Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Sirica burst the Watergate dam, has told friends that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
...Stuart Magruder, 39, was accompanied by the Rev. Louis Evans Jr., of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, when he was sentenced in May for conspiring to obstruct justice. Last year after the Watergate affair had begun to unravel, Magruder joined one of the intimate "covenant" groups that Evans had started in order to feed the "spiritual hunger" in Washington. Jeb's wife Gail joined another (also attended by Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette). The groups are small-typically only a dozen people who bind themselves to each other through eight principles or covenants. The principles include...
...likelihood that his weekly prayer meetings will somehow go on. A lifelong Episcopalian, Ford will continue to worship whenever he can in his "home parish," Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Va. Though Ford may get a relatively liberal slant on religion from Immanuel's rector, the Rev. William L. Dols Jr., he gets a fundamentalist pitch at home in Michigan. There he has nurtured a close friendship with the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelical minister who is head of Gospel Films Inc. of Muskegon, Mich., and peripatetic chaplain to a number of professional sports teams. Another, probably...
Above the Law. The bishops chose not to attack the women directly but rather the errant colleagues who had ordained them: three retired or resigned U.S. bishops (the Rt. Revs. Robert L. De Witt, Daniel Corrigan and Edward R. Welles II) and the current bishop of Costa Rica, the Rt. Rev. J. Antonio Ramos, who participated in the ceremony only peripherally. One of the leaders of the attack was Bishop Harold B. Robinson of Western New York, who complained that the ordaining bishops' action was "a parallel to Nixon. These men have placed themselves above the law." Along with...
...women, meantime, do not feel that anything can change what has been done. "As usual, the church couched a lot of brutality in godly language," said the Rev. Carter Heyward, one of the eleven women ordained. "I am a priest. They cannot take that away from...