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News Analysis Tough Questions for Canterbury ithout doubt one of the most im- long-running disputes about sexuality. sion of the Scottish Episcopal Church Wpressive contemporary Anglican “There will be a whole lot of fresh to revise its official liturgy to allow leaders is the Most Rev. Thabo Mak- energy and fresh excitement — and, same-sex marriages and the first such goba, Archbishop of Cape Town. He is no doubt, some tough questions,” weddings having already taken place, a striking presence with an apt turn of Welby said before the meeting. the rift has deepened. phrase. His spirituality was formed in Chief among these tough questions The 2016 gathering called for the the classic high-church tradition. remains the issue of Anglican unity in suspension of the Episcopal Church The Province of a context of irreconcilable differences from various representative Commun- Southern Africa that he about sexuality, Archbishop Welby said ion roles in response to its actions. Fol- leads is engaged in an in- in British GQ. lowing the 2017 meeting, the same ternal debate about sexu- “I am having to struggle to be faith- consequences now apply to the Scot- ality, and the differences ful to the tradition, faithful to the tish church. are deep. What happens scripture, to understand what the call From the time of the first Lambeth in Southern African will and will of God is in the 21st century Conference in 1867, Anglican interna- Makgoba be a portent for Angli- and to respond appropriately with an tional gatherings have always met canism elsewhere. answer for all people — not condemn- amid worries about unity. Of course, For Makgoba, the Anglican experi- ing them, whether I agree with them or the Primates’ Meeting is not a supreme ence can be likened to family relation- not,” Welby said in an interview with court and has no powers to overrule ships in which different viewpoints are Alastair Campbell, press secretary to the governing bodies of member inevitable. “I deliberately use the word former Prime Minister Tony Blair. churches of the Communion. family, because within any family there “Inherently, within myself, the The deeper question is the effective- will be some pulling left, some pulling things that seem to me to be absolutely ness of the various instruments of right, and different views,” he said in central are around faithfulness, stabil- Communion (the Primates’ Meeting, one of the briefings before the Pri- ity of relationships and loving relation- the Anglican Consultative Council, the mates’ Meeting on Oct. 2-6 in Canter- ships,” he added. Lambeth Conference, and the Office bury. “But we are committed to walk- “I am also aware — a view deeply of Archbishop of Canterbury). ing together in God.” held by tradition since long before All these came into their own as the The Primates’ Meeting was the first Christianity, within the Jewish tradi- churches emerged from a colonial past. since January 2016. Under the leader- tion — that marriage is understood in- The issue now is whether they are fit ship of Archbishop Justin Welby, a pat- variably as being between a man and a for purpose. The remaking of the An- tern has emerged in which the assem- woman. Or, in various times, a man glican Communion is a huge task that bled archbishops agree on the agenda and several women, if you go back to needs to begin with serious and sus- as the meeting begins. the Old Testament. tained theological reflection. The meeting included sessions on “I know that the Church around the mission and evangelism; reconciliation world is deeply divided on this in some hen Anglican primates meet and peace-building; climate change and places, including the Anglicans and Wthey are never entirely cut off the environment; and migration and other churches, not just us, and we are from events back home. As he took human trafficking. All these issues press — the vast majority of the Church is — part in the meeting’s closing press con- heavily on many member churches of deeply against gay sex.” ference in Canterbury, Archbishop the Anglican Communion. The primates attending the 2016 Jackson Ole Sapit of Kenya was acutely There is always a turnover of mem- gathering agreed to walk together, al- aware of violent protests back home re- bers. Sixteen new primates have taken though differences between them sulting in a shooting and use of tear office since 2016, among them the might mean walking at a distance. gas by police. Most Rev. Ezekiel Kondo of the newly They set up a task group to examine The mood was tense in Kenya as the created Province of Sudan. There were what was required to restore relation- nation prepared to reprise its presi- absentees: the primates of Nigeria and ships and rebuild trust within the dential election. The need for a re- Uganda announced they would not at- Communion, and that task group pro- peated vote prompted Archbishop tend because of their sharp disagree- vided a preliminary report at last Justin Welby to take the somewhat un- ment with other member churches in month’s meeting. With the recent deci- usual step of beginning a press confer-

4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 ence with prayer. with Muslim thinkers in a nation met with some of Welby’s staff. He said At the first Primates’ known for its persecution of Chris- there was a “legacy of failure” to pro- Meeting in Ely in 1979, tians. tect vulnerable people and care for sur- Archbishop Allen Johnston A new project was announced to vivors. of New Zealand found him- empower spouses of bishops from re- Welby refused to name persons or self working out how to re- source-poor settings. Archbishop Sapit places involved in cross-border inter- spond to the crash of a local knows the value of such assistance. He ventions. There was, however, a call for commercial airliner. Dur- was born in a remote part of Kenya a “season of repentance and renewal” Sapit ing the second Primates’ and orphaned at an early age. He was on this vexed issue. Meeting, cross-border military clashes the only member of his family to have The primates left it to Archbishop between two countries in the South- an education, which the development Welby to decide whether they will ern Cone of South America left the agency World Vision made possible. meet again between now and the Lam- primate of the area close to tears as he His wife, he said, had no education beth Conference in 2020. told the story. whatever, but when he became a John Martin This generation of primates repre- bishop, without any training she was sent areas of the world where there is thrust into leadership of church acute food insecurity, where Christian women’s work and “left to hold every- Confusion Continues minorities suffer persecution, where thing together” in his absences. in L.A. Property Case there is drought and flood because of The project, which has practical climate change, and where civil wars support from Caroline Welby, will of- The people of St. James the Great may cause large-scale displacement of peo- fer training in best business practices be offered an opportunity to move ple, and spill over into violence against and leadership and will create support back into the Newport Beach church women and children. It is a world of 65 groups for isolated bishops’ wives. they have been locked out of since million refugees and an estimated 40 Welby said the meeting heard heart- 2015. million victims of modern slavery and rending accounts of failures to deal Or they may not. Or they may. The human trafficking. properly with sexual abuse. On Oct. 6 indications keep changing. The Archbishop of Canterbury saw a group representing abuse survivors On Oct. 10, the Diocese of Los An- these crises as an opportunity to “re- held a vigil outside the meeting and (Continued on next page) turn the Primates’ Meeting to what I think all of us have wanted it to be.” For Archbishop Paul Kwong of Hong Kong, a veteran of six Primates’ Meetings, this was his “best yet.” For Archbishop Ole Sapit, new to Primates’ Meetings after 18 months in office, “the big thing was the presence of each other because we are a Communion and we are a Communion called as a witness in a broken world.” An empha- sis on mission gave him “a lot of hope.” The church, he said, must avoid be- ing “narrow-minded” and show the world the “total gospel,” including re- sponses to social need and holding na- tional and church leaders accountable. “The spirit here was what are the The ministry of Global Partnerships focuses on supporting and weighty issues that are facing the nurturing relationships between the people, congregations, dioceses, world?” he said. “We can’t allow our- and institutions of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. selves not to listen to what is happen- episcopalchurch.org/beyond ing in the world around us.” The primates have established a commission to address interfaith ten- sions. The Rt. Rev. Mouneer Anis, Bishop of Egypt with North Africa and The EEpiscopalpiscopal BUILDING the Horn of Africa, will lead the new BRIDGES group. He addressed the primates via BBranchrranchananch of the BEYONDONDONDBEY video link from his diocese’s new me- JJesusesus MMoMovementovvementement OURSELVESOURSELVES dia center. He has long-standing links

