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...unfortunate that the freedom of the Anglican Communion allows a "publicity hound" like Bishop Pike to give a completely erroneous impression of the church he supposedly represents...
When the guns of South Africa's Nationalist police mowed down hundreds of black "rioters" at Sharpeville last March. Richard Ambrose Reeves. 61. Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, rushed to the scene. He talked to the wounded in their hospital beds. Later he announced his findings: none of the rioters had been armed: many had been shot in the back. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's Afrikaner government decided that Bishop Reeves was a threat to South Africa's security. Warned of his impending arrest. the bishop fled to England, started work on a book: Shooting at Sharpeville...
Allergic Reaction. Pike first stated his views in the Christian Century, was attacked by 15 Episcopal ministers in Georgia and critics elsewhere, then turned on his critics in a pastoral letter. Pike placed heavy emphasis on the freedom of the Anglican Communion. "We, unlike most principal Christian traditions, are not bound to a particular set of concepts or form of words . . . It is true that we have a rather skimpy set of propositions, printed in the back of the Prayer Book, called the Articles of Religion; but they are not a Confession of Faith; they represent the allergic reaction...
...communicated by means of myth-not in the sense of an untrue fable ("A good myth is true"), but in the sense of a form used to express complicated and difficult truth, such as the Garden of Eden. Writes Pike: "I do not know a single member of the Anglican Communion-Bishop, presbyter, deacon or layman-who believes this story literally...
...year, and the outgoing pastor only managed because he rented out part of the vicarage as a furnished apartment. Elsewhere, a minister applied for a job as village postman to supplement his income, and the agony columns of the London Times recently carried a typical ad: "Anglican priest seeks private loan of ?300. Please help...