Herbert Leading Women 2019: BLESSED ADVENT & MERRY CHRISTMAS O’Driscoll Breaking through the 3 on Christ’s 7 St. Nicholas stained glass ceiling unwrapped guardian PM# 40069670 4 Anglican Journal Since 1875 anglicanjournal.com @anglicanjournal vol. 145 no. 10 december 2019

‘You weep before you get to Bethlehem’

Canadian Anglicans visit the city of Christ’s birth in a tension-fraught time

By Tali Folkins staff writer For the past quarter-century, Canon Richard LeSueur, who lectured at St. George’s College in Jerusalem in the early 1990s, has been returning to the Holy Land for one month almost every year to teach or lead pilgrimages. There’s something he often says to groups of westerners when he first guides them into Bethlehem for Christmas: “I can’t show you the Bethlehem you have imagined, because it doesn’t exist.”

See BETHLEHEM, p. 8 photo: church of the nativity, bethlehem konoplytska/shutterstock Amidst rising global conflict, Anglicans work for peace on earth Nuclear disarmament ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Creighton went on to serve as the Anglican a key issue for Project Church of Canada’s representative to Project Ploughshares Ploughshares, the peace research institute of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), Matt Gardner from 1987-88 and from 1990-98. And since staff writer 2018, the Doomsday Clock now stands at The Cold War was at one of its many heights two minutes to midnight. in 1982 when Phyllis Creighton’s essay “The The forward march of the clock suggests Ethics of Death” appeared in Voice from humanity is closer than ever to global photo: contributed the Mountain, a series of reflections from destruction caused by its own technologies. Peter Goodwin (left) led a PWRDF team at the Vancouver Ride for Refuge event— Anglicans on the Ten Commandments. In response, many Christians have sought one of several such rides in Canada through which participants raised funds. In her essay, Creighton described to challenge the weapons and dealers of nuclear policies pursued by the world’s death. Through participation in Project superpowers as resting on “the willingness Ploughshares and activism in their churches PWRDF Ride for Refuge teams raise more to unleash hideous, incalculable poisoning and communities, Canadian Anglicans are of the earth and mutation of the human living out the call of the Marks of Mission than $18,000 for DRC hospital program species—apocalyptic terror.” She warned “to challenge violence of every kind and to that the world stood “more in danger of pursue peace and reconciliation.” Joelle Kidd The latest Ride for Refuge took place war, and annihilation, than at any time At the October meeting of the United staff writer Oct. 5. PWRDF, which has participated since 1945” and that the Bulletin of Atomic Nations General Assembly, representatives For the sixth consecutive year, riders under since 2014, raised $18,498 for Maison Scientists had recently moved the hands of of Project Ploughshares were present for the the banner of the Primate’s World Relief Dorcas, part of the Panzi Hospital in the its Doomsday Clock from 12 minutes to annual gathering of the First Committee, and Development Fund (PWRDF) hopped Democratic Republic of the Congo. midnight to four. Disarmament and International Security. on their bikes and rode up to 50 km to Ride for Refuge is a non-competitive Much has changed since Creighton’s As a founding member of the CCC, the support victims of sexual and gender-based cycling and walking event that takes place essay was published. The Cold War officially See PEACE, p. 6 violence. See RIDE, p. 2 2 anglican journal • december 2019 Ride teams support victims of gender-based violence

Continued from p. 1 since 2014. “There was a call out to the annually in cities across Canada. There are diocesan reps to try and get teams going in 10 km, 25 km or 50 km routes for cyclists their area. When I saw…they’ve got teams and 5 km walking routes for those who going in Hamilton and Toronto, I said, want to participate on foot. Funds raised go ‘We’ve gotta get one going out here!’” towards charities chosen by participating Goodwin says he is inspired by the teams in Canada and around the world. chance to raise money for a good cause, This year, 37 participants rode as well as the camaraderie the ride creates. for PWRDF in six teams in multiple “It’s amazing, you see the same people, cities—Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and once a year…. You ride with your fellow Brampton. There were also some “RIDE Anglicans for the cause, and it’s just a great Anywhere” participants (individuals experience all around.” without teams, in cities with no official The event also allows PWRDF to Ride for Refuge event). raise money for partner organizations The Panzi Hospital, according to without taking on any of the logistic and Jeanine Cudmore, PWRDF development administrative costs, which are managed program coordinator, was founded in 1999 through Ride for Refuge. by Dr. Denis Mukwege “as a response to photo: contributed Around eight or nine people joined the the devastating war that surrounded his The Toronto team stands with their bikes. A total of 37 participants on six teams PWRDF Vancouver team this year and community” in the Democratic Republic of rode for PWRDF this year. raised more than $6,000, Goodwin says. the Congo. The hospital provides medical Ride for Refuge has raised more than $12 care for women and girls who are survivors 60% of women treated at Panzi Hospital are violence and their dependent children. The million since its founding in 2004, according of sexual and gender-based violence, in an unable to return home afterwards—whether program also offers training in literacy, to the organization’s corporate social area that still experiences armed conflict. because of the extent of their injuries, business, job skills and micro-lending to responsibility and development associate, Mukwege won the Nobel Peace Prize for continuing danger or stigma attached help the women launch micro-enterprises. Liam Good. This year, rides were held in his work in 2018. to victims of sexual violence. The safe Peter Goodwin, PWRDF representative 22 cities across Canada, in addition to sites Maison Dorcas was started in 2008, home provides housing, meals and access for the diocese of New Westminster, has chosen by independent “RIDE Anywhere” following realizations that up to 40% to to therapeutic care to victims of sexual organized PWRDF’s Vancouver ride team teams, with more than 6,500 participants. g

