Word: coggan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though Elvis Presley at his prime had challenged Cardinal Spellman to a theology debate on NBC. For in England, mop-haired Adam Faith, 21, is the current king of rock, and last week he argued religion for half an hour on BBC-TV with the Most Rev. Frederick Donald Coggan, 52, Anglican Archbishop of York. Faith proved rather more than the archbishop had bargained...
Born plain Terence Nelham, Singer Faith earns $140,000 a year and gets 300 letters a day from doting clutches of his Faithful-to the great distress of Dr. Coggan. "Adam Faith tells youngsters that the meaning of life is sex," he complained in a speech a fortnight ago. "Adam Faith tells us nothing about life hereafter or why we are here." Faith was like shocked. "Teenagers think a lot less about sex than adults do," he said. "I'd like to meet the archbishop and tell him what I think about things." The BBC brought Coggan and crooner...
...Adam denied that he had ever equated life and sex-perhaps he had been quoted out of context? "That happens to me, too," Dr. Coggan murmured. Faith went on: "In a teen-ager's life," he said, "love is the most important thing, and this is what most of my songs are about-teen-age love, and it is a very beautiful and delicate and harmless thing. Now the church calls us wicked because we don't go to church, and I think this is all wrong. Church doesn't get across to us, but that doesn...
Well, yes. Dr. Coggan agreed, religion was personal-but it was also a family affair. "I should take a dim view of it if I never saw my kids at the family table," he said. Retorted Faith: "But the atmosphere when the family does meet together is friendly and loving. You don't get that feeling in church. Anyway, teen-agers don't understand language that was written 2,000 years ago. They understand modern pop because it was written in words they can communicate with." The archbishop proffered the thought that the New English Bible is easier...