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©2013 The Episcopal Church Foundation THE LIVING CHURCH ON THE COVER thinkstockphotos.com THIS ISSUE | July 7, 2013 Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer directed his clergy to omit the “Prayer for all those in Civil Authority” from the liturgy (see “The Civil War, NEWS Church, and State,”p. 8). 4 Texas Gains $1 Billion in Sale FEATURES 8 The Civil War, Church, and State 6 By Worth “Woody” Norman, Jr. BOOKS 11 A Powerful Blessing by Douglas M. Carpenter Review by Gary G. Yerkey

14 Healing Wisdom edited by Kathleen J. Grider Discovering the Treasure Within by R. Carroll Travis Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment by Nancy L. Bieber Review by Robert D. Hughes III

15 Receiving David by Faye Knol Review by Anna Masi

11 22 17 Family Theology by Carol J. Gallagher Review by Emily Hylden Sic et non 18 A Provisional Solution By Mark McCall CULTURES 22 The Ethics of Dr. Spock By Leonard Freeman 24 Summertime By Ephraim Radner OTHER DEPARTMENTS 20 Cæli enarrant 26 Sunday’s Readings 28 People & Places

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Texas Gains $1 Billion in Sale of Health System The Diocese of Texas has received tution that had become too expen- eligible for funding from the founda- more than $1 billion for health-re- sive for the diocese to maintain and tion will be determined in coming lated initiatives, including more than upgrade. In addition to paying the months, said Carol Barnwell, the dio- $100 million for church planting, as sale price, CHI agreed to invest $1 cese’s director of communication. payment in the recent sale of St. billion in aging facilities. In the meantime, CHI will sustain Luke’s Episcopal Health System. “We knew we were going to need St. Luke’s partnerships with other in- The sale to Catholic Health Initia- more scale in order to navigate the stitutions and will continue to em- tives, a national nonprofit health sys- future,” said the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew ploy its staff. tem based in Englewood, Colorado, Doyle, Bishop of Texas, at a June 4 “We wanted a partner who would was completed May 31. Transferred town hall meeting at Christ Church assets include the Texas Medical Cen- Cathedral in Houston. “It is in the ter campus in Houston as well as four best interest of the diocese and the suburban hospital locations in The mission of this health system to sell.” Woodlands, Sugar Land, Pasadena, Proceeds from the sale will fund and The Vintage. The organization is the newly created Episcopal Health now known as St. Luke’s Health Sys- Foundation, which will focus on the tem. unmet health needs of the area’s un- Through the sale, the Diocese of derserved population. Exactly which Texas parts with a 59-year-old insti- types of projects or services will be

Pursuing a Balanced Life The path to a joyful, balanced life is found not in self-preservation but in “abiding in Jesus,” the Rev. Amy E. Richter said in an address to members of Episcopal Health Ministries on May 9. Richter, rector of St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis, was keynote speaker at the NEHM national conference, held May 9-11 in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System photo The St. Luke's campus in Houston She addressed the conference theme, “Health and Wellness in a Fran- tic World.” honor our family,” Bishop Doyle Like Jesus in the story of the wedding at Cana, all Christians “are said. “We didn’t just want anybody called to decide when faithfulness is lived through remaining still and to come in and do the business. We resting and when faithfulness is lived through action,” she said. wanted people who cared about do- “So balance, according to Jesus,” she said in conclusion, “ought to be ing the business on God’s behalf defined not as moderation for self-preservation, but as wholeness for love [and] shared that vision that we are of God, neighbor, and self, and discernment of when to rest and when to transforming lives.” act, when to listen and receive, and when to give.” In keeping with Roman Catholic In addition to its conference, NEHM (episcopalhealthministries.org) of- theology and ethics, St. Luke’s Med- fers resources to support the church in health ministries year round. ical System will not provide surgical NEHM is a partner with the National Institutes of Health’s We Can! pro- procedures related to birth control, gram, encouraging children to eat better and exercise more often. Re- such as tubal ligations and vasec- cently NEHM helped conduct a webinar in which healthcare workers tomies, which had been offered were trained to lead local We Can! programs in parishes and dioceses. through St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Among many other resources addressing healthcare concerns, NEHM System. Likewise, elective abortions lists more than a dozen to promote healthy weight, including advice from will not be offered. the Episcopal Church Medical Trust on starting a walking program. “Our ability to help underserved The next NEHM conference will be in New Orleans in May 2014. women and those with little access Recently the Obama Adminstration announced a new mental health and less choice has been exponen- website (mentalghealth.gov) and recognized NEHM along with dozens of tially expanded by the creation of the other nonprofit and private-sector organizations that promote under- foundation,” Barnwell said via email. standing and awareness of mental health. Barnwell said the foundation will spend only the investment proceeds

4 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 from its funds, which (at four percent per annum), allows for annual Raynal Studios, Inc spending in the range of $40 million. Of the lump sum received as pay- Restoration ment from CHI, 10 percent — or more than $100 million — will be des- Stained Glass ignated for church planting in the re- gion served by the Diocese of Texas. Wood G. Jeffrey MacDonald TLC Correspondent Stone A Fraternal Beginning In their first meeting, Archbishop 1.800.305.0959 Justin Welby and Pope Francis both spoke June 14 of the bonds of friend- www.raynalstudios.com ship and love between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Natural Bridge , VA Communion. The two leaders agreed The Catherine Wheel Window that the fruits of this dialogue and re- 6DLQW 3DXO¶V (SLVFRSDO &KXUFK lationship have the potential to em- Alexandria, VA²Restored 2012 power Christians around the world to demonstrate the love of Christ. The archbishop and the pope agreed on the need to build an economic system which promotes “the common good” to help those suffering in poverty. Archbishop Welby said that Chris- tians must reflect “the self-giving love of Christ” by offering love and hospitality to the poor, and “love above all those tossed aside” by crises around the world. The pope said those with the least in society “must not be abandoned to the laws of an economy that seems at times to treat people as mere con- sumers.” They also agreed on the need for Christians to act as peacemakers around the world, which they ac- knowledged could only be done if Christians “live and work together in harmony,” the pope said. “I pray that the nearness of our two inaugurations may serve the reconciliation of the world and the Church,” Archbishop Welby said. The pope, who said the closeness of their inaugurations meant “we will always have a particular reason to support one another in prayer,” said the meeting was an opportunity to remember that the search for unity among Christians is not prompted by practical considerations but by Christ, “who made us his brothers and sis- (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) ters, children of the One Father.” The archbishop, who was accom- panied by his wife, Caroline, visited the tomb of St. Peter beneath the Basilica before praying at the tomb of Pope John Paul II. Archbishop Vincent Nichols, as well as Arch- Brian J. Morowczynski/Othervertical.com photo Communion at St. James Cathedral during the Diocese bishop David Moxon, Archbishop of Chicago’s convention. Welby’s representative to the Holy See, joined him. Archbishop Welby presented Pope Church in North America. Subse- Francis with the papal motto — quently minorities from four of the Miserando atque eligendo (“by hav- departing congregations established ing mercy, by choosing him”) — in Episcopal Church congregations in gold letters on vellum. different locations. In 2009, clergy The motto is from an English and lay deputies from the Diocese of Church father, Bede, whose Ecclesi- Quincy approved the Rt. Rev. John C. astical History charts the union of Buchanan as provisional Bishop of the different strands of British Chris- Quincy. In his sermon Saturday to tianity relating in and through Rome convention, Bishop Buchanan refer- to the universal Church. enced the Old Testament reading for Adapted from ACNS the day. “Our situation here is the Episco- pal Diocese of Quincy is somewhat Chicago, Quincy like that of Isaiah and his fellow countrymen and his fellow religious Choose Reunion believers,” Bishop Buchanan said. Conventions of the dioceses of “With diminished fellow travelers Chicago and Quincy agreed unani- and financial resources, it became mously to reunification during re- necessary for us to reorganize, so convened convention meetings June 8. that we could continue uninterrupt- The dioceses of Quincy and Spring- edly what was begun in 1835 and field were spun off from the Diocese 1877; so in 2009 we set out on a high- of Chicago, then known as the Dio- way that would take us right to the cese of Illinois, in 1877. heart of the Diocese of Chicago.” “As the Episcopal Church in the In order for the agreement to be- Diocese of Chicago, the groups spon- come canonically valid, the two dio- soring this resolution believe it is our ceses must receive approval from a duty and obligation as Christians to majority of standing committees and respond and support our sisters and bishops with jurisdiction in the Epis- brothers in Christ who feel aban- copal Church. The two dioceses doned and forgotten by their former could meet as one later this year bishop, clergy, and diocese,” said the with the geographical area of the identical resolution approved by Diocese of Quincy mostly likely conventions meeting at St. James’ comprising a new deanery. Cathedral in downtown Chicago and “We will propose ways to fully in- St. Paul’s Cathedral in Peoria. tegrate and welcome members of the In 2008, after decades of growing Diocese of Quincy into our diocesan estrangement from the Episcopal life and structures,” said a back- Church, majorities at 18 of the 22 ground document presented to dele- congregations in the Diocese of gates in the Diocese of Chicago. Un- Quincy voted to disaffiliate as a dio- der the reunification agreement, cese of the Episcopal Church in or- Bishop Buchanan could become an der to join what is now the Anglican assisting bishop in Chicago, and

