Word: episcopalianism
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...fact, Rudenstine’s two grandfathers were Jewish, but the former University president is Episcopalian. According to Galper, Rudenstine visited Hillel only twice during his decade-long tenure as president...
...crown of thorns are rendered with ethereal detail, his face delicately worked, even the drops of blood from the wound in his side are ivory. This piece can't help but draw your undivided attention-and it's no wonder that it captured the eye of a Boston Episcopalian such as Mrs. Gardner. These crosses are almost too beautiful to be religious, and yet the genuine piety evident in the artists' labors gives them a depth beyond many secular works...
Pusey, a devout Episcopalian, believed that religious education was an important component of college life. At Lawrence, Pusey instituted a mandatory religion course and held monthly convocations with religious themes. He also created a "Freshman Studies" program--a mandatory course for first-year students at the college-- designed to expose student to a diverse range of educational experiences, from Darwin to Dostoevsky...
...father was Jewish, but Goldwater was reared as an Episcopalian, and he was a member of that church. Goldwater said he did not see himself or his family as primarily Jewish...
...Edward Gorey was born in Chicago in 1925, to a Roman Catholic newspaper report and Episcopalian mother. He began to read and draw at a very early age; he first picked up a pencil at only 18 months, drawing passing trains. But he told the Christian Science Monitor that he was not quite impressed by those drawings...