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...calls many to believe and few to obedience." Yet along with the hot-selling books that deal with psychological fulfillment or sexual liberation (within marriage), the movement is producing such challenging studies as Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by another New Evangelical, Ronald Sider of Eastern Baptist Seminary. Sider makes a strong biblical case for a life of self-denial and offers concrete examples of Christians who are trying to live...
...Bible Belt is in fact bursting the bonds of geography and seems on the verge of becoming a national state of mind. Encouraged by the presence of a born-again Southern Baptist in the White House, stirred by the widespread fear that modern man will not be able to make it to the end of the century without some spiritual help, the far-flung residents of the new Bible Belt are loosely lumped together under the name Evangelicals. There are an estimated 45.5 million of them on the U.S. church rolls* after a generation of steady growth. They are outnumbered...
...Carter's conservative Southern Baptist Convention has alone gained nearly 2 million and is now the nation's largest Protestant body (12.9 million...
...prints on the walls. Kristofferson is not a worldly-wise country boy but a tuned-out meditation freak. There might be a few people down there somewhere who meditate--Tom Landry maybe, but he's in Dallas, where he coexists with Dealy Plaza, the largest airport, and the largest Baptist church in the world. Dallas is a sick town...
...wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which he topped with a soaring spire that is affectionately called "the oil can." In a friendly ecclesiastical rivalry, the First Baptist Church then got Weese to concoct a striking, almost medieval-looking church, with a steeply pitched slate roof, on the windy plain at the edge of the city...