Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diocese is said to be on the boil," says the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark. "If that is so, I accept it as a compliment. Boiling water is better than tepid. It can cleanse and generate power." Measured against British coolness to the Anglican faith (of 27 million baptized members, only 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls), the Diocese of Southwark is indeed bubbling. And Bishop Stockwood, 50, a charming and worldly man in whom humility coexists with vanity, gives it another stir almost daily. In the process, he has become perhaps the most storied bishop...
Theological Fossil. On the theory that getting people talking about the church is a big advantage over the customary apathy, Stockwood has encouraged dissent and nonconformity among his 600 clergymen. In a sermon on the existing moral code at Southwark Cathedral last March, his canon librarian, the Rev. Douglas Rhymes, preached that Christ never suggested that "marriage is the only possible occasion of any expression of physical relationship," and charged on to say that "much of the prejudice against homosexuality is on the ground that it is unnatural-but for whom? Certainly not for the homosexual...
...National Council of Churches entered into soul-searching discussion of the role its members should play in the nation's civil rights struggle. Were pulpit pronouncements enough? Could the Christian conscience be satisfied by mere pious expressions of sympathy for the Negro? One who thought not was the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.'s general assembly, former president of the National Council and one of the U.S.'s most respected clergymen (TIME cover, May 26, 1961). Turning to a fellow board member, Blake said quietly: "Some time...
...Catholic and Jewish clergymen, arrested in an integration march on the gaudy Gwynn Oak Amusement Park outside Baltimore, which has long barred Negroes from its 64 acres. Arrested with him were Bishop Daniel Corrigan, director of the home department of the national council of the Protestant Episcopal Church; the Rev...
...Kill Him!" At least, Daley escaped any physical threats. Those were reserved for a Negro speaker later on. The Rev. Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. Inc., biggest Negro religious denomination in the U.S. (5,000,000 members), recently had made a statement opposing a mass Negro march on Washington. For that statement he now received thunderous boos. Unable to speak, Jackson started to leave. A group of about 50 closed around him, shouting "Kill him, kill him!" They pinned Jackson against the platform until he was finally rescued by ushers...