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Even the ministry, perhaps the most steadfastly male profession in the Colonies, has felt the impact of women. In most denominations, women's place is still in the pew rather than the pulpit, but there are a few notable exceptions. The most remarkable is Mother Ann Lee. "Ann the Word," as she is called, left England with a small band of followers in 1774 and is now establishing a religious community at Nistegaone, New York. The American Shakers-so named because of the tumultuous singing, dancing, shaking and shouting at their services-regard Mother Ann, who reportedly...
Viewed from a distance, they make a handsome family, all dressed up and sitting together in the courtroom-as healthy and prosperous looking as when they sat proudly in the pew at the Marymount School chapel, where Patty made her first communion 13 years ago. But San Francisco Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter's paneled courtroom is no church, and Randolph and Catherine Hearst have traveled prodigious emotional distances to be at their daughter's side again. The first shock of the kidnaping, the pain of Patty's taped denunciation of her parents as "pigs," the dark...
...attended the ordination of a young man. "Before the procession began, I was very pointedly told that only priests, not deacons, could participate in the ritual laying on of hands. I can still remember the embarrassment, rage and grief that surged through me as I stood alone in the pew while my brothers went up into the sanctuary to lay on hands...
...Jersey's Morris County Courthouse remains a quiet, old-fashioned sort of place. George Washington wintered his troops in Morristown in 1777, and handsome 19th century houses still stand near the village green. The courthouse is a three-story Georgian building shaded by yellowing oaks, and the pew-like benches in Courtroom No. 1 have room for only about 110 spectators, with space for another 30 in the white-paneled balcony. The seats are packed every day, mostly with reporters from as far away as Tokyo and London; there are a few students, and one white-bearded eccentric called...
...amazed that you sent a correspondent to London for a story on Elton John when the U.S. is being toured by the real Captain Fantastic of rock and his crew-Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. You were in the right church but, unfortunately, you were in the wrong pew...