Word: episcopalian
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Past the stores--musical instruments, bakeries, cafes--we continue to follow the red line. Somehow, inexplicably, we end up inside another church, the Old North Church. It is showtime again there, with a thoroughly modern Episcopalian minister as the history teacher/fundraiser...
...subtle message: by backing George Herbert Walker Bush, that Bible-believing, God-fearing Episcopalian, "you'll be doing your Christian duty in helping to rebuild our nation and its institutions on the God-given foundation of Biblical truths...
...moment North seems to be depending on prayer as much as legal advice. "His faith in the Lord is his backbone right now," says his sister Patricia, who lives in California. Though he still considers himself a Roman Catholic, North now attends the Church of the Apostles, an Episcopalian congregation in Fairfax, Va., known for such charismatic practices as faith healing and speaking in tongues. North has told his fellow churchgoers about how, at Camp Lejeune in 1978, he suffered a sudden bout of back pain. An officer knelt before him, laid on his hands and "healed...
...which was mounted a flaming stick of some incendiary religious material. As the plate passed crowd members, hands were passed through the flame then rubbed against foreheads. Anticipating either pain or epiphany, I followed suit, and succeeded in doing nothing more than raising my body temperature--part flame, part Episcopalian embarrassment...
...before his first year in England was finished, he left. "After four years at an Episcopalian prep school, and three years at Eliot House, I had spent so much time with people pretending to speak like Englishmen that my arrival at Oxford was disconcerting," Kozol said. "I thought everyone there was a fake. Then I realized that was how they really spoke...