6 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 clergy now canonically resident in ern Illinois, and the nine congrega- ship to 29 and asked the committee good standing in the Diocese of tions and 755 members of the Dio- to allow for any bishop or deputy “to Quincy would be transferred to the cese of Quincy in west central Illi- express the intent to nominate any Diocese of Chicago. St. Paul’s Cathe- nois. If a majority of bishops and other member of the House of Bish- dral in Peoria would revert to parish standing committees of other Epis- ops from the floor when the com- status and the Diocese of Chicago copal dioceses consent to the re- mittee presents its nominees to the would assume all property and other union, the two dioceses will hold joint session of the two Houses.” assets owned or claimed by the Dio- their first unified convention in No- Council asked Presiding Bishop cese of Quincy. vember in Lombard, Ill. Katharine Jefferts Schori and the The Diocese of Quincy holds ap- Steve Waring Rev. Gay Jennings, president of the proximately $4 million in assets, ap- House of Deputies, to a appoint a proximately $3 million of which is Council Wrestles committee to work with the nomi- owned by the diocese and the other nating committee on the transition $1 million held on behalf of individ- with Budget in leadership. ual congregations. These funds have The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council awarded seven grants been frozen and title to the property Council has approved additional from the Constable Fund. Council re- of the 22 departing congregations funds for the Joint Nominating Com- ceived 22 requests equal to more contested in litigation filed in March mittee for the Election of a Presiding than $1 million. The total amount ap- 2009. Hearings were held in April Bishop. Meeting in Linthicum, Mary- proved from the fund was $535,000. and a summary judgment is ex- land, June 8-10, council continued to The largest amount approved was a pected soon, but it is likely to be a prepare a 2016-18 budget and to sur- $130,000 request to assist the Dio- while before any funds or property vey bishops and deputies on possible cese of Haiti in establishing a net- change hands, because whichever consequences for dioceses that do work of three radio stations. side loses is expected to appeal. not pay the requested 19 percent for Council elected Rosalie Simmonds “The reign of God is not Wall the work of the Episcopal Church. Ballentine, a former council member Street,” Bishop Lee said in his con- The Rev. Susan Snook of Arizona from the Diocese of the Virgin Is- vention sermon. “Love and care, said the Joint Standing Committee on lands, to serve as the Episcopal compassion and self-giving, are ut- Finances for Mission’s subcommittee Church’s lay representative on the terly different kinds of resources. on the budget wants to “engage the Anglican Consultative Council. The Their value doesn’t depend on their church in a discussion of the fact that term will last for the next three meet- scarcity and how much we hoard not all dioceses meet their full asking ings of the ACC, which meets every them — quite the opposite: the more percentage formula.” two to three years. we throw them around, the more we A table on the Episcopal Church’s Council agreed to increase finan- spend them, the more precious and website listing diocesan commit- cial assistance to Episcopalians in the more abundant they become. ments and payments indicates that the dioceses of San Joaquin and “And that’s just what we’re bank- just 41 of the 110 dioceses pledged South Carolina. In response to a re- ing on in this work of reunioning 19 percent or more for 2013. quest from the Episcopal Church in with our sister diocese of Quincy. In “Susan is absolutely right when she South Carolina, council agreed to an the face of years of fearful theologi- says that in one sense there are ab- additional $300,000 line of credit. A cal obsessiveness and the inevitable solutely no consequences to non-pay- similar request for $785,000 from the divisions that result from that kind of ment in the sense that there are no Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin scarcity thinking, our sisters and penalties, but there are huge conse- was also approved. brothers there have been daring to quences to not paying the asking,” Steve Waring practice a radical trust in God’s over- said the Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, flowing goodness. Their commit- Bishop of Ohio. “The consequences ment to Christ and to the fellowship are that we are not able to do the of this church is an act of sheer, fool- work that God has proffered for us to ish, godly trust. Today we stand with do in the ways that we envision doing them and we pledge to join them in it productively in the church, so it is learning to sow the seeds of God’s a really important discussion for us love for this world with absolutely to have.” wild abandon.” Members of the Joint Nominating The reunified diocese, to be Committee for the Election of a Pre- known as the Episcopal Diocese of siding Bishop requested an addi- Chicago, will include the 125 con- tional $100,000 to fulfill responsibili- Richard Schori/ENS photo gregations and chaplaincies and ties General Convention added to The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple offers the blessing at her ordination and consecration June 15 at more than 36,000 members of the ex- the committee last year. Convention the historic Duke University Chapel in Durham. She isting Diocese of Chicago in north- increased the committee’s member- became the sixth Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina.

JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 7 The Civil War, Church, and State

By Worth E. “Woody” Norman, Jr.

urrent day spats over church-state rela- Ctions pale in comparison to the powerful legal interventions by the United States government in the southern churches during and immediately following the Ameri- can Civil War,and the reactions these interventions inspired. Take the case of a Union general and a southern Episcopal bishop who squared off in Alabama in 1865. Several denominations in the antebellum period split over the political and moral issue of slavery. Southern Methodists separated from their northern brethren, as did Bap- tists. Presbyterians and Lutherans suffered similar divisions. The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama declared its own constitution null and void at the diocesan convention of May 1861, and later that year joined the other Epis- copal dioceses in the South to form the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confed- erate States. Following the formation of a new nation, a new ecclesial structure and constitution were likewise required.

8 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 As northern troops advanced into the South, par- precisely “civil authority,” incorporating several legal ticularly in northern Alabama, the leaders of the Fed- or canonical matters, in Wilmer’s judgment. When he eral army understood the territories — including was consecrated a bishop Wilmer had not declared al- churches and their properties — as regained for legiance to or conformity with the constitution and northern institutional purposes. Of particular interest canons of the “northern” Episcopal Church because he to military officials were the Methodist Episcopal considered only civil government (and not military oc- Church, South, and the Protestant Episcopal Church cupation) lawful. The constitution and canons of both which they blamed for the war. The military believed the southern and northern Episcopal churches were that churches and their ministers should set an ex- organized and ratified within the sphere of civil and not ample by fostering loyal sentiments to the govern- military governments. ment. Seeing few “loyal” southern ministers and certainly no “loyal” bishops, the Secretary of War in he State of Alabama (known as the Department of Washington, D.C., issued an order on Nov. 30, 1863, TAlabama) fell under the jurisdiction of General awarding all Methodist churches in the South to a George H. Thomas, commander of the Military Divi- Bishop Ames of the northern Methodist denomina- sion of Tennessee. Wilmer’s circular to his clergy went tion. In another War Department order of Jan. 14, unnoticed by military officials for several months but 1864, the military was directed to turn over all churches was eventually brought to the attention of Thomas belonging to the southern Baptists to the American who, due to antipathies toward Wilmer, ordered a sub- (northern) Baptist Home Mission Society, which the ordinate general in Mobile to investigate the matter of government believed to have a loyal membership. A the directive inside Wilmer’s pastoral letter. Wilmer, for similar order followed for the Presbyterians. his part, viewed Thomas, a Virginian, as a traitor to With military control of churches came attempts to their native state. When asked by a military officer control worship and prayers. The military made it il- when he would release his clergy to pray for the Pres- legal for churches to pray for any government official ident, Wilmer countered that he would not rescind his other than the President of the United States and pastoral directive at the instruction of military author- other federal officials. Criminality was thus assigned ity. An exchange of communication between Bishop to those who prayed for former Confederate govern- Wilmer and military authorities ensued, the content of ment officials. which seems strange if not comical when judged by the secular mindset of 21st-century America. he first Episcopal Bishop of Alabama, Nicholas H. In perhaps the first church-state confrontation fol- TCobb (1844-61), opposed secession outspokenly. lowing the Civil War, Major General Charles R. Woods But Cobb died in 1861, reportedly one hour before se- of Mobile issued General Order No. 381 on Sept. 20, cession was announced. The diocese elected Virginian 1865, which recited the history and details of Wilmer’s Richard Hooker Wilmer, a Confederate sympathizer, to pastoral letter and the reasons for omitting the prayer succeed Cobb in the only election of a bishop held for the President. Woods quoted Wilmer’s contention within the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confed- that prayer for the President “is altogether inappropri- erate States. Wilmer received his episcopal orders on ate and inapplicable to the present condition of things, March 6, 1862, at Richmond’s Monumental Church when no civil authority exists in the exercise of its through the laying on of hands by the Bishop of Virginia, functions. Hence, as I remarked in the circular, we William Meade (1841-62), his assistant bishop John may yield a true allegiance to, and sincerely pray for Johns, and Stephen Elliott, Bishop of Georgia (1841-66). grace, wisdom, and understanding in behalf of a gov- Both Meade and Elliott served as presiding bishop of ernment founded on force, while at the same time we the short-lived Episcopal Church of the Confederate could not in good conscience ask for its continuance, States, each dying while serving in the capacity. Bishop prosperity,etc.” But the general observed that Wilmer’s Meade’s death occurred eight days after Wilmer’s con- circular, issued on June 20, 1865, not only forbade secration. Wilmer’s church-state test would come at prayer for the continuance of military rule but also de- war’s end. clined to pray for anyone in authority at all. Yet the Once the Confederate government collapsed, Wilmer United States had a Cabinet, Supreme Court, and directed his clergy in a pastoral letter (or circular) to many other civil officials when Wilmer issued his let- omit the “Prayer for all those in Civil Authority” from ter, Woods noted, and Alabama subsequently acquired the liturgy. Wilmer later wrote in a book for his grand- a civil governor. children: “I looked around and found no vestige of any General Thomas, through General Woods, accord- such authority.” And the key term in his circular was (Continued on next page)

JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 An exchange of communication between Bishop Wilmer and military authorities ensued, the content of which seems strange if not comical when judged by the secular mindset of 21st-century America.

