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THe LiVinG CHURCH is published by the Living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. news | October 2, 2016 in the episcopal Church Haitian Bishop Faces Hearing An ecclesiastical court of the episcopal courts also investigate other allegations, for transparency, for leadership, Church is looking into allegations in - including civil matters, doctrinal of - thoughtful reporting, accurate report - volving the Rt. Rev. Jean Zaché fenses, and abandonment of ing and job descriptions. We’re looking Duracin, Bishop of Haiti, ac - the Anglican Communion, at all of these pieces of project man - cording to church staff. said Mark Duffy, director of the agement that will make things in Haiti The case pending before the episcopal Archives. run more smoothly.” church’s hearing panel does not Since 2000, six bishops have Duracin, 69, has served as Bishop of involve allegations of financial been deposed on charges of Haiti since 1993. His diocese is the misconduct, according to neva abandoning the Anglican largest in the episcopal Church, count - Rae Fox, public affairs officer. Duracin Communion. Only two have ing 83,700 members and more than She did not say what the charges entail. gone to trial for misconduct. 100 congregations. Duracin is the second episcopal The investigation into Duracin’s be - in June, the episcopal Church im - bishop with a case pending before a havior comes as the episcopal Church posed a moratorium on what had been church court. The other is the Rt. Rev. takes a closer look at its relationships an active, multimillion-dollar fundrais - J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of Los Angeles, in Haiti. Among the concerns: insuffi - ing push to support projects in Haiti. whose pending trial will assess three cient tracking of where funds donated The pause came after a donor rescinded types of allegations, including whether for construction end up. a $5 million gift to Haiti. The donor in - he acted deceitfully when evicting St. “We are reassessing Haiti,” said Di - stead gave only $700,000 to help rebuild James the Great Church in newport rector of Development Tara Holley at St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Beach and attempting to sell the multi - the June meeting of the church’s exec - Children, which had been reduced to million-dollar property. utive Council. “We are revising the rubble in the earthquake of 2010. Bishop Duracin’s case might or MOU [memorandum of understand - To suspend fundraising and try to might not involve misconduct. Church ing]. We’re looking for accountability, improve financial controls marks a rare and laudable step for an organization involved in supporting Haiti, said Dan Beeton, director of international com - munications at the Washington-based ‘SePverael eavencts eat W oashfin gtaon nSatioonalr Ctat’h edaralf mtaerkerd th9e 1/5t1h a1 n - Center for economic and Policy Re - niversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. search. The center monitors charity “This is a tough day,” said the Rev. Shaun Casey, special representative for projects through its watchdog Haiti religion and global affairs at the U.S. State Department. Casey said that Relief and Reconstruction project. The those gathered at the cathedral likely remembered exactly where they were moratorium also raises questions when the hijacked planes crashed. about what might have become of do - Casey preached at two services and spoke at a forum moderated by the nated funds, he said. Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, the cathedral’s dean. “There are probably some very in - The second service was an interfaith gathering that featured readings teresting reasons why they felt they from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh sources. needed to do that,” Beeton said. “it’s “We gather in this Cathedral Church to pray side by side: Buddhist, pretty unusual.” Christian, Jew, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, and all people of faith,” Dean Hollerith At meetings in the past year, execu - said, “to remember all affected by this tragedy and to proclaim that love is tive Council’s Joint Standing Commit - stronger than hate.” tee on World Mission has three times “We in the West spend a lot of time hoping for and working toward fairy- closed its doors to the press and public tale endings in our global politics,” Casey said. While fairy-tale endings are for more than an hour to address issues rarely possible in an increasingly complex, pluralistic, and chaotic world, in the Diocese of Haiti. Allegations of “peace of a sort” is possible, and “peace of a sort beats no peace at all. … it financial misconduct were not dis - beats violence any day of the week.” cussed in those sessions, said commit - Peace of a sort is possible when “complex, flawed, ordinary human be - tee member Marion Luckey. (Continued on page 13) —G. Jeffrey MacDonald

4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 and the Spong family would be grateful The diocese’s convention will elect Bishop Spong for your prayers.” the bishop, who will succeed the Rt. Suffers Stroke On Sept. 12, the diocese posted an Rev. J. Jon Bruno, when it meets Dec. update indicating improvement in 2-3 in Ontario, California. The new Bishop John Shelby Spong has suffered Spong’s condition. “Bishop [Mark M.] bishop is expected to succeed Bruno a stroke, the episcopal Diocese of Beckwith is in contact with the Spong in the early summer of 2017. newark reported on its Facebook page. family, and reports that Bishop Spong is The nominees are: The diocese published a post Sept. 11 stable and talking, and that our prayers • The Rev. Paul Fromberg, 55, rector saying the retired Bishop of offer hope and help. Updates will be of St. Gregory of nyssa, San Francisco, newark had a stroke on the provided as they become available.” who has served in ministry in Texas morning of Sept. 10 “before a Spong, 85, served as Bishop of and California with outreach, cathe - speaking engagement in Mar - newark from 1979 to 2000. He has re - drals, youth, and liturgy. Fromberg dis - quette, Michigan.” mained a public figure in the years cussed his life as a gay priest in 2004 A calendar posting on since, traveling often and continuing with the Houston Chronicle . Facebook by the Diocese of to articulate his perspectives on theol - • The Rev. Rachel Anne nyback, 46, Spong northern Michigan said ogy, ethics, and biblical interpretation. rector of St. Cross, Hermosa Beach, Spong was in Marquette to who has served in ministry in South - speak on two topics: “Can Religion ern California and Washington, D.C., Survive in the 21st Century?” and “Je - Five nominees after teaching in Kuwait. sus Did not Die for your Sins: The in Los Angeles • The Rev. Anna Olson, 45, rector of Meaning of the Cross.” His most re - St. Mary’s, Los Angeles, who has cent book is Biblical Literalism: A Gen - The Diocese of Los Angeles has named served in ministry in Southern Cali - tile Heresy , published in February by five nominees — including one gay fornia, including as Los Angeles direc - HarperOne. priest, two women who are priests in tor of the nonprofit Clergy and Laity “The next few days are very impor - the diocese, and a native of Costa Rica United for economic Justice. tant,” the post said. “His wife Christine — in its search for a bishop coadjutor. (Continued on next page)

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October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 5 news | October 2, 2016 Los Angeles ager of the Church insurance Compa - successfully complete eCF First Step, nies (CiC). Murray will be responsible participants in groups reflected that (Continued from previous page) for management and oversight of CiC, the information shared was an impor - • The Rt. Rev. Pierre Whalon, 63, which provides property and liability tant benefit.” Bishop of the Convocation of episco - coverage for institutions of the episco - Weber-Johnson said the ultimate pal Churches in europe, who has pal Church. goal of eCF First Step is to help served in ministry in europe, Florida, He will report directly to CPG’s chief parishes assess their most pressing and Pennsylvania with experience in operating officer, Frank Armstrong, needs at no cost, and for eCF to know international, interfaith, and financial and will be based in Bennington, Ver - how it can help. initiatives. mont. Murray will replace Rod Web - “We want to help leaders asking the • The Rev. Mauricio Wilson, 50, rec - ster, current senior vice president and question ‘What is God calling us to tor of St. Paul’s, Oakland, who has general manager of CiC, who recently be/do?’ to have the tools necessary to served in ministry in Costa Rica, new announced his intention to retire. faithfully respond and live into their york, and California following his ca - mission.” reer as a banker-auditor beginning —Matt Townsend with Coopers & Lybrand. ‘First Step’ for Parishes CPG Hires Parishes seeking to better articulate Pa. Bishop Asks their needs and challenges have a new industry Veteran resource in starting the process of for Discernment The Church Pension Group (CPG) has change. America’s recent increase in gun vio - appointed William “Bill” F. Murray as The episcopal Church Foundation lence — with cities like Chicago seeing senior vice president and general man - has launched eCF First Step, a pro - its most violent August in 20 years, ac - gram aimed at helping parishes survey cording to the Chicago Tribune — has their needs, connect with eCF, and ac - prompted a call for discernment from cess additional resources to develop the Rt. Rev. Daniel G.P. Gutierrez, new strategies. bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. “We’ve heard from parish leaders “i understand this is a complex issue that it can be a challenge to either that is part of larger issues,” the bishop know where to … begin or prioritize wrote to his diocese. “We cannot sit resources,” said erin Weber-Johnson, silently or act as if it is someone else’s program director of strategic resources problem. if one part of the body suf - at eCF, via email. Weber-Johnson said fers, we all suffer. everyone in our eCF First Step can help parishes iden - community is valuable to this world tify areas of the church that require ad - and this church. i do not know how or ditional support — such as strategic vi - in what form we will move forward, Is There Hope ffoor the sioning, volunteer engagement, however, we must begin the discus - Christian Faith? year-round stewardship, and planned sion. We can release balloons, create By William Floyd Dopp Authorhouse, 2015, paperback, $14.95. giving — with guidance on resources makeshift memorials, hold prayer vig - (E-book and Hardcover available) related to these needs. ils, or demand the government ‘do In his new book, author, pastor and eCF tested the program with focus something.’ scholar William Floyd Dopp looks at the groups at this year’s Church Leader - “i request a time of discernment, ad - ffuuture of the Chrriistian Church. YYees, there ship Conference at Kanuga and the visement, and collaboration. We must is hope. He sees hope in a new reffoorma- gathering of the Consortium of en - address these symptomatic and sys - ttiion begun in the churches in the devel- oping wwoorld. The churches ffoounded by dowed episcopal Parishes (CeeP). temic issues from a theological and missionaries are now in mission them- “Both focus groups at Kanuga and Christian perspective. in the next few seellves. They are a model ffoor todaayy’s wwoorld. CeeP were well attended and highly weeks, i will seek and formulate a body This timelyy,, well written book wwiill make a engaged,” Weber-Johnson said. that will pray, discern, plan, and give perffeect aduullt study ffoor any congregation. Part of what eCF learned in these concrete proposals to our governing For inffoormation: Authorhouse.com or focus groups was the value of involving bodies. Then we will put into action WWiilliamFloydDopp.com. AAvvailable at book- three to four people in the eCF First our prayers. We need to touch the pain stores, Amazon.com or Authorhouse.com. Step process. “While an individual can in a way that is truly transformative.”

6 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 ident of Scholarship America, the in a recorded eLCA Pastor largest private sector scholarship or - interview for BBC to Lead eDS ganization in the country. He was pres - Radio shortly after ident of Augustana University in Sioux becoming bishop, in an unusual twist on the full com - Falls, South Dakota, and vice presi - Jenkins said: “i am Jenkins munion established by Called to Com - dent, dean, and professor at St. Olaf bothered about mon Mission, a pastor of the evangel - College in northfield, Minnesota. what i call God and conjuring tricks. i ical Lutheran Church in America will am not clear that God maneuvers be interim president of episcopal Di - in the Anglican Communion physical things. i am clear that he vinity School for its 2016-17 academic works miracles through personal re - year. sponses and faith.” “i am delighted that Bill nelsen has David Jenkins, RiP About 12,000 people signed a peti - agreed to serve as interim president of The Rt. Rev. David Jenkins, Bishop of tion for his dismissal. Conservatives eDS,” said the Very Rev. Gary Hall, Durham from 1984 to 1994, died Sept. pointed out the new bishop doubted chairman of the seminary board of 4. He was 91. When Professor Jenkins the resurrection as a historical physical trustees. “He has long experience in was appointed, few commentators dis - event in space and time. When light - the church and academy, and deep re - cerned anything particularly unusual. ning struck york Minster, three days spect for the school’s commitment to He was not especially well known. His after his consecration, critics said it sig - social justice. His leadership will en - only published work to even skirt con - naled the judgment of God. Later Jenk - sure the continuity of eDS’s historic troversy was Guide to the Debate about ins would joke the Almighty had mission both in the transition and be - God (1966). What reporting there was missed the target: “God was probably yond. i welcome him as a colleague in gave the appointment a nod; it seemed aiming at the General Synod, but he charting the course of eDS both now in line with the custom of appointing missed even that.” and for the years ahead.” scholars to the See of Durham. For the media Jenkins was gold dust. For nearly 18 years, nelsen was pres - Then everything changed. (Continued on next page)

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October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 7 The Presiding Bishop, Michael news | October 2, 2016 Curry, is calling the Church to David Jenkins, RiP reclaim its share of the Jesus Movement. He says it will involve (Continued from previous page) evangelism, discipleship, and in the years that followed he took op - witness. These words are foreign portunities to apply his mind to to Episcopal ears which is why themes and events in the church cal - endar that troubled ordinary people or he said this. The Reclamation were not well understood, such as the provides definitions, Project Virgin Birth. He always described him - insights, and suggestions self as a passionate believer. concerning the terms and is Asked how he differed from Don designed to aid small group Cupitt, voice of the Sea of Faith move - discussions on how best to ment, Jenkins instantly replied, “i be - respond to the bishop’s call. lieve in God.” Jenkins did not confine his attention Available at Amazon to church matters. He identified with ISBN-13: 978-1533582102 • 52 pages • paperback • $9.95 opponents of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, not least because of their policies on coal mining, the main in - dustry in his diocese. Later he was a critic of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s new Labour, because of its commit - ment to market-driven economic the - ory. it was a pointer to the bishop’s Methodist childhood. David edward Jenkins was con - firmed into the Church of england in A Division of his teens, and his education was dis - rupted by World War ii. He won a commission in the Royal Artillery and concluded his war service in india. Returning to civilian life, he took up a scholarship to Queen’s College, Ox - ford. He studied for ordination at Lin - THE INSTITUTE FOR CONSCIOUS BEING coln Theological College and briefly was curate at Birmingham Cathedral. After that he worked in a series of aca - Conscious Being through the demic and administrative posts, in - cluding work with the World Council Spirituality of the Enneagram of Churches in Geneva. He returned to his old college in Ox - ford to lecture in theology, ran the YOUR PATH TO PEACE AND William Temple Foundation, and was a professor of theology at Leeds. Critics HEALING IN A BROKEN WORLD often pointed out he had never run a parish. Certification Training But he prompted much discussion National/Diocesan Conferences and Church Events in the United Kingdom about Chris - tian faith. A delegate from his diocese www.instituteforconsciousbeing.org once told the Anglican evangelical As - sembly: “Go into any pub in Durham and you’ll hear people talking theol - ogy over the beer.”

