Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First back-crack to the doctrinal report came from the Church Association, an Evangelical (low Church) Anglican group, whose secretary said: "The commission has incubated a report which is merely an addled ostrich egg. . . . According to the commission, you can think what you like and still be a Christian...
...Hamilton, Bermuda, a pair of smiling pictures of the Duke & Duchess, tacked up by a newspaper counter clerk, Miss Evelyn Stovell, and captioned "They're Happy Now,'' so enraged the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, that he tore them down, stalked out. Pursued to his home by Miss Stovell, who demanded her pictures back, the Bishop of Bermuda snapped: "I did not know that those pictures were the private property of Miss Stovell. ... It is disgraceful that they should have been in such a public place...
...Another British bishop believed by his flock to be blaming himself into something like nervous prostration over Windsor last week, was the Rt. Rev. A. W. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, England. It was he who preached the first Anglican sermon critical of King Edward VIII. This British newsorgans used as their excuse for abandoning their conspiracy of silence about Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et seq.). According to friends of Dr. Blunt last week "his nerves have been badly shaken"; he recently took to his bed when scheduled to be presented to King George & Queen Elizabeth; and this week...
...gained 300 recruits to his 8th Virginia regiment, called "the German regiment" and a model of efficiency. Colonel Muhlenberg, son of a German who in 1748 organized the first American Lutheran federation, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, had gone to Woodstock in 1772 after journeying to England to be ordained an Anglican minister, since the Colony's laws required that all its ministers, no matter what their sect, be nominally of the Established Church. A member of that province's House of Burgesses, Muhlenberg fought in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown, was a major general at the close...
...adapted by Brian Doherty from Bruce Marshall's novel; produced by Delos Chappell). When devout little Father Malachy (Al Shean), with the help of God (offstage), sent a dance hall whizzing 20 miles through the air, he was not damning dance halls. He was proving to a skeptical Anglican parson (Frank Greene) miracles could still be performed, and he hit on the dance hall only because it was handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers also complained, although, after...