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THE LiViNG CHURCH is published by the Living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. news | December 3, 2017 Sing a New Song? Liturgists, musicians are cautious about revising the hymnal.

By Mark Michael American composers David Hurd and Calvin Hampton. He suggested that a symposium at Virginia Theo- new hymnal should not be prepared logical Seminary, “The Once until after the prayer book has been re- Aand Future Hymnal,” celebrated vised, because “the hymnal is really the the 1982 Hymnal and discussed possi- companion to the Book of Common ble directions for its revision. The Prayer.” event, sponsored by the seminary’s The Rev. William Bradley Roberts, Center for Liturgy and Music on Oct. professor of church music at VTS, cel- 23-24, gathered dozens of scholars, ebrated further achievements of the musicians, and clergy from around the 1982 Hymnal in a lecture interspersed country. Speakers sang the praises of with vigorous hymn-singing. Roberts the current hymnal and sounded a said the Hymnal 1982 significantly ex- rather hesitant note about the panded the number of plainsong, prospects for a new one. American folk hymns, and African “As the Episcopal Church looks to- American spirituals being sung in ward prayer book and hymnal revision Episcopal churches, with a few forays — do we? or don’t we?” said Ellen John- into Latino, African, and Native Amer- ston, the center’s director and a member ican hymnody. Ray Glover, the revi- of the Standing Commission on Liturgy sion committee’s chairman, told and Music. “i was especially taken with David Beale/Unsplash photo Roberts that his great regret was that the presentations of the Rev. Martin the hymnal did not include more Seltz of the [Evangelical Lutheran revision held earlier in October at the Spanish-language hymns. Church in America] and David Eicher University of the South’s School of Marilyn Haskel, formerly of Church of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Theology. Both events are part of a Publishing, reviewed a series of sup- Hearing about their processes of hym- conversation across the Episcopal plements that followed the hymnal. nal revision opened my eyes to the Church in response to the 2015 Gen- Aiming especially at expanding the use many facets of this work.” eral Convention’s direction that the of inclusive language and introducing Episcopal speakers at the sympo- Standing Commission on Liturgy and hymn texts in other languages, the sup- sium most often expressed concerns Music prepare a plan for prayer book plements were intended to be tempo- about the time costs and difficulty of and hymnal revision. rary and experimental, an opportunity finding consensus that would attend a The VTS gathering opened with to “take risks and see what works,” she comprehensive hymnal revision. presentations that traced the revisions said. The discussion echoed the standing leading to Hymnal 1982. Former mu- While earlier supplements like Won- committee’s 2012 Hymnal Revision sic professor James Litton, who served der, Love and Praise (1997) were au- Feasibility Study, which discouraged on the former Hymnal Revision Com- thorized by General Convention, proceeding with hymnal revision, es- mittee from 1966 to 1982, described a Haskel said Church Publishing as- pecially amid strong opposition to re- painstaking process of text and musical sumed direct responsibility for later vision among the laity and those editing, with thorough vetting of hymn ones. The period of experimentation younger than 29. in the symposium’s selections by clergy and musicians. overlapped with what Haskel called closing sessions, several speakers joked The revisers, he said, were “living at “the Age of Congregational Musical about a new hymnal being as yet “a a time of hymn explosion,” and could Diversity,” as the 1991 General Con- glimmer in the eye” of the Episcopal draw on compelling new texts by Fred vention permitted the use of “great di- Church. Pratt Green and Carl Daw, as well as a versity of musical styles” to address the The symposium was a companion distinctive genre of unison “art song” church’s evangelistic needs, a decision to a similar event about prayer book hymn tunes, especially associated with that “opened the door to less musical

4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 oversight in the Episcopal Church.” hood in 1979 brought profound and anything. You can make almost any Seltz and Eicher discussed the unsettling change. While stressing that kind of change. And so, with the un- ELCA’s Evangelical Lutheran Worship he supported these decisions then and certainties that live with us in the (2006) and the PCUSA’s Glory to God now, Wade counted their costs. world around us, there is the uncer- (2013). Both men played coordinating “We made some profound changes, tainty to change almost anything we roles for their church’s revisions. Both and with that comes this implication: leaned against as a church, almost any- hymnals focused intensively on intro- we can rethink this stuff. Very few thing that holds us up. That’s an un- ducing texts that are “expansive with things in our structure, very few things certainty in some minds. it’s a freedom respect to God and inclusive with re- in our common life, are now fixed. if in others.” spect to people,” though Seltz said that you can change the concept of min- The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, the the Lutheran hymnal also attended to istry to include the ordination of seminary’s Meade Professor of Biblical the integrity of texts that are “in the women and to center it in baptism in- interpretation, offered a similar review repertoire of memory.” stead of ordination, you can do almost (Continued on next page) The new hymnals also use texts and tunes from a wide variety of cultures, though Seltz said that in the case of Evangelical Lutheran Worship, this “re- flects the diversity that a big umbrella denomination like the ELCA wishes to see in itself, to which it aspires. … it is what we would like to be, not what we really are.” Seltz noted that Evangelical Lutheran Worship required six years of work. “We could have used more time, twice the amount of time for communal re- flection.” The Rev. Frank Wade, VTS’s interim associate dean of students and a dele- gate to 12 General Conventions, of- fered a keynote address about changes in the church’s cultural standing since 1983. Wade’s talk was an affectionate but occasionally bracing critique of the Episcopal Church’s seeming loss of di- rection and inability to speak to “a world becoming more and more un- certain.” He suggested that the church’s enthusiasm for diversity ignores “an utter and complete failure in theologi- cal diversity.” Wade also said that Episcopalians often exaggerate the church’s influence during the Civil Rights era, when “Episcopalians were well-represented on both sides of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.” Noting that in recent decades the Episcopal Church has focused in- tensely on the immanence of God, he suggested a change in direction might be needed: “i would wonder how to emphasize the transcendent — that we claim this lest we forget it while the world is forgetting.” He said the church’s 1976 decisions to revise the Book of Common Prayer and to ordain women to the priest-

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 5 news | December 3, 2017 Hymnal Revision of pain, very often,” he said. “Even in search into what is the heart song, that our desire to be inclusive with language they would grievously lament having it (Continued from previous page) and diverse in musical styles, the way altered or if taken from them.” of theological changes. Grieb traced 35 this is perceived by people in choirs and Episcopal hymn writer Carl Daw years of shifts in theology, some of congregations is as exclusion.” also expressed concern about extensive which affect hymn texts. A whole Keith Tan, music minister at Christ text editing: “You may be commis- range of contextual theologies have Church in Glen Allen, Virginia, made sioned with power to change some- arisen, she said, leading to “huge argu- a strong appeal for deeper engagement thing, but it may be usurping the au- ments about how to name God or with contemporary Christian music thority of the people of God.” He said whether to name God.” within the Episcopal Church. His the terms king and Lord have etymolo- Christian-Jewish relations have de- parish uses praise and worship music gies rich in theological meaning and veloped considerably, as global Chris- extensively because its leaders believe deserve to be retained and explained tian leaders have expressed remorse for “the worship style should be indige- more carefully. Church complicity in the Holocaust. nous to the congregation’s culture.” Lutheran hymn writer Susan Cher- Episcopalians, Grieb said, may need to Citing a recent Nielsen Music Re- wien said that in her younger days she reexamine the texts of popular hymns port that ranked classical music as the would have gladly taken a red pen to like “My Song is Love Unknown” and least popular of ten genres, Tan chal- many older hymn texts, but she has “Lord of the Dance,” which engage in lenged his largely traditionalist audi- grown more reluctant: “When there is stereotypes about Jews in Jesus’ time. ence: “Ninety-nine percent of people not something that is false, memory She suggested that new texts are we are trying to get to church like mu- trumps. Why change something if it is needed to address contemporary pas- sic with a drum beat. Using classical not blatantly false?” toral realities, like the suffering of im- music, we are speaking to the music Panelists discussing change in tech- migrants and the need for reconcilia- vernacular of only one percent of the nology were quite hesitant about the tion created by conflict across the population.” value of recent developments for com- Anglican Communion. Tan described an opportunity for mon worship. Nancy Bryan of Church Grieb concluded with a considera- Episcopal musicians to contribute to Publishing said that projecting hymn tion of the attacks on traditional sacri- songs rooted in ancient faith, such as texts harms community singing. “We ficial atonement theology posed by service and ritual music. “We need to retain, memorize, and embody text some contemporary theologians. sing our Creed. We need to sing canti- more easily from a book than from a While she is deeply concerned about cles like the Magnificat. And they need screen.” the glamorization of violence in con- to be written in contemporary flair, in David Eicher said that Glory to God temporary culture, a sacrificial under- the vernacular of 99 percent of the was launched in a popular digital edi- standing of Jesus’ death is rooted in the population, so that these ancient songs tion and as an app for tablets and New Testament. The topic, Grieb said, become indigenous to our people to- smartphones. Evangelical Lutheran is “left hanging unresolved in theolog- day.” Worship was issued in a version for ical discussions.” Presbyterian hymn writer Mary screen projection, though Martin Seltz Carl MaultsBy, an Episcopalian and Louise Bringle addressed the volatile surmised that only a small percentage composer of African American hymns, topic of revising hymns for inclusive of ELCA churches have abandoned discussed a marked tendency toward language. Bringle served on the prepa- hymnals in the pews. mixing styles such as hip-hop into ration committee for Glory to God, “There continues to be a strong worship music. which revised texts extensively. She value placed on having a book,” he Andrew Sheranian, who at 37 ap- said hymnals are not anthologies, and said. “it is a statement of what belongs peared to be the youngest speaker by a that there is a warrant “to create texts to the whole people of God. … it’s a decade or two, stood out as the only that our congregations, in their con- kind of safeguard and protection representative from a congregation texts, can sing with understanding.” against religious professionals who will that still uses the 1940 Hymnal. He de- She said good hymns provide “a want to spoon-feed us only those scribed an engaging choral program translucence to the Word and glory of things that will fit their agendas and and a devoted hymn study group at All God. if it arrests the singer, it’s not do- not allow us to receive the whole com- Saints, Ashmont, in Boston, a predom- ing its job.” pass of what’s available to us.” inantly Afro-Caribbean and Anglo- Bringle expressed caution about al- Seltz shrugged off the value of dis- Catholic congregation that he serves as tering much-loved texts. She said good cussing technological change when the choirmaster. editors should ask, “is the line in a real prospects for a new hymnal seem Despite other speakers’ remarks heart song? Then maybe the thing to quite dim: “Nothing that any of us has about exhaustive consultation for the do is to add a counterweighting body said today will apply when you actually 1982 Hymnal, Sheranian hears “stories of new. We need to do … very good re- get to a [new] hymnal.”