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8 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 and our partners around the world and Mob Attacks recognized that there is a lot of love for Ugandan Bishops the original USPG name,” said Rachel Parry, USPG’s director for global rela - Police have apologized to the Anglican tions. “in particular, while the gospel Church of Uganda for failing to provide has always been at the heart of our security for a group of bishops touring work, there was a desire to see that church land in ntawo, Mukono, near word back into our name. the capital city, Kampala. “At the same time, we wanted to ac - The bishops, led by Archbishop knowledge how mission has changed Stanley ntagali, were attacked by a through the centuries, and so we’ve mob while on their way to see a square employed the term Partners in the mile of land that will accommodate ex - Gospel to recognize our shared way of pansion of Uganda Christian Univer - working with the world church.” sity (UCU). One press report claimed Visitors to the USPG booth at there was an attempt to lynch the arch - Greenbelt were pleased. bishop. “i welcome the return to USPG,” Fred Ahimbisbwe, the Mukono Dis - said Mike, from Shropshire. “i grew up trict’s police commander, apologized knowing about USPG and its radical to the church. world-affirming stance. it’s good to “it is true i received the letter from have USPG back.” UCU requesting us to accompany the “i love the new name. Partners is bishops,” he told the bishops. “We were much more appropriate than propaga - supposed to give you security but i was tion,” said Liz, from Oxford. in a meeting, so i did not know that The focus of USPG’s presentation at you had gone to the place.” Greenbelt was its work with the Angli - Mukono police have arrested one can Church in Athens to support person and others are under investiga - refugees. tion. —ACNS Bishops from the church’s 35 dioce - ses had gathered to review the church’s 10-year strategic plan. The group also Grantchester planned to discuss issues of land-grab - bing involving church property. Seeks Vicar The parish became a household name thanks to the iTV television series. now it needs a new vicar. The ap - Mission Agency pointed candidate need not be male, floppy-haired, or prone to solving Reclaims its identity murder mysteries. USPG, one of the oldest Anglican mis - The Rt. Rev. Stephen Conway, sion agencies, has returned to its his - Bishop of ely, has posted an opening toric name. The 315-year-old charity, for priest-in-charge of the Church of which called itself United Society (Us) St. Andrew & St. Mary in Grantchester for several years, has responded to calls and St. Mark’s Church, newnham, in from its supporters to reclaim its former Cambridge. name. USPG returned in late August to The chosen candidate will live in the the Greenbelt Christian arts festival in same parish church as fictional vicar northampton, england. Sidney Chambers, portrayed by James The agency changed its name from norton in the TV series. USPG (United Society for the Propa - Set in the 1950s, Grantchester fea - gation of the Gospel) to United Society tures vicar/sleuth Chambers fighting in 2012. The initialism now stands for crime in partnership with detective United Society Partners in the Gospel. Geordie Keating, played by Robson “We have listened to our supporters (Continued on next page)

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 9 ‘Regrets, i’ve Had a Few’ source: “The good news of Jesus is news | October 2, 2016 something we all need to play a part in Grantchester Pop songs are seriously challenging sharing. We all have amazing opportu - hymns as preferred music for funerals nities in our everyday lives to intro - (Continued from previous page) in the United Kingdom, according to a duce people to him: whether at work, Green. The new vicar will see at least survey of 300 undertakers and a fur - at the school gate, in the playground, at one famous face in the pews: novelist ther 2,000 adults. the bus stop, or over a cup of tea.” Lord [Jeffrey] Archer is a parishioner. “My Way,” Frank Sinatra’s tribute to The report looks at the freedom to “We are looking forward to appoint - lifelong narcissism, tops the list, and share the gospel in public, in private, at ing a priest-in-charge for Grantchester, the first traditional hymn appears in the workplace, and online, emphasiz - and would like to reassure those inter - fifth place. ing the need to combine care and sen - ested in the position that the time The cheery nihilism of “Always Look sitivity with passionate communica - spent investigating crime is now some - on the Bright Side of Life” is the eighth- tion of the good news. what less than in Canon Sidney Cham - favorite song (“For life is quite absurd, “Sometimes it seems as though we bers’s day,” a diocesan spokesman said. / And death’s the final word. / you live in a society where it is increasingly The TV series is based on the must always face the curtain with a difficult to share our faith, and hostil - Grantchester Mysteries by James Run - bow / Forget about your sin, give the ity can seem not too far away when we cie, son of Robert Runcie, 102nd Arch - audience a grin, / enjoy it, it’s the last do,” said Mark Barrell, executive direc - bishop of Canterbury. chance anyhow”). tor of Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. The 2016 poll indicates these prefer - “There has also been the occasional sit - ences: uation when talking about Jesus has • “My Way” by Frank Sinatra led a Christian into legal trouble. The Changing Scene • “Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea “yet we also live in a society where Bocelli and Sarah Brightman the law provides very substantial pro - of youth Work • “Over the Rainbow” by eva Cas - tection for our freedom to speak about The Archbishop of Canterbury has sidy our faith in Christ, and it’s a society written an editorial in the 25th an - • “Wind Beneath My Wings” by that is multi-ethnic and plural. We are niversary edition of Premier Youth - Bette Midler encouraged to embrace religious di - work . • “The Lord’s My Shepherd (Cri - versity and tolerance in our multi-eth - Recalling the Disney film Sleeping mond)” nic and plural society.” Beauty , once a favorite of his children, • “We’ll Meet Again” by Vera Lynn Said Dave Landrum, director of ad - he writes: “i wonder what differences • “All Things Bright and Beautiful” vocacy at evangelical Alliance: “Across you would notice if you had fallen • “Always Look on the Bright Side of the U.K., Christians are passionate asleep in 1991 and only just woken Life” by Monty Python’s Flying Circus about sharing their faith, and this is now?” • “Abide with Me” very good news for society. in fact He believes the most visible changes • “Unforgettable” by nat King Cole evangelism is a sign of a free and include the internet, other new tech - healthy society. So we should celebrate nology, and “how much we are pre - and exercise our freedoms. Some may pared to pay for a cup of coffee.” be worried about whether they will get He adds there have been enormous Freedom to Speak Out in trouble if they do so. With wisdom, changes in Christian youth work in the A new resource from Lawyers’ Chris - we want to give Christians the confi - United Kingdom. tian Fellowship and the evangelical Al - dence to talk about Jesus. Despite the “you would notice how many more liance encourages Christians to speak fog and the fear in our society, this re - youth workers had been trained and about their faith and shows how the source shows that Christians have deployed in the Church, notice how law protects them as they do so. many precious freedoms, and why it’s the Church is the largest provider of Speak Up: The Law and Your Gospel vital that we use them.” youth work in many towns and cities,” Freedoms reviews how different areas “We can’t help speaking about what he writes. “in the atmosphere you of law apply to telling people about we have seen and heard but it makes might be surprised to notice a whole Christianity. it also offers a correction sense to know where the law will up - positive subculture of music, initia - to fears that Christians may have to be hold our freedom to do so and where tives, heroes, and great examples of quiet about what they believe when there are dangers to be avoided,” said people working together. On the other sharing the gospel. Sir Jeremy Cooke, a retired High Court hand, it wouldn’t be hard to see the un - Steve Clifford, general director of judge. “With guidance, both human fortunate lack of any youth work in so the evangelical Alliance, encourages and divine, we can seek to be as shrewd many churches.” Christians in the preface of the re - as snakes and as innocent as doves.”

10 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 ther, a difficult economic climate cre - according to a forthcoming govern - Unhappy Girls ates a “serious” generation of young - ment review. A report from the Church of england sters. A study task force led by Dame Children’s Society says a study of girls Lucy Capron of the Children’s Soci - Louise Carey says these issues must be from 10 to 15 years old found that 14 ety told the BBC: “This isn’t something faced and not ignored by local councils percent are unhappy with their lives as which can be explained away by hor - that fear accusations of insensitivity. a whole. Moreover, 34 percent are un - mones or just the natural course of “What did we ever think would be happy with their appearance. Many re - growing up. Actually this is something offensive about celebrating Christmas ported feeling they are ugly and worth - that we need to take seriously and we with a tree?” Dame Carey said. less. The same results were not found need to address.” She has criticized councils for “over among teenage boys. She said emotional bullying such as worrying” about causing offense Figures on england, Wales, and Scot - name-calling among girls is twice as among minority groups. This attitude land gathered in 2013-14 indicate a common as physical bullying among led one community center she visited sharp spike in unhappiness among girls boys. The report suggests that girls are to use a “festive tree” because the “in - compared to the previous five years. more likely than boys to spend long credibly well-meaning white manager” The Children’s Society’s annual periods on social media and that this is did not want to offend Asian and Mus - “Good Childhood” report has been linked to greater risks of mental illness. lim staff by using the word Christmas. produced annually for the past 11 “We need to be much bolder in not years. its material is extracted for the just celebrating our history, heritage society’s Understanding Society Sur - Christmas Under Threat and culture but standing up for our vey, which draws data from 40,000 Waves of immigration are changing democratically decided upon laws of U.K. households. The society has the texture of British society, and seg - the land,” she said. “it is not racist to sought help from experts at york Uni - regation threatens to change the char - say that the pace and rate of immigra - versity as it seeks to interpret the data. acter of state schools. it is leaving cele - tion has created a lot of change in The study suggests social media are bration of Christmas under threat and Britain and for some people that feels an increasing source of pressure. Fur - leaving some citizens feeling unsettled, too much.”

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October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 11 been awarded a grant to help fund a se - God, while accepting that the state has October 2, 2016 news | ries of booklets for children and young endorsed a wider view of marriage — people to explore the cathedral gardens as, indeed, the state has endorsed de Vicars and Beakers from a science and faith perspective. facto relationships by legislating simi - Plans are underway to take Church of Tom McLeish, professor of physics lar protections to those offered by mar - england vicars on tours of laboratories at Durham University and co-director riage for people in such relationships. in a series of projects aimed at foster - of the equipping Christian Leadership “The doctrine of the Book of Com - ing better understanding between sci - in an Age of Science program, said: mon Prayer remains unchanged, that ence and faith. “Helping our communities take delight marriage is between a man and a “Take your Vicar to the Lab,” due to in understanding the world around woman, under God, forsaking all oth - begin later in September, is one of eight them by engaging with scientists is part ers until death parts them. i do not be - projects to receive funding of up to of the church’s mission.” lieve that the Anglican Church in Aus - £10,000 (U.S. $13,000) in the first “There is a hunger in churches to be tralia is likely to revise its doctrine of round of a Scientists in Congregations able to host and support informed, marriage.” program. it’s part of an initiative to help constructive conversations about the Freier said the church should be churchgoers engage confidently with big faith-science related questions,” “more pastorally sensitive” but it was science and raise the profile of Chris - said the Rev. Kathryn Pritchard, Scien - “not only Christians who have some - tians working in science-related jobs. tists in Congregations project leader. times failed” to refrain from “harsh or ely Cathedral will hold a service next “These projects are each contributing, vilifying” language. year celebrating science, medicine, and in small increments, to a shift in the There is still uncertainty about technology through café-style discus - mood of the faith-science conversation whether there will in fact be a vote. Re - sion evenings between students and in this country.” cent polls suggest that 63 percent of science professionals. Another project Australians favor same-sex marriage. is to develop 100 scientific activities for use at Messy Church sessions for fami - Same-sex Marriage lies and children. Grantham Bishop The Cathedral on isle of Man has in Australia The Most Rev. Philip Freier, Primate Reveals Gay &RPHMRLQ of the Anglican Church of Australia, Relationship 7KH5LJKW5HY has said the church “must accept” a change in the definition of civil mar - The Rt. Rev. nicholas Chamberlain, :LOOLDP+ riage if a proposed national referen - suffragan bishop of Grantham, has re - &KLS 6WRNHV dum establishes a civil right to same- vealed he is in a chaste same-sex rela - (SLVFRSDO'LRFHVHRI1HZ-HUVH\ sex marriage. He says, however, that tionship. the church’s doctrine of marriage will Chamberlain, who was consecrated )ROORZLQJWKH not change. on november 19 of last year, told The $QJOLFDQ+HULWDJH in a pastoral letter released through Guardian of his relationship after a $XJXVW his webblog on Sept. 9, Freier wrote “threat by a Sunday newspaper.” The that he supports calls for a referendum. bishop said his relationship was celi - IURP1HZDUN “if the plebiscite does happen it will bate and conformed to Church of eng -  be important that Christians — and land guidelines for bishops. others — vote according to their con - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin science and their view of what is best Welby said in a statement that he knew for society, and that the Government of Chamberlain’s sexuality. “i am and brings legislation to enact the will of have been fully aware of Bishop nick’s the people. it is proper to expect that long-term, committed relationship,” he the Parliament should honour the re - said. “His appointment as bishop of sults of the plebiscite,” he wrote. Grantham was made on the basis of “Should the vote be in favour of his skills and calling to serve the same-sex marriage as suggested by the church in the Diocese of Lincoln. He )RU0RUH,QIRUPDWLRQ opinion polls, the Church must accept lives within the bishops’ guidelines and &DOOH[W that this is now part of the landscape. his sexuality is completely irrelevant to (PDLOQJMHFD#JURXSLVWFRP We can still stand for and offer holy his office.” 2U9LVLW8V2QOLQH While Chamberlain’s relationship is ZZZ-RXUQH\V8QOLPLWHGFRP matrimony between a man and a woman as a sacred ordinance given by said to conform to Issues in Human

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9/11 Remembered Casey said that “memory, hatred, and fear” have always driven human (Continued from page 4) behavior, and they are often inter - ings come together” to do “the myriad twined. He lamented pundits who concrete acts that push back the fron - make authoritative statements without tiers of evil that surround us,” said considering the complexities of a Casey, who holds a doctorate in theol - global situation or event. ogy from Harvard Divinity School. “This town has an insatiable desire These acts of hope include feeding the for instant analysis,” Casey said of the hungry, clothing the naked, comfort - nation’s capital. “There are complex, ing the grieving, and visiting the sick. competing views around the world. We “in so doing we might help to should resist the temptation to easy achieve peace of a sort in our own Casey punditry.” time,” Casey said. “Humans would not Casey urged resisting the messages of have attained the possible if they had “Who is your neighbor?” asked politicians who do not believe in the not time and again reached out for the Casey. if a neighboring family is of a transformative power of love. “The impossible.” different religious faith, taking the time hard-core political realists among us are As a biblical precedent for peace of a to talk and get to know them is impor - wrong. People do change,” he said. “Love sort, Casey read Genesis 33:1-17, in tant, he said. and transformation are possibilities.” which esau — who was tricked by his Casey said that in his travels to U.S. Casey, who travels the globe and has younger brother out of his father’s in - communities where refugees are being a staff of 30, said he sees his primary heritance — later greets Jacob with an settled, often with the help of faith- job in diplomacy as listening. “We embrace, kisses, and tears. based organizations, he has observed meet people where they are in their On leave from his job as a professor such communities grow stronger. “The particular vocations,” he said. of ethics at Wesley Theological Semi - amazing thing is the diversity and tap - He recently visited Cypress, which nary in Washington, Casey serves in a estry of different faith groups,” he said. has been a divided island since Turkey position created in 2013 by Secretary “My belief is that this is making the invaded it in 1974. Most Cypriots of State John Kerry. Kerry recognizes United States stronger.” (78%) are Greek Orthodox Christians, that religion is an important part of Casey decried the embrace of stereo - while most Turkish Cypriots are Sunni global diplomacy, Casey said. types by some Americans who have Muslims. Casey said there is an active Asked by Dean Hollerith what can never met a Muslim but believe all effort to unify the Turkish Republic of be done to avoid another 9/11, Casey Muslims are violent. Stereotypes give northern Cypress and the Republic of said Americans must become “more people “false clarity,” he said. Cypress. “We think this will have a rip - religiously literate,” but “i’m not sure False clarity is “deadly dangerous in ple effect across europe,” he said. that has happened since 9/11.” foreign policy,” he said. “Our research A reading from the Qur’an captured He said that a student can graduate shows that religion is rarely the main the theme of the services: “Goodness from an American high school “will - driver of radicalization.” Most often and evil are not equal. Repel the evil fully ignorant of religion, and there’s there are other trigger factors, such as with the good.” no penalty for that.” economic and environmental issues. —Peggy Eastman

(Continued from previous page) Sexuality (1991), a statement to which which are a serious cause for concern church. in fact, his lifestyle would make all clergy and ordinands agree to ad - for biblically orthodox Anglicans him acceptable to serve the Church at here, GAFCOn has denounced Cham - around the world, and therefore we be - any time in its history. i reject the sug - berlain’s appointment. lieve that this appointment is a major gestion that his appointment is an ‘er - “We do not doubt that he has many error.” ror,’” he said in a statement. “i do recog - gifts as a leader and pastor,” said a The Most Rev. Josiah idowu-Fearon , nise that this is a sensitive area for many GAFCOn statement, which was secretary general of the Anglican people whatever their convictions. it is signed by the Most Rev. Peter Jensen, Communion, disagreed with the asser - also a difficult time for Bishop nicholas general secretary of GAFCOn Global, tion that Chamberlain was appointed with revelations about his private life be - and the Rev. Canon Andy Lines of the in error. ing made public in such a dramatic way, GAFCOn UK Task Force. “However, “it is clear that Bishop nicholas has against his will, by anonymous sources there are aspects of this appointment abided by the guidelines set down by the that seem to be out to make trouble.”

