Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The school's embarrassed Indian Christian headmaster wrote soothingly to the press, passing the buck to his sponsors-the United Church of Northern India (a coalition of Protestant mission churches).
On her way East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week...
The Disciples of Christ met in San Francisco and heard news of steady progress toward reunion with the Northern Baptists. When the merger is completed,, the united church's 3,200,000 members will be the fourth largest Protestant church in the U.S.
...Council, if one can use your usually accurate reports as a guide, seems to be a united Protestant church. Is this really so important or desirable as it is made out to be? ... Is not a united Protestant church a very contradiction of the basic cornerstone of Protestantism which permits individual rather than church interpretation of the Bible? Would not a single united Protestant church represent a kind of Protestant Catholicism, something which would subject and subordinate the individual to the church for the sake of organizational unity ... ? Is not disunity, at least theologically, the very heart of Protestantism...
...Catholics spend $182,250,000 a year to run their church schools. This is America's largest single religious expenditure-and more than any U.S. Protestant denomination spends for all purposes. The total 1947 expenditure of the Methodist Church was only $165,000,000; the second highest in Protestantism, $132,000,000, was raised by the Southern Baptist. Over 9% of the total U.S. scholastic enrollment is in Catholic schools; the figure for elementary schools is nearly...