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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belated bow to 20th century custom, the Church of England Assembly voted to institute a 24-hour information service, thus spare the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, who democratically answers his own phone at Lambeth Palace even in countless wee-hours calls. "When the telephone rings at midnight," asked one assembly delegate, "is it resented as an intrusion on one's sleep or welcomed as an opportunity to spread the Gospel?" Said the Archbishop forthrightly: "At Lambeth it is resented...
Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous...
Particularly pleased by the news was a vigorous, 50-year-old Crow Indian named Frank Takes Gun, who has been taking his gun on the warpath against the peyote ban ever since he was elected international president of the Native American Church four years ago. He has been aided in his campaign by the testimony of anthropologists, including the late Franz Boas, that the peyote ritual was truly religious, and by the failure of various federal attempts to classify peyote as a narcotic. (Though it may produce a hangover, it is not habit-forming and no more skull-popping than...
...thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote has a narcotic effect; it causes hallucinations. It should not be legalized, even if only for religious purposes. If it's bad at home, it's bad in church...
Forty ministers and laymen assembled at the Presbyterians' Gilmor-Sloane House in Stony Point, N.Y. for a week-long "Institute on Overseas Churchmanship," under sponsorship of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Participants -mostly Presbyterians, with a sprinkling of Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutherans and Episcopalians-included an architectural engineer who commutes to Korea, a doctor and his wife going to Iran, a minister on his way to the American Church in Paris. Conferees listened to experts on such varied subjects as the mission work of the church, on the implications of the industrial revolution in Asia for Christianity...