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...announcement came at a news conference held at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City late last night. President Pusey traveled to New York late yesterday afternoon to join the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, and other Episcopal dignitaries for the announcement...
...Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that the co operation has been so easily accepted, suggests Chicago's Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, is found in the widespread agreement...
...Rt. Rev. John E. Mines, D.D., presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America...
...Instead of 40. Another proposal for updating Lent came from the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York. "It is less than honest to maintain that a Lent of 40 days is the final word for our age," he said in an Ash Wednesday sermon. "The Lenten diet is now possible only in exclusively religious establishments. The lengthy services with their glorious lessons have become unrealistic for men and women catching commuters' trains. The quiet pace of a 17th century Lent is impossible for people living in 20th century New York. I would gladly see Lent shortened...
...what the Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, said was only the beginning of a year long evangelizing drive, each of the bishops preached in one of twelve towns of the diocese of Georgia, which covers the southern part of the state. "We are trying to present a rational, meaningful exposition of the New Testament faith," said Archdeacon Alfred Mead. Montana's Episcopal Bishop Chandler Sterling, 54, a hearty churchman sporting a silver cowboy buckle on his robes, agreed: "It's time to sweep away old stories and make the Gospels intelligible against the background...