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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1966
Page
5
A feature overview highlights faith driven leadership and community resilience. It profiles Ishmael Wood and exploring how belief shapes actions amid adversity, underscoring faith as a guiding force in public life.
Framingham Massachusetts AP Noah Gordon the author of a best selling novel about a rabbi and a Protestant minister daughter says a new era has begun for Jews in America He notes Jews live among Protestants and Catholics and that times have changed He observes a surge of Jewish writers and aims to portray Jewish faith without mythic emphasis He discusses intermarriage and his novel The Rabbi which has stayed on best seller lists for months Gordon defends his portrayal of religious life as natural and human.
HARTSELLE The Westview Church of Christ on Vaughan Bridge Rd will host a gospel meeting from Sunday to the following Saturday. Visiting minister Irwen Lee of Jasper will lead daily services at 11 am 2 30 pm and 7 30 pm speaking at all three Sunday and weekday sessions. Lee of North Jasper Church of Christ also presents a 9 am WHOS Decatur radio program and a 1 pm WHRT broadcast daily. The revival is open to the public.
A week-long revival begins Sunday at Bellview Baptist Church with 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. services. From Monday to Friday services will be at 7 p.m. Rev. J A Self will preach each evening.
A discussion of growing maturity and personal commitment as adults. Gordon notes that anti Jewish prejudice has abated but persists. The book explores Jewish self prejudice as well. animosity by Jewish women in Rabbi Kind's parish toward his wife Leslie triggers her nervous breakdown.
Pat Odom, 17, a junior at Austin High, won the Miss Alabama of the Church of God title after representing Decatur and the North Alabama district. She traveled to Selma for the state pageant, spoke on youth service, and received a gold crown.
Robert Coleman of the Decatur Jehovah's Witnesses says the semi annual circuit assembly will run March 25 to 27 at the Ft. Raymond W. Jones Armory in Huntsville. About 600 delegates from 15 North Alabama congregations are expected. sessions are open to all interested persons.
R H Ramsey discusses love as the ultimate divine substance and commands followers to love God and neighbors. He warns against hollow religiosity and emphasizes balanced Christian life through honesty, service, benevolence, and charity toward all people. The piece cites Paul from Ephesians to illustrate living examples for others.
A Golden text quotes Romans twelve nine and ten urging sincere love. It exhorts abhorment of evil and adherence to good, urging kind affection and brotherly honor among believers.
Twenty three Samford University ministry students travel to Limestone County to lead worship in twenty three of the county’s thirty two churches as part of an annual H Day project. Students arrive at Athens First Baptist at 9 am and travel to local churches, with lunch provided and a youth rally at 2 30 pm.
A sermon urges Christians to overcome racial and ethnic prejudice by loving all neighbors as equals in God’s sight. It warns against wrath, grudges, and lewd influences, and stresses forgiveness and compassionate action as core duties. The message references National Council of Churches outlines and King Features Syndicate distribution.
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Limestone County will host a revival starting Monday and continuing through March 20. Evangelist Spurgeon Hendricks from Huntsville will lead the services.
A health note states that the typical person spends about 10 to 11 minutes speaking each day on average. The figure reflects common conversations and daily communication rhythms.
A New York Times analysis reviews the long running debate among church historians over whether Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the Wittenberg church door or merely sent them to Archbishop Albrecht. The three scholars differ on the hammering date and reliability of Melanchthon, while agreeing the hammering event may be less crucial than the broader Reformation start.
Athens First Baptist Church announces revival services from March 20 to March 27 led by visiting evangelist L. D. Brookshire.
Repairs on sheet metal such as rusted automobile bodies may be made with aluminum foil backed with a pressure sensitive adhesive.
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