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 5 gation. When asked if the discernment Taylor also said he was scheduled to news november 5, 2017 might lead to St. James reoccupying meet on Oct. 18 with the Rev. Cindy | the building, Taylor referred to the Voorhees, the vicar of St. James the Confusion Continues written statement. “What we have for Great, and the Rev. Rachel Nyback, you is what we sent you,” he told TLC. president of the diocesan standing (Continued from previous page) The congregation interpreted all of committee. geles announced that the sale of the this to mean that the possibility of a re- Taylor is set to become the seventh building had fallen through for a sec- turn would not even be considered. Bishop of Los Angeles on Dec. 1, with ond time. This seemed like good news “This is not a step forward for St. the retirement of the Rt. Rev. J. Jon for the congregation, because Bishop James, for Newport Beach or for the Bruno. Taylor already has authority Coadjutor John Taylor had announced diocese,” the congregation said in a over the St. James property, as ordered in August that the diocese would not written statement. “Instead of talking by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on try to get out of the surreptitiously with the congregation, the bishop has Aug. 1. signed contract to sell. put out a press release. This is not what Curry took the highly unusual step But the brief October announce- reconciliation looks like.” of intervening in a diocesan property ment failed to address the most obvi- Over the next few days, Taylor clar- decision after Bruno made his second ous issue. It pledged support “pas- ified that the “bishop’s chapel” plan was attempt to sell St. James — while a dis- torally, logistically, and financially to intended as an interim measure to re- ciplinary hearing panel was still decid- assist the St. James congregation open the building quickly, while dis- ing whether to punish him for his con- should it wish to regain mission status cernment continues regarding long- duct related to the first attempt. in the diocese.” As for the building: “Af- term use. The hearing panel suspended Bruno ter a suitable period of discernment After the weekend, TLC again asked from ordained ministry for three years, and planning, we will reopen the Taylor: “Are you open to the possibility with the sentence automatically stayed church as a bishop’s chapel, with sup- of restoring the St. James the Great during appeal. The Disciplinary Board ply, or guest, clergy invited to conduct congregation to their former building? for Bishops later essentially imposed Sunday services.” In other words, is that one possible the sentence administratively as of Jan. The announcement was made with- outcome of the discernment process?” 1, 2018, pending the appeal’s result. out notifying or consulting the congre- His two-word response: “Of course.” The timing allows Bruno to remain in office until his retirement at the end of November. Because of you,ou,yofBecause Kirk Petersen I will achieveachieI ve lifelife in all its fullness.ullness.fits Cuernavaca: In a rremoteemotIn e corner of southsouthwestest Ugw Uganda,anda, the BatwBatwa ppygmiesgmies arya arare learlearning te to thrining thrivevo e Pray for Our Aid agagain.ain. The BatwBatwa lilivededd in the fva fforforestorest fforor Following two major earthquakes, the centuries until thetheyy wwere eery evictedvicte ed in 1992 Anglican Church of Mexico’s Diocese ttoo one of the poorpoorpoorestest rregionsegions on earth.earth. YourYour of Cuernavaca seeks prayers as it pro- support helps the BatwBatwaa trtransformansffororm their vides relief to those most affected by lives thrvli throughouges h education, health, spiritual the tremors. outroutreacheach and community dedevelopment..elopmentv While Mexico City received wide media attention following the quakes, clergy in that city expressed concern to TLC [Oct. 22] that harder-hit areas in the Diocese of Cuernavaca had es- caped mention.

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6 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 were damaged in the quake, with con- siderable damage to the Temple of St. John the Theologian, the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Temple of St. Caroline, and Holy Trinity Temple. In addition, a family from St. John’s and congregants from St. Catarina-Jojutla now find themselves homeless. “Many communities have been physically destroyed, and the death of friends, neighbors, and coworkers has left a great sadness and an atmosphere of desolation,” the bishop said. Never- theless, “a great, unequaled human movement full of solidarity, brother- hood, fraternity and love of neighbor” Diocese of Cuernavaca photo Members of the Diocese of Cuernavaca distribute supplies after the Sept. 19 earthquake. has also emerged following the quakes. While efforts to rebuild and repair began, some congregations began cel- opened a collection center in the This aid, Cruz said, has targeted ebrating the Eucharist in homes, Cruz diocesan office building, with a great Coatetelco, Miacatlán, El Yeso, and said. Material aid is needed — building response from lay people, friends, and Tetecala in Morelos. “The Villages of materials, tarpaulins, tents, tools, blan- neighbors. The youth have been tire- Pilcaya and Ixcamilpa, located in the kets to shelter, food — but so is spiri- less, supportive, and generous from Sierra de Puebla, are seriously affected tual and emotional assistance. Cruz is day one. With some cash donations we and hardly receive help because of the also seeking funds to rebuild homes bought and delivered cots, tarpaulins, distance; thus, that’s where we’ve taken lost by four families in total. as well as provisions, toiletries, clothes, the most support and comfort.” “Anglicans in the world can help by and tools.” Cruz said six diocesan churches (Continued on page 22)

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november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 7 Renewal Out of Necessity The Society of the Sacred Mission returns to its roots.

By Steven R. Ford empowered for essential lay ministries. The next year, Kelly and some of his ometimes simple ideas, when put brothers moved on to England, where into practice, have the power to the society and its founding idea would Schange the world, or at least the be transformed beyond recognition. Church. Such ideas, however, can They purchased Kelham Hall, a huge quickly transform themselves and take Victorian Gothic structure near on lives of their own, and the results Durham, which housed a college with can be quite unintended. It’s only when accommodation for 100 students. circumstances force a return to the They eventually added a separate original vision that the simple ideas re- The monks’ chapel in Maseru, Lesotho (top), monastery and huge, ostentatious gain their power. Such is the story of and a highway leading to the priory. chapel. The college was transformed the Society of the Sacred Mission, a re- into a seminary, and the society essen- ligious order now active in three An- tially got into the business of training glican provinces. It was my privilege to simple vows as novices. As they ma- priests to serve in England. visit its priory in Maseru, Lesotho, last tured in the religious life, others began The monks’ ethos changed as well. November. to join them. No particular education Kelham “in its heyday of the late 1930s The seeds of the idea of a monastic or obvious spiritual gifts were required had certain built-in authoritarian ter- order with a sacred mission were of new novices; they were to be formed rors comprising histrionic mono- planted in the soul of Fr. Herbert Kelly and trained in community, and the logues, directives on notice boards, in the 1880s. Kelly, an English mission monastery would be the base for their and a general atmosphere under one priest serving in Korea, had a conver- eventual mission work. “No system can roof and round one holy table of a sation with the Bishop of Korea, who be sound which depends for success great gulf fixed between them and us,” mentioned the need for “ordinary and upon rare and special gifts, rather than one graduate wrote. “[T]he Society was unpretentious” priests to bolster the upon the steady use of those more lim- too concerned with its own satisfac- Church in Southeast Asia. In the next ited and commonplace powers which toriness and permanence to think that decade those seeds took root, and Kelly God ordinarily wills to bestow,” Kelly communication with people not actu- developed the idea of a new order of wrote in 1894. ally enclosed behind its hedges needed “ascetic and selfless” monks, grounded In 1902, Kelly and other solemnly much attention. Nor was there any in daily Mass and in the common pray- professed monks began active mission awareness that … we needed anything ing of the Offices, whose work would work in Southern Africa, quickly es- of love, sympathy, or care from them.” be to serve as (and train) priests for tablishing priories in both Cape Town Because of a rapid decline in appli- foreign missions. and Lesotho. The monastic formation cants, the seminary closed in 1973 and and training of “common” men for the the society sold Kelham Hall. Priests he Society of the Sacred Mission missionary priesthood continues in and brothers moved to smaller prior- Twas officially born in 1893, when these places, and brothers with no ies, and gradually rediscovered the Kelly and two other priests made their priestly vocation are welcomed and simple idea behind their foundation.

