Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Audrey, whence the word tawdry), are still nominally run by the Bishop of Ely. There is not much else for His Lordship to do in Ely; nearby Cambridge has more religious life, and there the Ely diocesan conferences are held. Yet, because he is a member of the Established Church of England, drawing ?4,000 a year ($16,000) from the Government, the Bishop of Ely must live in his ancient see, in a Tudor palace whose whole top floor and one wing are closed...
...office, the present (and 62nd) Bishop of Ely, Rt. Rev. Dr. Bernard Oliver Francis Heywood, concluded that he would be getting a bargain if he could sacrifice a fourth of his salary and give up the palace. Said the Bishop to his diocesan conference: "The idea that the Church is concerned largely with the upper classes is steadily growing, and I think it is due in part to the fact that we bishops are forced to live in vast houses which are symbols of aloofness. . . . We keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants...
Author of these plays, written for radio and church performance, and acted last week on the platform in a church in Boulder, Colo., was a masterful, mannish-voiced gynotheocrat, Bishop Alma White, 77. Once a Methodist, wife of a preacher, Mrs. White read herself out of her church because it frowned on her preaching. She founded a society of her own. That was nearly 40 years ago. Her church became known as the Pillar of Fire. Widowed, Mrs. White started a pious, shouting, camp-meeting community in New Jersey, named it Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained...
...institution like ours of being deficient at most of the crucial points. But persons who are more interested in religions as a whole than in denominations, think that we have a distinctive mission . . . . The drift of the times is away from further sectarianism and towards interdenominationalism and even formal Church unions. Our nonsectarian character, therefore, would not seem to unfit us for the future...
Annual Christmas services, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, with a musical program by the University Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music, will be held in the Memorial Church on Monday evening. December 18, and on Tuesday afternoon and evening, December...