(Continued from previous page) shield of his office, his manifesto of the 20th of June ingly suspended Bishop Wilmer and his clergy from last to the clergy of the Episcopal Church of Alabama. their ecclesiastical functions and they were forbid- … This man in his position of a teacher of religion, den to preach or hold services. And all of the Episco- charity, and good fellowship with his brothers, whose pal churches in Alabama were shut down and se- paramount duty as such should have been character- cured. Once Wilmer and his clergy expressed proper ized by frankness and freedom from cunning, thus allegiance (with evidence) to the government of the took advantage of the sanctity of his position. United States and took an amnesty oath they could resume their normal functions. Three days later Bishop Wilmer directed his clergy to Wilmer, however, maintained that neither civil nor use the prayer. military leaders had any right or authority to interfere As post-war readjustments continued, the General in church matters. Prayer was religious, not political. Council of the Confederate Church determined in No- As he later wrote regarding the ruckus around the vember 1865 that each southern diocese should de- “Prayer for all those in Civil Authority”: “Some of the cide whether to rejoin the northern church. On Jan. generals of the Federal army were kind enough to 31, 1866, Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer made his step forward, and attempt to solve all my doubts upon declaration of conformity and the Diocese of Ala- the question; but they did not succeed in settling my bama became the last to reunite with the Protestant difficulty. … The fact that they had abrogated all the Episcopal Church of the United States. sanctions of our former legislative, judicial, and executive government only increased the necessity for The Rev. Worth E. “Woody” Norman, Jr., is a native more earnest prayers unto God that He would give of Norfolk, Virginia and lives in Birmingham, Al- grace to these soldiers who held us under the bayonet abama. His biography of a former U.S. Ambassa- to ‘execute justice, and maintain truth.’” dor to the Czech Republic is due this Fall.

resident Andrew Johnson reluctantly advised Gen. Thomas to revoke the suspension imposed Sources: P Fleming , Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. on Episcopal clergy in Alabama. Thomas did so, while New York: McMillan, 1905. offering a colorful chastisement of Wilmer, his fellow Perry, William Stevens. The History of the American Episcopal Virginian — “an individual,” wrote Thomas, who, Church 1587-1883. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1885. styling himself Bishop of Alabama, forgetting his mis- Whitaker, Walter Claiborne. History of the Protestant Episco- sion to preach peace on earth and good will toward pal Church in Alabama, 1763-1891. Birmingham: Roberts & men, and being animated with the same spirit which Son, 1898. through temptation beguiled the mother of men to the Wilmer, Richard Hooker. The Recent Past from a Southern Viewpoint: Reminiscences of a Grandfather. New York: commission of the first sin — thereby entailing eternal Thomas Whittaker, 1887. toil and trouble on earth — issued, from behind the

10 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 BOOKS A Son’s Defense

Review by Gary G. Yerkey saying, “is a foolish business and sad waste of time [reflecting] a childish instinct to parade at great cost enturing into the Deep South to participate in the to our state.” Vcivil rights movement in the 1960s, for a white His son argues that Bishop Carpenter and the city college student from the North like me, was a har- of Birmingham, while flawed, were not as bad as they rowing experience. People were being killed and have been made out to be. He paints a picture of a beaten up. Homes and churches were being burned. large and passionate man with a thunderous voice A joke making the rounds at the time had a nervous who strengthened the church and was loved and ad- northerner heading south and asking God for pro- mired by most, including many African Americans. tection. After a long pause, a deep voice replied from He mostly stood in the middle, according to his son, above: “Okay. But I’ll only go as far as Memphis.” “trying to move civil rights along without causing The place with the worst reputation for violence bloodshed.” He was a “gradualist.” was the gritty city of Birmingham, Alabama, a strong- Perhaps the sharpest critique of the elder Carpen- hold of the Ku Klux Klan. ter’s role in shaping race relations in the South has Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was born there in 1954, has spoken of a city steeped in racism. It was “a very scary place,” she wrote in Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Mem- oir of Family. Her father, who did not believe in practicing nonviolence in the face of violence, A Powerful Blessing would sit on the front porch at night with a loaded The Life of Charles Colcock gun in his lap. Jones Carpenter, Sr. “What I can remember most from this time,” Rice By Douglas M. Carpenter. has said, “is the sound of bombs going off in neigh- TransAmerica Printing. Pp. 335. $24.99 borhoods, including our own.” Now comes a book telling another side to the story. Its author is the Rev. Douglas M. Carpenter, retired, whose father was the long-serving (1938-68) Bishop of Alabama, the Rt. Rev. C.C.J. Carpenter, who come from the Rev. Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., who told Episcopalians from outside the South to stay wrote (in Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil away — not because it was too dangerous but be- Rights, 2000) that the Alabama bishop, unlike those cause they would only stir up trouble. who favored integration, “hoped that by preserving I chose to ignore the bishop’s advice, along with an the old order, based on the strict subordination of estimated 500 other Episcopalians, including Presid- one race under another, all people would learn to ac- ing Bishop John E. Hines, who heeded the call of cept their proper place within a benevolent but strat- Martin Luther King, Jr., to participate in the March ified society.” 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery. Douglas Carpenter, who grew up in Birmingham “This ‘march,’” Bishop Carpenter was quoted as (Continued on next page)

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charged with “keeping civil rights progress moving.” It wasn’t until January 1963, however, that the bishop thought it was time to take a strong public stand against those who would disobey the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision striking down segregation in public schools. At a meeting in Birmingham that month, with racial tensions running high, Bishop Carpenter and several other clergy decided to issue a statement urging those who oppose desegregation to peacefully abide by the anticipated court decisions integrating certain schools and colleges in Alabama. The statement also said that “as southerners” they understood that many sincere people were opposed to this change and were “deeply troubled by it.” But the statement, arguing that “defiance [of the court decisions] is neither the right answer nor the solution,” was soon overshadowed by another statement issued by Carpenter and seven other religious leaders three months later, which called on Birming- ham’s African American community to withdraw its support for the King-supported program of “nonviolent direction action” aimed at ending racial discrim- ination through daily sit-ins and mass marches throughout the city. It said that the demonstrations were being led “in part by outsiders.” “We recognize the natural impatience of people who feel that their hopes are slow in being realized,” said the statement, published in the Birmingham Bishop Carpenter’s son argues News on April 12, 1965. “But we are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely.” that his father was afraid that Racial matters, it said, should properly be pursued in the “collateral damage” the courts. In response, while biding time in a Birmingham that would be caused by continuing jail cell for violating a court injunction against street the King-led campaign of nonviolent protests, King wrote what would become perhaps the most important written document of the civil protest would fall most heavily rights era: “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” on the people it was seeking to help. The letter set out the case for pursuing nonviolent civil disobedience as a means of addressing racial injustice. It also offered a blistering critique of “white (Continued from previous page) moderates” who, King said, “paternalistically” believe and lived in Alabama for 41 of his 45 years as vicar or they can set a timetable for another man’s freedom. rector of Episcopal parishes, says his father played King said in the 20-page letter, dated April 16, that, an important part in calming tensions between the yes, he was not from Alabama but that he had come races, noting that some of the pro-integration deci- to Birmingham “because injustice is here.” sions he took as bishop put him on the hit list of the “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice every- White Citizens’ Council and the KKK. where,” he wrote in one of his most widely quoted The younger Carpenter argues that his father spent sentences. “We are caught in an inescapable network countless hours in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s “trying of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. What- to reason with people about their approach to race ever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” relations” — eventually becoming, in 1963, the chair- King said, moreover, that he was disappointed with man of the 25-member Group Relations Committee the behavior of what he called the “white moderate” —

12 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 alluding to Carpenter and his fellow religious leaders. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate,” King wrote, “who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; [and] who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’” Bishop Carpenter’s son argues that his father was afraid that the “collateral damage” that would be caused by continuing the King-led campaign of nonviolent protest (known as “Project C,” for confrontation) would fall most heavily on the people it was seeking to help. “He took this gradual or moderate position not because he feared for his own safety,” Carpenter writes. “It was because he knew what destruction the kind of people who threatened him over the phone were ca- pable and willing to bring against [African Americans]. … Dad was still hoping that good progress could be made in a more reasonable and orderly manner.” Rowland Scherman/National Archives photo Carpenter writes that his father, in fact, had cordial The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the March on Washington. relations with many African Americans in Birming- ham, also known as “Bombingham,” including the tion,” he writes, noting that it led to the enactment of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a co-founder of King’s South- the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Images of police brutal- ern Christian Leadership Conference and the initiator ity against African Americans that were broadcast of “Project C,” which was beat back brutally by law across the country “worked for the good in waking enforcement under the command of Public Safety up the entire nation from a sleep of many decades Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor. that had allowed the neglect and abuse of millions of But the two men, according to the bishop’s son, our citizens throughout the land.” also had longstanding and irreconcilable differences “I think we needed both Shuttlesworth and Car- over strategy, with Shuttlesworth preferring that Car- penter,” Carpenter concludes, saying that both men penter “take part in more direct confrontation with played a role in seeking to eradicate the scourge of those who supported Jim Crow customs and laws. … racism, even though they differed sharply over strat- This difference between immediate confrontation egy. and making haste slowly became their major dis- This is an important book written not by some “disagreement.” passionate third person,” as the author puts it, but by Carpenter writes that he agrees with King and a loving son. It will not succeed in convincing every- Shuttlesworth that his father, “like the vast majority one that “making haste slowly” is preferable to forc- of white Americans,” was slow to make a place for ing change through nonviolent direct action. But it the “new order” of integration. “[W]ithin the confines helps in an endearingly personal way to explain the of every generation we find wonderful human beings complexities of an era fraught with passion, and of a leading very worthwhile lives,” he writes, “while lim- passionate man. ited by the powerful customs of their times.” Bishop Carpenter died in Birmingham in 1969 at I was struck by the lengths to which the bishop’s the age of 69. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth died, also son went to highlight the role that Project C had in Birmingham, in 2011. He was 89. played in advancing racial justice in this country. He writes, for example, that it might have been Gary G. Yerkey is the author of Still Time to Live: A better for Birmingham if progress had been made Biography of Jack Belden (2011). His next book,a more moderately and peacefully. “But it was violent memoir of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights confrontation that got the attention of the entire na- march in 1965, is due later this year.