8 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 riests of the Society first arrived in PAustralia in 1912, establishing a permanent community. By 1947, the Australian monks emulated their Eng- lish brethren, establishing St. Michael’s House, a theological college near Ade- laide. This work ended abruptly in 1983, when both college and monastery were destroyed by a bush fire. Monks relocated to new priories in Western Australia and in Victoria, and re-

The priory in Maseru (top), Brother Max with Steven Ford (left), and the priory’s library.

claimed the original charism of theo- logical education both in and from community. Today, the society consists of three autonomous provinces: Australian, Eu- ropean, and Southern African. The first two decided a few years back to open their novitiates to women. The first Australian nun of the society re- cently made solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and the first English sister made vows that are bind- ing for five years. The priory in which I spent time in Lesotho is unique in that it never en- tangled itself with institutional work or obligations. It has thereby remained relatively true to Fr. Kelly’s original idea of missionary formation and ac- counselor. Br. Mosuoe’s primary out- well to encourage it. Perhaps the time tivity grounded in a monastery. And it reach is at an AIDS clinic in Maseru. Brs. has come for all of us to end our long works. Ministries both inside and out- Tefo and Mabokaone are day students at exile in the land of money and prop- side the priory are remarkable. nearby schools. erty and power, since we are losing Brothers Max and Masuoe are in As a priory that has maintained its those things anyway. Maybe it’s time charge of in-house formation and edu- original charism for 114 years, the to rediscover and live by the original cation. Fathers Mosia, Moila, and Tanki Maseru monastery has become the idea of our founder, Jesus the Lord: serve congregations too poor to afford a model for post-institutional Sacred “Go therefore and make disciples of all priest. Fr. Mosia also serves as prior, en- Mission priories throughout the world. nations, baptizing them in the name of suring that the household runs smoothly. Many society monks (and now a nun the Father and of the Son and of the Fr. Michael, who lost both of his hands and a sister) wear the Lesotho Cross, Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey while opening a letter bomb in the final designed and made locally. everything I have commanded you” days of apartheid, is frequently traveling An Anglican religious order has re- (Matt. 28:19-20a). It is certainly worth the world to engage in his ministry of turned to fulfill the original idea of its praying about. healing of memories, particularly among founder after a long period of institu- survivors of torture. He is sometimes ac- tional exile. This is called renewal, and The Rev. Steven R. Ford assists at St. companied by Br. Morketsi, a skilled we in the Church at large would do Mark’s/San Marcos, Mesa, Arizona.

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 9 A Yazidi family set up a spot at Oak Lake Park in Lincoln to watch fireworks.

10 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 From Captivity to Freedom

I chose a trip to Nebraska for the Independence Day weekend. What I found was something I hadn’t expected.

Photos and text by Asher Imtiaz

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 11 s a photojournalist and a Pakistani living in Adult men were shot and killed, adult women were enlisted the United States, I was searching for an as servants, young men were taken as fighters, and young experience in the heart of the country that women were forced into a system of sexual slavery in which was authentically American and different they were bought, sold, and raped over time by multiple from my experiences in previous travels. I men. The fighters eventually turned to married women as chose a trip to Nebraska for the Independ- well. Thousands of Yazidis remain missing and thousands of enceA Day weekend. What I found was something I hadn’t Yazidi women are still in captivity. The United Nations has expected. urged its member nations to recognize the genocide against The city of Lincoln is home to 2,000 Yazidis from north- the Yazidi people and to bring ISIS militants to justice. ern Iraq, many of whom have fled the Islamic State. ISIS in- vaded Yazidi villages in northern Iraq in August 2014. The have followed news of the Yazidi people since 2014, but I people scattered, some to nearby cities, and some to Mt. Sin- Ihad not met any Yazidis. Once I learned they were living jar, which some people consider the resting place of Noah’s in Lincoln, I began searching for them. The first man I met ark. Because the Yazidis’ faith combines threads of Christi- works at Target. I asked if I could meet with him at the end anity, Hinduism, and Islam, many Muslims consider them of his shift. He told me he had to attend a wedding, so I idolaters and polytheists. ISIS has claimed the right to en- asked him if I could join him. He graciously said yes. slave them in an effort to force their conversion. At the wedding, among more than 500 Yazidi guests, I By many accounts, ISIS rounded up the Yazidis and met several others willing to meet me the next day: a jour- moved them to other locations in Iraq, where families were nalist, an artist, and a social worker dedicated to helping separated and dealt with according to their sex and age. Yazidis who escaped ISIS. The social worker, Laila

12 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 Khoudeida, works closely with Yazda, which has U.S. offices Women wear traditional dresses and everyone joins in a shoulder-shaking in Lincoln and Houston. I told her I was interested in telling shingaly dance on a Yazidi couple’s wedding day. the story of a Yazidi woman she was helping, and we agreed that I would visit her again later in the month. On July 3, I attended a fireworks celebration in Lincoln where I met more Yazidi families. They were eating ice cream and wearing stars and stripes. The next day, I visited a small town outside of Lincoln where I saw a parade and a lot of families that were mostly white. They were eating ice cream and wearing stars and stripes.

hen I returned to Nebraska, circumstances prevented Wme from meeting with Laila as we had planned. In- stead, on August 21 in Lincoln, I watched the solar eclipse through a pair of protective glasses. In the ancient world during a total eclipse, when the sun fled, some people thought God had abandoned them. I wondered if, in August 2014, the Yazidis imagined God had abandoned them when ISIS invaded their villages. And what about these refugees (Continued on next page)

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 13 (Continued from previous page) living among us? Do we see them at all? Do they move among us like shad- ows? Do we see them only from be- hind protective glasses?

he solitary woman in these photo- Tgraphs is Shireen Jardo. She is 31 years old. With Laila’s help, I took pho- tographs of her when I traveled to Lin- coln for a third time on Labor Day weekend. Shireen agreed to let me photograph her because I told her that I would make her story known, in the hope that it would help her find her family and help her people find justice. Laila gave me a copy of Shireen’s story, which covered 13 single-spaced typed pages. There are no paragraph breaks. The names of places are spe- cific. The names of her tormentors are specific. Everything that was done to Shireen, in her apartment in Lincoln, holds a photo (below) of her missing relatives. Shireen has been written down, and Yazidi girls watch fireworks on a hill with the Lincoln skyline in background. through interpreters, she’s told her story to members of the women were kept in the courthouse, where they were Congress and to the United Nations. It’s this kind of testi- prepared to be given to fighters. To prevent herself from be- mony that can help convict the men and women who hurt ing assaulted, Shireen pretended to be mute and disabled. her and her family. Before her captivity, she dreamed of be- She also refused to eat. In the end she was sold five times. ing a lawyer. Perhaps that dream drives her now. Her most Along the way she was tortured by women and men to immediate goal is to speak English well enough to tell her prove she was faking. story without an interpreter. Shireen was eventually released by ISIS along with a Shireen and 46 members of her family were taken captive group of elderly women and men. She was then settled in a when ISIS invaded her village in 2014. They were taken to refugee camp before moving to the United States. When a building near Mt. Sinjar where public records were kept. Mosul was liberated earlier this year, she hoped she would Shireen remembers that the women were kept in the yard see her family again. While she has been reunited with some and that the fighters looked down on them from the second- of her family, she is still waiting for news of the rest, includ- story windows of the building. On the first night, the fight- ing three of her brothers and their families who remain ers came down to the yard to take women for themselves. missing. You can see them in the photographs she holds in Her 15-year-old sister, Sahera, was crying and throwing up her hands. as she was taken away. She was wearing a dress Shireen had made for her. traveled to Nebraska searching for an authentically Amer- Shireen and members of her family were forced to move Iican experience in the heart of the country, and God led again and again from place to place in Iraq. She always me to the Yazidi people celebrating freedom and straining looked for Sahera and tried to gather her sisters and sisters- toward hope. I believe God calls us to see people like Shireen in-law, her nieces and nephews, around her. She saw other and her missing brothers. The nations with all their suffer- women in her family taken away. She and her relatives tried ing and determination are among us. As disciples of Christ, to outsmart the militants to protect themselves. Shireen and we have an opportunity to see them vividly and directly, not her cousin, Khairi, pretended to be married because the as sad apparitions hiding in the corner of our sight but as militants were not raping married women. In the midst of fully whole and fully human. When we see our neighbors — the fear and despair, she asked Khairi to tattoo her name on when we know their stories and sorrows in their own words her arm in English letters so that if she killed herself her — we step closer to our call to love. identity would be clear to whoever found her body. Shireen and the other women were separated from the Asher Imtiaz, a frequent contributor to THE LIVING CHURCH, men in their families and taken to Mosul by bus. In Mosul, resides in Milwaukee.