6 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Episcopal Church’s Draft Budget Deficit Cut in Half The Episcopal Church seeks feedback House of Deputies, currently a volun- between General Conventions. and suggestions on how to close a pro- teer position. An explanatory note accompanying jected $4.5 million deficit in the budget The 2015 General Convention the draft budget states that $2.8 million for the 2019-11 triennium. A working adopted evangelism as one of three pri- of evangelism spending for the current draft of the budget, which will be com- orities for the coming triennium, along triennium was financed by a special pleted at General Convention in July with racial reconciliation and the envi- draw from investments and dividends, 2018, is available at generalconven- ronment. Yet the budget calls for total driving the total draw to 5.7 percent. tion.org. evangelism spending of $3.5 million The draw for the coming triennium is The budget draft calls for income of for 2019-21, compared to $6 million set at 5 percent, and the note states: $128.4 million and expenses of $132.9 in the prior budget. (Some line items “Draws of over 5% from investments million. The 2016-18 budget passed by have been moved in and out of the are not sustainable over the long term. General Convention in 2015 showed evangelism heading, which may ac- The short-term reserves are now con- income of $125.1 million and expenses count for some of the decrease.) siderably lower at $2.3 million than the of $124.7 million, leaving a surplus of The draft reduces the budget for $9.5 million required to cover 3 about $353,000. in actual results starting new congregations (described months of operating income.” through October, the surplus has in the Oct. 10 issue of TLC) from $3 No salary has ever been provided for dwindled to about $12,000. million to $2 million, and cuts other the president of the House of Deputies, The 47-page spreadsheet, which evangelism initiatives from $3 million a position to which the Rev. Gay Clark breaks out expenses by line item, to $785,000. At the October Executive Jennings was elected in 2012 and re- points to at least two topics likely to Council meeting, some members ex- elected in 2015. Under the canons, she generate discussion leading up to Gen- pressed dismay at the cuts, and can be is eligible for reelection to one more eral Convention: a sharp cutback in expected to lobby for restoring some three-year term at the 2018 General spending on evangelism, and a pro- funding. Executive Council is the Convention. posed salary for the president of the elected body that oversees the church (Continued on next page)

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 7 $51.8 million in both income and ex- news December 3, 2017 penses for the current triennium. | Because much of the program’s in- Draft Budget come comes from government pay- ments on a per-refugee basis, federal (Continued from previous page) restrictions on the number of refugees The budget draft sets aside up to have created huge financial challenges. $900,000 for the president’s salary and At its February meeting, Executive benefits in the coming triennium, Council made a special $500,000 grant pending approval by General Conven- to EMM. tion. in the canonically mandated an- By far the largest category of income nual disclosure of salaries for top staff, for the church is from diocesan assess- the president of the House of Deputies ments, budgeted for $87.2 million for is designated one of the five top offi- the coming triennium, based on full File photo cers of the Church — and the only one participation at 15 percent. The budget serving as a volunteer. draft projects granting $6.5 million in Since benefits typically cost about a waivers to about 17 dioceses, but those ‘A New Season Begins’ third of an employee’s salary, the numbers are more preliminary than After two years of conflict that cost $900,000 earmark implies a salary other parts of the budget. A report on millions of dollars and tarnished the comparable to the salaries currently the Finance Office’s website shows that end of a bishop’s career, the people of paid to the other top four officers. For about 30 domestic dioceses paid less St. James the Great will soon be re- 2017, those salaries range from than 15 percent for 2016. turned to the building they love in $200,000 for Chief Operating Officer For church staff, the budget includes Newport Beach, California. Geoffrey Smith to $280,500 for Presid- a 3 percent pay raise each year, and Healing the emotional wounds will ing Bishop Michael Curry. projects 9 percent increases in health take longer, but the key participants in a message to the House of insurance costs. “The Presiding Bishop seem determined to make the effort. Deputies sent a few hours after the has expressed his satisfaction with the in a joint statement Nov. 9, the par- budget was announced, Jennings noted size of the staff in place and asks that ties stated unambiguously that the that a resolution passed by the 2015 there be no new hires in the 2019-2021 congregation will be allowed to return General Convention “directed Presid- budget,” the explanatory note said. to the 40,000-square-foot facility on ing Bishop Curry and me to appoint a The comment period ends on Jan. Via Lido, which has sat empty since task force to consider issues of leader- 10, 2018, after which an updated draft June 2015. ship and compensation as they affect will be considered by Executive Coun- The statement was signed by the Rt. the president’s position.” The 11-mem- cil at its meeting later in January. The Rev. John Taylor, who became Bishop ber task force will make its formal rec- budget then goes to the Joint Standing of Los Angeles on Dec. 1; by the Rev. ommendation on Dec. 1. Committee on Program, Budget and Rachel Nyback, the head of the dio- The working draft of the budget Finance (PB&F) for consideration. cese’s standing committee; and by the leaves blank the expected income and PB&F, an appointed body that in- Rev. Canon Cindy Voorhees, who has expenses for Episcopal Migration Min- cludes members of the House of Bish- continued to lead her congregation in istries, the church’s refugee resettlement ops and the House of Deputies from worship every Sunday in a community program, because of continuing con- each province, will meet in February to room of the Newport Beach City Hall. flict and uncertainty over federal im- prepare a final budget for considera- The statement read in part: “Once migration policies. EMM is designed tion at General Convention. St. James has been granted mission sta- to break even, and was budgeted for Kirk Petersen tus, it will be invited to resume use of the church. Once Bishop Taylor, by the grace of God, is diocesan bishop, he intends to name Canon Voorhees as vicar.” The statement was the result of three weeks of tense discussions that began with a meeting of the three parties on Oct. 18. it included an acknowledge- ment of mutual responsibility for the conflict, and a pledge of mutual effort A Division of toward healing: The church’s sudden closing hurt the people of St. James. Their leaders countenanced hurtful statements and

8 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 tactics. This cycle of hurt strained rela- comment. Corporation Sole is a legal Eucharist by supply clergy. Bishop Tay- tionships in the diocese. We will end entity established in 1907 in the Dio- lor and Canon Voorhees will be among the cycle by sharing our narratives cese of Los Angeles “as a unique form those on the rota.” openly and honestly, using reconcilia- of nonprofit corporation, operating As part of the agreement, St. James tion in relationship to rediscover our with no directors of members other agreed to “stop using communications unity and purpose as a diocesan family than the Bishop Diocesan and his or strategists and social media to advo- in Christ. her successors,” according to an audi- cate in connection with its relationship “A new season, we pray, begins this tor’s report. Corporation Sole owns the to the diocese. The diocese and St. morning,” said Taylor in a separate, in- St. James property, as well as a some- James hereby repudiate all past and fu- dividual statement. what random collection of other real ture anonymous correspondence sent in separate telephone interviews estate and trust funds. on their behalves. if those responsible with TLC, Taylor and Voorhees both Asked how long it would be before for Save St. James The Great wish it to took pains to choose their words care- St. James is reinstated with mission sta- persist as a non-profit organization, fully. Nyback could not be reached for tus and allowed to return to the build- they will change its name and devote it comment. ing, Taylor said: “My first email at 10 to a religious or charitable purpose.” When asked if the negotiations had o’clock [when the announcement was The Save St. James the Great page been contentious, Taylor paused before issued] was to Canon Voorhees saying on Facebook — which included a great addressing the question tangentially: that she and her congregants would deal of advocacy and informal com- “When people get together and open continue to be in my prayers, and mentary, some of it harsh — has been their hearts and minds to the move- inviting her to reach out” and begin taken down. The group’s website at ment of the Spirit, and are willing to be the formal process of applying for mis- savesaintjamesthegreat.org is still on- vulnerable, and willing to speak truth sion status. “i know those conversa- line, but has been purged of any men- graciously, all things are possible. tions are underway, and they’ll take the tion of the conflict. Roger Bloom, a That’s the kind of work that we’ve been time that they take,” he said. public relations consultant who has doing.” According to the joint statement, been speaking for the congregation, “i’m just glad that there’s been a res- while the mission status process pro- did not return a call seeking comment. olution, that we’re moving forward in ceeds, “the diocese may reopen the in his individual statement, Taylor reconciliation, and that the 70 years of church for weekly celebrations of Holy (Continued on next page) good work that St. James has done can continue,” Voorhees said. The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, the retir- ing Bishop of Los Angeles who faces a suspension from ordained ministry as the result of a disciplinary process re- sulting from the conflict, struck a dif- ferent tone. in email to the diocese sent 16 hours before the announcement that St. James will be reopened, Bruno said: “The legal challenges brought against Corporation Sole by an entity called SAVE St. James the Great have been concluded in favor of the Bishop, Corporation Sole. The SAVE entity has offered to dismiss its appeal efforts, leaving the previous determination by the Superior Court in favor of Corpo- ration Sole to stand. As a part of the SAVE dismissal they have requested that i agree to not pursue legal actions against them and their legal counsel for filing a malicious prosecution law- suit against Corporation Sole in 2015. Although there is sound basis on which to pursue further legal action, so as to fully resolve the conflict, i have agreed to those terms.” Bruno did not return a call seeking

