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What does turkey gumbo have to do with evangelism? Not much on the ‘We Forgive You’ surface. But a turkey gumbo recipe represents the fundamental change Churches that fell victim to a spate of that the Episcopal Church is making racist vandalism after the election of in the way it communicates with the Donald Trump have experienced the world. support and love of their neighbors For the Rev. Canon Michael Hunn, and wider communities in the efforts evangelism and gumbo can be linked to clean up and move on. in novel ways. Hunn is canon to the iStock photo Church of Our Saviour in Silver presiding bishop for ministry within Spring, Maryland, and St. David’s the Episcopal Church, and the com - Center has been posting and emailing Church in Bean Blossom, Indiana, were munications department reports to a new recipe for holiday-themed food among the victims of these crimes, him. every day, drawing on submissions which drew quick condemendation Hunn described how search engines from around the church and the from President-elect Trump during a package ads with search results, de - broader Anglican Communion. Nov. 13 interview on 60 Minutes . pending on search terms: if you search The purpose is to reach people who As TLC reported on Nov. 14, some - for sweaters, the top links you see will are looking for recipes and trying to one scrawled “Trump Nation” and be merchants who sell sweaters. decide what to cook for the holidays. “Whites Only” on a sign advertising a “That’s called inbound digital mar - Each recipe is accompanied by a brief Spanish-language Eucharist at Our keting, because the inbound energy of passage from Scripture and by links to Saviour on Nov. 12. A wall in the the computer user is what drives it,” the church’s social media platforms. parish’s memorial garden was defaced Hunn told TLC. In the older, broadcast The blog is called Make Ready the with the same message. In Bean Blos - model of advertising, the merchant Feast . Hunn credited Wendy Karr som, about 40 miles south of Indi - would buy a television or print ad that Johnson and Mary Brennan with the anapolis, vandals painted graffiti say - reaches a broad audience and hope idea, which he called ingenious. John - ing “Heil Trump,” and “Fag Church” that some readers may want to buy a son is the church’s digital missioner for accompanied by a spray-painted sweater. formation, and Brennan is staff officer swastika. The church is adopting a similar for mission communications. The Rev. Robert Harvey, rector of model, as part of a broad transforma - “People love recipes,” Brennan said. Our Saviour, told TLC he saw an tion of how it communicates. “We thought we could add some faith uptick in such behavior in the parish’s “We don’t call it marketing, because information as well as some recipe in - Hillandale neighborhood leading up to we’re not trying to sell anything, but formation.” the vandalism. Hillandale is a predom - we do say we’re doing inbound digital “It might actually lead you into the inantly Latino neighborhood of the evangelism,” Hunn said. “When people door of a church, because you’re look - Washington suburb. are seeking God, we want the Episco - ing for recipes,” Hunn said. Two days after the election, Harvey pal Church to be present with infor - More substantively, the communi - said, he saw two white males harassing mation that’s relevant to those seekers.” cations department also is creating an elderly Hispanic woman outside a The church is in the process of hir - videos and other content relating to the neighborhood thrift shop across the ing a digital evangelist, who will be fa - sacrament of baptism, to reach people street from the parish. He described miliar both with the Episcopal Church who are looking to have their children the men as large and in their early 20s, and with the practice of inbound digi - baptized. adding that they were “taunting her, tal marketing. This initiative was The videos will tell the baptism story humiliating her, calling her a spic, prompted by the 2015 General Con - from a variety of perspectives. “If you telling her to go back to Mexico.” vention, which designated evangelism happen to be a millennial, we’ll have a The men left after Harvey ap - as one of the top three priorities of the version that speaks to millennials,” said proached them, saying he would call church. The digital evangelist is ex - Mike Collins, manager of multimedia the police. pected to join the organization in Jan - services. “If you’re a suburban mom, The next Sunday, Harvey arrived at uary. we’ll have that version. If you’re some - the parish at 7 a.m. to prepare for the In the meantime, the church is using one who lives in a big city, we’ll have day’s worship services. He discovered recipes to take its first steps. Starting that version as well.” the vandalism then. “I said, ‘Oh no, oh with turkey gumbo on the first Sun - “We want to start creating material no, no, no,” Harvey said. “Not here.” day of Advent, the Episcopal Church (Continued on page 6) Harvey called the police, who ar -
4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 rived during the middle of his sermon ized sign with a new sign saying, “Sil - ioners decided to leave it up, for a time. in the 8 a.m. service. He paused during ver Spring loves and welcomes immi - “We weren’t embarrassed because we the sermon to ask the Rev. Francisco grants.” Harvey had no idea the neigh - were targeted. We were targeted for the Valle, an assistant priest who leads the bor was acting to replace the sign and right reasons,” Hutto said. Spanish-language services, to show the found the message of love a pleasant The Episcopal Church is a place vandalism to the officers. surprise. Similarly, a graffiti removal where people are loved regardless of “After the service, our bishop called company from Virginia came to re - who you are, what color you are, or me,” Harvey said. “She said, ‘Robert, move the paint for free. The FBI has who you love, she said. Hutto added I’m coming to do your Spanish service been involved, and the Southern that the vandalism created an oppor - today.’” The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde Poverty Law Center has offered sup - tunity to discuss the church and its role suggested holding a press conference. port. Crime Solvers of Montgomery as a haven. “It was just kind of organic “It spread like wildfire. By the time County is offering a $10,000 reward to leave it up and let the conversation the Spanish service started at 1, we had for information leading to the suspects’ develop.” close to 200 people, 210, that day,” he arrest. St. David’s planned a cleanup on said. Budde celebrated and Valle In Bean Blossom, St. David’s has ex - Nov. 30 as a community event com - preached. perienced similar solidarity. The Rev. bined with a prayer service. About 250 A week later, on Nov. 20, Our Sav - Kelsey Hutto, priest-in-charge of the people showed up — substantially iour saw massive support from the Brown County church, told TLC the more than the parish’s average Sunday community. “Our attendance was way, graffiti left at her parish reflected a mi - attendance of 47. way up on November 20,” Harvey said. nority opinion in the county. “It’s probably the largest event we’ve Four Synagogues and the Muslim “Following this event, the amount of had in our history,” Hutto said. The Community Center sent representa - support that has come out from our crowd gathered for a small prayer be - tives to services at Our Saviour, and local community has been so great,” fore taking turns at scrubbing the graf - many neighbors came to show their she said. “This message that was put on fiti. “Getting to actually scrub it off of love. “We felt overwhelming support the wall is not the majority message in the walls was very cathartic for people.” from our neighbors and people of Brown County.” Because parishioners and neighbors other faiths.” The graffiti at St. David’s was re - removed the graffiti, the event helped One neighbor replaced the vandal - moved on Nov. 30. Hutto said parish - (Continued on next page) news | December 25, 2016 ‘We Forgive You’ Harvey said the responses have (Continued from previous page) given Our Saviour a sense of call to its immigrant neighbors. them translate a sense of shock or dis - Harvey said Our Saviour is the most appointment into one of empower - diverse congregation in the Diocese of cert at the local high school in order to ment. “Okay, you can’t hurt us,” Hutto Washington. Around 80 percent of continue this conversation about rela - said. “This does come off of the walls. parishioners are immigrants, New tionship-building,” Hutto said. The Hate is not more powerful than love.” Americans, or first-generation Ameri - goal is simple: to come to know one After the graffiti was gone, volun - cans. While the community has ex - another. teers sang “Amazing Grace” and pressed outrage, embarrassment, and “We need to find this common moved into the sanctuary, which was sadness about the vandalism, most ground and build the relationship left with standing room only. There, parishioners have responded with there.” If relationships are built, she they held a prayer service of peace, “deafening silence.” The rector said said, it will be easier to seek reconcili - unity, and reconciliation. members are afraid to speak up or to ation “when we reach greater divides.” Both Harvey and Hutto received in - talk with the media. Hutto and Harvey extend that mes - terview requests and notes from “They’re here in the United States sage to the vandals. around the world. Hutto said she ap - trying to build a life,” he said. “It’s not “We are praying for you,” Harvey peared on CNN twice to discuss the easy for them. And then to have this said. “We love you. We want you to graffiti, and the Canadian Broadcast - right outside their doors. They’re meet the people we worship with. We ing Corporation interviewed her. “I did afraid. want you to understand who we are. not expect it to explode like it did,” she “We’re just learning now what it We are Americans, too. And we love said. means to be a home for all God’s peo - this country and we want this country Harvey has been interviewed by me - ple. It’s just not about worshiping to - to be a place where all are welcome. dia in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Sin - gether. We really are on the front lines And our church would welcome every - gapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. “I’ve now of doing work for our immigrant body, even the perpetrators who did never experienced anything like this,” neighbors.” this. We love you, and we pray for you.” he said, adding that seminary provided Harvey said the vandalism has made “I would say that we forgive you,” little instruction on handling “interna - the neighborhood aware of just how Hutto said. “That we don’t necessarily tional press with big-time politics.” many immigrants are there, both in the understand why, but you’re always wel - Our Saviour has received emails church and the surrounding area. come at St. David’s. We forgive you.” from around the world and from many In Indiana, St. David’s has felt a sim - Matthew Townsend denominations, and the church’s voice - ilar call. Hutto said the presidential mail system was overwhelmed. Harvey election highlighted existing divisions said he discovered its maximum ca - in America. “We do believe that we can In the Episcopal Church pacity was 47 messages. play a role here in Brown County in “There were four messages of the 47 healing that division,” even as a small Bishop Curry Writes that were some of the most dreadful, parish in Bean Blossom. evil, heinous, racist comments I’ve “Our next step is on December 18. to Haitian Bishops heard in my entire life,” he said. We’re going to have a community con - On Dec. 1 the Office of the Presiding Bishop released a letter from Presiding Gumbo Evangelism sachusetts. The church center is work - Bishop Michael Curry to the Rt. Rev. (Continued from page 4) ing closely with HubSpot while build - Zaché Duracin, Bishop of Haiti; the Rt. ing a new version of the church’s web - Rev. Oge Beauvoir, Bishop Suffragan of about baptism that people who are cu - site. The new website will be optimized Haiti; and the Rev. Kesner Ajax, presi - rious about baptism will find authori - for mobile users, and is designed so dent of the diocese’s standing commit - tative,” Hunn said. HubSpot can easily collect and analyze tee. In the letter, Curry addressed the By using traffic analytics, the church data on web traffic. The new site is ex - Title IV disciplinary case involving Du - can see the search terms people use pected to launch in the spring. racin, the growing divisions within that when they’re searching for baptism, It’s all part of retooling the commu - diocese, and plans to send envoys to and then create content that responds nications department as a digital evan - Haiti to stabilize the situation. to the most popular concepts. gelism department. “The Episcopal In his letter, Curry wrote that he and To crunch this data, the church cen - Church has a great story to tell,” the bishops of Haiti discussed how ter has contracted with HubSpot, an Collins said. “We just have to get it to these divisions within the diocese and inbound marketing vendor and con - the right people.” between the two bishops had led to the sulting firm based in Cambridge, Mas - Kirk Petersen Title IV case against Duracin. “Since