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 15 Sorrows We walk side by side with our sorrows. Vigilantly, in our peripheral vision, we keep track of them there lest we lose sight of their significance, lest they overtake us. They’re hewn from our hearts, you see, what we’ve loved and lost, what we hoped to be. Sometimes our sorrows join hands with others’ sorrows like those crisp strings of dolls cut from accordion-folded paper. When sympathy has fled, they sink underground, where deep calls mournfully to deep. And then hope rises up, and we imagine yet we can usher our sorrows into an ark and set them adrift to where, beyond all knowing, they’ll find their consolation. If we ourselves forget it’s only the way we forget the sun during a total eclipse, staring into its absence with protective glasses, until there they are again, all the familiar shadows. We must tend to our sorrows as if they were fires, as if they were saints. We must tie them on our foreheads, pin them to our breasts, sing of them when we’re driving along, radios tuned to the oldest, saddest songs. Our worst fear is that they become insignificant, yesterday’s news, an embedded link in the story of someone else’s happy, happy life, or that others expect us to move about like ghosts, as if our sorrows have rendered our very flesh too much for decent folk. Put your fingers here, we say, reach out your hand, or Here is my name written in an alphabet you can understand, though you can call us Sharon or Sally or Alice for short, something you can get your tongue around. If only you will call us something, you who have managed to clothe yourselves with righteousness and ease, we’re here tugging at your hem.

Mari Reitsma Chevako

September 2017

CATHOLIC VOICES struments, doctrinal divergence, inter- nal differentiation through “non-invita- tion to relevant representative bodies and meetings” (Windsor), and renewed border-crossings — walking together looks more like Windsor’s learning to Walking Together walk apart.

o what might be meant by walking in Truth and Love Stogether? What if the phrase were un- derstood in a fuller theological and ec- clesiological sense? Then we would have to say that our desire should be to walk together with all churches within the By Andrew Goddard and create a deeper mistrust between one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church us,” which “results in significant distance and all baptized believers who share he recent Primates’ Meeting reaf- between us” and the need to “formally faith in Christ. firmed the January 2016 commit- acknowledge this distance.” The pri- So, to take an example from the recent Tment to walking together, but mates therefore implemented proposals communiqué, this not only means we what does this mean and how can it in- that Windsor described as a sign that we recognise that “those in ACNA should terpret and help guide the church today? were having “to begin to learn to walk be treated with love as fellow Christians” The phrase originates in recent An- apart.” but that it should also be “our unani- glicanism in the final paragraph (157) of mous desire to walk together” with them the 2004 Windsor Report. It warned of “a ast month’s communiqué reaffirms and we should find ways to do so to very real danger that we will not choose Lthis approach, but it is important to whatever degree we can despite the real to walk together” and how if its propos- be honest about the current shape of our distance that exists. It should also be als were not heeded “then we shall have walking together. Four features show the “our unanimous desire to walk together” to begin to learn to walk apart.” The re- situation is much more complex, incor- with the Roman Catholic Church as we port was clear that “the churches of the porating both walking together and seek to do through the Anglican-Roman Anglican Communion, if that Com- widening impairment of communion. Catholic International Commission and munion is to mean anything at all, are First, the two largest provinces and International Anglican-Roman Catholic obliged to move together, to walk to- one other “declined to attend, citing Commission for Unity and Mission, in- gether in synodality.” But its proposed what they believed to be a lack of good cluding its recent shared episcopal mis- moratoria were not implemented and order within the Communion.” sion. many primates stayed away from Rowan Second, the Scottish Episcopal These examples show that our level of Williams’s final Primates’ Meeting in Church (SEC) has decided not to walk walking together is always limited and 2011. Archbishop Justin Welby’s per- with the Communion’s teaching on includes “acknowledging the distance sonal diplomacy enabled the 2016 gath- marriage and the Episcopal Church (in that exists in our relationships due to ering to take place, but few expected the the U.S.) is seriously considering chang- deep differences in understanding.” The comity to last. ing its prayer book’s liturgy and cate- reality is that in a fractured Church in a At the 2016 meeting the primates em- chism to conform to its new marriage fallen world there is never going to be a braced walking together, though they canon. full walking together. All patterns of re- never defined it. The complexity, confu- Third, the primates have therefore lationship and walking together will to sion, and possible incoherence in the concluded that “members of SEC would varying degrees fall short of the full terminology, especially when reduced to no longer represent the Communion on communion to which we are called in just these two words, soon became clear. ecumenical and interfaith bodies; Christ. But we are to seek to walk as The primates spoke of “our unanimous should not be appointed or elected to closely together as possible and estab- desire to walk together,” but the final internal standing committees and that, lish structures and patterns of relating communiqué made this into a decision: while participating in the internal bod- that, even as they acknowledge impair- “the unanimous decision of the primates ies of the Anglican Communion, they ment and distance, support the deepen- was to walk together.” So, is walking to- would not take part in decision making ing of communion and the bringing to- gether a desired high goal but not a real- on any issues of doctrine or polity.” gether of those seeking unity rather than ity until there are certain changes? Or is Fourth, following the SEC’s decision, pushing them further apart. it a decision that establishes a reality in a missionary bishop was appointed and The recent Church of England report which we keep on meeting? Further ten- consecrated by the Anglican Church in Communion and Disagreement drew on sions were evident as the primates spoke North America (ACNA) with the sup- ecumenical work to refer to “the five ‘ec- of actions accepting same-sex marriage port of many primates. In all these areas clesial elements’ that are stated to be re- that “further impair our communion — non-attendance at meetings of the In- quired for ‘full communion’ in the re-

18 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 and degrees of communion currently in Can a solution drawing on ecumenical place, but it would offer something more in line with the vision of intensified rela- experience and theology better express the tionships set out by Rowan Williams in his 2009 response to the Episcopal degrees of communion and mix of walking Church’s General Convention. To achieve even this will require sig- together, walking apart, and significant distance? nificant changes of heart and direction. Some would need to step towards those from whom they have walked apart cent convergence text on ecclesiology even increase the numbers walking to- within the existing Instruments. They from the World Council of Churches, gether to include those absent from the may be helped by a recognition by all of The Church: Towards a Common Vi- recent Primates’ Meeting and the last significant distance between Anglicans sion.” The five elements are “commu- Lambeth Conference, and so develop a (as in ecumenical gatherings), and by a nion in the fullness of apostolic faith; in deeper walking together for those com- commitment of those seeking full com- sacramental life; in a truly one and mu- mitted to common interdependent An- munion to walk more closely together. tually recognized ministry; in structures glican life? Those who have walked apart by acting of conciliar relations and decision-mak- unilaterally and pursuing a different ing; and in common witness and service ere there may be the possibility of path on marriage and sexuality would in the world” (para. 43). The Anglican Hdrawing together the historic form need to accept the development of an Communion has recently experienced of the conference and the novelty of Anglican gathering in which they could diminished communion in most of 2008 to structure a new form of confer- not participate. They may be helped by these areas, and this dynamic risks con- ence, one whose very design acknowl- recognising this as the outworking of tinuing in a vicious spiral. edges both the painful reality of our di- current, accepted consequences, and by visions and the genuine desire to seek to the initial gathering of all Anglicans as an a solution drawing on ecumeni- walk even closer in the highest possible an expression of the imperfect com- Ccal experience and theology better degree of communion. munion we still share. express the degrees of communion and Imagine a first part of the conference mix of walking together, walking apart, involving the sort of activities that we uch a proposal clearly faces major and significant distance that are now now widely accept and participate in Schallenges and is risky, but there is deeply embedded among Anglicans? with fellow Christians with whom we no risk-free path. The real danger is that Might we even, paradoxically, by pay- are not in full or even formal commun- proceeding as if it can be business as ing attention to the distance, find better ion. It could be a sharing of fellowship, usual in terms of invitations and struc- ways of walking together? wisdom, and the experience of partici- ture risks another Lambeth Conference These questions are particularly ur- pating in God’s mission and service to that embodies walking apart at least as gent because of the forthcoming (2020) the world set in the context of prayer, much as walking together. There are Lambeth Conference, which has for 150 worship, and Bible study for all Com- then likely to develop parallel structures years been the primary way of Anglicans munion provinces and possibly ACNA of more intense walking together as An- expressing our communion in “struc- (at least as ecumenical partners). This glicans without reference to Canterbury, tures of conciliar relations and decision- would be a genuine form of walking to- perhaps even by the majority of the making.” The 2008 Lambeth Conference gether in Christ but at a lower degree of Communion. was marked by a large non-attendance, mutual recognition and further from In one sense, of course, such a new non-invitation of some bishops, and the full communion than traditional Lam- form of conference would be a confes- decision to hold an Indaba and not pass beth Conferences. sion of our failure. But like any confes- any resolutions. It also expected those In turn, at a second part of the confer- sion it could also be the most truthful attending to work with the Windsor and ence, Communion bishops committed way of speaking of our current situation: Covenant vision of life in communio n. to a deeper walking together could meet our desire to walk together and the lim- The situation in the Communion has in a more deliberative assembly to con- its to that walking given deep disagree- worsened in the last decade, and the chal- sider resolutions and ways of walking to- ments, recent history, and competing vi- lenge in gathering bishops is now even gether more closely (also with Anglicans sions of being Anglican. more serious. Another large-scale boy- not part of the gathering). Clearly a cru- cott would raise the question of whether cial question here would be the commit- The Rev. Canon Andrew Goddard is sen- there would ever again be a gathering of ments necessary to participate in this ior research fellow at the Kirby Laing In- all the Communion’s bishops. closer form of walking together, but such stitute for Christian Ethics in Cambridge, Is there then a way of constructing a a form of Lambeth Conference would assistant minister at St. James the Less, Lambeth Conference that can speak the build on the form of walking together Pimlico, and adjunct assistant professor of truth about both our walking together already established by the primates. It Anglican Studies at Fuller Theological and our significant distance? Could we would not undermine the Instruments Seminary in Pasadena.

