Word: communionism
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...monthly Interracial Review, the Very Rev. Harold R. Perry, Negro rector of Mississippi's St. Augustine's Seminary, wrote recently: "Catholic institutions could have won great respect among Southern Negroes if they had dropped segregation long ago. In many instances, segregation continues up to and including the Communion rail. We have missed a real opportunity to impress the Negro with the true attitude of the church...
Allergic Reaction. Pike first stated his views in the Christian Century, was attacked by 15 Episcopal ministers in Georgia and critics elsewhere, then turned on his critics in a pastoral letter. Pike placed heavy emphasis on the freedom of the Anglican Communion. "We, unlike most principal Christian traditions, are not bound to a particular set of concepts or form of words . . . It is true that we have a rather skimpy set of propositions, printed in the back of the Prayer Book, called the Articles of Religion; but they are not a Confession of Faith; they represent the allergic reaction...
...means of myth-not in the sense of an untrue fable ("A good myth is true"), but in the sense of a form used to express complicated and difficult truth, such as the Garden of Eden. Writes Pike: "I do not know a single member of the Anglican Communion-Bishop, presbyter, deacon or layman-who believes this story literally...
When clergy demand laws against gambling in a state where it is legal, or withhold communion to prevent discrimination, it becomes ludicrous to pretend that religion and government are absolutely divisible. American religious freedom rose out of such a notion, but it is only valid compared to states with established churches...
...Horace W.B. Donegan of New York) and Presiding Bishop Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Rector Kempsell announced that any member of his parish "who has in any way, by word, or in thought, or in deed, acquiesced" in banning the boy "is no longer welcome to receive Holy Communion at this altar-at God's altar-in this parish until such time as he has worked out his own peace with God in his own way." Suggested ways: general confession at prayer, or individual confession to Rector Kempsell or any other Episcopal minister. "In Christ," said Pastor Kempsell, quoting St. Paul...