Word: hereticism
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Ready for discussion by General Convention last week were proposed budgets ranging from $1,800,000 to $2,700,000 for welfare and missionary work. A strong faction favored a low budget and reduced work. But in his opening sermon Presiding Bishop Perry forthrightly aligned himself with the mission cause...
Decade ago the Episcopal Church was vastly excited when its House of Bishops tried and ousted William Montgomery ("Bad Bishop") Brown as a heretic. Six times has Heretic Brown sought reinstatement. Last week in Galion, Ohio the voluble 79-year-old pamphleteer, who described Communism as synonymous with "morality, religion...
TREATISE ON RIGHT & WRONG-H. L. Mencken-Knopf ($3). Not many years ago Henry Louis Mencken was the god of U. S. liberal undergraduates, his lightest obiter dicta the unquestioned orders of their day. With a new. generation his authority has waned until now he appears an old-fashioned orthodox...
Charles Beecher (1815-1900) was the family musician, a hymn-writer and also a heretic.
"Agin the government'' in every possible way, Heretic Nock makes some general observations that may well shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a...