Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mann, Henry A. Olson, and Philip C. Nies were taken into custody in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church after a press conference which Mann had called there. At the conference Mann said that the Weathermen "take full responsibility for the CFIA bust...
Olson and Nies were recognized at the Baptist Church from John Doe warrantsfor unidentified persons which the Cambridge police had issued shortly after the CFIA disruption. Olson is wanted on two counts of assault and battery and one of disturbing the peace, Nies on one count of disturbing the peace...
...Roaring Twenties, and William Jennings Bryan, its principal spokesman, found himself under siege by the giants of the emerging Liberalism. He was attacked not only in the press by Henry Mencken and in the courtroom by Clarence Darrow, but even from the pulpit by a bright-eyed Baptist who had the temerity to question the virgin birth and the second coming of Christ...
...Universes. Fosdick was reared by a liberal schoolteacher father who was a trinitarian in his own way: he had his son immersed as a Baptist but sent him to Presbyterian Sunday school and allowed him to join a Methodist youth group. At Colgate University, modernist thinkers so impressed the boy that he wrote his mother, "I am building another universe and leaving God out of it." But God was back in by the time Fosdick graduated from Colgate in the class of 1900. He entered Union Theological Seminary and in 1903 was ordained into the Baptist ministry...
...industry and adviser to the Rockefeller family. Lee published Fosdick's 1922 sermon under the title of "The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith," and arranged to have it and subsequent homilies widely distributed. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered Fosdick the pulpit at the fashionable Park Avenue Baptist Church in 1925, the controversial preacher at first refused. "I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," he said in an exchange that has become famous. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think that more people will criticize you on account...