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Helen Smith Shoemaker
Helen Smith Shoemaker (March 16, 1903 - January 29, 1993) was an American author, sculptor and Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopalian church leader, and co-founder of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer. Biography She was born in New York City on March 16, 1903 to Howard Alexander Smith, a U.S. senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1958, and Helen Babcock Dominick. Helen Smith was educated privately and then studied art in New York City. She attended schools in Colorado, Princeton, New Jersey, and Florence, Italy. She also studied art in Paris and New York. In the 1920s in New York City, New York, she was attracted to the ''First Century Christian Fellowship'' founded by Frank Buchman, that would later become the Oxford Group in 1928, and the Moral Re-Armament movement (MRA) in 1938. She worked and resided with a First Century Christian Fellowship group at Calvary Church (Manhattan), Calvary Episcopal Church in New York, and there met the Rev. Dr. Sam Shoemaker, Samuel Shoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position. As of 2022, the Episcopal Church had 1,678,157 members, of whom the majority were in the United States. it was the nation's 14th largest denomination. Note: The number of members given here is the total number of baptized members in 2012 (cf. Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2002–2013). Pew Research estimated that 1.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 3 million people, self-identify as mainline Episcopalians. The church has recorded a regular decline in membership and Sunday attendance since the 1960s, particularly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. The church was organized after the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
