Word: protestantism
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One way to deal with such criticism is to edit the King James, clipping some oddities of language and correcting notable errors. Several Protestant editions attempt just that:
John Jr. was Jack and JoAnn Hinckley's last child. He was born on May 29, 1955, in the southern Oklahoma town of Ardmore, where his father worked as a petroleum engineer. Two years later Hinckley Sr. took a job in Dallas, 100 miles south. The growing family was...
The nation's current antiabortion crusade was originally spearheaded by the Roman Catholic Church. A Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities, approved in 1975 by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, committed the church to antiabortion educational activities, counseling programs for women with problem pregnancies, and a political effort...
Protestant Theologian Paul Ramsey, a professor of religion at Princeton, declines to identify the precise moment when life begins. But he argues that science now offers evidence of human characteristics in the fetus far earlier than once believed. "I do not say human life begins with conception," says Ramsey, "but...
DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in...