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1980 the Witness, Vol. 63, No. 4. April 1980 VOL. 63, NO. 4 APRIL, 1980 Black Church & Social Change William Howard Mattie Hopkins Cornel West publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright Lessons From Three Decades Of Civil Rights Anne Braden Forum for Controversy Support Stringfeiiow Church, both lay and clergy. And to THE WITNESS, thank you for This is simply a reflection of my feelings, For a long time we have been aware of your courage in sharing and giving us intended as support for the work which the absence of any stand on vital issues the opportunity in turn to express our you are doing. I particularly address on the part of the Presiding Bishop, beliefs. your publishing of William String- John Allin. Furthermore, we were Frances L. E. Ruegg publication. fellow's "An Open Letter to the shocked when the Presiding Bishop Mary F. Brinley Presiding Bishop" in your January ignored his subpoena to testify at the and Chestnut Hill, Pa. issue. This took courage to publish, and Wendt Trial. We were shocked at his I for one, greatly respect that courage. remarkable position taken contrary to reuse the General Convention against women Christian Candor? for Although I do not feel as strongly as priests. And more than anything else we Mr. Stringfeiiow, I think that the church I ought perhaps preface this comment were shocked that he was partially the today very much needs to hear this sort on William Stringfellow's Open Letter to required of thing. I am delighted to see THE cause of imprisonment and then total the Presiding Bishop by stating that "I WITNESS allow itself to be used as such lack of support of the two women on the am not now, and never have been" a a forum. Hispanic desk, who for their Christian great defender of Bishop Allin's ethics went to jail—receiving no occupancy of his office. Still, I am Permission I have had the experience of writing assistance until under pressure a moved to rise to his defense in not for publications whose editors have meager sum was squeezed out of the replying to the Stringfeiiow letter, as I Presiding Bishop's discretionary fund. would to the defense of anyone DFMS. chosen to rewrite my material to remove / any suggestion of controversy and give We also call for the resignation of subjected to such an onslaught. the material a "rose tinted" hue which John Allin as Presiding Bishop of the In the name of pastoral responsibility Church was not intended. Thissort of thing must Episcopal Church, U.S.A. Thank you, and concern for Bishop Allin as a human be countered with efforts such as yours. Mr. Stringfeiiow, for having the courage being, Stringfeiiow supplies him with a Bravo for taking the risk. to write your Open Letter to THE crushing picture of himself which is WITNESS, which has expressed, and Episcopal neither objectively verifiable nor The Rev. Richard Bridgford pinpointed, the feelings of a vast number subjectively tolerable. His "image of the of Norfolk, Va. of the membership of the Episcopal Continued on page 22 Archives An Open Letter to William Stringfeiiow 2020. My brother, peace! I write this letter "conservative" side. And I am not saying organization—somewhat of a non- within the context of my deep respect for that "though what you write is true look issue? What I am saying is, (and I accuse you, and my sincere admiration for your what we have done!" I am saying rather myself of this) do we not spend too Copyright work and ministry. I write also in basic that I see our church and the Anglican much energy in anger over little people agreement with your "Open Letter to the Communion of which it is a part as the who ultimately have little to say? The Presiding Bishop." I do not write to singular most prophetic manifestation Presiding Bishop may not swallow the attack, or to disagree, but to seek, with of Catholic Christianity in centuries. ordination of women but the ordination you, to serve our church and the Church Two questions come to mind. Though of women is a fact and it will be the Universal through ache, mutual search what you write is true and I applaud your women and not the P.B. who will and mutual hope. integrity and your courage, do you see overcome. The Presiding Bishop (and I wonder if, in your own Open Letter, this other side of which I speak? If so, the many another) might be cruel to you do not miss something of the special second question: Given this special homophiles—but the persons who are and unique charism of our beloved charism of our Communion and church, so oriented will overcome. And for every PECUSA? Believe me, as a radical is not the Presiding Bishop—necessary John Allin there is a Paul Moore, a myself, I am not sure I like taking a as he