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...William Wendt is an Episcopal priest who has rarely flinched from trouble or feared innovation. His Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., has become one of the most liberal Episcopal congregations in the nation, active in the affairs of its neighboring ghetto and experimental in its liturgy. It was hardly surprising, therefore, that after eleven women were ordained in Philadelphia last summer as the first female Episcopal priests, Wendt was the first to open his church to one of them-Australia-born Alison Cheek, who celebrated the Eucharist there last November. Not only had the church...
...priests in the diocese who brought charges against Wendt, the issue is disobedience to the bishop. They fear incipient Congregationalism, in which each local church is autonomous. Wendt, however, hopes that his case "may go down in history as establishing that you can do what you believe to be right, even against the church's orders...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH Carrots and Peas by Hollis Frampton, Lemon by Hollis Frampton, Castro Street by Bruce Baillie, Up and Atom by Doug Wendt, Stromboli, by Roberto Rosselini, Oct. 25, at 7:30, $1. A Luta Continua by Robert van Lierop, Barravente by Glauber Rocha...
Uneven Product. Over at Chicago Today, executives are trying to smile through the red ink. Editor-Publisher Lloyd Wendt, 63, who directed Today's transformation into a tabloid in 1969, is convinced that sluggish ad revenues will strengthen rapidly now that his paper has taken the afternoon circulation lead. Chicagoans' ears are numb from repetitive radio spots that trumpet: "Chicago Today! Writing worth reading ... and repeating...
Today tries to be a nightly magazine, but is thin on hard news while crammed with columns and features, including a recent series on group sex. Wendt characterizes his tabloid as "a compact" because it is both small in size and short on space. He argues that afternoon audiences are distracted at home by TV, the kids and household chores. "The evening reader doesn't have all night," he says. "We're attempting to get the maximum amount of information into the minimum amount of space, while providing enough facts to satisfy an intelligent reader." The formula...