Word: episcopalian
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...Congratulations to Bishop Henry I. Louttit and his 30 fellow petitioners. I am not an Episcopalian. But the idea of a man with Pike's views as clergyman or layman in a Christian church seems as incongruous to me as a schoolteacher who does not believe in education. Either we are for Christ and the fundamentals of the faith or we are against them. I could have no respect for a church that lets a man straddle the fence...
...great upsetter of human routine, started him thinking again about what he calls "the big question," and he began occasionally going back to church. One Easter Sunday, at Washington's National Cathedral, Pike was overwhelmed by the beauty of the liturgy and its music, and pondered becoming an Episcopalian-mostly because "it looked like a church ought to look," and had "an intellectual sophistication and breadth." In 1944, the Pikes were remarried in church-"with our first daughter Cathy in the baby buggy down the aisle behind us"-and he began to study for holy orders...
...Paul Washington, a Negro Episcopalian, talked about Malcolm at one of Palmer's rallies. "He performed a kind of miracle as he spoke," Washington said. "When he spoke of the black man, instead of my being humiliated, I actually felt proud. I felt like I was somebody rather than nobody...
...Idea of Conscience. The Protestants and Catholics found much to admire in each other's religious traditions. Episcopalian Herb Elliott, an engineer at the Boeing Co., liked the Catholic emphasis on attending services every Sunday; Kay Zupan, a convert to Catholicism, approved the Protestant notion of individual responsibility in spiritual matters. "Your idea of conscience is something that appeals very much to me," she told the Protestant members of the group...
...MIRCEA ELIADE, 59, Rumanian Orthodox, professor of the history of religions and the world's leading authority on ancient mythology (TIME, Feb. 11). "I teach," says Rumanian-born Eliade, "without any theological implications, and they accept it here." >NATHAN SCOTT, 40, Episcopalian, professor of theology and literature. A Detroit Negro educated at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Scott did a stint of teaching at Howard before going to Chicago in 1955. His books include studies on Camus and Beckett...