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...John E. Hines, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, reiterated that the churches of the Anglican Communion are in "vigorous support" of programs for population control. Approved by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in 1958, birth control was explicitly endorsed by the U.S. Episcopal General Convention three years later, and has since been accepted practice in the church. Hines said that the Episcopal Church is sponsoring more than 15 experimental birth control clinics in the U.S. and abroad. Six of them are in nominally Catholic countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and the Philippines...
Liturgy from Africa. This fall, the revival of religion as a discipline has been supplemented by the spiritual experiments at Memorial Church fostered by Dean Napier, a Congregational minister who formerly taught Old Testament at Yale. He has inaugurated an ecumenical Sunday Communion based on an Anglican liturgy developed for use in Africa that provides for considerable congregational participation. Utilizing student creativity, Napier presents jazz and folk-song services with banjo and guitar accompaniment, for Christmas will put on a medieval Christian drama performed by freshmen students in the English department...
Proud of its tradition as the middle way between Rome and Reformation, the Anglican Communion has traditionally tolerated a degree of latitude in doctrinal interpretation that baffles outsiders. Yet there are plenty of Episcopalians who feel that Pike has long since crossed the frontier of permissible heterodoxy...
Praise & Protest. The report, bannered in the press and seized upon by cartoonists, drew ardent praise and scandalized protests. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, a past president of the Methodist Conference, found it "just right." The Rt. Rev. Ronald Williams, Anglican Bishop of Leicester, demurred: "Sexual intercourse outside marriage is wrong, and young people should be told this." This week the British Council of Churches must consider whether to accept the report as an official pronouncement, and the extremes of disagreement guaranteed a battle...
...first branch of Fish, which takes its name from one of Christianity's oldest symbols for Jesus, was formed in 1961 at the Anglican Church of St. Andrew's in Oxford, England. Two years ago, the first U.S. Fish group was organized by the Rev. Robert L. Howell, 38, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in West Springfield, Mass. Since then, Fish societies have sprung up in dozens of other U.S. communities. Through handbills delivered from door to door and modest ads in local newspapers, Fish urges anyone in need to call a local telephone...