Word: episcopalian
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Christmas is one of those times when the contents of the American melting pot break down, and all the WASP ingredients come bubbling up to the surface. Suddenly the whole country, except perhaps for certain parts of Brooklyn, turns into a huge Episcopalian Sunday School. When that great leveler, the Christmas spirit, begins to descend--usually about two weeks before Thanksgiving--you realize just how futile the separation of church and state really...
...Gerald Carson, a student of American manners, rightly notes that "a prohibitionist in colonial America would have been considered a lunatic." The alcoholic eye-opener was a morning ritual for some upper-class women. In the presence of the bottle, church people overcame sectarian differences. On the Carolina frontier, Episcopalian Charles Woodmason grumbled that "In this Article both Presbyterians and Episcopalians very charitably agree (viz.) That of Getting Drunk...
...angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine Hearst and to a lesser extent Randy Hearst. I was a devout Episcopalian, but there really isn't that much difference. When Bert asked me about my participation in the program, I explained that it was partly my religious feelings and he accepted it as a valid point...
...journey into Wasinngton, D.C. There 1,000 parisinoners and Episcopalian friends board a chartered excursion boat and float down the Potomac to celebrate the Resurrection with a sunrise Mass...
President Ford will probably preserve a certain independence from the fellowship, despite his close friends in it and the likelihood that his weekly prayer meetings will somehow go on. A lifelong Episcopalian, Ford will continue to worship whenever he can in his "home parish," Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Va. Though Ford may get a relatively liberal slant on religion from Immanuel's rector, the Rev. William L. Dols Jr., he gets a fundamentalist pitch at home in Michigan. There he has nurtured a close friendship with the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelical minister who is head...