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 13 Spirituality Sustains Protest

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald

onstruction of the Dakota Ac - cess Pipeline is on hold by order Cof the federal government, but opponents are still trusting in a higher power as they vie to end the project for good. Defending sacred grounds and re - sources has been the rallying cry for thousands of protesters, many of whom have camped for months near the pipeline route in north Dakota. Whether they’re praying defiantly in the paths of bulldozers or recharging with sacred songs in camp, spirituality is the glue that holds it all together in what has become an event of historic proportions. “Mother earth is not an object. Photos courtesy of the Rev. John Floberg Mother earth has a soul, has a spirit,” The episcopal Church flag flies among those of native American tribes at the Dakota Access Tom Goldtooth, executive director of Pipeline encampment near the construction project in north Dakota. the indigenous environmental net - work, told TLC by cell phone from the camp. “Mother earth is alive. Creator As much as concerns for sacredness Catholic mission school principal who God created Mother earth. And we are and environmental integrity have is also Standing Rock Sioux. “We say here to protect and defend that sacred - heightened tensions, they have also there is only one Creator over all of us.” ness of Mother earth.” provided a bridge to historic unity — Statements of opposition to the As tensions escalated before federal at least among opponents of what pipeline route have come from leaders intervention on Sept. 9, cries of dese - would be a 1,172-mile pipeline from at regional or national levels of the cration led to clashes with private se - the Bakken Oil Field across north evangelical Lutheran Church in Amer - curity workers, who were accused of Dakota, South Dakota, and iowa to ica, the United Methodist Church, the using attack dogs to turn away protest - illinois. United Church of Christ, and the Men - ers on Sept. 3. At stake was a parcel as - Protests have brought together 200 nonite Central Committee. Floberg has sociated with Standing Rock Sioux cer - native American tribes in what is be - been leading ecumenical outreach by emonial and burial rites. ing called the largest voluntary show of urging other faith groups to support in another incident, Morton County unity since Gen. George Armstrong the effort with public statements or do - Sheriff deputies feared protesters were Custer attacked the Sioux and nations. wielding pipe bombs. They turned out Cheyenne in 1876. Christian churches “My work right now is centering on to be sacred Chanunpa pipes that are are also signing on, led largely by the how to get the Christian church en - used for calls to prayer. episcopal Church, which has main - gaged and supportive to the level that “it wasn’t a pipe bomb,” said the Rev. tained ministries among the Sioux denominations are able to,” Floberg John Floberg, an episcopal priest who since the 19th century. said. serves three Standing Rock congrega - “Whether we pray in Lakota or in The episcopal Church is the only tions. “it was calling people to prayer, english, it’s only one God that we pray denomination displaying its flag on a to peaceful protest.” to,” said Gayleen yellowfat, a Roman fence among those of native tribes at

14 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 Fueling Opposition? When the Diocese of north Dakota covers camp expenses for Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, it taps into a well of financial support that the church receives from the local oil and gas indus - try. The diocese owns land in north Dakota’s prolific Bakken Oil Field, where production has exploded in the past decade with the deployment of hydraulic fracturing technology. in exchange for permission to extract oil and gas from church-owned land, the Fr. John Floberg with a pipeline protester diocese receives $15,000 in royalty payments this year. now a tithe from that income stream supports protesters as they try to stop Bakken oil from traveling via a 1,172-mile pipeline, which they say would imperil water supplies and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Oil and gas from the the main encampment, Floberg said. Bakken is currently transported via rail and highways. The Rt. Rev. Michael G. Smith, Bishop The diocese’s $1,500 tithe from royalties represents one-third of of north Dakota, and the Rt. Rev. John the $4,500 that the diocese has spent so far to help operate the T. Tarrant, Bishop of South Dakota, protesters’ camp, said the Rev. John Floberg. The other $3,000 have visited the camp to express sup - came in donations from around the country. port. Floberg visits regularly. He opts Deriving income from fossil fuel extraction has drawn criticism not to lead public prayers or celebrate in the episcopal Church in recent years. Citing climate change, the eucharist there, but he makes a General Convention voted last year to phase out the church’s point to swap out his usual tee-shirt investments in large companies involved in fossil fuel extraction. for his clerical shirt and collar. in August, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry linked the Dakota “i’m not comfortable coming in from Pipeline protest to “climate justice” in a written statement, but north the church’s position and saying, okay, Dakota Bishop Michael G. Smith made no such connection in his over here, we’re going to have an altar Aug. 19 statement. He denounced the pipeline’s proposed route, but set up,” Floberg said. “We don’t want to he raised no objections to fossil fuel development in the Bakken. divide that camp up between those who are Christian and those who are not. We want to respect the integrity of that nation gathering. We want to also make point. He said the roadblock is dis - suggest winter is not far off, spirituality sure that people are able to see the couraging would-be protesters. continues to hold the camp together. Christian church. … We’re there to it is violating his constitutional right Sacred songs, sung in native Ameri - serve and to be known for that.” to freedom of religion, he said, by can languages, filled the air for The Diocese of north Dakota has adding an extra 45 minutes in travel campers as they stirred early one been receiving donations from around time to visit his parishioners at St. morning last week. yellowfat’s family the country to help pay for protest- James Church in Cannonball. if the has been distributing warm clothing camp necessities such as food and American Civil Liberties Union were and blankets for those who came from portable toilets. The episcopal Church to sue to remove the checkpoint, warmer climates when the weather was has shown support in part through a Floberg’s experience and his claim of warm. Prayers ascend daily to the Cre - statement by Presiding Bishop Michael disenfranchisement could be part of ator while the sun shines. By night, an Curry, who called the Missouri River the case, he said. old-time sense of community sustains “a sacred tributary that the Sioux peo - The encampment remained intact as the bonds. ple depend upon for their daily water.” protesters waited on what was prom - “it’s not all prayer,” yellowfat said. On Sept. 8, members of the episco - ised to be a swift federal review of per - “it’s also hand games, things that we pal Church’s anti-racism staff flew mits during September. investors in did a long time ago. There’s no lighting, from new york to north Dakota, Dakota Access want construction fin - so when it gets dark people have flash - where they accompanied Floberg as he ished before winter weather sets in. lights or lanterns. There’s lots of visit - tried to pass through a sheriff’s check - As crisp breezes on the Great Plains ing, like it was in the old days.” o

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 15 African Anglicans Strengthen Their Voice By Mark Michael strong resources in contextual theol - ogy developed by scholars in Africa’s he Council of Anglican Provinces Anglican universities and theological in Africa’s newly elected chair - colleges, as well as the often untapped Tman believes its member churches expertise of lay leaders. “We have peo - are growing in confidence and self-suf - ple in our own pews who are able to ficiency. The demographic strength of come forward and to help us further.” Anglicanism has shifted to Africa, said The economic development com - the Most Rev. Albert Chama, Arch - mission, Chama said, will aim to help bishop of Central Africa, from his of - provinces find ways of being more fi - fice in Kitwe, Zambia. Screenshot from anglican.ca video nancially independent and self-sup - “We are the majority now,” he told Chama, in a 2012 interview at the Consultation porting. “We know that when the TLC, echoing the address given at of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue church in Africa can stand on its own CAPA’s General Meeting by the Angli - feet,” he said, “we will be able to go for - can Communion’s secretary general, Delegates from 12 of the 13 African ward. … Partnership will be there, but the Most Rev. Josiah idowu-Fearon. Anglican provinces elected Chama as we can also proceed on our own, with - African church leaders are focused on their chairman at their 12th General out going back to our partners. They “making sure that the Scriptures are Meeting, held Aug. 6-10 in Kigali, have been standing with us. The time adhered to, that the gospel is propa - Rwanda. Chama has previously served has come. We need also to be able to gated as received,” he said, while con - as CAPA’s vice chairman, and succeeds stand on our own feet. God has re - tinuing to work for reconciliation the Most Rev. Bernard ntahoturi, the vealed this at the right time.” across theological divisions, “so no one recently retired Primate of Burundi, in Delegates also decided to make in - is left behind.” the role. The Most Rev. Stanley ntagali, tentional discipleship the focus of their established in 1979, CAPA serves Archbishop of Uganda, was elected as strategic plan for the next five years, Africa’s 40 million Anglicans by coor - CAPA’s vice chairman. endorsing the Communion-wide pri - dinating joint projects focused on lead - ority set by last spring’s Anglican Con - ership development, peace and recon - he General Meeting’s theme was sultative Council in Lusaka, Zambia. ciliation work, and health-care T“Releasing Our Potential to Real - According to the CAPA meeting’s provision (especially HiV-AiDS re - ize Our Possibilities,” and Chama de - communiqué, member provinces will lief), so Africa’s Anglican churches will scribed the gathering as hopeful. in ad - work at “transforming parishes into “consult and address challenges in the dition to idowu-Fearon’s speech, centers of knowledge and empower - continent in order to fulfill God’s delegates were addressed on Africa’s ment.” promise for abundant life.” CAPA, growing religious radicalization and Chama said he believes this new pri - based in nairobi, connects African extremism by the Rev. Joseph Mulatya ority will strengthen existing efforts to churches with international agencies Mutei, a leader in Christian-Muslim help people grow in their knowledge of and churches to establish partnership dialogue. The Rev. Canon Richard Scripture. “Grounding people in Scrip - links to support local initiatives. Mayabi of Church Army Africa led a ture “will make them to grow in faith, CAPA has projects throughout the series of biblical reflections focused on and then they can withstand any 25 African nations with an Anglican evangelism and local church growth. shocks that will come to them,” he said. presence. Recent initiatives have in - Chama cited the creation of several “They know very well what the Bible cluded gatherings for youth and CAPA commissions as the meeting’s says. They know they are Christians. women’s leadership training, an urban most important achievement. These They know what they should do for mission network, and a regional con - groups, each of which will be led by a their fellow Christians, encouraging sultation on human trafficking. CAPA primate, will develop new initiatives in people with gifts in the local church.” orients new bishops and provides reg - contextual theology, economic devel - Chama added that he hopes African ular retreats and training sessions for opment, and holistic mission. Chama Anglicans can model enthusiastic senior church leaders. said the commissions will draw on the evangelism for their Western brothers

16 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 and sisters. “in Africa we are willing to true to the Gospel and to the Scrip - talk to people about Christ. … in some “We are not an tures, and of course, provide pastoral parts of the world, you cannot go to island on our own.” care and support to those who are in your neighbor and talk about Jesus, but difficult situations? Because we have we have that freedom.” dan, where a bloody civil war has bro - issues of human sexuality in our ken out just two years after national churches. We do not want to leave any - he communiqué issued by the Gen - independence. The communiqué calls one behind. That’s why we continue to Teral Meeting highlighted several ar - on South Sudanese leaders to “bring return to Lambeth Resolution 1.10, eas of deep concern affecting different the fighting to an end and to commit which talks about pastoral care and parts of Africa, including “meaningless to a sustainable peace.” Chama said he support, even to those who are in dif - wars,” human trafficking and modern plans to visit the country soon, to - ficult situations in terms of human sit - slavery, rising religious radicalism, and gether with several other African pri - uation. We want to continue pastoral “continuing mis-investment in weapons mates, to show solidarity with those support to ensure that God’s Word is of war at the expense of productive sec - who are suffering. living in all of us. tors like Agriculture, Social Services, job The General Meeting also voted to “We are not an island on our own. creation, and research into initiatives reaffirm Lambeth Conference Resolu - We are a Communion, a big family, and that will enable communities mitigate tion 1.10 on human sexuality. Chama we belong to one another. Of course, the effects of Climate Change and food said the reaffirmation reflected both a we do not want to deny the fact that insecurity.” desire to assert traditional doctrine at a there are differences where we inter - Chama said that violent political time of Communion-wide debate and pret Scripture and social issues. There conflict is the continent’s greatest cur - a commitment to pastoral care of gay might be dioceses and people among us rent threat. “So many people have been and lesbian people within African that would be unwilling to partner with displaced. So many people have been churches. others because of differences, but as killed. So many people have been “in Africa we stand firm,” he said. Africans we are committed that, to - maimed.” “How do we keep the faith and each gether, we can build a better church.” He cited the situation in South Su - other accountable, and in doing so be (Continued on next page)

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e hopes that Western critics, who continue its long tradition of active church will continue to serve their own Hsometimes suggest that “Africa is participation in CAPA’s work. in recent and to take a lead in making sure that backward,” will work harder to appre - years, the body has managed to hold the Scriptures are adhered to, that the ciate the social differences that shape together African Anglicans who are gospel is propagated as received. The Africans’ theological convictions. part of the GAFCOn movement with African church will try, by all means, to “Some of them don’t really understand those who remain committed to the be contextual, in terms of how we re - our context, where we are coming Archbishop of Canterbury’s leadership. solve issues which are happening on from with our faith, and what makes us “One would pray that [Anglicans in our continent: economic, political, et who we really are. And so, of course, nigeria] will play their part in the cetera. The church in Africa is very they attack and criticize us. i really African church and that they will play hopeful that we shall use the Scriptures hope that the Western Church, that their right role in being together in col - as a guide as to how we resolve our sit - one day they will get into our shoes legiality and in order,” he said. “it is uations. everybody is talking about and they will be able to understand our expectation that as an African that now. no country would say they each context, how it looks at issues of church that we will work together as a are comfortable, they are stable, they faith and religion.” family. no one will be left behind. We are free. We are saying, Let us be alert Chama acknowledged that the will walk together and work together all the time as the church so that we ad - Church of nigeria, Africa’s largest An - to build up God’s church.” dress these situations which are relevant glican province, did not send delegates Chama said the CAPA General to our lives .” to the most recent General Meeting. Meeting left him with great hope about He said he had received apologies from the many ways in which Africa’s An - The Rev. Mark Michael is interim the nigerian archbishop for that ab - glicans are poised to affect the societies rector of St. Timothy’s Church in sence, and he hoped the province will in which they live and work. “The Herndon, Virginia.

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18 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 Making Room for the Homeless From tent cities to shelters, parishes work to preserve human dignity. By G. Jeffrey MacDonald northeast. Unsheltered homelessness, too: as many as 15 people sleep outdoors on the rise in 29 states, spiked in states under the church’s eaves and carport. in ll Saints Church in Lakewood, where tent cities are proliferating: bad weather, they sleep in the parish new Jersey, is 5,000 miles away Hawaii (up 23.8% from 2014 to 2015), hall. A converted shipping container on A from St. elizabeth’s Church in Oregon (up 22%), Washington (up church grounds has provided temporary Honolulu, but they are expanding their 20.7%), and Alaska (up 118%), among shelter to a series of families. homeless ministries for the same rea - others. “They initially targeted people in son: to serve people recently displaced As municipalities dismantle tent Waikiki [Beach], which is naturally the from fast-growing tent cities. cities and disperse squatters, congre - business center of our economy,” said They are among dozens of congre - gations are providing shelter, sanita - the Rev. David Gierlach, rector of St. gations responding to a homelessness tion, and food for those with nowhere elizabeth’s. “They almost immediately crisis that has been worsening in 16 states, else to go. When Lakewood broke up a passed the same ordinance for the fi - according to The State of Homelessness tent city in a woodsy park in 2014, All nancial district downtown and China - in America 2016 (bit.ly/2b7pmiC) , a Saints turned its basement into Samar - town. So we had a surge of folks com - report by the national Alliance to end itan House, the only homeless shelter ing into our area, and that’s what Homelessness. As rent prices soar, in Ocean County (pop. 589,000). it generated our need to kind of expand shelters and affordable housing units shelters as many as eight men who what we were doing.” cannot keep up with needs. Result: a were homeless, incarcerated, or in drug Pressure against tent cities has sparked tent city phenomenon reminiscent of rehabilitation. They stay for as long as a dilemma: Should congregations help the Great Depression in Seattle, eu - 90 days while Alex Gotay, director of burgeoning tent cities stay intact on gene, Sacramento, and elsewhere. Samaritan House, helps them find jobs riverbanks, vacant public lots, or desig - “Here in King County [Wash.], and and permanent housing. nated private land, including church in other gentrifying cities like San “We had a basement; it was gutted grounds? Or does assistance for tent-city Francisco and Los Angeles, the cost of out and it was rebuilt,” Gotay told TLC. residents merely prolong homelessness? housing is growing much faster than “We want other churches to open up For St. Dunstan’s Church in Shore - what low-income families are making,” their doors, too, and do the same thing line, Washington, the answer was not said Polly Trout, a provider of basic that we did.” obvious at first. Located beside a rail services for Seattle tent cities through in 2014, Honolulu began removing trail on Seattle’s north side, the con - Patacara Community Services. “Peo - tent cities from public areas and tourist gregation had long been aware of ple who are working can’t even afford hotspots at a cost of $750,000 per year. homeless people hiding in the woods housing anymore.” St. elizabeth’s opened its parking lot for or sleeping in tents, said its rector, the From 2014 to 2015, homelessness people to sleep in their cars. Those with - Rev. David Marshall. Some appeared increased primarily in the West and out cars are welcome at St. elizabeth’s, to have drug problems. Marshall re - calls finding needles hidden under his doormat. When an organized tent city wanted to locate on church grounds, some parishioners and neighbors ex - pressed their concerns. “The vestry was very conscientious about gathering those questions and responding to them,” Marshall said. “At the end of all that, there was a group of people that said, We still don’t want to Photos courtesy of St. elizabeth’s Church Tents for homeless people in a park near St. elizabeth’s Church in Honolulu (top of page) and do this, but we understand why the rest Saturday breakfast at the church, which begins with a blessing, a prayer, and happy birthdays (Continued on next page)

