Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was about the extent of Howe's story for several months--his lawyer told him not to comment on the case until the trial. Howe's silence did nothing to abate the political conflagration his arrest ignited. Senator Frank Moss (D-Utah) met for an hour with Howe and...
Impressive Feat. At week's end, a shadow was cast on the settlement when five black African nations rejected it, saying that acceptance would, in effect, legalize "colonialist and racist structures of power." The presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola and Botswana called instead for Britain to convene a...
America's Episcopal Church has long managed to be "all things to all men"-and women. Internally, it has accommodated its various factions with a reasonable degree of harmony. Externally, it has functioned as an ecumenical bridge between Protestantism and Catholicism because it contains elements of each. Those days...
Turn and Turn. The once placidly prosperous church, which has 3 million members, was torn up in the late 1960s over a program of grants to radical minority groups. That was just a prelude to the cosmic war over permitting women to be priests and bishops. The proposition had been...
While infuriating the right, the Episcopal convention came dangerously close to incensing the left as well. Fifteen women had already undergone unauthorized ordinations to the priesthood. The House of Bishops last week voted to recommend that dioceses require them to undergo a second conditional ordination service so there would be...