Word: woolwich
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...Woolwich...
...sheer desperation, perhaps, Anglican priests will try almost everything to pump new life into their rundown urban parishes. In his eight years as rector of St. Mary's in London's grimy Woolwich district, the Rev. Nick Stacey, 40, has wheeled a beauty queen around town in a cart to publicize a church benefit, opened a coffee bar and canteen for teenagers, and instituted bingo games for their elders. More seriously, his 14-man staff has started a housing service for indigents, a suicide emergency center, and a host of other useful counseling services. But even...
...British Labor government decided to equip police with breathometers to check drivers for drunkenness, he commented: "People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government." Or he can set sail on splendid seas of invective. "The Bishop of Woolwich, who is England's Bishop Pike only more so, announced recently from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral that he had recently traveled to America and there found that 'every Christian I met' was opposed to the war in Viet Nam-a statement which, if true, suggests that...
...follows the little snake as he glides around London taking pictures of naked old men and of models who might as well be. Among the models is Vogue's Verushka, whom he woos with his camera until they both collapse in erotic exhaustion. On a side trip to Woolwich, he happens to notice a pretty little park where a handsome couple is amorously straying. Nothing better to do, so he follows them, shooting on the sly, till the girl (Vanessa Redgrave) catches him at it and indignantly demands the roll of film. When he refuses, she offers...
...Perhaps the most enthusiastic propagandists for a new image of God are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Anglican theology, Bishop Robinson of Woolwich, England, and Bishop James A. Pike of California. Both endorse the late Paul Tillich's concept of God as "the ground of being." Pike, who thinks that the church should have fewer but better dogmas, also suggests that the church should abandon the Trinity, on the ground that it really seems to be preaching three Gods instead of one. Christianity, in his view, should stop attributing specific actions to persons of the Trinity?creation to the Father...