Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...theatrical group will present the original one-act plays at the former Poets' Theatre next week, August...
...Communist countries did their best to see that no Catholic from the Soviet bloc went to Munich; the East German government banned all travel to West Germany for the week of the congress. But a small group of East Germans managed to get there by crossing to the West zone before the ban went into effect. Many were disappointed that the Pope failed to attend. Travel-hungry Pope John was reported to have at last decided that such a precedent-breaking foreign excursion would inevitably bring demands for more papal visitations. One feature of the conference was the celebration...
Peter saw the "gift of tongues" in a group of Gentiles as evidence that the Holy Ghost was present and they should be baptized forthwith. Paul cited it as a notable Christian gift, and though he had it himself ("I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all"), he warned in his first letter to the Corinthians against letting it get out of hand. The general practice lasted into the 3rd century. Now glossolalia seems to be on its way back in U.S. churches-not only in the uninhibited Pentecostal sects but even among Episcopalians, who have...
...into trouble. Of his 2,000 parishioners, he says, some 700 developed a positive, sympathetic interest-"they included the junior warden and the chairman of the women's guild. They were about equally divided between men and women, and there was a large number of couples. The group included a Ph.D. and a brain surgeon." But conservative Episcopalians were shocked. In April the vestry asked Pastor Bennett for his resignation, and Bishop Francis Eric Bloy of Los Angeles sent St. Mark's a new priest and a pastoral letter banning any more speaking in tongues under church auspices...
...doctor of sick railroads," a onetime Burlington call boy for train crews (at age 13), who in 1935 was named president and receiver of the languishing Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, eight years later saw his improvements end its bankruptcy, but was ousted in 1954 by an insurgent stockholders' group for his "gravy-train" extravagances, including a personal expense account of $226 per day; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...