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GOODWILL TO ALL4 A legendary figure with contemporary relevance Matt Gardner further popularized in the 1930s through staff writer advertisements for Coca-Cola. While the feast day for Nicholas falls HE NAME OF St. Nicholas is commonly associated with the near the start of Advent, Flynn calls the Christmas season, but popular date largely a coincidence. He suggests that Timagination is likely to picture him less as a perceptions of Nicholas were more likely influenced by Advent rather than the other saint wearing bishop’s robes and more as a way around, due to the prominence of plump, jolly man in a bright red suit. contemporary Christmas culture. Santa Claus is commonly known as “old “These days, you wouldn’t know that Saint Nick,” and the modern idea of him [Nicholas] was a bishop,” Flynn says. “There was influenced in part by the legendary 5 The Dutch are some places, like in the Netherlands figure of St. Nicholas. But in Christian cultural still, where on Dec. 6 there is a Santa Claus, denominations around the world, Nicholas representation a St. Nicholas, who goes around, he’s still of Myra remains one of the most widely of St. Nicholas, dressed in bishop’s robes and so forth. venerated saints, known as the patron saint Sinterklaas, That’s disappeared from the contemporary of sailors, merchants, students and children, was a mythical Santa Claus phenomenon, so in a way, among other groups. figure said to fill it’s too bad that that’s been obscured by Within the Anglican Church of Canada, children’s shoes more sentimental and frankly commercial Nicholas is the patron saint of the Anglican with treats. interests.” Military Ordinariate. At least seven photo: gordine n/ Yet if, as Power argues, “the original cult shutterstock Anglican churches across Canada—in of St. Nicholas has been overshadowed by Ontario, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and that of Santa Claus,” Nicholas still maintains Newfoundland and Labrador—have named a prominent place in the devotional themselves after him. Each year, Anglicans imagination, particularly in the Christian celebrate his feast day on Dec. 6, the date on East. which Nicholas is said to have died in Myra As the patron saint of countries like in the year 342. Greece and Russia, Nicholas is widely Separating historical fact from fiction, depicted in icons dressed as an Orthodox however, can be difficult when it comes bishop. In many Eastern Orthodox to the lives of the saints. Nicholas is traditions, when a child is born, parents will noteworthy among the saints for the sheer place an icon of St. Nicholas at the foot of number of legendary tales that came to be the child’s cradle, underscoring his image as associated with him. Traditionally, he is said a protector of children. to have been born in the year 270 in Patara, Nicholas is said to have supplied their 5 Paintings Though Nicholas is a less central a Greek commercial city in Asia Minor that dowries by anonymously leaving bags of and icons of St. figure among Canadian Anglicans, the was then part of the Roman Empire. But gold in their home. Nicholas of Myra Anglican Military Ordinariate reiterated even his very existence remains an open “In this way he rescued them from traditionally his continuing relevance in June 2010 when question among some scholars. what would otherwise might have been a depict him the ordinariate named Nicholas its patron “If St. Nicholas of Myra existed at all, we life of impoverishment and degradation,” wearing bishop’s saint. In an article from the time, Padre can know nothing of his life with historical Power says. “When Nicholas’s identity was robes—a far cry Brad Smith called Nicholas “an inspiration certainty,” says Thomas Power, adjunct revealed, his fame as a gift-giver spread.” from the image to Christians everywhere,” describing his professor of church history at Wycliffe “Here was all the raw material for what of Santa Claus in veneration by both Western and Eastern College. “We do know that he was Bishop a bright red suit was to become in time the Santa Claus Christians as a sign of the universality of the of Myra in Lycia,… an ancient city located popularized by tale: A secret nighttime visitor who silently gospel. on the southern coast of Turkey on the entered a home to bestow wonderful gifts on The Night Before “For chaplains, who are often called to Mediterranean.” children. The result was that he became the Christmas and provide advice to commanders and on- Kevin Flynn, director of Anglican advertisements patron saint of children, his gifts to whom the-ground support to deployed troops, St. studies at St. Paul University, offers a similar for Coca-Cola. became the basis of his later association (as Nicholas represents the chaplain’s call to assessment of the historical record, noting Santa Claus) with Christmas.” photo: public domain serve regardless of religious background only that “people are pretty confident that Over the years, Power says, a cult grew and encourages us to work with chaplains there was somebody named Nicholas who up around Nicholas, and his church in of other faith traditions,” Smith wrote. “His was a bishop in that part of the world. Myra became a major centre of pilgrimage. birthplace (modern-day Turkey) also “There’s not a huge amount that can In 1087, sailors from the southern port provides us with a catalyst to cross the be said [with] absolute certainty about city of Bari in Italy raided the church and boundary between Christians and Muslims.” the details of his life,” Flynn adds. “There’s stole Nicholas’s remains, claiming that the Among tales of the saint, the story of abundant legendary material, including, Muslim Turks who then occupied Myra Nicholas saving girls from being taken for example, that he was at the Council of would desecrate his tomb. The theft of his into sexual slavery also has relevance for Nicaea and punched Arius the heretic. But bones transferred many of the traditions Anglicans today as the worldwide Anglican there’s not even any record of his having surrounding Nicholas from the East to the Communion calls for the eradication of been there.” West, where they subsequently spread. human trafficking and modern slavery. Many legends became associated with Legends about Nicholas gradually Regardless of the historical facts around Nicholas that later led to his status as a became entrenched in the unique Nicholas, Flynn says, the legend that patron saint. cultural traditions of different countries. has grown up around him has become The port city of Myra in which Nicholas In the Netherlands, he took the form significant in its own right as a reminder of served as bishop was a common stop for of Sinterklaas, a mythical figure said to Christian concern for the young and those ships en route between Rome, Egypt and have sailed from Spain with a Moorish in need. Byzantium. According to legend, Nicholas helper named Black Peter (“Zwarte Piet”). “I know Romeo and Juliet is a fiction, is said to have saved Myra from starvation Sinterklaas supposedly filled Dutch but it tells me a lot of true things about how by seizing grain from a ship bound for children’s shoes with treats and knew people relate to one another,” Flynn says as Byzantium from Egypt. No one noticed the whether their behaviour was good or bad. an analogy. stolen cargo; this was viewed as a miracle. In North America, the idea of Sinterklaas “We don’t remember Nicholas As a result, Nicholas became the patron arrived with Dutch immigrants, and his just because the church is incurably saint of sailors, and churches dedicated to name became anglicized as Santa Claus. antiquarian—but because the saints him are often built so they can be viewed off The publication in 1823 of Clement are not just our predecessors, but our the coast as landmarks. Clarke Moore’s poem A Visit from St. contemporaries in Christ. What he In another story, a poor father in Myra Nicholas, commonly known as The Night represents about faithful Christian had three young daughters who were being Before Christmas, helped establish the leadership is just as significant to us now courted for marriage but lacked dowries. modern image of Santa Claus, which was as it’s ever been.” g 4 anglican journal • december 2019

ANGLICAN The Guardian accepts—and prepares for— VOICES: GLORY TO GOD4 the coming of God