6 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 our meeting, it has become even clearer the Domestic & Foreign Missionary The Rev. Canon John Taylor, 62, was that this proceeding will continue to Society and the Diocese of the sole nominee by petition and he move toward an unflattering public Haiti had recently created a new won the election. He is the vicar of St. trial within the next few months — memorandum of understanding about John’s Church and School, Rancho with painful allegations by both bish - their joint efforts. Curry has also ap - Santa Margarita. Taylor was ordained ops against each other and testimony pointed a three-person panel consist - to the diaconate (2003) and priesthood by clergy of the Diocese as witnesses ing of the Rt. Rev. Stephen T. Lane, the (2004) by Bishop J. Jon Bruno. on both sides — unless a way can be Bishop of Maine; the Rev. P. Roger He was chief of staff to the former found to resolve it amicably,” he said. Bowen, a former Headmaster of Epis - president from 1984 to 1990, and di - Curry also cited the increased divi - copal schools; and Paul B. Nix, Jr., Es - rected the presidential library from 1990 sion among lay and clerical leadership, quire, In-house Counsel for the DFMS to 2007. His weblog bears the jaunty ti - including a recent filing by the Stand - in New York. tle The Episconixonian: Ecclesiastical and ing Committee under Title III to dis - “All three persons whom I have se - Political Pragmatism, with a Beat . solve the pastoral relationship between lected, and who have agreed to serve, The diocese began voting with a six- the diocese and Beauvoir. He said that have had substantial personal experi - person slate in electing a bishop coad - finding an “amicable and pastorally ac - ence with the Diocese and are persons jutor, who will serve alongside Bishop ceptable resolution” of the Title IV pro - in whom I place considerable trust,” Bruno and then succeed him when ceedings involving Duracin and the Ti - Curry said. Bruno retires. tle III proceeding brought against The Rev. Paul Fromberg, 55, rector Beauvoir is especially critical in the of St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco, light of Duracin’s approaching retire - Two Days, Eight Ballots since 2008, was on the list of nominees ment and his call to elect a bishop chosen by a search committee. coadjutor. The Diocese of Los Angeles spent eight “My desire is to be loyal to my “How important it is that that elec - ballots on Dec. 2-3 deciding between bishop and to have a collegial respect tion be conducted by a diocese that is an openly gay preacher, teacher, litur - for his pastoral oversight,” Fromberg healthy and generous of spirit cannot gist, and artist and a priest who was ex - told the Houston Chronicle in 2004, in be overstated,” he said. ecutive director of the Richard M. discussing his life as a gay priest. “I In efforts to build health, Curry said Nixon Presidential Library for 17 years. (Continued on next page)
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December 25, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 7 news | December 25, 2016 Los Angeles Election • The Rev. Anna Olson, rector of St. Three Nominees (Continued from previous page) Mary’s, Los Angeles, who has served in ministry in Southern California, in - in North Carolina think that it becomes possible for me cluding as Los Angeles director of the to maintain that level of loyalty more nonprofit Clergy and Laity United for The Diocese of North Carolina has an - easily by going to another diocese Economic Justice. She withdrew from nounced three nominees in its search where there is more of a feeling of ac - the election after the fourth ballot. for the 12th diocesan bishop. The three ceptance.” • The Rt. Rev. Pierre Whalon, nominees are men who serve in other Fromberg told the Chronicle that he Bishop of the Convocation of Episco - dioceses: had not felt driven out of the Diocese pal Churches in Europe, who has • The Rev. Charles T. Dupree, rector of Texas: “I feel like I’m making a served in ministry in Europe, Florida, of Trinity Church, Bloomington, Indi - choice based on how I understand and Pennsylvania with experience in ana what God’s call is for me right now.” international, interfaith, and financial • The Rev. Samuel S. Rodman III, Taylor’s years with Nixon notwith - initiatives. He withdrew from the elec - special projects officer, Diocese of standing, the diocese was not choosing tion after the third ballot. Massachusetts between widely divergent perspectives • The Rev. Mauricio Wilson, rector • The Rev. Milind Sojwal, rector of on politics or sexuality. of St. Paul’s, Oakland, who has served All Angels’ Church, Manhattan “Hopelessness and anger are conse - in ministry in Costa Rica, New York, The diocese is scheduled to elect its quences of oppressive economic and and California following his career as a next bishop on March 4. political systems,” Taylor said in a banker-auditor beginning with Coop - diocesan profile. “Christians’ hope ers & Lybrand. Wilson did not with - comes from the Resurrection and our draw from the election, even as his experience of our belovedness. Citi - votes dwindled into single digits. In the Anglican Communion zens’ hope is in being treated with jus - Douglas LeBlanc tice, including dignified work at a liv - Fresh Expressions ing wage with decent benefits. Other preeminent global issues are climate West Texas Tops 50,000 change and vigilance about the scape - Nominates 7 goating of Muslims. The bishop of Los A new Church of England report says Angeles has a special responsibility to Seven priests will stand for election as that more than 50,000 people partici - advocate for the homeless, the undoc - the next Bishop Suffragan of West pate in Fresh Expressions services in umented, and the inalienable rights of Texas. The diocese has published their England. Church Army, one of the women, ethnic minority groups, and names in a 48-page document that in - church’s leading urban mission agen - LGBTQ people.” cludes their biographies and answers cies, conducted the research and pub - Taylor led the voting in both orders to several questions. lished the report. It says the majority of for the first five ballots, but Fromberg All of the priests serve within the those who attend are younger than the began gaining steadily. Taylor won a Diocese of West Texas: average worshiper in standard parish majority of clergy votes on the third • The Rev. Jennifer Brooke-David - congregations. ballot but lost it on the fourth ballot. son, vicar, St. Elizabeth’s, Buda Fresh Expressions is defined as a He won a majority of lay votes on the • The Rev. Christopher Caddell, rec - “new gathering or network that en - sixth and seventh ballots. Fromberg tor, Holy Spirit Church and School, gages mainly with people who have and Taylor tied on clergy votes on the Dripping Springs never been to church.” The term was seventh ballot, three votes shy of win - • The Rev. Chris Cole, rector, coined in a 2004 report on church- ning that order. Church of the Resurrection, Windcrest planting, Mission-shaped Church . The On the eighth ballot, Taylor won 122 • The Rev. John Hill, rector, St. Mar - movement was championed by Rowan votes in the clergy order and increased garet’s, San Antonio Williams during his time as Arch - his vote in the lay order to 194 — 53 • The Rev. Lisa Mason, rector, St. bishop of Canterbury. more than he needed to win among David’s Church and School, San Antonio The report says 3,400 Fresh Expres - the laity. • The Rev. Jonathan Wickham, rec - sions projects are found in all the ma - The other nominees were: tor, All Saints, Corpus Christi jor denominations across the United • The Rev. Rachel Anne Nyback, rec - • The Rev. Robert Woody, rector, Kingdom. About half, 2,100, are linked tor of St. Cross, Hermosa Beach, who Church of the Reconciliation, San An - to the Church of England. The 233- has served in ministry in Southern Cal - tonio page report, The Day of Small Things , ifornia and Washington, D.C., after The diocese will elect the bishop suf - analyzes about 1,100 Fresh Expressions teaching in Kuwait. She withdrew from fragan during its 113th council meet - projects in 21 Church of England dio - the election after the second ballot. ing on Feb. 25 in Corpus Christi. ceses.
8 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 newspaper, also was implicated. He too learned in the Bell case. His report, PB Venables Returns is deceased. commissioned by the Church of Eng - The Most Rev. Greg Venables, Bishop The Royal Commission led the Most land’s National Safeguarding Team in of Argentina, has been elected presid - Rev. Roger Herft, Archbishop of Perth accordance with the House of Bishops’ ing bishop of the Anglican Church in and former Bishop of Newcastle, to guidance on all complex cases, is ex - South America. He succeeds Bishop stand aside during the course of the pected to be finished by the end of next Tito Muñoz of Chile, the first presiding commission. He said he had failed the summer. bishop of the province who was born people of Newcastle: “I let them down The Rt. Rev. Martin Warner, Bishop in South America. Muñoz had served a badly — let down the survivors in a of Chichester, issued a public apology maximum of two three-year terms. way that remorse itself is a very poor in 2015 and said the church had settled Bishop Venables previously served emotion to express.” a legal civil claim involving allegations in this role from 2001 to 2010. He of sexual abuse by Bishop Bell, Bishop joined the South America Missionary of Chichester from 1929 to 1958. Society and moved to Latin America in Archbishop Calls Bell was revered in his time as a pio - January 1978. He had planned to stay neer ecumenist and supporter of Ger - three years, but he has remained ever Ecumenical Adviser man Christians opposed to Adolf Hitler. since and his three grown children all Schools and other buildings were have locally born spouses. The Rev. Will Adam is the new ecu - named after him and a statue honors Within the region, the Roman menical adviser to the Archbishop of him at Chichester Cathedral. He was a Catholic Church is largest and Pente - Canterbury and ecumenical officer at serious candidate to succeed William costal denominations are also strong. the Council for Christian Unity Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury. The Anglican Church, which is much (CCU). Allegations against Bell were smaller, maintains strong ecumenical This post will build on the creative brought to the Diocese of Winchester links with its partners. Bishop Venables working relationship that has been es - in 1995 but they prompted no action. said he had a strong working relation - tablished between Lambeth Palace and In 2013 the complainant approached ship with Cardinal Jorge Mario the CCU to further the ecumenical Lambeth Palace, which commissioned Bergoglio, who is now Pope Francis. ministry of Archbishop Welby. an investigation. The province comprises Argentina, “I am delighted that Will Adam will Since the settlement in 2015, several Bolivia, Chile, Northern Argentina, be bringing his considerable experi - legal experts and journalists have run a Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. ence and expertise to this post,” Welby sustained campaign criticizing the said. “His understanding of both na - church’s handling of the case and call - tional and international ecumenism ing for it to be reviewed. Australian Diocese will be a real asset to the work at Lam - The Rt. Rev. Peter Hancock, Bishop beth and at CCU. There are wonderful of Bath and Wells and lead bishop on Rocked by Allegations opportunities in ecumenism in these safeguarding, said in a media state - times, and we must always strive to be ment: “I am grateful to Lord Carlile for The Diocese of Newcastle, north of obedient to Jesus’ desire that his agreeing to undertake the review, Sydney, is reeling from revelations Church ‘may be one.’” which will take a detailed look into about a culture of widespread sexual “My commitment to the reconcilia - how the church handled the George abuse across many years. The Rt. Rev. tion of Christ’s Church goes back to Bell case; as with all serious cases there Greg Thompson, Bishop of Newcastle, my early student days,” Adam said. “I are always lessons to be learnt. The told a royal commission that a priest am looking forward to supporting the Church of England takes all safeguard - told him in the 1970s he would “get archbishop and the wider Church of ing issues very seriously and we will ahead” in the church if he offered sex - England in ecumenical mission and continue to listen to everyone affected ual favors. ministry in the coming years.” in this case while we await the findings Thompson was the concluding wit - of the review. The Diocese of Chich - ness in a royal commission’s hearing ester continues to be in touch and offer into the diocese, which confirmed Bell Case Given support to the survivor known as abuse occurred there for decades. He Carol, who brought the allegations.” broke down several times as he re - Further Review called being abused as a teenager. The Church of England has appointed The hearings included accusations a senior member of the House of Lords against the Rt. Rev. Ian Shevill, Bishop to review the sex-abuse allegations Challenge to Uruguayans of Newcastle from 1973 to 1977. He against the late Bishop George Bell. The Bishop of Uruguay has delivered a was secretary of USPG, a leading U.K. Alex Carlile, the independent re - critical presidential address to his missionary society, from 1970 to 1973. viewer of terrorism legislation between diocesan synod, in which he said that He died in 1988. The Rev. Canon Eric 2001 and 2011 and an expert in cyber- parishes had failed to engage with “the Barker, a former editor of the diocesan related issues, will report on lessons (Continued on next page)
