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January 3, 2016 the LIVING CHURCH CATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL Mission among Addicts Theologians on Future Ministry Teaching Children January 3, 2016 THE LIVING CHURCH CATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL Baptized into his Name $5.50 livingchurch.org Parish Administration Journey through Lent with Church Publishing Under the Fig Tree Becoming Who I Am Visual Prayers and Poems for Lent Reections on Wholeness and ROGER HUTCHISON Embracing Our Divine Stories FOREWORD BY FLEMING RUTLEDGE BETH-SARAH WRIGHT “Under the Fig Tree is a chorus of words, These 40 spiritual reections are ideal pictures, poems, images, hymns, devotions for each day in Lent. NEW! dreams, lullabies, and waking kisses that will become a beloved book for paper | 9780819231796 | $14.00 the Lenten journey.” –– C. Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas, author of Unabashedly Episcopalian and A Generous Community. 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ANNA FITCH COURIE Perfect for a 40-day Lenten devotion 846863020461 | Pack of 30 | $20.00 or beginning a new tness program or 17 x 22 fullling a New Year’s resolution! paper | 9780819231697 | $18.00 For a complete list of Lenten and Easter resources, visit churchpublishing.org. Follow us on Church Publishing products can be ordered through any Episcopal, religious, or secular bookstore; through any online bookseller; or direct from Cokesbury at 800-672-1789 or Cokesbury.com. Visit churchpublishing.org for more information. THE LIVING CHURCH THIS ISSUE January 3, 2016 | ON THE COVER The Rev. Clarke French baptizes Chris NEWS Hambly at Church of the Holy Family in 4 Bishop Curry Suspends Executives Chapel Hill, North Carolina. FEATURES Photo courtesy of Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill 12 Addicts on the Doorstep I By G. Jeffrey MacDonald 16 Nine Tips for Teaching Children By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid 19 Mrs. Truax Shaped My Soul I By Mark Michael 21 Find Your Diocese’s Style I By David H. Johnson 23 The Future of Ministry in the Episcopal Church Three Perspectives from Young Scholars By Jason A. Fout, Donyelle McCray, and Wesley Hill 26 Logos Bible Software: 12 The Evolution of a Digital Library Review by Michael Cover 28 A Pricey but Welcome Step Review by Jonathan Mitchican BOOKS 29 Your Living Compass I Review by Bruce Robison OTHER DEPARTMENTS 31 People & Places 16 34 Sunday’s Readings THE LIVING CHURCH is published by the Living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. newS | January 3, 2016 Bishop Curry Suspends Executives Presiding Bishop Michael Curry was painkillers for headache in the ICU, absconded with any money, but who discharged from a Virginia hospital he said. Some are alert enough to ad- knows?” Dec. 11 after an eventful week in dress business matters from the bed. Sauls, who has a background in which he underwent brain surgery, “The Presiding Bishop has always corporate law, served as Bishop of placed three senior staff members on maintained his capabilities through- Lexington from 2000 to 2011, when administrative leave, and announced out his stay in the hospital,” said he took the reins as chief operating an investigation into possible mis- Neva Rae Fox, the church’s officer officer of the Domestic and Foreign conduct in the church’s top manage- for public affairs, via email. Mission Society. That same year he ment ranks. The letter from Curry appointed McDonald, who had been As Bishop Curry was raised eyebrows, not his canon to the ordinary in Lexing- preparing to leave the only due to the allega- ton, to the deputy COO position. Be- hospital, he released a let- tions’ seriousness and fore joining the national church staff ter to staff explaining the the stature of those in- in 2004, Baumgarten worked in action he had taken on volved, but also on ac- Washington, D.C., as a lobbyist. Dec. 9, one day after his count of the timing. In his letter, Curry urged staff surgery. He placed three Whatever precipitated members to pray for those affected senior leaders on leave: the action, it must have by the administrative leave. Chief Operating Officer been something that “I also ask that we all refrain from Stacy Sauls, Deputy COO could not wait even a speculation, difficult though that may Samuel McDonald, and few days until Curry re- be,” Curry wrote. “We all have a re- Director of Public En- Sauls sumes a partial work sponsibility to protect the integrity gagement Alex Baumgarten. schedule from home, according to of all the human beings involved and “This is a result of concerns that Peter Williams, professor emeritus of also the integrity of a fair and just have been raised about possible mis- church history at Miami University process in this matter.” conduct in carrying out their duties (Ohio). Curry said an independent investi- as members of senior management “There must be an urgency to this,” gator will look into the allegations of the Domestic and Foreign Mis- Williams said. “It sounds to me like expeditiously. sionary Society,” Curry wrote. “My something he’s just trying to get G. Jeffrey MacDonald decision should not be confused with ahead of before it hits the press or a finding of fault, but is necessary to something like that.” allow us to find clarity. We are taking What type of misconduct might THE PRESIDING BISHOP’S RECOVERY these allegations seriously and there have transpired has observers pos- will be a full and fair examination.” ing questions but few answers thus Doctors Advise: Curry took the step on a day when far. Williams wonders whether the he most likely woke up in the inten- Episcopal Church’s financial struc- ‘Go Slow’ sive care unit. He had undergone ur- ture, which he finds “odd” and “con- As Episcopalians awaited word Dec. gent brain surgery to drain a sub- voluted,” might invite misuse. But 8 about Presiding Bishop Michael dural hematoma, or pooling of blood others note that the church put ex- Curry’s urgent brain surgery in Rich- beside the brain. Following such a tensive safeguards in place after for- mond, Virginia, two medical-school procedure, the standard practice is mer treasurer Ellen Cooke stole professors explained the risks and to keep a patient in the ICU for at more than $2 million in the early outlook associated with draining a least one day after surgery for close 1990s. chronic subdural hematoma. monitoring, according to Dr. Alex “Since then, the fiscal management Dr. Alex Valadka, chair of the De- Valadka, chair of the department of has been extraordinarily tight and partment of Neurosurgery at Virginia neurosurgery at Virginia Common- well-controlled,” said Duncan Ely, ex- Commonwealth University Medical wealth University Medical School. ecutive director of the General Board School, said the procedure involves Valadka did not discuss Curry’s of Examining Chaplains. “Everyone drilling a hole in the skull and drain- particular condition, but he ex- follows the advice of counsel and au- ing built-up pools of blood in the plained what post-hematomal pa- ditors for the most responsible fiscal wake of a head injury. tients generally experience on the management and all of that. It seems “I would call it brain surgery be- day after surgery. Some receive very unlikely to me that anyone has cause that’s the whole goal: to take 4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • January 3, 2016 his condition return to their pre- Bruton Parish in Colonial Williams- hematomal level of function, accord- burg, where he was helping celebrate ing to John Higgins, a sports cardiol- the congregation’s 300th anniversary. ogist at McGovern Medical School at He had difficulty finding words, ac- the University of Texas Health Sci- cording to his nurse, Roland Ander- ence Center at Houston. A month af- son, and was diagnosed at a local ter surgery, the chances of dying from hospital before being transferred to a hematoma hover around 5 percent. Richmond tier-one medical center for Yet because the condition can re- treatment. cur and the surgery can disrupt brain Subdural hematoma occurs with Curry function, the mortality rate is 10 to greatest frequency in older people the pressure off the brain,” Valadka 30 percent within 30 days of surgery, who have suffered head injuries, said. “You don’t want to go into the according to Higgins. It’s a period which can seem minor if they involve brain. You want to stay out of it. But that necessarily involves close ob- merely bumping one’s head on a cab- the brain is right there.
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