Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birth control is God's will in many instances, said Dean James A. Pike of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to a Planned Parenthood group in Manhattan. "There is nothing more 'artificial' in this approach," according to Episcopalian Pike, "than there is in the adaptation of natural processes toward good ends in many other realms of life. Parents, in sharing God's creative process, must think through the responsibility of having children in the light of all the factors operating in their particular situation from time to time ... If they decide they should...
Protestant Protests. "An attempt to sell down the river our most precious heritage, our religious freedom," protested Episcopalian Dr. James A. Pike, Dean of the New York Cathedral (St. John the Divine). It is motivated, he added, by "fear of friction with Spain, which is so financially dependent upon us it is absurd." Thundered the National Association of Evangelicals: "An affront to all true Protestants." Flustered by the outcry, the Pentagon called an urgent conference of State Department and Air Force brass and tried to soothe everyone. The agreement has not yet been signed, said General Kissner, and when...
...Author Marshall (The White Rabbit, Father Malachy's Miracle) keeps his story moving almost too fast. But he has a great ear for the speech of Scottish chorus girls, schoolboys, sergeants and generals. He also has a winking eye for such social ironies as the marriage of an Episcopalian to a Roman Catholic in Scotland ("As Methuen had not made his submission to Rome, the ceremony was bare, although . . . the Bishop Auxiliary allowed a bit of extra-liturgical cheeterybung on the organ"). One of Author Marshall's most hilarious scenes: the shy young hero, out on a date...
...plan, however well-administered, would tend to create friction. By lumping all Protestant sects into a single category, he neglects all sense of numerical proportion. One single Protestant group, the Episcopalian, is probably as large as each of the other two major divisions. Yet this church would have no claim on funds except through a Protestant interdenominational group--if and when such a group is formed...
...Episcopalian John D. Wild, 52, of the Harvard philosophy department, authority on Aristotelian realism, acid critic of positivism and existentialism. His course at Divinity: medieval scholasticism...