Word: episcopalianism
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...funeral itself, held at the library, was basically an Episcopal service, although a Baptist minister and a Masonic leader also participated (Truman, past Masonic Grand Master, was baptized in the Baptist church at age 18; Bess is an Episcopalian). At Truman's request, no hymns were sung and there was no eulogy. Bess and her daughter Margaret watched the ceremony from behind a green curtain that screened them from the 242 invited mourners, all relatives or close friends of the family. At the burial site in the library courtyard-a spot Truman had selected 15 years ago-a frail...
...whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...
...movement began in the 1960s with a group of writers who championed "contextual" or "situation" ethics. As defined in a widely read book by Episcopalian Joseph Fletcher, situation ethics holds that there are always circumstances in which absolute principles of behavior break down. The only valid ethical test, the argument goes, is what God's love demands in each particular situation...
Since most corporations hold their annual meetings in the spring, consumer groups have not yet drawn up their proxy resolutions. Farber expects an increase in the number of proxy fights. Last year, the Episcopalian Church introduced a resolution requiring GM to wind up operations in South Africa. (Harvard voted against it; like the GM proposals, it was defeated by a wide margin.) This year other churches and foundations may join consumer organizations on the proxy battlefield. Farber said Harvard will be prepared...
...Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist who is the Nixons' old family pastor and chaplain of the House of Representatives. While hardly venturesome as the new improvisational weddings go?Kahlil Gibran will not be recited?the service will be mildly ecumenical. There will be Episcopal (Ed is an Episcopalian) as well as Methodist and Catholic prayers...