December 25, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 9 news | December 25, 2016 Uruguay 2017. “People will be coached, taught, no matter in what shape and/or man - ner we try to express our faith, we are (Continued from previous page) and trained in the some of the basics: how to lead a service within their com - all interdependent. We may have basics” of mission and evangelism. munity; how to lead a Bible study; how something different, something that The Rt. Rev. Michele Pollesel told a to share a simple explanation of what we can share with others, but they also story of a new priest who heard com - Anglican faith and practice are about,” have something to share with us, and plaints that he preached the same ser - Bishop Pollesel said. “If any commu - so we continue building God’s dream mon for three weeks. “Yes, it’s true. I nity is not represented at these ses - of God for all of us.” have preached the same sermon every sions, either by laity or by clergy, as In his address, Bishop Pollesel ex - week for three weeks now. I know what bishop I will need to consider whether plained the difference between mission I’m doing. … When you begin to live that community deserves to continue and vision. He said that the Church’s out this sermon, I will go to the next existing. mission is based on the three pillars of one.” “Why so severe? Because, from my proclamation of the gospel (evange - He added: “Without disparaging point of view as the bishop in this dio - lism and church planting); training in anyone in any way, I have begun to feel cese, we need to start walking towards the gospel (discipleship); and service like that preacher. It may be that I am the fulfillment of a simple but at the in the gospel (social outreach). too impatient, or it may be that I still same time clear vision. We are not go - “The mission never changes,” he do not understand the Uruguayan con - ing to change the world, but we are go - said. “It is always the same. However, text well, or it may be due to other rea - ing to begin to change our own per - the vision changes according to the cir - sons. … However, it seems to me that spective and perhaps also seek our own cumstances and realities. not much of what I’ve exhorted the conversion.” “The mission answers the question: Church here in Uruguay to accomplish He urged the diocese to strengthen What are we going to do? The vision has been achieved. its relationship with other churches in answers the question: How are we go - “I have already said that this is the the Anglican Province of South Amer - ing to do it?” third year that I am repeating what the ica, saying that the relationship be - He said that the church in Uruguay basics are for us and, frankly, I have not tween the diocese and province was had “not been very successful” and that seen many results. Maybe I’m the only non-existent when he arrived. “There proclamation was the weakest part of one who sees it this way. Perhaps some was a sense that we existed independ - its mission. of you could name many changes you ently, that we had nothing or very little In addition to creation of training have experienced in your own commu - to do with the province, that the events for parishes in the diocese, nity. If this is so, I am happy and I apol - province did not support us, and that Pollesel has invited the Diocese of ogize for my insistence on this.” we ourselves did not want to have any - Chile to send two or three missionaries Pollesel was elected Bishop of the thing to do with the province,” he said. to help plant new communities in Iglesia Anglicana del Uruguay (the An - “The province was regarded as an Uruguay. glican Church of Uruguay), part of the enemy instead of seeing it as a group of “We need to experience different Anglican Province of South America, other believers, other followers of Jesus ways of being and acting as a church in in 2011, in succession to the Rt. Rev. Christ, trying to live out their faith in our country, and I hope they can help Miguel Tamayo. an appropriate way and according to us to do this,” he said. He wants every parish to send a their criteria. Gavin Drake, ACNS priest and two lay people to two train - “I remind you that the Church does ing events that he is organizing for not exist independently, but that all — Call the Midwife Meets USPG The Christmas special of BBC’s Call the Midwife will feature the work of the Anglican mission agency USPG. The show follows the fortunes of the mid - wives and nuns at Nonnatus House, in East London, in 1961. In the Christmas special, the Rev. Tom Hereward and a number of the Sisters and midwives are A Division of sent by SPG, as USPG was known in the 1960s, to help a struggling clinic in South Africa. Today’s USPG played a significant
10 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 role in helping the BBC research the Central Africa, based in neighboring episode, including input from the Rev. Zambia. The Province of Central Canon Edgar Ruddock, who was a Africa comprises dioceses in Malawi, missionary in South Africa in the Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 1980s. “The Anglican church here is doing “I had a lengthy phone conversation a lot, in providing for the body and the with the key researcher, who tapped soul,” the president said. “You are run - into my knowledge of the 1980s, when ning schools and hospitals. You are many church-founded hospitals were supporting agriculture, and you are still operating across rural southern with us in times of emergencies, such Africa,” Ruddock said. “I was also able as the devastating floods and droughts to point them to various older col - we experienced the past two years. You leagues who had worked there as doc - are also in environmental rehabilita - tors or nurses during the 1960s.” tion and management.” “Mission has changed a lot since the The president reiterated his hope for 1960s,” said Rachel Parry, global rela - church and state to work collectively in tions director for USPG. “We used to instilling good values among citizens. think of mission as something that ‘we “Church and government are partners over here’ did for ‘them over there’ — in development,” he said. “Together we but now we understand that mission is take care of the body and the soul. ‘from everywhere to everywhere.’ Here in Malawi, we have agreed on pil - There is no one part of the church that lars through which we will develop our has the monopoly on Christian under - country — namely patriotism, in - standing. Instead, we are all learning tegrity, and hard work.” from each other. “Another change is that USPG no longer sends missionaries in the old- POSTCARD FROM LONDON fashioned sense. However, we do still support and encourage the movement Finding Faith of people in mission. The difference is that the movement of people today is, on the Margins again, ‘from everywhere to every - where.’ In recent years, USPG has sup - Religion headlines in the United King - ported a Cuban doctor to work in dom mostly tell a tale of decline. The Uruguay and a Ghanaian priest to Church of England certainly has seen work in The Gambia. decline of 1 percent year on year for “Mission today is about a global net - more than a decade. Methodists like - work of Christians who all have needs wise seem to be suffering. and skills, something they need to There are some green shoots. A re - learn and something they have to cent report suggests the “messy share.” church” movement is making headway. USPG has published a range of re - Another says conservative churches 30 All-Natural Flavors sources to highlight the work it is do - that insist on the truth of the Bible are Made in Massachusetts ing today to support midwifery. growing. Perhaps even more intriguing is growth of a spiritual movement that SPENCER TRAPPIST until now at least stood outside the ALE Malawi’s President reckoning of media reporting. Brewed in Since 1980 large numbers of gypsies Massachusetts Praises Church have joined a charismatic-style move - Malawi’s President, Peter Mutharika, ment called Light and Life. The move - Fruitcake has praised Anglican churches in his ment claims to comprise 40 percent of Fudge country for their work in health, edu - U.K. gypsies. Many of them have Caramels cation, and agriculture. turned their backs on adherence to a Made In Mutharika made the remarks to a nominal Roman Catholicism and seek Monasteries contingent of Anglican bishops at Ka - to lead a life that eschews thieving, al - FREE CATALOG muzu Palace in the capital city, Li - cohol, and fortune-telling (dukering). With Hundreds of Monastery Products longwe. Leading the group was the In July, 6,000 attended the Light and MonasteryGreetings.com (Continued on next page) Most Rev. Albert Chama, Primate of 800•472•0425
December 25, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 11 news | December 25, 2016 Faith on the Margins (Continued from previous page) Life Convention, the movement’s an - nual jamboree. It’s said the continental branch of the movement, called Vie et Lumière, first took root among Ro - mani survivors of the Holocaust. They planted this movement on a mission visit to the northwest of England. The style of preaching is charis - matic, with all-male speakers. There are miracle claims and rousing wor - ship. “I see a great shift among gypsies today,” one preacher told the BBC. “We’ve gone from being professional liars — I was one of them. Now, we don’t want to live that life … because Bain-Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons the Holy Spirit’s inside us. We want to Gypsy Smith photographed in Manhattan, 1918 go 100 percent legal. That’s what hap - pens when you’re born again.” Gypsies in the U.K. have their own Roman Catholic chaplain, the Rev. Forerunner of Light and Life Dan Mason. He told the BBC that Light and Life followers are very criti - On a wet January morning in 1889, a solitary figure stepped cal of the Church’s rituals, arguing they ashore at New York Harbor. His arrival was unheralded, but are not directly from the Bible. He says within a few months the name of evangelist Rodney “Gypsy” Light and Life provides its adherents a Smith (1860-1947) was known from Boston to San Francisco. sense of identity and belonging, “some - During the next two decades, he would visit the United thing that as Catholics we need to take States more than 40 times. People crowded halls and tent meet - seriously and look at how we can make ings to hear his trenchant preaching, interspersed with tune - our parishes more welcoming.” ful solos. Jackie Boyd, a church elder, wants to Smith was born in a Romani tent in Epping Forest nine see the movement extend beyond gyp - miles northeast of London. A commemorative stone marks the sies. “England and Britain as a nation spot in the suburb of Woodford Green. The family got by sell - are going against the standards and ing baskets, tinware, opportunist thieving, and dukering, that principles of God in a big way,” she told is, fortune-telling using tarot cards. Rodney’s mother died of the BBC. “So we hope to see a revival smallpox when he was 5. His father, Cornelius, was in and out and our people saved — but we want of prison but one chaplain took an interest in him. It was the everyone to be saved.” start of a spiritual journey. John Martin Rodney Smith received no education. He could neither read nor write when converted in his teens, but William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, recognized his raw talent and he became an officer in the movement. “The Converted Gyp - sies,” Rodney and his brothers, undertook numerous evangel - istic campaigns beginning in 1873. If anything, he would be more famous in the United States than Britain. Visit our website: “I didn’t go through your colleges and seminaries,” Smith livingchurch.org would say. “They wouldn’t have me. But I have been to the feet of Jesus, where the only true scholarship is learned.” and our weblog: Where possible he would visit gypsy encampments on both covenant.livingchurch.org sides of the Atlantic. In the 1980s, four decades after the death of Gypsy Smith, a spiritual people’s movement began to take root among them. John Martin
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Stephen Andrews fodder for meditation than does the surgeon’s table or the theologian’s tome alike. His reflections in When An annual Christmas highlight for me, as someone with Breath Becomes Air illuminate the ways that pain win - cultural roots in Minnesota, is the St. Olaf College nows away the excesses of daily life to make room for Christmas Festival Con - what matters: relationships, creativity, service, and love. cert. Featuring Christmas Katelyn Beaty is a Christianity Today editor at large and music from around the author of A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your world and a commis - Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World sioned premiere every (Howard/Simon & Schuster, 2016). year, the concert is a rich and magical blend of the new and the familiar. This year, it is possible for the first time to order audio access Donald Bolen from the college (christmas.stolaf.edu). My Christmas Before his death in early No - would not be complete without a choral benediction vember, Leonard Cohen released from the Ole Choir! You Want It Darker . He knew he The Rt. Rev. Stephen Andrews is principal of Wycliffe Col - had cancer and several of the lege at the University of Toronto. songs on this album reflect that he was clearly preparing to die. John C. Bauerschmidt Despite a long period in a Bud - dhist monastery and a long fas - If you ask me, Ridolfo Luigi Boc - cination with Jesus, Leonard was Jewish to his core, and cherini’s Cello Concertos , Vol. 3, generously invites the hearer into his penetrating dia - Nos. 9-12 (Naxos) is the music logue with God. Not light Christmas fare, but for the they’re playing in heaven. Boc - searcher, Leonard brings blessings. cherini (1743-1805) was both a The Rt. Rev. Donald Bolen is Archbishop of the Archdio - noted composer and a gifted cel - cese of Regina. list in his own right, and these works are a delight to both heart and mind. No. 12 was only recorded after the Adrian Butcher score was discovered in a Neapolitan library in 1987. The First World War has always The British cellist Raphael Wallfisch performs here in a fascinated me. This year there were 2004 recording. He is married to the Australian violin - moving commemorations to mark ist Elizabeth Wallfisch, who has offered her splendid in - the centennial of the Battle of the terpretation of the earlier (1695-1764) Pietro Locatelli’s Somme. In 2017, we will be recall - Opus 4 in a 1996 recording on Hyperion that is another ing the United States joining the favorite. conflict and the Battle of Passchen - The Rt. Rev. John C. Bauerschmidt is Bishop of Tennessee. daele. Here are three books about World War I that I would recom - Katelyn Beaty mend: Birdsong (Vintage, 1997) by Sebastian Faulkes, a readable yet visceral novel; Sleepwalkers (HarperCollins, If Paul Kalanithi had not become a 2013) by Christopher Clark, a meticulous study of how neurosurgeon, he writes, he might and why it happened; and Edith Cavell: Faith Before the have become a pastor. Both voca - Firing Squad by Catherine Butcher, a short biography of tions navigate the relationship be - a Christian heroine who paid the ultimate price for her tween body and spirit, and the bravery. (I should declare an interest: Catherine is my mystery of human consciousness. wife, but she captures Edith Cavell’s faith and courage re - But Kalanithi’s experience with ally well.) suffering — a lung cancer diagno - Adrian Butcher is the Anglican Communion Office’s di - sis at age 36 — gives him more rector of communications.
