Word: rectoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next morning 75 people gathered at All Saints', a racially mixed inner-city parish, as Means for the first time celebrated Communion, and Rector John Eastwood pleaded for the flock to be charitable. His concern stemmed from vocal opposition to his new priest, and the fact that ten people out of a parish membership of 150 have resigned in protest. Some of Means' opponents are alienated by her. aggressive, mildly profane style. (She will, for example, say "Oh Jesus" on occasion.) Other parishioners disapprove of ordaining women on principle. But many members are delighted. Said Sarah Mallory...
Though normally a wooden campaigner who looks somewhat like an Episcopal rector (which he is), Danforth now crisscrosses the state in a van and tells voters that he wants to be a "pain in the neck" in Washington. He lost a narrow Senate race in 1970, but he is spending heavily against his opponent, ex-Governor Warren E. Hearnes, who is severely tarnished by allegations of scandal in his past administration...
...Anxiety makes manifest ... its Being towards its own most potentiality-for-Being-that is, its Being-free for the freedom of choosing itself and taking hold of itself." He made studied verbal analogies (for example, heil, whole; heilig, holy; and heilen, to heal). His days as a professor and rector at Freiburg University revealed a power worship that has disfigured German philosophy since the days of Hegel. Sympathetic to Naziism, he declared in 1933: "The Fuhrer himself and alone is the German reality present and future...
...total comic command is Tessie O'Shea acting like a Margaret Ruther ford come marvelously back to life. Di rector Tony Tanner keeps the rest of the divertingly able cast as nimble as human fleas. It is quite easy to imagine that children will have a particularly happy time at this show, and ditto most of their elders...
After eleven women were ordained as the first female priests in the Episcopal church in a much disputed irregular service last summer, the church's House of Bishops declared the ordinations invalid. To the Rev. William Wendt, the ardently progressive rector of the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., the bishops' ruling was an inescapable challenge. He permitted one of the women, Alison Cheek, to celebrate the Eucharist in his parish. Soon, 18 priests in the diocese brought charges of disobedience against Wendt, setting the stage for a rare ecclesiastical trial (TIME...