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...sturdiest pulpits of Middle America stand in the 34,335 churches of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC's 11,498,613 members, making up the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, are the fabric of the now somewhat frayed Bible Belt that arcs from California to Virginia. In folklore-and partly in fact-they stand as stern exponents of a Scripture understood in literal terms and a life lived by rough-hewn moral precepts. Last week the 13,500 "messengers" who gathered in Denver for the SBC's 125th anniversary meeting* seemed to be running true to type. They...
...progressive line not only on such issues as race and ecumenism, but above all on biblical interpretation, finally joining scholars of other denominations in doubting that the text was inspired word-for-word by God and is thereby infallible. Last year Criswell, pastor of the 15,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, inadvertently brought these trends to a head by publishing a book titled Why I Preach That the Bible Is Literally True. The book enraged the Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, and in the ensuing furor Southern Baptists divided over whether to embrace or reject Criswell...
...Adam Clayton Powell of New York, Abyssinian Baptist; John Hall Buchanan of Alabama, Baptist...
...preside over the Eucharistic celebration was to recognize his qualities as a holy man. By his special spiritual gift, or charism, he was in a sense ordained by God, an "ordination" recognized in turn by his community. If Catholics are ever to find ground for reunion with Calvinistic, Baptist and Pentecostal churches, the idea of a "charismatic" ministry may be of substantial help in overcoming the still vast differences in their theologies...
...some of the more blatant forms of bigotry. The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld a $250 award for humiliation and mental suffering to a Worcester black who was refused an apartment because of his race. In a similar case decided last week, the Rev. William Gray, minister of a Baptist church in Montclair, N.J., won $500 for "psychological trauma" - plus the right to move into an apartment that had been denied...