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 9 Nashotah Board that “Bishop Martins served us well news | December 3, 2017 through several transitions.” Chairman Replaced Kirk Petersen ‘New Season’ for St. James The leadership of the board of direc- (Continued from previous page) tors at Nashotah House changed in said the two-plus years of conflict had October when the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Bishop Sauls Files taken a toll on the entire diocese. Martins, its chairman since 2012, was in New York “Among the casualties: The reputations not reelected. of a beloved and courageous bishop The new chairman of the Wiscon- Bishop Stacy Sauls, a top Episcopal and his talented vicar, deep disap- sin-based seminary’s board is, for the Church administrator who was fired pointment experienced by a congrega- first time, a priest: the Rev. Canon Ed- in April 2016 after a misconduct in- tion, deep mistrust between diocese ward Monk, rector of an Episcopal vestigation exonerated him, is bring- and congregation, strained relation- parish in Dallas. ing his defamation claim against the ships among bishops, deacons, laypeo- Under the new governance structure church and 30 unnamed defendants to ple, and priests, and a black eye for our Nashotah adopted a few years ago, the a new venue where experts say it be- diocese in the local media and national board of directors is elected by mem- longs: New York City. church.” bers of the Corporation of Nashotah in response, the Episcopal Church He called for “a season of truth- House, the legal owners of the semi- is once again calling for his claims to be telling, mutual discernment, and rec- nary. All board members continue to thrown out, as it did successfully when onciliation. Undistracted by partici- serve as members of the corporation. Sauls first brought them in Mobile, Al- pants’ preferred outcomes when it While Martins is no longer on the abama, earlier this year. Sauls is now comes to occupancy of the building on board, he continues as a member of the appealing that ruling to the Alabama Via Lido, we stand a better chance of corporation. Supreme Court. constructing an accurate narrative Garwood Anderson, acting dean, But in New York, the church is also about our recent troubles.” told TLC that the change signaled a de- challenging the merits of the case since Kirk Petersen sire for a new style of leadership and the propriety of the venue is no longer in dispute. in a 31-page memorandum filed Nov. 1, the church laid out for the first time its response to Sauls’s allegations. He claims a top-level, Machiavellian conspiracy at church headquarters in New York City ruined his reputation and successfully sabotaged his pursuit of new employment. The church argues its 2015 public statement, which announced the start of a misconduct investigation and ad- ministrative leave for Sauls and two colleagues, was truthful and therefore non-defamatory. “Plaintiff’s assertions border on the incoherent to the extent he claims that these statements were ‘intentionally misleading’ and in ‘reckless disregard of the truth,’” the church’s filing says. “Plaintiff does not plausibly allege or explain in what respect Defendants’ December 2015 Statement was either false or misleading.” As a matter of policy, the Episcopal

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10 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 in Mobile in January. A judge threw out building structures of reconciliation, the Mobile case on grounds of im- the capacity to deal with the nation’s ‘Prayer is Not a Dodge’ proper jurisdiction. But his new claim challenges in a way that brings peace in Bishops of the Episcopal Church to- in New York, where Sauls lives, also in- the future, even when there are deep gether denounced the Nov. 5 mass cludes some new detail and allegations. disagreements,” Archbishop Justin murder of 26 at a Baptist church near For instance, in pursing restitution, Welby said. San Antonio, Texas. Sauls says he has spent more than Kenya, he said, had always set a ster- “i was in church at 11:30 yesterday, $200,000 on attorneys’ fees and costs ling example of being a peaceful coun- celebrating the Holy Eucharist, as were so far. He also blames defendants for try. “Since independence, Kenya has many of you, when a young man fostering “widespread rumor, accusa- been a model for Africa — yes, with walked into First Baptist Church, tions and speculation” that refer to problems and trials, but for the most Sutherland Springs, and murdered 26 possible “financial misdeeds,” “pe- part keeping the peace. We need an ex- people, and wounded 20 more, with an dophilia,” and other misconduct. ample of reconciliation, not only in this assault rifle,” wrote the Rt. Rev. David “With the said conspiracy continu- country, but in the region of which it is M. Reed, Bishop of West Texas. “Young ing daily, unabated, the wrongful acts the leader. children and the elderly were among of the Defendants have made it impos- “Reconciliation is not mediation or the victims. This evil violence felt all sible for Plaintiff to find employment arbitration, or trickery and abandon- the more obscene because of the place in [the Episcopal Church], anywhere,” ing principle,” he said. “it is the trans- that it occurred: in a little church in a the suit says. formation of violent and destructive little town, in a setting of familiarity, in its response, the church calls on conflict into lives in which disagree- trust and safety.” the New York court to dismiss the case ments are still there but dealt with Reed said Episcopalians could turn on multiple grounds. it cites the pend- peacefully for the common good.” to prayers and psalms of lamentation ing case in Alabama as reason to keep Welby, on his second visit to Kenya “to pray as faithful persons who cry out the new suit from proceeding in New this year, met the evening before with to God in the face of ungodly and un- York. it also invokes legal precedent in President Kenyatta at State House, just horror. Such lamentation expresses church-and-state cases. Nairobi, where he urged leaders of the an anguished sense of the absence of “This case would substantially en- nation to maintain peace. God, and also calls upon him to be true tangle the Court in the Church’s eccle- John Martin (Continued on next page) siastical decision-making and internal self-governance,” the filing says. it also contends that because more than a year has elapsed since the pub- lic statements first came out, Sauls should be barred under New York’s statute of limitations from seeking damages related to defamation. Sauls does not list an amount for the dam- ages he seeks. G. Jeffrey MacDonald

Archbishop Welby Calls for Reconciliation

While the mood in Kenya is said to be tense after the nation’s reprised presi- dential election on Oct. 26, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his archrival, Raila Odinga, exchanged greetings at a special service at All Saints Cathedral Episcopal Church Women in Nairobi. The politicians attended the Nov. 5 49th Triennial Meeting, Austin, Texas celebration of the cathedral’s centen- July 5 - 11, 2018 nial, and the Archbishop of Canter- bury preached. “i am not calling for mediation but www.ecwnational.org for the steady and long-term work of

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 11 physical wounds, and the emotional, Arizona Bishop to Retire news December 3, 2017 spiritual, and mental scars. As i pray | and invite you to pray the prayer the The Rt. Rev. Kirk S. Smith, Bishop of ‘Prayer is Not a Dodge’ Lord taught us, i invite you to pray that Arizona since 2004, announced his in- God’s will might be done, that God tention to retire in March 2019. (Continued from previous page) might guide us to find a better way, to “We have accomplished some great to himself and to his promises. it find concrete steps so that this kind of things together, and thanks to your speaks out of the fear and darkness of thing doesn’t happen anymore.” hard work and prayers, the diocese present circumstances, and also trusts overall is healthy and growing,” Smith that God is greater.” One Dead, Three said in a Nov. 9 statement. “By the time The Bishops United Against Gun i retire i will be almost 68 years old. it Violence issued a statement calling Freed in Nigeria is time for the diocese to move on to a people to prayer — and expressing new mission with younger leadership.” concern that elected officials’ use of the One of four British missionaries kid- Smith wrote that he would serve as a word allows them to avoid taking ac- napped in the Nigeria’s Delta region visiting professor of church history at tion regarding public safely, praying has been killed, but three others were General Theological Seminary in late “in lieu of demonstrating political freed, government sources said. The 2019. courage.” four were kidnapped on Oct. 13. “in prayer, Christians commend the The death of ian Squire, an optician, Compass Rose souls of the faithful departed to the was confirmed by the Foreign and mercy and love of God. We beseech Commonwealth Office. British and Aims for $10M our Creator to comfort the grieving Nigerian authorities obtained the re- and shield the vulnerable, “the bishops lease of Alanna Carson, Dr. David The Compass Rose Society has wrote. “Prayer is not an offering of Donovan, and Donovan’s wife, Shirley. launched a $10 million endowment to vague good wishes. it is not a spiritual Nigerian authorities pledge to con- support the work of the Anglican Con- exercise that successfully completed tinue investigating the incident and to sultative Council and the international exempts one from focusing on urgent support the affected families. ministry of the Archbishop of Canter- issues of common concern. Prayer is The Donovans have lived in Nigeria bury. not a dodge. in prayer we examine our for over 14 years. The couple ran New “Who will stand in the breach be- own hearts and our own deeds to de- Foundations, a charity helping poor tween the needs of the Anglican Com- termine whether we are complicit in villagers in a remote part of the coun- munion and the resources to under- the evils we deplore. And if we are, we try. take its ministry?” said the Rt. Rev. resolve to take action; we resolve to Relatives of the released missionar- Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas and amend our lives.” ies said they are “delighted and re- president of the society. “The Compass While visiting the Scottish Episcopal lieved” that Carson and the Donovans Rose Society is looking for partners to Church, Presiding Bishop Michael had returned safely. join us and meet this need squarely Curry sent a video message about the “Our thoughts are now with the with the financial donations required shooting, offering the Lord’s Prayer. family and friends of ian as we come to to undergird the vision of Communion “i offer this prayer for those who terms with his sad death,” they said in to which i firmly believe God has in- have died, for those who are suffering, a joint statement. vited us.” for those who are still healing from John Martin Membership in the society requires an initial gift of $10,000 and an annual commitment of $2,500 to $3,000. The money supports the society’s goal of providing an annual gift of $400,000 NOTICE: MOVING SERVICES to the Anglican Consultative Council. “As a former secretary general, i Skip Higgins know firsthand how important such an endowment is,” said the Rev. Canon 225-937-0700 John Peterson of Washington National www.custommovers.net • [email protected] Cathedral. “This endowment will al- low the Anglican Communion to initi- “Moving Episcopal clergy to new ministries since 1982.” ate new unbudgeted programs be- Clergy discounts • Only one survey/ 3 estimates • Major van lines represented tween ACC meetings or respond to Full value protection plans Late pick-up/delivery penalties* • humanitarian crises.” Internet satellite tracking • 24/7 cell phone contact to assure your peace of mind The endowment will be held by a CUSTOM MOVERS - FHWA Lic. #MC370752 trust fund established as an English *Certain Restrictions apply charity, with the Anglican Commun-

12 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 ion Office as sole beneficiary. The published version of the statement will secular and religious life. The first is Compass Rose Society’s board of di- be launched when the commission next presence as of right of 26 bishops in rectors and its finance committee will meets in Lebanon in October 2018. the House of Lords. The second is the oversee the endowment, and the trust 2-minute, 45-second Thought for the will be supervised by five trustees. POSTCARD FROM LONDON Day heard at peak time on Today, BBC ACNS Radio’s flagship current affairs pro- New Debates, gram. Duke Hires Beeley First, the House of Lords: With plans Few insights in place to reduce membership of the The Rev. Christopher Beeley will be- in the United Kingdom, two seemingly House of Commons from 650 to 600, come director of the Anglican Episco- unrelated topics regularly cause frac- few disagree that the Lords with 800 pal House of Studies at Duke Divinity tious and polarized debate, with few members is bloated and urgently needs School next July. He will also serve as fresh insights into the divide between (Continued on page 38) professor of theology and the Jack and Barbara Bovender Professor of Angli- can Episcopal Studies and Ministry. Beeley is Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Pa- tristics at Yale University and teaches early Christian theology and history and modern Anglican tradition.