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 19 BOOKS Will America Follow Europe into Secularism?

Review by David Goodhew sacraments and ecclesiology will warm the hearts of many TLC readers. Paas he United States has shown a offers a valuable discussion of how to markedly greater religiosity define church so that it is flexible but Tcompared to Western Europe. not vacuous. The question is whether America will Paas offers a useful corrective to grow more like Europe, or the other Donald A. McGavran’s work on church way round. And, we may add: can An- growth. It is a rare pleasure to see a Eu- glicanism resist the corrosive acids of ropean academic text offer discussion European secularisation, and might it of Rodney Stark’s idea of religious mar- have gifts that could speak hope to sec- ket theory (also known as rational Church Planting ular Westerners on both sides of the choice theory). Much discussed in the Atlantic? social sciences, this debate greatly de- in the Secular West Learning from the Stefan Paas has written a book on serves to spread into churches. European Experience Europe that is a helpful start in an- swering these questions, but not all it his volume would be helped by re- By Stefan Paas. Eerdmans. Pp. 316. $34 says holds true. Church Planting in the Tflection beyond the evangelical Secular West analyzes the theology and theologies that are its primary discus- practice of planting churches in sion partners. Paas offers little discus- France, Germany, Holland, and the sion of modern Roman Catholic tion, there are many new churches. United Kingdom. thought and none of Orthodox ecclesi- Paas’s analysis would be greatly The strength of his work is in the ology and missiology, though many helped by considering cities such as way he splices empirical and theologi- Orthodox congregations have been London and Rotterdam, where there is cal analysis. He rightly critiques David planted across Europe in recent years. striking evidence of church planting Bosch’s mythical portrait of a non-in- Nor does the book engage with a num- and growth. The number of congrega- stitutional early Church, supposedly ber of key researchers of empirical data tions in London has risen by about 50 corrupted by later institutionalisation. — notably the work of Peter Brierley, percent in the last 40 years. Paas speaks He points out that institutions were Bob Jackson, and John Wolffe on Lon- of “the secularized, stable, and aging part of the Church from the start. don. populations of Western Europe” (p. While there is much good in Bosch, Paas is more problematic in his 180). This is true of parts of Europe, his work is ripe for serious revision, comments about the facts on the but the populations of many key Euro- not least to assist the generations of ground. There is useful data, especially pean cities are rapidly growing, decid- Anglican ordinands who have been fed evidence from France, where 1,700 edly youthful, and increasingly inter- his views as the last word on missiol- new congregations were planted be- ested in church. ogy. tween 1970 and 2013. But beyond this, The volume’s critique of contempo- Paas urges those who favor new there are significant gaps. Paas ignores rary church planting has value but forms of Church also to seek new minority ethnic communities, which sometimes strikes an ugly note, not forms of unity. Paas shows how Refor- are a key source of new churches in least in likening it to cancer (p. 51). mation and early modern theologies Western Europe. Such churches are a Such language is surely too judgemen- feed into today’s debates and raises a mix of wheat and weeds, but other de- tal. But beyond this, such highly criti- crucial concern about how contempo- nominations are in no position to con- cal metaphors fail to take into account rary church planting can be warped by demn. When Paas talks of Europe, he the considerable data pointing to the consumerism and individualism. His really means white Europe, but in objective benefits that joining congre- stress on the need for church planters many places Europe is now highly di- gations, including church plants, to attain a deeper appreciation of verse. And amidst the fear of Islamiza- brings to individuals’ well-being. For a

20 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 survey of the abundant research show- There is a religious we are to be effective salt and light in ing links between well-being and at- the Western world. tending church, see the report Religion Anglosphere that is Second, Paas is right to point us to- and Well Being by the U.K. think tank wards a theologically rich vision of Theos (bit.ly/Theos2016-06-26). culturally potent, has a church planting. Planting has some- times been characterized by much en- onversely, Paas is too lenient on global reach, and shows ergy but minimal theology. But it Chistoric churches, especially estab- needs as nuanced a grasp of Scripture, lished churches. In many cases, their every sign of expanding. tradition, and reason, and as high a congregations have suffered deep de- An Anglican-shaped valuation of episcopacy, sacraments, cline, shown limited ability to connect and unity as any other ministry. with changing society, and often gospel speaks cogently Third, we should take heart. There shunned church planting, although the are many new churches in Europe. The population has rapidly expanded in into such worlds. tide of secularity goes out as well as in. many parts of Europe. Paas’s claim that Effective church planting combines many of Europe’s established churches long-term commitment and a gospel have embraced church planting (p. agency. What we do has a serious ef- boldness that refuses to be cowed by 242) is simply untrue. There are islands fect, propelling us towards growth or secularity. For several decades, British of interest but oceans of indifference. decline. We cannot shrug our shoul- and North American Anglicanism Here are lessons for Anglicanism. The ders as if secularization were the law of have planted few new congregations, Episcopal Church’s increased interest the Medes and Persians. even as populations have grown in church planting and evangelism is The foundation stone of St. Mary’s quickly. But dioceses such as London welcome, but it has to go much further Paddington records that the parish was show that the pattern could change. to be a serious phenomenon. “founded in 1865 as a ‘church plant’ Fourth, we in the West could learn The book could be developed by from All Saints, Margaret Street, in a much from the wider Anglican Com- analysis of European secularity, how it densely packed slum district by Fr munion. As discussed in Growth and varies across the continent, and how it Richard Temple West.” (I am grateful Decline in the Anglican Communion, may differ from American secularities. to John Wallace for this reference.) 1980 to the Present (Routledge, 2017), Paas treats secularity as one thing, but West was a passionate ritualist. Angli- which I edited, there is much effective it varies from place to place. Dis- can church planting may have become church planting, often in surprising cussing Western Europe raises the largely the preserve of evangelicals in and difficult places such as Singapore, question of how Southern and Eastern recent decades, but it is in the DNA of Congo, and South America. Europe compare. Eastern Europe has all strands of Anglicanism and is much Fifth, Anglicans have gifts to offer seen significant church growth in the needed today. in the work of mission amidst secular- wake of communism’s collapse. This ity, as new churches planted in Europe said, Anglicans should avoid a starry- he experience of church planting show. English-medium worship has eyed view of Orthodoxy. While it can Tin Europe offers much for Angli- real agency, especially in diverse con- be impressive in diaspora communi- cans to ponder. Here are five sugges- texts. The Anglican notion of via me- ties, Orthodoxy is vulnerable to state tions. dia has serious traction in contexts of capture, as the experience of Russia First, face up to the potency of Eu- previous divisions between Roman shows. ropean secularity, however apparently Catholic and Protestant Christians. All this is a helpful way into dis- pious our current context. There is There is a religious Anglosphere that is cussing secularization in the United much rhetoric in Anglican circles culturally potent, has a global reach, States. There is considerable evidence about formation. But few recognize and shows every sign of expanding. An of secularization, especially on the east that those who live in the West are Anglican-shaped gospel speaks co- and west coasts and among the young. deeply formed by secularity. I often gently into such worlds. This helps ex- But America is not Europe, nor should recommend to my students James K.A. plain much of the growth of the Com- it be forgotten that it has experienced Smith’s How (Not) to be Secular: Read- munion and offers a sign of how secularization before. The growth of ing Charles Taylor. It gives a succinct churches might be planted elsewhere. churches in key cities such as New and punchy description of what secu- York and the way some denominations lar culture looks like, how to be depro- The Rev. David Goodhew is director of have proven more resilient than others grammed from it, and how Christian ministerial practice at Cranmer Hall, St. is a warning that individual congrega- faith can subvert it. We need to liberate John’s College, Durham University tions and denominations have real ourselves from our secular formation if (bit.ly/GrowthDurham).

