Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women, the incarcerated, the poor and other marginalized groups," said the Philadelphia native shortly before her narrow victory in an acrimonious election as assistant bishop. Since her precedent-shattering achievement, however, the 60-year-old Harris has managed to quiet even her harshest detractors. Refusing to become an "international Anglican gadfly," she says her priority is to carry out her Boston-area pastoral and sacramental duties. Amen...
...example, Somerville has already added a new dimension to the Morning Choir repertoire. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, this 18-member branch of the University Choir now chants Anglican psalms in Appleton Chapel...
...when church attendance runs to a pitiful 2.4% of the populace. Carey himself was unchurched as a youth. Interviewed in June by the Church Times, he recalled, "I did not encounter living Christianity until I was 17 when, through my brother of 13, I went along to the local Anglican church, found the worship appallingly boring but the fellowship and preaching riveting. There I found Christ, or, should I say, he found...
...ever vocal Anglican left too appears ready to accept the new Archbishop. After all, Carey has raised $900,000 in his diocese for inner-city aid and has written, "I have never found it easy to believe in God." Moreover, Carey strongly supports priesthood for women; he has even asked priests in Bath and Wells to consider resigning if they oppose women's ordination. His appointment, in fact, is read as a signal that church leaders and Thatcher's Tory government assume that women priests will get the go-ahead during the new Archbishop's reign. On the other hand...
...based Middle East Council of Churches, "Fear, human suffering and hopelessness" have caused so many Christians to emigrate that there is deep concern about the "continuity of the Christian presence and witness in this region." At an assembly of the church council in January, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican leaders vowed, "We shall stay in these lands, according to the will of God. This is where we belong and where we are rooted...