Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Farrakhan's problem is that both his rhetoric and his following were developed at the expense of more traditional black church leaders, whom he has called "lying hypocrites." These, along with orthodox American Muslims, who bear him no love, are the very people whose huge followings he needs to fill...
Such sensations were Heaney's birthright. The oldest of nine children, he was raised on Mossbawn, the family farm some 30 miles northwest of Belfast. A Protestant estate adjoined the Catholic Heaneys' land. "I was symbolically placed," he said later, "between the marks of English influence and the lure of...
If these predictions are correct, then the typical U.S. parish of the future may come to resemble a Protestant-style congregation, a virtual democracy directed and administered by members who also have considerable leeway in determining who will preach and conduct religious services. Those Catholics who now petition for a...
Would such an independent, grass-roots operation still be recognizable--to outsiders or worshippers--as Catholic? Evangelical Protestant Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, thinks it may not: "A lot of us Protestants wish we had a stronger sense of the teaching and shepherding authority of...
Religion writer Richard Ostling reports that President Clinton's decision to travel to Newark to meet the Pope is a reminder that the Catholic vote will be vital to Clinton's reelection chances: "The Democrats have lost one big bloc in F.D.R.'s old New Deal coalition, white Southerners (mostly...