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 21 personnel who will labor for many night. The scale of the loss of life and news november 5, 2017 days to save the wounded.” the numbers of injured is truly shock- | The shooting surpassed the 2016 ing. We are sending our deepest con- Cuernavaca massacre in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, dolences to you and to the people of becoming the deadliest single-perpe- your diocese — in particular, the peo- (Continued from page 7) trator mass shooting in U.S. history. ple of Las Vegas,” the primates wrote to remaining united in prayer for those The bishops have asked Episcopalians Bishop Dan Edwards of the Diocese of who have lost almost everything, for to urge lawmakers to remove assault Nevada. the strength that is needed to rebuild weapons from civilian hands and to “We are praying for the families and structures, but especially for strength “engage in the debates that shape how friends of those who have died and for of the spirit,” he said. “And give thanks Americans live and die, especially the many people who have been to God when they awaken to the light when they die due to violence or neg- wounded. We remember, too, every- of a new day.” lect.” one else caught up in this tragedy — Matthew Townsend The bishops went beyond calling for including the first responders. We pray legal action and urged Americans to that the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ Reflection and Prayer change their lives in ways that would will be with the people of Las Vegas as reduce gun violence. they endure this trauma.” Bishops United Against Gun Violence “Our country is feasting on anger issued a statement Oct. 2 calling on that fuels rage, alienation, and loneli- Episcopalians to pray for the victims ness. From the White House to the More Students of the mass shooting at a Las Vegas halls of Congress to our own towns music festival that left 59 dead and 530 and perhaps at our own tables, we Pursuing Ministry injured. The statement also asked that nurse grudges and resentments rather Numbers of people entering training Episcopalians seek better ways to ad- than cultivating the respect, concern for ministry in the Church of England dress anger and resentment within and affection that each of us owes to have reached the highest level in a American culture. the other. The leaders who should be decade, and women now make up “It has become clichéd at moments speaking to us of reconciliation and the more than half the total, according to such as these to offer thoughts and justice that must precede it too often the church’s Ministry Division. prayers. But as Christians, we must re- instead stoke flames of division and As a new term begins, 544 men and flect upon the mass killings that un- mistrust. We must, as a nation, em- women are training for ordained min- fold with such regularity in our coun- brace prayerful resistance before our istry, an increase of 14 percent on last try,” the bishops wrote. “And we must worse impulses consume us.” year. Among them are 274 women, the pray: for the victims, for their loved Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and biggest class of female ordinands for a ones, for all who attended to the vic- his fellow primates prayed for victims decade. tims in the immediacy of the shooting, during the Primates’ Meeting in Octo- Another positive sign is growth in for the first responders who do so ber. the number of younger ordinands, in much to mitigate the awful effects of “We were greatly distressed to learn the under-32 age group. They account these shootings, and for the medical of the dreadful events in Las Vegas last for 28 percent of the total. Clergy in paid positions fell by 4 percent during the same period, from 8,120 in 2013 to 7,790 in 2016. The proportion of clergy in paid positions from black and minority ethnic com- munities remained largely unchanged Project in 2016, at 3.5 percent. The growth in numbers reflects at- Canterbury tempts by the Church of England to The free online home for boost the number of candidates for or- dination by 50 percent by 2020 as part Anglican and Episcopal its Renewal and Reform program. It historical documents and aims to recruit more women and young people and boost the ethnic di- related scholarship. versity of candidates for ordination. Since 1999. “We are mindful, however, that sig- nificant work still remains to be done anglicanhistory.org to improve the age profile, gender and ethnicity of our clergy to better reflect the makeup of our congregations and

22 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 the wider population,” said Julian Hub- bard, director of the Church of Eng- land’s Ministry Division. John Martin Fifty Years of Anglican Presence POSTCARD FROM BUENOS AIRES Matthew Townsend photo A parish’s 50th anniversary is an op- Spanish and English congregations gather at St. Michael's, Martínez, for its 50th anniversary. portunity to celebrate the church’s his- tory, its mission, and its survival high Anglicanism and evangelical wor- contributions to the life of the Diocese against the odds. For the Anglican ship to coexist within the diocese; peo- will continue.” Church of St. Michael and All Angels ple hug each other and are warm, but Johnston said the diocese is in need in Martínez, a suburb in the Argentine formality of relationship — knowing of a third full-time bishop. A second capital of Buenos Aires, its jubilee an- one’s role in the larger social order — is bishop suffragan will be elected in niversary brought a festive party, a also important. 2018, pending approval of the diocesan joint service, and a sermon by Arch- “We like to think of it as the genius convention in November. bishop Gregory Venables. The event of Anglicanism, the ability as Angli- also provided an opportunity to reflect cans to be able to adapt within the lo- on the changing nature of the church cal culture and maintain the identity of Bishop Walmsley Dies in Argentina. the culture, but at the same time main- “It’s nice to see how there’s a transi- tain the identity of Anglicanism.” The Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley, re- tion in the community,” the Rev. Brian Matthew Townsend tired Bishop of Connecticut, died Oct. Williams, rector of St. Michael’s, told 5 at his home in Deering, New Hamp- TLC. “It started as Anglo Argentines shire. “Bishop Walmsley had been with services in English, and now it’s Virginia Bishop to Retire struggling with a bad case of pneumo- shifting towards Spanish and younger nia for the last few weeks,” the Rt. Rev. families.” The Rt. Rev. Shannon Johnston, Ian Douglas, Bishop of Connecticut, Williams said the parish was in the Bishop of Virginia, has announced the wrote the diocese. “He had recently re- middle of this shift. Older English retirement of his assistant bishop and turned home from the hospital and speakers are still numerous in the called for a second suffragan bishop. was being cared for by his loving wife church, but nearly all newcomers are “Nearly seven years ago, the Rt. Rev. and companion in ministry, Roberta.” families and Spanish speakers. The Edwin ‘Ted’ Gulick returned to his na- Walmsley, who served as 12th church offers both Spanish- and Eng- tive Virginia to become the Assistant bishop of the diocese, was 89. lish-language services; the anniversary Bishop of this Diocese. During that “Arthur will be remembered not service was bilingual but mostly in time, he has brought his boundless en- only for his profound and far-reaching Spanish, including the archbishop’s ergy to everything he has touched,” ministry in Connecticut, but also for sermon. Johnston wrote. “Now, Bishop Gulick his work in ecumenical affairs, social According to Venables, who also has announced his plans to retire at the justice, and racial reconciliation in a serves as Bishop of Argentina, this end of this year. Thankfully, he and his variety of positions including in the transition follows a historical pattern wife, Barbara, will continue to live on Department of Social Relations at the in the Argentine church. their Fauquier County farm, so their (Continued on next page) “The Anglican Church in South America, and particularly here in Ar- gentina, is really something God him- self has done,” Venables told TLC. He said the church has made many deci- sions in its 200 years in the country, in- cluding the change from Spanish to English services or a shift from rural to urban ministry.