Canon Herbert O’Driscoll, that the voice had taken on a commanding tone. “You are to name him Jesus,” he was reflecting on Matthew 1:18-25, told. The tone was quiet but brooked no imagines Joseph’s response to the question nor failure to respond. Suddenly he knew why the messenger original Advent. had come. Suddenly he realized the one thing that in his fear and confusion he had been withholding—his acceptance of HAVE ALWAYS FELT that when the child that lay in Mary’s womb. That Jesus suggested to his disciples that acceptance, freely given, was the one thing they relate to God as a loving father, needed to make this boy not only Mary’s Ihe was doing so because of his own loving son but his too. Now he knew the reason relationship with the man he would have for the immense gift of this visit. He had regarded as father, especially in his early been given this gift to show him that there years of childhood. was a gift he had to give to this unborn Recently I noticed in my Church Desk child. His life was now for only one Diary that the lectionary of the Evangelical purpose: to bring up the boy, to treasure Lutheran Church of Canada has named in him and to love him for whatever years lay a new way the figure that Jesus would have ahead. looked to as parent. He is called Joseph: Tears welled up in Joseph as he felt Guardian of Jesus, and the day on which acceptance and gratitude flood over him. we give thanks for his life is March 19. The angelic aura began to dim until it was I feel that the best way to meet him is no longer present. As it faded, the first rays to try to grasp what it might have meant of the morning sun splashed across the walls for him to wrestle with an experience that must have been life-shattering. I imagine of the simple workshop in which he slept. him trying to come to terms with what From now on, he thought, there would the woman he loved has just told him. I have to be a home, however simple, think it likely that the hour is late at night, a home for his wife and for the boy. perhaps even not long before dawn, a Who knows, he might yet make a good time when we often wrestle with troubled carpenter of him. Tears welled again, but g thought, and when we sometimes dream… this time they were tears of joy. * * * Herbert O’Driscoll In desperation he tried to force himself to is former cathedral dean think clearly. There were only two things of New Westminster and an internationally of which he could be certain. The woman 5“Whenever he encounter. recognized preacher and hymn writer. He to whom he was publicly betrothed was, by thought about He knew immediately that the figure has written more than 30 books. her own word, pregnant. At the same time that night— was an angel. All his life since childhood he was only too aware that he himself was and he would he had been told of such visitations. What not the father of the unborn child. remember it for was disturbing and astounding was that Certain courses of action were open to the rest of his he should be the recipient of such an him. One was to divorce as quickly and as life, particularly encounter. quietly as possible. He had absolutely no when he would The voice was rich beyond description, wish to bring shame on anyone, least of all look at the gentle and reassuring. The very first the girl for whom he had deep affection as growing boy who word was his own name, spoken in a way well as deep respect for her family. Again worked with him that utterly affirmed and respected him. and again he searched for some other at the bench—he “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid.” course of action that might help. Exhausted could never be Only in that moment did he recall that and miserable, he slipped into troubled sure whether the Mary, speaking of her own encounter, had and restless sleep. encounter had likewise been assured that there was no Years later, whenever he thought about been dreamt or need to fear. The voice continued. “Do not that night—and he would remember it for experienced in be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the the rest of his life, particularly when he some mysterious child conceived in her is from the Holy would look at the growing boy who worked reality beyond Spirit. She shall bear a son.” Excerpt from the with him at the bench—he could never normal He realized that he had no idea of the book A Greening of be sure whether the encounter had been experience.” meaning of what was being said to him, Imaginations—Walking dreamt or experienced in some mysterious but for some reason it didn’t seem to the Songlines of Holy image: thoom/ reality beyond normal experience. 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SINGING Glory to God, peace on earth, goodwill to all… WITH JOY4 By Linda Nicholls Imagine the shepherds on the night a shepherd to his people and change the of the birth of Jesus, tending the flocks as world. For now, these shepherds simply N MY EXPERIENCE there is they have always done. Sitting or dozing enjoy the miracle of a new baby, the joy of something both ordinary and profound under the stars, they keep one ear tuned his parents, and this moment of promise. in the way that people close to the land for the wolf or thief and the other listening Then they leave to tell the story and liveI daily. Farmers and shepherds know to the sounds of the flock at night. Was become the first evangelists of this part of the patience needed to tend the land or it the brilliance of the night sky? A song the Good News that they have seen. animals, knowing that they cannot control humming on the wind? Whatever it was We now retell their story as a many of the factors they depend on—the miraculous event with delight and awe. sun or rain, the predators or growth. They that drew their attention, in that moment Yet every part is rooted in the activities of have endurance and perseverance in the they took notice, and the night sky was daily life of ordinary people open to the face of uncertainties and also have capacity filled with the song of the angels inviting extraordinary possibilities of God at work to see beauty in the world around them in them to seek the reason for this moment. around them. the most ordinary moments. They leave their flocks to search, and God is always present. The possibilities Some years ago I tried to encourage a find it in a baby. An ordinary night turned very small congregation—which needed glorious and powerful enough to send of participating in God’s creating activity lay leaders to step up to lead worship— the shepherds to seek the child, becomes in the world are only limited by our that each of them had the capacity to 5When infinitely ordinary and vulnerable again willingness to see God in our daily lives, speak about their experience of God to describing an when they arrive at the manger. The feeding inviting us to see—to wonder—and to others. I asked them to name a moment encounter with area for animals, such as they daily tended, tell the Good News we know. May this of encounter with God in their lives. One the glory of God, holds just a baby—a wriggling, noisy baby Christmas be a celebration of God in the after another struggled to find the words the taciturn boy watched by a young mother and father, midst of our lives here and now—filled except a taciturn farmer at the end of the farmer struggled nervous and new to their role as parents. with possibilities when we look and see table. In a few spare sentences he described the least. And God is here. God at work around us and are ready to g a moment of encounter with the glory of photo: ysbrand This very ordinary moment contains hear the angels singing. God in nature as he stood at the fence of cosijn/shutterstock the extraordinary promise of God. This his fields—a moment both ordinary and child will carry the message of God’s love to Archbishop Linda Nicholls is the primate of profound. any and all who will hear. He will become the Anglican Church of Canada.

