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providential history, 2–3, 339–56, 364–69 (
see also
Christian educational movement)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 224–25
Unruh, Leslee, 327–29
unschooling, 342.
See also
Christian educational movement
Unumb, Greg, 241–45, 251–52, 278
Values Action Team (VAT), 18, 265–66, 328
Vandenberg, Arthur, 148, 157
Vereide, Abraham (Abram), 87–113
Frank Buchman and, 124–30
conversion, immigration, and ministry of, 92–101
death of, 121
Jonathan Edwards and Charles
Grandison Finney vs., 87, 113
elite fundamentalist key man Idea of, 89–92 (
see also
elite fundamentalism; key man theory)
fascism and, 122–23, 150–52, 156–74 (
see also
American fascism; German fascism)
Finding a Better Way
pamphlet and spread of prayer breakfasts by, 137–41
first National Prayer Breakfast of, 197 (
see also
National Prayer Breakfast)
as founder of Family/Fellowship, 8, 21 (
see also
Family/Fellowship) labor-management reconciliation by, 99–113 (
see also
reconciliation)
Arthur Langlie and, 114–21
retirement of, 205
on Suharto’s coup in Indonesia, 245–46
Billy Sunday vs., 87–89
vision of international spiritual war by, 152–55 (
see also
foreign politics; spiritual war)
Vereide, Warren, 88–89, 91
Vessey, John, 25, 282
Vietnam War, 199, 205–8
virginity, 40–41, 316, 323.
See also
sexual purity movement
Vision Forum, 345–47
von der Ropp, Baron, 172, 180
von Gienanth, Ulrich, 147–49, 172–74
von Neurath, Konstantin, 167, 411n
WallBuilders, 342
“wall of separation,” Thomas Jefferson and, 339.
See also
church/state separation issue
Wamp, Zach, 19, 264
war criminals, Nazi, 158–59, 165–68.
See also
German fascism
Warren, Earl, 199
Washington, George, 366
Washington, Walter, 237
Watt, James, 26
Wayne, John, 203–4
Webster, Daniel, 349
welfare, privatization of, 381
White, Mel, 323
Whitehead, John W., 349
White House prayer cell, 230
Wilberforce Foundation, 22
Wiley, Alexander, 139, 168–71, 176, 180, 199
Willis, Raymond, 139
Willowbank retreat, 32
Wilson, Charles E., 201–2, 204
Wings of Eagles, The
(film), 204
Wolf, Frank, 19
women
culture and, 376
feminism, 20, 213–14, 269
Potomac Point house for, 28, 30, 40, 42–43
sexual purity movement and, 332–34
World Prayer Center, 293, 301–4, 312
World Vision agency, 209
Worldwide Spiritual Offensive, 155, 206, 217, 264, 288.
See also
foreign affairs Wright, Benjamin, 77–80
Wright, Christian, 23
Wright, J. Elwin, 155
Wurm, Theophile, 176–77
Yeaworth, Irvin “Shorty,” 181–83
York, Alvin, 343–44
Young Life, 22, 239, 295
Youth Corps, 46–47
Youth For Christ, 152
Zapp, Manfred, 144–52, 177–79, 417n
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Killing the Buddha
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In a fit of pique or stunning stupidity, the recipient immediately responded to inform the Family that he accepted the rebuke and had made multiple copies of it for the other South African operatives as well, one of which survives. James F. Bell to Ross Main, May 19, 1975. Folder 25, Box 254, Box 459, Billy Graham Center Archives. Main to Doug Coe, June 19, 1975.
Ibid.
After she’d revealed her true purpose in contacting me, the woman I call “Kate” asked that I not identify her.
Sample lesson: “Above all, one must never come to see the propagation of the free market as an end in itself. The free market merely sets the stage for an unhindered propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
For instance: the “Protestant Wind” with which, according to an eleventh-grade text, God helped the British defeat the Spanish Armada so that the New World would not be overly settled by agents of the Vatican.
The Minutemen United should not be confused with the anti-immigrant Minutemen militias. Coach Dave’s outfit is every bit as militaristic in its rhetoric—one related ministry is called Polished Shaft—but educational in its operations, offering, for instance, instruction in America’s “godly heritage” for schoolteachers.