Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a call was issued to U.S. churches: on Sunday Aug. 22 they were asked to ring their bells once each hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bells will summon Christians to prayer. On that day, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 450 Christian men & women delegates will...
When the Council's first meeting ends there will be as many sects and denominations as before; there will be no "Protestant Pope," nor even a unified high command. But the hope is that a new peak will be reached in brotherly understanding, and that a long step will...
As the spiritual leader of Mexico's million-odd Evangelistas, Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God is in a tough spot. In Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are...
Fair Game. In the tiny village of Esperanza, on the border between the states of Vera Cruz and Puebla, a small group of Evangelistas were holding their regular Sunday afternoon service in a private house. In the plaza, clusters of men were tanking up at the village pulquerias. Soon they...
Puritan Love. The Protestant Reformation was responsible for the development of a third Christian attitude toward marriage-companionability. Martin Luther maintained that, in the eyes of God, a monk may be no more holy than a married man. Luther's own marriage, says Bainton, was chiefly to exemplify this...