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 19 Church helps the cause by donating to ing, said Lynn McLaughlin, president of Making Room the institute for Human Services, MiSSiOn A2 (Michigan itinerant Shel - for the Homeless which helps homeless people receive ter System-independent Out of neces - (Continued from previous page) social services and find permanent sity, Ann Arbor). of you want to do this, and we appreci - housing. iHS is sharply critical when But founding a tent city is no easy ate having been heard .” volunteers deliver food, furniture, and task in Ann Arbor, where a city ordi - Greater Seattle has been accommo - toys to encampments. The agency sup - nance prohibits camping in the city. dating tent cities for most of the past 20 ports the city’s efforts to assure that the When Trinity Lutheran Church sought years, and congregations have played homeless, who have often come from a zoning variance to host a small, tem - an important role. Fifteen have hosted the U.S. mainland or Micronesian is - porary tent city, neighbors expressed tent cities, which govern themselves lands, do not become accustomed to fear that campers might pose a threat with strict rules (example: no drugs al - living outdoors. to children and personal property. lowed) as well as security and portable “it looks terrible, i admit, when you Trinity withdrew its proposal, but toilets. in accordance with state law, have dump trucks taking away belong - parishioners’ hopes for a tent city have congregations may either host tent ings,” said Kimo Carvalho, community not faded. MiSSiOn A2 bought a par - cities on their properties or rent land relations director of iHS. “But you cel near interstate 94, where a remote for as little as $1 to host a tent city. need to break up that culture. you can’t encampment or tiny house village in the fall of 2014, Tent City 3 just enable people to keep building could use an existing house as com - moved onto St. Dunstan’s property for structures on the sidewalks that people mon space for cooking and sanitation. a 90-day maximum stay, as permitted have to walk on.” MiSSiOn A2 hopes to persuade the by King County law. The community Some people of faith resist the sug - Ann Arbor City Council by raising returned the next summer. Anywhere gestion that they enable wrongdoing by awareness of the city’s homelessness from 70 to 110 have lived in the en - supporting tent cities. St. Dunstan’s has problem, which McLaughlin said is campment at any given time, Marshall a feeding ministry that includes both a largely hidden, and the benefits of a said, and are better neighbors than the hot meal at the church and delivery to self-governed tent city. if the council is five tent cities around Seattle. Much of not persuaded, the group might lease the food is donated by Safeway and is the land to a religious organization, cooked by volunteers. More than 300 which would host a small tent city. homeless people eat through these Such a strategy would support the ar - weekly distributions. At the direction of gument that hosting the homeless is Josef Hinkofer, a Safeway meat cutter religious expression protected under and member of St. Dunstan’s, the parish the First Amendment. The city could does not limit portion size. challenge that view in court. “Unless you have experienced some in other locales where camping is hardship in your life, it is easy to say banned, congregations are leveraging with a full belly that enabling the real estate to help people camp in - homeless by feeding them is the wrong doors. A former rectory owned by All thing to do,” said Hinkofer, who over - Saints in Lakewood, new Jersey, has a Photo courtesy of Josef Hinkofer Meal time at St. Dunstan’s Church in Shoreline sees the weekly meal preparation. thrift store downstairs and a vacant liv - “Providing food for even just a day ing space upstairs. The congregation brings back a sense of dignity.” hopes to operate a second homeless drug users hiding in the woods. The concept is spreading to places shelter upstairs after the space is reno - “Because they enforce those rules, without a history of tent cities, but it is vated. in the meantime, congregations it’s a completely different experience facing resistance. Consider Ann Arbor, open their doors when crises occur. having 100 people who are self-polic - Michigan, where MiSSiOn A2 believes “Right now there is a family there that ing and trying to be good neighbors, a tent city would fill a critical gap in the got evicted from their home and has no who are grateful for the place to be, local housing mix. Ann Arbor does not place to stay, so they stay there,” said the who have a secure perimeter and one have enough shelters or affordable units, Rev. Juan Angel Monge-Santiago, entrance in and out of the camp,” Mar - which means dozens already camp in priest-in-charge of All Saints. “i tell shall said. “The people that hide out woods, but that way of life is less sanitary them: This is not a habitable place. are a different population.” and more dangerous when it’s illicit and You’re at your own risk. This is tempo - not everyone with a heart for home - unmanaged. A tent city with rules, se - rary shelter. We go over all that and they less ministries is quite so supportive of curity, sanitation, and access to a social say, I know that. I know I’m taking a risk, tent cities. in Honolulu, St. Peter’s services could lead to permanent hous - but it’s either that or live on the street. ” o

20 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 A teaching series on prayer book revision

Are We Done with the ’79 Prayer Book? By Mark Michael

This essay is the first in Necessary or Expedient?, a teaching series on questions related to contemporary prayer book revision. For almost 140 years, interpreting and guiding the church’s liturgical life has been an important focus for THE LIVING CHURCH . The series title is derived from two criteria for liturgical change set out in the preface to the Book of Common Prayer. As the Episcopal Church considers comprehensive liturgi - cal reform, this series gathers diverse voices to address the nature and timing of litur - gical change, as well as the kinds of changes that will inspire the church’s mission and deepen its unity in Christ. —Eds.

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October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 21 After twenty years of pastoral use, we have discovered that, like all its predecessors, it is not a perfect book and could stand some general improvement in some fairly critical places. But i believe the Church has other mission impera - tives that require its energy and attention at the present time. … We are nowhere near being finished with what this book is calling us to do. For a variety of reasons, i suspect The particular Forms of that most of the episcopal Church is neither ready to aban - “ don the 1979 prayer book nor willing to commit the time Divine Worship, and the Rites and resources required to replace it. —neil Alexander, and Ceremonies appointed to be Leaps and Boundaries (1997) used therein, being things in their he episcopal Church was different when neil own nature indifferent, and Alexander, then a professor of liturgics and preaching at General Theological Seminary, alterable, and so acknowledged; wrote these words. Average Sunday attendance across the church was more than a third higher. it is but reasonable that upon We had more dioceses, seminaries, and central Tboards and agencies. There was a great deal less anxiety about weighty and important consider - the future. And the cross-marked volume in the pews was still known, fairly universally, as “the new prayer book.” ations, according to the various yet comprehensive prayer book revision seemed to be fast approaching. The 1994 General Convention had approved a exigency of times and occasions, resolution calling for “a rationale and a pastorally sensitive plan” for prayer book revision. Morehouse Press published a such changes and alterations volume of essays by leading episcopal liturgical scholars called should be made therein, as to Leaps and Boundaries: The Prayer Book in the 21st Century , to which Alexander contributed the closing selection. those that are in place of The agenda for prayer book reform and the confidence about its inevitability seems to have changed relatively little in Authority should, from time to 18 years. eliminating confirmation, maximizing inclusive lan - guage, paying greater attention to ecological themes, and time, seem either necessary or sidelining the nicene Creed all featured prominently in the book’s essays. Among the contributors, Alexander alone expedient . sought to apply the brakes, though even he could barely imag - ” ine that we would not be using a new book by 2012. (Preface to the 1979 BCP, p. 9, erhaps the time has finally come. After little further action Pin 1994 and the rejection of similar legislation in 2006, quoting the Preface of the 1662 BCP ) General Convention in 2015 passed resolutions calling on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to prepare com - prehensive plans for the revision of both the Book of Common Prayer and the Hymnal. Only revision plans were solicited. new books would perhaps lie a decade in the future, if they are

22 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 to be books at all. And of course the process could be delayed 2012 found that 48 percent of clergy in their 50s favored a again, as it was in the late 1990s. Perhaps the time is not yet comprehensive hymnal revision, only 24 percent of laypeople right; perhaps the words of Alexander, who has since served as supported it and 61 percent of clergy younger than 30 opposed Bishop of Atlanta and is now dean of the University of the it. Overall, only about a third of respondents favored revision, South’s School of Theology, remain as wise and timely as they and of those, the report noted, “an examination of their com - were nearly 20 years ago. ments fails to point to a consistent direction that revision Liturgical revision of some sort has been on the agenda of should take.” General Convention, very wisely, ditched the most General Conventions since the very beginning, mostly in project (for three years, anyway). the form of slight rubrical alterations or the provision of sup - plemental resources. But the episcopal Church has had only here are, though, other ways of assessing consensus that four prayer books in the past 226 years, relatively few for an Tare significant and that make a revision at this moment es - American denomination. This is not an easy process for us, pecially ill-timed. The revision of the 1970s was much more which is why two of the three resolutions for major reform in radical than any previous project. But it came at a time of deep the last 20 years called for “pastoral sensitivity.” The latter ecumenical agreement about the focus and shape of the phrase was dropped in last summer’s resolution. Perhaps this Church’s worship, following the changes pioneered by the Ro - was accidental, but one does wonder. man Catholic Church after the i, for one, would be among the last of episcopalians to sign Second Vatican Council. Many Perhaps half of up for a “Society for the Preservation of the 1979 Book of in the 1970s believed that com - currently serving Common Prayer.” The book has clearly aged, and i do not just mon prayer would be the prel - mean the “Star Wars canon,” eucharistic Prayer C. The current ude to lasting structural unity clergy will be retired prayer book’s liturgies were built on scholarly assumptions and deep cooperation in com - by the time a new that have not worn well, especially Dom Gregory Dix’s four - mon mission. Those hopes fold shape of the liturgy, and the assumption that patristic wor - have remained largely unreal - prayer book would ship was largely uniform. its signature note, a radical bap - ized, and the liturgical academy be issued. This kind tismal theology, has been embraced in subsequent liturgical is currently in disarray, with lit - of demographic shift revisions by a few sister churches, but decisively rejected by tle consensus about future di - others. it smacks too often of the hectoring schoolmaster, rections for the Church’s wor - will almost certainly more intent on giving us our marching orders than inviting us ship. lead to massive into the presence of the living God. As a generation of long-serv - changes in the way The 1979 prayer book will need to be revised. But not yet. ing and influential liturgical scholars reaches retirement age, we worship in the eading the signs of the times, seeking God’s wisdom for so does the governing class of next decade or two. Rthe future, requires deep spiritual insight. We do well to the episcopal Church. The 2014 count the cost for any new initiative in our common life, and Report on the Age Distribution when it comes to weighing when the times are right for ma - of Active Priests found that 65.3 jor liturgical revision, i have not seen a better summary of the percent of clergy actively serv - relevant factors than the one Alexander provided 19 years ing in domestic dioceses were ago. older than 55. if prayer book reform is to take at least a decade, Alexander’s last criterion is probably the most timely. “For then perhaps half of currently serving clergy will be retired by a variety of reasons,” he said, “i suspect that most of the epis - the time a new prayer book would be issued. This kind of de - copal Church is neither ready to abandon the 1979 prayer mographic shift, at a time when so many parishes are barely book nor willing to commit the time and resources required able to sustain salaried clergy, will almost certainly lead to to replace it.” i suspect he is still right. Liturgy ought not, of massive changes in the way we worship in the next decade or course, be decided by popular vote, but are we really hearing two. in the midst of these rapid demographic changes, it is dif - much of an outcry about the inadequacy of our liturgical and ficult enough to evaluate what might be liturgically appropri - musical resources? ate ten years from now, much less 40 or 50 years from now Well-done liturgy, after all, seems to be the one thing that re - when such a prayer book might still be in use. Won’t we be in ally unites episcopalians these days. The comprehensive sur - a better place to make that judgment in a decade’s time, when vey of the Task Force for Reimagining the episcopal Church some of these demographic changes have run their course? asked, “What one thing should the Church hold onto?” The Going into last summer’s General Convention, there top four answers were “liturgy,” “tradition,” “eucharist,” and seemed to be some consensus among episcopalians that the the “Book of Common Prayer.” Together, they constituted 26 needs of the moment called for evangelistic renewal. This percent of responses in an open field. Similarly, though an ex - points to Alexander’s second criterion, that the episcopal tensive survey conducted by the Church Pension Fund in Church still has “other mission imperatives that require its en - (Continued on next page)

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 23 (Continued from previous page) ergy and attention at the present time.” The Task Force for should be a time for churchwide boards to fund church plant - Reimagining the episcopal Church issued a bold plan for sim - ing and innovative mission strategies, to design new media plifying our structures and encouraging more grassroots col - platforms and sponsor conferences about congregational trans - laboration. episcopal Resurrection’s passionate Memorial to formation. Above all, it should be a time when hierarchical the episcopal Church, signed by hundreds of church leaders, structures are simplified, to free more funds for local congre - called for “expansive funding for evangelism initiatives” and gations to use as they follow Jesus into the neighborhood. refocusing our energies from building up a large, centralized, expensive, hierarchical churchwide structure to networking lexander’s remaining question is whether we are finished and supporting mission at the local level, where we all may Awith what the 1979 prayer book calls us to do. As Meyers learn how to follow Jesus into all of our neighborhoods. noted in her address, many of the 1979 book’s more progres - We also elected Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, perhaps sive themes have become part of standard teaching and prac - the most gifted evangelist among our senior leadership in tice in the episcopal Church in the past 40 years. A robust the - decades, who summoned all of us into that work in his in - ology of baptism, a more egalitarian understanding of stallation sermon. ministry, the use of gender-inclusive language, and prayer fo - Will prayer book revision assist us in the ministry of evan - cused on ecological themes appear constantly in official state - gelism? Forty years ago, when the attendance freefall was be - ments. The Enriching Our Worship materials have allowed ginning, some reluctant parishes were sold promises of church new possibilities for emphasizing these themes in places where growth if only they embraced the new prayer book and its ac - there is a need and desire for this. Contemporary reformers companying ceremonial apparatus: freestanding altars, offer - believe that even more radical changes are demanded. tory processions, and “real” bread. Current advocates for But one wonders if we are really finished with other things change are careful not to make similar promises. Ruth Mey - that the 1979 prayer book calls us to do. Have we, for example, ers’s book Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as truly lived by this book’s Catholic potential? Are the full litur - God’s People, Going Out in God’s Name (2014), for example, is gies of the Paschal Triduum celebrated in every parish with based on a study of five episcopal congregations that are do - care? is the reconciliation of a penitent a regular part of pas - ing both experimental liturgy and innovative mission work. if toral practice? Do all of our people pray the Daily Office, us - she found much direct correlation between the two activities, ing one of the book’s manifold forms? Does its excellent cate - it remains unmentioned. chism shape our approach to Christian formation and There’s every reason to think that the messy and con - preaching? The recent revision of St. Augustine’s Prayer Book tentious process of prayer book reform will make evangelism has awakened me and many others to the deep possibilities for more difficult for us. Confident, joyful Christians share the sacramental and devotional renewal present within the 1979 gospel and begin the kind of bold ministries of justice and BCP. it would be singularly bad timing to pursue changes like peace that transform their communities. evangelism is risky, eliminating Confirmation and diminishing usage of the and congregations do it best when they are united and con - nicene Creed, which would drive us further from the main - vinced that they have something good and beautiful to share stream of Catholic faith and life at a time when the potential with the world. Prayer book revision suggests that one of our of this helpful new resource has been barely explored. greatest treasures is sadly deficient, and the process will in - Stephen Sykes may have been overstating the case a bit in evitably polarize congregations and drive people away, just The Integrity of Anglicanism when he wrote that “the decision- when there are so many hopeful signs of reconciliation as we making process whereby liturgies are changed … is the basic try to move past our bruising battles about sexuality. Few seat of authority in the Anglican church.” But the power cur - episcopalians i know remember the 1970s as an era marked rently held by scholars who have fought for many decades for by concord and confidence, and the statistical tables do not a revision of the 1979 prayer book is real. Some among them give us much room for encouragement. may feel the temptation to use that power as decisively as pos - Of course, it will also be very expensive. As Ruth Meyers has sible in the next decade. But a truly wise exercise of that power rightly pointed out, the online meeting tools that have been in - may call instead for patience and charity, with a kind glance creasingly used as cost-saving strategies are inadequate for toward those of us who have been called to serve as leaders in crafting good liturgy. Prayer book reform means gathering tal - this church for many decades to come. So many centuries of ented and representative leaders, extensive polling, and use of common prayer must surely have taught us this much. trial liturgies, and multiple full-time staff devoted to this task for more than a decade. But we do not have unlimited re - The Rev. Mark Michael is interim rector of St. Timothy’s Church sources. if we are to become serious about evangelism, this in Herndon, Virginia.

