Word: rebirthday
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White-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, celebrating what she chose to call her "70th rebirthday" in Los Angeles, reported joyfully that she was founding a Church of the Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came...
Last week St. Andrew's Chapel at Hartsdale, N.Y., and its minister celebrated their birthdays together. For St. Andrew's it was a rebirthday. Just a year had passed since the Rev. George William Edwards saved the minuscule mission from folding. For Mr. Edwards it was his 53rd birthday and a milestone in an unusual religious experience, a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress. Says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin: "Mr. Edwards' case is unique...
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