“But it was nearly always clear that A Division of God was doing something, and that’s given the Anglican Church in this part of the world its identity.” That trusting identity, he said, allows

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 23 Sheppard, former Bishop news november 5, 2017 of Liverpool (1975-97) | and an England test Walmsley cricket captain, was a significant voice on be- (Continued from previous page) half of people from de- Episcopal Church Center in New York prived inner-city areas. and as Director of the Massachusetts The former Irish Pri- Council of Churches,” Douglas said. mate Robin Eames, who played a heroic role dur- ing Northern Ireland’s Peerage for troubles, is a life peer. Richard Chartres Chartres’s status as a Chartres POSTCARD FROM LONDON life peer places him in a different category from the 26 senior there is complete transparency for the Invariably retiring Archbishops of Church of England bishops who are actions of bishops in the House. In the Canterbury and York are honored with designated “Lords Spiritual.” They cut and thrust of debate, peers do not a seat in the House of Lords. It’s rare, cease holding that office on retirement. spare bishops when they disagree. however, for other retired bishops to Under recent rules, retired bishops Measures (major policy changes) be so elevated. Last week the Prime who are life peers may stand down. passed by the General Synod must be Minister’s office announced that the This is the case of John Habgood, who approved in both the Houses of Com- Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Richard Chartres, was Archbishop of York (1983 to mons and Lords. who retired as 133rd Bishop of London 1995). The Rt. Rev. David Urquhart, Bishop in March, is to be a life peer. He will sit There are five senior bishoprics — of Birmingham, currently coordinates on the House’s cross benches. Canterbury, York, London, Durham, the work of Lords Spiritual. Staff spe- The Archbishop of Canterbury, and Winchester — in which incum- cialists at Church House Westminster Justin Welby, welcomed the news: “It is bents automatically become Lords provide a civil service to bishops in the wonderful to hear that Richard Spiritual. As vacancies occur, the re- House, researching policy issues and Chartres will be returning to the House maining 21 are promoted on seniority helping prepare speeches and ques- of Lords. His deep wisdom, experi- of consecration. A recent change in the tions. The position of bishops as Lords ence, and integrity were greatly valued law paved the way for women to be Spiritual has evolved. There is talk during his two decades on the Bishops’ fast-tracked into the Lords: so far from time to time about reducing the benches.” Rachel Treweek (Gloucester) and number of bishops in the House, but Chartres said he hoped “to continue Christine Hardman (Newcastle). Lords this has not gained traction. to speak up for the causes important to Spiritual occupy two benches next to Disestablishment of the Church of London and beyond, contributing to a the throne on the government side of Ireland and Wales meant bishops from new chapter — without, of course, the House. these provinces ceased to be Lords. treading on my successor’s toes.” Speeches by bishops need not be The Bishop of Sodor and Man has In recent memory, only two rank confined to church affairs. All parlia- never sat in Westminster, although he and file retired bishops were made mentary speeches are reproduced ver- has a prominent place in the local par- Lords. Richard Harries, a former batim and votes are recorded in a pub- liament (Tynwald). The Church of Bishop of Oxford (1987 to 2006), was lication known as Hansard, which Scotland has never been represented highly regarded as an ethicist. David appears online and in book form. Thus by right, but occasionally Scottish cler- ics have become life peers. There are Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim peers but NOTICE: MOVING SERVICES they are not members by right. The most radical changes to the role of the Church of England within Par- Skip Higgins liament occurred during King Henry VIII’s s dissolution of monasteries. Un- 225-937-0700 til that time, Lords Spiritual included www.custommovers.net • [email protected] abbots (Scots as well as English) and “Moving Episcopal clergy to new ministries since 1982.” they outnumbered the Lords Tempo- Clergy discounts • Only one survey/ 3 estimates • Major van lines represented ral. Between 1536 and 1540, however, Full value protection plans • Late pick-up/delivery penalties* the king removed the seats of the ab- Internet satellite tracking • 24/7 cell phone contact to assure your peace of mind bots. Thereafter, Lords Spiritual formed CUSTOM MOVERS - FHWA Lic. #MC370752 a minority in the House of Lords. *Certain Restrictions apply John Martin

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Appointments Daniel Wade McClain, and Joanne Russell State of the Church Committee at General Con- The Rev. Charles Jerry Smith is vicar of St. Tetrault vention. He often referred to Episcopalians as Michael and All Angels’, Columbia, SC. Nebraska — Steven Michael Karcher (for “the cutting middle.” The Rev. Warren Bradley Toebben is rector San Joaquin) Cheney’s first wife, Allan Glover Walker Ch- of St. Paul’s, Milwaukee. New Hampshire — Nathaniel Bourne, eney, preceded him in death. He is survived by The Rev. Paula J. Toland is priest-in-charge curate at St. John’s, Portsmouth his wife of 18 years, Stephanie Turnbull Ch- of Grace, Oxford, MA. Pittsburgh — Annis Elizabeth eney; a brother, William Garner Cheney; a sis- The Rev. Alejandra Trillos is priest-in- Humphries Rogers ter, Winifred Cheney Barron; his daughters An- charge of Iglesia San Andres, Yonkers, NY. Rio Grande — Charles Wayne Jones toinette Bibb Cheney and Ruth Cheney Patton; The Rev. Janet Tunnell is priest-in-charge Vermont — Paul Benjamin Moberly a son, Reynolds Smith Cheney III; stepsons of All Saints, Tarpon Springs, FL. Brian and Ben Helm; and three grandchildren. The Rev. Richard Weinberg is missioner Received His children and grandchildren called him and formation associate at St. Margaret’s and Long Island — The Rev. Joseph Diele, Big Daddy. strategic communications adviser for the Dio- ordained in 1985 by the Roman Catholic cese of Washington. Church of the Diocese of Brooklyn. The Rev. Daniel A. Westberg, 68, professor The Rev. Richard C. Weyls is rector of St. of ethics and moral theology at Nashotah Andrew’s, Seattle. Retirements House since 2000, died Oct. 18 in a boating The Rev. Joanna White is chaplain to clergy The Rev. Charles Alley, as rector of St. accident on Upper Nashotah Lake. and their families in the Diocese of Maryland. Matthew’s, Richmond “The Rev. Dr. Daniel Westberg was a faithful The Ven. Michele Whitford is vicar of St. The Rev. Annwn Myers, as associate dean priest of the Diocese of Milwaukee whose gifts Paul’s, Plymouth, WI. for recruitment and admissions at the Uni- as a teacher were a blessing to us all,” said the Rt. versity of the South’s School of Theology Rev. Steven A. Miller, Bishop of Milwaukee. Life Profession The Rev. Brigid Waszczak, as deacon at “Our hearts and prayers go out to his wife, Lisa, Order of St. Helena — Sister Miriam St. Matthew’s, Tucson their family, and the community of Nashotah Elizabeth (Faith E. Bledsoe) House at this sad time. We pray that Dan will go from strength to strength in God’s perfect king- Ordinations dom.” Deacons Deaths Born in Chicago to parents who were mis- Central Florida — Sean David Duncan, The Rev. Jacob D. Beck, who edited Mon- sionaries with the Evangelical Covenant Gregory Emanuel Favazza, James Andrew tana’s diocesan newspaper and worked in ec- Church, Westberg grew up in Japan. He became Flood IV, Robert Talmadge Griffith, umenical settings, died April 5. He was 83. an Anglican during graduate medieval studies Robert Maurice McGee, Kay Mueller, Ken- Born in Philadelphia, he was a graduate of at the University of Toronto and served as a neth Lee Nolen, Thomas Morgan Phillips, the University Pennsylvania’s Wharton School priest of the Anglican Church of Canada for 10 Robert Sean Strenth, and Richard Lawrence and Philadelphia Divinity School. years. He was received into the priesthood of Wilson He was ordained deacon and priest in 1958 the Episcopal Church in 2001. East Carolina — Skip Walker and began his ministry at Holy Spirit Church in His degrees included a DPhil from Oxford El Camino Real — Janet Helen Wild Missoula, where he was also a chaplain at the University (1988), an MDiv from Wycliffe Col- Maine — Catherine Amy Kropp University of Montana. He was chaplain at the lege, Toronto (1978), an MA from the Univer- New Hampshire — Sandra Janet Spin- University of Washington and then became rec- sity of Toronto (1972), and an AB in classics ning Albom, Shawn Vincent LaFrance, and tor of St. Francis Church in Great Falls, near from Dartmouth College (1971). Charles Covert Nichols Jr. Malmstrom Air Force Base. After the death of his first wife, Lynne, West- Southwest Florida — Adrienne Hymes, He served on the board of the first ecu- berg remarried and moved his family to Ox- missioner for church extension in the diocese menical children’s temporary receiving home ford, where he studied with Oliver O’Donovan Washington— Harvey Bale, Cynthia in Montana, the president’s council of the Ro- and Herbert McCabe, OP, and wrote a disserta- Dopp, David Griswold, Mary McCue, and man Catholic University of Great Falls, and the tion on Thomas Aquinas and the virtue of pru- Julie Petersmeyer founding board of a War on Poverty agency. He dence. Western Louisiana — Andre Bordelon returned to the East Coast in 1981 and served From 1990 to 1998 Westberg taught ethics at and Madge McLain as a supply priest in Maryland and Virginia. the University of Virginia; then he spent an in- Western North Carolina — Jonathan Fr. Beck is survived by his wife, Carla; terim year teaching theology at a seminary in Leon Stepp daughters Mary Niederklein and Anne Beck; a Canada. son, Justin; and four grandchildren. Priests His books include Right Practical Reason: Atlanta — Zachary Neubauer (for Cen- Action, Aristotle, and Prudence in Aquinas (Ox- tral Florida) The Rev. Reynolds Smith Cheney II, ford University Press, 1994) and Renewing Central Florida — John Edwards, Joshua longtime General Convention deputy and Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Gritter, Lauren Larkin, and Gladys committee chairman, died July 10 after a Character, and Grace (InterVarsity Press, 2015). Rodriguez lengthy illness. He was 80. He worked with the Rev. Reginald Fuller to pro- Dallas — Alexander Graham and John Born in Jackson, MS, he was a graduate of duce the third edition of Preaching the Lec- Sundara Millsaps College and Episcopal Divinity School. tionary: The Word of God for the Church Today East Tennessee — Elizabeth Ann He was ordained deacon and priest in 1961. He (Liturgical Press, 2006). Embler-Beazley and Matt Farr served in multiple churches in Mississippi before Fr. Westberg also is survived by his father, a Long Island — Terrence Buckley, Mor- becoming rector of the Church of the Holy Com- brother and three sisters, four grown children, gan Mercer Ladd, Matthew Moore, Pauline munion, where he served from 1981 to 2001. and three grandchildren. He divided his time Samuel, and Stephen Tamke. He served for six years as a member of the between Wisconsin and Småland, Sweden, Maryland — Pamela Gales Conrad, Executive Council and was chairman of the where Lisa Westberg is a hospital physician.

