Religion: Syncopated Hymns?

The Rev. W. G. Hargrave Thomas is in the best British tradition of unconventional vicars. In 1947 he publicly an that he saw no reason why unmarried women should be denied the joys of motherhood (his bishop made him take it back). Last year he began holding both Low Church and High Church services on Sunday and banned the reading of the Ten Commandments because of the "fantastic" morality of their "jealous God" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949). Last week, in his 15th Century Anglican church in the village of Needham Market, Vicar Thomas was at...

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