Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Massachusetts confrontation was part of a new wave of agitation over school prayer that has produced legislative debates, laws and counter-lawsuits, as well as bitter debate across America. The U.S. Catholic Conference has long favored a constitutional amendment to permit prayers. Now right-wing Protestant groups are pressing...
Sellers' father, Bill, was a mild, ineffectual man, a pianist whose love for Peg drew him into this demimonde, though he had once been a cathedral organist in his native Yorkshire. That he was Protestant and Peg Jewish may have contributed, some friends have speculated, to their child's confusion...
Some of America's most powerful Protestant leaders sat in a nondescript room in Washington last week, listening to witnesses testify on the Israeli-Palestine dispute. The atmosphere was calm, but the charges swirling around the work of this extraordinary Middle East Panel of the National Council of Churches...
The N.C.C., which includes 32 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denominations, is controlled by liberal-minded churchmen who, once upon a time, were lockstep allies with the Jewish organizations in domestic social-justice crusades. But there has been increasing criticism of Israel from Protestants sympathetic to the Third World, where most...
Conferences such as Urbana Onward, one of over 100 follow-up meetings to Urbana, a convention held in December and attended by 16,500 students, are the best publicized, but not the only evidence of a snowballing movement that is drawing young Christians to missionary work. Successful campus student groups...