"a good town marshal was going to run around town like a chicken with his head cut off asking everyone to help. And who saves him? His Quaker wife. That isn't my idea of a good Western."" Zinnemann responded, ""I admire Hawks very much. I only wish he'd leave my films alone!"" In a 1973 interview, he added, ""I'm rather surprised at [Hawks' and Wayne's] thinking. Sheriffs are people and no two people are alike. The story of ""High Noon"" takes place in the Old West but it is really a story about a man's conflict of conscience. In this"
"Mary Ellen Tracy Mary Ellen Tracy (aka Sabrina Aset) (born 1943) is the high priestess of the Church of the Most High Goddess, who was convicted in 1989 of a single misdemeanor count of running a house of prostitution in connection with the operation of the church, located in West Los Angeles, California. Tracy is a graduate of the University of Miami, cum laude in chemistry, did graduate work in chemistry at UCLA, and received her masters in Environmental Sciences/Chemistry from Portland State University. According to Mary Ellen and Wilbur Tracy, the couple – both former devout and dedicated Mormons"
"religious emancipation in the 1830s. It allowed many rich women an alternative lifestyle to their other options of governess or wife and they lived in luxury at the Agapemone in Somerset until their death. She recalled growing up at the cult as a very happy experience in an interview to the Henley Standard in 2016, shortly before her death. Campbell argued that Beloved had once given a sermon in which he said, 'Christ is no longer here (pointing skywards) but here (pointing to his chest),' thereby expounding the central Christian doctrine of Christ within every Christian and that this had"
"Of The Most High Goddess"", in the wake of what they described as a divine revelation. Sexual acts played a fundamental role in the church's sacred rites, which were performed by Mary Ellen Tracy herself in her assumed role of High Priestess. Local newspaper articles about the Neopagan church quickly got the attention of local law enforcement officials, and in April 1989, the Tracys' house was searched and the couple arrested on charges of pimping, pandering and prostitution. They were subsequently convicted in a trial in state court and sentenced to jail terms: Wilbur Tracy for 180 days plus a"
"learns this, she is mortified and demonizes him in front of Tom's girlfriend, Ruth. Grace believes that anyone who tries to preach religion is being an active part of the world problems stemming from religious fanaticism, especially violence. Tom tries to assure Grace that he's trying to form a ""better religion,"" one that does not promote violence, but personal improvement and love. Grace stubbornly refuses to listen to Tom and after a bitter argument, the two become estranged. Meanwhile, Grace's husband, Tony, is a practicing Jew, and although he disagrees with Tom's Christian views, is far more tolerant and understanding."
"with process philosophy. In the 1990s, Wiccan beliefs and practices were used as a partial basis for a number of U.S. films and television series, such as ""The Craft"", ""Charmed"" and ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", leading to a dramatic upsurge in teenagers and young adults becoming interested and involved in the religion. Beit Asherah (the house of the Goddess Asherah) was one of the first Neopagan synagogues, founded in the early 1990s by Stephanie Fox, Steven Posch, and Magenta Griffiths (Lady Magenta). Magenta Griffiths is High Priestess of the Beit Asherah coven, and a former board member of the Covenant"
"""spontaneous mystical experience,"" when a vision of the Goddess first appeared to him at the age of 15. Although Kelly was raised as a Roman Catholic, his vision of the Goddess in Mill Valley triggered a lifelong interest in alternative religions. After graduating from high school, Kelly studied at the University of California, Berkeley, then San Francisco State University (San Francisco State College at that time), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1964. After graduating from San Francisco State in 1964, Kelly worked as an editor for Stanford University Press. He returned to San Francisco State in 1966, where"
"Gnostic Mass given by the Agape Lodge, the Hollywood branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis. It was while working on a play that Hay met actor Will Geer, with whom he entered into a relationship. Geer was a committed leftist, with Hay later describing him as his political mentor. Geer introduced Hay to Los Angeles' leftist community, and together they took part in activism, joining demonstrations for laborers' rights and the unemployed, and on one occasion handcuffed themselves to lamposts outside UCLA to hand out leaflets for the American League Against War and Fascism. Other groups whose activities he joined"