WALKING Looking north TOGETHER4 By Mark MacDonald The Arctic is warming three times faster and its consequences for the planet. than the rest of the planet. While many The Arctic will provide much of ROUND THIS TIME of year, contemplate the horrific consequences the framework of our global future. It the millions of Canadians who of melting ice and permafrost, others provides a vivid warning of the coming live in the south are reminded contemplate the opportunities a warmer consequences of a warming planet. It is thatA Canada is one of the great northern Arctic provides to create wealth. Because a call for meaningful action. Close to a countries. Though it doesn’t appear to of Canada’s colonial policies, the people of come to mind very often—it was largely quarter of the world’s remaining usable the North are neither able to sufficiently land is now under the guardianship missed in conversations that accompanied control what happens on their land, nor of Indigenous peoples around the our recent election—the North is an are they able to participate fully in the globe. Many of the moral, legal and social essential part of our land. A great deal of wealth that is produced there. This is bad principles that will decide the future of the the future of Canada and of our planet is for them and the planet. unfolding in the North. Indigenous peoples of the world and their In addition to these issues, a few The Anglican Church of Canada is protection of their lands are being debated centuries of colonial social policy have left not unlike Canada in its relationship deep wounds among the people. Coupled in the Arctic. Canada will either play a to the North. There is some awareness with climate injustice, these conditions positive role in this conversation or frame of our presence there, but it is not are a particularly toxic mix. Without full it in a negative way. an active part of the identity of most authority to oversee their land or their During my time in the Arctic, I have Anglicans. Despite the challenges in heard many prophecies about a revival the North, the churches there continue people, wealth, weather and economic in the churches of the world that would to bring an essential element to the expansion could intensify the social begin there. I believe these prophecies. This whole of the region, providing gospel- photo: ilya buyanov/ problems of the area. based spiritual community and pastoral shutterstock It would appear that those least revival will have many consequences— care. With that work, we are arguably responsible for climate disaster now carry moral, political and spiritual. It means one of the most northern churches a heavy load of its consequences. This is that we are all called to a deeper and more in the world, but our denomination’s a great problem for the planet, since the faithful commitment to Jesus. It also means attention is usually elsewhere. That is people who have been guardians of the that we are, right now, called to defend the about to change. Forces—social, legal and Arctic for thousands of years are also the peoples and land of the North, in the name environmental—are making Northern carriers of an environmental wisdom that of our God, in defence of our planet and in Canada, especially the Arctic, the place could be a substantial contribution to a a commitment to justice and truth. g where a number of dangerous trends are livable future for all. Furthermore, it seems coming together. The Anglican Church certain that without the guardianship of Archbishop Mark MacDonald is national of Canada will be morally and spiritually the People of the Land, there will be no Indigenous archbishop of the Anglican tested by these trends. good way to slow down a melting Arctic Church of Canada. Give voice to the people LETTERS4 I am disappointed that the House of Bishops voted basic identity”). I say the governance structure of the evaluate our church’s governance structures are by a mere two-vote margin against the motion to church should be changed to give more voice to the bristling against “the tyranny of the majority.” amend the marriage canon, while the laity and people (the majority who are asked to fund it and I think he’ll find his math is off: though sexual The Anglican clergy supported the motion. give time to support it). The gospel tells us we are all minorities have been subject to the tyrannies of Journal welcomes The Rev. Derek Perry (“Our rules exist for a equal in God’s eyes; let’s take that seriously. And yes, various majorities since time immemorial, that is letters to the editor. reason,” Oct. 2019, p.5) has difficulty with the maybe our “basic identity” and rules are due for a not what happened in the vote on the marriage Since not all letters concept “that a simple majority govern.” Yet liberal long overdue revamping if we are going to survive. canon this past summer. When a decision which can be published, democracies, including Canada, have spent over 200 Ken Wightman receives the support of variously 80.9%, 73.2%, and preference is Markham, Ont. years, at the cost of many lives and much suffering, given to short 62.2% across three orders is nevertheless vetoed, to achieve this laudable end. Perry implies in a rather well—strictly speaking, it certainly ain’t the majority correspondence (300 Tyranny of the majority? words or less). All high-handed tone that democratic principles are OK being tyrannical. letters are subject to for our political processes, but not for the church In his recent letter to Anglican Journal, the Rev. Charles Demers editing. (“such a change would give a result...counter to our Derek Perry suggests that those seeking to re- Vancouver 6 anglican journal • december 2019

the path of Christ is non-violent,” she says. “It’s a path that believes that love is the way PEACE ON ‘Peace is forward, and love entails respect for other EARTH4 people. It entails respect for humanity, mercy possible’: and a belief that we have the power to create a world in which peace is possible.” Project Ploughshares is driven by a similar Creighton vision, which Jaramillo describes as “reducing human suffering.” The organization seeks Continued from p. 1 to accomplish this goal by working with Anglican Church of Canada has a major NGOs, churches, ecumenical organizations presence on Project Ploughshares, which and governments to enhance policies and seeks to work with governments and civil regulatory frameworks aimed at promoting society to advance policies for peace. peace. Cesar Jaramillo, executive director of Along with nuclear disarmament and non- Project Ploughshares, described a “somber” proliferation, Project Ploughshares focuses photo: luzvykova on protection of civilians and reducing the laroslava/ mood and “acrimonious tone” at the shutterstock UN committee, characterized by mutual international arms trade. Representatives of accusations traded between nations such Project Ploughshares recently attended an as the United States and Russia, Israel and international conference in Vienna hosted by Iran, and Turkey and Syria. the Austrian government to develop a political He cited “confrontational” moves declaration in which states would refrain from by U.S. President Donald Trump, such using explosive weapons in populated areas. as withdrawing the United States from Though Jaramillo expresses respect for treaties with Russia and Iran, as a major individuals at Global Affairs Canada, he factor