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...record of the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church had been better than many a pessimistic liberal churchman had expected. Merger with the Presbyterians was still distant. But delegates at Philadelphia had hammered out a brand-new marriage canon (TIME, Sept. 23). And they had elected without delay a top-drawer, liberal Presiding Bishop...
...Hell. As the Right Reverends, the Reverends and the churchly laymen went home, the Convention's action on the vexed question of Presbyterian union still looked to many a Christian like asking people to dinner and being surprised when they showed up. Fumed the liberal Episcopal semimonthly, The Churchman...
...Religious Drama Society, which has been operating on a shoestring from a one-room London office. Most pleased of all is the man directly responsible: Elliott Martin Browne, 46, the tall, gaunt director of R.D.S. since 1936. It was he who had prodded T. S. Eliot, poet and High Churchman, to write two of the most popular modern religious plays: The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral...
...Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist. Like many another Protestant churchman, Chaplain Nesbitt had long looked with Christian envy upon the way the Catholics get their people together. Why shouldn't Protestants use the same methods...
...cherished projects, the Miners' Memorial Pool to provide free summer swimming and winter skating for Scotts Run. Assembled for the dedication were representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the A.F.L., the C.I.O., the U.M.W, as well as a mine operator, an editor, a Catholic priest and a Presbyterian churchman...