"military bombardment and inmates of US prisons. She lives in Chicago. Kelly was born in 1952 in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood to parents Frank and Catherine Kelly. She attended St. Paul-Kennedy ""shared-time"" high school, which split her days between a Catholic institution where she was given the writings of Daniel Berrigan and Martin Luther King Jr. to read alongside biblical texts, and a desegregating public school where interracial violence was common. She obtained her BA from Loyola University Chicago working a succession of night jobs to help cover tuition, including a stint on a meat-packing factory line which inspired her"
"excommunication, Kelly urged followers to stay in the church and ""raise hell"" if they could do so while maintaining their mental and emotional health. She appealed her excommunication, first to her stake president, then to the First Presidency, all of whom rejected the appeal. Kelly no longer claims any religious affiliation, but participated in the ordination of a female Roman Catholic priest in October 2015. In an interview with John Dehlin, Kate confirmed she no longer has a belief in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Kate Kelly (feminist) Kathleen Marie Kelly (born October 29, 1980), known"
"the stage, but her parents were not keen on allowing her to pursue an acting career. After this, Kate quit acting to raise Hathaway and her brothers. Hathaway was raised as Roman Catholic with what she considers ""really strong values"" and stated that she wished to be a nun during her childhood, but acting was always a high priority for her. At the age of 15, her relationship with the Catholic Church changed, after learning that Michael was gay. Her family left the church due to its intolerance of homosexuality, converting to Episcopalianism, but left that too. In 2009, Hathaway"
"Tracy was featured on a television broadcast of ""Donahue"", as well as ""The Montel Williams Show"", appearing with such other New-Age spiritualists as Aidan Kelly, First Officer of the ""Southern California Local Council of the Covenant of the Goddess"", and Avilynn Waters of the ""Los Angeles Nest of the Church of All Worlds"". Mary Ellen Tracy Mary Ellen Tracy (aka Sabrina Aset) (born 1943) is the high priestess of the Church of the Most High Goddess, who was convicted in 1989 of a single misdemeanor count of running a house of prostitution in connection with the operation of the church,"
"also a staunch conservative Republican. Regarding her faith, Grey adhered to Mormonism, stating that, ""I am a Mormon. Dad was and I was raised in that religion and during the '30s and '40s, I strayed and got into other things. I drank, I smoked, and did things totally opposite, not even thinking of what I had known during childhood. I remember in 1958, two elders came to my door and I began to think about my upbringing and what I learned and than I started to meditate on that and I found solace once again and realized what I had"
"the school in defiance of Thorpeness bylaws; he ran away from school, and contracted double pneumonia. As a result of his mother's intervention, the school was shut down, Ms. Ford was disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses, and her brother demoted. In 1953, Gary's maternal grandmother Lysbeth Turner, unimpressed by her daughter's choice of religion, attempted to expand Gary's religious horizons by introducing him to Gerald Gardner, the principal advocate of ""the old religion"" of Wicca to which she adhered. Botting's lay preaching continued after his arrival in Canada at age ten. He entered the ""industrial arts"" (rather than ""academic"") stream in"
"to recite the creed of faith. An inquisitive and rebellious girl, she concluded that she could not agree with it and would not complete the confirmation ceremony. Angelina converted to the Presbyterian faith in April 1826, aged 21. Angelina was an active member of the Presbyterian church. A proponent of biblical study and interfaith education, she taught a Sabbath school class and also provided religious services to her family's slaves—a practice her mother originally frowned upon, but later participated in. Grimké became a close friend of the pastor of her church, Rev. William McDowell. McDowell was a northerner who had"
"as a spiritual mentor of sorts for the young Elise. In her teens, however, she recalls a longing to know ""god"" (she often used a lowercase g in referring to God in her personal writings) but felt that ""no religion can quite fulfill [her] needs, so [she] will make [her] own religion"". She also was strongly influenced by her mother, who in Norway had been involved in peace parades and was a social worker for girls who worked in Norwegian factories. Elise shared her mother's nostalgia for Norway, and always thought of her homeland as a ""safe place"" until her"