november 5, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 25 THE LIVING CHU RCH SUNDAY’S READINGS | All Saints, November 5 VoLUme 255 • nUmbeR 7 Rev. 7:9-17 • Ps. 34:1-10, 22 • 1 John 3:1-3 • Matt. 5:1-12 eDIToRIAL Executive Director and Editor Dr. Christopher wells Managing Editor John schuessler The Departed Senior Editor Douglas Leblanc Associate Editors here are saints, known and un- would fall over the congregation as Jeff boldt Tknown, who by the example of names evoked memories, as the nave The Rev. Dr. Zachary Guiliano their lives show us how to live and how filled with invisible souls. In this way, The Rev. Canon Jordan Hylden News Editor to hope for the joys of the age to come. parishioners prayed individually and matthew Townsend Though virtuous and godly, they were for each other, a real and profound Associate Editor for International News John martin not perfect, and their imperfections of- sharing in sorrow and joy. In 2008, on Assistant Editor The Rev. emily Hylden ten promoted their superstar status. All Saints Sunday, I read my daughter’s Correspondents Great saints are the great heroes of name, barely two months after her G. Jeffrey macDonald Kirk Petersen faith. Some of their names are written sudden death in a car accident. Where in our calendar, most are not, though are the souls we love? And is love bUsIness AnD FULFILLmenT Office/Business Manager they are all written in the book of life. stronger than death? Ruth schimmel Christianity is what it is because of Prayer for the dead is a form of Administrative Assistant beverly mantyh these people; they were witnesses in protest, a refusal by God’s grace to con- ADVeRTIsInG their generation to the transforming sign our loved ones to nothingness. 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26 THe LIVInG CHURCH • november 5, 2017 SUNDAY’S READINGS | 23 Pentecost, November 12 Josh. 24:1-3a, 14-25 or Wis. 6:12-16 or Amos 5:18-24 Ps. 78:1-7 or Wis. 6:17-20 or Psalm 70 • 1 Thess. 4:13-18 • Matt. 25:1-13 Such Love call to the one true God is a call away to buy oil, missed the bride- Afrom love itself seeking love’s ful- groom, and were shut out of the ban- fillment in the elect. It is good to hear quet. The wise carry in flasks some- God, to obey, and to follow, precisely thing we might call the oil of gladness, Beauty and Dignity because God is the ground of our true a vigilant desire always to meet the At the end of World War II, the Bishop being; God forgives and purges and in- bridegroom at whatever hour. This not of Dallas established a new parish for fuses with grace, grafting his saints into an oil merchants can sell, this is a pre- the growing area then referred to as the perfect life of Christ. This is the life cious inward anointing, the gift of God “North Dallas.” Today, Saint Michael worth living, and the only true life we (St. Augustine, Sermon XLIII, Ser- and All Angels is one of the largest have. All things come of thee, Oh Lord. mons on New Testament Lessons). The Episcopal churches in the United States, God calls in a way that inclines the wise are those who love much and serving more than 6,500 communicants. heart (Josh. 24:23). God awakes a re- yearn deeply and keep vigil. This is In 1948, our founders built a Gothic sponding love in the deepest center of deep down love. stone structure, which is now the Saint one’s being. This is what it means to Only God can awaken this love, and Michael Chapel. The “main” mid- present yourself before God, to hear an he awakens love by giving it. Still, an century modern church was completed inner call and feel the wound of love’s open hand and an open heart must in 1961. Over the intervening years the response. And with this fresh wound take it. Freely accepted, the oil of God campus was expanded to meet the one inevitably feels resistance, a uni- is an abyss of love and desire and vigi- needs of growing ministries and verse of counter-claims, ancient gods, lance. He who endures to the end will attendance. Today, the church is and present idolatries. And so desire be saved. surrounded by high-rise office towers must be awakened to new depths, a de- Let love and desire deepen. Do not and retail shops to its north, and sire for God alone. God calls and lis- be embarrassed by love. Augustine residential communities to its south. tens for words like these: “Far be it writes: “Watch with the heart, watch People come to Saint Michael and All from us that we should forsake the with faith, watch with hope, watch Angels to worship God in the dignified LORD to serve other gods” (Josh. with love, watch with good works; and beauty of the liturgy, music, and 24:16). then, when thou shalt sleep in thy sacraments, and seeking Christian God speaks in his Word. Jesus is the body, the time will come when thou formation for their families. They come Word and Wisdom of God. He is radi- shalt rise. And when thou shalt have to be comforted and reconciled, and to ant and unfading, loving and calling in risen, make ready the lamps. … Then be inspired to live their baptismal vows love. He awakens disciples who learn shall the Bridegroom fold thee in his in service to God and neighbor. to love and seek and desire. He meets spiritual embrace, then shall he bring those whom he calls in every moment thee into his house, where thou shalt (Wis. 6:12-16). “Come, follow me,” he never sleep, where thy lamp shall never says, and with his call he fixes thought be extinguished.” and desire on himself, that is, perfect God wants all our love and desire understand; for he is all that the Fa- and yearning. “Oh God, you have ther is. made us for yourself, and we are rest- Jesus tells a story about those who less until we rest in thee” (Augustine, love him, and those who in the end do Confessions). not. “Ten bridesmaids took their lamps St. Michael and All Angels Church and went to meet the bridegroom. Five Look It Up 8011 Douglas Ave, Dallas, TX 75225 of them were foolish, and five wise. Read Joshua 24:1. 214.363.5471 | saintmichael.org When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor wise took flasks of oil with their lamps” Think About It (Matt. 25:1-4). The bridegroom was Love pours out from a broken and con- delayed, the women slept, and then, trite heart. suddenly, there was a shout. The bride- groom came at midnight, that is, an unexpected hour. The wise, having a reserve of oil, trimmed their wicks and went out to meet him. The foolish went

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