Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) HARRY TAYLOR Portland...
...February 1966, in his Cambridge, England, apartment, the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike found his clocks stopped at 8:19-the hour corresponding to the time when his son, James Jr., had shot himself to death in New York City two weeks earlier. The strange coincidence, according to Pike, was accompanied by other unexplained phenomena: his books were mysteriously moved from place to place; clusters of safety pins appeared "where they had not been before, all open to the position that the hands of a clock...
...Last week Pike revealed that he had communicated with his son no fewer than six times since then with the help of assorted sympathetic mediums. The most recent-and most dramatic-encounter took place last month in Toronto, where Pike participated in a televised séance with the Rev. Arthur A. Ford of Philadelphia, a Disciples of Christ minister and a professional medium who claims that a "spirit control" named "Fletcher" speaks through his vocal cords...
...skeptics were unkind enough to suggest that Pike might have used this pipeline to the beyond to clear up his doubts about such doctrines as the Trinity and Virgin Birth, but the conversations were rather prosaic. A chat between Pike and his predecessor as Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Karl Block, dwelled on the problems of buying church property. An exchange with the late father of British theologian Donald MacKinnon elicited the helpful information that MacKinnon once owned two cats...
Apart from the poverty question, delegates to the convention seemed ready and willing to innovate. In other actions last week they: - >Adopted a proposed constitutional amendment paving the way for acceptance of women delegates in the House of Deputies by 1973. - >Allowed the Right Rev. James A. Pike to speak in sessions of the House of Bishops, a privilege not accorded to a resigned bishop. Pike, who is expected to have a few things to say when the House takes up the question of heresy trials (TIME, Aug. 25), was undisturbed by the fact that he will not be allowed...