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From the comedian Robin Williams, who is an Episcopalian, on an HBO special:
Top 10 Reasons to Be an Episcopalian:
10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female God created them; male and female we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.
6. Pew aerobics.
5. Church year is color-coded.
4. Free wine on Sunday.
3. All of the pageantry -- none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
...and the Number One to be an Episcopalian:
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.
Writers - most wrote MANY books
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C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia
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Madeleine L'Engle, A wrinkle in Time
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William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey
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Alexandra Stoddard, Daring to be Yourself
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Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man
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T. S. Elliot, lyrics to the musical "CATS" (talk about trivia! He's written much more.)
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Susan Howatch, Mystical Paths
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Hillaire Belloc, The Four Men, Vile Bodies
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Jan Karon, The Mitford Series
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Mortimer J. Adler
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Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carrol
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Dr. Samuel Johnson, author of the first dictionary
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Joseph Addison (writer and editor)
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William Congreve
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Diane Mott Davidson, mystery writer, Dying for Chocolate
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Edith Pargeter aka Ellis Peters, The Brother Cadfael Mysteries (shown on PBS)
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Father Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
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William Wordsworth
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Jane Austen
Poets
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Father Clement C. Moore, "A Visit From St. Nick" aka "The Night Before Christmas"
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John Donne, "No Man is an Island "
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W.H. Auden, "Tell me the truth about love"
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Philip Larkin, "Many famous feet have trod"
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John Dryden
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Robert Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett
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John Masefield
Thespians (actors/actresses)
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William Powell, Life With Father
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Vincent Price, horror movies- "that voice"
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Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind
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Ethel Merman
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Anne B. Davis (Alice from Brady Bunch)
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David Garrick (is the 19th century Shakespearian actor)
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Sir Laurence Olivier
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Susan Howatch
TRIVIA: Movies with church services modeled after Episcopal/Anglican
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The Princess Bride, wedding scene
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The Titanic, Morning Prayer service in first Class
Athletes
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Jerry Glanville, NASCAR driver #81 Ford
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Sammy Sosa
Public Officials
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General Colin Powell
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President George H. W. Bush
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Jonathan Daniels, civil rights activist
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Former Justice Thurgood Marshall
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President George Washington
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President James Madison
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President Franklin Pierce
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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President Gerald Ford
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General Robert E. Lee
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis
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General John Bell Hood
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General Leonidas Polk
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Elizabeth I and William III
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Almost all Kings and Queens of England since George II, such as Queen Victoria; Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
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Winston Churchill
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Benjamin Disraeli, 19th century Tory prime minister
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Jonathan Daniels (civil rights martyr, featured in a made for TV movie on Selma )
Others
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Charles Darwin, scientist
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Buzz Aldrin, co-pilot astronaut on Apollo 11 - he and Neil Armstrong were the first to walk on the moon
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Terry Waite, Negotiator, ex-hostage in Iran crisis
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Captain Cook
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Captain Vancouver
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Sir Isaac Newton the scientist
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Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, The Alcoholic Anonymous 12 Step Program
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Charlie Duke of Apollo 16
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Sr. Christopher Wren - architect of St. Paul's (England)
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George H. Gallup, Jr. (of Gallup Polls)
Musicians
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Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead
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Duke Ellington
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Judy Collins
Church Musicians
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George Frederic Handel
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Isaac Watts
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Charles Wesley
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Henry Purcell, Westminster Abbey organist
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John Newton, "Amazing Grace"
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Philips Brooks, "O Little Town of Bethlehem "
Preachers/Church Leaders
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Former Archbishop Desmund Tutu of South Africa
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Agnes Sanford, pioneer in healing ministry
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John Wesley
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Archbishop Cranmer
Church writers, and Theologians
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George Herbert, A Country Parson
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Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894, A series of Devotional essays published by the SPCK, The Goblin Market, Prince's Progress)