Word: episcopalian
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GEOFFREY R. PAUL '52, president of the Canterbury Club (Episcopalian...
...newspapers, "Sean," headlined a story last fall. Students in this year's freshman class come from 40 states, (Alabama, Idabo, and Nevada haven't sent anybody to Smith for four years), their parents represent 67 varieties f income; some 55 percent come from private schools; over a third are Episcopalian, 94 are Jewish, 76 are Presbyterian, 62 Roman Catholic, and 59 Congregational. Some 90 or so others are split among several faiths. The variety show element is ever present...
...Protestant Episcopal Church. As its presiding bishop, he has no diocese of his own. It also bespeaks the present state of Christendom, which he aims-partly and partially-to reunite. For Bishop Sherrill, the president of the National Council of 29 Christian denominations, will worship on Easter as an Episcopalian...
...Episcopalian? At the apex of the pyramid is the National Council's first president, Bishop Sherrill. When the delegates to the National Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism-a barrier-breaking theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemicist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were simply picking the best...
Henry Knox Sherrill was born 60 years ago in Brooklyn. His businessman father died when he was ten, and his devoutly Episcopalian mother kept him close to the church. "Hank" Sherrill went to boarding school at Hotchkiss and then, at 16, to Yale. By his junior year, he had decided to enter the ministry. One of Sherril's greatest influences at Yale, as well as throughout his life, was Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, one of America's most unity-minded churchmen...