Word: episcopalian
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Voluble and intense, Congdon is the son of a rich Providence, R.I., steelmaker. Brought up as an Episcopalian, he went to St. Mark's School and Yale; with his parents' reluctant approval and support, he studied sculpture in Boston under George Demetrious, painting in Philadelphia and Provincetown, Mass. At the start of World War II, Congdon, a lifelong bachelor, gave up painting to buy his own ambulance, trailed the British Eighth Army through battles in Egypt, Libya, Italy and Germany. "The war was the savior of my life," he recalls. "It gave me a feeling of being needed...
...metropolitans and primates, bishops, canons, pastors and professors-capped, cassocked, bearded, bareheaded, in flowing robes or academic gowns, in business suits or sarongs-bodied forth the range and outreach of Christianity. Among them: Anglican Arthur Michael Ramsey, Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, German Evangelical Otto Dibelius, Episcopalian Arthur Lichtenberger, Greek Orthodox Lakovos...
...first time in its 175 years, the Protestant Episcopal Church knows exactly what an Episcopalian is. At the 60th triennial General Convention in Detroit, the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies last week agreed on definitions of three terms: member, member in good standing, and communicant in good standing...
Afterward, members of the Episcopalian human affairs commission, which sponsored the tour, explained to the convention delegates that the kind of industrial workers they had just seen were practically untouched by the church. Consulting Sociologist Guy E. Swanson of the University of Michigan said that though surveys had shown that factory workers were receptive to religion, no attempt was actually being made to reach them. "If the church cannot find means to influence this new character of society," Sociologist Swanson added, "it has no meaning or relevance...
...main obstacle to union is reluctance to have bishops. As for the Congregationalist members of the United Church of Christ, the greatest difficulty will come in becoming a church rather than a loose association of autonomous congregations. Among Methodists, says Blake, the problem is "mathematics-sheer size. The Methodist-Episcopalian reunion talks, which have been going on officially for 13 years, are laboring under the difficulty that the Methodists outnumber the Episcopalians 3 to 1. But in the four-church merger I have proposed, it wouldn't be like that...