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Last week, Anglican Bishop Noel Baring Hudson of Newcastle arrived in Manhattan to see how the plantations, colonies and factories beyond the seas were doing for themselves. With him, in commemoration of the S.P.G.'s 250th anniversary, he carried a copy of the society's original charter. In a tour of ten Episcopal dioceses, Bishop Hudson will bring greetings from the S.P.G. to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S., which during World War II contributed $553,000 to Church of England missions...
...Sheila's family turned their backs on her. Last year, after her husband died she met Ronald Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila's good friend, a white Anglican rector, was unable to marry them; the civil magistrate also refused. Reason: in 1949, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government had passed a law prohibiting mixed marriages...
Producer George Hoellering calls it "a film made largely through faith." A Viennese Roman Catholic, he first read Anglican Eliot's 1935 verse play in a British internment camp in 1940. On his release he went to Eliot and got the poet's skeptical permission to film it. It proved to be a ten-year job to bring the drama of Thomas à Becket's pride and inner conflict to the screen...
...work finding actors, studio, costumes and technicians. The Bishop of London let him use one of the city's bombed-out churches as a studio. Casting was more difficult. Dissatisfied with professional actors for the role of Thomas à Becket, Hoellering attended hundreds of church services, Catholic and Anglican, searching for "a man who looked the part, inside as well as out." In London's down-at-heel East End, he found him: the Rev. St. John B. Groser, Anglican Dean of Stepney. Father Groser was horrified at first at the idea of turning actor, but he soon...
Tullio and his friends felled trees, cracked rocks and poured foundations. More & more people turned up to lend a hand. Some were prominent churchmen, like Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, World Council of Churches secretary-general, who laid bricks, and Anglican Bishop Stephen Neill, who trundled wheelbarrows of stones. British judges, French attorneys, professional men from all over Europe worked side by side with 1,000-odd young men & women to build a village devoted to Christian labor and prayer...