Word: methodist
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...whose piercing eyes, touseled hair and magnetic personality have made him a favorite with women; and Nancy Kovack, a former aide to Dave Garroway on the Today show and 1968-69 Emmy Award nominee for her performance on the TV series Mannix; he for the second time; in a Methodist service followed by a Zoroastrian ceremony; in Los Angeles...
Meanwhile, of course, he continues to live in a manner that would be impossible if it weren't for his parents' sellout, hypocritical, establishment, plastic lives. At the risk of sounding like the Midwestern Methodist I am, every single action of Benjamin Braddock's is that of a spoiled rotten (albeit sensitive, self-deprecating, gentle, all the things you learn to value in a place like Harvard) brat. Not a brat in the old sense of the word, of course, not the overtly selfish sort who demands things and his own way, but the breed that seems to flourish particularly...
...ecumenism, it seemed a most reasonable proposition: that the Methodist Church of Great Britain, which began life as an 18th century reform movement within Anglicanism, should reunite with the Church of Eng land, which had injudiciously let the reformers go in the first place. Last week the Methodist Conference in Birmingham and the Anglican Convocations of Canterbury and York, meeting in Lon don, voted on the first stage of a two-step plan for union that the two churches had been working on for 13 years...
...first stage of the reunion plan would have required Methodist acceptance of the Anglicans' "historic episcopacy" and a "service of reconciliation" recognizing the validity of each church's ministerial orders. This would have brought the two churches into "full intercommunion," which means that Anglicans could receive the sacraments from Methodist ministers, and Methodists from Anglican priests...
Stumbling Block. Most Methodists were apparently able to accept a broad and unspecific definition of "historic episcopacy," which emphasized mainly the unifying virtues of church government by bishops. The stumbling block for many Anglicans was the proposed "service of reconciliation," in which the Archbishop of Canterbury and the president of the Methodist Conference would exchange a mutual "laying on of hands"; the Methodist president, during this service, would also accept episcopacy...