Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also a gentleman of rational disposition, settled habits and scholarly inclinations. This blending, perhaps more frequently found in the British Isles than elsewhere, has made him just about the ideal man for his job: 99th Archbishop of Canterbury,* Primate of All England and the active spiritual head of the Anglican communion...
Walpole's father was a kind, reserved Anglican bishop. His mother, when her death approached, welcomed it with a remarkable phrase: "You don't know what a comfort it is to think that I am never going to be shy again." With two such restrained parents, it is no wonder that "Hughie" developed an insatiable appetite for romance and popular approval, and that he spent much of his life searching for the "ideal friend"-one over whom he could pour buckets of love and "understanding...
...Communists and with what he said was "crushing evidence" that the allies were in fact conducting germ warfare in Korea. The evidence, shown to newsmen at a press conference, turned out to be 1) a massive scroll written entirely in Chinese, 2) a letter from a Chinese Anglican bishop who had not been to Korea, 3) the memory of a Chinese news broadcast during which two U.S. airmen had purportedly confessed to dropping germs. Had the dean actually seen anyone sick as a result of germ warfare? Well, no - "but I saw the brains of two children who had died...
Last week, on the campus of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio, Anglican Matthews gave a more specific warning to the National Council of Churches' Assembly on African Affairs: South Africans are drifting toward bitter extremes, and "it seems to be the tendency of the church to be silent or hesitant to speak out." Ahead of 50-year-old Zachariah Matthews now is a year's teaching tour at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary as Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity, a chance to let U.S. churchmen hear, and reflect on, some of the lessons...
...Negroes would violate a Tennessee law requiring racial segregation in schools. The faculty members promised to give the trustees until June 1953 to reconsider, before their resignations took effect. The trustees' position, they said, is "untenable in the light of Christian ethics and of the teaching of the Anglican communion...