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...spiritual Indian summer. Convinced that most of the structures of the church have outlived their usefulness, many of these all-out reformers want a new Pentecost-"a return to the womb and a new birth for the Christian community," in the words of David Edwards, editor of the Anglican SCM Press...
Married. George Pember Darwin, 36, researcher for a London electronics company, great-grandson of Evolutionist Charles Darwin; and Angela Huxley, 24, niece of the late Author Aldous and great-granddaughter of Biologist Thomas Huxley, foremost champion of Darwin's The Origin of Species; in an Anglican ceremony; in London...
...church over in half an hour on Wednesday, and then have all Sunday free." Most Wednesday regulars are devout Christians who loyally attend their neighborhood churches on Sunday, but find at St. Stephen's a spiritual pickup available nowhere else. "I've got a large number of Anglicans at my Wednesday services," says Powell, who gets along fine with other pastors, and has never been accused of congregation stealing. "The Anglican archbishop knows that I'm not taking them away from any of his services...
...Episcopalians Protestants? Yes, say Low Church evangelicals; no, answer High Church Anglo-Catholics. Last week delegates to the Episcopal General Convention in St. Louis tried to resolve this debate over what's in a name with a typically Anglican compromise: letting each faction in the church decide for itself what it wants to be called...
When the nation's Anglican divines in 1789 chose to call themselves "the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.," the name seemed like a suitable description. Originally applied to German Lutherans in 1529, "Protestant" then implied rejection of papal authority, which Anglicans had stood for since Henry VIII; the word also paid tribute to the influence of Luther, Calvin and other Continental reformers on Anglican doctrine and liturgy. "Episcopal," on the other hand, was a reminder that Anglicanism preserved the ancient tradition of rule by bishops, and was still a branch of the "one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church...