Word: episcopalian
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...Your Oct. 15 account of what you call "Episcopalian Backlash" at the 64th General Convention of the Episcopal Church troubles me. Your reportage of the facts is not untrue, but your interpretation of those facts seems perverse. Because, as you saw it, "the Episcopalians abruptly applied the brakes to innovation" at Louisville, you assume that this is a lapse into conservatism. Many of us regard it as a rise to responsibility...
...woman and an Episcopalian, I found it distressing that the Episcopal Church would be so puritanical in its views against women becoming priests, or should I say priestesses...
Part of Mano's success may stem from a frankly religious outlook. In these cynical, pragmatic times, nearly everyone is eager to admire religious faith-particularly if it is someone else's. Mano, an Episcopalian, is a specifically Christian novelist. In his books, God is a respected familiar; eternity is a definite place on the map. There is always an old-fashioned metaphysical confrontation. In his first novel, Bishop's Progress, the bishop and a surgeon angrily reshuffle old arguments about Christian charity. In Horn, a priest and a black leader dispute ethics...
...people. Who told you that the Right to Life movement is Catholic-dominated? In Michigan and elsewhere, Lutherans, Christian Reformed. Mormons, Baptists, Presbyterians and others are prominent in this ecumenical movement. As the vice chairman of the Kalamazoo area Right to Life chapter, I can assure you that this Episcopalian is not dominated by trie Roman Catholic Church...
Joseph Fletcher, an Episcopalian and a professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia, is typical of those who favor abortion. In his opinion, the freedom to get an abortion -and the exercise of that freedom -represents an advance in social ethics. In fact, he says, the nation's increasingly liberal outlook is "a welcome trend away from the sanctity-of-life attitude toward a quality-of-life ethic...