Word: congregationalist
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...anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement in the affairs...
...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...