Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first branch of Fish, which takes its name from one of Christianity's oldest symbols for Jesus, was formed in 1961 at the Anglican Church of St. Andrew's in Oxford, England. Two years ago, the first U.S. Fish group was organized by the Rev. Robert L. Howell, 38, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in West Springfield, Mass. Since then, Fish societies have sprung up in dozens of other U.S. communities. Through handbills delivered from door to door and modest ads in local newspapers, Fish urges anyone in need to call a local telephone...
...publishing the statement, ordered up an editorial attack on Cámara. Meantime, one of his trusted local commanders sent out secret circulars to Northeast churchmen branding Dom Helder an "agitator of men and ideas" and a "leftist"-and even accusing him of promoting the development of the rival Anglican Church. Cámara's response was to demand television time so that he and his bishops could prove they were not Communists. Snapped Bishop Antonio Fragoso of Crateus: "To think that the bishops who defend the peasants and workers against injustice are subversive is to play the obvious...
While discarding a number of sentimental Victorian horrors, the hymnal ecumenically includes several Roman Catholic canticles based on plain chant, along with hymns borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian songbooks. In response to popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones...
There were also plenty of churchmen more willing to give Billy his due. Among them was London's Anglican Bishop Robert Stopford, a high churchman who has previously been cool to the idea of the crusade. "We hope and pray," he said, "that the great influence of Dr. Graham's personality and message will be lasting in the lives of very many people...
...World Council of Churches, the sponsoring group, is an association of more than 200 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and Old Catholic churches in 30 countries. The Council has the broad aim of Christian unity...