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...energetic reorganization, inspired by the Communists, was "the most profoundly religious Christian experience I have ever been through." He said so in a letter to the Rev. William Howard Melish, Brooklyn Episcopalian and great & good friend of Soviet Russia. The letter turned up in succession in 1) the leftish Churchman and 2) Soviet Russia Today...
Trinity has been on the lookout for a new rector since June, when the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, 65, announced his retirement after serving the 254-year-old parish since 1932. Trinity is traditionally a steppingstone to the bishopric of New York, the church's richest diocese. High Churchman Heuss, who built up his department of Christian education from a staff of two to a staff of 50 in four years, has already been mentioned as a possible second Suffragan Bishop of New York...
Tall, 62-year-old Father Bishop is a "moderate churchman" and a pacifist ("I've never tried to force it on the parish -I don't believe we ever had a conscientious objector"). He is also a member of the potent standing committee of the New York Diocese, probably the first Negro to serve on a diocesan standing committee in U.S. Episcopal history. But the most important thing about Father Bishop and St. Philip's is what they do for the people of Harlem...
...changes from the familiar minor to an unfamiliar major-from the unmaking of a mistress to the making of a saint-even the warmest reader may feel his conviction cooling. For the machinery from which the rescuing God emerges is less the novelist's than the churchman...
...position stated in the extreme by another English churchman, St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), who coined the famous saying, "I believe, in order that I may understand...