24 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 Cance r and Costly Grace

Whichever way it turned out for Susan, God would be with her and me, our children and our parish.

By Victor Lee Austin

y wife, Susan, was 38 years old take care of them once they were both home when her brain tumor was found. from school, to give them supper and so MShe had had some “events” that we forth. i phoned Anne, a friend in the parish, had not understood — biting her tongue at who took the news on board with equanim - night, for instance, or needing to pull off the ity and faith. She offered to take Michael and road after going through a yellow light. One emily to her home, where they would spend day, our doctor’s office sent her to the eR the night while i stayed with Susan through where, at last, a CT-scan made the discovery. her admission into the hospital, her first “Brain tumor”: two of the scariest words meetings with specialists, and her many in the english language were now a fact of tests. Susan’s life and of mine and that of our fam - This set the pattern for the rest of Susan’s ily and our parish. At once i learned some - life, the next 19 years. Whenever her health thing important about myself; namely, that i had a new downward turn — whenever a cannot absorb Big news on first appearance. new chasm opened in front of us — i learned Perhaps out of sheer denial, but perhaps also i could focus precisely on the concrete needs out of an intuition that it had suddenly of the present. The question would be, become my job to step up to new responsi - “What do we do now?” indeed, i often had bilities, i refused to consider the things this the sense that God was with me, protecting might mean; for instance, that Susan might me from being overwhelmed and strength - soon die and our children might have to ening me to do my best for Susan. i prayed at grow up without their mother. instead of such times with simple yet intense immedi - entertaining any such Scary Thoughts, i sup - acy, and i knew — i could feel — that God pressed them; it wasn’t a deliberation, just an was giving me sufficient power and clarity to action. i put out of mind those fearsome take care of the things at hand, to do what prospects and focused on the immediate needs to be done. Susan would recognize things that had to be done. those words as coming from Garrison Keil - The first immediate thing fell within the lor’s (imaginary) sponsor, Powdermilk Bis - hour. The children would need someone to cuits, which “give shy persons the strength to (Continued on next page)

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get up and do what needs to be done.” God Or she might die. Or she might survive, but was often just that for me. be limited in some way, not fully healthy. He yet it must be said that there is a dreadful advised me to pray about each possibility cost. in attending to the needs that were at and then to accept whatever came. hand, i did not allow myself to look up and This, i say, was oddly helpful, in that it see what might be the bigger picture. The gave me calm about everything being in “to-do” list had my attention: Meet our God’s hands, and a sense that whichever way HMO’s neurologist. Get it turned out for Susan, the medications that he God would be with her has prescribed for Susan and me, our children and when she comes home our parish. nonetheless, as from the hospital. Make a day-to-day matter, the appointment with a neu - to-do list, with the many rosurgeon. Meet him, things that needed to be check out his reputation, done, asserted its claim to schedule surgery. Meet attention. Susan’s primary care Today as i am writing physician, who is to this i regret that i often coordinate all this. … focused on the immediate When one of Susan’s need to the exclusion of a presurgical blood tests longer, wider perspective. was ambiguous, we it is true that God, just like rushed into Poughkeep - those imaginary Powder - sie to get a new test done milk Biscuits, stayed with on a Saturday, but it was me and strengthened me too late; the surgery had iStock photo to do what needed to be to be postponed. Reschedule surgery. … done. But he did not open my mind to the And so it went: the to-do list always had new unknown future. And i did not open my things on it. There was always something to heart to the gut-wrenching thought that, do today or tomorrow or next after we get the having been given my heart’s desire, a long results . process had begun wherein that gift was But never was there time given to wonder - being taken away. ing, What is the bigger picture here? Perhaps it would have been fruitless to wonder about it, since of course we did not know how The Rev. Victor Lee Austin is theologian-in- things would turn out. i did, once, do a bit of residence in the Diocese of Dallas and Church pondering, when i laid this before my spiri - of the Incarnation. This article is excerpted tual director. He said something that was, with permission from Losing Susan: Brain while not really saying anything at all, oddly Disease, the Priest’s Wife, and the God Who helpful. There were three possible outcomes, Gives and Takes Away , published in June by he said. Susan might have her tumor Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing removed and then return to ordinary health. (bakerpublishinggroup.com).

26 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 CULTURES nameless no More

I Will Speak for Myself brings 16 historical African-American women to life on the stage.

By Retta Blaney

an you name three African- American women who lived be - Cfore 1865? Valerie M. Joyce asks this question to people young and old and rarely finds anyone who can meet the challenge. “That’s 250 years of women in this country,” she said. “Why can’t we name more of them?” Joyce, an associate professor in Vil - lanova University’s theatre department, first asked herself this question five years ago while doing historical re - search in an unrelated field. Reading a book of laws, she came upon a refer - ence to an indentured servant in the Virginia Colony in 1649 who was forced to stand in a white shroud and recite a psalm of repentance for having Mother Henrietta Deville, depicted by Kimberly Fairbanks fornicated with a white man. in a moment of inspiration, she pic - tured her graduate acting student Kim - had no African-American history. i to meet the requirements for edin - berly S. Fairbanks bringing that woman saw a vision of Kimberly wrapped in burgh. Five women’s stories had to be and her public shaming to life. Al - that white sheet and i didn’t look back.” sacrificed and others shortened. The though she is white and had never writ - Joyce and Fairbanks sat at the empty staging, under Joyce’s direction, is sim - ten a play, Joyce felt called to tell the bar in 59e59 Theaters, where I Will ple, with just a few props for Fairbanks story of that long-ago black woman in Speak for Myself was being presented to use. Projections of old photos show - dramatic form. Through extensive re - before heading to the edinburgh Fes - ing little girls in party dresses and eld - search of slave narratives, memoirs, di - tival Fringe, where it was performed erly women with weary faces effectively aries, court records, poems, public ad - Aug. 22-27. set the scene before the show begins dresses, and newspaper advertisements “These were real women i did not and provide the name, date, and loca - she fashioned I Will Speak for Myself , a know and i feel honored and blessed tion for each new woman portrayed. play giving voice to the stories of 16 and that they are speaking through me,” Joyce used the women’s own words women who were nurses, slaves, edu - Fairbanks said. “As an actress i don’t of - when available and chose whom to cators, and activists in America from ten get to research people and allow portray based on “if i could imagine a the Colonial days to the Civil War. Fair - them to be heard. i feel them before i go moment of dramatic conflict in their banks portrays them all. out and i say, ‘Please be with me.’” life, a very specific actable moment.” “This had nothing to do with my ed - The show presented in new york Some of the women express their ucation or dissertation,” Joyce said. “i had been pared to 45 minutes from 81 (Continued on next page)

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 27 CULTURES (Continued from previous page) faith, although Joyce says she did not plan this. “it is there, the deep faith and spiri - tuality just came. it was not an agenda.” Fairbanks thinks this is to be expected. “How else could they survive? They had to have faith.” Joyce and Fairbanks say they each have “a lot of faith,” although they are not members of any congregation. Joyce calls herself “a believing Catholic” who attended Villanova for graduate and undergraduate school and “ran back as fast as i could to be a professor there.” Fairbanks says she is “a believing episcopalian” who grew up in that tra - dition in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. “Before every performance i thank God and my angels,” she said. it was actually the misuse of religion that led to the play. Joyce was struck by the injustice of making the young in - dentured servant, Mary, do public penance for something she had no con - trol over. She would have been force - fully brought to a country that was not her own, abused by her master, made to speak with everyone looking at her in a language that was not hers, and profess a faith that was not hers. She portrays this by showing Mary in her white robe, holding a rod and standing in front of a chapel beside the Kimberly Fairbanks depicts Francis Ellen Watkins Harper elizabeth River in Virginia Colony. “Have mercy upon me, O God, accord - Both voices come together again to cated enough in some areas. When ing to thy loving kindness: according to conclude: “The sacrifices of God are a Joyce asks her Can you name question, the multitude of thy compassions put contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken some people mention Harriet Tubman away mine iniquities. Wash me thor - heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” and Sojourner Truth, but are hard- oughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse The racial hatred of the characters’ pressed to think of a third black woman me from my sin.” era is not as extreme now, but it is still from the era. The prayer continues in a recording present, Fairbanks said. “i’m fascinated that we can’t name of Mary’s voice while the angry words “We’re able to see it now,” she said, more,” she said. “We can all name the of her heart are expressed simultane - mentioning the influence of social me - white men but never the black women. ously, with an African drum beating in - dia. “There’s still a fear of someone else. There’s a complete blind spot in our ed - sistently. “Master Cornelius, you made it’s been learned, the thought that ucation. They’re not in the textbooks. me forsake my gods and baptized me in someone else is not worthy. now you no one was writing about them and the Church of england. your wife can see it.” they couldn’t write for themselves. i taught me this psalm of penitence. you She said she was “not surprised at hope people will come away with know William Watts is not my lover. all” that the Ku Klux Klan became a knowing 11 more now.” Our ‘filth sin” was not of my desire. you factor in the presidential race. “Racism know he comes into the barn at night needs to stop. We’re too educated to Retta Blaney is author of Working on and forces me to comply, with a knife at hold onto those beliefs.” the inside: The Spiritual Life Through my throat so i don’t make a sound.” Perhaps, though, we are not edu - the eyes of Actors .

28 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 BOOKS

American Girls Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers By Nancy Jo Sales . Knopf. Pp. 416. $26.95 Social Media and Adolescence

ries intended to shock and alarm. i was The chapters intentionally meander Review by Michael Cover alarmed, saddened, and moved to through a series of vignettes, a compo - lamentation and reflection. Despite sitional strategy that sometimes makes hen i was growing up in the some of Sales’s methodological and or - the book difficult to read. each chapter 1980s and ’90s, American ganizational shortcomings, we are in - seems to have a kind of topical focus, WGirls suggested a very spe - debted to her for prompting a very im - which helps organize the stories: 13: cific list of names: Samantha, Molly, portant national conversation. “nudes”; 14: “Makeup Gurus”; 15: Kirsten, and Felicity. even then, the “Mean Girls and Cyber Bullying”; 16: American Girl™ dolls (with their ow, a caveat : What has been said “Tinder,” and so forth. Most of the matching books and Manhattan store) nof the second-century satirist Lu - shocking content is already on display seemed a little nostalgic — a commer - cian of Samosata can also be said of cial bid to hold onto the myth of Sales’s exposé: “seldom edifying, often American childhood innocence, cap - informative.” From the beginning, i would not recommend tured far better in the stories of Laura Sales aims to lure her readers into this book to anyone other ingalls Wilder that my mother read to reading about the hidden intimacies of me (for whatever reason, we never read teenage digital sexuality (sexting, nude than parents, teachers, Little Britches ). selfies, etc.), presumably to provoke in American Girls , published 30 criticism. ironically, at times, Sales and policy-makers. years after the debut of the American seems inadvertently to glorify this cul - Others should read Little Girls collection in 1986, nancy Jo Sales ture as well, simply by naming and sounds the death knell of this myth publicizing the porn stars and “it girls” Britches instead. and reveals, in story after sordid story, of social media. Much of what Sales re - what she claims to be the naked truth: ports i did not know, and wish i could any lingering flicker of sexual inno - forget. i would not recommend this in “13,” which contains some of Sales’s cence has been snuffed out for Ameri - book to anyone other than parents, most incisive critiques of the techno - can girls by social media. teachers, and policy-makers. Others logical culture fueling the sexualiza - Of course, as everyone knows, should read Little Britches instead. tion pandemic. The chapter opens with American girls are an internationally American Girls is composed of seven the story of a 13-year-old girl being e- marketable commodity (just watch chapters, each titled for the ages of the propositioned for “noodz” (nude self - Love Actually ). girls whose digital sexual experiences ies on Snapchat) by a boy at her school. instead of buying the dolls, however, Sales chronicles (13 through 19). Sales With compassionate precision, Sales American girls are marketing them - crisscrossed the country to interview details the subsequent hours and days selves at an increasingly young age in “over 200” teenagers of a variety of of deliberation as the 13-year-old self-destructive ways that should con - races and socioeconomic backgrounds. weighs the pros and cons (she thank - cern every feminist (and Christian). The Clearly, Sales has not written a socio - fully decides not to send them). it is harmful effects of sites like Snapchat and logical study but a journalistic exposé. not an easy decision for her. yik yak on American boys are far less i often found myself wondering if she This alone was enough for me ini - problematic, Sales argues, in large part had interviewed any traditional Mus - tially to swear never to give my daugh - because social media are the digital ex - lim, Jewish, or Christian young women. ters phones with cameras until they ternalization of “the male gaze,” born in The question of religious diversity were at least driving. But the problems the Silicon Valley bro culture that pro - seems off of Sales’s radar. Perhaps this is do not disappear that easily. Take away duced the website Hot or not. no major oversight; no doubt the phe - a girl’s (or a boy’s) phone, and her Using this hermeneutic of suspicion, nomena she describes affect girls of all friends still have them. As i have pon - Sales tells a series of interlocking sto - creeds and none. (Continued on next page)

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 29 BOOKS Bible Stories for Boys (Continued from previous page) By Peter Martin and Simona Bursi Lion Hudson. Pp. 48. $14.99 dered Sales’s book and spoken with friends about it, a different and less re - Bible Stories for Girls actionary strategy has suggested itself. By Christina Goodings and Simona Bursi First, parents should talk with their Lion Hudson. Pp. 48. $14.99 children about social media. it’s not enough to keep it off their phones (or not to give them phones). Find out Lectio Divina Meets Graphic novels how kids in their schools or communi - hese books make a pair, though shy or squeamish but cool confidence ties use social media and encourage they are more fraternal twins instead: “if you’re wanting Sisera,” she them to be open with you about it. Tthan some complementary polar - tells Barak, “his body is here.” Second, and perhaps most impor - ity. if you are worried about signing your This conclusion left me with a be - tant, parents should check their own daughter up for some gender training mused smile, but what else should you social-media use. One of Sales’s most implicit in this division, you will be re - expect of her? The underdog heroes of trenchant critiques is against parents lieved quickly. Bible Stories for Girls these stories pick up whatever they who unwittingly groom their children could easily be called “biblical heroines” have handy, whether tent pegs or a few to have a social media presence before or “girl adventurers of the Bible.” each smooth stones, and face danger head they are two months old. it is a role of collection selects eight stories from the on, full of faith and pluck, trusting con - parents (and the family) to model an Bible, retelling them imaginatively and fidently in God’s purpose. esther “unplugged” alternative way of social - in contemporary language. wields her beauty, but her battle is not izing in every arena of life (at the din - The episodes in both collections really different from David’s. Physical ner table, at church, on a fishing trip, at bear catchy titles, with a pithy question beauty may have made her a queen, the movies), one that does not take or remark as an introductory heading. but it’s courage and nerve that make every opportunity to take a picture and For example, the ordeal of Daniel’s her heroic. in the end, Haman faces post it to instagram or Facebook. en - companions in the fiery furnace be - the gallows and Goliath loses his head. joy the special moments with your comes “Taking the Heat,” and its head - The bad guys present real and present children, etch them on your memory, ing enjoins this moral: “Sometimes you dangers, and the conflicts are resolved and then let them slip away. your chil - just have to stand up for what you be - with deadly finales. These are not sto - dren will thank you. lieve in. it may not be easy, but you just ries about a happy little elf. Third, talk about social media with have to take the heat.” Some of the stories are more dramas other parents. At first, this might prove Authors Christina Goodings and than adventures, though they are cer - uncomfortable, but it may open some Peter Martin manage to achieve agree - tainly charged with conflict and strug - needed channels of cooperation. One ment in style and tone, and there is an gle. “naomi Looks Back” is also beau - of the interesting alliances that Sales’s appealing visual continuity between tifully retold as the story of solidarity book exposes is that between secular the two volumes since they share illus - and loyalty between the two women, anti-porn feminists like Sales and trator Simona Bursi. Bursi’s sleek illus - finding a new beginning amid life’s real Christians: here, it would seem, is an trations contribute to the contempo - losses and tragedies. “Twelve Brothers,” opportunity for Christians both to rary ambience of the text. The look and the story of Joseph, poignantly ob - learn from their peers and to share the feel of the images suggests graphic serves at the outset, “it’s easy for broth - gospel vision of the human being and novels, and animated films, more than ers to become enemies. What does it sexuality in a way that is both winsome i expect to find in children’s books. The take to make them friends?” Most kids and politically constructive. publisher recommends the books for can understand sibling rivalry and at Finally, read Laura ingalls Wilder’s children ages 5-9, but i think they least recognize a story about new be - books to your children. Read them to might also suit independent readers a ginnings, but the Bible’s stories pres - all your children. Perhaps the largest little beyond that range. ent them larger than life. For the most lacuna in Sales’s treatment is the im - Many of the stories depict adven - part, these retellings match the biblical portance of lovingly reshaping the cul - tures or exploits, heroic victories over scale of their conflicts with big-screen ture that in her estimation stands at the israel’s enemies. The Brothers Grimm treatments. root of the problem: American boys. have nothing on Scripture, and these Often the stories vindicate the he - retellings do not sanitize the stories too roes’ faithfulness but sometimes, too, The Rev. Michael Cover is assistant pro - much. Jael’s exploit, for example, is not God’s will triumphs over and against fessor of theology at Marquette Univer - depicted graphically — there is no the protagonists. The Prophet Jonah, sity and a priest of the Diocese of Dallas. blood and guts — but the result is not for example, is the main character of

