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Just who began the 1974 Philadelphia revolution is unclear. One important influence was the Rev. Edward G. Harris, co-dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., who issued an impassioned call in June for the immediate ordination of women. Another major backer, who delivered the sermon at the ordination, was Harvard Professor Charles V. Willie, a layman and a black who is vice president of the church's House of Deputies...
...sermon, Willie likened the eleven ordained rebels to the blacks of the '50s who refused to go on sitting at the rear of the bus. Many of the women struck a similar note of exhausted patience, arguing that only action would finally move the church. "God has been calling me all my life," said Katrina Swanson, 39, whose father, Bishop Welles, ordained her. "The time is right." With the Episcopal Church now in a gathering storm over the issue, some of the women's staunchest sympathizers are questioning whether...
...wind. He realized that his greatest danger was the presence of the 650 Greek officers on the island, and three weeks ago he wrote a letter to Greek President Phaedon Gizikis demanding their removal. Their continued presence, he said, was "harmful to relations between Athens and Nicosia." In a sermon two weeks ago, he spoke of feeling "the invisible hand that is threatening the liberty of Cyprus and menacing my life." Just three days before the coup he asserted that he had proof that Athens was plotting his overthrow...
...Daniel L. Pierotti of Georgetown Lutheran Church. He, too, knows what it is to fall under the critical gaze of CBS Correspondent Dan Rather, 42, who attends Pierotti's church when he is in Washington. Says Pierotti gamely, "He honestly tells me what he thinks about the sermon." Pierotti turned the other cheek recently and asked Rather to address the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America. Before an audience of 1,000 at Baltimore's Civic Center, Rather shed his hard-hitting image to offer a credo that required no instant analysis. "I believe," intoned...
...civil rights poems of the '60s, bloody as a bashed head, have the angry surge of an Abolitionist sermon by his great-great-uncle Henry Ward Beecher...