Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...holy Matrimony" or consigned to the grave with its "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common Prayer in special services. Last week, in Manhat tan's huge French Gothic Cathedral...
Held under the auspices of Episcopalianism's conservative American Church Union, the ceremony highlighted the first of nine eucharistic congresses being held this week throughout the U.S. (The oth ers: in Cleveland, Evanston, 111., Fond du Lac, Wis., Milwaukee, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.) In the U.S. for the eucharistic congresses were five of Britain's top divines the Primus of Scotland, Ireland's Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Bath & Wells. At St. John's Solemn Eucharist of Thanks giving last week there were 19 other Epis...
...shabby little church stood just off a dirt road four miles southeast of rural Pimento, Ind. Rain dripped through the ceiling, and the wind worried at the rags and papers stuffed into broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
...Wallpaper. After years of patching and making-do, the little church had finally had a major overhauling. As he arrived to lead the rededication service, the Rev. Samuel W. Robinson, superintendent of the 110 churches in the Methodists' Vmcennes District, could hardly believe his eyes. Sunlight gleamed on freshly waxed pews and on baskets of asters, zinnias and chrysanthemums. There were new cream-colored walls, a sturdy upright piano, and new runners on the aisles. Crisp new hymnals filled the racks...