Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran...
Said he: "Had the church succeeded in placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to...
¶The great Protestant "doctrine of private judgment," vital to the freedom of the individual Christian, often turned into personal despotism and religious schism, until, as a Vermont farmer said, "each generation grew wiser and weaker."
¶ For the first time in its 40-year history, Cleveland's Ministerial Association (representing virtually all Protestant denominations) chose a Negro president. He was Dr. Wade H. McKinney, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. Last year Dr. McKinney investigated Detroit's race riots for the National Association for...
"The Women Love Him." Sara Speaks's formidable Democratic opponent is the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35...