14 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 James G. Callaway take you into the meaning of Christmas, with a lot of laughs Perhaps nothing stirs the sparks of along the way. Coventry has re- faith like going back to the basics, ceived hundreds of Syrian and which Rowan Williams does in his other refugees. To save the life of tiny gem Being Christian (Eerdmans, a child escaping danger this 2014). Given as open lectures at Can- Christmas will take you to the terbury Cathedral during Holy heart of Christmas. Try USPG’s Week, the book’s four chapters take appeal that supports the great work of the Church of us to the core of essential elements of England’s Diocese in Europe. the Christian life: baptism, Bible, Eu- The Rt. Rev. Christopher Cocksworth is Bishop of Coventry. charist, and prayer. On prayer, for example, he starts with Origen’s question, “If God knows what we are go- David Copley ing to ask, why bother to pray?” Fleshing out the Lord’s Prayer, he turns to Gregory of Nyssa and John Cassian. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) is a heartwarming This resonant book is like making a retreat and is a per- film based on the life of missionary Gladys Aylwood, fect resource for newcomers and mature souls alike. You who became a missionary in will know it is a favorite the first time you reach for it China before World War II. Ayl- only to realize that it’s missing because you had already wood grew up in a working-class shared it with someone else. family in North London and used The Rev. Canon James G. Callaway is general secretary of her life savings to reach Asia and the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion. work with the China Inland Mis- sion in 1932. The movie takes many liberties on the true life of Bill Campbell Aylwood, and is filmed through a Faith at Home: A Handbook for romantic Hollywood lens with In- Cautiously Christian Parents grid Bergman in the starring role. Nonetheless, it is an (Church Publishing, 2016) by inspirational story of a woman stepping out in faith and Wendy Claire Berrie is an excellent of the power of the ministry of presence and hospitality. tool for anyone looking to add spir- The Rev. David Copley is team leader of global partner- itual practices to daily family life. ships at the Episcopal Church Center. Berrie provides simple definitions and personal experiences as guid- Gavin G. Dunbar ance for parents trying to better ful- fill our roles as the primary faith incubators of our chil- Tim Keller’s Making Sense of God dren’s spiritual lives. Faith at Home gives advice on how demonstrates an approach to apolo- to bolster the Christian practices already taking place in getics and evangelism that Angli- your home. Her handbook is deeply personal and relat- cans desperately need to incorpo- able, while also being open for families of all types. rate into our preaching and Joyeux Noel! teaching, if we are to survive the Bill Campbell is the executive director of Forma, the net- hollowing out of the Protestant lib- work of faith formation practitioners in the Episcopal eral mainline. Advent at Merton (Delphian, 2013) fea- Church. tures some of the most compelling new sacred music of our time (by composers like James Macmillan of Scot- land) exquisitely performed by the Merton College Christopher Cocksworth Choir, conducted by Peter Phillips. Song of the Nativity (CORO Records) by The Sixteen, The Rev. Gavin G. Dunbar is rector of St. John’s Church in who often perform in Coventry Cathedral, will stir the Savannah, Georgia. soul. The film Nativity! (2009), shot in Coventry, will (Continued on next page)
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Robert D. Fain clusive-language version of the Grail Psalter, Scripture readings King’s College Choir sets the from the NRSV, and fresh transla- standard for Anglican choirs tions of patristic texts make this worldwide, and its Favourite very much a 21st-century com- Carols from King’s does not dis- pendium of prayer. It is also an ec- appoint. Released in 2014, it is a umenical work. Maxwell E. John- collection of 25 highlights from son is a Lutheran scholar, pastor in the annual Festival of Lessons the ELCA, and oblate of St. John’s and Carols BBC broadcast. Cele- Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. brating the 60th anniversary in 2014, the collection in- The Rt. Rev. David Hamid is Bishop Suffragan of the cludes “Once in Royal David’s City,” “In the Bleak Mid- Church of England’s Diocese in Europe and co-chair of the Winter,” “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” and many other International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for beloved carols that every Episcopalian should know. The Unity and Mission. collection is available as a CD and DVD on the King’s College label. The Rev. Robert D. Fain is rector of Church of the Good Scott B. Hayashi Shepherd in Augusta, Georgia. At Christmas, I think about the gift that God gave to us in sending Jesus. That gift was nothing less than God Zachary Guiliano giving himself to us. It was the giving of God’s abiding presence that would stay with us after the Ascension of Benedict XVI’s Last Testament Jesus. That is the gift of God’s real presence in the Holy (Bloomsbury, 2016) signifies the Communion. So, for this Christmas my suggestion is to passing of an age or perhaps a tran- give to those you love the gift of your undivided pres- sition into a new era for theology ence. That is really being with them — really being open and the Church. Yet this final book to hearing them and to giving them your gratitude for captures so much of his personal life, their preciousness. A blessed Christmas to all! during his years in Nazi-era Ger- The Rt. Rev. Scott B. Hayashi is Bishop of Utah. many, his early work as a priest and academic, his participation in Vati- can II, and his leadership of the Wesley Hill Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It is won- Most readers of THE LIVING CHURCH will know the name derfully colorful and entertaining reading, in which his Francis Spufford, author of the profane and deeply mov- generous spirit and faith shine through. ing Unapologetic: Why, Despite Zachary Guiliano is an associate editor of TLC and editor Everything, Christianity Can Still of Covenant. Make Surprising Emotional Sense. Fewer may know that this year David Hamid Spufford published his first novel, Golden Hill (Faber & Faber), a rol- The Book of Common Prayer is rooted in Benedictine licking pre-Revolutionary War spirituality. Benedictine Daily Prayer: A Short Breviary, story set in New York. If you are Second Edition by Maxwell E. Johnson (Liturgical Press, able to put it down for more than 2015) is thus an ideal gift for a deacon, priest, bishop, or ten minutes, I will be shocked. Sus- layperson who wishes to know more about and to pray pense, intrigue, exposé, slapstick, the divine office as laid out by St. Benedict in his ancient sex: all, and more besides, are here in dazzling, unpre- rule. Yet it is a thoroughly modern breviary, marked by dictable abundance. the Benedictine awareness of the world around us. The Wesley Hill is assistant professor of biblical studies at Trin- daily intercessions are inspiring in their scope. An in- ity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
16 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 25, 2016 Brendon Hunter these brave women and proclaims hope to the world. The T-shirts are also really comfortable! If you are looking for something smaller or a great stock- The Rev. Luke Jernagan is rector of St. Peter’s Church in ing-stuffer, Thistle Farms (thistlefarms.org) makes the Ladue, Missouri. best lip balm. It’s one of the few unscented, un- Douglas LeBlanc flavored, all-natural lip balms available. Also, a The Black Stallion (1979) is an en- must for any gardener chanting film adaptation of Walter in your life is Thistle Farley’s debut novel in 1941. Scenes Farms’ bug spray, which has no harsh chemicals and of a young actor Kelly Reno run- works great. Check out all the offerings. Not only are ning along the beach with the these some of the best-quality products, but you are abused horse he befriends anticipate helping support sanctuary and healing for women sur- the cross-species body language of vivors of abuse, addiction, trafficking, and prostitution. The Horse Whisperer (1998). If you love art that imag- Brendon Hunter is the Episcopal Church Foundation’s ines God’s peaceable kingdom, do not miss this master- program director for leadership resources. piece. Douglas LeBlanc is TLC’s senior editor. Serenhedd James G. Jeffrey MacDonald Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time to Keep Silence (New York Review The fascinating story of ordained Books, 2007), his short account of ministry in America receives judi- visiting various European monas- cious treatment in God’s Ambassa- teries in his well-charted travels, dors: A History of the Christian speaks with a depth and richness Clergy in America (Eerdmans, that engages and enthralls in equal 2007). In it, historian par excellence measure. From St. Wandrille to E. Brooks Holifield shows how per- Solemnes to La Grande Trappe, and spectives on ministerial authority on to Cappadocia, Leigh Fermor is a guide par excellence evolved by feeding selectively on to the hidden lives of the men who live, work, and pray strains in the tradition and riding waves of cultural behind the high walls of their spiritual fortresses, which change. With an eye for telling detail and economical become more enticing by the page. prose, Holifield attends ably to both Catholic and Protes- Serenhedd James is a member of the theology and religion tant trajectories. Clergy who read God’s Ambassadors faculty at the University of Oxford and editor of New Di- will see their calling examined within a new, enriching rections. framework. Lay readers will find the cloth demystified in the best possible way. Luke Jernagan G. Jeffrey MacDonald is a TLC correspondent and pastor in the United Church of Christ. This Christmas, I will choose gifts for my friends and family from Thabo Makgoba bravely.org, which was, to quote its website, “conceived by women sur- Give a Gaelic or an indigenous cross, carved and painted vivors of sexual exploitation and locally. This gift points us to the Cross and if made in addiction. We have a message we our own community is an invitation and a call to co-cre- want to share with the world: that ate with God the justice, righteousness, and mercy that recovery from trauma is possible through love, com- the gospel promises, as well as equality and the flour- passion, and community.” In this season of hope, I can ishing of all, including nature. The Cross reveals the think of no better gift than one that supports hope for (Continued on next page)
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mystery of the Incarnation, suffering, death, and Resur - from a marginal note in a 12th- rection of Jesus. It tells us that political and economic century manuscript and recounts power are temporal and that there is value beyond these. the travails of a monk who must In giving the cross, I am asking the receiver to join me in reckon with a bear who has de - being courageous, hopeful, and prepared to promote veloped a taste for the sermons of the values of the kingdom to the point of personal sac - St. Augustine. With illustrations rifice. patterned on Orthodox frescoes, The Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba is Archbishop of My Warrior Saints (Potamitis Capetown and Primate of Southern Africa. Publishing) by Dionysios and Egle-Ekaterine Potamitis tells the legends of a dozen heroic saints, including St. Mercurius (“Sword of the Hannah Matis Archangel”), St. George (“Trophy-Bearer”), and St. I recommend Stile Antico’s al - Menas (“The Terrifying Rider”). bum A Wondrous Mystery: Ren - The Rev. Mark Michael is rector of St. Francis Church in aissance Choral Music for Christ - Potomac, Maryland. mas (Harmonia Mundi, 2015). Stile Antico is arguably the best Timothy P. O’Malley early-music vocal ensemble working right now, and this The nuptial imagery of the Song Christmas album is a wonderful of Songs attunes the soul to sa - collection of pieces that will not bore you. voring the marriage of the divine Hannah Matis is an assistant professor of church history and humanity in the Incarna - at Virginia Theological Seminary. tion. What better Christmas gift than to give the maturing Chris - tian in your life the Hilliard En - Andrew McGowan semble’s recording of Palestrina’s Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Defini - 29 motets of the Song of Songs (EMI Import, 2003)? The tive Guide to Baking Your Own (Andrews McMeel, 2009) listener experiences Palestrina’s loving contemplation of by Andrew Whitley is part cook - the Song of Songs stretched out over 79 minutes. book, part manifesto. It offers Timothy P. O’Malley is director of the Notre Dame Center the beginner all the necessary for Liturgy, editor of Church Life, and concurrent associ - guidance to make really good ate professional specialist in Notre Dame’s Department of bread, real insight into how it Theology. works, and a spirited critique of how bread went so wrong. This Andrew Pearson book is fun to browse, but could also be the basis for family projects, festive and everyday, Alan Stibbs, missionary, preacher, in the New Year. and theologian, was, as John Stott The Very Rev. Andrew McGowan is dean and president of said, “a lonely evangelical scholar in Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. a sea of liberalism.” God used Stibbs to bring about renewal in the Mark Michael Church of England, and his words are pertinent for us today. The dead yet speaketh (Heb. Far too many children’s religious books seem to be in - 11:4). Such a Great Salvation: The Collected Essays of tended for the shrinking violet, but our sons have been Alan Stibbs (Christian Focus Publications, 2008) is a delighted by the vivid storytelling and beautiful illustra - great resource for both laity and clergy alike. tions in two distinctly robust recent works. Brother Hugo The Very Rev. Andrew Pearson is dean of the Cathedral and the Bear (Eerdmans, 2014) by Katy Beebe derives Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.