30 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 his story, though he is more of a foil readers. Both books provide citations who stand on God’s side. in these sto - than anything else. The moral of his too, pointing the way to biblical text. ries from the Bible, faith meets pluck. story is more rebuke than vindication. But even for kids who already know They are compelling, and they can pass israel’s God, it appears, is the hidden the stories, these books may help them the bar for entertainment. “if God is protagonist. He always wins. discover some of the drama and ex - with us, then who can be against us?!” What readers will not gain from the citement that they may have missed That isn’t a bad place to start. retold stories in these two volumes is a from other tellings. Partly about faith - unified story of “salvation history.” But fulness, the stories in both volumes are A father of three, Caleb Congrove is a i think they succeed as an inviting in - also about the dramatic end, the res - high-school teacher in Ohio and a con - troduction to the Bible for younger cue, vindication, or victory of those tributor to TLC’s weblog, Covenant .

looked full in the face. Countercultural and evangelical After making the case for the cen - trality of the crucifixion, Rutledge de - Review by Leander Harding gent, lifelong study of the atonement. votes separate chapters to each of the She surveys thousands of pages of main biblical motifs of the atonement, ny list of the top ten preachers reading and lifts up the most lapidary including Passover and exodus, blood in American mainline Protes - of the gems that she finds. sacrifice, judgment, the descent into Atantism would include Fleming For example, she rescues Anselm hell, substitution, and recapitulation. Rutledge. She has been in demand as a from the popular disdain with which he The book will be an Holy Week speaker and special-event is widely regarded. Anselm is often con - exegetical resource preacher in episcopal and other main - sidered hopelessly feudal in his imagery, for preachers for years line churches for decades. This is re - which is thought to propose a theory of to come. markable given that her message has the atonement that gives us a God of Despite her focus been decidedly countercultural to the - violence. Based on the reappraisal of on the centrality of ological trends in these churches. Anselm by a number of contemporary Christ’s saving death, Rutledge’s voice is irenic, cultured, theologians, including David Bentley Rutledge maintains learned, and clearly evangelical. The Hart, Rutledge gives us an Anselm the connection be - great Reformation themes of sola gra - whose satisfaction theory is really about tween the cross and tia , sola fides , and sola scriptura are her reparation, restitution, and rectification the life that comes be - constant touchstones as she speaks the (her word). “Something is terribly fore it and the resur - good news of God’s costly and unde - wrong and must be put right” (p. 166). rection that comes af - The Crucifixion served mercy and grace, which are Rutledge remorselessly documents ter it. yet the Lord Understanding the held out to sinners in the death and the gap between the central significance who heals and teaches Death of Jesus Christ resurrection of Jesus Christ. She is par - of the saving death of Jesus Christ in is on his way to the By Fleming Rutledge ticularly adept at bringing to light the Scripture, in the great teachers of antiq - cross and the risen eerdmans. Pp. 695. $45 hunger of the mercy-starved heart hid - uity, and in the most profound theolo - Lord is also the one ing behind the polite self-congratula - gians of our own time and the loss of with the marks of the crucifixion upon tion of affluent suburbia. Here in one that significance in the sentimentality of him. book is a lifetime of her reading and re - so much preaching in our churches that i wish the book were shorter and i flection on the central theme of her speaks of the love and forgiveness of think some of the examples and illus - preaching: the saving significance of God without facing up to the gravity of trations could have been left out. A lot the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. it can sin or to the power of evil. This book is of readers will be scared off by the function as a compact history of re - a tonic for the toxic preaching that Diet - length of the book. The first part of the flection on the doctrine of the atone - rich Bonhoeffer called “cheap grace.” book, which goes to 167 pages, has the ment, ancient and modern. My own way of identifying the su - argument in full and the second part it is not a book for scholars, but for perficiality of much contemporary could be treated as reference to be con - pastors and preachers and laity who preaching in the episcopal and other sulted as needed. next to T.F. Torrance’s are motivated to reflect in depth on the mainline churches is to say that book on the atonement, i can’t think of death of the Lord. Rutledge does not preachers attempt to have the table fel - anything i have seen in the last 20 years pretend to be charting new ground. lowship of Galilee, of which we hear a that equals this volume on the central - Her aim is to summarize and exposit as great deal, without the cross of Cal - ity of the cross of Jesus Christ. lucidly as possible the best teaching vary, about which we hear little. in this and writing on the topic of the cruci - book there is no cheap grace and the The Ven. Leander S. Harding is rector of fixion that she has found in her dili - gravity of sin and the power of evil are St. Luke’s Church, Catskill, New York.

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 31 BOOKS Speaking Truth to Power

George Bell, Bishop of Chichester Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship By Andrew Chandler . eerdmans. Pp. 224. $35.

to a growing fascination with Bell nazis — a request that was politely but nearly 60 years after his death. firmly rebuffed. The assassination plot educated at Christ Church, Oxford, subsequently failed and most of the and Wells Theological College, Bell be - conspirators were executed; Bonhoef - came chaplain to Archbishop of Can - fer was hanged on April 9, 1945. terbury Randall Davidson in 1914. Ten Bell is perhaps best known for his years later, he was appointed Dean of public opposition to the policy of Canterbury, and in 1929 he was conse - “obliteration bombing” or “area bomb - crated Bishop of Chichester, where he ing” of German cities by the Royal Air served until the year before his death Force (RAF). Speaking in the House of in 1958. Along the way he became a Lords on Feb. 9, 1944, he vividly de - leading figure in the ecumenical move - scribed the bombing’s effects and ment, participating in the Life and called for an end to the policy. This Work conferences in Stockholm (1925) speech likely cost Bell any hope of fur - and Oxford (1937). ther preferment in the Church of eng - Review by John D. Alexander Believing that a key component of land. When Archbishop Temple sud - the Church’s mission was to bring denly died later in the year, Bell ollowing a 2008 lecture on Christian ethical perspectives to bear remained at Chichester while Geoffrey Bishop George Bell of Chich - on social issues, Bell took up a variety Fisher of London went to Canterbury ester, Rowan Williams enter - of public causes throughout his min - and J.W.C. Wand of Bath and Wells Ftained the question of whether istry. During the 1930s, he organized went to London. Bell would have made a better Arch - international support for the German Denied preferment at home, Bell bishop of Canterbury than Geoffrey Confessing Church against the nazi- participated actively in the newly Fisher, who had succeeded William sponsored Reichskirche , and success - formed World Council of Churches Temple in 1944. Fisher was undoubtedly fully lobbied for the admission of Ger - (WCC), becoming moderator of its the more competent administrator, man Jewish refugees — many of them central committee in 1948 and its hon - Williams mused, but such was not nec - Christian converts and pastors of orary president in 1954. in the postwar essarily the first priority in terms of the “non-Aryan descent” — to england. years, Bell seemed to enjoy a more kingdom of God: “it would have been a When those same refugees were sum - honored place in the world of interna - good thing” if Bell had been appointed marily interned as enemy aliens in tional ecumenism than he did in the instead. 1939, he campaigned for their release. Church of england. it was perhaps remarkable for a sit - On a visit to neutral Sweden in 1942, ting occupant of the chair of Saint Au - Bell met clandestinely with his friend handler’s biography meets an ur - gustine to question so openly whether Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who accurately Cgent need. Previous lives of Bell by one of his recent predecessors had informed him of a plot to assassinate Ronald Jasper (1967) and Kenneth been the best candidate for the job. But Hitler. Bell passed this information to Slack (1971) contain much useful ma - George Kennedy Allen Bell (1883- the Foreign Office along with the re - terial but have become dated, espe - 1958) was a remarkable figure. The quest that the British government de - cially as a plethora of more recent publication of Andrew Chandler’s clare that it would offer peace terms to books, articles, and essays have George Bell, Bishop of Chichester attests a Germany that had overthrown the brought to light a wide variety of new

32 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 perspectives on Bell’s ministry. history. He wrestles with the paradox than a leading role. Bell emerges more Chandler is uniquely well qualified that Bell seemingly accomplished very as a figure in his own right in the his - to write about Bell. His 1993 article in little of what he set out to do: the Ger - tory of the ecumenical movement, The English Historical Review , “The man resistance movement failed; his along with his contemporaries Willem Church of england and the Oblitera - opposition to the city bombing had no Visser ’t Hooft, J.H. Oldham, and tion Bombing of Germany in the Sec - effect on British military policy; the William Paton, but this focused field of ond World War,” remains unsur - WCC hardly impinges on the con - study hardly accounts for Bell’s popu - passed as a definitive account of the sciousness of most members of the larity in recent years. wartime moral debate among the Church of england today. Chandler Much of Bell’s appeal derives instead english bishops. in 2012, Chandler concludes that Bell’s enduring signifi - from issues he addressed that remain edited The Church and Humanity , a cance lay in his distinctive capacity for disputed today. it is perhaps inevitable, collection of essays and addresses on empathy, especially for Christians ex - and not necessarily inappropriate, that Bell, including the 2008 lecture by our interest in Bell reflects our con - Archbishop Williams. cerns as much as his. Bell’s advocacy Among the biography’s strengths are Bell’s advocacy on behalf on behalf of refugees speaks to current its vivid descriptions of the wider so - debates about immigration; his in - cial, cultural, and political background. of German-Jewish volvement in the Kirchenkampf (Ger - earlier biographers took much of this refugees speaks to man Church struggle) offers encour - context for granted, lacking the per - agement to those aiding the persecuted spective of greater distance. Chandler current debates about Church in various parts of the world clearly knows that his readers belong, immigration and offers today. as he does, to a later generation that in this vein, Chandler seriously un - needs more help in imaginatively re - encouragement to those deremphasizes Bell’s relevance for con - constructing the world in which Bell temporary discussions of the Christian lived and worked. aiding the persecuted Just War tradition. He notes that Bell Chandler tells the story well. His Church in various parts receives scant and grudging attention chapter on the years 1942 to 1945 in Michael Burleigh’s study of the eth - makes gripping reading. Manifestly ev - of the world today. ical significance of World War ii, ident are his years of research in the Moral Combat (2010). But he over - 368 volumes of Bell’s letters and papers looks a number of scholarly works fo - in Lambeth Palace Library, which he periencing firsthand “the cost of disci - cusing specifically on the ethical de - aptly describes as “an intellectual pleship,” and in fulfilling the role of bate about city bombing, beginning home” for some scholars of church his - pontifex or “bridge-builder” — be - with Stephen A. Garrett’s Ethics and tory. Anyone who has spent any time tween Church and state, religion and Airpower in World War II (1997), in poring through even a small sampling the arts, Christians of different de - which Bell emerges as a major protag - of this vast archive knows that the chal - nominations, and Christians of differ - onist. lenge facing the Bell scholar is not a ent nations. One reason for Bell’s continuing sig - lack but rather an overabundance of interesting as these reflections are, nificance is precisely that the World primary source material. The re - an alternative approach might begin War ii area bombing of German cities searcher must be enormously selective with the observation that contempo - remains a topic of contention that has, but at the same time painstakingly rary interest in Bell converges from if anything, intensified in recent careful not to miss any key pieces of several distinct directions. Some read - decades, with critics and apologists the puzzle. Chandler has done an ad - ers discover Bell by way of Bonhoeffer stridently debating whether it was mil - mirable job of culling a compelling and the German Church struggle. Stu - itarily necessary or morally justified. narrative from the wealth of docu - dents of literary, musical, and artistic in this context, Bell stands as the pre- mentary evidence. history encounter Bell as an ecclesias - eminent British wartime witness to the tical patron of John Masefield, T.S. traditional jus in bello norms of dis - handler’s least satisfactory chapter eliot, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gustav Holst, crimination, noncombatant immunity, Ccomes at the end, where he casts and Hans Feibusch. in these areas, and proportionality of means. about trying to assess Bell’s place in however, Bell plays a supporting rather (Continued on next page)

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helpful strategy in assessing the Asignificance of historical figures is In an appendix , Chandler addresses the Diocese of Chich - to understand first how they integrated ester’s October 2015 announcement of its settlement with an with and typified their era. it then be - comes possible to see how they stood unnamed complainant alleging that Bell had committed child out and were distinctive. in most of his abuse in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Chandler’s book was political interventions, Bell acted with published before interviews with the still anonymous com - the encouragement and cooperation of the Church of england’s top leadership. plainant appeared in the British press beginning in February Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang en - 2016. Chandler is a member of the George Bell Group, formed thusiastically supported Bell’s efforts in to defend Bishop Bell’s reputation in response to the apparent the German Church struggle and on lack of due process, accountability, and transparency in the behalf of German Jewish refugees. When details of the Final Solution be - diocese’s handling of the allegations. gan to leak out during World War ii, Bell deferred to Archbishop Temple’s leadership in addressing the crisis in the House of Lords; historian Adrian ally entailed and was able to present a able sin of betraying the establishment Hastings ranks Temple’s speech of technically sophisticated critique. A from within. Stephen A. Garrett per - March 23, 1943, on behalf of the Jews few bishops, such as Arthur Headlam haps comes closer to the mark in spec - as his finest moment as Archbishop of of Gloucester and edwin Barnes of ulating that Bell stood as an uncom - Canterbury. Birmingham, also opposed the bomb - fortable reminder of a policy that The bombing of German cities was, ing, but neither enjoyed Bell’s credibil - caused many an uneasy conscience. by contrast, the one issue on which Bell ity. Unlike Headlam, Bell had been a Garrett suggests that Bell’s fate to some conspicuously broke ranks and refused consistent anti-nazi during the 1930s, extent reflected that of Sir Arthur Har - to be a team player. The majority of and unlike the pacifist Barnes, Bell ris, Chief of RAF Bomber Command, the Church of england’s bishops were firmly supported the British war effort. who was similarly ignored and denied content to follow Temple in accepting Beyond the circle of Anglican bish - any honors in the postwar period. in disingenuous Air Ministry assurances ops, two writers published substantial opposite ways, Bell and Harris were that the bombing was confined to mil - wartime critiques of the city bombing: too closely associated with a policy that itary and industrial targets. Some, such the American Jesuit John C. Ford in British officialdom preferred to forget. as Cyril Forster Garbett of york and his 1944 essay “The Morality of Oblit - The key point that Chandler misses Mervyn Haigh of Winchester, actively eration Bombing” in the journal Theo - is that Bell’s witness will remain rele - supported the bombing as a necessary logical Studies and the British pacifist vant as long as ethicists debate the means of defeating the enemy in con - Vera Brittain in her 1944 book Seed of morality of the World War ii city ditions of total war. Partly on account Chaos: What Mass Bombing Really bombing in terms of the Just War of his collaboration with the military Means . Brittain’s book provoked con - norms; this continuing debate indeed historian Basil Liddell Hart, Bell un - flict when it was published in the accounts for much of Bell’s appeal to - derstood better than any of his episco - United States, and in england it drew day. That said, Chandler has written pal colleagues what area bombing re - scathing criticism from no less a figure an excellent introductory biography, than George Orwell. But neither Ford which deserves to be widely read so nor Brittain was in a position to speak that a new generation may make the the truth to power so directly as Bell acquaintance of George Bell, Bishop of did in the House of Lords. Chichester. Chandler notes that in the postwar years proposals that Bell should receive The Rev. John D. Alexander is rector of some honorific recognition or award S. Stephen’s Church in Providence, met with stony silence. in his 1971 bi - Rhode Island. His PhD dissertation at ography, Kenneth Slack suggests that Boston University in 2014 was on the by criticizing the RAF’s bombing pol - ethical debate on the area bombing of Bell bbc.com icy, Bell had committed the unforgiv - German cities.

