Word: churched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to be with ordinary people, share their lives and be one of them," says tough, square-jawed John Strong, 43. For years he has lived in slums, worked in factories. To most Church of England clerics he is an odd fellow, "honest but peculiar." Reason: Worker Strong is also a fulltime minister...
...village of Harlington (pop. 750) last week, Anglican Strong met four other ministers who also work fulltime in factories, issued a formal statement ("No movement or organization has been created. We do not want to become rigid"). But in the view of all five, such a movement is the Church of England's best hope for rekindling religious spirit (only one-tenth of England's 27 million Anglicans attended services last Easter Sunday, the day of top turnout). British workers, explains Strong, see the church as "a financial racket. Churches are empty now, but the Church still...
Refusing the $2,100 stipend allotted him by the church, John Strong supports his wife and two children on his $28 weekly factory pay (plus overtime). He usually officiates in his overalls at Communion before scurrying to catch a 6:50 train to work, spends lunchtime visiting the sick or talking to fellow workers, rushes home at 5:30 for parish work and sermon-writing. To the four other worker-priests, such a schedule is too rough; they only help out as assistant vicars when needed...
Possibly remembering the Roman Catholic Church's ill-fated worker-priest movement in France, the Church of England is still wary of the idea. "This is a waste of skilled manpower," says Dr. Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield. Strong's retort: "Many people regard the Church as something apart. In my own way I am trying to dispel that attitude." One proof of his success: Strong was elected by his fellow workers to be shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineering Union...
...with almost contemporary urgency in defense of the contentious martyr. The reader may reflect that the excesses of body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside of the same secular Renaissance that produced Michelangelo and Leonardo. It was an age of triumphant humanism, within and without the church, and Savonarola, as Ridolfi relates approvingly, set himself against his era's dominant faith. His well-to-do family had hoped that he would become a physician, but the ills-or the glories-of the body concerned...