Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The largest U.S. Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is particularly divided. It opposed school prayers until the annual meeting last June, where conservatives engineered a reversal. But Southern Baptist Minister James Dunn, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (and thus Washington spokesman for the Southern...
In a bleacher at the rear of the amphitheater, beyond the shade of the roof, a man with an unbuttoned, flowered shirt suns his ample midriff, his eyes serenely shut. He could be an orthodontist or a hardware-store owner, but he is probably the minister of a prosperous Protestant...
Since then the book has climbed the national bestseller charts (23 consecutive weeks on the New York Times list, ranked sixth last week), while Kushner has received a growing volume of mail and phone calls. The letter writers and callers-whether Jew, Catholic or Protestant-are people who have suffered...
Although it was no secret that Communists were involved in the peace movement from its inception, the issue came to the fore at a meeting held in Bad Godesberg in April to plan the June rally. Repeatedly, leaders of Protestant and environmentalist groups that led the antinuclear protest last year...
In Edinburgh, John Paul held two discussions with the Rt. Rev. John Mclntyre, the titular head (Moderator) of the Church of Scotland-the first time that a Pope had met Scotland's leading Protestant on Scottish soil. The meeting occurred in the shadow of the stern gaze of a...