Agreeing on the Spirit

Theologians from the Anglican Com- munion and Oriental Orthodox Churches have signed a historic agree- ment on the Holy Spirit. The theolo- gians signed their agreed statement, On the Procession and Work of the Holy Spirit, Oct. 26 at the end of a week of discussions by the Anglican Oriental- Orthodox international Commission (AOOiC). The statement concludes two years of work on the subject. in their 2015 meeting in Wales, AOOiC members discussed the “pro- cession” of the Holy Spirit, and agreed on omitting the Filioque clause. The clause was appended to the Nicene Creed by the Latin Western tra- dition. it says the Holy Spirit proceeds “from the Son” (Jesus) as well as the Father. Last year, the theologians continued their work at a meeting in Lebanon, concentrating on “the Sending of the Holy Spirit in Time (Economia).” This year, commission members completed the text of both sections of the agreed statement, which was then signed by the co-chairs, the Church in Wales’ Bishop of St. Asaph, Gregory Cameron, and the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan Bishoy of Dami- ette, during a choral Evensong at the Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral. A

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 13 Maarten van den Heuvel/Unsplash photo A Reason to Smile? AmazonSmile offers financial support to vital church ministries. But what are the theological and relational costs?

By Katy Crane of this kind of giving, and the lack of A web search reveals Episcopal par- incarnational involvement in online ticipants using Smile in a variety of ave you been to your parish’s shopping. ways. On its website, the Diocese of website lately and noticed a fa- AmazonSmile launched in 2013 to Alabama directs members to Smile to Hmiliar corporate logo? The up- offer Amazon customers a chance to help with diocesan ministry. turned arrow we look forward to see- help their favorite charities through The Diocese of Ohio recently began ing on our front porches and doorsteps smile.amazon.com. Through Smile using Smile to support the bishop’s an- has been appearing on many Donate purchases, Amazon will donate 0.5 per- nual appeal. “At AmazonSmile you’ll pages on church websites for years cent of eligible item prices to a nonprofit find the same low Amazon prices, se- now. Church use of AmazonSmile, the organization of your choice. Many of lection and convenient shopping, plus philanthropic arm of Amazon inc., America’s largest charities are registered Amazon will donate a portion of your now seems as ubiquitous as UPS trucks recipients, such as the Red Cross and purchase price to The Bishop’s Annual in the weeks before Christmas. United Way, but a great many churches Appeal,” Ohio’s website says. Churches have received donations — Episcopal, Methodist, Orthodox, Northern California suggests help- from this program, but some express Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic — ing Camp Noel Porter: “AmazonSmile concerns about the automated nature are registered, too. will automatically give CNP extra

14 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 “This is not an excuse to get out of a pledge. This is a way of conceiving of stewardship in a broader sense.” —The Rev. Kevin Olds funds to support programs here at told TLC this is one of the potential than part of tithing]: it’s just so small,” camp when you log in.” Montana challenges of the program. “That’s the said the Rev. Ross Kane, who serves as sends parishioners to Episcopal Relief hardest thing to do, to make people go senior associate at St. Paul’s Church in & Development’s Smile page, directing directly to our site to click on the Smile Alexandria, Virginia. “We’ve gotten donations to that national ministry. logo, that then brings them to the funds back, but it will be years before Countless parishes participate, as well. shopping site.” Rees said her parish we really get some substantive income.” How effective is AmazonSmile as a earns about $50 per quarter, on aver- Kane, who is also an ethics professor funding stream for such organizations? age. at Virginia Theological Seminary, said For geographically distributed entities Despite the added hassle of remind- the donations should not distract from serving thousands of members, Smile ing parishioners to go to the parish tithing. “i think my parishioners also could be an effective, easy way to sup- website before they shop, or simply to think that, since we’re already there port a common concern. According to use smile.amazon.com and not ama- [shopping on Amazon], why not? it Consumer intelligence Research Part- zon.com, the process of registering on simply is a way to recognize how peo- ners, the average Amazon shopper Smile can appeal to churches looking ple spend money these days, and tries spends about $700 a year — Prime for low-hanging financial fruit. Fill out to use that as an opportunity to give members, who receive free shipping, the registration form, receive a little back in a more consistent way. At the spend around $1,300. Thus, a non- extra money, and remind parishioners end of the day, it’s a way to implant the Prime shopper might produce about of their faith as they shop. mission of the church in everyday life, $3.50 for a parish or mission annually. But how does this affect the balance including consumption.” A diocese of about 10,000 baptized of tithing or charitable giving in gen- The Rev. Kevin Olds of St. Timothy’s members could, according to the aver- eral? As church use of the program is in Fairfield, Connecticut, agrees. “This ages, see a Smile check for more than relatively new, it’s hard to say, but ex- is not an excuse to get out of a pledge. $35,000 in any given year. Such num- perts on sites like Philanthropy.com This is a way of conceiving of steward- bers suggest a sizable donation to mis- and HuffPost fear that Smile has an el- ship in a broader sense — things you sion and ministry is possible. ement of “clicktivism” — the phenom- can do in other parts of your life for the Smaller organizations like parishes enon of online giving and virtual par- church.” Olds tempers his enthusiasm and missions would be looking at ticipation in causes that actually for Smile with the knowledge that smaller possible returns. For example, decreases the probability of real-life Amazon benefits more than the a parish of 300 Prime shoppers would participation. if you donate online church. “Amazon gets a big tax write- stretch to produce $2,000 per year in once, or like an event page for a rally, off.” Smile donations, though actual num- you might feel as if you have partici- Olds said faith communities have to bers suggest that Smile is not yet that pated enough to decline giving or stay weigh the pros and cons of Smile. lucrative for most. Parishes that shared at home. “There’s nothing that’s pure, or 100 their numbers with TLC suggested “Like any other thing, if it’s part of a percent good.” Smile equates to a small drop in the well-balanced diet of a life of a follower The tax break that Olds cites — collection plate — dozens of dollars of Christ, then that’s splendid,” said the Amazon does the giving, the consumer per quarter. Rev. Canon Victoria Heard of the does not, so the donation is tax de- Such math only holds if all members Church of the Redeemer in irving, ductible by Amazon — should raise make Amazon purchases and if they Texas, and writer for TLC’s weblog, further questions for churches mulling always direct Smile donations to the Covenant. “if it is a substitution for participation. Purchases made through same charity. if a member does not genuine proportional giving, or Smile ultimately reduce Amazon’s tax shop through Smile, the 0.5 percent tithing, or avoiding contact with Christ burden, and taxes provide needed donation disappears. Donations are in his various disguises among the services for communities, supporting not made through Amazon’s main site, poor, then we have a problem.” schools, roads, health care, education and there is no account setting that Most participants said they feel it is — the very services that parishes often passes your purchases automatically merely an extra that does not affect augment with their time and treasure. through Smile. their overall tithing and should not be a Throughout its lifetime as a corpora- Cindy Rees, treasurer at St. Michael’s substitute for regular, consistent giving. tion, Amazon has paid almost no state by-the-Sea in Carlsbad, California, “i see it more as a donation [rather (Continued on next page)

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 15 A Reason to Smile?

(Continued from previous page) hands of an impersonal megacorpora- ployees. Fifteen people were sent to the and local taxes on purchases and has tion. it’s wreaked havoc on our down- hospital, and between 20 and 30 were objected to such taxes, arguing that it towns, and has poor labor practices.” treated on-site. Workers sent home re- has little physical presence in most indeed, a report by the institute for ported that managers imposed disci- states. Local Self Reliance states that between plinary points on them. the years of 1997 and 2012, communi- While these crises happened to real deeper look into the mechanics ties across the country people, the simplicity, of the Smile program raises have lost about 108,000 cleanliness, and re- Aquestions about its suitability local retailers (enter- moteness of Amazon’s for charitable donations. A recent arti- prises with fewer than 1-Click home ordering cle by the American independent Busi- 100 employees). Even can hide those people ness Alliance (AMiBA) interpreted the big-box retailers with from view. And with an payments given to nonprofit agencies brick-and-mortar stores absence of locality, rela- as “pure sales commission for market- have suffered. Accord- tionships between con- ing referrals, not donations.” ing to a recent article in flickr/Ramesh NG photo sumers, workers, and Jeff Milchen, co-director and co- The Atlantic, nine major retail chains production do not form. “Having po- founder of AMiBA, told TLC: “When have filed for bankruptcy in 2017. litical and economic lives locally is re- Amazon sends a payment to the non- CNNMoney.com reports that 2,056 of ally important. Local is human-scaled,” profit in return for having delivered JCPenney, Staples, and Bebe store- Cavanaugh said. “You can encounter customers to buy from them, it’s mis- fronts closed in 2016, and 5,077 in human beings as human beings face to leading to call that charity — it’s a sales 2015. face, and see the face of Christ in them. referral. it’s not to say it’s not worth do- Concerns about Amazon’s labor “Part of the characteristic of a global ing, but it’s certainly not charitable: it’s practices have also appeared in the economy is that human beings disap- marketing, pure and simple.” Thus, press. A business leviathan, Amazon pear. Humans disappear from the Smile could be interpreted as a form of employs a massive workforce — ap- whole thing, and that contact is re- pay-per-click advertising. proximately 90,000 — with many more placed with a relationship with the Milchen also said Amazon, which thousands of temporary employees product. i understand the logic of did not respond to TLC's request for added in November for the Christmas churches wanting to participate in the comment, has had an effect on small- season. program, but the Church should be business owners — and that the choice Life on the job has been docu- questioning the practice of buying to affiliate with Smile could be prob- mented many times over, and most from Amazon in the first place.” lematic. “There are invariably some harrowingly by The Huffington Post in business owners who may be alienated a report from October 2015. The story onsumers, businesses, and non- by this move. Part of the role of described a worker found collapsed on profits experience an increas- churches is to build community and the floor in an Amazon warehouse; he Cingly complicated set of rela- strengthen local relationships. was later pronounced dead from car- tionships with Amazon. it’s a “When you are sending people to diac dysrhythmia. Family described necessarily convenient source of myr- Amazon, it comes off as an endorse- him as increasingly exhausted in an iad goods; it’s a helping hand to non- ment of an absentee corporation, environment where workers are profits looking to raise consumer con- whether that’s intended or not. in the pushed to their maximum level of out- sciousness; it’s a promise of labor to vast majority of cases, these purchases put. Management tracks how many cities and towns struggling with un- made on Amazon could have been seconds it takes a worker to process an employment rates; it’s a threat to busi- made in the community, even from ac- order, and those with the best times nesses and workers hoping to thrive in tual members of the congregation.” keep their jobs. in 2015 interviews a challenging economic environment. William T. Cavanaugh, professor of with Forbes, Amazon employees de- The case of one Episcopal ministry in Catholic Studies at DePaul University scribe this corporate culture as “met- Atlanta shows how the lines of con- and author of Being Consumed: Eco- rics obsessed.” sumer, beneficiary, promoter, and part- nomics and Christian Desire, echoes The New York Times reported in ner can blur in this Amazonian world. the concern about small business. 2011 on poor working conditions at an The Cathedral Bookstore, a nonprofit “Amazon has been murder on small Allentown warehouse during the book shop run by the Cathedral of St. businesses, which is a serious prob- height of summer. Employees were Philip, is an Amazon competitor, and is lem,” he told TLC. “The vastness of forced to work in heat above 100 de- eligible to receive Smile donations. Amazon has funneled away power and grees, and ambulances were kept on “Our board of directors had talked money from local contexts into the site to treat fainting and heat-sick em- (Continued on page 39)

