Sunday, August 26, 2018

Thinking of T S Eliot & His Religions

From Patheos-

In my formative years “J. Alfred Prufrock” caught my imagination. The “Wasteland” gave voice to my anxieties. “Ash Wednesday,” the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party, and most of all the “Four Quartets” informed and gave images as well as turns of phrase to my developing spirituality.

Raised Unitarian, after a brief flirtation with Buddhism, he embraced Anglicanism’s spiritual comprehensiveness. His unlikely journey from America to England also hints volumes at the mutability of our lives both as individuals and where we’re going. That going, I believe, is leading irresistibly toward the universal longing.

If anyone can claim to come from Unitarian aristocracy, it would be Thomas Stearns Eliot. His great grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot, Sr, was one of the founders of the Unitarian church in Washington D. C. His grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot Jr, was the founding minister of the Unitarian church in St. Louis, where he would also be a founder of Washington University. One of his uncles, Thomas Lamb Eliot would be the founding minister of the Unitarian church in Portland, Oregon. While his cousin Frederick May Eliot would become president of the American Unitarian Association. At least one UU church is named for this family.

More here-

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2018/08/thinking-of-t-s-eliot-his-religions.html

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Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001293385/anglican-church-of-kenya-gets-two-new-bishops
The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) has two new bishops after the dioceses of West Pokot and Maseno South held elections yesterday.
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001293385/anglican-church-of-kenya-gets-two-new-bishops

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Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001293385/anglican-church-of-kenya-gets-two-new-bishops
The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) has two new bishops after the dioceses of West Pokot and Maseno South held elections yesterday.
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001293385/anglican-church-of-kenya-gets-two-new-bishops
The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) has two new bishops after the dioceses of West Pokot and Maseno South held elections yesterday.
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001293385/anglican-church-of-kenya-gets-two-new-bishops

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