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Article: A healing president and devoted Episcopalian.(Gerald R. Ford)(Obituary)
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- The Christian Century
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- January 23, 2007
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FORMER PRESIDENT Gerald R. Ford, praised in death as a low-key healer for the nation in the troubled aftermath of the White House Watergate scandals and the Vietnam War, was eulogized in a succession of Episcopal services at the turn of the new year.
The Episcopal connection was not perfunctory. Ford's "care-filled ministry over many decades" as a layperson drew a strong expression of gratitude in a statement by the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori.
The pastor at the Episcopal church where the Fords have worshiped for three decades in California said that the ex-president asked him before last summer's Episcopal convention ...