Jonathan Daniels Attended St. James Episcopal Church
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Jonathan chose to attend St. James church as a teenager, in spite of the family’s congregational background. St. James had a youth group which the Congregational church did not. In addition, his love of the dramatic was better satisfied in the pageantry of the Episcopal liturgy. Reverend J. Edison Pike was a family friend who advised Jonathan and eventually sponsored his confirmation in the Episcopal church in 1958.
After college, when Jonathan decided on his religious calling, he chose to attend seminary school. After meeting with the bishop of NH, the diocese’s Board of Examining Chaplains, and a physical and psychological tests he became a postulant for Holy Orders on April 3, 1963. He was sponsored by St. James church and had the backing of the new minister, Reverend Chandler McCarty and the diocese. He applied to the Episcopal Theology School in Cambridge MA and was accepted. He started in September, 1963.
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Keene, NH, Jonathan Daniels Center for Responsibility. Accessed August 12th 2020. https://jonathandanielscenter.org/visit/keene-nh/.