant churchgoer. In the Depression...