Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cowley Fathers, black-robed brothers of the Order of St. John the Evangelist, who have come to seek heavenly peace on the fringe of the State's No. 2 industrial city. It is from here that the fathers set out on their nation-wide pilgrimages to preach the Episcopalian gospel; it is here that a good many world-weary sinners--ex-convicts, professors, journalists--have spent a quiet week of spiritual refreshment...
...minutes later, a professed Episcopalian chimed in. Said Franklin D. Roosevelt, outlining his latest peace ideas: "I offer my greetings to you, as a congregation of faith, in the certainty that you will help to keep alive that spirit of kindliness and faith which is the essence of civilization. I am confident of your ultimate triumph, our ultimate triumph, for the ideals of justice, of kindness, of brotherhood which cannot...
...course called "Opinions and Prejudices," to discover their own. Sarah Lawrence's curriculum offers students many an unusual course: the modern dance, problems in social philosophy, Indian arts, a practical course on marriage. The college has no chapel. Instead, students discuss such topics as "Why I am an Episcopalian...
...their presence might seem to condone the heresy that one religion is as good as another. In the U. S. last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night, a Catholic priest did likewise by appearing at Yale University on equal footing with a Protestant minister...
...such innocuous clergymen as Episcopal Bishop Beverley D. Tucker of Ohio, such unsubversive characters as Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary (chairman of the Council)-and a couple of sure-enough fellow travelers, Methodist Rev. Dr. Harry Frederick Ward and Episcopalian Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford. One William Ball, leader of Cleveland's Young Americanist League, fee-fi-fo-fummed for the G-Men to investigate this "Red Christian Front." An officious "Director of Americanism" of the American Legion announced: "What we want to do is to make sure that...