Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev.) Mario Pacini, S.A.C. New York City...
They call themselves messengers, and they like to denounce the wicked world with the rhetoric of doom. "We are suffering from the corrosive breath of materialism, secularism, commercialism and godlessness," cries the Rev. Jaroy Weber of Lubbock, Texas, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and this leads to "hunger, inflation, credibility gaps, loose morals, bad government, divorce, drunkenness." But as some 16,000 Southern Baptist messengers gather this week in Norfolk for the 119th convention of the largest Protestant group in the U.S., their spirits are as ebullient as their slogan: LET THE CHURCH STAND UP. As keynote speaker...
...take an almost theological interest is that of public morals. They oppose, by and large, all drinking, smoking and blasphemy. Also gambling. Sometimes even dancing. "Chastity is still an issue," said one Baptist leader as he surveyed the motions and petitions submitted to this week's convention. The Rev. Robert Holbrook of Halletsville, Texas, has sent out 15,000 letters asking support for a resolution against abortion. Yet another petitioner calls for the abolition of rock music on the church's "powerline" radio program because all such music is aswarm with "adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, heresies and revelings...
...Rev. Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, has invited at least one Harvard scientist to a conference he will sponsor next fall on the "Unity of Science...
Some observers are tolerant of the Moonies. "I just wonder why we can't get more motivation like the Moon motivation in our own churches," says the Rev. Dan Potter, director of the Council of Churches of the City of New York, which nevertheless has refused to admit the Unification Church to its membership. Adds Potter: "We are all a collection of groups grown out of the insights of so-called heretics." Religious orders have long sequestered their initiates from the world, and ceaseless work can be seen as beneficial...