Word: protestantism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In Dallas, at the end of a busy week, Reagan received a tumultuous reception from some 15,000 Protestant ministers and lay leaders. The candidate promised "a foreign policy which understands the danger we face from governments and ideologies that are at war with the very ideas of religion and...
The other half fully lived up to Wesley's prediction. Especially in America. Into the 1950s, some 90% of the Protestant Church's new members came from Sunday schools.
Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern...
Strangely enough, it is this slapdash indictment of the American system that differentiates these first "summer" films of the eighties from movies of other summers. Neither of these films has a political consciousness to speak of, and both are only mildly--and spottily--entertaining. But each takes a stab at...
Dublin intelligence sources claim that quiescent Protestant guerrilla groups are now back in operation. Indeed, Protestant "death squads" are suspected in the separate killings last month of two of Ulster's prominent Republican sympathizers, Landowner-Politician John Turnly, 44, and Queen's University Lecturer Miriam Daly, 45.