Word: anglicans
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...hymnwright. Anglican Auden stands up best of the moderns...
...began slashing at each other with shivs amid the crowds of shoppers in Soho's Frith Street−an event which indicated that, at the very least, things were not all quiet in the rackets. Because of the obliging perjury of a petty con man posing as an Anglican parson, both men beat the rap. But soon afterward Jack Spot was set upon once more and slashed in the face and hands; it took 60 stitches to put him together again...
...consciousness about Oxford's identification with past movements, i.e., the Oxford Movement (Keble, Newman, Pusey), the Frank Buchman "Oxford Group"-Moral Re-Armament, the pacifism of the '30s. Whatever the reticence, churchgoing is at a new high level. "It's quite a relief," said one staunch Anglican last week. "Let them have all the bun fights they want. At least, nobody any longer believes that religion is the haven of anti-intellectual obscurantism...
...England's state church are thus legally entitled-like other ministers-to remarry divorced people. But if they do, they face a growing current of conservatism within the Church of England. The draft of a canon flatly prohibiting remarriage of the divorced has long been creeping through official Anglican channels on its way to becoming church law, and last month it reached the Convocation of Canterbury. With Parliament the ultimate stop, the Archbishop of Canterbury felt it prudent to raise a warning hand...
...Parish. The idea of the Flying Angels took wing one bright summer's day in 1835 when a young vacationing Anglican minister named John Ashley stood with his son looking out over the Bristol Channel. The little boy pointed to two lonely islands, Steep Holme and Flat Holme, lying far out in the haze. "How can those people go to church, Father?" he asked...