34 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 Why Sacraments? By Andrew Davison Cascade and SCM. Pp. 200. $25 An inexhaustible Theologian Blessing By Andrew Davison Canterbury Press norwich Pp. 224. $20 Review by Zachary Guiliano demption of material beings. “The sacra - ments are about nothing less than salva - Amazing Love ndrew Davison, a priest of the tion. That is their point and purpose” (p. Theology for Understanding Church of england, continues to 13). Or, as Davison writes: “Once the Word Discipleship, Sexuality, Asolidify his reputation as the pre- has become flesh, the domain of divine ac - and Mission eminent Anglican pastoral theologian in tion is found among human beings and is By Andrew Davison the Catholic tradition, writing valuable given to human beings: in a remarkable Darton, Longman and Todd work for students, clergy, and those with way, it is placed into our hands” (p. 3). Pp. 144. £8.99 little to no background in theology. For the The book contains chapters on each of past several years, he has seemed inex - the traditional seven sacraments, and Davi - haustible, authoring or coauthoring seven son acknowledges all seven, although he books on apologetics, church structure, notes that this issue is one of dispute, not philosophy, care for the dying, children’s least among Anglicans, for whom a focus worship, sacraments, blessing, and sexual - on baptism and eucharist is traditional. ity; and a book on metaphysics and partic - The book also includes a chapter dis - ipation is forthcoming. The past two years cussing “sacramental character,” two chap - have seen him appointed as the new Star - ters on the “the nuts and bolts of sacra - bridge Lecturer in Theology and the natu - mental theology” (p. 55), and a chapter on ral Sciences at the University of Cam - the role of the Spirit. Along the way, the bridge; he served recently as editor of reader will glean much on the history of Theology now, the most significant series sacramental theology, various denomina - of theological essays and interviews to tional perspectives on them, and a healthy grace the pages of the Church Times in measure of good pastoral sense regarding years, if not decades; and he is spending a their administration. sabbatical year at Princeton’s Center for Of special interest is Davison’s convic - Theological inquiry. But among his many tion that all seven sacraments are domini - achievements, his primary one is this: his cal; Christ himself was both the instigator work remains accessible and substantive. and “recipient or participant” of each of the Davison is generally known only in the seven sacraments, albeit not “just as it British theological scene, but i cannot might be celebrated in your parish church imagine that situation lasting much longer. next week” (p. 5). Davison recognizes he is Why Sacraments? is undoubtedly the best proposing something uncommon, but i introduction to the topic i have read by an found his argument (pp. 69-74) among the Anglican, and it represents theology in the most enjoyable of the entire book, as well Catholic tradition at its finest. The book is as convincing. driven by engagement with Thomas Aquinas, but packs in much else. Refer - lessing is part of Faith Going Deeper, a ences to Scripture are seamlessly inter - Bnew series edited by Davison, and is woven with quotations from the liturgy, intended to create a bridge between the hymns, the early and medieval Fathers, the Church and the best of contemporary the - Reformers, classic Anglican divines, and ology. each book will deal with a central modern writers from Adrienne von Speyr concept in Christian theology: for example, to evelyn Underhill to C.S. Lewis to John Peter Grove’s Grace was published in 2012. Paul ii. Blessing is divided into two sections, one Davison immediately discusses the pur - dealing with Christian theology, and one pose for the book: exploring why Aquinas on blessings in Church practice. Again, relates the purpose for the sacraments to Davison reveals a gift for succinct teaching: the purpose for the incarnation, for which in the first chapter, he discusses the relation there are many answers. Among the most of blessing to “speaking well” (part of the important is their fittingness for the re - (Continued on next page)

October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 35 BOOKS (Continued from previous page) Davison term’s etymology in Greek and Latin), tentially virtuous” and “in complete than is often acknowledged, not to to blessing as “benediction bestowed concord with the rest of the faith” (see mention in the rest of the Anglican and … praise offered,” and to God’s pp. 12, 33, 50, 74, and 76). Communion. Anglicans in north work in creation (pp. 3-11). The reader America would not have separated into immediately grasps the key lineaments hy Sacraments? and Blessing two separate churches, with threats of of a theology of blessing; a few short W have few weaknesses. Some sur - similar schism in the C of e, and we pages like this could easily serve as a prising infelicities in transliteration ap - would not be having a global dispute, if short, practical pamphlet. The rest of pear at key moments (e.g., karaktes is our theologians and increasing num - the theology section deals with topics written three times instead of karakt ēr bers of the lay faithful had generally ranging from vocation to the prosperity or charachtēr ; see Why Sacraments , pp. settled their minds. What this reveals gospel, from Christology to “the effi - 23-24). Davison’s references to origi - across Davison’s works is a persistent cacy of blessing.” The section on prac - nal languages are few and far between, failure to think within the context of tice is well-organized, dealing with the as befits the volumes, so it is unfortu - the Anglican Communion. Perhaps history of Christian blessing and then nate to see such errors appear, where the cloistered halls of Davison’s eng - four chapters on, essentially, “Who, they may be imbibed and memorized lish, Oxbridge context occasionally get what, when, and how.” Davison’s en - by the unsuspecting student or layman. the better of him. thusiasm for blessing is apparent, but so On Davison’s treatment of the pros - Despite these criticisms, we should is the seriousness with which he ap - perity gospel in Blessing , i was struck heartily welcome Why Sacraments? proaches the topic. As he says of ordi - by his critique of it as an American and Blessing , as well as a host of future nation: “We do not bless lightly” (p. 15). phenomenon. Doubtless, Americans works from Davison’s pen. i am less both encounter and propagate pros - sanguine about what Amazing Love f that last is true, then a third volume perity theology to a great degree, but it may portend. Given Davison’s recent Iis rather surprising. Amazing Love is a growing problem in many parts of appointment at Cambridge, we can rose out of the Church of england’s re - the Anglican Communion and in the only expect his influence to grow. That cent Shared Conversations on human broader Church, as Jesse Zink has seems, for the most part, an excellent sexuality, and represents a liberal pointed out repeatedly and recently. i thing indeed. catholic position, with chapters on dis - would have preferred an appropriately cipleship, anthropology, love, and mis - global take, rather than a British focus sion, among others. The Lesbian and on a putatively American problem. Andrew Davison’s Other Books Gay Christian Movement and LGBTi More seriously, each volume takes Mission, among others, helped fund its up the topic of same-sex marriage or For the Parish: A Critique of Fresh Ex - dissemination to members of General unions, which is unavoidable in this pressions with Alison Milbank (SCM Synod. in comparison to Davison’s age but also a veritable minefield. in Press, 2010) other volumes, this volume is light , Why Sacraments? and Blessings , the both materially and, to a certain de - sections are judicious. Davison clearly Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Phi - gree, theologically: more sloganeering outlines some issues and texts involved losophy, and the Catholic Tradition and casual (“Love is love”), stripped of in the debate, and refrains from explic - (SCM, 2011) significant engagement with Scripture itly stating his own view. Amazing Love or tradition. exhibits rather more support. Creative Ideas for Children’s Worship: its aim seems ambiguous at first, One repeated claim especially sur - Based on the Sunday Gospels , 3 vols., presenting a clear rationale neither for prised my ears: that more and more of with Sarah Lenton (Canterbury Press, same-sex marriage nor for blessing the Anglican faithful support opening 2011-12) same-sex unions, though expressing a marriage to same-sex couples with hope to move the Church toward a each passing year, as does “a signifi - The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction “cheerful” acceptance of same-sex rela - cant majority of [Anglican] theolo - to Philosophy for Theologians (SCM, tionships. The reader can only piece gians” ( Why Sacraments? , pp. 117-18). 2013) together the author’s position with This may be true of some circles, espe - care: monogamous, lifelong commit - cially in the north Atlantic and new Care for the Dying: A Practical and Pas - ments by same-sex couples, oriented Zealand, but opinions are rather more toral Guide with Sioned evans (Can - toward childrearing or service, are “po - mixed (and nuanced) in those places terbury Press, 2014)

36 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine, 1859-1929 By Jane Platt . Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xi + 268. $90

his almost implausibly interesting book offers a detailed examina - tion — the first of this length and seriousness — of the significance Tof parish magazines in shaping and responding to english cultural trends in the late 19th century and early 20th century. independent scholar Jane Platt, whose previous published work in - cludes a history of the Diocese of Carlisle, delves into diocesan archives to explore dozens of instances of what J.S. Leatherbarrow calls an “extremely important and in - Practicing Silence fluential type of popular journalism.” new and Selected Verse Platt situates the growth of the parish magazine By Bonnie Thurston . Paraclete. Pp. 103. $19.99 against the background of the 1851 Religious Census for england and Wales, which found that just half of the early Victorian population attended Christian worship regularly; the same census provides the surprising da - A Still, Small Voice tum that just a quarter of the english and Welsh popu - lation in 1851 reported an affiliation with the Church of Review by Phoebe Pettingell england. Clergymen launched parish magazines in this context for a number of t is crucially important that Chris - purposes: “to help educate the newly literate; to form a closer bond be - tians understand metaphorical or tween Church and people; and to gain a place for the pulpit in every home, “I symbolic language,” Bonnie since many parishioners were disappointingly absent from Sunday wor - Thurston writes. “[T]he word carries ship.” Platt notes, though, that there was an element of keeping up with us to the Word.” As St. Augustine said, others in this endeavor, “with anxiety as its driving impulse” and as “a God is not an object to be described. proactive, aggressive form of self-defence” against nonconformist He cannot be contained in a definition. churches that had adopted the mass-market periodical medium earlier That which surpasses our comprehen - than Anglicans did. sion can only be spoken of analogically, Parish magazines had a remarkable reach during the period Platt re - and Scripture is a supreme source of views, permeating nearly every settled place in their availability, and rep - such language. So, for that matter, is resenting a diversity of church-party alignments and geographical con - poetry. Thurston is a Disciples of Christ cerns. They “brought the Church permanently into the home,” providing minister, a new Testament scholar, and an unparalleled coverage of intensely local concerns, but also bringing the a poet. in 2002, she resigned as William parishioner-reader information about national and international church F. Orr professor of new Testament activities, events, controversies, and trends. Platt contends that despite this Studies at Pittsburgh Theological Sem - rich variety of material parish magazines became increasingly irrelevant inary to live as a solitary and to devote after the Great War — perceived as univocal in their support for “the old herself to spiritual direction and to order: pastoral, agrarian, aristocratic,” redolent with visions of “jolly tea- leading retreats. parties given by the village squire,” and unable to compete with secular This collection of Thurston’s poetry journalism of higher literary and production quality. centers on the life of monastic houses, in her pioneering work to identify and study a subset of Anglican “gray primarily in the Benedictine tradition. literature” — a genre of printed material produced by organizations for Her PhD dissertation was on the Trap - their internal circulation, as opposed to commercially published books — pist Thomas Merton, and her first ex - Jane Platt has done something daring and creative. Subscribing to Faith? is perience of a religious community was a book sure to interest church communicators in all media, students of with the All Saints Sisters of the Poor modern english lifeways, and Anglicans curious about the ways in which convent in Catonsville, Maryland, our tradition has adapted or failed to adapt effectively to changing patterns when it was an Anglican order. To of belonging and readership. practice silence in the monastic tradi - Richard J. Mammana, Jr. tion (or indeed in other religious tra - New Haven

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October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 37 BOOKS (Continued from previous page) ditions) does not mean to erase all words from one’s thoughts, or even from one’s lips. There is the daily round of the Liturgy of the Hours, the commu - nal prayer that marks the divisions of the day, and, of course, the daily cele - bration of the eucharist. it does, however, eliminate chatter not only from one’s speech but ultimately from one’s mind, allowing one to sink below the surface, to meditate on meaning, to discover what lies inside oneself, to hear God in the “still small voice.” As this poet wryly observes, when we calm our outward noise, we do not always discover inner peace and the harmony of the heavens. instead, we may encounter

Bent, twisted creatures The Burial demons from the deep By R . Penman Smith born in darkness, Tate Publishing. Pp. 244. $18.99 blind from birth, devilish dervishes, surface unbidden, smash the shallow placidity Buried Truth of partial openness, reveal how imperfectly healed Review by Carla Arnell are the deepest wounds. (“ De profundis : interior Prayer”) ystery lovers longing for a modern tale that combines Painful as this kind of encounter may be — and many saints have de - Msuspense, social commen - scribed it as battling devils that would drag them down to perdition — tary, religious reflection, and even a lit - Thurston concedes that dredging up our hidden and festering demons is, in tle horror will delight in The Burial , a the end, the only way to allow the divine light to begin to transform and heal novel published by Anglican priest R. our broken selves. Penman Smith. Smith’s novel has the The story uncovered through a contemplative reading of Practicing Silence feel of a traditional english mystery, is of how a successful but unsatisfied academic gradually discovered the vo - but is set in an imaginary parish called cation of a hermit. She acknowledges that “the extroverted, critical rant / of St. Sebastian’s, in a community where academe” did not really suit her, but since she seemed proficient at it she as - “industrial cities clash with Ap - sumed it must be what she was intended to do. Over a long journey she palachian culture” (p. 7). learned about the alternative world of monasticism, which she describes as The novel unfolds in 1987, when in - a “Rock … detached from the sands of time,” where the values of the world terim rector Chandler Chase arrives at are rejected so that the community might seek out those of the Gospels. St. Sebastian’s as a newcomer both to She discerned that she was not called to live that way, but, like some desert the community and to the mysterious fathers and mothers, become a solitary. if the chief temptation of close events that have long haunted the communal living is not to succumb to the temptation of petty irritation with parish. As details about the sudden one’s companions, the danger for hermits is to overcome disgust and even deaths, suicides, and disappearances of despair with one’s own failings. Thurston describes the life as “Babylon’s fur - parishioners and past rectors emerge nace,” referring to the story of the three young men (Dan. 3) who were saved (trouble that dates to the 1930s), Chan - from immolation because in the midst of the fire they were accompanied by dler’s background as a private investi - a fourth figure, whom Christians understand as Christ. She does not claim gator proves as useful as his parish to find it painless, or to escape unsinged; only to be opening herself further ministry skills. Bit by bit, Chandler and further to God as “ego’s dross” burns away, and the Word made flesh be - works to uncover the buried truths of comes ever more present to her eyes. Thurston’s poems require both care - the parish’s past as well as the hidden ful reading and much meditation, but the illumination they bring justifies mysteries of each parishioner’s person - the time spent. ality. One of the novel’s greatest strengths Phoebe Pettingell is a literary critic, liturgical writer and editor, and sacristan is Smith’s ability to draw vivid charac - of S. Stephen’s Church in Providence, Rhode Island. ter portraits of the various inhabitants

38 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 of St. Sebastian’s. They are diverse in vocational role (organist, secretary, vestry member, police-beat reporter, waiter), class status, and temperament. Chase is described as a “people watcher,” and clearly Smith is that, too, able to animate people from many dif - ferent walks of life thanks to his careful observation of human psychology and character. Because The Burial moves so fluidly through the lives of myriad characters, When you come together it achieves what critic Mikhail Bakhtin once identified as a novel’s essence: a to eat, wait for one another. sense of the “superfluity of life.” We are constantly made aware that life spills beyond the boundaries of the central plot and that much more matters than the preoccupations of the main char - acter, as Smith explores: Alice Bangs’s struggle with alcoholism or Herbert Christopher Stump’s stunted relation - ship with his wife. Sometimes the plot lags in the first half. Midway through, however, the novel’s plot pace gathers speed, as the mystery of the parish’s deaths is re - vealed. Moreover, at the novel’s climax, the plot takes a truly surprising turn, making it much more than a standard story of parish misconduct. The end, thanks to gothic touches worthy of a is the weblog of Stephen King story, will chill readers. HE IVING HURCH More than just a mystery story, The COVENANT T L C Burial is also a meditation on the na - FOUNDATION , an independent, non-profit ministry ture of good and evil, dramatizing in a vivid way the reality of evil and the seeking and serving the full visible unity of the one, good offices of angelic presences. Smith uses Chandler as a central offi - holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. Our writers are cer of good in the novel, exploring how lay and ordained leaders who serve in parishes and his insistence on the primacy of a per - sonal relationship with Jesus and his dioceses, in schools, and in para church ministries use of practices that many episcopal parishioners perceive as alien (the altar across the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Com - call) nonetheless awaken the commu - nity to the reality of Jesus’ call and the need to renounce evil. in this way and THE others, Chandler works not just to un - cover the parish’s buried sins but also LIV ING CHURCH to resurrect its relationship with Jesus, covenant.livingchurch.org I livingchurch.org which is central to the community’s eventual redemption. The Living Church Foundation seeks to extend its unique ministry of journalism, Carla Arnell is associate professor of publishing, organizing, and leadership development for the life and vitality of the Church. English at Lake Forest College .

