Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A new wing of the party, calling itself the Reformists, realizes the danger and is battling the old-guard bureaucrats for control. Reformist Chief Heinrich Al-bertz, a Protestant pastor and minister in the Lower Saxony Cabinet, would junk the old Marxist catch phrases, and pattern the SPD roughly after...
Continuing chapel services in what the catalogue describes as "the Protestant tradition," the college demands attendance at two student meetings per week. But since this requirement can be filled by auditing student government meetings, there is no religious compulsion. In this tolerant, pray-as-you-go condition, religion flourishes in...
¶ The News Bulletin of the Evangelical Confederation of Colombia (South America) published a summary of the persecution of Protestants there during the past five years. Items: 42 church buildings destroyed by fire and dynamite, 31 damaged, ten confiscated; 110 Protestant primary schools closed, 54 of them by government order...
A Wet Protestant. Born the son of "a poore tenant" in Lincolnshire, Smith struck off at 20 for the Hungarian wars, where the Turks and the Habsburgs were battling for Transylvania. On the way, he said, he was robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer...
The same situation is touched upon in Kipling's poem The Mother-Lodge, where the membership, in addition to Protestant Anglo-Indians, a Jew and a Catholic, included a Hindu, a Mohammedan and a Sikh, so "we dursn't give no banquits / Lest a Brother's caste...