in creating that atmosphere. Such criticizes the Canadian government, along circumstances may bode ill for next year’s with other states, for the distance between conference to review the 1970 Nuclear Non- 5 Phyllis attend the upcoming review conference for “lofty rhetoric” of peace and human rights Proliferation Treaty. (The treaty stipulated Creighton: the non-proliferation treaty. But the church and their actual policies. that the parties to it meet every five years.) “I think our Lord also has a history of advocating for nuclear In practice, he says, Canada has tended “I don’t know how one can measure made very clear disarmament through its own institutional to side with nuclear-armed NATO allies to human gloom,” Jaramillo says. “But that the path of structures. fight any moves towards abolition of nuclear there is that sense of urgency around the Christ is non- Creighton has played a significant weapons. The federal government also sells [perception] that [things] seem to be getting violent.” role in these efforts. At the 1983 General arms to countries such as Saudi Arabia, which Synod, she presented a motion for the Jaramillo calls “one of the worst human rights worse, rather than better.” photo: michael Nuclear disarmament has long been barker church to take an absolute stand against violators in the world.” He draws a direct link a major focus of Project Ploughshares, nuclear weapons. General Synod carried between the arms trade and global human founded in 1976. The organization currently the motion, which declared that the church rights violations. engages with governments to push for a considered “the development, production or While Project Ploughshares offers a renewed focus on disarmament and plans to use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of vehicle for Christians to reduce violence— mass destruction” as being “contrary to the and financial support is always welcome— will of God and the mind of Christ.” Jaramillo says Anglicans can also support Creighton’s stand against nuclear these efforts by becoming better informed weapons dates back to 1945, when she around issues of war and peace. was 15 years old and “horrified” by the Many Anglicans have sought to raise dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima awareness in their own communities. David Nativity Scenes and Nagasaki. Fletcher, rector of the parish of Lantz in Nova As the Cold War intensified, Creighton Scotia, participated in the protests against gravitated towards peace activism inside cruise missile testing in the 1980s as a student. By Planterra and outside of the church. The same year Around the 50th anniversary of the she presented the General Synod motion bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, opposing nuclear weapons, Creighton joined Fletcher helped students at a Halifax school protests against a decision by the Liberal make origami paper cranes based on a story government of Pierre Trudeau to allow popularized in the book Sadako and the cruise missile testing by the U.S. in Alberta. Thousand Paper Cranes. The story details the Shortly thereafter, Creighton joined experience of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl a group called the Toronto-Volgograd who was caught in the bombing of Hiroshima Initiative. For a decade, she participated and developed radiation poisoning. She in a citizen exchange with Volgograd, the decided to make 1,000 paper cranes based on Russian city formerly known as Stalingrad. a legend suggesting happiness or good fortune Over three visits, she learned how much for anyone who could fold that number, but people on both sides of the Cold War divide she died before she could reach her goal. shared in common. “We met with citizens In August 2019, Fletcher started making who, like us, were scared stiff about nuclear paper cranes at his church in Lantz. At parish 18” weapons,” she remembers. council, Anglican Church Women gatherings Continuing to move motions at and sometimes at Sunday worship, he will General Synod against nuclear weapons spend a few minutes alongside members of in consultation with Project Ploughshares, the congregation folding paper cranes with Creighton also supported motions on non- the goal of eventually making 1,000. nuclear issues related to peace. In 1989, Having served in the Canadian military General Synod passed a resolution calling for five years, Fletcher is of two minds about on NATO to stop low-level flight training by the necessity of war. He says that “there are bombers over the unceded lands of the Innu probably circumstances where war may be 14” 10” and Inuit. unavoidable. I don’t like to think about that. In 2007, at her ninth General Synod, It’s not my best possible alternative. But I also Creighton moved a motion committing recognize that we still live in an age where the Holy Family & 6 piece sets including the 3 kings the Anglican Church of Canada to support military may be called upon to do things that Available from 10”-42” the International Campaign to Abolish are not peaceable.” Nuclear Weapons, founded only months Yet, in pondering the Christian attitude SHIPPING AVAILABLE beforehand. 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Leading Women to leadership Binational conference inspires ordained Anglican women to break ‘through the stained glass ceiling’

Matt Gardner staff writer Dozens of ordained women from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church gathered together Oct. 8-10 for the Leading Women conference, an all-women meeting at the Mundelein Seminary in Chicago that sought to encourage women in church leadership. But they weren’t the only ones on the My premises. As principal school for the formation of experience“ priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese was that of Chicago, Mundelein that week also all of these hosted a large number of young Catholic women have seminarians—all men. The two groups largely stayed separate, visible to each other moved past only during meals. But for Archbishop punching their Melissa Skelton, one of the main organizers fists in the air of the Leading Women conference, the demanding juxtaposition of genders drove home “the importance of the ministry of ordained recognition— women.” or allowing a “We were all women at the conference,” victim mindset Skelton says. “Women organized it, women to prevent spoke at it, women participated. There was not a man anywhere to be seen, and it was a resolute just a new realization of how important and forward this work is.” outlook. The Leading Women conference began 5 The Leading accompanying and encouraging other spoke on trends she saw for the role of in the United Kingdom in 2010, at a time Each of the Women women is a very powerful experience, and women in the church, while Rois discussed when there were no female bishops in the women I met conference it doesn’t often happen in the circles that the history of the ordination of women in Church of England, as a way to prepare we have in our church.” Canada. had a sense women who might be appointed bishops brought together ordained women Some ordained women experience a Breakout discussions touched on of hope and for the role. In 2016, the conference spread “profound ambivalence” over whether or topics from the theology of leadership to the United States, inviting ordained in leadership anticipation as positions from not they should pursue higher leadership to