Word: methodists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile Workers, and Young Women's Christian Association...
Canonists, seminarians, as well as Methodist and episcopal laymen across the U.S., were raising eyebrows last week over an ordination as rare as the California condor...
...Episcopal Bishop of the California diocese, with full rubric and laying on of hands, had conferred on a Methodist minister-not Episcopal orders but episcopal orders. As a result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy, George Hedley, 60, is the well-beloved, brilliant father figure and campus character of California's small (700 students) Mills College for women. Born in China to British Methodist missionary parents, educated in England and the University of Southern California, he had served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor...
...Hedley's main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of his own Methodist bishop, applied to California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for ordination under Canon...
...Significant Step. As with Chaplain Hedley, Bishop Pike's main motive in performing the ordination was to witness to church unity. There have been protests. The high-church Protestant Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, criticized the ordination as super-Protestantism. Old Testament Professor (and Methodist) John Otwell of the Pacific School of Religion sounded off in a long letter in the Christian Century: "Putting it quite simply, it would seem that Dr. Hedley is now neither fish nor fowl. He has impugned his ordination as a Methodist, yet he remains merely a Methodist...