"an atheist); Daniel Gillen, who has a reputation of stealing radios from cars (though he argues that with so many riots taking place it only makes sense to steal the radios before the cars are burnt), and Ginger O'Shaughnessy, who wants the conflicts between Protestants and Catholics to end and to be called by his real name (Gregory). We also meet Mary a bright out-spoken young woman who believes that the conflict can be resolved through peaceful protests; Bernadette, a very religious and prudent girl who has been in love with Ginger since they were children; and Christine, who defies"
"John Walker, a businessman and a conservative Presbyterian minister. Kennedy grew up a Christian, but did not accept the Gospel until age 13 when she had a divine revelation. Kennedy’s faith was influenced by the teachings of both by her father and favorite priest, Mr. Aitken. When reflecting back on her experience with religion as a child, Kennedy wrote she remembers hating Sundays due to the long, boring, and gloomy ordeal of reciting verses and listening to the Bible being read for hours. As a young adult, Kennedy started a Sunday school of her own in Aberdeen where she combined"
"in High Wycombe, a small town near London. Both of her parents were artists. As a child she faced the difficulties of post-World War II Britain. Her father, a stage designer, died in 1945 shortly after coming back from the front lines. Her single mother, a dressmaker, raised her and her sibling. She was a support and inspiration to Hogan. The village Hogan grew up in was close to nature and fostered her love for biology. Her rational scientific thinking helped her cope with her uncertain home life. She has been an atheist since she was a child. She attended"
"One such hippie ""high priest"" was San Francisco State College instructor Stephen Gaskin. Beginning in 1966, Gaskin's ""Monday Night Class"" eventually outgrew the lecture hall, and attracted 1,500 hippie followers in an open discussion of spiritual values, drawing from Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu teachings. In 1970, Gaskin founded a Tennessee community called The Farm, and he still lists his religion as ""Hippie."" Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. On September 19, 1966, Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion declaring LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an"
"given a number of interviews over the years describing growing up in a strict Christian Reformed family. She was not allowed to watch TV or listen to music. At some point she rebelled and turned to witchcraft. ""It was the ultra-form of rebellion against God, to worship the devil outright,"" she said. She had a baby in high-school out of wedlock, was convinced by her mother to marry the father, than proceed to cheat on him regularly. After their divorce she married a second husband. Her new step-daughter owned a heavy-metal music CD by White Zombie which contained satanic lyrics"
"Presbyterian church, while RD Muldoon (Prime Minister 1975–84) was raised as a Baptist and continued as a church member until he married and became an Anglican like his wife Thea In , however, religion has not usually formed a major component of either Labour or National platforms. Former Labour Prime Minister, Helen Clark, openly stated that she was agnostic; the Prime Minister and leader of the National Party, Bill English, is a practicing Roman Catholic. The National Party, the ostensibly more socially conservative of the two ""major"" traditional parties, apparently received increasing proportional support from religiously identifiable voters between 2002"
"the religious teaching she received from her mother; the family background and the circles in which she moved formed a strong social conscience and a staunch religious faith. At about the age of 17 Grey went through a religious crisis, which probably stemmed from an incident in which she discovered the body of a suicide while out riding. She became disenchanted with her weekly church attendance, describing the local vicar as ""an honest man in the pulpit ... [who] taught us loyally all that he probably himself knew about God, but whose words did not even touch the fringe of"
"who had been killed for their belief and died very politely."" She liked fairy tales, and also read Nancy Drew and Life Magazine. As for her own religious views and her exposure to religious literary art she says she was by nature ""a pagan and a pantheist"" and notes ""I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad art being hymns. The four-beat was something that was just part of my consciousness from before I was born."" She adds ""I think I was about 15"
"Blanche Barton Blanche Barton (born Sharon Leigh ; October 1, 1961) is an American religious leader who is Magistra Templi Rex within the Church of Satan, and is addressed by Satanists as ""Magistra Barton"". Barton was raised in San Diego, a self-proclaimed Phi Beta Kappa and graduate from Redlands College with a degree in journalism and literature. She moved in with church leader Anton LaVey the day after Diane Hegarty, the original high priestess, left the Black House. After LaVey and Hegarty's daughter Zeena LaVey (High Priestess 1985–1990) abdicated her position in 1990, the position was vacant until Barton assumed"
