Word: anglican
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...Anglican bishop who became a celebrated target of homosexual "outing" today was named Archbishop of York, the Church of England's second-highest post. The Right Rev. David Hope, the bishop of London, last month disclosed he had come under pressure from Outrage!, a group that encourages homosexuals to publicly declare their sexual orientation. He insisted he has lived a celibate life, as Christian teaching requires of the unmarried, and declined to label himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. Ironically,TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingreports, the promotion is no gay lib step, but a sop to traditionalists: Hope...
ROBERTSON DAVIES' NEW NOVEL opens with a mystery: an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during a particularly dramatic moment in the Good Friday services. Very near its end, The Cunning Man (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95) provides an explanation for this long-ago demise, although it is doubtful that any reader simply intent on finding out whodunit will still be turning these pages. The overriding appeal of a Davies book, as his legion of fans will attest, rarely rides on something as mundane as suspense. Instead, Canada's foremost living author, now 81, entertains with...
...beginning of this latest Robertson Davies novel, an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during Good Friday services. That scene is not explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of works by "Canada's foremost living author" rarely rides on suspense. Instead, says Gray, the 81-year-old writer "entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture" of "keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
Though such eruptions sometimes split parishes, Holy Trinity remains united, and three offshoot churches are thriving. The reaction of other pastors is benignly wary. "We are watchful," says the Rev. Richard Bewes, vicar at All Souls, an evangelical Anglican church in central London. "One doesn't want something to be blown up that then proves to be a letdown." No sign of that yet: lines outside Holy Trinity now start forming an hour and a half before services...
Services at the Anglican Church have never been like this...