18 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 Phoebe Pettingell sometimes soaring melody — the propulsion of hope. What For the poetry lover, liturgist, or anyone needs to burnish the sea - anyone who appreciates “the beauty son’s darkening hours. of holiness,” Malcolm Guite’s The Rev. Ephraim Radner is pro - Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Son - fessor of historical theology at nets for the Christian Year (Canter - Wycliffe College, University of bury Press, 2012) will make a per - Toronto. fect stocking-stuffer. Evoking such poets as George Herbert, John David M. Reed Donne, and John Keble, Guite nonetheless manages to sound con - For those who may need to come at the abiding beauty temporary as well as traditional. and truth of the Incarnation indirectly, and sometimes These sonnets for the liturgical seasons and holy days surprisingly, in order to pay attention, watch, and wait in are profound and witty — a feast for the senses. hope: Phoebe Pettingell is the sacristan at S. Stephen’s Church in • The play Jacob Marley’s Christ - Providence. mas Carol by Tom Mula is available as a book, but if you can find it in au - David Pitts dio, grab it. National Public Radio offers a free report from 1998 Here are a few suggested books, a (n.pr/2g5LINK). bit diverse by title. Each is thought- • Skipping Christmas by John Gr - provoking and worthwhile: isham: read the book, avoid the • Pope Francis’ Revolution of Ten - movie. derness and Love: Theological and • Home for Christmas: Stories for Pastoral Perspectives by Cardinal Young and Old is a wonderful mix of well-known and lit - Walter Kasper (Paulist, 2015) tle-known authors. • Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars The Rt. Rev. David M. Reed is Bishop Coadjutor of West Taught Me about America’s Prison Crisis by Jeff Smith, Texas. former state senator in Missouri (St. Martin’s, 2015) • I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Michael Root Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda with Liz Welch (Little, Brown, 2015) I suggest Jospeh Haydn: The • Called!: Memoirs of a Black Priest by the Rev. Richard Complete Masses and Stabat Cornish Martin (Chapel Hill Press, 2016) Mater , conducted by John Eliot David R. Pitts is the founder of Pitts Management Asso - Gardiner, George Guest, and Si - ciates, Inc. in Baton Rouge. mon Preston (Decca Collectors Edition, 2015). Haydn’s Masses Ephraim Radner are not as well-known as the religious music of Bach or Handel, but beneath their polished exterior there is great There is more “new” old music available today than ever depth and wonderful music. These excellent perform - before: rediscovered, restored, rehearsed, and played. Not ances show the growth of Haydn’s endless creativity, cul - every contemporary of Bach and Georg Philipp Tele - minating in the great Masses of his maturity. Music-lov - mann is a genius pining in the shadows of the masters. ing friends may very well not know these works; giving Christoph Graupner, however, is surely one. Among the them the opportunity to hear them is a gift! 1,000-plus surviving cantatas from his career in Hesse- Michael Root is ordinary professor of systematic theol - Darmstadt, try the Advent Cantatas and Christmas Or - ogy and historical/systematic theology area director at atorio on German Baroque Sacred Music (Ricercar). Ea - the Catholic University of America. ger brass and winds, straining, liberated, swelling, and (Continued on next page)
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Tuesday Rupp and multi-layered themes of The Divine Comedy . How Dante Can The Pacific Northwest is known Save Your Life: The Life-Changing for its rain forests, valleys rich Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem with hops and grapes, and prox - (Regan Arts, 2015) is at once a memoir and a commen - imity to mountain peaks and tary. Rod Dreher awakens in middle age to unexpected moody beaches. In recent years, health problems and unresolved family dysfunction, a it is also the home to a vibrant story he shares with tenderness and brutal honesty and early-music community. The one that ends hopefully in his surprising journey women’s vocal ensemble In through Dante’s epic poem. Mulieribus (Latin for amongst women ) is one of Port - The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill is rector of St. George’s Church, land’s best-loved treasures. IM (as the group is known by Nashville. ardent fans) focuses primarily on music written before 1750 with a blend of crystalline voices supported by a Ed Thornton rich alto foundation. A December Feast (CD Baby, 2010) brings to life music for the many lesser feasts that Trollope fans might appreciate re - brighten the weeks of Advent, sure to please music lovers ceiving Acts and Omissions by on your list. Catherine Fox (SPCK, 2014), a The Rev. Tuesday Rupp is associate rector for Christian warts-and-all portrayal of the formation and arts ministry at Church of the Heavenly Church of England. Set in the fic - Rest in Manhattan. tional Diocese of Lidchester, the novel follows a cast of colorful Grace Sears characters — bishops, deans, priests — as they battle with personal and ecclesiastical difficulties. The satire is The Summer Before the War (Ran - biting and hilarious (and the language often colorful). dom House, 2016), Helen Simon - But the book is not cynical: in the midst of diocesan son’s beautifully written second strife, we are given glimpses of real faith. novel, builds, as the reader knows Ed Thornton is assistant editor at Church Times . it must, toward terrible choices and loss. The heroine, Beatrice Nash, Erin Jean Warde has come to Rye village in 1914 to teach Latin. Determined to main - One of the ways I have chosen to tain her independence, sensitive to work out my neuroses about every tone of condescension, she time is through an obsession must navigate the village’s labyrinth of prejudice and with planners. I’ve used many class. Her sense of what is fair and right turns out most planners, each of which prom - often to be reached, if at all, by indirection and compro - ised to keep me up to speed with mise. Yet she finds allies, friendship, and love as the so - a world that ties my productivity to my worth. In the cial boundaries of the village collapse at the onset of margins of my to-do list, I penciled in time for prayer. war. Then, I found the Sacred Ordinary Days Liturgical Day Grace Sears is vice president of the board of the Living Planner (sacredordinarydays.com). This planner offers Church Foundation and past president of the Order of the space to record appointments, but it first provides the Daughters of the King. daily office lectionary Scriptures for each day. Sacred Ordinary Days reminds of me of what I already believe: R. Leigh Spruill that even the mundane appointments of my life are transformed by God into opportunities for new life, like Just as the poet Dante needed a companion to guide bread into body and wine into blood. him through the dark woods of midlife, many of us re - The Rev. Erin Jean Warde is associate rector for Christian quire a companion guide to navigate the major figures formation at Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas.
20 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 O God, who has caused this holy night to shine with the illumination of the true Light: Grant us, we beseech thee, that as we have known the mystery of that Light upon earth, so may we perfectly enjoy him in heaven. —1979 BCP, p. 161 BOOKS
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By Richard J. Mammana
he Church of Nigeria is one of the largest and most influential Tcomponents of the Anglican world. With more than 120 dioceses in Nigeria and a strong presence in dias - pora, this church traces its roots to the life and ministry of one man: Samuel Ajayi Crowther. He was born on an unknown date in Yorubaland, now part of southwestern Nigeria. (Nigeria was unified as a British colony in 1912-14; it became an independent country in 1960.) The first verifiable date in Crowther’s life is his release from slav - ery in 1822. We know from autobio - graphical accounts that about two years earlier he had been taken captive during a raid on his village by Muslim traders, and that he had been sold in slavery at least six times. The young Ajayi’s final owners were Portuguese slave-traders who intended to sell him in South America or elsewhere in Por - tugal’s worldwide empire. He was freed when a British anti-slavery patrol based in Sierra Leone boarded a Por - tuguese ship, his welfare undertaken thereafter by English philanthropists. Ajayi learned English quickly as a student in the Church Missionary So - ciety (CMS) mission at Freetown; one account notes that he was fluent enough to read the Bible within six months. He was baptized in 1825, and took the name of Samuel Crowther, a Alchetron photo prominent English priest who served Crowther studied at the Church Missionary Society training college in London, and returned to Freetown on the Church Missionary Society’s as a lay teacher in 1827. home committee. The next year, he studied at the CMS can priest. That distinction goes to the lished hymns, grammars, and transla - training college in London, and re - Ghanaian Philip Quaque (1741-1816), tions of the Book of Common Prayer turned to Freetown as a lay teacher in who was ordained in 1765 for work at into West African languages. 1827. Crowther served as a lay mis - Cape Coast. The final, sometimes troubled, sionary, educator, and translator from In the end, Crowther served as a chapters of Crowther’s life begin with this time until his ordination in 1843. missionary of the CMS for nearly all his consecration as Bishop of the Niger He was not, as many accounts say, the his adult life. In addition to his exten - in 1864 during a crucial period of Eng - first African to be ordained an Angli - sive work as a Bible translator, he pub - (Continued on page 26 )
24 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 Samuel Crowther’s Wisdom On being freed from slavery
From a letter of Samuel Crowther, Sept. 3, 1841, pp. 5-6
I was sold to the Portuguese, at whose first touch I almost trembled to death. Being embarked from the town in canoes in an evening about seven o’clock, to be shipped early the next day, we gave ourselves up totally for lost. We could not tell where our miseries would end, especially as we thought there was no safety in the land nor on the sea, particularly at sea. … In the morning, contrary to our prejudices against the English, we were all ordered up on deck and were surprised when our masters were found in irons and all their slaves were at liberty. As hunger rendered us bold, and we were not threatened at our approaching the coconuts and other fruit on the quarterdeck, we soon fell to devour up everything edible that we could get at to satisfy the cravings of hunger. We then began to entertain good opinions of our new conquerors. After breakfast all the slaves were divided between two other brigs which were lying alongside of us. We six boys had the luck of being taken into the Myrmidon where we were very kindly treated. The number of all the slaves was I think 189, out of whom 102 perished in the sea. When we were landed at Sierra Leone, we were placed in a school under the care of the Church Missionary Society. There I was taught to read the Word of God which is able to make all men wise unto salvation. … It pleased the Lord to open my heart like that of Lydia. I attended unto those things which were spoken of by his servants, and according to my desire, I was admitted into the visible Church of Christ here on earth as a soldier to fight manfully under his ban - ner against our spiritual enemies — the world, the flesh and the devil. On missionary relations with native religions and Islam
From Samuel Crowther, The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger (London: Church Missionary House, 1859), pp. 237-239
Had we been obstinate [in opposing native religions] Christian Missionaries would long ago have been turned out of the country, the converts put to death, and the country would have been long barred against the message of salvation. But what is the result of the caution and prudence exercised? The whole country is opened to us, stations are occupied in different directions, churches are built, congregations are collected, and converts are numbered by hundreds: and yet we do not make the least compromise. … With the [Mus - lims] of this country cannot a like course be tried? They have great respect for the books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms, and, to some extent for the Gospel of Christ also, all of which they know mostly by name. If they be quietly referred to, these books, the Law of Moses, the Prophets, the Psalms, and the Gospel in all things concerning Christ Himself, we may thus have opportunity of bringing before their minds the wholesome substance of those blessed books. Our undue rashness in quarrelling with, and our untimely exposure of [Islam], can do no good; but may irritate, and prove most injurious to the heathen population under that government with whom we have more directly to do. — They are perishing for want of the spiritual food of the Gospel. To have the bread and water of life taken away from them by our being turned out of the country in defense of [Islam], through an injudicious action, would be to them the greatest injury possible. It should also be remembered that God, who has permitted the religion of Mohammed to remain so long, and to overspread the earth, can easily remove it when He pleases, without violence or rash proceedings on our part: the united fervent prayers of the Church, for whose correction perhaps God has permitted this reli - gion to stand so long, may at last prevail. May it please Him to fulfill the promise made concerning His Son, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
December 25, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 25 Samuel Ajayi Crowther
(Continued from previous page) land’s imperial activity in western the time of his death his contempo - Africa. The Niger Mission was an in - raries understood the significance of novation for Anglican evangelism in his ministry. The epitaph on the its placement of Africans in most ma - bishop’s plain tombstone quotes jor positions of leadership, from the Matthew 25:21: “Well done, thou good episcopate through administrators and and faithful servant. Enter thou into catechists. This was primarily because the joy of thy Lord.” of the influence of Henry Venn (1796- The Episcopal Church commemo - rates the life of Samuel Ajayi Crowther on December 31 in Holy Women, Holy So damaging was the extent Men , alongside similar commemora - tions in other Anglican provinces, and of London-based objection there has been a gradual development of new understandings of Crowther’s to indigenous African life and work. By 2014, Archbishop leadership that the Niger Justin Welby preached at “A Service of National Portrait Gallery of Nigeria Thanksgiving and Repentance” on the Crowther served as a missionary of the CMS Mission would be 150th anniversary of Crowther’s con - for nearly all his adult life. secration, noting the reason for the ti - dominated by British clergy tle of the liturgy: fortunately dated — but in its time very and administrators for the “Thanksgiving for the extraordinary popular — The Slave Boy Who Became life which we commemorate. Repen - Bishop of the Niger (1892), by Jesse half-century following tance, shame, and sorrow for Angli - Page. It is available online with other Crowther’s death. cans who are reminded of the sin of material by and about Crowther at an - many of their ancestors. We in the glicanhistory.org/africa/ng. A more re - Church of England need to say sorry cent biography, Jeanne Decorvet’s that someone was properly and rightly Samuel Ajayi Crowther: Un Père de 1873), one of the most forward-think - consecrated Bishop and then betrayed l’Église en Afrique Noire (Paris: Le Cerf, ing mission strategists of his time, who and let down and undermined. It was 1992), is available only in French. argued that Christian missions should wrong.” be self-supporting, self-governing, and Richard J. Mammana is the archivist of “self-extending.” For further reading the Living Church Foundation and a Following Venn’s death, Crowther The most substantial English-language parishioner and vestry member at Trin - lost an important advocate in London, biography of Crowther is still the un - ity Church in New Haven, Connecticut. and English organizational control of his work on the Niger increased markedly. Crowther also faced more indigenous opposition to his mission - ary work as the Niger Mission became more successful, and as English re - gional interests diverged along politi - cal, economic, and missionary lines. So damaging was the extent of London- based objection to Crowther’s leader - ship — to indigenous African leader - ship — that the Niger Mission would be dominated by British clergy and ad - ministrators for the half-century fol - lowing Crowther’s death in 1891. Notwithstanding the overwhelm - ingly difficult personal situation of
Bishop Crowther in the intertwining The Black Bishop Vintage photo currents of European colonization, The Niger Mission was an innovation for Anglican evangelism in its placement of Africans in missiology, racism, and economics, at most major positions of leadership.
