Word: anglican
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...months we can probably double that. All over the country. And we're talking to the international community to make sure that there really is the conviction and the stamina for them to be willing to stand with us. We want to be part of the mainstream of the Anglican Communion...
...read and write and to play the violin and French horn. Franklin, who agreed to sell King to the woman, may have appreciated the slave's newfound skills because, at the time, Franklin was revising his opinion about Africans' capabilities. A few years later, after visiting an Anglican school for blacks in Philadelphia, he concluded, "Their Apprehension seems as quick, their Memory as strong, and their Docility in every Respect equal to that of white Children...
...Cross). Others simply feel that any good done by outright evangelizing is outweighed by the violence it could provoke or the possibility that needy Muslims might be discouraged from accepting aid. Donna Derr, an associate director at Church World Service, a joint ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations that hopes to deliver approximately $2.5 million in medical supplies in Iraq, notes that her group's faith-based status is evident in its name. "And our name is on the materials we provide in many cases. Beyond that, do we do any sort of proselytizing as we offer assistance...
...decade ago it was women priests; now it's gay clergy. The Church of England is embroiled in another anguished dispute that pits liberals against conservatives and evangelicals, and threatens to split the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion apart. The trigger: Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries' appointment of a gay man as Bishop of Reading. Arguments over homosexuality in the priesthood have simmered for years, even as a blind eye has been turned to the fact that some members of the clergy are gay. But the appointment in May of Jeffrey John, canon theologian at London's Southwark Cathedral...
What brings these two men together is a shared Christian faith. Blair is lampooned in London for having the self-righteous fastidiousness of an Anglican vicar. But his sincere faith forged a bond with a believing President and made Blair more receptive than most nonbelieving Europeans to the clear moral tone in the White House. What soldered the bond was the horror of Sept. 11. Blair's supreme political gift is a swift, intuitive, unerring sense of the public mood. He cemented his hold on the British public by his poignant response to the death of Princess Diana...