Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Ann Clark Rockefeller Pierson, 32, elder daughter of Nelson: the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, 40, Episcopal clergyman jailed after a 1961 Jackson, Miss., sit-in; on grounds of "incompatibility of temperament"; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Congratulations to Bishop Henry I. Louttit and his 30 fellow petitioners. I am not an Episcopalian. But the idea of a man with Pike's views as clergyman or layman in a Christian church seems as incongruous to me as a schoolteacher who does not believe in education. Either we are for Christ and the fundamentals of the faith or we are against them. I could have no respect for a church that lets a man straddle the fence...
...clergyman can give counsel to the worst sinner, but when a lawyer gives counsel to someone who has had the condemnation of society, people say it's scocking," he adds. And he believes that the attorney should "exploit the law to the fullest benefit of his client" -- within the limits of integrity and the facts...
...Louttit is an orthodox Anglo-Catholic who has long viewed with alarm Pike's freewheeling theology. Shortly after Pike resigned last month, Louttit circulated a petition requesting that Pike be brought before an ecclesiastical court on charges of heresy, violation of his ordination vows and conduct unbecoming a clergyman. So far, at least 30 other bishops have endorsed the request, which declares that Pike's denial of the Trinity, the physical Resurrection of Christ and other doctrines represents a clear violation of his Episcopal oath to defend and uphold the faith...
Washington is not only a prominent clergyman, but also a member of the city's Commission on Human Relations and a trustee of its Community College -- the kind of leader Dr. King's former aide praised before the Urban League. Yet here he was admitting that it took Malcolm X and black radicalism to make him feel like somebody...