might be for order and Continued on page 22 Robert L. DeWitt, Editor; Mary Lou Suhor, Managing Editor; Kay Atwater, Robert Eckersley, Richard W. Gillett, Ann Hunter. Susan Small, Lisa K. Whelan, Hugh C. White, Jr. Editorial and Business IHE WITNESS Office: P.O. Box 359, Ambler, PA 19002. Telephone (215) 643-7067. Subscription rates: $9.00 per year; $1.00 per copy. The Witness is published monthly by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company. Board of Directors: Wesley Frensdorff, Steven Guerra, Barbara Harris, Suzanne Hiatt, John E. Hines, Mattie Hopkins, Joan Howarth, James Lewis, H. Coleman McGehee, Joseph A. Pelham, Robert S. Potter, and Helen Seager. Copyright 1980 by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company. Printed in U.S.A. publication. Cult, Cause & Commitment Robert L. DeWitt and How do we keep hoping in the face of precursors of the Easter Festival which, in discouragement? How do we maintain a faith commemorating the Ressurrection, looks back in reuse for when it is challenged by harsh and bitter realities? gratitude to a might deliverance by God, and These questions, unasked, were nevertheless looks forward to a life of renewed fatihfulness. brooding in the atmosphere in Indianapolis in Christians signalize this heritage of gratitude required mid-February when some 500 laity, priests and when they sing the familiar Easter hymn: bishops met to form an Episcopal Urban Caucus. Gathered together were many who had been Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Permission prominently identified with the significant issues Of triumphant gladness. of social mission which have claimed national God hath brought this Israel DFMS. / attention over the past two decades. Stubborn Into joy from sadness . issues, refusing to go away. A case in point is the Church continuing tragedy of racism, addressed in many Indianapolis was in that tradition. Not one vital of the pages of this issue of THE WITNESS. A cause was left unnamed in the lengthy litany of casual observer might have found the tone and social concerns. It was a cultic event. It was a Episcopal resolutions of the assembly quite predictable, and remembering, and a resolve. As in those days of the might well have felt it was all just an emotional and ancient Israel, when the tribes of Judah, of of ineffective exercise recalling the hemorrhaging Manasseh, Levi and the others would have their hearts of the do-gooders of the '60s. own particular input of remembrance and Archives But such an evaluation would have missed a concern, so it was at this assembly. Women, deeper dimension of what was going on. The Hispanics, Blacks, Appalachians, those on 2020. social mission of the church for some years has relief—each was anxious to hold up its concerns fallen on hard times. Those gathered at the to the other "tribes." And out of these shared Copyright Assembly were the weary warriors who had not concerns came a common resolve. This league, bowed the knee to Baal, and were looking for the like ancient Israel, had a sense of solidarity, consolation of Israel. Indeed, the analogy is manifested in their electing a governing board of suggestive. During the great feast days in ancient four bishops, four clergy and eight lay persons. Israel, the league of tribes gathered for a deeply These have been charged with the responsibility meaningful cultic event. On those occasions they of gathering up the intercessions in the recalled what God had done for them, and what assembly's "litany" and establishing coherence God expected of them. And out of this cultic and priorities for the actions to follow. remembering there arose a new resolve that As with the community-building efforts of strengthened them to be faithful to their side of ancient Israel and of the early Christians, so it is the covenant. Those great feast days were Continued on page 19 The civil rights movement did not die a natural death; it was aborted by wealth and power. Lessons learned during that struggle merit serious study in the '80s as the political Right gains momentum. Civil Rights Movement: How It Succeded, publication. and How It Failed reuse by Anne Braden for I want to recall the history of the civil One reason is that a couple of myths required rate among blacks was 37 deaths for rights movement of recent decades in have arisen. The first myth tells us that every 1000 babies born; in 1976 it had this country, not as history in the the civil rights movement achieved its gone up to 43. Among black teenagers abstract, but because I think this goals and simply faded off the scene. the suicide rate doubled between 1965 Permission movement provides lessons that this That is patently untrue.
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