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Review by Robert D. Hughes III have long admired her work as Lee uses the metaphors of recipes among the most thoughtful and pro- and kitchens to analyze multicultural hese three books have quite found of its kind, and this collection ministry from both Korean American different purposes and poten- of essays in her honor is most wel- and Jungian-psychological perspec- T tial audiences, but taken to- come; in breadth and depth of sub- tives (pp. 34-54). Cedric C. Johnson’s gether they also raise an important stance it marks a fitting tribute. essay on resistance to colonialism and enduring question of our time: All essay collections are a bit of a and globalization using the work of what is the relationship between hu- mixed bag, but this is a pretty good Ulanov and Winnicott is promising in man psychological insight, develop- one, divided in three parts: Healing every sense of the word (pp. 157-77). ment, and health on the one hand Wisdom for Ministry Practices, Hu- A generation ago this Jungian para- and the Christian tradition of growth man Flourishing, and Suffering and digm for pastoral care and theology in holiness through the Holy Spirit Evil. In addition to the reviews of was dominant in the Episcopal Church on the other? Ulanov’s work, Episcopalians will be — with Ulanov standing alongside Healing Wisdom is actually a particularly interested in essays by other giants such as Morton Kelsey Festschrift for Ann Belford Ulanov, two priests with accomplished records and Urban Tigner Holmes III. Para- Christiane Brooks Johnson Memorial in the field. Pamela Cooper-White has digms have shifted, and I personally Professor of Psychology and Religion provided a fine essay on the depth di- now prefer the contemplative ap- at Union Theological Seminary in mensions of sacred space (pp. 72-93). proach of my Sewanee colleague, Ju- New York, edited by three of her for- James Jones gives a wise reading of lia Gatta (see The Nearness of God: mer students. Professor Ulanov, an The Cloud of Unknowing from per- Parish Ministry as Spiritual Prac- Episcopalian, has had a distinguished spectives of theology and depth psy- tice [Morehouse, 2010]); but this Jun- career teaching and writing — both chology (pp. 109-21). I hope that any gian stream continues to nourish our on her own and in partnership with Anglicans (and others) meeting these efforts, and it is good to have this fine her late husband, Barry Ulanov — in authors for the first time will be collection in honor of one of its ma- the interface between psychiatry and drawn into their longer works. jor figures. religion, with a particular emphasis Two more essays in the volume par- on depth or Jungian psychology and ticularly caught my attention, perhaps r. Carroll Travis, also an Episco- Christian spirituality. Like many who because I am presently teaching at pal priest, writes directly in this work in the fields of spirituality, spir- Msalato College in Tanzania in a decid- Ftradition of cross fertilization be- itual theology, and pastoral care, I edly multicultural context. K. Samuel tween depth or Jungian psychology

Healing Wisdom Depth Psychology and the Pastoral Ministry Edited by Kathleen J. Grider, Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, and Felicity Brock Kelcourse. Eerdmans. Pp. xix + 184. $20 Discovering the Treasure Within A New and Comprehensive Tool for Spiritual Direction By R. Carroll Travis. Illustrated by Joanna Johnson. Maple Creek Media. Pp. 224. $16.95. Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way By Nancy L. Bieber. Skylight Paths. Pp. iv + 196. $16.99.

14 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 Receiving David The Gift of a Son Who Taught Us How to Live and Love By Faye Knol. Eerdmans. Pp. 163. $15 and Christian spirituality and theology, with especial reference to chris- tological recapitulation in Irenaeus When Faye Knol and her husband, day, but David be- of Lyons. He writes out of long expe- Harry,welcomed their second son into gan at 7. A sud- rience as a priest with solid theolog- the world, they did not expect him to den, loud noise in ical grounding and broad practice of live more than a few hours. Fourteen a busy restaurant pastoral care and spiritual direction, weeks premature, David weighed less could startle him as well as his training in family ther- than a pound, and Faye and Harry cra- into a panic. apy and depth psychology. This is all dled him in their arms, welcoming and Yet never once while reading did I helpfully discussed in an afterword grieving him all at once. David not only perceive that Knol, Harry, or their two in which he gives the rationale for survived those few hours, but lived other children ever wished their lot his work (pp. 207-20). The volume is and grew for years. had been different. They celebrated not scholarly, however, but a collec- Receiving David is a heartwarming David as he was, carefully observing tion of “spiritual exercises” for indi- — and heart-wrenching — memoir the sounds, smells, tastes, and textures viduals or groups, following a scheme about raising a son with multiple cog- that lit up and expanded David’s world of human developmental stages inter- nitive and physical disabilities, and the in multisensory ways. They shared preted through Jungian “archetypes.” painful process of letting him go. Par- their lives with him and openly re- Each chapter begins with a draw- enthood comes packaged in both joy ceived the life that he shared with ing illustrating the archetype at and grief, and while the challenges them. stake, followed by a story expressing may be different for the Knols, their Knol’s prose is light and appeals to a it, suggestions for journaling, a hope for their son was the same as any broad audience. Many of her reflec- guided scriptural meditation, and parent’s: they wanted David to be tions are also thought-provoking, further journaling suggestions. An happy. showing the reader how even the accompanying CD provides color Knol’s book is a precious find. She smallest gestures can go a long way to- renditions of much of the artwork does not sugarcoat or romanticize her ward helping a child with disabilities and audio versions of most of the family’s struggles, and she admits thrive. As David grows older, Knol re- guided meditations, with classic or- openly that “the weight of David’s de- marks: “Because David became so gan music recorded by the author. A pendence … was sometimes over- comfortable with himself, we were fully appreciative review could only whelming” (p. 41). There is no spon- able to see him whole, just as he was” come from undertaking all the med- taneity in their life with David; every (p. 55). Yes, I thought as I read, but I itations with the resources provided, outing, every day, must be carefully would also add that David became so which is more than I have been able planned. It is difficult to rush when comfortable with himself because they to do. Carroll has, however, provided David works for 15 minutes to swal- saw him whole, just as he was. a helpful tool, thoughtfully assem- low one bite of food. Children usually Anna Masi bled and organized, with much wis- begin walking at about their first birth- Durham, North Carolina dom and sound theology. Subject to a more general caveat that follows, I highly recommend it for groups and “mindfulness,” namely, willingness, of St. Ignatius Loyola and works individuals. attentiveness, and responsiveness. based on them, but still find the book The style is warm and accessible, in a helpful. Bieber’s particular commit- ancy L. Bieber is a psychologist way that many seeking guidance in ments in psychological theory are and spiritual director associ- decision making and discernment even more implicit and hard to ex- Nated with Oasis Ministries for Spiri- will find helpful. tract, but do not appear to include tual Development and an adjunct fac- Bieber self-identifies as a Quaker Jungian depth psychology as a major ulty member at Lancaster Theological (p. 9), and the illuminative character feature. I think I would be happy Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her work of that spirituality shines through, with Bieber — or Travis, for that on decision making again presents a though she also addresses a range of matter — as a counselor when facing series of practical meditations on spiritual literature and practice from a problem or a difficult decision. spiritual discernment rather than a the Enneagram and Twelve Steps to theoretical analysis, and combines in- Brother Lawrence and C.S. Lewis. do have some general concerns sights and practices from a more Mainstream Christians may well I about the picture of Christian life generic and eclectic approach to psy- miss a clearer focus on Jesus and the and spirituality that emerges from chology and spirituality. She focuses person of the Holy Spirit, such as these works, especially as they por- on three attributes of what many call one finds in the Spiritual Exercises (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) self-criticism. At the deepest level, sexist, and racist (see Becoming a tray the role of psychology and hu- the daily struggle with Satan must be Self Before God: Critical Transfor- man wellness in relation to it. I have taken seriously throughout the mations [1991]). His main point — written about this issue at length Christian life, even when swimming and Gerald May joins him here — is (though my primary focus was on happily in the tide of Transfiguration. this: if we define spiritual growth developmental psychology, not Jun- The undercurrents of the other tides and sanctity as equivalent to the gian: see Beloved Dust: Tides of the must always be noticed and allowed achievement of advanced stages of Spirit in the Christian Life, espe- for. Some evil is so real and horrible human psychological development, cially pp. 164-244), but will mention that in its face even God’s primal integration, and so on, we doom the just two points here. “Yes” must sound a resounding “No,” poor, the wretched, and the disabled First, all three books take evil se- and our appropriate response is rig- to lesser degrees of sanctification; riously. The Ulanov Festschrift orous renunciation, not integration and, as anyone with ministerial ex- closes with three essays that grap- perience knows, that is simply em- ple with suffering and evil; Travis of- pirically false. Many well-adjusted, fers extended meditations on the integrated, psychologically healthy temptations of Jesus and the cruci- individuals show no signs of serious fixion that firmly address the prob- At the deepest level, sanctification, while many neurotic, lem of sin; and Bieber’s chapter on deeply “impaired” people are obvi- waiting certainly talks about the is- the daily struggle ous saints. There is little awareness sues of confronting spiritual dark- of that in these three works. Of ness. The two Jungian works strike with Satan must be course, they are not books about me, however, as treating all nega- that, to be fair, but they show little tives as elements of the Shadow that taken seriously sense of the deep tension this must still require integration rather than create between psychology as cur- real renunciation and repentance, throughout the rently practiced (good in and of it- and Bieber’s work sometimes gives self, of course) and a spirituality that the impression that enough mindful- Christian life, even takes seriously the reality of evil and ness will make any deep suffering or when swimming the depths of the divine abyss. Surely evil go away, though I doubt she human psychological growth and would actually embrace that propo- happily in the tide wholeness and spiritual growth are sition herself. related in some way, but I do not be- To be fair, all three of these books, of Transfiguration. lieve they are as cozy as might ap- especially those of Bieber and Travis, pear from these works. are written from the standpoint of This is a serious caveat. But if taken spiritualities of light, appropriate for into account, these books can be help- the classical illuminative stage or what ful to those studying the relation be- I have called the tide of Transfigura- tween depth (Jungian) psychology tion. The spiritual style appropriate or mindfulness. That includes, of and Christian spiritual and pastoral to this stage or tide is self-fulfillment, course, any temptation of our own to practice; and helpful to those awash and no contemporary ac count of that respond with retaliatory violence. in the tide of Transfiguration, practic- style can fail to make use of the in- This issue is sharpened for me by ing a spirituality of self-fulfillment. sights of psychology and the other teaching in an African culture where The Ulanov Festschrift marks a par- human sciences. Since, as I have ar- the Gospel daily confronts “witch- ticularly suitable honoring of a pas- gued, most adult Christians will craft,” presenting a pastoral task of toral theologian of the first order. The spend most of their lives swimming sorting out what is healthy tradi- other volumes will reward use, pro- in this tide, these books will be help- tional wisdom from what is truly evil vided one does not exclude scarier di- ful and appropriate for many people, (not to be confused with Western mensions of the spiritual life. and they are works of high quality in neopaganism or Wicca). those terms. Second, I commend coming to The Rev. Robert Davis Hughes III is What I miss is a deeper sense of terms with Romney Moseley’s im- an emeritus professor of systematic the struggles of the tides of Conver- mense and deep critique of any mar- theology and divinity at the Uni- sion and Glory, with their more neg- riage between psychological growth versity of the South’s School of The- ative spiritualities of self-denial and and sanctity as potentially classist, ology.