building financial confidence, from they looked to Episcopal women to explore what it would positions, Skelton suggests. They might ministry in rural and remote settings to be like to seek new leadership positions in the Anglican the future. Church of believe that to do so might seem “too intersectionality. the church. overtly ambitious,” or tell themselves that Rois calls her experience of the —Canon Judy Rois, The 2019 gathering marks the first time Canada and the Episcopal they are unqualified when they are in fact conference “uplifting and inspiring” as she executive director that Anglican women from Canada have overqualified. met women from “diverse ages, cultures of the Anglican Church. attended Leading Women. A total of 68 By contrast, she says, some at the and faith journeys…all of whom have Foundation of women attended the event, including 31 photo: contributed Canada conference told stories about how “the men broken through the stained-glass ceiling women from Canada and 37 women from that they know just don’t think twice…. that, in the past, was impenetrable. the United States. Canadian participants Women have not always experienced “My experience was that all of these represented dioceses including New the same kind of support in the church women have moved past punching their Westminster, British Columbia, Yukon, [and so] they very much appreciate the fists in the air demanding recognition—or Algoma, Moosonee, Ottawa, Toronto, and encouraging and challenging support of allowing a victim mindset to prevent a Nova Scotia and P.E.I. other women.” resolute and forward outlook,” Rois says. Over the course of their three days The recent election of Linda Nicholls “Each of the women I met had a sense of together, the participants—among them as the first female primate of the Anglican hope and anticipation as they looked to the bishops, cathedral deans, executive Church of Canada—following closely future. archdeacons, and parish rectors—heard Katharine Jefferts Schori, who served as “What I think many women took panel discussions on female church the first female presiding bishop in the away with them was a strong, supportive leadership and shared their own Episcopal Church from 2006 to 2015 and network of women in Canada and the experiences in small groups. was the first woman elected to primacy U.S., women who could be called upon for “We prayed together, we ate together, in the Anglican Communion—did not go advice, counsel and support. I also think we heard each other’s stories,” Skelton says. unnoticed by those in attendance. they returned home with hope and a sense “To say this was powerful is an “Because of the timing in Canada that positions in the church previously understatement. It was, for some of and the U.S., being roughly the same not available to them could in fact be the women, earth-shaking…. Women time period…we feel like we were on the possibilities now more than ever.” forefront together of women’s ordination,” Major sponsors included the Anglican Skelton says. “That’s all very encouraging.” Foundation, which donated $15,000, Keynote speakers included Bishop and the Anglican Initiatives Fund in the Chilton Knudsen, assisting bishop in the diocese of New Westminster. Bishops, Episcopal diocese of Washington, and synod office staff members and priests in Canon Judy Rois, executive director of the the United States also helped sponsor the Anglican Foundation of Canada. 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PEACE ON EARTH4 Bethlehem: a city of divisions—and devotion Continued from p. 1 Moreover, while it’s common to see in Many of us who have grown up in the Christmas cards and illustrated Bibles of Canada and other Western countries Western countries the Holy Family gathered imagine Bethlehem as an oasis of peace inside a wooden stable, wood is actually and calm—the feelings we like to associate quite scarce in the Holy Land, and most with Christmas Eve, and those evoked by buildings are made of stone. In any case, it’s pageants and carols like “O Little Town much more likely that Jesus was born in one of Bethlehem.” But this Bethlehem of our of the thousands of natural limestone caves imagination could hardly be further from that dot the ridge on which Bethlehem the reality of the place—in Jesus’s time and lies, and into which shepherds over the our own, say LeSueur and other Canadian millennia have often taken their animals for photo: paparazzza/ shutterstock Anglicans who have visited the place more shelter, LeSueur says. times than they can count. Of the four Gospels, only Matthew Diocese of “I’ll honestly say this: You almost crave and Luke mention Jesus being born in the Western view of Bethlehem, at times, Bethlehem; John does not mention his Jerusalem 5The West Bank planning in Bethlehem,” says John Organ, bishop birthplace or where he grew up, and Mark of the diocese of Western Newfoundland. Barrier, as seen says only that he came from Nazareth. Bethlehem Organ had visited the city several times from Palestinian Matthew does not mention the details of ‘guest already before serving from 2012 to 2015 territory Christ’s birth; with respect to where in house’ for as chaplain to bishop of the diocese of photo: Bethlehem he was born, Luke says only pilgrims Jerusalem Suheil Dawani, now also primate richard lesueur (Luke 2:7) that Mary “laid him in a manger, of the province of Jerusalem and the Middle because there was no place for them in the Anglican East. inn.” pilgrims to “You almost want the Christmas card of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem Bethlehem with the star, and the stillness, photo: paparazzza/shutterstock which has undergone numerous could have and the animals, and Mary and Joseph, and Pilgrims at the Church of the Nativity, reconstructions and renovations since it was their own everything is just lovely,” Organ says. “It’s Bethlehem first built by Constantine the Great around place to stay all of that, but it was in the context of much 330 A.D., contains underneath it a cave and worship more intensity—and that intensity remains.” control; some—including Bethlehem—is where local tradition has it that Jesus was in the city in Deborah Neal, who served as Dawani’s controlled by the Palestinian Authority; and born. as few as two executive assistant from 2011 to 2013, took the rest is jointly controlled. The early Christian bishop and writer or three years, countless visitors to and from Bethlehem Running between Bethlehem and Eusebius of Caesarea, LeSueur notes, once a priest with during those two years, and remembers the Jerusalem is the West Bank Barrier, a wall in said that the Holy Land itself is a fifth the Episcopal tension that pervaded the place because of and around the West Bank built by Israel in Gospel, because only by encountering it Diocese of the unresolved conflict between Israelis and the years since 2002, partway through the can Christians truly appreciate the other Jerusalem says. Palestinians. Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising of four. And LeSueur, Organ and Neal all say Read more “You get this juxtaposition of, it’s 2000-2005. that visiting Bethlehem can be intensely online on Christmas…and God is being born into The barrier, which pilgrims to Bethlehem memorable. the Anglican this land, and yet all you see while you’re must cross on the way from Jerusalem, is a In Bethlehem at Christmastime, says Journal’s driving through the checkpoint is all the particularly strong reminder of the tensions Neal, “there’s many, many people, and website. security, with a lot of weapons,” says Neal, that pervade the city and region, the three you kind of have to find your own quiet who is now office administrator at the Canadian Anglicans say. in it. But just being there with people Lutheran Church of the Cross in Victoria, To approach the wall and see it stretch acknowledging the reason they’re there B.C. “On the one hand you get this sense “from horizon to horizon” can be an because they’re celebrating something they of anticipation of joy, but also this sense of emotional experience, LeSueur says. so profoundly believe in is striking—it being in the middle of an occupied land.” “It’s really a ghastly, shocking reminder warms your heart.” Bethlehem today is not a peaceful of the failure to find peace in the land where All three, too, say that Anglicans making place at all, but one that feels on high alert, the Prince of Peace was born. So you weep pilgrimages to Bethlehem are likely to Organ says—as it would have in Jesus’s time before you get to Bethlehem,” he says. especially appreciate an annual Christmas also. The Holy Land at the time of Christ’s The pilgrims he guides to the city will Eve service by Dawani at a shepherds’ cave birth was a “client kingdom” or satellite often look on the wall in shocked silence. in Bayt Sahur, just outside Bethlehem. of Rome; in 6 A.D. it was actually made It’s a massive structure, Organ says, “We would go there as families, and we’d a Roman province. In those days there with towers and soldiers keeping watch in light a fire in the fire pit and the children a d v e r t i s e m e n t would have been an intense resentment of them. Visitors must pass through a series of would gather round and we’d read the Roman occupation, plus a “fever pitch” of tunnels through the wall to enter the city; it scripture and sing the songs, and it was very, Travelling excitement about the expected coming of feels like entering a prison, he says. very meaningful,” LeSueur recalls. to the Holy the Messiah, he says. Passing through the wall is nerve- Later in the evening, Anglicans in Land? Add to that, LeSueur says, the cruelty— wracking, adds Neal, because it involves Bethlehem will typically proceed to the Church of the Nativity, in a side chapel of Free yourself known throughout the empire—of the going underneath a kind of grille, on top of “brilliant, paranoid, ruthless” Herod the which the Anglican archbishop will give from tourism. which soldiers are posted. Great, appointed king of Judea by the another service, which has recently been Experience “The IDF [Israel Defence Forces] will be Roman senate. attended by dignitaries including Mahmoud the pilgrim’s walking above you, and they’re armed and The biblical account of the Massacre of they’re looking down on you, so it’s very Abbas, president of the State of Palestine. encounter the Innocents, according to which Herod intimidating and scary,” she says. Passing For Anglicans, the evening typically with a land, had all the male babies in Bethlehem killed, through the checkpoint takes anywhere concludes with everyone returning to its stories and attests to the great vulnerability of the from under half an hour to an hour or so, Jerusalem for midnight mass at St. George’s ‘living stones’. powerless in every era, Organ says. Neal adds. Cathedral. Learn more “Whether it’s literally true or not, I think Visiting the Holy Land, LeSueur says, Despite the tension, Organ says, on the there’s a truth there, that innocence is often often involves such moments. Along with Canadian Anglicans should not feel afraid Canadian slaughtered for power,” he says. “So it can glimpsing the magnificence of Jerusalem of visiting, and they can be confident of a Companions be a dangerous place. And I think it was for and the places where Jesus and his disciples well-organized trip if they travel with the of Jerusalem our Lord.” walked, “you’re constantly bumping into the Anglican contingent from Jerusalem. And website at Bethlehem, which has a population political realities of the land itself.” even in the real Bethlehem, he says, they http://tiny. of about 25,000, lies about 8 km to the The Western image of Christmas in may find they can discern a kind of peace cc/1ykkfz south of Jerusalem. It’s in the West Bank, Bethlehem is wrong in other ways, he says. amidst the tension—and be changed by it. a predominantly Palestinian territory For one thing, it tends not to take into “Militarism, heightened police security, captured by Israel during the account the cold, rainy weather that the hill danger—it’s all there, and yet you get inside 1967 Six-Day War and partly country around Jerusalem is prone to in the Church [of the Nativity], and as you settled by Israelis in the wintertime. go down into the lower level, where they decades since. Following the “I have never been to a Christmas marked the manger scene where Christ 1993 Oslo Accords, the West Eve service in Bethlehem where I’m not was born, it’s humble—it’s humble, humble, Bank has been divided into a drenching wet and the wind is strong and humble,” he says. complex patchwork of zones. everybody is shivering because there is no “And yet full of reverence, of devotion. Most of it is under full Israeli double-pane and insulation,” he says. And it’s powerful.” g anglican journal • december 2019 9

having five people per household, there’s 20 or 30. That’s very common. THE When I say disconnection from INTERVIEW: Lost connection healthy relations, I also mean a healthy GOODWILL TO relation from the state, too, and all of its ALL4 A conversation on Indigenous homelessness bureaucratic arms that are supposed to take care of Indigenous people. with scholar Jesse Thistle If you go back to the treaties, that was the first relationship—from an Indigenous perspective, they thought they were making kin out of the settlers, and that Joelle Kidd they would work together. From the staff writer British imperial perspective, they were In October 2019, United Nations special ceding land, they were taking land and rapporteur Leilani Farha released her extinguishing their rights to have it. So report on the right to adequate housing that’s the fundamental broken relationship for Indigenous peoples. The report found that needs to be mended. housing conditions for Indigenous peoples around the world to be “overwhelmingly What do you think it would take to abhorrent” and often in violation of “the make that kind of change? right to adequate housing, depriving Well, there has to be a right to housing them of their right to live in security and extended to Indigenous people, dignity.” and with that, it would have to take For a Canadian perspective on this into consideration all [the UN] issue, the Journal spoke with Métis-Cree recommendations, and they would have writer and academic Jesse Thistle, an to meet a certain amount of those to assistant professor at York University, say that the state is actually securing a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholar and Vanier measurable right to housing for Indigenous Scholar, and winner of the Governor people. You would have to meet, let’s say, General’s Academic Medal. This interview 75% of the recommendations. If there’s has been edited for length. no mechanism to make it measurable and then enforceable, I don’t know if What are