Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Southern gentlemen who founded the Southern Baptist Convention with the defense of slavery as a key motivation would be shocked at the Baptists' Christian Life Commission. Battling the deeply segregationist feelings of millions of members of the nation's biggest Protestant denomination, the commission is inexorably turning...
God Here & Now. United to Christ, said St. Paul, man becomes "a new creation." The theory behind the center is that the modern city represents a contemporary kind of new creation in which God is acting here and now-and that organized Christianity is ill-prepared to perceive his presence...
The setting was like a primitive painting. The main building in Hye is a combination post office-general store, and sports a false tin front pressed into gingerbread doodads and painted bright red, white and green. It was here in 1912, when he was four, recalled Lyndon, that he mailed...
The peace churches came to this conviction through Bible-based, turn-the-other-cheek idealism. The more than 100,000 plain-living U.S. Mennonites, whose best-known sect is the Amish farmers of Pennsylvania and Ohio, take their name from Menno Simons, one of the leaders of the Reformation'...
"It used to be that someone studying for the Protestant ministry would practically never meet a Catholic," Cox says. "But now, with the diverse body and field-work program, we are giving the students the same kind of on-the-job training that medical students get.