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Article: Are there Episcopalians in foxholes? What in Heaven's name is happening to the Episcopal Church? (includes related article on the Anglican Communion) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 29, 1991
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ARE THERE EPISCOPALIANS IN FOXHOLES?
What in Heaven's name is happening to the Episcopal Church? Listening to Bishop Spong, and looking through the new Prayer Book, one might wonder how much Heaven has to do with it.
The Right Reverend John Shelby Spong, Bishop of Newark, may be the most famous Episcopalian in America outside of the Bush family, so when I found that he was to preach an Easter sermon in a church in his diocese, I went to listen. The church proved to be a small, postwar brick building in a medium-rent residential neighborhood. This was the first surprise, for we too often associate Episcopalians with the robber-baron power churches of the big ...