From West Virginia-
One of West Virginia's best-known ministers -- an activist against the Iraq war and longtime leader of other public causes -- has been stripped of his license by the state's Episcopal bishop.
The Rev. Jim Lewis says his Episcopal credentials were revoked on grounds that he performed too many rites for his former parishioners at St. John's Church in Charleston.
However, he says, nearly nine years have elapsed since he returned to Charleston in retirement, and his involvement with long-ago church members never caused a problem until now.
Lewis has a high profile in West Virginia. During the stormy 1974 fundamentalist uprising against "godless textbooks," he led a defense of the school system and the disputed books. He also created Manna Meal, a humanitarian soup kitchen at St. John's for homeless or impoverished people. And he helped establish Covenant House, a shelter for the down-and-out, originally in a small house behind St. John's.
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http://wvgazette.com/News/201005090302
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