Word: episcopalian
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...Hooray for Bishop Pike! As an Episcopalian, I am happy to learn that one bishop recognizes that the ecclesiastical talents of women are not limited to sitting in a pew. East Glacier, Mont., seems an unlikely place for a thaw in "God's frozen people," but Bishop Pike has managed to break...
...director of the USIA, where he was chiefly responsible for projecting the U.S. image abroad. Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts, is the highest elected Negro state officer in the U.S. Senator Leroy R. Johnson two years ago became Georgia's first Negro state legislator since Reconstruction. Episcopalian John M. Burgess, son of a dining-car waiter, is Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts; Dr. Middleton H. Lambright Jr., grandson of a slave, is president of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. Leslie N. Shaw is the first Negro postmaster of Los Angeles. Historian John Hope Franklin is a professor...
Angriest of all was California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, who was himself baptized and brought up as a Roman Catholic-and was never rebaptized when he became an Episcopalian. Pike denounced the rebaptism as "sacrilegious" and a "direct slap at our church." The Right Rev. Donald Hallock, Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee, admitted that he too had a "feeling of disappointment...
...marchers were to follow the same route attempted two weeks ago from Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopalian Church in Selma, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the first march was bloodily halted by helmeted state troopers and mounted possemen, then onto a four-lane, divided stretch of U.S. Highway 80. All but 300 marchers were to drop back at a point 17 miles out of Selma, where the highway narrows to a two-lane, 20-mile strip of piny woods and dismal marshes...
...Today, who argues that the clergy's primary mission "is to invite sinful men to their Savior and Lord, who shapes a new character and morality. The clergy have neither a divine mandate nor authority nor special competence to articulate particular programs of politico-economic action." Another is Episcopalian John Maury Allin, coadjutor Bishop of Mississippi, who says: "I get the feeling that they meet at the national level, pick a problem, and send a staff of three or four rushing in with proclamations...