Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, Nixon has formed close friendships with two of the nation's best-known preachers: Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale. Nixon occasionally attends Baptist church services with Graham, and one of the President-elect's few public statements on religion was written for Graham's monthly magazine Decision in 1965. "Some of our voices in the pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion...
Their resignations, effective at the end of the acedemic year, follow the recommendations of a committee sponsored by the Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches to evaluate their ministries at Harvard this Fall...
...Chicago, a Negro, as its denominational secretary. The United Methodist Church has assigned black bishops to predominantly white areas of Iowa and New Jersey, and even to one district which encompasses parts of Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Last month the Rev. Richard Owens, pastor of the People's Baptist Church in the black ghetto of Boston's Roxbury area, was elected president of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention...
...Keep each other company," she said "Oh, we've got the Baptist Bible Institute and the world's largest peanut sheller. But there's nowhere to go, and nothing to do. If you want to see a picture show, you have to go over to Crestview or up to Dothan. The boys and girls don't stay here anymore after they grow up. It sure would be better if we still had the Oilers...
...enterprise, appropriately enough, has a faith in capitalism that almost matches his fervent faith in Jesus. The title of the sermon with which he kicked off this year's budget drive was called "God's Business Is Big Business." A spellbinding orator, Criswell was chosen by First Baptist in rather an odd way. A graduate of Baylor University, he happened to be preaching in a small Kentucky backwoods church one Sunday in 1934 when a prominent Baptist layman from Nashville, John L. Hill, was present. Hill never forgot the sermon. After the death in 1944 of First Baptist...