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...TIME and other popular publications would stop referring to Henry VIII's "creating" the Anglican Church [Sept. 1]. Henry did separate the Church of England from the papacy, and he did (unlawfully, certainly) make himself its head. But he did not create a new ecclesiastical body. The Anglican Communion constitutes a body of Catholic churches with real Catholic scriptures, creeds, sacraments and ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1980 | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...bizarre come-on for Barnum & Bailey. Not at all. The 200 clowns were a congregation. The popcorn pass-along was part of a two-hour Christian Communion service conducted entirely in mime and gesture by the Rev. Floyd Shaffer, the red-and-white clown, who is really a Lutheran minister from Roseville, Mich. Both services and parades were among the highlights of a weeklong workshop on the use of clowning, mime, puppetry and dance in Christian worship and ministry that attracted some 350 people to the campus of New Orleans' Loyola University. More than 400 attended a second gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Becoming Fools for Christ | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...Brookline, Mass., Rector W. Christian Koch has quadrupled Sunday school attendance at All Saints Episcopal Church by integrating the school with the regular Sunday service: children sit with their parents, then depart during the sermon for 45 minutes of instruction. They return for the offertory, prayer of consecration and Communion. "Being included," Koch insists, "teaches the children more than 10,000 Sunday school lessons could." Koch's program, like the practice of the thriving Baptist Sunday schools, seems to bear out one fact: lesson plans, visual aids, outings are all well and good, but Sunday schools cannot flourish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of Raikes and Ragamuffins | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...than 800 languages. They suffer from bloody national divisions, as well as unimaginable poverty and disease. Africa is a continent where some Catholics still go to the local witch doctor when their children fall sick and where a black priest has questioned the use of bread and wine in Communion because they are associated with wealthy white settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope to Africa: Mvidi Mukulu | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...Vendler hears all poets speak, and Part Of Nature, Part Of Us is her attempt to externalize her communion with these poets. She possesses a tremendous facility with words and ideas: she compares poets to artists (Stevens to Cezanne in their similar sense of modern, to name one example), and tosses out literary devices, like Eliot's "objective correlative" with unusual comfort...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: A Poetry Party | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

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