26 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 CATHOLIC VOICES
Freedom to Serve As Episcopal congregations meet the needs they know best, the church center can lighten its pressures.
By Sandy Webb building. A decade later, she received ration of staff do they need to do it? the very first blessing I gave as a newly Not every churchwide problem came of age at the Episcopal ordained priest. needs to be addressed by church center Church Center, first as an intern Things began to change when Gen - staff. The principle of subsidiarity ap - Iand later as full-time staff, and my eral Convention met in 2009, just a plies: The denominational staff should heart breaks to know of the difficulties year into the Great Recession. Millions do only those things that cannot be at 815 Second Avenue. When the Ex - of dollars had evaporated from the done effectively by dioceses and ecutive Council and the church center churchwide budget. The General Con - parishes. Mission, formation, and staff met in October to discuss a new vention eliminated many staff posi - evangelism are the responsibility of the course, I began to wonder: How did tions at the church center, reduced Episcopal Church’s 6,500 congrega - we get here? every department’s resources, and al - tions and 1.8 million baptized mem - My first reaction was to blame the bers. staff. Some of the good people at 815 Creative, engaged congregations are made some poor choices in the last the future of the Episcopal Church. several years, the details of which are When Presiding Bishop Arthur Licht - rightly kept private, but the conse - enberger dedicated the church center quences of which are very public. The in 1962, America’s population was spirit of mistrust and resentment de - booming, the church was expanding, scribed in news reports has not always and technology was limited. It made characterized our headquarters. sense then to have a large staff working My time at the Episcopal Church out of a prominent headquarters, but Center began just off the lobby, in the that approach makes less sense today. Chapel of Christ the Lord. I was a 20- After meeting with Executive Coun - year-old summer intern in a dark suit, cil, each church center employee com - shaking with nervousness. Across the mitted to making one behavioral aisle was the 25th presiding bishop, en - The Chapel of Christ the Lord, on the ground change. Those of us in the field need to tirely at ease in a pair of jeans and a floor of the Episcopal Church Center. do the same. We owe our denomina - purple polo shirt. Bishop Frank Gris - tional staff a set of clear and thoughtful wold was at the top of the hierarchy, lowed several officers to work re - expectations for this era, and an effi - and I was at the bottom. He was a few motely. What the General Convention cient budget to accomplish them. Then years away from retirement, and I had did not do was reduce the work. we need to move as much of our hu - not yet finished college. We were sepa - General Convention asked church man talent and financial resources out rated by more than just an aisle, until center employees to do more with less, of the central office and back into our he reached across it. and reduced their opportunity to be in congregations, where it will be most My memories of the church center relationship with one another. We effective. are defined by good people like that: A should not be surprised that conflict The inscription on the church cen - staff bishop who always had jelly beans emerged. Episcopalians in leadership ter’s dedication plaque inspires me every to share, lobbyists who made pancakes roles share responsibility for this cul - day: “Whose service is perfect freedom.” for their interns, a maintenance super - tural shift, and we share responsibility Christ’s service belongs to us all. visor who decorated his basement of - for addressing it. We need to reach fice with cast-off furniture and acces - across the divide that we played a role The Rev. Sandy Webb, rector of Church sories from upstairs office makeovers. in creating. This begins with answering of the Holy Communion in Memphis, One administrative assistant gave me a a deceptively simple question: What previously served in the General Con - tour of the church center and intro - does the Episcopal Church need its vention Office and the Office of Gov - duced me to almost everyone in the church center to do, and what configu - ernment Relations.
December 25, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 27 Caeli enarrant The heavens declare the glory of God Visitation, Nativity
For Emily and Audra way Luke sets the stage for the next scene, centered on the Lord God’s own coming “to visit us in great hu - isitation, as a divine act, in several scenes. First, mility” (Collect for Advent 1), as the very type of visi - a miraculously expectant Mary hastens to Eliz - tation, communion, and mission. Vabeth, herself wonderfully pregnant and “filled We meditate on movements of people and of God with the Holy Spirit.” Elizabeth, St. Luke says, cries out because we all meet on the divinely given road, as so - with a loud voice: “Blessed are you among women, and journers in the school of divine wisdom. The God- blessed is the fruit of your womb.” And her prophecy Man himself appears there, walking alongside to ex - continues: “Why has this happened to me, that the plain patiently, and he comes inside when we insist he mother of my Lord comes to me? For as soon as I “stay with us,” whereupon our eyes are opened in heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my recognition (Luke 24:29). Indeed, to visit ( visitare ) womb leaped for joy” (Luke 1:42-44). We may not someone or something is to go and see ( visere ; videre ), think of this as a meeting of four persons — Elizabeth which is spiritually significant. At the Lord’s visitation, and Mary and their unborn sons, the incipient Baptist we exclaim, Look, here is the Lamb of God! (John 1:36) and Messiah — but it was: a certifiable quorum of because we know not only “what we have heard,” as world-formative concourse. Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, but also and espe - Mary responds in the words of the greatest hymn cially “what we have looked at and touched with our and memoir of the Church, the Magnificat, spoken hands concerning the word of life” — which life , John (or sung?) from a personalist perspective: “My soul emphasizes, “was revealed, and we have seen it and magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was Savior.” To repeat her words is to make her story our with the Father and was revealed to us: we declare to own, as Christians, East and West, have done in the you what we have seen and heard so that you also may Daily Office since St. Benedict. The hymn is ecclesial have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is because it gathers together “all generations,” inscrib - with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. We are ing the faithfulness of God, his favor, might, holiness, writing these things so that our joy may be complete” and mercy, as gifts given to “those who fear him,” (1 John 1:1-4). notwithstanding considerable odds and opposition This joyful fellowship of communion with God and from the proud, the powerful, and the rich (Luke with one another must, because we are wayfarers, begin 1:46-53). And it ascends to the figure of divine peo - in transitory stations and impromptu get-togethers. The plehood, in which Jews and Christians gratefully share Lord finds us and we follow, having long since been together, as a mystery of grace and election: “He re - looking. He sees us sitting under the fig tree. We want to membering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel, know more — for instance, “Where are you staying?” as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his That is, May we visit you? His reply is gracious: “Come seed for ever” (1979 BCP, p. 50). Mary grasps the his - and see.” So “they came and saw where he was staying, torical significance of the events at hand, and in this and they remained with him that day” (John 1:38-39).
28 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 11, 2016 Within these figures lie all the signs of sacramental times, and all the more re-birth by “water and Spirit” encounter, hospitality, and homecoming, on the way to (John 3:5). In Matthew’s agonized account of the Na - “greater things,” like seeing “heaven opened and the tivity, King Herod looms as the “frightened” pretender angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son who would bend the wise men to his will (Matt. 2:3). of Man” (John 1:50-51). When they disregard his instructions, leaving “for their own country by another road,” he flies into a † † † murderous massacre of “all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under” (2:16), f course, St. Luke provides a second gospel canti - commemorated as the Feast of the Holy Innocents or Ocle in his first chapter, Zechariah’s Benedictus, Childermas . Set within the octave of Christmas along - writ as a foretaste of the messianic pledge by dint of side the feasts of St. Stephen, Protomartyr, and St. John the amazing events unfolding before the Evangelist, the Church shows us his eyes. His son, John, is born and what it means to love our own in the needs a name, upon the giving of To go and see world to the end (see 20:22; cf. John which Zechariah’s tongue is loosed him, to live anew 13:1). That is, we recall that Christ to praise God: “Blessed be the Lord came — as he comes — “to what was God of Israel, for he has looked fa - in him, is to his own, and his own people did not vorably on his people and redeemed accept him. But to all who received them.” As God looks, so he comes, testify with John him, who believed in his name, he as “a mighty savior for us in the that the Bride - gave power to become children of house of his servant David,” as God, who were born, not of blood “promised to our ancestors.” John, groom came or of the will of the flesh or of the for his part, “will be called the will of man, but of God” (John 1:11- prophet of the Most High; for [he] before us, and to 13). will go before the Lord to prepare To be born, therefore, of God, af - his ways” (Luke 1:68-69, 72, 76). The “rejoice greatly.” ter the pattern of God’s own birth: inevitability of pilgrimage converges obedient, alert, courageous. For “the with the fulfillment of the hopes of many generations, Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have borne faithfully by God’s people and now manifest in seen his glory” (John 1:14). To go and see him, to live the birth of children whose own itinerancy will reveal anew in him, is to testify with John that the Bride - the difficult way of salvation for all peoples and na - groom came before us, and to “rejoice greatly” in his tions. “For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that voice as itself a fulfillment. “He must increase, but I leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matt. must decrease” (3:29-30). 7:14). Almighty God, give me grace that I may cast away the How else to understand the child John’s growing works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in “strong in spirit … in the wilderness until the day he the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ appeared publicly to Israel” (Luke 1:80) set alongside a came to visit me in great humility. Be born anew in me proposed registration of “the world,” which occasions this day. And give me the courage to walk before thee in the transit of the Holy Family to Bethlehem (2:1)? holiness and righteousness all the days of my life. Amen. Birth, as we know, is dicey business in the best of Christopher Wells
