Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potter quit his factory job, joined an evangelical group called the Workers' Christian Fellowship. Soon, he averaged 12,000 miles and 400 speeches a year. During his travels he met a young Anglican minister called Bruce Reed who was shepherding study and prayer groups of Graham-converted university students...
...mystery stories (Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon). She was talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife...
...Four Quartets); and Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 30, for seven years his private secretary at Faber & Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf between May and December in Lines for an Old Man (Collected Poems...
...provost of Eton, best man at the 1908 wedding of his lifelong friend Sir Winston Churchill; of a heart attack; in Bournemouth, England. A High Churchman who deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned at Smithfield...
...leaders called at 10 Downing Street, voiced the "deep concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again it will be clearly shown that principlcs of power politics count for more than justice, and that Western European civilization has forever forsaken...