Word: protestantism
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Cantabrigians, almost uniformly English Protestant until the Irish influx, mistrusted and resented the destitute and poorly-educated newcomers. They Yankees were shocked by the "dissolutness" of the foreigners--who frequented local taverns--and afraid of the Roman Catholic's allegiance to the Pope. Early one morning, after a band of...
Last June in St. Louis, well-organized conservatives at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention elected a stem-winding preacher named Bailey Smith, 41, as president of the nation's biggest Protestant group (13.4 million members). Smith, who trained at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a...
The sophisticated, once powerful and lately rather liberal Protestant churches of America seem to be in the doldrums, while raw, upstart conservative churches are flourishing. Anyone wondering why could do worse than consult a new book modestly billed as "the most exhaustive study of ministry in the U.S. and Canada...
The ministry survey began when the Association of Theological Schools started wondering whether seminaries were turning out the sort of graduates congregations actually want. To find out, a research team developed a list of 444 traits (e.g., "prays with laity in small groups" or "expresses own ideas freely") and got...
The austere public moralist was capable of some extremely fallible private behavior, and his biographer does not back away from such lapses. Lippmann urged President Wilson to begin military conscription, then worked hard to make sure that he would not have to serve himself. "What I want to do is...