your thoughts on the UN’s governments will take it up. report? I think [it’s] very explicit in capturing How can the church play a role in the scope of Indigenous homelessness advocating for or helping mend these as it relates to housing, and the right to issues? adequate standard of living, basically. Well, it’s one of the biggest institutions, Our governments are supposed to and I know that the Anglican church has be beholden to Indigenous people who always led the way in reconciliation. So I they’ve signed treaties with to be on the think you’re already doing the hard work, land. The housing that they’ve built, in 5 “Indigenous you’ve already tried to make amends, many cases, is just inadequate or totally homelessness... you’re trying to build those bridges. Just lacking infrastructure. Maintenance is is really about use the influence of the church and some almost non-existent. So all of that kind of a displacement of its resources to help. plays into what [Farha] noted in her report. of healthy And when I say that, I mean in relationships consultation with Indigenous people. In your work, you have a conception over time Communities know what they need; you of “Indigenous homelessness.” through colonial have to facilitate them to do the work. Could you explain that? What are the interruption.” That’s really, really important. Because factors affecting Indigenous people photo: lucie thistle the other way, the paternalistic way, didn’t specifically? work very well. Thistle’s Indigenous homelessness, as I’ve defined 4 it through community consultation, is memoir You experienced homelessness really about a displacement of healthy chronicles yourself. Has your own life influenced relationships over time through colonial his own your work? interruption. What that means is, we’ve homelessness Yeah. That’s where a lot of my lost connection to land and land-based and experience of understanding of these different systems teachings. dispossession— worldview and connection to the Creator. and issues comes from, my own personal When I say that, you’ve got to think and his journey Beyond that, then you have the loss of experience. I was off and on the streets about the land itself as a kind of home. of reconnecting culture that’s happened because Indigenous for about a decade; I was a crack addict. A Imagine going berry picking with your with his culture. culture was actually outlawed through lot of times the church helped me—they grandmother, or fishing with your photo: courtesy of official legislation. Then you have things were one of the only institutions [that was] jessethistle.com grandfather, or hunting with your like the Sixties Scoop, or what happened there. So I thank the church; they’re like a dad. Those were lessons. Those were with the Millennial Scoop, where kids safety net for people. universities. Those had systems of are taken out of their home and they lose All these dispossessions that I described knowledge embedded within them; how to connection to their family and they lose happened through my family, because travel over the land, how to treat the land. their languages and their customs. we’re Métis-Cree. We stood up against They also saw themselves as relations Those are like the higher-level kinds Canada during the North-West Resistance, to the land, and all the creatures upon it. of homelessness. Then you have to break and we had our land and our culture, This is an ancient way of looking at human it down to practicalities where, because everything, stripped away from us. We relations within the natural world that goes the infrastructure is so bad on reserves, were impoverished and made to live on back in many different cultures, not just or in rural communities where often the sides of the roads, all the way up to my here in Canada. But Indigenous people Métis people live, [or] Inuit settlements own generation, and that led to my own here in Canada specifically have suffered in the North, people will travel long personal trauma with my family falling an egregious displacement onto reserves distances to access things like health care, apart, and then my own homelessness where all those systems of knowledge were education, a job. That’s called mobility in my adulthood. So I have a really good lost. homelessness, and that’s a very specific understanding of what I write about Then there’s a disconnection of spirit type of homelessness that Indigenous academically. g that’s happened as well. Indigenous people endure. worldviews, through the Christian Beyond that, there’s overcrowded Thistle’s memoir, From the Ashes, is conditioning of our youth—which was an homelessness, because a lot of housing that available through Simon & Schuster altruistic effort, [but] what that did is, it was built in the ’50s and ’60s [was] when (simonandschuster.ca). His Definition took children out of their kinship networks the Indigenous populations were a certain of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada and raised them in environments where size. But the population’s exploded, and can be found online at homelesshub.ca/ they lost their sense of an Indigenous they haven’t built more. So now instead of IndigenousHomelessness. 10 anglican journal • december 2019

PEOPLE4 New bishop elected for diocese of Huron Joelle Kidd Among his top priorities as bishop, for them, and is for them,” he told the staff writer Townshend said, is finding creative ways Journal. Canon Todd Townshend was elected to organize the church as numbers and Townshend served as the chair of 14th bishop of the diocese of Huron at a finances decline. “We are, as a church, General Synod’s Theological Education diocesan synod Oct. 26. everywhere, getting smaller numerically, Commission and is a member of its Townshend was elected on the third and we try to hold up everything that’s pension committee. ballot by the diocese’s orders of clergy and ever been going on around. So I think He was ordained as a priest in the there are creative ways to reshape the laity at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, diocese of Huron in 1992, and became the church and change the sort of imagination Ont. There were four other candidates. diocese’s canon theologian in 2009. His part of the model of how we do things.” Townshend is the dean of the faculty father, Bishop Robert (Bob) Townshend, of theology at Huron University College, He also said that reconciliation with and grandfather, Bishop William a position he has held since 2013. He has 5 Townshend: Indigenous peoples and discipleship will Townshend both served as suffragan also worked as a university instructor “I think there are be themes of his upcoming work. and associate professor, and as a parish creative ways “I think the thing that has always bishops of the diocese of Huron. priest. to reshape the excited me about ministry is to see the Townshend will be consecrated at St. In an interview with the Anglican church.” kind of thing that God is doing in people’s Paul’s Cathedral on Jan. 25. He succeeds Journal, Townshend said he felt excited photo: contributed lives, to find out what struggles there are, the previous bishop of Huron, Linda and grateful to have been elected and what hurts, but also to hear people talk Nicholls, who in July was elected primate “eager to get going.” about what living a life of faith has done of the Anglican Church of Canada. g

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