16 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 Losing the Story

Review by Emily Hylden deal with the real everyday pain and suffering of people in broken rela- ishop Carol Gallagher encour- tionships. It is possible that the Bages readers to bring new imag- structure — using the author’s own ination to the stories of the Bible, experiences — may limit the power with the hope of reapplying Scrip- of the project, as few people suffer ture to our daily life experiences and from broken relationships in every broadening the horizons of our the- aspect of life. ology. With special attention to fam- The chapter “Marriage and Fi- ily systems theory, Gallagher re- delity: Finding Love in all the Wrong Family Theology counts personal experiences and Places” recounts and explores the af- Finding God in Very Human common stories of family life to fair between David and Bathsheba. Relationships prime readers’ minds for imaginative The takeaway, Gallagher tells us, is By Carol J. Gallagher. interpretation. that “[t]here is danger in power, Morehouse. Pp. 144. $16 Gallagher uses a particular family whether in ancient times or present relationship as the theme for each day” (p. 82). King David’s indiscre- chapter. She provides a scriptural action has been reenacted myriad times in the ensuing centuries (think necessary part of creativity. One can- of General David Petraeus). not create a jazz riff or tie allusions Deep imagination This reflection — how power can from literature together before learn- corrupt great leaders and even ing the simple music chords and the involves looking closely everyday people — is as far as Gal- great canon of writing. lagher takes us. I am left wondering Imagination and creativity are cer- at God’s actions about that “fidelity” she mentioned tainly foundational to the world, and in the chapter’s heading. What does a to understanding who God is, and and behavior mother in running tights do when these forces are most fruitful when she realizes she’s been spending a lot they are applied within a framework in Scripture of time commiserating with the stay- — in this case, faithfulness to the at-home dad down the street? What overall narrative of Scripture. On a and then seeking about the husband who travels for practical level, this means we must work and texts his unattached col- be careful not to extrapolate or wan- echoes and ripples league in the wee hours of the morn- der far from Scripture’s great color, ing? Not least because of our isola- texture, and truth. We need not dress in daily life. tion in an age of digital dependence, up Scripture, or superimpose our everyday people struggle with keep- own stories, to provide toothsome- ing our marital vows. A personal ness or depth. count, followed by her retelling of story of feeling powerful in church Family Theology provides a way the story and a personal or accessi- leadership rings true, but I wonder if into imagining scriptural stories in ble application. She intersperses it is the most imaginative interpreta- our own lives, but it also raises the these pericopes with her poetry, fur- tion of the David and Bathsheba question of whether we ought to ther inviting the reader into playful story. compare our lives to Scripture, or engagement with Scripture. Deep imagination involves looking rather compare Scripture to our In a culture suffering widely from closely at God’s actions and behavior lives. scriptural illiteracy, this book’s proj- in Scripture and then seeking echoes ect is important. It is disappointing, and ripples in daily life — which takes The Rev. Emily Hylden is canon for however, that the retellings and per- real attention. Any artist will say that young adult ministries at Trinity sonal applications rarely seem to attention, more than imagination, is a Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina.

JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 17 A Provisional Sic et non Solution

By Mark McCall

esse Zink’s “Why Provinces Matter” and the arrangements of Communion oversight to bodies responses from William G. Witt and Colin alienated from the Episcopal Church. These arrange- Podmore [TLC, May 26] illustrate the range of ments were designed to be implemented in the con- opinions on what South Carolina’s ultimate text of mediated talks seeking long-term reconcilia- J ecclesial structure should be, from stand- tion among the alienated parties both in the United alone province to joining the Anglican Church in North States and in the communion as a whole. They were America. One thing in common to all of the initial es- developed specifically to deal with the many parishes says, however, was the recognition that any decision and four dioceses that had withdrawn from the Epis- on ultimate structure might still be some time away. copal Church after its consecration of the Rt. Rev. This recognition has also been the starting point of Gene Robinson in 2003 and subsequent failure to com- the Anglican Communion Institute in our work on ply with the moratoria affirmed by the instruments. this issue in the last several months. We believe that But by the time the Communion approved these pro- South Carolina’s current status does not necessarily cedures the bodies that had withdrawn from the Epis- present a problem in need of im- copal Church had agreed to form the Angli- mediate resolution, but rather South Carolina’s can Church in North America and were no inheres in the nature of this dis- longer interested in provisional arrange- pute. Taking our cue both from current status ments. Notwithstanding the rejection of Bishop Mark Lawrence and the does not necessarily this concept by the groups for which it was Instruments of Communion, we present a problem originally intended, these arrangements have proposed that the guiding were nonetheless subsequently approved principle of the next season for in need of immediate by the instruments and remain “on the South Carolina is “provisional- resolution, but rather shelf” for use in other situations as the need ity.” During this period ultimate arises. decisions are deferred precisely inheres in the nature The provisional arrangements were de- because they are premature. of this dispute. veloped by the Windsor Continuation Bishop Lawrence has stressed Group convened by the Archbishop of Can- this on many occasions. The rupture with the Episco- terbury to recommend ways of implementing The pal Church is too fresh with many unresolved issues; Windsor Report. The continuation group modeled its the ensuing litigation is only beginning, not nearing an proposal after the Communion’s existing concept of end. This is not the time to make such a momentous extra-provincial jurisdictions. In its recommendation decision as that regarding the ultimate future of this to the Communion, the continuation group described diocese, which predates the formation of the Episco- the concept as “a provisional holding arrangement pal Church. which will enable dialogue to take place and which Many observers are unaware, however, that this is will be revisited on the conclusion of the Covenant also the stated perspective of the Anglican Commu- Process, or the achievement of long-term reconcilia- nion’s official instruments. In 2008-09 all of the in- tion in the Communion.” It noted that such an arrange- struments gave approval in principle to provisional ment would provide the alienated body with “clear

