Word: episcopalianism
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Most inherited their faith. Five of the first ten Presidents were Episcopalian because in Virginia, where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called...
Chaplain of the Tribe. Johnson goes often to Episcopal churches because Lady Bird, although raised a Methodist, became an Episcopalian after going to St. Mary's, an Episcopal junior college in Dallas. The Johnsons were married in an Episcopal church in San Antonio, and both Luci Baines and Lynda Bird are Episcopalians. At Camp Mystic in Texas, where she spent many summers, Luci often served as chaplain of her tribe because she could "pray so well when called on unexpectedly...
...Committee's contention that the stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro Episcopalian minister. Many Protestant clergymen gave their churches for use as freedom schools...
...have been an Episcopalian since birth. Several of the parishes I have attended have had Negro communicants. In independent and public school and in college, my children have had Negro classmates with my full approval...
...Negro Episcopalian, I am glad that the Lovett situation in Atlanta (about which I had some prior knowledge) has been brought to the attention of the nation. It is high time the hierarchy, which governs our respective dioceses, gets off the fence once...