Word: bishops
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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE: A nine-bishop panel is meeting to determine whether retired Bishop Walter Righter should be tried for heresy for his ordaining Barry Stopfel,a non-celibate gay, as a deacon. The debate centers on whether the Episcopal church has any sort of doctrine on sexual morality. A decision is expected sometime this week, but for the church, any decision will have serious implications. "The church is in a real lose-lose situation here," says Religion correspondent Richard Ostling. "On the one side, they have a large contingent of conservatives who are morally opposed to ordaining gays or lesbians...
...eight candidates include J. Michael Bishop, a scientist at the University of California at San Francisco who earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1962; Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and political commentator who received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968; and Sandra Ohrn Moose, senior vice president of The Boston Consulting Group, who also received a Ph.D. from Harvard...
...more information about UNICEF and its cards and gifts, call Henry Irving at The UNICEF Store, (617) 492-0029. The store is located at 99 Bishop Allen Drive in Central, Cambridge...
...FOLK ART IN AMERICAN LIFE By Robert Bishop and Jacqueline M. Atkins (Viking Studio Books; $29.95). Like jazz, folk art resists the advances of formal criticism. So it is a relief to hear the authors conclude their scholarly preface with the statement, "Let the objects themselves speak to the intellect, to the senses, to the spirit." That is precisely what they do in this survey of down-home paintings, needlecraft, carvings and sculpture, like Clark Coe's wood-and-metal Man on a Hog. Most ambitious of all are the free-spirited constructions like James Hampton's altar assembled from...
...novel about the lives of four black women. The sound track, containing three numbers by Houston, has just arrived in the stores and is already racking up hefty sales. In January Houston starts shooting The Preacher's Wife, a remake of the 1947 Cary Grant--Loretta Young comedy The Bishop's Wife, co-starring Denzel Washington, and she's at work on a gospel sound track for the film. Meanwhile, in search of projects to produce as well as star in, Houston has signed a development deal with Disney. Her first acquisition: the rights to a biography of actress Dorothy...