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...great debate is shaping up in U.S. Protestantism over the so-called Blake-Pike Proposal that the churches begin now to reunite, starting with an all-out merger of Methodists, Episcopalians, United Presbyterians and the United Church of Christ (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week's contribution was a loud no, uttered in the Christian Century by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles...
...Protestant Episcopal Bishops Lichtenberger and Pike would spend more time figuring ways to bring more unchurched people into the Episcopal Church instead of supporting new and better schisms and possible heresies, the church would be much better...
...emphasizes the centrality of the Mass or Communion for the church, and goes back for precedent to the early Christian practice whereby the congregation gathered around the Communion table and actively participated in the sacrament. "What we are seeking to restore." says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, "is the family around the table of the Lord...
...Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary, and no churchgoer is more than six rows from the altar rail. Last year Bishop Pike invited Architect Hammarstrom to the Pacific Coast to design a brother church, St. Anselm's in Lafayette, Calif., where some 450 parishioners assemble within the octagonal space, none more than seven rows from the altar...
...Anselm's," says Bishop Pike proudly, "the congregation is not the audience for a performing clergy and choir. The clergy, choir and congregation perform together, and God is the audience." So popular, in fact, is St. Anselm's that Bishop Pike now proposes to revamp San Francisco's still unfinished Grace Cathedral to place the high altar at the crossing of nave and transepts...