Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dioceses covering Norfolk decided to try something specific on their own. Five years ago, a committee began thrashing out the details of how a joint congregation could work. By November 1977, a chapel had been rented and two priests had been recruited: Catholic Raymond A. Barton, now 40, and Episcopalian Donald W. Gross...
...course, for America's foremost contemporary reporter-turned-essayist, Joan Didion. When Didion undertakes a character profile -- her piece on James Pike, the Episcopalian Bishop of California, for example -- she doesn't begin with the subject, his family, philosophy, or even a recitation of his favorite food (as did Janet Flanner in a 1936 profile of Adolph Hitler). Rather, Didion begins the piece with a word about her own recollection of Pike's church, and then characteristically proceeds to lace the narrative with what she calls elsewhere, "always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I.'" "The greatest study of Mann is Mann...