Word: congregationalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mary switched from pre-med to VES as a result of her experience as head arts instructor at Franklin Country Day Camp. "I want to do community social work, and I think that art is a real development device for people," said Howard, whose Dad's occupation as a congregationalist minister has tremendously influenced her aspirations...
...sooner had Jimmy Carter announced his vice-presidential choice than he and Fritz Mondale met with 90 black clergymen in New York. Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, 44, an ordained Congregationalist minister, told the group that it was no accident that Carter is in tune with blacks. Announced Young: "By the grace of God, Jimmy's next-door neighbor was a black bishop." Responded the ministers: "Amen!" Continued Young: "From the early days of his life, he had to watch that bishop drive his long black Packard by his house." "Amen." "His father and the bishop used to have prayer...
Annis J. Hagee '75, who is now a secretary in University Hall and lives in the master's residence in Kirkland, grew up a Protestant, a leaf on a family tree overgrown with Congregationalist ministers. But the family church had become an empty routine to her. As a high school senior, Hagee visited the Mormon church in her home town, St. Joseph, Missouri, on a dare from a Utah Mormon she had befriended at a student conference. Hagee found "a lot of spirit there, something very real, something I wanted to know about...
...Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the 46 million Anglicans on six continents is appointed in a peculiarly secular fashion. The Prime Minister of England (in the case of Harold Wilson, a Congregationalist) submits a single name to the Queen, who as head of the church makes the ritual nomination. To be sure, the Prime Minister has received advice from church leaders, but only after the Queen's approval is the name sent, for pro forma church election, to the dean and chapter of the historic see of Canterbury...
Speak of the devil, and up pops John Updike. In an introduction to a new anthology called Soundings in Satanism (Sheed & Ward; $6.95), Updike-a childhood Lutheran who became a Congregationalist-even turns into something of a devil's advocate. Speaking disapprovingly of the widespread disbelief in God's opponent, the novelist observes: "We have become, in our Protestantism, more virtuous than the myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal...