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Although the Anglican Church is a tolerant communion, such proposals, coming from a consecrated bishop, were a little hard for orthodox churchmen to take. In 1947, after Bishop Barnes had published The Rise of Christianity, a book expounding his unorthodox views, the archbishop of Canterbury declared: "If his views were mine, I should not feel that I could still hold episcopal office in the church...
...Truro to remove Densham. Under the Church of England's constitution; however, the bishop was powerless, for the rector had committed no crime, and he was conducting the services acceptably. Stuck with their rector, the flock retaliated by refusing to go to church. Some went to other Anglican churches; others drifted off to Warleggon's Methodist chapel. After 1935, not a soul among Warleggon's parishioners entered the church for Sunday services again...
British-born Finney, who came from a long line of Anglican parsons, learned about horses as a groom and stable boy. He is known for his ability to produce furlongs of equine statistics at the drop of a crop. But his technique is not all smooth talk. At one auction, a heckler who was scornful of the horses up for sale asked Finney: "When are you going to start the dog race?" Snapped Finney: "Just as soon as you can get in shape...
...with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty chicken mixed with fish; dog tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard: "Come here, you charming little lump of garbage, and buy this perfectly worthless pen." The proceeds always went for food for all prisoners. Day in & day out, the padre conducted an average of three funerals...
...current retreat from Christianity, as Anglican Casserley sees it, is not solely a modern phenomenon; other times have had their lapses too. What distinguishes the retreat now is its confusion, and one of the two "avenues" it takes. The first, the retreat into the "vacuum" of irreligion, has always been a passing phase. The second is far more dangerous. It occurred when disciples of the "scientific outlook" or "atheist humanism," who began their movements as a protest against Christianity, fell prey to substitute "religions" of their own devising. "[This] retreat from Christianity into religion . . . may fill that [spiritual] vacuum . . . giving...