18 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 provisional recognition which seeks to keep it in re- olina does not understand itself to be an alternative or lation to the Communion, but which acknowledges its parallel jurisdiction to the Episcopal Church but only provisional and anomalous nature.” Conditions would to remain the diocese it has always been, dating be attached to this provisional recognition, including back to the period before the Episcopal Church it- oversight by a metropolitical council and an under- self was organized. Although reconciliation between taking by the recognized bodies that they would “not South Carolina and the Episcopal Church will not seek to recruit and expand their membership by happen in the near term, it is conceivable on the means of proselytisation [outside their borders].” terms specified by the continuation group and ap- All of the instruments have endorsed use of these proved unanimously by the primates — namely, “the arrangements. The continuation group outlined an conclusion of the Covenant Process, or the achieve- early version of this concept prior to its development of long-term reconciliation in the Commun- ment in final form in an interim report to the 2008 ion.” Provisional Communion recognition and over- Lambeth Conference. That conference’s final sum- sight using the agreed procedures might also assist mation stated that “there is clear majority support” in an amicable settlement to the litigation that is for the concept and expressed “a desire to see it in only now beginning and could last for years (as has place speedily.” Later the concept as fully developed already happened in other cases). in the continuation group’s final report was ap- A final reason the Anglican Communion Institute proved unanimously by the 2009 Primates’ Meeting. has stressed these agreed procedures for provisional Later still, the 2009 meeting of the Anglican Consul- recognition of extra-provincial status is Communion tative Council affirmed the continuation group’s final accountability. All too often in recent years the in- report as a whole and encouraged the Archbishop of struments and churches have reached decisions, only Canterbury to implement the report’s recommenda- to disregard them immediately as if they had been tions. The other instrument, the Archbishop of Can- “writ in water.” No one will take decisions of the An- terbury, was among the primates approving this rec- glican Communion seriously until the instruments ommendation at the 2009 Primates’ Meeting. themselves begin to do so. South Carolina is a place to The Anglican Communion Institute has suggested start. There are agreed procedures in place. They since last November that this concept may be more should be utilized. appropriate for the Diocese of South Carolina than it was for the Anglican Church in North America. South Mark McCall, Esq., is a senior fellow of the Anglican Carolina did not take the initiative to leave the Epis- Communion Institute and has testified as an expert copal Church, but departed only when Bishop witness for the departing dioceses in the litigation in Lawrence was charged with abandonment. South Car- Quincy and South Carolina.

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amily, church, and school serve, according to sisted in long, winding stories, rich with allusion, plays the Christian Reformed Church, as overlapping on words, impersonated characters, and inevitably hi- F and mutually formative institutions, and this is larious endings, with additional space left for lament true. Our family stood awkwardly with a foot in East and loss. Folk songs from Ireland or England, fit for Grand Rapids and a foot in Calvin College, as visitors boisterous accompaniment, provided further layers, to foreign lands. But we more properly found a modus upon which we piled still more, like recordings of Eng- vivendi on the left wing of the CRC, associated with lish choral music to blare throughout the house on the broad and bold ecumenism of The Reformed Jour- Sunday morning while readying ourselves for church. nal, locked in steady if irenic dispute with the con- In this space we practiced mutual encouragement, servative and confessionalist right, sometimes pro- the art of truth-telling, and unconditional love, fed by ductively. (Stanley Wiersma, godfather: Pray for us.) principles of respect, obedience, and self-restraint. Which is not to say we were theologically non-tra- Church attendance was presumed, but wide-ranging ditionalist. Our own Church of the Servant carefully religious, cultural, and political questions were wel- cultivated Christian depth and scriptural seriousness, comed in a spirit of inquiry and debate, without fear ordered around weekly Holy Communion, with vari- of reprisal or disagreement, though conclusions were ous artistic accretions added to taste, largely without anticipated. Wooden orthodoxies were discouraged, sentimentality. One exception may have been the litur- while moral engagement was inculcated. My older gical dance, which seemed stuck in a cycle of bloom- brother and I were warned off too much television, ing flowers and dramatically shielded faces year made to take piano lessons, and pressed into weekly round, only the leotards changing with the seasons. In chores of a menial sort, with modest allowances of 50 a veiled victory for common prayer, my ex-Episco- cents on their completion — till, I believe, junior high palian father, serving on the congregation’s liturgy when it was raised to $1.00. We had paper routes of committee, insinuated into the regular order the Col- our own choosing, which Dad helped us fulfill when lect for Purity, which we all duly recited without it rained or snowed in excess. Sojourning travelers, recognition or attribution. international students, visiting scholars, and latterly alienated youths were welcomed for meals, or ex- oming into consciousness around age 3, I grate- tended stays, beginning with tea and digestives, and Cfully recall sunny rooms in the safety of home; or- moving to marmalade or marmite in the morning. anges, yellows, that avocado green and its variants; And there was much else, of course, especially in- the smell of Mom’s skin; the aural comfort food of vented games with my brother, and vast contempla- “Vande Voort, Van Zytveld, Stegink.” And, back in the tive stretches for reading and the curating of bottle motherland c. 1977, the love and laughter of friends, cap, baseball card, and stamp collections. Summer and warmth of English accents. trips to visit family in Boston and weeks on Lake The domestic church is primary — imperfectly one, Michigan were beloved high points, and a brief return holy, catholic, and apostolic as an aid to learning, prop- visit to England in the mid-80s provided a permanent agated by providence — and therefore hard to describe. touchstone. Monopoly, “spying,” whiffleball, and bike Yet here is the cradle of language, and the dawning riding occupied many happy hours with friends. Star of reality. The words in our home were colorful, vari- Wars proffered a universal grammar, while Little ously accented in the wake of immigrant journeys by House on the Prairie propounded a surprisingly grandparents from Newfoundland and Sweden, with solid, if nostalgic, “Judeo-Christian” morality in per- further modifications and appropriations in the new fectly packaged 40-minute segments. world, especially via post-war Brookline, MA, where my father learned a range of folkways and a distinctive chool started at Martin Luther Elementary, where style of humor from his primarily Jewish neighbors SI savored my first kisses and my first sentences and friends. Subsequent years spent in England and read on a page. Next came a stint at Lakeside Ele- Ireland further extended the repertoire, which sub- mentary, with its more formidable culture of football

20 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 and fights at recess, wealth, and substantially im- nd in my case, books, especially American liter- proved academics, yielding scholastic successes and A ature, provided an opening for post-high school joy in learning for me. plans. As I recall, Richard Wright’s Native Son planted Soon thereafter followed Sylvan Christian Elemen- the idea of a gap year of community service, and soon tary and Junior High, where I stayed put for 7 years thereafter I stumbled upon Boston’s nascent City Year through the 9th grade, for sustained Christian forma- program, an “urban Peace Corps,” which was per- tion amid an old-school curriculum and pedagogy — fect. My family proudly saw me heading back to my sentence diagrams, memorization, whole books read Dad’s hometown, in proximity to my grandfather, — undertaken by fine teachers. I recall liking my with good work to do, and the rewards were incalcu- peers, on the whole, and especially forming several lable. I grew up and out, in many ways. We completed dear friendships, aimed, as C.S. Lewis says, at matters all projects as a team composed of maximally diverse of common concern, since friendship is always about — educationally, racially, socio-economically, equally something. I played multiple sports without espe- divided between men and women — members, ac- cially excelling at any, though I tried mightily in the cording to the progressive ideals of the program’s case of baseball and basketball. I found more success founders, Harvard Law graduates with Jonathan Ko- singing in the St. Cecilia Music Chorale, and acting in zol in hand and RFK on the wall. school and community theater, which were singular It worked because highly concrete, practical pro- pleasures. I developed incipient political commitments grams of service in the name of justice — or love — (imitative of my parents), with special concern for the can cut through the cynicism and boredom of dis- history of race in America and its continuing conse- tracted and ill-formed youths, capturing their longing quences. And I recall liking church, especially Pastor for meaning and energy for mission, while forming Roeda’s long sermons, to which I listened intently. them for future leadership. I myself floundered at first, readjusted, and then flourished, as did nearly all of my rand Rapids Christian High School provided a teammates. Looking back, it seems that I uncon- Gnatural terminus ad quem, on the doorstep of sciously pressed the program in the direction of the departures and new challenges beyond. Church and gospel ideals I had previously learned — John 17 and family had, I suppose, imperceptibly done their work, Acts 2, in effect. Within City Year’s primary ethos the while school remained enjoyable, for the most part. A Christian-cultural precedents for our work remained side trip to London for seven months during my soph- unexplored, and were sometimes dismissed and oth- omore year proved ennobling, as fears gave way to a erwise misunderstood in the teeth of a would-be sec- singular adventure of inter-cultural encounter along- ular self-sufficiency, married to a naïve optimism side Anglo-Saxons, Indians, and Pakistanis at Christ about prospects for genuine human progress unaided Church School. I grew especially through friendships from without. I myself stopped going to church that in and around a maturing Christian commitment that year after an initial pass on Episcopalian superficiality seemed more presumed than discussed, but nonethe- at a society parish in the city. The Fountainhead less real and, to my mind, chosen. briefly made sense but, thank God, something more In modern American fashion, we spent considerable like Born to Run won out, seasoned by early Sly time immersed in pop culture, crafting sophisticated Stone, mid-career Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman, and tastes that typically formed the basis of our bonds, I think Marge Piercy and Robert Coles, among others. which in turn became vehicles for self-discovery and A semi-secular library, trafficking in inherited hope. exploration in deep and beautiful ways. Led by my As the year drew to a close I sensed unfinished fearlessly eclectic brother, we took the Beatles and business with Christianity, and chose St. Olaf College the Stones as read, placed U2, the Smiths, and R.E.M. (over a handful of secular alternatives) because it of- alongside Steely Dan, Springsteen, and Prince, and fered a safe place to ask hard questions of the West- then added the canon of classic rock (including disco, ern tradition. This proved truer than I ever could have the oldies, and glam variants, plus 1980s Top 40), to ar- imagined. My mission, as I might have articulated it rive finally at post-punk developments in the neigh- then, amounted to something like fighting the power borhood of Sonic Youth, the Pixies, and Bad Brains. to the end of freedom and justice for all, at least in the The grittier edges of mainstream film, with some drift United States. Sly said to Stand / For the things you into the avante garde, domestic and foreign, attracted know are right, and I meant to do just that. additional interest. As did girls. Christopher Wells

JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 21 CULTURES The Ethics of Dr. Spock

Review by Leonard Freeman

couple of the lessons from Star Trek: Into Darkness, currently hitting good numbers at the box office: We think we’re God, and we get Star Trek: A into trouble because we resist wise instruction, even from robots. There are others, but those two will do for starters. God gets quiet, Into Darkness subtle mentions in this second film featuring Chris Pine (Capt. James T. Directed by J.J. Abrams. Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (Mr. Spock) that functionally restarts the epic series. A virtual dynasty that first saw the light of day in 1966, the late Paramount. Gene Rodenberry’s franchise has produced 726 television episodes through six series and 30 seasons, and now an even-dozen movies. The two newest (Star Trek, 2009, and Into Darkness) recapture the characters of Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Dr. McCoy, Lt. Uhura, and Messrs. Sulu and Chekov with uncanny accuracy and depth. Newcomer Benedict Cumberbatch (of BBC’s Sherlock) comes aboard with a brilliantly murky, mysterious, villainous presence as John Harri- son, a Starfleet operative who has supposedly turned rogue upon his masters. The head of Starfleet, Admiral Marcus (Peter Weller of Robocop), commissions young Kirk to go after Harrison in a classic “deniable black op.” He is to enter Klingon planetary space with a small crew and assassi- nate Harrison with a bank of new special torpedoes, but to get out fast lest the Klingons discover the incursion and start an all-out war. The young, impetuous Kirk is brought up short by his “ethics lessons from a robot” — Spock — who reminds him repeatedly that the mission is basically immoral: “We do not execute people without a trial.” And after a

22 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 firefight with Klingon scouts, in which the super- other crew members — notably Spock and Scotty warrior Harrison saves all their lives, Kirk decides to (Simon Pegg) — who again and again save the bring the traitor back to Earth for a trial instead of Captain from the consequences of his rash deci- summary execution. sions. It is a fateful decision, because the admiral sabo- Kirk might well be seen as a virtual stand-in for taged the Enterprise, intending the mission to be a boomer, and post-boomer, age that too often discovered so as to initiate war with the Klingons. seems to have walked away from tradition and its Harrison is much more than he appears (Trekkers moral principles to rely almost solely upon gut take note): a superior genetic mutant, whom the feelings and intuition. The value of those “soft” admiral awoke from cryonic sleep to take advan- guides for human interaction is not debased, but tage of his intelligence for forging new weapon their limitation is clearly noted. systems, and, as Harrison chillingly says, “for my Kirk is willing to lay down his life for his crew, savagery.” and Spock knows that Kirk has saved him because Who is using whom for what purposes spins “you are my friend.” But at the same time the gut wheels within wheels in a wonderfully intricate reaction to vengeance as a motivator is held up to plot. the moral beam. “There will always be people who Star Trek has always marked a cultural touch- wish to harm us,” Kirk tells a Starfleet graduating stone, reflecting upon the issues of its day while class at film’s close, “but to take up their same tac- supposedly exploring space “to boldly go where tics to stop them, we risk awaking the same evil no one has gone,” and Into Darkness is no exception. within ourselves.” The dangers of a culture that forgets broader, It is a prime moral lesson of Into Darkness: in a rational and moral — and, even theological — post-9/11, marathon-bombings world, we need to positions, appears from the film’s beginning when take care lest we fall “into darkness” ourselves. a young Kirk violates the prime directive. They are “You should have let me sleep!” rages Harrison, as supposed to explore, but not interfere with, other he crushes an enemy’s skull. civilizations. But the crew has stumbled upon That we all could use a step back to balance the planet Nibiru, where they intercede to stop a vol- inner voices of our human reactions with the cano from blowing up, leave virtual “scriptures” more objective and reasoned moral teachings of behind for the natives, and then compound the other ages is not a bad plot line for a major sum- error by letting them see the Enterprise. mer blockbuster. Talk about boldly going where Dressed down for “not listening, thinking you others have not gone. always know better … playing God,” Kirk has no real defense. He has in fact been awfully lucky, The Rev. Leonard Freeman writes at the weblog Poems rather than always right, and in this Trek it is the Per Day (poemsperday.com).

JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 23 Summertime CULTURES

There is a beach with children on it, a wonderful, open reach of blue, clutching at the land, barely a cloud, red bonnets, nakedness, light, and sand.

There will be a war, but now no one knows this, nor cares. How would they? They are running and swallowing the air. The fishermen are home, and have dragged the prows to the water’s edge, as a fair

breeze rubs the colors against each other. I can see the shirtless old men and boys, the small girls and someone who mends his net, all joyous,

legs and sails all flapping and shouting. The world is envious, trailing behind with longing and with tender looks. No one predicts or doubts. No one even remembers.

(Valencia, 1937) Ephraim Radner

24 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 PEOPLE & PLACES

Appointments band of 53 years, Louis E. Fay III. She is survived by her brother, Robert K. Awtrey, Jr.; The Rev. Suzanne LeVesconte is priest- daughters Anne M. Fay and S. Delia Fay; in-charge of Trinity,115 N 6th St., Hamil- sons Robert A. Fay and John F. Fay; eight Daily Bible, Daily Bread ton, OH 45011. grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Something phenomenal has happened at Retirements The Rev. LaVerne Morgan, 90, who helped St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston The Rt. Rev. James M. Adams, as rector found three congregations during his 40 since last year: attendance at Sunday of Shepherd of the Hills, Lecanto , FL. years of parish ministry, died Jan. 30. Christian Education classes has increased The Rev. Jennifer West, as rector of St. Born in Watfoord, Ontario, Canada, he 25 percent across the board. The Christian Matthew’s, Westerville, OH. was a theological graduate of Huron Col- Education team is offering a wider variety lege. He was ordained deacon in 1944 and priest in 1947. He served as rector, St. Mark’s of Sunday school classes centered around Deaths Church, Marine City, MI, 1950-54; vicar, St. the Holy Scriptures. There is no one The Rev. Emiliano Alberto Amat, a dea- Martin’s Church, Moses Lake, WA, 1954-56; answer for the enthusiasm building for the vicar, St. John the Baptist Church, Ephrata, con of the Diocese of Connecticut since program. All success is to God’s glory! WA; assistant, St. John’s Church, Midland, Recognizing that not everyone has a 2006, died Jan. 21 at Brigham and MI, 1956-59; vicar, Holy Family Chrch, Mid- Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 66. land, 1959-64; rector, Grace Church, Mt. schedule that fits with traditional Sunday Born in Camaguey, Cuba, he migrated to Clemens, MI, 1966-77; and rector, St. school classes, the church has continued the United States under political asylum in Michael’s Church, Lansing, 1968-84. expanding its teachings to different days 1962, at age 15. He became a U.S. citizen in He is survived by Ruth, his wife of 68 and times of the week, molded for differ- 1971. He served in the Connecticut National years; two sisters, Irene and Doris Morgan; ent populations — younger, older, singles, Guard, 1965-71. He worked for 25 years at a daughter, Karen; a son, Philip; and multi- the Aetna Life Insurance Company in Hart- ple grandchildren and great-grandchildren. men, and women. But the increase in ford and later retired after seven years of attendance figures is service for the Connecticut Department of The Rev. David I. Suellau, who served as calculated solely on Economic and Community Development. a U.S. Marine tank driver during the Ko- Sunday class atten- A graduate of the University of Hartford, St. Joseph’s College, and St. Thomas Semi- rean War, died Jan. 27 in Jacksonville, dance, and that is nary, he studied further at Holy Apostles FL. He was 82. encouraging. College and Seminary. He was ordained a Born in Port Chester, NY, he was a grad- St. Martin’s Roman Catholic deacon in 1984 and re- uate of Stetson University and Seminary of the Southwest. He was ordained deacon believes its parish- ceived as a deacon of the Episcopal Church ioners’ renewed in 2006. He served at All Saints’ Church, and priest in 1965. Meriden; and three congregations in Hart- He served at several parishes in Florida: interest in the Scrip- ford: Christ Church Cathedral, Trinity curate, Emmanuel Church, Orlando, 1965-68; tures has spilled over Church, and St. James’s Church. rector, Church of the Good Shepherd, Mait- into worship services He is survived by Luz Consuelo Amat, land, 1968-75; rector, St. Barnabas Church, De- as well. Attendance Land, 1975-94; interim, Church of the Good his wife of 13 years; a brother, Jose Amat; at the family-friendly contemporary wor- daughters Maria Kneeland and Tanya Neu- Shepherd, Jacksonville, 1997-98; curate, mann; and seven grandchildren. Church of the Holy Spirit, Tallahassee, 1998- ship service is the fastest-growing, while 99, and interim, 1999-2000; interim, St. Michael the four traditional services have main- The Rev. Alice Fay, who taught at sev- and All Angels, Tallahassee, 2000; and interim, tained their attendance levels. Family- Church of the Ascension, Carrabelle, 2003-04. eral colleges and universities before friendly worshipers include parents with He was preceded in death by his first wife, being ordained deacon in 1995, died Elizabeth Lyon Suellau. He is survived by his young children, families serving together as Jan. 25 in Florida. She was 86. wife, the Rev. Nancy Shebs Suellau; daugh- ushers and chalice bearers, single parents She studied chemistry at Radcliffe Uni- ters Kim I. Suellau of Oxford, Ohio, and with their children, and grandparents with versity and the University of California, Wendy E. Brown of DeLand; his son, David, their grandchildren. Berkeley. She taught at colleges and univer- of Palm Harbor, FL; a sister, Sally Laughlin; The Bible has all the answers. St. Martin’s sities in Ames, IA; Detroit; Kenya, Liberia three grandchildren; and two stepchildren. and Sierra Leone; Trinidad, West Indies; offers daily lessons about the Bible, to equip Greenville and Anderson, SC; and finally at Trudy Vertucci-Ardizzone, 61, a religious members as bearers of the gospel. Milledgeville, GA. While in Milledgeville she educator and author, died Jan. 9. served as a deacon at St. Stephen’s Church. Born in Brooklyn, NY, she was a graduate She was a lifetime member of the NAACP. of Brooklyn College and Hunter College. She St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Deacon Fay lost her sight in 2003 and began a 23-year career as a religious edu- 717 Sage Road spent the last nine years of her life com- cator at St. Peter’s Church in Del Mar, CA. Houston, Texas 77056 pletely blind. Two months before her 84th She was a consultant to the Diocese of San birthday, she announced that she wanted to (713) 621-3040 Diego and the churchwide Office of Chris- learn to sing and signed up for voice lessons. www.stmartinsepiscopal.org tian Formation, and missioner for Christian She was preceded in death by her hus- (Continued on page 28) A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 25 SUNDAY’S READINGS | 7 Pentecost, July 7 THE First reading and psalm: 2 Kings 5:1-14 • Ps. 30 LIVING CHURCH Alternate: Isa. 66:10-14 • Ps. 66:1-8 • Gal. 6:(1-6), 7-16 • Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 VOLUME 247 • NUMBER 1

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26 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 SUNDAY’S READINGS | 8 Pentecost, July 14 First reading and psalm: Amos 7:1-17 • Ps. 82 Alternate: Deut. 30:9-14 • Ps. 25:1-9 • Col. 1:1-14 • Luke 10:25-37 This Fertile Ground t is one thing to assert that the law waste, and I will rise against the Icannot save when one has never house of Jeroboam with the sword” attempted to live a godly, righteous, (Amos 7:8b-9). “Go, prophesy to my As followers of Jesus Christ, we are One Church and sober life, and quite another people” is almost always a summons within the Anglican Communion and The matter to lay aside a lifetime of dis- to say hard things, the curse of a re- Episcopal Church. All are sought and embraced in worship, mission and ministry in a spirit of cipline for the higher good of the luctant herdsman-prophet. mutual love and respect. free gift of salvation. In the second St. Paul, writing to the church in case, far more commendable, law Colossae, is happy and willing to - 153 congregations may be viewed as a disciplinarian, a commend their good works and fur- - 409 clergy required preparation, and even a ther encourages them to “lead lives - 1,102 worship leaders tool to which one may return, worthy of the Lord” (Col. 1:10). A - 2,295 lay eucharistic leaders though never forgetting that what house divided against itself will not - 67 schools God gives in Christ is given as a free long endure, and thus Christian wit- - 17 college ministries gift to sinners. Christ is the fulfill- ness in community will always re- - 1,475 outreach ministries ment of the law; he is not a false and quire good will, good words, and cheap freedom that excuses crime proper order. The Colossians, how- - 78,761 followers of Christ and license. So we may and should ever, like Epaphras, who may have The Diocese of Texas view with deep respect the great gift brought the gospel to them, discov- 1225 Texas St. of divine law to God’s people. ered something unimaginable, the Houston, TX 77002-3504 “For the Lord will again take de- gravitational center of the whole 713.520.6444 light in prospering you, just as he gospel truth. “Just as [the gospel] is epicenter.org delighted in prospering your ances- bearing fruit and growing in the tors, when you obey the Lord your whole world, so it has been bearing A LIVING CHURCH Partner God by observing his command- fruit among yourself from the day ment and decrees that are written in you heard it and truly compre- this book of the law, because you hended the grace of God” (Col. 1:6). turn to the Lord your God with all Fruit erupts from this fertile ground, your heart and with all your soul” the ground being the unearned gift (Deut. 30:9b-10). “I have not spoken of God’s Son for the life of the world. on my own authority,” Jesus says. This is particularly difficult to ex- “The Father who sent me has him- plain. For love alone God creates self given me a commandment the world. And when we fall into sin about what to say and what to and the world falls with us, when speak” (John 12:49). The Son is per- we are naked and alone, abused and fectly free in the perfect command- bleeding at the hands of a violent As a diocesan community we seek to live out ment of the Father. world, God, in the person of his Son, Jesus’ Great Commission that we should be in We too are called to the obedience in the illustration of a Samaritan, is the world to make disciples of all people by min- of love. Indeed, our effort to obey “moved with pity” (Luke 10:30-37). istering God’s redemptive gifts of love and grace. will itself show more and more God cleans our bloody wounds with Ministry is our active response to the love of clearly both the necessity of law and the oil and wine of his own anguish, God. Following Jesus’ example: the failure of law to engender full binds up our sores by bearing them, - We worship God and willing obedience. Thus, while repays what is necessary from the - We proclaim the Good News law is necessary, so is prophetic pro- treasure of his mercy. - We love and forgive nouncement against disobedience, - We live and serve, sharing in Christ’s reconcil- which highlights again the law’s im- ing work in the world portance in calling for order and its Look It Up impotence to instill a free and per- Read Amos 7:14. Don’t be absolutely - We believe that God calls everyone to min- fect obedience. Measured against certain about what you are not. istry the plumb line of law, the Lord says The Diocese of West Virginia through Amos, “I will never again Think About It 1608 Virginia Street East pass them by; the high places of Read Luke 10:25-37. Salvation is no Charleston, WV 25311 Isaac shall be made desolate, and theory. It is pity, bandages, oil, wine, 304.344.3597 wvdiocese.org the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid care, and cash. A LIVING CHURCH Partner JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 27 PEOPLE & PLACES eral Theological Seminary. He was ordained THE LIVING CHURCH deacon and priest in 1958. He was an assis- FOUNDATION, INC. (Continued from page 25) tant at Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden formation at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in City, 1958-59; rector of St. Mary’s Church, The Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Andrews, Lompoc. Wizards and Wonders, her Vaca- Lake Ronkonkoma, 1959-96; canon pastor Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. tion Bible School curriculum based on the of St. John’s Church, Huntington, 1997-2002; The Rt. Rev. Dr. John C. Bauerschmidt, Harry Potter series, became one of the best- and long-term supply priest at St. Andrew’s Nashville, Tenn. Church, Yaphank, from 2008. sellers for her publisher, LeaderResources. The Rev. Michael B. Cover, Valparaiso, Ind. Her latest curriculum, The Peaceable He is survived by daughters Susan Ry- Kingdom, draws on Dr. Seuss to teach anti- dzeski, Jane Lauria, Sally Ruscito and Mary Prudence Dailey, Oxford, England bullying lessons. Two of her poems ap- Pepe and 11 grandchildren. The Most Rev. Gerald James Ian Ernest, peared in the anthology Lifting Women’s Mauritius Voices (2009). The Rev. John E. Owens, Jr., headmas- The Rev. Thomas A. Fraser, Riverside, Ill. She collaborated with her sister, June ter of St. James School in Maryland for Vertucci, on the musical The Pink Chat 29 years and a decorated for distin- The Rev. Dr. Andrew Goddard, London, England Room, which had a month-long run in Los guished service and valor in World G. Thomas Graves III, Dallas, Texas Angeles. She edited and directed the musi- War II, died May 1. He was 94. Mrs. John M. Hayden, emerita cal Jesus Knows the Blues, including a per- Born in Portsmouth, OH, he was a grad- La Crosse, Wis. formance in a prison yard at Donavan Cor- uate of Towson University and General rectional Facility. The funds raised by these The Rev. Dr. Charles Henery, Theological Seminary. He was ordained Delafield, Wis. performances helped to support the deacon in 1948 and priest in 1949. He was KAIROS community in San Diego. rector of All Saints Church, Sunderland, The Rev. Jordan Hylden, Columbia, S.C. In addition to her sister, she is survived MD, 1950-55, and served at St. James The Rev. Jay C. James, Raleigh, N.C. by her husband, Joe Ardizzone; a daughter, School from 1955 to 1984. He was a mem- Francesca; and a brother, Richard Vertucci. ber of the Fellowship of Contemplative David A. Kalvelage, Pewaukee, Wis. Prayer, the Guild of All Souls, and the Soci- The Rev. Dr. Russell Levenson, Jr., The Rev. Canon Edward August Wisbauer, ety of Mary. He is survived by nephews Houston, Texas Jr., 83, a priest for 54 years and former John Krajovic, John Louden and William The Rt. Rev. Edward S. Little II, chief of chaplains for the Suffolk County Owens; nieces Jan Leahey, Linda King, South Bend, Ind. Jeanne Swanson and Barbara Woodburn; (NY) Police Department, died Jan. 2. The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson, A native of Brooklyn, he was a graduate 13 grandnieces and grandnephews; and 15 Edmond, Okla. of the College of William & Mary and Gen- great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews. Richard J. Mammana, Jr., New Haven, Conn. The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Springfield, Ill. $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $25,000 Planned Giving The Rt. Rev. Steven A. Miller, Milwaukee, Wis. Samuel Seabury Patrons Daniel Muth, St. Leonard, Md. The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, A gift of $5,000 or more Bujumbura, Burundi The Rev. Canon Dr. Michael Perko, Bishop Seabury, the first bishop in the Albuquerque, N.M. Episcopal Church, built a firm foundation David R. 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