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...substantial number of Harvard students and faculty and meets in the Swedenborg Chapel, right in the middle of campus. In April of that year, Woodruff received a letter back from Dennis Sheehan, the chair of the UM’s membership committee, detailing concerns the UM had about the ACOI??s relationship with mainline Episcopalians: “We [the UM] are puzzled by the designation ‘Anglican’ and wonder if your Province is, in fact, a separate denomination.” The UM does not admit multiple churches from the same denominational root...
...felt obliged to contact him again. This happened in May 2003, more than five months later, and, coincidentally, after that year’s UM application deadline. In this letter, sent by current UM Membership chair Pat McLeod, McLeod cited “concerns about the legitimacy of [the ACOI??s] receiving body at Harvard and how [it] both identifies and distinguishes [itself] from the Episcopal and Anglican Church” as reasons why the ACOI was not admitted to the UM the year before. Besides re-confirming that the UM’s membership committee knew nothing...
...inconsistencies notwithstanding—former chair Sheehan never mentioned any apprehension about the receiving body and thus McLeod’s concerns about the receiving body came as an unexpected new concern—the UM’s lack of meaningful communication with Father Woodruff has undermined the ACOI??s chances to gain UM membership for two years. And the UM’s shifting reasons for denying the ACOI membership have confused and disillusioned Father Woodruff. For an organization founded to promote a diversity of religions on campus, the UM has not shown even a modicum...
...right the wrongs it has already perpetrated, the UM should also make an exception and consider the ACOI??s membership during this application cycle. By fall 2004, we hope to read Father Woodruff’s name in the Harvard directory...
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