"finds Refrigerator (who goes by his middle name, Perry) who was her tour guide at county college and is now a student. They end up kissing, but when Perry says he wants to become a Reverend, she pushes him to the ground and runs. Additionally, as the only registered voter in East Dogmouth, Kimmy votes Lillian into city council. She then goes on to stop Gretchen, who has started a cult, from blowing up herself and a bunch of abducted teenage boys. Gretchen is then sent to prison. Kimmy decides to discover what religion really is, and joins a church"
"church to a Pentecostal one around age 10–12. At age 14 she broke with Christianity after arguing with her Methodist minister grandfather that animals had souls and went to heaven. She was strongly influenced by the Sybil Leek book, ""Diary of a Witch"", which she read during high school. At the age of 17, Diana began practicing witchcraft. At the age of 20 she changed her name to Morning Glory because she did not care for the chastity requirement demanded of followers of the goddess Diana. While en route to join a commune near Eugene, Oregon, in 1969, Morning Glory"
"New Castle, Delaware, an area with a large population of Quakers. Collins' father became a farmer in that area (Brandywine Hundred) near the Pennsylvania border and married Sarah Hammond, an English immigrant from Chester County, Pennsylvania. Collins had a sister (Elizabeth) who never married and was his only sibling. They were close throughout their lives. Collins had his primary schooling at the Center Meeting House in Centerville and at Friends' school in Wilmington, Delaware. His upbringing was among the local Quakers, who had a type of religion called ""Inner Light"". Collins and his sister listened to religious works of authors"
"(and ex-wife), Sara Sidle. She once insinuated that Grissom was a misanthrope when he quoted her Thoreau's ""Walden"". In the season two episode ""Alter Boys"", Grissom confides in a priest that he does not believe in the concept of organized religion and is a lapsed Catholic, but does believe in the idea of God. In addition to belief in God, Grissom and Greg would later agree that scientific education should not necessarily preclude belief in occultism and other paranormal concepts. Although he is very dedicated to his job and sometimes goes to extremes in his investigations, his unwillingness to dabble"
"support the Republican Party whereas more liberal Christians, Catholics and secular voters tend to support the Democratic Party. Every President and Vice President, was raised in a family with affiliations with Christian religions. Only former President John F. Kennedy, and former Vice President Joe Biden were raised in Roman Catholic families. Two former presidents, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover, were raised as Quakers. All the rest were raised in families affiliated with Protestant Christianity. However, many presidents have themselves had only a nominal affiliation with churches, and some never joined any church. There has never been a Jewish President or"
"29, 1736, in Manchester, England. She was a member of the Quaker sect called the Shaking Quakers. She ran afoul of the law and was imprisoned for trying to teach her sect's beliefs. During her time in prison, she claimed to have a vision that she herself was the second coming of Christ. Upon her release in 1772, she founded a new religious sect, which came to be commonly known as the Shakers because of the adherents' dancing and motions. She taught that God was a dual personage, male and female, instead of the masculine-orientated traditional belief in an all-male"
"to religion after a ""wild youth"". Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry. Through her mother, she is a niece of film director Frank Perry. She has a younger brother named David, who is a singer, and an older sister, Angela. From ages 3 to 11, Perry often moved across the country as her parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara. Growing up, she attended religious schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona and Santa Barbara Christian School in California during her elementary years. Her family struggled financially, sometimes using food stamps and"
"using you for a certain thing, or have a certain motive that isn’t pure. It's really about surrounding yourself with fellow Christians and putting God first–I think that is the biggest part of this story."" She also told Billboard magazine, ""I love the film. I love how it turned out. It's really heartwarming and sweet."" Grace Trey is an 18 year old Christian teenager with religious parents who take her to youth group and church every Sunday. Her dad doesn't let her play and sing her own way when she is anywhere. Her father is strict about their religion and"