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...judge took five hours to drone out his verdict, but it still had the impact of a thunderbolt. Women in the courtroom gasped and sobbed last week as the dean of Johannesburg's Anglican cathedral was sentenced to five years in prison under the catchall Terrorism Act for subversion against the South African government. As the pale, stocky defendant left Johannesburg's Old Synagogue, site of his three-month trial, blacks and whites outside began singing Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...officially classified as political prisoners. According to one recent account, the government still has 42 persons under house arrest and out of circulation, including a grandson of Gandhi (no newspaper can mention their names). In Pretoria, the terrorism trial of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, is now in its third month. In Natal, where 14 nonwhites are also on trial under the government's all-purpose Terrorism Act, the defense has charged that all of the prisoners and some of the government witnesses were tortured to make them talk...
...Process was founded only eight years ago in London by a former Anglican named Robert de Grimston, now in his mid-30s, who is known as "the Teacher" to Processeans. De Grimston has no permanent base, but conducts a will-o'-the-wisp peripatetic ministry, communicating with his followers in letters they call "brethren information." Occasionally he drops in at a Process chapter to teach the "brethren" in person...
Denise Levertov ranges more widely and experiments more ingeniously with poetic form. She was born 47 years ago in England, the child of a Welsh mother and a Jewish intellectual who had become an Anglican priest. She lived through London's bombing raids and moved to the U.S. in 1948. Her commitment to matters political in part reflects the concerns of her husband, Writer Mitchell Goodman, who last year, along with Dr. William Spock, was convicted for urging students to resist the draft. But Levertov's most recent verse has been increasingly personal, an austere mixture of poise...
Last week a special Anglican commission unanimously recommended that the mother church start conducting weddings for divorced members. It said that there is nothing in theology or Scripture or reason to prevent a reversal of tradition if church members have reached a "moral consensus" in favor of change-a reference to the increasing number of divorces among Anglicans, as well as almost everyone else. The proposal, which would affect only Church of England members and not Episcopalians in the U.S. or Anglicans elsewhere, will be debated at a general synod this year. Though the English church...