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Such charges stem from MacLeod's role in creating one of the century's most influential experiments in Christian living, the lona Community. In 1938, he gave up his parish ministry in a Glasgow slum and with a group of sympathetic clerics and unemployed workers went to the tiny island of lona, off the west coast of Scotland. It was a meaningful and symbolic choice: from lona during the sixth century, the Irish missionary St. Columba set forth to Christianize the wild and pagan Scots. There MacLeod sought to build a cooperative community of dedicated Christians who would...
...just a poor, humble parish priest, baby." The speaker was Adam Clayton Powell, the Democratic Congressman from Harlem and the pastor of its Abyssinian Baptist Church...
Ordained in 1946, Pike took over as rector of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and rebuilt a moribund parish; on the side, he undertook some "whistlestop mission preaching" that honed his skills at improvising in the pulpit. In 1949, he took over as chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing...
Ecumenism on the parish level has for the most part been expressed in terms of interfaith dialogues and common prayer services. But it can also lead to common action. One such method of putting unity into practice is "The Fish," a fast-growing network of dedicated Christians who carry out Jesus' command to "love thy neighbor" by cooperatively providing for the needy such homely but useful services as emergency baby sitting, hot meals, free transportation to the hospital and company for the aged...
Worried by this vulnerability, the Vat ican Council urged diocesan bishops as well as parish priests who are "less capa ble of fulfilling their duties properly be cause of the increasing burden of age or some other serious reason" to resign voluntarily from office. Last month Pope Paul VI, who is 69, "earnestly request ed" that bishops and priests leave office on their own initiative...