Episcopal Press and News
News Brief
Episcopal News Service. February 4, 1982 [82027]
The Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, was one of 14 religious leaders who met with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig at the State Department here in late January to discuss the crisis in Poland and the role of the Church there. "Great stress was placed on the need for additional humanitarian aid to Poland," reported Bishop James Armstrong, president of the National Council of Churches, who attended the meeting. Others who attended were Roman Catholic, Jewish and Protestant religious leaders.
The Very Rev. Charles H. Clark, dean of the Episcopal Church-related Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, has announced that he will leave his position on July 1 in order to become rector (headmaster) of St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H. Prior to coming to his post at Berkeley/Yale in 1977 he was dean of St. Andrew's Seminary in Manila. Since 1977 the number of Episcopal students has risen to be 25 percent of the entire student body of Yale Divinity School.
The Rev. Canon Burgess Carr of Liberia has been appointed associate professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Church-related Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. lie will have special responsibility for developing the new McFaddin Program, which is to foster urban ministries and mission. He will also serve as the rector of St. Andrew's Parish here. He has taught at Harvard Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary. Most recently he was on the staff of St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston. During the 1960s he was vice-chairman of the World Student Christian Federation and during the 1970s he was the secretary-general of the All Africa Council of Churches.
Presiding Bishop John M. Allin of the Episcopal Church has been notified that a Friends (Quaker) publication has commended the 1981 Pastoral Letter of the House of Bishops to their readers and has quoted excerpts from it. Editor Shirley Ruth of Friends Bulletin, a West Coast regional journal of the Religious Society of Friends, quoted sections from the Letter relating to arms control and military restraint. Allin has also learned that John Kirk, Richmond, Ind., editor of Quaker Life, related to the Friends United Meeting, called the Letter "a prophetic and moving document" and indicated that he may publish portions of it in his magazine.
The Rev. Harry E. Rahming, 87, was honored recently as rector emeritus of the Church of the Holy Redeemer here at a luncheon. He was rector of that predominantly black congregation for 46 years, the longest rectorate in the history of the Diocese of Colorado. Since his retirement in 1966 he has been priest associate at St. Mary's Church here. Born in Providence, R.I., he came to Colorado in 1920. Since his ordination to the priesthood in 1918 he has missed saying Mass on only four Sundays, he says. His great-grandmother, who was of an Indian and French blood, was confirmed by Bishop Samuel Seabury, the first bishop in the Episcopal Church, in Christ Church, Woodstock, Conn., in 1796.