December 11, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 29 PEOPLE & PLACES LETTERS Appointments Donald James Allison is chancellor of the Read the Gospels Diocese of Western Massachusetts, 37 Chestnut St., Springfield, MA 01103. In TLC’s review of the presidential The Rev. Christian Baron and the Rev. Jodi campaign [Nov. 27], the dean and Baron are co-rectors of St. Philip’s, 785 Beulah president of Virginia Theological Hwy. (P.O. Box 26), Beulah, MI 49617. Seminary concentrated on The Rev. Phyllis Mahilani Beimes is vicar of St. Matthew’s, 41-054 Ehukai (P.O. Box 70), economic issues, suggesting the Waimanalo, Oahu, HI 96795. need for a reassessment of the neo- The Rev. Dane E. Boston is rector of Christ liberal capitalism of the Western Perhaps I should have suggested Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. democracies and advocating a look that we all look afresh at Marx’s The Rev. Richard Anthony Chandler is rec - back to Karl Marx’s Das Kapital . Economic and Philosophic tor of St. Anne’s, 9870 W. Fort Island Trl., Crys - tal River, FL 34429. Dean Ian Markham’s Manuscripts of 1844 . Marx is right The Rev. Colin M. Chapman is rector of St. recommendation ignores not only in this respect: human lives need Peter’s, 3 Peabody Row, Londonderry, NH the imploding of Marxist meaning. I suspect that on this 03053. economies a quarter-century ago, point we could agree. The Rev. Timothy Cole is rector of Christ but, far more fundamentally, the Church, Georgetown, 31st and O Sts. NW, Washington, DC 20007. underlying issues of family, faith, The Rev. Carolyn Coleman is rector of St. and culture as key factors in the Revising the Prayer Book David’s, 6501 Pennywell Dr., Nashville, TN difficulties facing many Americans 37205. that J.D. Vance described in his Are we talking about a new Book The Rev. Bruce DeGooyer is vicar of Trinity recent book, Hillbilly Elegy . of Common Prayer or a new CD of By-the-Sea, 100 Kulanihakoi St., Kihei HI 96753. For addressing these issues, Common Prayer? As a speaker for The Rev. J. Gary Eichelberger is rector of St. arguably more useful than Marx Food for the Poor, I have visited at Andrew’s, 1002 S. Main St., Greenville, SC might be Matthew, Mark, Luke, least 200 Episcopal congregations 29036. and John. Many Christians in across the United States, and only a The Rev. Sabeth Fitzgibbons is priest-in- many ages have relied on family, handful used the “new prayer charge of Emmanuel, 4400 86th Ave. SE, Mer - cer Island, WA 98040. faith, and culture to overcome book.” The Rev. Ashley Freeman is rector of St. economic conditions even worse Oh, they were in the book racks, Patrick’s, 1322 Church St., Zachary, LA 70791. than those currently existing in but the liturgy was most often in The Rev. Rich Frontjes is priest-in-charge of this country. Hopefully, the an “easy to follow” service leaflet, Redeemer, 40 Center St., Elgin, IL 60120. potential contribution of the which included prayers, lessons, Christopher L. Gunnin is head of school at St. Stephen’s, 6500 St. Stephen’s Dr., Austin, TX Christian community in and hymns. In many cases 78746. addressing the challenges facing “adjustments” to the liturgy The Rev. Jadon D. Hartsuff is rector of All our fellow Americans will be based approved by General Convention Souls, 2300 Cathedral Ave. NW, Washington, more on the Gospels than on the had been made by the parish DC 20008. prescriptions of a long-discredited priest. The Rev. Georgina Hegney is interim rector German intellectual. of Grace, 6 Elizabeth St., Utica, NY 13501. Coincidentally, the same mail The Rev. L. Reid Hensarling is rector of All Richard A. Best, Jr. that delivered a recent issue of TLC Saints’, 202 S. Massachusetts Ave., Lakeland, FL Washington, D.C. also delivered a long-lost copy of 33801. the “new” 1928 BCP, signed by The Rev. Nathan Huddleston is assistant Ian Markham replies: Bishop James P. DeWolfe of Long rector for youth ministry and outreach at Cal - I am grateful for Mr. Best’s contri - Island in 1943 on the occasion of vary, 31 Woodland Ave., Summit, NJ 07901. The Rev. Nicholas Hull is rector of Christ bution to this important debate. I my confirmation. Church, 311 E. Church St., Martinsville, VA concur with his insight that there Wow! What a different world 24112. is a cultural deprivation and that was and what a different Lillian Issa is head of school at St. Thomas, underlying alienation in certain Episcopal Church we attended. 5692 North Kendall Drive, Coral Gables, FL parts of America. I share this as the church 33156. The Rev. Gary Leon Jackson is rector of St. I use the word alienation grapples with the challenge of how Mark’s, 4 Church St., Cocoa, FL 32922. deliberately. Although Karl Marx to create a liturgy that will bring The Rev. Anne Jolly is rector of St. Gregory’s, got many things wrong, his church members and our Lord and 815 Wilmot Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015. concept of alienation or our God together for common Annie Knazs Jung is youth coordinator for estrangement is helpful. Many worship in the culture of the 21st the Diocese of Louisiana, 1623 7th St., New Or - leans, LA 70115. Americans are feeling used and century. The Rev. Canon George Iype Kavoor is rector even discarded by the forces of The Rev. Bob Libby of St. Paul’s, 471 Mansfield Ave., Darien, CT 06820. globalization that sweep the world. Key Biscayne, Florida The Rev. Melodie Kimball is rector of St.
30 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 Martin’s, 257 E. Milton St., Lebanon, OR 97355. Retirements The Rev. Kristin S. Krieger , Nov. 1 The Rev. Michael Kinman is rector of All The Rev. Frederick William Lantz , June 1 Saints, 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101. The Rev. Sue Duffield , as vicar of St. Eliza - The Rev. Gordon Lau , Nov. 9 The Rev. Matthew McCormick is rector of beth’s, Whiterocks, Utah The Rev. Fredric F. Leach , June 27 Messiah, 1631 Ford Pkwy., St Paul, MN 55116. The Rev. Peter T. Elvin , as rector of St. The Rev. Canon George Loeffler , Oct. 28 The Rev. Jesse Perkins is rector of St. John’s, Williamstown, MA The Rev. Deacon Michael D. Logan , July 24 Michael’s, 647 Dundee Ave., Barrington, IL The Rev. Karl Kern , as rector of St. Alban’s, The Rev. William Harrison Low , Sept. 19 60010. Sinking Spring, PA The Rev. Joel Lundak , Oct. 9 The Rev. J. Clay Riley is rector of All Angels, The Rev. Moni McIntyre , as rector of Holy The Rev. Richard E. Lundberg , Nov. 12 1044 N. 5th St., Spearfish, SD 57783. Cross, Homewood, PA The Rev. Nelson J. Lundberg III , Dec. 1 The Rev. James T. Said is rector of St. Au - The Ven. Dennis R. McManis , as archdea - The Rev. James Marshall , OSB, March 8 gustine’s, 3321 Wheeler Rd., Augusta, GA con of the Diocese of Southwest Florida The Rev. George Maxwell , Aug. 28 30909. The Rev. Canon James H. Pritchett, Jr. , as The Rev. Deacon Maureen May , March 17 The Rev. Wes Sharp is rector of Holy Cross, canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Western The Rt. Rev. Earl McArthur , July 17 90 Parkway Dr., Trussville, AL 35173. North Carolina The Rev. Deacon Dean McCoid , June 14 The Rev. Bruce M. Shipman is priest-in- The Rev. Vicente Santiago , as rector of Ad - The Rev. Donald W. Monson , June 5 charge of Holy Trinity, Crespo 211, Centro vent, Jeannette, PA, but continuing as priest- The Rev. Gene Moore-Haddock , Sept. 5 68000, Oaxaca, Mexico. in-charge Joan Moore (Sister Columba , SHN), Oct. 30 The Rev. Stephen Spicer is rector of Christ The Rev. Joseph I. Moore , July 14 Church, 304 E. Stockbridge St., Eagle Lake, TX Deaths The Rev. Canon Barbara Mudge , May 24 77434. The Rev. Deacon Eleanore Green Akina , The Rev. Canon JoAnn Munro , May 8 The Rev. Michael Radford Sullivan is pres - March 29 The Rev. Brian Murdoch , Oct. 16 ident of Kanuga Conferences, P.O. Box 250, The Rev. Stephen Ankudowich , Nov. 28 The Rev. Ezra Audain Naughton , Nov. 22 Hendersonville, NC 28793. JoAnn Roberts Armstead , Sept. 12 The Rev. Arthur Phillips Nazro, Jr. , July 10 The Rev. Andrew D’Angio White is rector of The Rev. DeLaney Armstead , May 14 Canon Ruth Nicastro , March 28 St. David’s, 138 York St., Kennebunk, ME The Rev. J. Stephen Barber , April 19 The Rev. James Parker , May 11 04043. The Rev. Donald S. Barrus , April 15 The Rev. Ingram Cannon Parmley , June 22 The Rev. Eric Williams is priest-in-charge of The Rev. Philip R. Baxter , June 14 The Rev. George Hunt Peacock , MD, July 5 St. Philip’s, 100 Romeo St., Rochester, MI 48307. The Rev. Kenneth Garret Beason , Oct. 11 The Rev. Richard William Pfaff , July 10 The Rev. Elsa H. Worth is rector of St. The Ven. Thomas E. Benson , Nov. 13 The Ven. Richard Ormonde Plater , August 6 James, 44 West St., Keene, NH 03431. The Rev. James C. Blackburn , May 28 The Rev. Dennis Charles Pressley, Jr. , July 9 The Rev. Todd Young is rector of St. John’s, The Rev. Floyd William Brewer , Dec. 2 The Rev. John Wilfred Riegel , Oct. 24 101 S. Prospect St., Hagerstown, MD 21740. The Rev. Merril Broach , July 22 The Rev. Canon A. Robert Rizner , July 17 The Rev. Jim Zotalis is priest-in-charge at St. The Rev. Allen Webster Brown, Jr. , March 26 The Rev. Ed Rose , Sept. 30 Peter’s, 1101 NE First St. (P.O. Box 205), Kasson The Rev. Percival Brown , June 24 The Rev. Deacon Roland Rose , July 9 MN 55944. The Rev. Raymond E. Buntaine , Dec. 5 The Rev. John Samuel Ruef , Oct. 31 The Rev. Walter Carlson , Nov. 6 The Rev. Tom Ryan , Sept. 8 Ordinations The Rev. Charles A. Carter III , Oct. 31 The Rev. Paulette Schiff , Sept. 17 The Rev. Kenneth Semon , July 28 Deacons The Rev. Paul Coleman Cochran , Oct. 14 The Rev. Canon Frank N. Cohoon , May 25 The Rev. Deacon Virginia Sharpe , Oct. 31 Central Gulf Coast — Michael Patrick The Rev. William Marsden Cowans , Nov. 3 The Rev. John G. Shoemaker , July 29 Dickey , Curtis Albert Kennington , and Mary The Rev. David Damon , March 22 The Rev. Wayne Sistruck , June 14 Elizabeth Payne-Hardin The Rev. Ballard Dorsee , March 28 The Rev. Hilary Jerome J. Smits , May 5 Michigan — Carolynn Elayne Johnson and The Rev. Lester Earle Durst , June 22 The Rev. Al Snyder , Aug. 17 Teresa Mary Wakeen The Rev. Charles Carroll Eads , Sept. 17 The Rev. Oscar Frederick Sodergren , Sept. 16 Northwest Texas — Claire Templin Makins The Rev. Dwight W. Edwards , Nov. 24 The Rev. Warren Spanutius , Sept. 3 Pittsburgh — Douglas Andrew Kinsey The Rev. John Howard Evans , May 31 The Rev. Arthur “Jim” Spencer , Sept. 10 Southeast Florida — Sheila Acevedo , The Rev. Paul Dunbar Felton , June 19 The Rev. Deacon Sarah E. Standiford , April 17 Michael Sahdev , and James Teets The Rev. Michael B. Ferguson , June 12 The Rev. William Henry Strain , Nov. 9 Southwest Florida — Jonathan William The Ven. William H. Fineout , June 14 The Rev. Robert Morgan Tarbet, Jr. , April 21 Evans , Robert Paul Kinney , Vickie Lynn Mc - The Rev. Everett W. Francis , March 19 The Very Rev. Charles G. Taylor , May 16 Donald , and Kathleen Mary Moore The Rev. Joan P. Grimm Fraser , May 23 The Rev. Frederick S. Thomas, Jr. , May 26 Texas — Aston Brown The Rev. Floyd “Butch” Naters Gamarra , The Rev. Richard D. Thomson , July 18 May 16 The Rev. Peter Knight Turner , June 11 Priests The Rev. Gary W. Goldacker , Oct. 25 The Rev. Paul R. Umberger III , May 3 California — Anna Horen , Christian The Rev. Nellie Greene , Aug. 6 The Rev. Lincoln Richard Ure III , June 10 Lehrer , Stephen Smith , Brendan Williams , The Rev. Frank E. Greene , March 28 The Rev. Jack B. Van Hooser , May 22 and Charlotte Wilson The Rev. John Howard Guenther , July 4 The Rev. Donald Wanstall , Aug. 22nd Dallas — Jacob Bottom and Andy Johnson The Rev. David Fyodor Gurniak , April 4 The Rev. Edward Snowden Warfield, Jr. , Georgia — Donald K. Holland , Thomas P. The Rev. K. Brewster Hastings , Oct. 27 March 18 Townsend III , Luke Wetzel , and Ray Whiting The Rev. William P. Haugaard , July 30 The Very Rev. Gustave J. Weltsek, Jr. , May 18 Michigan — Paul Castelli , Daniel Lawson , The Rev. Peggy Hays , Aug. 14 The Rev. English Hopkins Weston , June 24 James Pashturro, Imogen Rhodenhiser , Ju - The Rev. John Richard Keith Hudson , May 8 The Rev. John Herbert Widdows , Sept. 25 dith Schellhammer , and Scott Steiner The Rev. Doug Hutchings , Nov. 16 The Rev. David Alexander Williams , March 6 North Carolina — Amanda Stephenson The Rev. Peter Hiroshi Igarashi , April 15 Sister Kathleen Marie Wilson , SHN, Sept. 24 Southwestern Virginia — Boyd Mc - The Rev. Barney Jackson , May 2 The Rev. Richard Winn , August 4 Cutchen Evans III , for the Diocese of East Ten - The Rev. Julius W.D. Jackson , Oct. 17 The Rev. Deacon Raymond Douglas nessee The Rev. Ralph Johnson , Oct. 6 Wishart , Aug. 22 Springfield — Zach Brooks and Matthew The Rev. Deacon Kate S. Knapp , Sept. 16 The Rev. Charles Amos Wood , March 12 Dallman The Rev. Raymond Paul Kress , Aug. 30 The Rev. Wes Wubbenhorst , March 15
