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Reformation leaders rejected the traditional opinion that confirmation was a Christ-founded sacrament of the same importance as baptism or Holy Communion; but many churches have preserved the ritual as a way of sanctifying religious instruction and symbolizing full entry into the church. In the Anglican Communion, where the customary age for receiving confirmation is twelve, the bishop first questions the youth on his knowledge of the faith, then lays on hands as a sign of the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Among Lutherans, the usual age is 13 or 14, and as with Episcopalians, confirmation is a requirement...
Naturally the result is flawless. Director Arthur Friedman gives us a Pooh that is moving, tender, light, and at times bursting with social import. Friedman establishes in the course of his entertainment an extraordinary communion with A.A.'s thought patterns; it is as if the man himself were reading his stories aloud...
...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...