Word: protestantism
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The Columbus anniversary has also sparked religious battles. In May the governing board of the predominantly Protestant National Council of Churches resolved that the quincentenary should be a time for penitence rather than jubilation. "For the descendants of the survivors of the subsequent invasion, genocide, slavery, 'ecocide' and exploitation of...
What appeals so strongly about Higgins' fiction may be that he lets the reader overhear men sizing up other men, judging them, often not gently. (Mostly men, yes; his women characters tend to be not much more than complications in the lives of their menfolk.) In The Progress of the...
As the quincentenary of 1492 approaches, Protestant leaders and American Indian activists denounce Christopher Columbus as the precursor of genocide and destruction.
The Black Church focuses on the seven largest black Protestant denominations in the country. The biggest U.S. black organization of any type is the 7.5 million-member National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Like all Baptist groups, it gives individual congregations complete autonomy. The National Baptist Convention of America and the...
Since the days of slavery they have been the very heart of the African American community. Now, the first major scholarly survey of traditional black Protestant congregations since 1933 shows that they must cope not only with social stresses but a growing shortage of trained clergy, and that they have...