16 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Hispanic Growth Equals Episcopal Growth?

By Kirk Petersen the existence of God; we can talk to them about belong- ing to a community of faith.” f you ask any American what comes to mind when Nearly half of the Episcopal clergy who are involved you say Latino religion, the response will almost cer- in Hispanic ministry are Anglos, Guillén said. He sum- itainly be Catholic and not Episcopalian. marized their concerns as “i believe i would be more But the link between Latins and Romans is not as successful if i understood the culture of Latinos, and strong as it once was, and the shift is accelerating. in 2006, Pew Research found that 70 percent of American Latinos were Roman Catholic. Just six years later, that number had dropped to 57 percent. Nearly one in four Hispanic Americans are now former Catholics. But while the pope’s share of the Hispanic pie is in decline, the pie is growing dramatically. in 2012, Nielsen found that the Hispanic population was expected to grow 167 percent between 2010 and 2050 — compared with 42 percent for the population as a whole, and 1 percent for white non-Hispanics. Little wonder, then, that the Episcopal Church sees America’s Latino population as an important opportu- nity for growth. The church has had a Hispanic mis- sioner since 1971, and in 2005 the Rev. Canon Anthony Guillén became the fourth person in that role. From his base in Los Angeles, Guillén also heads the six-person Ethnic Ministries group, which includes Guillén: “two-thirds of us are bilingual and bicultural.” Nina Nicholson photo missioners for black, Asian-American, and indigenous outreach. understood their spirituality, and understood their val- Historically, “we have not done a very good job of ues. And i don’t know that part.” raising vocations amongst the members of Latino con- To address that, he’s launched a series of intensive gregations,” Guillén said. “Most of our Latino clergy in nine-day courses in cooperation with seminaries, so this country were imported from Latin America. … seminarians can earn academic credit if they attend. They were successful in building a Spanish ministry, The first met in June, and another in October at Bexley but they built it in Spanish,” because their English was Seabury Seminary in Chicago. limited. Among other things, the course dives deeply into That model is no longer sufficient, Guillén said, traditional Latino religious traditions, and examines because today “two-thirds of us are bilingual and bicul- the difference between immigrant/first generation Lati- tural.” nos and American-born, multigenerational Latinos, Despite the current debates, the biggest driver of the who require more of a bicultural, bilingual, or English- Latino population is not immigration, but rather dominant ministry. birthrates. One of four babies born in the United States Every two years since 2002, the Episcopal Church has is Hispanic. teamed with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amer- “Unlike their counterparts in the white and black ica to offer a four-day conference called Nuevo populations, they still value their parents’ and grand- Amanecer, or New Dawn. The event features network- parents’ religious traditions,” Guillén said. “Even if they ing, leadership training, and workshops, and provides an don’t go to church, we don’t have to talk to them about opportunity for participants to share best practices. o

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 17 Year-round Advent

By Sybil MacBeth Christians are called to be Advent people all year. Jesus is our longed-for dvent is a feast for the senses, a Savior; but even after Christmas, we preparation for a journey, a pep still wait for the transformation of the Arally for the Church’s new litur- world into the kingdom of God. As a gical year, and the kickoff celebration flesh and blood Savior, Jesus calls us to for our daily pilgrimage with God. Ad- be God’s hands and feet on earth. Our vent is juicy and pregnant. it is not just waiting during Advent and beyond is the four-week waiting period before both active and incremental. Jesus’ in- Christmas. it is the gestation time and vites us to be part of the incarnation, to dress rehearsal for the way to live every put our feet on the ground and join in day of the year. God’s kingdom-building pilgrimage on A luscious Advent vocabulary of earth. The practices we take on in Ad- nouns and verbs sprinkles our church vent teach us to be attentive, one-day- and home conversation during these at-a-time pilgrims. The words we learn four weeks: preparation, anticipation, in Advent are the daily, year-round vo- wonder, star, journey, waiting, watch- cabulary of Christians. We wait, hope, ing, attention, patience, hope, despair, watch, hope, fear, trust, anticipate, and expectancy, darkness, light, fear, faith, repent throughout the year. and repentance. These words indicate Here are a few of my favorite Ad- Plants and Bulbs: To teach children that something special is about to hap- vent practices and activities. They im- (and adults) about watching and wait- pen. There is physicality and emotion merse me in the season and language ing — but not waiting in vain — plant in these words. Some words are about of the season. Most of them are daily paperwhite narcissus or amaryllis waking up and being alert. Others are (but not lengthy) practices reminding bulbs at the beginning of Advent. Fill a paradoxical pairs; they describe the me that the spiritual life is one baby clear container with potting soil or conflicting experiences we have in life. step at a time. These activities are phys- stones. A clear container makes the We recite them, read them in Scrip- ical, embodied, sensory, meditative, growing roots visible. Plant the bulb in ture, and sing them during the weeks playful, and active. Some are solitary, the soil or stones with about half of the before Christmas. some are communal. bulb showing above the surface. Place

18 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 the bulbs in a warm spot near a win- dow. Watch the daily, incremental growth of the plant. Daily watering can be the task of even a young child. Even as an adult, i never tire of watching the day-to-day progress of the green stalks and the ultimate flowering of the plant. Advent Calendars: Download a cal- endar template for late November and December. (Look on my website prayingincolor.com for my free, annual Advent calendar.) Each day write an Advent word in the space or the name of a person for whom you are praying. Doodle around the word or the name. Add color. Sit with the word or the per- son as you meditate and pray. i like to think of this calendar as a “count up” to Christmas and not a “countdown.” At the end of the 22 to 28 days you will have a colorful dictionary of Advent words or a beautiful visual prayer list. You can create another version of this calendar by attaching small en- velopes to a rope or string with clothes- pins. Each day, ask one family member to choose a word or name for the en- velope. Doodle and color around it. Put dollar bills or loose change in the envelope of the day. When Advent ends, send the collected money to an organization or charity of your choice. Color with Purple or Blue: Whether you are a purple or blue Advent devo- tee, splash your house or apartment with Advent color. For me, a string of purple lights, a purple paper chain, or a purple ribbon on a wreath acts as a stop sign. “Wait; it is not yet Christmas. Slow down. Enjoy this time of preparation.” Quiet Corner: Create a place where adding the Christmas ornaments until tiphon from Mark 1: “Prepare the way people can go to be alone and quiet. A after December 20. for the Lord.” When we proclaim these little table in a corner with a battery- Short and Simple Writing: As a words, we are not just setting up for operated votive candle, a few sprigs of family or alone, read the Scripture pas- the grand party of Jesus’ birth on greenery, a purple ribbon, and an old- sages about the people we associate Christmas Day and then sending him fashioned egg timer creates an enticing with Advent: Mary, Joseph, Gabriel, on his way to be Savior of the World. place for children and adults to be John the Baptist, Elizabeth, Zechariah, We are preparing to join him and fol- alone and quiet. invite children to turn angels. To summarize what you learn, low him on whatever highway he takes on the candle, turn over the egg timer, write a tweet or three-sentence story. with our hearts, minds, bodies, and and sit in the mystery of dark and si- This is a playful way to corral your souls. Advent is our soulful, triumphal lence for three minutes. thoughts and a fun activity to share entry into the new Church year. Advent Tree or Bush: Go ahead and with others. Here is a 139-character buy a Christmas tree during Advent, tweet about Zechariah: Z struck speech- Sybil MacBeth is the author of The Sea- but string purple, blue, or white lights less when he dissed the angel’s prophecy son of the Nativity: Confessions and on it. Use the tree as a large Advent of impending fatherhood. Z’s first words Practices of an Advent, Christmas, and calendar and pin an Advent word a day after 9 silent months: “His name is John.” Epiphany Extremist and Praying in onto it. See if you can hold off on During Advent, we chant the an- Color: Drawing a New Path to God.

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 19 A Symposium

Since 1964, the Episcopal Church Foundation has supported over 200 scholars and ministry leaders in its Fellowship Partners program. Today, many of these Fellows are leading the Episcopal Church as seminary professors, bishops, community activists, clergy, and in innovative ministries that stretch ahead to imagine the Church’s future. THE LIVING CHURCH and ECF asked eight Fellows this question:

How can we form faithful leaders for tomorrow’s Church?

