Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) HARRY W. THOMPSON St. John's Episcopal Church Morganfield...
...Arthur Macmillan's fellow laymen agreed. "The whole subject of evil spirits wandering about this world is un-Christian and almost getting near to witchcraft," said a retired physician named Dr. Edward Cordeaux. Others felt that "possession" was a matter for psychiatrists. The Rev. Henry Cooper, chaplain to the Guild of St. Raphael, argued that the more successful exorcists are men who know something about psychiatry and work well with doctors. They resort to bell, book and candle only when psychiatrists have given...
More than a little frightened as well as fed up, after six months of such goings on, an unemployed British laborer named George Leek took his troubles to his church. The Rev. Clement White, vicar of St. John the Evangelist Church in Percy Main, Northumberland, was sympathetic but hesitant. Ghosts these days seem to be plaguing Britain's Anglican parishioners in greater numbers than at any time since possessed souls were burnt at the stake centuries ago. The demand for exorcism has become so prevalent that churchmen are seriously concerned. Only last month, the House of Laity (which, along...
Then all Protestant hell broke loose. Last week the dean was getting more space in Australian letters-to-editors than the crisis in the Congo. "Degrading the holy office of a Christian minister," cried the Rev. Allan Walker, superintendent of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission. "I am bound to say," Melbourne's Anglican Dean Barton Babbage felt bound to say, "I regard Dean Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay...
Releasing Something Deeper. The Rev. Dennis J. Bennett, for one, is sure the explosion is on the way; last week he took up new duties in Seattle at St. Luke's Episcopal Church as the direct result of his interest in glossolalia. London-born Father Bennett, 42, a graduate of Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregational) who later became an Episcopalian, was assigned to St. Mark's Church in Van Nuys, Calif, in 1953. Last October he agreed to meet with some members of a fellow minister's church who had found themselves beginning to speak in tongues. First...