Virginia Episc Op Alian

Fall 2016 VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN FaithThe in Quarterly theMagazine of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia FOR CHRIST. FOR THIS TIME. FOR ALL TIME. THISTIME. FOR FOR CHRIST. FOR Public Square Features 4 6 22 30 Faith in the Headlights for 1950s Refugees Lost & Found Public Square Social Justice Ministry and Burning Man 1 Bishop’s Letter 20 From Capital Hill to the Pulpit 3 Letter from the Publisher 25 Faith, Legacy & Taxes 11 Who Wins? 27 TOTF New Gift Annuity Fund 12 A Monastic Approach to Faith & Politics 29 Living Life as a Gift, Not as a Given 14 Literacy Ministry 34 Opportunities of the Spirit 17 Grants in the Diocese of Virginia 36 In Memoriam & Clergy Transitions CONNECT WITH VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN WHO WE ARE THE DIOCESE FALL 2016 / VOLUME 125 / ISSUE 3 THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF VIRGINIA Published by the Diocese of Virginia – Circulation 17,900 The Mayo Memorial Church House: Bishop: The Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston Bishop Suffragan: The Rt. Rev. Susan E. 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Communicants: $5/year Non-Communicants: $6/year FALL 2016 / VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN A Hero’s Witness: The Church Seen and Heard “I sing a song of a saint of God – patient This is an edited and amend- ed version of a presentation and brave and true – who toiled and (without notes) given by Bishop fought and lived and died for the Lord he Shannon Johnston at the Fall Clergy Retreat at Shrine Mont. loved and knew.” We present it here because we feel it might be of interest and The saint I speak of today was a priest – courageous, important to the wider Diocese indeed heroic – and he became a bishop. But no plaster as part of our ongoing consider - saint was he. In so many ways, he was gloriously ordinary, ation of witnessing to our faith in and I guess what I’m trying to say is the Public Square. that this saint of God was folk just like me – and God helping, I mean to be one too. This past July one of the great heroes of my life died at the age of 89. The Rt. Rev. Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr., 7th Bishop of Mississippi, THE RT. REV. DUNCAN MONTGOMERY GRAY JR. BISHOP JOHNSTON was a hero not just to me personally, but to the whole Church. He was a hero because of the utter and absolute integrity of his witness in a voice won out: “No, no. Let’s not hurt the preacher. crucial time in the life of our country – the civil rights He really believes that stuff.” In the aftermath of that struggles during the 1960s and 1970s. He was rector of horrible day, the Gray household received bomb St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Oxford, Mississippi, at threats and the children had to be protected in school, the time when there was tremendous unrest over James but Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr. persisted in his Meredith, the first African-American to be enrolled at witness, yes, including the pulpit. the University of Mississippi. Everywhere I’m going now – Sunday visits, And, yes, Duncan Gray brought the surrounding meetings – both clergy and lay people are asking politics into the pulpit. There is a magnificent painting me about what witness our Church could make or – a rendering of a famous photograph – that depicts should make in this polarizing season of the election a scene obscured by the smoke and the violence of and inauguration of a new president. The questions the rioting that was taking place at the University. arise from great anxiety and even disgust over what is Near the top of the stairs of The Lyceum building on happening in our political process. It seems to me that campus, you can see a figure dressed in black, with just the important issues don’t even get to the doorway. It’s a hint of the white clerical collar, a man separating the just nothing but one personal attack and a response, opposing protesters. That man in black was the Rev. and another attack and another response. What do we Duncan Gray. do about that? Isn’t there a place for the Church in this Later that same day, Duncan was pinned to the kind of season and in this kind of environment? “Oh, ground by two rioters. They were debating whether or no, Bishop, you’re supposed to keep politics out of the not to kill him. In a miraculous moment, the reasoning ...Continued on page 39 VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN / FALL 2016 1 Un Testigo de un Héroe: La Iglesia Vista y Escuchada “I sing a song of a saint of God – patient Esta es una versión editada y modificada de una presentación and brave and true – who toiled and (sin notas) dada en Shrine Mont fought and lived and died for the Lord he por el Obispo Shannon Johnston durante el retiro de otoño para (Himno 293, The Hymnal) loved and knew.” el clero. La presentamos aquí porque nos parece que podría El santo sobre el que hoy les hablo fue un sacerdote – ser de su interés e importancia valiente, de hecho, heroico – y quien fue electo obispo. para toda la diócesis, como un Pero él no era un santo de yeso. De muchas maneras, él aporte más amplio de nuestra fue gloriosamente ordinario. En otras consideración del testimonio pú- palabras, estoy intentando decirlo, blico de nuestra fe. es que este santo de Dios era alguien como yo – y, con la ayuda de Dios, yo también quiero serlo. El primero de julio pasado murió a la edad de 89 años uno de OBISPO JOHNSTON los grandes héroes de mi vida. El THE RT. REV. DUNCAN MONTGOMERY GRAY JR. Reverendísimo Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr., Séptimo Obispo de Mississippi, no sólo fue un héroe para mí personalmente, sino a toda la iglesia. Él vestido de negro fue el Reverendo Duncan Gray. fue un héroe debido a la total y absoluta integridad de su Más tarde ese mismo día, dos amotinados aferraron testimonio en un momento crucial en la vida de nuestro contra el suelo a Duncan, mientras que discutían si lo país: las luchas de derechos civiles durante las décadas mataban o no. En un momento milagroso, la voz de la del 1960 y 1970. Él fue rector de la Iglesia Episcopal de razón ganó: “No, no. No vamos a lastimar el predicador. San Pedro en Oxford, Mississippi, justo cuando había Él realmente cree que ese tipo de cosas.” Después de grandes disturbios porque James Meredith, el primer ese día horrible, la familia de Gray recibió amenazas de estudiante afroamericano que trató de matricularse en la bombas y los niños tuvieron que ser protegidos en la Universidad de Mississippi. escuela, pero Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr. persistió en Y, sí, Duncan Gray hizo presente la política que su testimonio. Sí, incluyendo el púlpito. le rodeaba en el púlpito. Hay una magnífica pintura Por todas partes que voy – visitaciones dominicales – una representación de una fotografía famosa, que y reuniones – los clérigos y laicos me preguntan cuál representa una escena oscurecida por el humo y la podría o debería ser el testimonio de nuestra iglesia en violencia de los disturbios que se llevaban a cabo esta época de polarización en la elección y la inauguración en la Universidad. Cerca de la parte superior de las de un nuevo presidente. Las preguntas surgen de la escaleras del Edificio Lyceum, dentro del campus de la gran ansiedad y el disgusto sobre lo que está pasando en universidad, se puede ver que hay una persona vestida nuestro proceso político. Me parece que las cuestiones de negro, pero en quien apenas se puede notar el cuello importantes ni aún se hacen presentes. No es nada más blanco de una camisa sacerdotal, un hombre que separa que ataques personales y una respuesta seguido de otro a los manifestantes que estaban opuestos. Ese hombre ...Continúa en la página 40 2 FALL 2016 / VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN A Letter from the Publisher Never That’s the counsel the Rt. Rev. Edwin “Ted” Gulick, Waste Assistant Bishop of Virginia, shared with the clergy of the Diocese at a retreat this fall. It was passed along to him from a bishop from New Jersey, after severe storms ravaged that state’s shores.

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