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20 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Leaders Show Up by Audra Abt

As a community- presence, as a community gathers and based priest and becomes something new through what its mission developer, I am members do together. Church as a part of many conver- Sunday-morning gathering in a steeple- sations about how the topped building, while still the dominant church of today does form of faith community, should not be not look like the our only option for gathering as God’s church of 50 years ago. people if we’re living into our apostolic Our spiritual calling. One ministry I am part of centers landscapes are its eucharistic life in an apartment changing. I know many people in church complex where many do not have cars. who express frustration, confusion, and Here, invitations come by word of mouth weariness with the uphill nature of their and the sound of singing from an open work, as commitment to a community window. Another ministry formed around does not seem to work the way it used to. morning prayers at a bus stop where The leaders of tomorrow need to model people cross paths between the night and commitment. Social media have opened day shifts — no Facebook invites needed! new avenues for engaging spiritual Creating and sustaining new or old communities, but options like “Maybe” spaces for people to encounter the holy, and “I’m interested” seem to follow the and helping them commit to each other trend of enjoying access without and to God, is often frustrating, long-term committing to regular participation. work in our shifting spiritual landscape. Showing up — for God, for each other, for Visible fruits, and results, will rarely come a community greater than ourselves — is on expected timelines. This requires a discipline. It is a huge part of what it leaders in the Church of tomorrow to be means to be the Church. strong in their convictions, and dedicated Leaders model showing up. Without to Scripture and spiritual practices that eschewing social media (or relying keep us imagining a new world with new exclusively on them) for organizing new possibilities. Their imaginations formed communities, leaders in the Church of and fired by the Scriptures and Christ’s tomorrow will need to commit to gathering resurrection life, leaders of tomorrow’s as members of the one body. Leaders will Church will invite people to commit to a also need to help others see how shared experience of abundant life in meaningful and beautiful committed Christ. communion can be, as we show up for and so become genuine members of a The Rev. Audra Abt is a 2015 Episcopal diverse and beloved community. Church Foundation Ministry Fellow and Leaders can help create space for this works as a missioner for intercultural and communion in many ways, through Latino/Hispanic ministries in the Diocese invitations, preparation, and guiding of North Carolina.

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December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 21 Leading into God’s Future by Kelly Brown Douglas

Within 25 years, most stands in opposition to what it means to Americans will be peo- be church? ple of color. This demo- Such preparation involves critical his- graphic shift has torical, theological, and liturgical engage- brought to light the ment with the diverse richness of the reality of bigoted injus- Anglican/Episcopal communion by a tice, oppressive intoler- deep spiritual foundation. Through this ance, and white engagement, students will gain the foun- supremacist ideologies dation for faithful leadership in a cultur- that have long been a ally and humanly pluralistic world by part of the nation’s social, political, and recognizing the array of human traditions even ecclesiastical fabric. It has catalyzed and experiences that allow us to appreci- even greater resistance to pluralism in ate more fully the reality of God. some quarters. Within this context of This way of preparing leaders also racist and xenophobic resistance to allows us to explore and learn from the America’s increasingly diverse population, Anglican and Episcopal churches’ compli- we must ask not only what it means to cated story of both encouraging justice foster faithful leadership, but also what it and advancing injustice. Finally, engage- means to be Church. For to be Church is ment with the diversity of Anglican/Epis- to embody the reality of God’s future, in copal traditions fosters appreciation for which all people are treated as sacred the relationship between social-cultural and valued human creations regardless of contexts and liturgical and worshiping race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual practices, thereby allowing leaders to expression, or religious beliefs. Being develop new liturgies for changing and Church, therefore, requires carrying forth diverse contexts even as they are prac- into the world Jesus’ ministry of sanctu- ticed in the standard liturgies of the ary and witness. church. Sanctuary means fostering gracious If the Episcopal Church, which is 90 spaces for all who are made to feel tar- percent white, is to thrive in the future, geted by social, political, or ecclesiastical we must produce leaders who can structures, practices, policies, ideologies, respond to the experiences and realities and ways of thinking. Witness involves of a non-white nation and world. By working to dismantle and disrupt dehu- doing this, we can perhaps lead the way manizing and degrading systems, struc- in being Church faithfully. tures, ideologies, and beliefs so as to make real the justice and love of God. So The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas is dean we must ask: how do we prepare faithful of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union leaders to be sanctuary and witness in a Theological Seminary and canon theolo- world that belies God’s future and thus gian of Washington National Cathedral.

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22 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Leading the Church to the Margins by Bob Leopold

How can we form not attracting new pledging units to pay faithful leaders for for unsustainable systems; operating as tomorrow’s Church? nonprofit, public-benefit corporations, not With the current outdated tax shelters. Jesus toppled an structure, we cannot. empire with no pension, no endowment, Today’s Church no budget, and few followers. trains and employs Already expert on the material, today’s experts. Parishioners Church is compelled to learn, not know. can avoid spiritual Seminary experts form new experts. Books work, as it is done for or programs promise fixes. Achievers in them by expert employees. Jesus said to this system are unlikely to change, but do many things: clothe, feed, free. Today’s tomorrow’s Church will be different, with church best implements “do this in unheard stories heralded. Today’s Church remembrance of me.” Liturgy is transac- allows for Sunday morning leadership, tional, not transformational. Modernist under experts’ oversight. Tomorrow’s “expertification” also alters experts: Church utilizes innovative leadership from “knowing about” God/Bible/liturgy is our changing models: college dropouts clever substitute for “knowing” founding million-dollar companies; God/Bible/liturgy. Generation Xers and Millennials retiring Tomorrow’s Church “knows before their parents; social media creating God/Bible/liturgy” with those doing leaders anywhere. Jesus’ work outside Church walls: To form faithful leaders for tomorrow’s seeking the Holy Spirit already active in Church, today’s Church might have to let their communities and joining in, go of preconceived notions of what remembering every do from Jesus. tomorrow’s Church might be. Where the Journeying with the marginalized, present structure gets in the way of tomorrow’s Church has access to the best Jesus’ mission, tomorrow’s Church builds teachers money cannot buy: those who new structures. Tomorrow’s Church is a most earnestly pray “give us this day our resurrected, countercultural, disruptive daily bread.” Relationships cost little industry that is replacing today’s Church. money. Experts like me have to let go of our need Today’s Church gets stuck fundraising to control, save, or fix, and just let the for place and personnel, where success Holy Spirit work. looks like a big budget or weekly attendance. Tomorrow’s Church flips the Bob Leopold is the 2015 William B. Given current model on its head: spending 10 Jr. Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow percent on itself and 90 percent outside and “expert” consultant specializing in itself; meeting in shared spaces with few, leadership development in missional bivocational, creatively compensated areas, most recently with the University positions; getting disciples out in mission, Episcopal Community in Minnesota.

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December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 23 Leadership in New Contexts by W. Mark Richardson

At Church Divinity seminary training, faithful Church School of the Pacific, leadership also requires rigorous study in our mission statement the classic theological disciplines, as well calls for forming as what I call practical critical thinking. “visionary spiritual Put together, the outcome of this holistic leaders who embrace education is leadership that serves the God’s mission and spiritual healing of wounds, and prepares serve a changing the Church community to enter God’s world.” mission in the world. Imagining what Our presiding bishop is calling us out of tomorrow’s Church might be, identifying the pews and into the world as gospel the type of leadership this calls out in us, people. Future Church leaders need to and determining how to support and develop confidence at the interface of faith guide its development are the tasks of and public life. This means gaining the theological education today. skills for public relationships, and At CDSP, we have reorganized our thoughtful management of the Church’s curriculum around classic markers of resources for both community worship Christian vocation — mission, evangelism, and public interaction. and discipleship — while knowing that we I believe the Church should prepare must stretch these markers to meet new leaders, lay and ordained, who will conditions in today’s world. participate in the problem-solving that I believe this is true also for leadership must go on in our society, such as our formation. The classic markers hold true, response to climate change, or policy but as we press forward we must realign making in issues of medical access. Our them for new contexts. In Charles Taylor’s participation will not necessarily be as terms, it means “breathing new life into technicians, but as contributors to the half-collapsed lungs of the spirit.” conversations about the good we seek as Future leaders must first model faithful we face momentous issues and cultural leadership for their communities — crossroads. Perhaps listening and giving through spiritual practices, character utterance in these new locations is where development, the integrity of a thoughtful we will find the good news. life, and the willingness to take risks in One thing is certain: we cannot afford to service of the truth. This should motivate prepare leaders to play it safe in the our seminaries to focus on emotional and sedilia. We need leaders willing to take the spiritual growth for leadership. If risk of finding out what the gospel calls seminaries become places where we us to in new and unfamiliar places. simply check the boxes for ordination, we are not preparing leaders for navigating The Very Rev. W. Mark Richardson is the uncharted waters of our future. president and dean of Church Divinity As important as formation is in School of the Pacific.

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24 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Setting Tables in the Wilderness by Cynthia Kittredge

To form leaders for practice among colleagues. tomorrow’s Church is a Lay and ordained leaders will be those shared responsibility. who can offer hospitality in a diverse The Episcopal Church world. They can speak many languages, Foundation has been eat all kinds of food, and be at home in all encouraging and kinds of homes. They will engage across providing resources for boundaries of class, race, language, that task for decades. I politics, and theology. Led well, churches am grateful for its work and schools can seek out and enter into to nurture lay and difficult conversations. ordained leaders in the Fellows program Tomorrow’s Church will need leaders and in all the dimensions of its activities. who can find partners and make creative Although we do not know exactly what alliances with others in the arts and in tomorrow’s Church will look like, we do industry, in community development, in know that its faithful leaders must be psychology and medicine, and across people whose Christian faith is so integral faith traditions to work together to heal to who they are that they can share the the world. The Church can uphold and gospel with all kinds of people where they support confident servant leaders who are. I call this being able to “set a table in can elicit the leadership of others by the wilderness.” Even while Israel honoring and developing the manifold complained and doubted, God was able to talents of its members in fields outside do just that. the professional “Church.” God calls Church leaders to proclaim the good news in unexpected and under- The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Kittredge is dean and resourced places, in landscapes where president of the Seminary of the the language of faith is not widely known. Southwest. When a person is deeply saturated and formed in the Scriptures and symbols of the Christian tradition, she can creatively adapt and remake them in new settings — with soldiers on deployment, in an emergency room, with a couple in counseling, and within a congregation. You need to know the tradition inside and out to improvise, and that takes time, practice, trial and error, and analysis and reflection in community. Theological education at its best, in and beyond the seminary, teaches the tradition and provides this intentional

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December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 25 Leadership Transformed, and Transforming

