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Protestant publishing troubles reflect similar stress within denominations. On social issues and in theology, church leadership and local pastors in liberal Protestant churches have often been more progressive than their congregations, and sometimes positively radical. The Episcopalian, quasi-official magazine of the U.S. Episcopal Church, angered many communicants with its defense of a $40,000 grant to the militant Spanish-American Alianza in New Mexico. A breezy Methodist campus magazine, motive, ran into trouble last year when printers initially refused to set four-letter words in an issue on women's liberation; the next month's issue...
...huge Protestant evangelical market, however, is flourishing. Word, Inc., a record-and-book publishing firm in Waco, Texas, has produced a pair of phenomenal bestsellers on spiritual group dynamics by an Episcopalian oilman named Keith Miller (TIME, Sept. 19). Together they have sold some 700,000 hardback copies. Other evangelical bestsellers stress personal experience. David Wilkerson's The Cross and the Switchblade, for instance, tells of Wilkerson's life as a street minister amid New York City's gangs, and has sold more than 6,000,000 copies, mostly in paperback, in 24 languages. Some...
...Maverick Episcopalian James Pike died near the Dead Sea six months ago, but his widow, Diane, affirms that the bishop is communicating regularly from the Beyond through her dreams. Says she: "I feel I have been given a number of messages from him about the meaning of his experience in the wilderness, his death, my continuing existence after he died, and the nature of our relationship in this new dimension...
...former Dorothy Merry Barkley, who had had two sons by a previous marriage. (The couple have no children of their own.) Haynsworth raises prize camellias in the greenhouse behind his $100,000 Greenville mansion, and in the evenings likes to listen to Beethoven, Brahms, Bach and Mozart. An Episcopalian, he attends Greenville's Christ Church "as often as I can." He walks for exercise...
...same exclusive clubs in Boston and New York; although Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote authoritative histories of Harvard, reported that 'no religious test has ever existed for membership in the Corporation," all three Fellows whose religious ties are listed in the current Who's Who are, along with Pusey, Episcopalian...