Word: communion
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...John E. Hines, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, reiterated that the churches of the Anglican Communion are in "vigorous support" of programs for population control. Approved by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in 1958, birth control was explicitly endorsed by the U.S. Episcopal General Convention three years later, and has since been accepted practice in the church. Hines said that the Episcopal Church is sponsoring more than 15 experimental birth control clinics in the U.S. and abroad. Six of them are in nominally Catholic countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and the Philippines...
Liturgy from Africa. This fall, the revival of religion as a discipline has been supplemented by the spiritual experiments at Memorial Church fostered by Dean Napier, a Congregational minister who formerly taught Old Testament at Yale. He has inaugurated an ecumenical Sunday Communion based on an Anglican liturgy developed for use in Africa that provides for considerable congregational participation. Utilizing student creativity, Napier presents jazz and folk-song services with banjo and guitar accompaniment, for Christmas will put on a medieval Christian drama performed by freshmen students in the English department...
Proud of its tradition as the middle way between Rome and Reformation, the Anglican Communion has traditionally tolerated a degree of latitude in doctrinal interpretation that baffles outsiders. Yet there are plenty of Episcopalians who feel that Pike has long since crossed the frontier of permissible heterodoxy...
Vulgarization? Nonetheless, the bishops, by a vote of 103 to 36, approved the statement, with two minor deletions. The statement rejected the "tone and manner" of Pike's theologizing as "highly disturbing within the communion of the church," criticized his writings as being too often "marred by caricatures of treasured symbols." The criticism of Pike was apparently good enough for Louttit; at a caucus later, he and his fellow bishops on the "Committee for the Defense of the Faith" agreed to drop their demand for a trial...
...typically American for college coeds to approach perfect strangers with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also disabuse some readers of the notion that all Oxford students are bright...