To form leaders for community that is not only being healed tomorrow’s Church, we but also goes out to heal. These leaders by Altagracia Perez-Bullard must first examine our will be formed by a community that definitions of leader models justice and inclusion within itself, and Church. The and then organizes to go out and do the Church, the gathered same in the many neighborhoods and people of God, is where institutions its members engage. lives are transformed. As God transforms us, leadership is As we encounter the redefined. Leadership is shared. Teams of power of the Spirit laypeople and clergy challenge, teach, through word and sacrament, we are mobilize, feed, clothe and heal. They changed. Our primary purpose in life identify and equip others who will lead becomes to share what happened to us, small groups of people passionate for God showing through word and deed how God and what God is doing in the world. I is alive and making all things new. work with congregational leaders who Of course, that means admitting we want to renew their churches, helping need transformation. It means bold them renew their concept of leadership preaching that challenges our lifestyles, and ministry. They are equipped to use our priorities, our values, and even our principles and strategies of community culture. It means challenging organizing to mobilize their community consumerism, greed, selfishness, for change. They connect to the work of addictive behaviors, and white God and the passion within as the supremacy, to name a few. It means a starting point for their call to serve the change of culture in our churches, not world. They are encouraged to be places frozen in time, but places that are disciples, constantly learning, experi- ever changing and growing, just as those menting, and adapting, finding new and who are gathered are ever changing and more effective ways to share the good growing. news. As we encounter the Spirit, we become evangelists. We become people whose The Rev. Canon Altagracia Perez-Bullard, lives, gifts, and resources are dedicated to PhD, is canon for congregational vitality in sharing the good news of Christ. That the Diocese of New York. kind of community in turn raises up leaders who understand and can teach others about how a community guided and healed by the Spirit of God transforms while being transformed. The experience of sharing the transfor- mative reality of life with God creates a

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26 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Back to the Future by George Sumner

Before I offer my Darwinian moment predicted for our response, I want first seminaries is finally and fully upon us. to thank ECF for Surely there is now an important place for helping make doctoral seminaries with Anglican houses of study. study possible for me, And there is value in the efforts that ECF which was in my life has branched into. But at the same time closely connected to it is simply impossible to look at our the answer I am about church and conclude that we have a to give. surfeit of theological capacity at either the The best thing we can level of academy or parish. do to form leaders for tomorrow’s Church We need to rediscover and to revive the is to promote in every way possible vocation of the seminary at precisely the residential seminaries, endangered moment of its greatest risk. And to this species though they be. The chorus of end ECF must claim yet more firmly its opposition has many voices. One hears calling to help a new generation of things like: the ministry of the whole theologians emerge for our church. people of God requires a new pedagogy, Surely, being faithful has as a precon- and technology will save us, and study dition knowing the faith. What if the most should be embedded in context. There are radical and daring plan were, in these also opposing thoughts less often times, the most traditional? expressed: What good is theology? It only leads to strife, and anyway we’re Episco- The Rt. Rev. George Sumner is Bishop of palians! Or: Had we not better batten Dallas, and retired dean of Wycliffe down the financial hatches before the College, Toronto. tsunami strikes? But all this is cognitively distorted. In fact the pace of change and the uncertainty of the future Church require more theology, not less. The importance of formation in the rhetoric of the Association of Theological Schools was not mistaken, and no dispersed program can match the intensity of formation of a seminary. Most importantly, viable residential seminaries are not a zero-sum game with new kinds of local education. Actually, they are the condition for local education’s flourishing! It may be that, to some extent, the

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December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 27 Contending for the Faith Once Delivered by Joseph Wolyniak

The 1611 Authorized reformanda est. To properly form, we will Version beautifully need to reform. rendered Jude’s The good news is that the Church exhortation to always contains the seeds of its revival. “earnestly contend for Our prayer book’s emphasis on the the faith which was ministry of all the baptized, for instance, once delivered unto the is a gift we have only begun to open. We saints” (Jude 3). That remains our charge. must continue to explore implications of Yet it is necessary to admit — indeed, the common font, as the collapse of confess — that we have largely failed in cultural Christianity strains priest-centric the task of transmission. We are parochial formation. Developing more and perilously close to a faith that was simply better approaches to forming the whole once delivered, full stop. body of Christ is imperative. While The average Episcopalian is almost bishops and priests must live out their wholly biblically illiterate, lacking a vocations as teachers, the whole Church general sense of Scripture’s narrative arc needs to better identify, equip, and and knowing only enough historical employ those with obvious charisms for criticism to dismiss scriptural integrity, catechesis — especially laity and deacons authority, and relevance. Many among us — and demonstrate how the proper would be hard-pressed to tell Malachi terminus of formation is not presbyteral from Maccabees from Matthew; forget ordination. reading, marking, and inwardly digesting. Finally, we must expunge our nagging And there is wide variance in our common congregationalism and live into Anglican prayer, with many opting to do what is catholicity, marked by an open right in their own eyes. When it comes to ecumenism and preferential option for the catechesis, we fall back on appeals to lex poor. From each as able to all as have orandi, lex credendi, but we forget that need, better-resourced parishes and such appeals presume, as St. Prosper of dioceses are called to solidarity with the Aquitaine put it, “the sacraments of wider Church — especially communities priestly supplication, handed down by the lacking access to quality formational apostles, are celebrated uniformly materials or teachers. throughout the whole world and in every The challenges before us are real. But catholic Church, so that the law of we are, after all, a people of hope. And we praying might establish the law of look not to ourselves, but “unto him that believing.” is able to keep [us] from falling” (Jude 20, Perhaps this is not unique in the history KJV). of the Church. No less unique is the Church’s continual commitment to The Rev. Joseph Wolyniak (2012 ECF redoubling its formational and reforma- Academic Fellow) is the Episcopal chaplain tional efforts — ecclesia semper at Princeton University.

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28 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Over 50 Years of Supporting Leaders for Tomorrow’s Church

The Episcopal Church Foundation’s Fellowship Partners Program is well known for identifying and supporting promising scholars and ministry leaders across the Church. Less well known is the fact that the program was founded at a time of significant angst in the Episcopal Church, when denominational leaders were concerned about the formation models and quality of teaching at Episcopal seminaries. The eight voices represented in these reflections on the future of leadership education stand in a long line of critique and questioning fostered by the Episcopal Church Foundation. In 1962, ECF’s Board of Directors sponsored an intensive study to assess the Episcopal Church’s needs and resources in theological education. In addition to assessing the model of education offered in Episcopal seminaries, the study examined the number of qualified leaders in the church and academy. Finding that the level of academic attainment among Episcopal clergy was lower than expected, the Foundation’s directors created the Fellowship Partners Program in 1964 to identify and support doctoral students who expressed commitment to teaching in Episcopal seminaries. Since then, ECF has proudly supported over 200 scholars and ministry leaders with a passion for forming the next generation of leaders in the Church. In the decades since, ECF has expanded its understanding of where leadership formation takes place. The eight voices published here represent only a small cross-section of over 50 years’ worth of Fellows whose work continues to be about forming leaders for tomorrow’s Church. Today, ECF identifies and supports scholars and ministry leaders who are committed to forming the next generation of leaders, both in the seminary classroom and beyond seminary walls. The application process for the 2018 Fellowship is now open and the deadline is March 16, 2018. If you would like to learn more about becoming an ECF Fellow, be sure to visit the ECF website at bit.ly/FellowshipPartners

The Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) is a lay-led, independent organization that has been serving the Episcopal Church since 1949. Its mission is to strengthen the strategic, leadership and financial capabilities of Episcopal congregations, dioceses, and related organizations so they can better pursue their mission and ministry.

executive Director Donald Romanek with the 2017 episcopal Church Foundation Fellows (from left) Renee McKenzie- Hayward, Jennifer Adams-Massmann, David Peters, Ashley Graham-wilcox, and stewart Clem

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 29 BOOKS

A Primer on Marian Devotion

Review by Jennifer Strawbridge engagement with the primary material to a study of Marian doctrine and de- arian devotion and doctrine votion as a social-historical enterprise. are important not only for our Rather, he keeps the focus firmly on MRoman Catholic and Ortho- theological issues and doctrine, ad- dox brothers and sisters, but are also dressing issues such as the meaning of alive and well within the Anglican tra- Mary’s motherhood and virginity dition. Beyond the churches throughout (chapters 1-2), Mary as Co-Redemptrix the Anglican Communion that begin and her soteriological role (chapters 3 or end worship with the Angelus or a and 6), and questions about interces- seasonal Marian antiphon, a number of sion and mediation (chapters 4-5), the Anglican churches have chapels (some- Assumption (chapter 7), and the im- times on a grand scale such as that in maculate Conception (chapter 8). Ely) dedicated to the Mother of God. The christological implications of For those who desire a deeper un- Marian theology are not missed, as derstanding of the practices and doc- Reynolds includes an in-depth survey trines related to Mary, as well as the of the iconclastic controversy at the development of Marian devotion, start, as well as how, from the begin- Gateway to Heaven Gateway to Heaven is a wonderful ning, debates about Christ were con- Marian Doctrine and Devotion place to begin. This book draws to- nected to Mary and the nature of her image and Typology in the Patristic gether both ancient sources and recent motherhood (pp. 9-10). Thus, Reynolds and Medieval Periods scholarship on Marian devotion and engages not only with Marian doctrine By Brian K. Reynolds piety, with a particular focus on the de- but also with some key issues concern- New City Press. Pp. 415. $39.95 velopment of Marian doctrine. ing the nature of Christ, such as the de- The first of a projected two-volume bate between Cyril and Nestorius con- set, Gateway to Heaven comprehen- cerning hypostatic union and Mary’s sively traces the development of Mar- title as Theotokos (pp. 25-29), as well as ian practice and thought through the the role of Mary in the Christ-centered patristic and medieval periods, with arguments of the iconoclasts (pp. 36f), refers to negotiation, reconciliation, each chapter arranged both chrono- Aquinas (pp. 89-90), and, briefly, Ori- and arbitration. Examples of this logically and by theme. The writings gen (pp. 57, 165). As Reynolds makes broader understanding appear in the from the patristic period include trans- clear, focus on Christ’s nature comes examples given from Basil (p. 172) lations of Greek, Latin, and some Syr- only through the lens of how Mary is and Paul Deacon Warnefred (p. 194). iac, while the writings from the me- understood and “her soteriological For those interested in the history of dieval period primarily focus on the role” (p. 4). Marian devotion and how Marian Christian West. My criticisms of this book are few piety has developed since the earliest This does not mean the Christian and are not meant to detract from the writings of the Church, this book is a East is completely neglected, as contribution it makes to studies of brilliant, accessible resource, offering Reynolds compares Western develop- Marian doctrine. A subject index the clear message that Marian devo- ments with precedents in the patristic would be extremely valuable along- tion is not simply a social or cultural East. Full of extensive excerpts from side the index of primary texts. i phenomenon but is grounded in a primary sources, Gateway is an essen- would push against the limited un- deep and rich history and tradition. tial source for those engaged in Marian derstanding of the Greek mesiteia research. But its value is not limited to (mediation) as Mary’s distribution of The Rev. Jennifer Strawbridge is associ- those with academic intentions, and grace to humanity as mediatrix (p. ate professor in New Testament at Ox- this text is not simply a catalogue of 153), to include a broader under- ford, Caird Fellow in Theology at Mans- excerpts. standing of the term, which is often field College, Oxford, and associate Reynolds is careful not to reduce his found in the context of conflict and priest at St. Andrew’s, Headington.