December 25, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 31 SUNDAY’S READINGS | Christmas, December 25 Isa. 9:2-7 • Ps. 96 • Titus 2:11-14 • Luke 2:1-14 (15-20) The Child h is is the day that the LORD has rests in the bosom of the Father, and he “T made; let us rejoice and be glad rests too in the center of every wel - in it” (Ps. 118:24). This is the dawn of a coming soul. great light casting out all darkness, a And he is put on the earth whose light shining upon all nations and peo - foundation he is, for he called all things ple, all tribes and races. Joy has in - into being. So, the heavens are glad, creased. A child is born. A Son is given. the earth rejoices, the seas roar and all Finally and forever, the Prince of Peace that is in them, the fields exalt, the has gained a foothold. trees tremor in witness to his coming But look! There is no place for the (Ps. 96:11-12). There is “a multitude of child, for his mother, for his adoptive the heavenly host, praising God and father (Luke 2:7). Foxes have holes and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest the birds of the air have nests, but the heaven, and on earth peace among infant of peace is placed in a feeding those whom he favors’” (Luke 2:13-14). trough amid the cold night air. Creation groans for redemption, wit - Demons and dictators threaten, but nessing to its redeemer. Christ prevails, wrapped in the bands Can a child’s story be true? Will a of his mother’s love and protected by a child lead them? Mary treasured all secret and powerful providence. This these words and pondered them in her tiny infant, this frail being, is an image heart. “God chose what is foolish, what of the invisible God. God has come is weak, what is low and despised, down to be among us. He who is in the things that are not” (1 Cor. 1:27-28). bosom of the Father is now in the belly She pondered the lowliness of her es - of the world (John 1:18). tate, a handmaid of the Lord. In time, His time will be filled with trial and we will each feel our folly, reckon with sorrow. He will carry the yoke of every our weakness, feel cast away and for - burden crushing the oppressed, a beam gotten. The Christian gospel is a lowly across his shoulders. He will feel the Christ in the midst of human lowli - sting of the rod (Isa. 9:4). He will be ness. broken, wounded, cut off, accursed, Only by going to such depths of love and given to the elements and wild can God show that he gave his Son for beasts, and yet — and yet — invisible the life of the entire world, a love angels will minister to him, and he will poured out like the waters that cover pour out healing and hope, forgive - the sea. ness, and the promise of a new being. The story is over. The story is old. It happened so long ago. Look It Up Jesus, who is in the bosom of the Fa - Read Isa. 9:5. The Prince of Peace is ther, has revealed/explained/made the end of war. known (John 1:18). Translators supply the object: “he has made God known.” Think About It “In the beginning was the Word, and Eye hath seen, and yet not seen. the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). The infant Jesus is a revelation of the Father. To use creedal language, he is truly God and truly human, and so there is no end to what may be said of him, no end to the praise justly given to him. There was not when he was not, which is an old way of saying the story is always new. In every moment of every day, Jesus
32 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 SUNDAY’S READINGS | The Holy Name, January 1 Num. 6:22-27 • Ps. 8 • Gal. 4:4-7 or Phil. 2:5-11 • Luke 2:15-21 Go Up with God he mind goes up to high places the avenger: sin, the flesh, and the Twhere the earth’s crust bends to - devil. So, think less, for a moment, of ward heaven. It beholds majesty on going up, though the call is true. Have earth and glory above the heavens (Ps. this lowly mind that was in Christ Je - 8:1). Infants and babes know the lan - sus. Though equal to God, he humbled guage of this ascent, wordless sounds himself, taking the form of a servant, fit for the majesty and glory of the suffering death, even the curse of a Most High God, sighs too deep for bloody and cruel rejection on the hard words and too strong for foes (Rom. wood of the cross. Only because he 8:26; Ps. 8:2). Unless you become like a went, in the power of his eternal life, to child, like an infant, you will never see the depth of a human hell, broke the Word and Truth or enter into the kingdom of God, chains of the ancient captives, bound St. Paul enjoins St. Timothy to “study whose very name cannot be named. the strong man, and rose again, every to show thyself approved unto God, a God is the silent ground, the Word be - human being and all creation may be workman that needeth not to be fore speech, love’s voiceless return. alive in him in whom all the fullness of ashamed, rightly dividing the word of The mind’s eye looks up: “When I God dwells. truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). look at your heavens, the work of your The highest God has gone to the gal - e people of St. Timothy’s Church fingers, / the moon and the stars you lows. “Therefore God also exalted him in Raleigh, North Carolina, take these have established; / what are human be - and gave him the name that is above words seriously and attempt as best ings that you are mindful of them, / every name, so that at the name of Je - mortals that you care for them?” (Ps. sus every knee should bend, in heaven they know how to fulfill this charge as a 8:3-5). and on earth and under the earth, and parish family and as individual Yet this human, a mere speck in a every tongue should confess that Jesus members of Christ’s body — by faithful vast ocean of created being, wants to Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the worship according to the Book of praise You (St. Augustine). A little Father” (Phil. 2:9-11). This genuflec - Common Prayer, reading and studying lower than angels, crowned with glory tion is the immediate result of Christ’s Holy Scripture, and taking part in the and honor, given mastery over the incarnation (on earth), his death and fellowship of the parish family. sheep and oxen, wild beasts, birds of descent among the dead (under the e church supports St. Timothy’s the air, fish of the sea, whatsoever walks earth), and his resurrection and ascen - School, founded in 1958 as the first in the paths of the sea: this human be - sion (in heaven). He has claimed and non-public day school to be accredited ing is given the task of humble and re - conquered in love what is rightly his by the Southern Association of Colleges sponsible dominion under the gaze of a own. and Schools. e school has earned an transcendent Sovereign (Ps. 8:5-9). In union with Christ, our ascent is indelible reputation for high academic God has done this. God has deigned assured; the feather is dry. Set your standards as well as Christian morals to put his image and likeness into the minds on things that are above; I lift up and values. clay and spirit of an earth creature. By my eyes to the hills. Grace has done God’s design and craft, human beings this. have the capacity to behold and imag - ine the world, and to give voice to every creature under heaven in praise and Look It Up wonder. Such contemplation is nearly Read Luke 2:19. A treasure to ponder. natural, the normal state of a soul at peace with God. “There is a good com - Think About It parison between the soul and a delicate The Name, the presence, is in all the little feather. If a feather has not been earth, under the earth, and in heaven. touched by damp, it is so light that the slightest breath of wind can puff it high St. Timothy’s Church into the air” (John Cassian, Conference IX). “But, in truth, the feather is damp, 4523 Six Forks Road something of which the silent ascetic is Raleigh, North Carolina 27609 fully aware.” 919.787.7590 We are weighted by the enemy and sttimothyschurch.org
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34 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 25, 2016 Making and Growing SUNDAY’S READINGS | 2 Epiphany, January 15 Disciples for Christ Isa. 49:1-7 • Ps. 40:1-12 • 1 Cor. 1:1-9 • John 1:29-49 Archbishop Justin Welby recently offered these wise words: “e best decision anyone can ever make, at any point in life, Where Christ Is in any circumstance, whoever they are, ohn comes and then Jesus comes, community is known, but rather with a wherever they are, Jalthough Jesus ranks ahead of him statement of gratitude for “the grace of is to become a and before him. First there is water God that has been given you in Christ disciple of Jesus baptism and then water, blood, and Jesus” (1 Cor. 1:4). They are enriched Christ.” is quote fire. Things change. A divine economy in every way, he says, in speech and fully sums up the is at work in the passage of times and knowledge, lacking in no spiritual gift. core mission of St. seasons. We wait patiently for the Lord, He concludes his salutation affirming Martin’s: to “make and then the Lord inclines (Ps. 40:1). that they “were called to the fellowship and grow disciples There is a season to wait and a season of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 of Christ.” to welcome the arrival. There is a sea - Cor. 1:9). Koinonia , the Greek word Carved into St. son for endings too. “A little while, and translated as fellowship , has long been Martin’s pulpit are you will no longer see me” (John acknowledged to carry deep meanings the words from 16:16). Does the pain of this pierce as it of mutual sharing, partnership, and to - Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, “for I should, the march of time to a bitter getherness in the life of Christ. Cap - resolved to know nothing while I was end, every love ending sometime, turing another aspect of this, the Vul - amongst you except Jesus Christ and him somewhere, every project shelved and gate tradition has used the word crucified” (2:2). forgotten? societas , suggesting a shared life in With more than 9,200 members and an The Son of Man has nowhere to lay Christ larger than any local commu - average of 18,000 events on our campus his head, and so, in union with him, we nity. Indeed, Paul addresses the saints every year, there is but one, major, over- wander as resident aliens (1 Peter in Corinth, “together will all those in arching goal: to make Jesus Christ known 2:11). We go from place to place, from every place” (1 Cor. 1:2). in such a way that visitors as well as one sorrow to another, and the pain The Church is the society where members come to embrace him as Lord can seem unbearable. Yet he who Christ is. “For where two or three are and Savior. deigned to become what we are lives gathered together in my name, there We are deeply committed to providing still in the bosom of the Father. Rejec - am I in the midst of them” (Matt. a wide array of opportunities for worship, tion and death and hell cannot make 18:20, KJV). These words bear repeat - discipleship, fellowship, service and him other than the still Word formed ing: “There am I.” To live in Christ is to outreach; but resting behind each of these in silence. He is where the Father is; feel and know something like the safety opportunities is a deep desire to connect and we, by grace and faith, may be and stability of a monastic enclosure all people with Jesus Christ. where the Son is, living in Christ with (The Rule of St. Benedict , Caput 4). We offer six worship services on God. Christ simply is. Sundays and three on Wednesdays, a Pointedly, Jesus asks, “What are you Yes, we feel at times as if we have cornucopia of Christian education looking for?” (John 1:38). As if an - fallen into a desolate pit and wallow in opportunities throughout the week, and swering for every human being, the a miry bog (Ps. 40:2), and it does not mission initiatives in greater Houston and first disciples form another question: harm faith to say so again and again. beyond our borders to Costa Rica, Bolivia, “Where are you staying?” Jesus calls Still, the rock upon which our feet are and Honduras. out, “Come and see.” What follows is set, the place where we remain, the We welcome all those who seek to the very heart of discipleship: “They presence that remains with us, is se - “know Christ and make him known.” remained with him that day” (John cure forevermore. Come join us! 1:39). With the Lord, one day is like a thousand years stretching out to the close of the age when Christ will burst Look It Up forth as the consummation and end of Read John 1:39. Give this time. all things. “Where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:3). This is what Jesus Think About It wants, sisters and brothers caught up Read Psalm 40:2. Feel the ground. into his life, so that they too live there, Steady yourself. Now walk. in the heart of the Father. This is a place to remain. Opening his epistle to the Church in St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Corinth, St. Paul begins not with a list 717 Sage Road, Houston, TX 77056 of the internal struggles for which this 713.621.3040 | stmartinsepiscopal.org
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