Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although their schools, churches and health centers primarily serve Rhodesia's blacks, nearly 40 missionaries have been killed by the guerrillas since 1972; almost as many others have been expelled by a government that demands immediate reports on terrorist activity. "If you talk, you die, and if you don...
The pep rally is in a Chicago ghetto school; the cheerleader is none other than the Rev. Jesse Jackson (he was ordained as a Baptist minister). His style is a combination of razzle-dazzle and Southern revival meeting. But the message is a very basic version of the old Protestant...
The 1977 balance sheet for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (B.G.E.A.) and five affiliates: $38.4 million in income, $41.6 million in expenses. The gap was filled by dipping into reserve funds. The outgo is far more than the national program budget of most Protestant denominations. The totals do not include...
Abortion. "Catholics should realize that while their position is currently described as 'unliberal,' there was a time, when the anti-abortion laws were written (mostly under Protestant auspices, be it noted), that such protection of the life of the unborn was considered to be a notable and progressive...
Celibacy. "I just can't accept the notion that a married Protestant minister, all other things being equal, is as free to serve his people as is the celibate Catholic priest ... Nor is there any evidence from the research done that celibate priests are any more insensitive or incapable...