Word: protestantizing
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The news that a theologian of sorts is the main character in John Updike's twelfth novel will not thrill all of the author's devoted readers, although it should not surprise them either. The Poorhouse Fair (1959), Updike's first % novel, was an allegory explicitly framed around contradictory notions...
The candidate is an ordained and militant Protestant minister, crusading to wrench his party from the clutches of the moderates he scorns. But he does so < in the manner of a polished TV performer: he is immaculately attired in a dark suit, handsome, poised, physically commanding, capable of speaking with...
What Burrows will not change is the Army's religious philosophy or its military structure. The revival-minded Protestant group holds strictly to an eleven-point orthodox statement of doctrine and a literal interpretation of the Bible. It is so insistent upon simplicity in worship that it shuns all services...
Just after evening prayers, the cloistered silence of the hilltop Carmelite convent in Marawi City was shattered by shouts and shrieks. Thirteen armed men barged in and took ten Filipino nuns hostage. Less than 24 hours later, another group of men grabbed Brian Lawrence, an American Protestant missionary living at...
The attendees were selected from among some 50,000 evangelists. Global sweep was one of Graham's goals, and it was attained: 185 nations and territories were represented; 80% of the preachers came from developing countries. In Nigeria, for example, organizers had tried to recruit at least one evangelist from...