Religion: Submission to God Alone

Submission to "God Alone" Newly exiled Georgi Vins speaks for Soviet Reform Baptists

On Thursday morning he was stuck in a jammed and filthy Siberian prison cell. Three days later, dressed in a dark blue suit issued to him by the Soviet government, he sat in the First Baptist Church of Washington while his host, the President of the United States, conducted a Sunday School class on I Kings 21. Even to secular eyes, this turn of events might seem miraculous; to the Rev. Georgi Vins, 50, it is quite literally an act of God.

Vins is an uncompromising Baptist. The trade that...

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