Word: episcopalian
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Once the Guggenheims were the richest Jewish family in the U.S. Today, no males who bear the family's name still practice Judaism. Solomon's grandson, who now heads the shrunken business empire, is an Episcopalian with an archetypically Waspish name, Peter Lawson-Johnston. Meyer was right. His famous bundle was scattered by history, and the name Guggenheim is now celebrated only on the doors of museums and foundation offices...
...Darien, Conn., Margaret Boeth talked to members of a thriving congregation of Evangelical Episcopalians. She remembers that, as a child in Mississippi, she once announced to her father that she no longer believed in God and would not be attending church services. "But my dear," her father replied, "we have always gone to church." Says Boeth: "I went." Now she is an active but traditional Episcopalian. She found herself envying the new Evangelicals but not really able to join them. Thirty miles and several worlds away from Darien, Correspondent Jeanne Saddler was impressed by a group of Evangelicals who minister...
...subway cars bearing the punchline: IS NEW YORK READY FOR A GAY MAYOR? Says Koch: "They've been doing that for 14 years. I'm inured to it by now." He is only slightly more irritated by the whispered canard that he is really an Episcopalian. "What a low blow," he chuckles. "But I don't mind so much because it's so ridiculous...
...Burned-Out. Once heavily involved in church work, the members of this group simply got tired of it or decided that it consumed far too much time and money. "You get bombarded," complained an ex-Episcopalian in Florida...
...hears a fan shouting racial slurs from the safety of the stands.) The Panamanian was swept into Marilynn's family-her mother has lived with them for four years. Marriage and children-Charryse, 3½, and Stephanie, 2-have stabilized Carew's life. Although he remains an Episcopalian, he studies his wife's religion and observes Jewish traditions and holidays. His only jewelry, besides his wedding band and an ID bracelet, is a gold chain and chai, the Hebrew symbol for health. It was given to him in 1975 by his father-in-law shortly before...