Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These forays were filled with danger. "In order to meet with ((the captors)), their security was absolutely guaranteed," says Picco. "I always met with them alone, and always at night. We met many, many times." Picco needed no reminder that Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was seized in 1987 under similar circumstances. Says Picco: "Either you are afraid or you are a fool." While in Lebanon, Picco began to move to a different house every night after U.N. sources learned that there was a contract on his life...
During those years and beyond, churches enjoyed fairly free access to the public sphere. Before the Revolution, the Anglican church in Georgia was supported by a tax, and under the state's first constitution, only Protestants were allowed to sit in the legislature. When the Bill of Rights took effect, five of the 13 states had government-sponsored churches, and most schools were church-run. For literally centuries, until 1961, Maryland required officeholders to declare their belief in God. The problem is that as the nation's religious life grew more varied and its public life more complex, it became...
...Many priests within the Anglican tradition have abandoned whole areas of historical Christian faith. Do you think there should be minimal criteria of belief for admission to the Anglican clergy...
...helpless or acting in such a way that they were denying Christian truth. I have a very close relationship with the Prime Minister ((John Major)) and the ministers of government. We talk a lot to the Foreign Office about our hostages in Lebanon and about other things because the Anglican Communion is very much an international body. We are actually more international than the British government. We've lost our empire, the Commonwealth is in name only, but the Anglican Communion has more than 32 countries, so we've got all these links...
...once described the Anglican Church as "an old lady muttering platitudes through teethless gums." What image would you like it to project...