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Evangelism is broader than the Southern Baptist church, the Billy Graham Crusade, or the Moral Majority, and it transcends divisions between Christian churches. Most evangelists describe their work as spreading the gospel or "telling the good news," as the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, head of the United Ministry here and the chairman of the ad hoc committee which invited Graham to Harvard, explains Graham himself says he used to resent being called an evangelist until he learned that the word can mean "another...
...were the years of Christian education, classrooms and playgrounds," says Architect David K. Cooper, 28, who designed the Salem Baptist Church, Orland Park, Ill., and St. John the Baptist Church in Winfield, Ill. "The '70s were the years of Christian fellowship and multiple-purpose meetingrooms. Now, in the '80s, it seems, the emphasis is on worship...
Protestant churches have been equally outspoken. The National Council of Churches, which represents 40 million Protestants, supports a bilateral nuclear freeze. The 1.6 million-member American Baptist Churches declared in December that "the presence of nuclear weapons and the willingness to use them is a direct affront to our Christian beliefs and commitments." Even members of the evangelical movement, which has been generally noted for its political conservatism, have raised their voices against the arms buildup. Says the Rev. Kim Crutchfield of the Chapel Hill Harvester Church, a Pentecostal church in Atlanta: "We are not talking about Russians or Chinese...
Alex Haley, 60, celebrated Roots author, on the Tennessee of his youth: "White or black, it didn't matter. You were classified in the Bible Belt South as either Methodist, Baptist or sinner...
...Baptist 62, Navy...