Word: sacramentalism
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...Magee Wilkes, the church is not like any other profession. The high pay is found only in big churches, and if this is the sole objective of the clergy, then the people in the small churches are second-rate and do not deserve the Word and the Sacrament...
Whatever the case, Jigs does not quite have the ring of authenticity achieved by that small classic The Young Visiters, supposedly written at the turn of the century by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. Nevertheless, Jigs makes some of the best out-loud reading since the original Pooh. "Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor...
...gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy water, they spread it like the Gospel truth...
...elders'"-most of them earnest young (average age: 21) volunteers from the U.S. who, like all Mormon missionaries, receive no pay. Going out in pairs, the youthful Mormons are equipped with street maps, "conversion kits" and tape-recorded sermons, and are taught standard techniques for giving "home sacrament demonstrations." Explains Elder David Stewart Romney, 22:* "We just ring doorbells and say we are Mormon missionaries." Moving into a new town, Mormons also try to organize baseball teams for children, as an avenue to their parents. "We get the kids playing baseball." says Romney. "We get the grownups talking about...
...isolated example. Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes back to primitive Christianity in its emphasis on the Communion service as the central sacrament of worship and, at the same time, is immensely sophisticated in welcoming back much of the traditional richness of the church. "The revival," says Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the department of worship for the United Lutheran Church in America, "has made the church aware that there...