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Appointments The Rev. Kathy Monson Lutes is rector of Trinity, 409 E. Court St., Janesville, WI The Rev. Victor Austin is canon theolo - 53545. gian of the Diocese of Dallas, 1630 N. Gar - The Rev. Foster Mays is dean of the South - rett Ave., Dallas, TX 75206, and east Convocation of the Diocese of Kansas, theologian-in-residence at Incarnation, 835 S.W. Polk St., Topeka, KS 66612. 3966 McKinney Ave., Dallas, TX 75204. The Rev. William Pearman McLemore is The Rev. Lisa Busby is rector of St. priest at Holy Communion, 320 Broad St., Luke’s, 402 S. Scott St., Scottsboro, AL Lake Geneva, WI 53147. Church of the Good Shepherd 35768. Marvin McLennon is youth ministry coor - 2230 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904 The Rev. Brian Cannaday is rector of St. dinator at Christ Church, 509 Scott St., Lit - 706.738.3386 | goodshepherd-augusta.org Christopher’s, 2508 St. Christopher Ave., tle Rock, AR 72201. League City, TX 77573. The Rev. Alan Mead is interim co-pastor By the grace of God, we hope to make The Rev. Amity Carruba is rector of of Holy Apostles, 1593 Lynnhaven Pkwy., Grace, 637 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL Virginia Beach, VA 23453. winsome witness to Jesus Christ in the 60605. The Rev. Canon Elizabeth Marie Mel - new cultural context of the 21st century, The Rev. Ted Curtis is interim rector of chionna is rector of Chapel of the Cross, 304 a new apostolic era. We understand that St. John’s, 402 N. Topeka St., Wichita, KS E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC 27514. it is the People of God, gathered, formed 67202. The Rev. Tracie Middleton is deacon at and sent to their homes, neighborhoods, The Rev. Charles N. deGravelles is deacon Trinity, 3401 Bellaire Dr. S., Fort Worth, TX at St. Andrew’s, 3027 Bayou Du Large Rd., 76109. communities, and into the world, who Theriot, LA 70397. The Rev. Christopher Miller is director of are the primary means of sharing Good The Rev. Debra Rae Dehler is priest-in- family ministries at St. Anne’s Church and news of Jesus and offering caring service charge of St. Alban’s, 4601 N. Emerson Day School, 3098 St. Annes Ln., NW, At - in his name to all of our neighbors. Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46226. lanta, GA 30327. The Rev. Tommy Dillon is priest-in-charge The Rev. David Petrash is chaplain to re - of St. Margaret’s, 12663 Perkins Rd., Baton tired clergy and their families in the Dio - A LIVING CHURCH Partner Rouge, LA 70810. cese of Dallas,1630 N. Garrett Ave., Dallas, The Rev. Ann B. Etheredge is rector of TX 75206. Epiphany, 1103 S. Union St., Opelousas, LA The Rev. David A. Pfaff is rector of Christ Church of the 70570. Church, 965 Forest Ave., Glendale, OH The Rev. is priest-in-charge 45246. Holy Communion Kim Fonder on Standing Rock Reservation, P.O. Box The Rev. William Phillips , vicar of Good 218 Ashley Ave. 80, Wakpala, SD 57658. Shepherd, Vidalia, is an assisting priest at Charleston, SC 29403 The Rev. John Mark Ford is associate rec - Polk Memorial, 805 Abe Allen Memorial 843.722.2024 tor at St. Luke’s, 3736 Montrose Rd., Birm - Dr., Leesville, LA 71446. holycomm.org ingham, AL 35213. The Rev. Diane Pike is associate priest at The Rev. Canon Alexander “Sandy” Gra - St. Andrew’s, 925 S 84th St., Omaha, NE ham is canon for congregational life and 68114. From the day its doors opened in 1848, leadership in the Diocese of Hawaii, 229 The Rev. Pamela Porter is an assisting Church of the Holy Communion has Queen Emma Sq., Honolulu, HI 96813. priest for one year in the Diocese of West - cherished these essentials: The Rev. Charles Hamill is priest-in- ern Massachusetts, 37 Chestnut St., Spring - charge of All Saints, 3577 McClure Ave., field, MA 01103. • We worship God in the beauty of Pittsburgh, PA 15212. The Rev. Victoria Pretti is rector of St. holiness. Here you’ll find a Mozart Mass The Ven. Michael Hamilton is deacon at Mary’s by the Sea, 804 Bay Ave., Point sung as a Mass (and not as a concert). St. Mark’s, 27 Main St., Southborough, MA Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742. • We worship God by serving our 01772. The Rev. William Hunt Priest, Jr. , is rector neighbor and respecting the dignity of The Rev. Malcolm Keleawe Hee is priest of St. Peter’s, 3 West Ridge Rd., Savannah, every human being. We have a biweekly associate of the Cathedral of St. Andrew, GA 31411. 229 Queen Emma Sq., Honolulu, HI 96813. The Rev. Thomas Birch Rambo is rector of free medical clinic, a food pantry, and The Rev. J. Mark Holland is interim priest- St. John’s, 275 East Main St., Wytheville, VA meals-on-wheels, among other in-charge of St. Francis, 726 Maple St., 24382. ministries. ere is a place for all to serve Denham Springs, LA 70726. The Rev. Canon Raymond Raney is canon and make our community a better place. The Rev. Nathan J.A. Humphrey is rector to the ordinary for the Diocese of the Rio • We worship God with our heart, of Zabriskie Memorial Church of Saint Grande, 6400 Coors Blvd. N.W., Albu - John the Evangelist, 61 Poplar St., New - querque, NM 87120. mind, and soul. at is to say, we do not port, RI 02840. The Rev. Gretchen Ratterree is curate of minimize the intellectual calling of our The Rev. Anne Jolly is rector of St. Gre - Annunciation, 1673 Jamerson Rd., Marietta, faith. Sermons are likely to quote gory’s, 815 Wilmot Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015. GA 30066. Augustine, C.S. Lewis, or e Beatles, The Rev. Dessordi “Sam” Peres Leite is The Rev. Joe Reynolds is interim rector of and remain firmly grounded in the senior priest at St. Stephen and the Incar - St. James, 205 N. 4th St., Baton Rouge, LA Faith Once Delivered to the Saints. nation, 1525 Newton St., N.W., Washington, 70801. DC 20010. The Rev. Tyler Richards is priest-in-charge

A LIVING CHURCH Partner 40 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 2, 2016 The Diocese of Pittsburgh 325 Oliver Avenue, Suite 300 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412.721.0853 | episcopalpgh.org We are part of a sign of faith present in of St. Andrew’s, 935 Plowman St., Monte - Farriss Ave., High Point, NC 27262. western Pennsylvania since before the vallo, AL 35115. The Rev. Michael Stone is rector of Christ The Rev. Nathan Ritter is priest-in-charge Church, P.O. Box 468, 16401 Court St., American Revolution. of St. Paul’s, 414 East Broad St., Westfield, Amelia, VA 23002. From simple NJ 07090. The Rev. Janet A. Tunnell is associate rec - prayers once offered The Rev. Harold “Hal” Roark is rector of tor of St. John’s, 906 S Orleans Ave., at a frontier fort Good Shepherd, 39 Granite Springs Rd., Tampa, FL 33606. where three rivers Granite Springs, NY 10527. The Rev. Canon is canon Shawn Wamsley meet, to the work of The Rev. Kathy Shahinian is deacon at St. for evangelism, operations, resources, and Anne’s, 199 Duke of Gloucester St., initiatives in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, parishes spread Annapolis, MD 21401. 3717 Chestnut St., Ste. 300, Philadelphia, through out modern The Rev. Johnee Shane is rector of Holy PA 19104. cities and towns, Family, 102 Marquette St., Park Forest, IL The Rev. Ben Webb is priest at All Saints, ours is a continual 60466. 500 N. Jefferson Way, Indianola, IA 50125. witness in word and The Rev. Adrianna Shaw is associate rec - The Rev. Deacon Luke Wetzel is curate at tor of St. Andrew’s, 6509 Sydenstricker Trinity, 1130 1st Ave., Columbus, GA deed that Jesus Rd., Burke, VA 22015. 31901. Christ is Lord. The Rev. Ricardo Sheppard is deacon-in- The Rev. Jane-Allison Wiggin-Nettles is Having celebrated 150 years as an charge of St. Alban’s, 148 Lee Ave., New chaplain of Christ Episcopal School, 80 episcopal diocese, we continue to focus Brunswick, NJ 08901. Christwood Blvd., Covington, LA 70433. on preaching the Gospel in the public The Rev. is interim rector Michael Singer square, on becoming congregations more of Church of the Servant, 4925 Oriole Dr., Ordinations Wilmington, NC 28403. responsive to community needs, and on The Rev. Victoria Sirota is priest-in- Deacons forming leaders among the laity and charge at St. John’s, 1 Hudson St., Yonkers, clergy to carry out this call. NY 10701. Central Florida — Rebecca Ann Chapman , The Rev. Kara Slade is a pastoral associ - John Earl Richard Clark , Christine Lucille ate at the Anglican Episcopal House of Croskey , Dorothy Elaine Hunter-Spencer , A LIVING CHURCH Partner Studies, Duke Divinity School, Box 90967, Robert Wallace Johnson , Kay West Ruhle , Rose Durham, NC 27708. Marie Sapp , and Peter James Speropulos The Rev. 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A LIVING CHURCH Partner October 2, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 41 THE LIVING CHU RC H SUnDAy’S ReADinGS | 20 Pentecost, October 2 VOLUme 253 • nUmbeR 5 First reading and psalm : Lam. 1:1-6 • Lam. 3:19-26 or Ps. 137 eDITORIAL Alternate : Hab. 1:1-4, 2:1-4 • Ps. 37:1-10 • 2 Tim. 1:1-14 • Luke 17:5-10 Executive Director and Editor Christopher wells Managing Editor John schuessler Ruin and Rescue Senior Editor Douglas Leblanc he sits alone, weeps bitterly in the inner power. She is always saved by Associate Editors Snight, mascara-dyed tears on her “the appearing of our Savior Christ Je - Jeff boldt Zachary Guiliano cheeks. A bottle rests nearby. no one sus” (2 Tim. 1:10). Jordan Hylden consoles her. 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First reading and psalm : Jer. 29:1, 4-7 • Ps. 66:1-11 Alternate : 2 Kgs. 5:1-3, 7-15c • Ps. 111 • 2 Tim. 2:8-15 • Luke 17:11-19 Resident Alien he prophet ezekiel is carried to a their meticulous persistence in review - Forming Leaders Tdeath-valley of burnt bones. “The ing the glory of their history again and The Bishop’s institute for Ministry & hand of the LORD came upon me, and again. “Great are the works of the Leadership in the episcopal Diocese of he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD , studied by all who delight in Florida offers quality education at the LORD and set me down in the middle of them ” (Ps. 111:2). “The fear of the local level for the training of priests, a valley; it was full of bones” (ezek. LORD is the beginning of wisdom; and deacons, and lay leaders, and provides 37:1). So it feels for the children of God those who practice it have a good un - continuing education for both clergy to reside in the belly of Babylon, to live derstanding ” (Ps. 111:10a). Study and and laity. it is also working to provide among pagans as resident aliens. The practice preserve a people enveloped educational resources for parishes within the diocese to assist them in bones speak for the people: “Our bones in a culture cut off from their faith and developing their various ministries and are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are their faith stories. educational offerings within the parish. cut off completely” (ezek. 37:11). But in this context, the earliest outline of in addition, the institute promotes God is not defeated; nor are his people. Christian worship was set down and retreats, events, and forums that bring The prophet Jeremiah sends a letter established. Stories were told, prayers outstanding speakers from the wider to the exiles, addressing elders, priest, recited, psalms sung or said, a com - Church and from many different prophets, and all the people: “Build mentary offered. Christians, therefore, backgrounds here to our diocese. houses and live in them; plant gardens learn from Jews how to live a faith any - Founded in 1838, the diocese, with its and eat what they produce. Take wives where, among any people, and, if nec - 63 churches and missions, stretches east and have sons and daughters; take essary, with little or no social support, from the Apalachicola River to the wives for your sons, and give your even among hostile neighbors and per - Atlantic Ocean, and south from the daughters in marriage, that they may secuting powers. We are “the exiles of Georgia border to the Palm Coast bear sons and daughters; multiply the Dispersion” (1 Pet. 1:1). region. Our 12 diocesan schools range there and do not decrease. But seek the yet God has brought us, wherever from pre-school to high school. welfare of the city where i have sent we are, to a spacious place as we feel Currently three campus ministries serve you into exile, and pray to the LORD on and know our bodies as an expansive Florida State University, the University its behalf, for in its welfare you will find temple of divine mysteries, our souls as of Florida, and the University of north your welfare” (Jer. 29:5-7). Adjust, the the seat of divine longing. So we go on: Florida. The Camp Weed and Cerveny prophet says, but remain steadfast. “in this you rejoice, even if now for a Conference Center welcomes more than On foreign soil and among pagan little while you had to suffer various 650 summer campers and 35,000 guests gods, exiled Jews learn to listen anew, trails, so that the genuineness of your annually. Multiple diocesan outreach ministries serve rural and urban areas to recite and hear their ancient stories, faith … may be found to result in with prison ministry serving those in cultivate hope without a homeland and praise and glory and honor when Jesus correctional institutions. The call to without a temple. They feel God’s judg - Christ is revealed” (1 Pet. 1:6-7). in this serve all God’s people has remained ment: “For you, O God, have tested us, trial, “you are receiving the outcome steadfast and directed by the Holy Spirit you have tried us as silver is tried. you of your faith, the salvation of your over the past 177 year s. brought us into the net; you laid bur - souls” (1 Pet. 1:9). dens on our backs; you let people ride God so loved the world, and loves it The Diocese of Florida over our heads; we went through fire still. Pray for the world, but stand firm. 325 n Market St., Jacksonville, FL 32202 and through water” (Ps. 66:10-12a). in - Keep the deposit of faith and guard the 904.356.1328 | diocesefl.org credibly, they confess: “yet you have gift. brought us out to a spacious place” (Ps. A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor 66:12b). Look it Up As exiles, Jews find their protection A description of Babylon. in the welfare of the city, even pray for its prosperity, but their deeper identity Think About it is nurtured in story and recitation and Recitation and memory. the sacred bond of community. As per - haps few other people, their faith would be their study, their diligence,

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