30 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 Pre-Revolutionary Thought

Review by Richard J. Mammana Pavel Florensky Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909 avel Florensky (1882-1937) was a By Pavel Florensky, translated by Boris Jakim Russian polymath whose signifi- Eerdmans. Pp. xiii + 228. $35 Pcance for Christian thought in the 20th century continues to become tended, moving hagiographical essay, ture into English, and this collection more apparent as his writings are “The Salt of the Earth,” on Abba isidore of material by Florensky joins his ex- translated into other world languages. (1814-1908) of Gethsemane Hermitage tensive earlier work on Dostoevsky, A mathematician, physicist, poet, lin- at Sarov. Florensky was isidore’s spiri- Solovyov, Bulgakov, and Khomiakov. guist, electrical engineer, art historian, tual son, and the firsthand account of This is a valuable contribution to the semiotician, and philosopher, Floren- his life (which has appeared previously diversity of pre-Revolutionary thought, sky was ordained to the priesthood in in a separate English translation) is an and a good way for beginning readers the Russian Orthodox Church in 1911 indication of the vibrancy of Russian of Florensky to explore his thought be- in a country on the brink of war and religious eldership (starchestvo) at the fore tackling longer works such as the revolution. beginning of the last century. monumental Pillar and Ground of the A key figure for the early 20th- Boris Jakim is the world’s foremost Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy century Russian religious intellectual translator of Russian religious litera- in Twelve Letters (1914). renaissance, Florensky fell afoul of the Soviet régime despite having been a leader, clad in his cassock, in Bolshevik drives for rural electrifica- tion and in efforts to provide nutri- tion for gulag inmates from seaweed harvested on the White Sea. in 1937, he was executed in a prison camp in what the Orthodox Church today con- siders a martyrdom, and his burial Since the 1930s, Episcopal place is unknown. Migration Ministries has This book of eight brief essays is offered life, opportunity, from the years just before Florensky’s and hope to refugees. EMM ordination to the priesthood, when he honors the inherent value wrote as a public intellectual in peri- of human life, bringing odical literature centered on the communities together to Moscow Theological Academy. One of love God, and to love their his primary themes is the reconcilia- neighbors as themselves. tion of apparent contradictions be- episcopalchurch.org/beyond tween science and religion, and an es- say on “Superstition and Miracle” is a fascinating contribution to this field of Christian inquiry. The two most compelling essays are biographical explorations of two of Flo- rensky’s contemporary spiritual exem- BUILDING plars: Archimandrite Serapion (V.M. The Episcopal Mashkin, 1854-1905), another theoret- Branchepiscopalmigrationministries.org of the BRIDGES ical mathematician who lived on BEYOND Photo by: Asher Imtiaz Mount Athos before teaching at the Jesus Movement OURSELVES Theological Academy, and an ex-

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 31 BOOKS

Public Servants (Sometimes of God)

Review by Stephen Platten

t the last, Trump,” to wrench St. Paul entirely out of con- “Atext, is how this book con- cludes. The final essay amongst 24 The Mighty and cameos of world leaders focuses on the the Almighty 45th president of the United States. How Political Leaders Do God The Trump chapter is arguably the Edited by Nick Spencer least objective of all within this engag- Biteback Publishing. Pp. xvi + 347. £18.99 ing collection, having been written weeks after Trump’s inauguration. Time must elapse before a realistic as- sessment can be made. Characters covered include presi- dents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Vladimir ground of each politician. vehicle to power. There is no consis- Putin, Nicolas Sarkozy, Margaret The analyses of Christianity’s influ- tent pattern of relationship across Thatcher; and then, more widely still, ence on policies and achievements are these individuals. Partly this derives Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan and invariably excellent. The variety of from a useful aphorism he coins: South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak. The late writers and subjects is bound to result “Christianity shaped them before it Václav Havel is the only outsider, inas- in some unevenness. in the most idio- shaped their politics” (p. 340). Else- much as he never declared himself a syncratic case, that of Havel, we appre- where he notes (mentioning Donald confessing Christian. The book is fo- hend how his observed moral authority Trump) that “a Christian faith can co- cused on politicians who have declared is derived from Christian influences. exist happily with claiming the rights Christian allegiance; doing God from a Some specific philosophical and theo- of a Christian identity” (p. 345). different religious background could logical origins of his intellectual life are This is a stimulating collection and fill a different volume. identified. will provoke further reading on cer- The pattern adopted throughout is Perhaps most elusive of all is the in- tain politicians. There is no index, to begin with a mini-biography, fol- terplay between religion and politics which would assist in cross-referenc- lowed by an analysis of the individual’s in each case. For some, the private na- ing, and there are one or two inaccu- professed beliefs, a review of how these ture of their lives obscures easy theo- rate generalizations. Spencer claims beliefs relate to political strategies, and rizing: Merkel and May show evidence that Harold Macmillan was the only a conclusion assessing these factors in of this. Elsewhere it is difficult to trace devout British Prime Minister between light of the Christian faith. The minia- the tangled roots of Christianity upon 1945 and 1980. Alec Douglas-Home ture biographies are highly instructive. public policy. Have individual leaders was devout and Edward Heath was We are reminded of the dysfunctional used religion for pragmatic electoral news editor of The Church Times in the family from which Clinton sprang, the purposes, and have the religious and late 1940s. But the final words should extraordinary influence of Thatcher’s political strands remained distinct for go to Spencer: “Christian belief con- father upon her political and religious others? tests all politics, its visions of human attitudes, and of Mary McAleese’s for- Editor Nick Spencer, the research flourishing and the ethical claims it mation in a quasi-Roman Catholic director of the religion and society makes of people being so demanding ghetto in Northern ireland and her tri- think tank Theos, provides a brief that no political leader or political pro- umphing over any bitterness from conclusion. He adverts to the remark- gramme can full satisfy them” (p. 346). those childhood experiences. These able religious influence on world lead- accounts contribute considerably to ers in recent decades. He rejects a The Rt. Rev. Stephen Platten is chaplain understanding the religious back- purely cynical account of religion as a to St. Martin-within-Ludgate, London.

32 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 When you come together to eat, wait for one another.

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Review by Greg Garrett then must set it aside in the next essay. e should be some years now past arguing This diversity also about whether film and the other arts can represents a strength, Wcarry sacred meaning — and, if we’re honest, though. instead of an some centuries past it. The last decade’s glut of “gospel entire book offering, say, according to” books on everything from The Simpsons an Augustinian reading of to The Hunger Games should have accustomed us to the film, or exploring movies idea of reading contemporary culture for spiritual through the lens of insight (i am as much to be blamed for this glut as theodicy, we have chapters anyone), but Christian understanding that God may be that do these things. Then speaking through other chapters explore matter actually miraculous grace in P.T. represents some of Too much religious Anderson’s Magnolia, the our earliest communion of meals in study of film, music, Light Shining theological reflection. television, or other films like Babette’s Feast, Bishop Richard and reflections on how a in a Dark Place Harries has pointed forms of culture study of C.S. Lewis’s Discovering Theology out in his lovely short attempts to subdue it writing and reflection on through Film book Art and the for Christian purposes; theology and genre might Edited by Jeff Sellars Beauty of God that the shape our theological Pickwick. Pp. 231 + xix. $28 early Church Fathers, it fails to take account responses to contemporary studying the Old of how art forms work, film. Testament in Greek, in its anxiousness to The sum of these essays is a wide-ranging were reading that God introduction to how we might employ film as a carrier mine a message. created the world and of spiritual and religious meaning, more accessible than it was very kala (that some, and running the gamut from popular and is: right, fitting, good, familiar films (Schindler’s List, The Social Network, Night perfect, beautiful). The of the Living Dead) to movies chosen for their close fit beauty of created things, Augustine wrote in The with the questions under consideration (Catfish, Confessions, was the answer to our questions about God. Babette’s Feast, DC Comics animated cartoon features). More recently, Rowan Williams has written that Some of these films are already staples for Popcorn creation is still going on when we speak, or make art, or Theology, movie sermon series, or other uses of film in read a text; that God’s Wisdom is always “looking for a the parish; others are novel, and well worth discovering. home in the human mind and heart” (Tokens of Trust, p. Perhaps the most positive thing about the collection 37). as a whole, however, is that it adheres to its warnings Light Shining in a Dark Place, a new collection of about how this sort of writing most oft goes awry, and it essays on theology and cinema edited by Jeff Sellars, offers a consistent model of how to do theological thus comes into a world perhaps a wee bit tired of texts reflection about culture properly. Sellars, in his reading texts for theological meaning. it also comes in introduction, cites Hans Urs von Balthasar, a great lover with some tangible weaknesses: it is the nature of any of both beauty and drama and their theological collection that some essays will be more valuable to a possibilities. But von Balthasar warns that to boil down reader than others, and the variety of approaches beauty into truth runs the risk of eliminating beauty employed by these writers means that the reader is altogether, a common problem in cultural exegesis. Too initiated into a methodology or a theological filter and much religious study of film, music, television, or other

34 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 forms of culture attempts to subdue it for Christian communicates spiritual themes as powerfully as the purposes; it fails to take account of how art forms work, film’s dialogue. in its anxiousness to mine a message. i know of several good books on theology and film Theological study of culture has to pay attention to for non-scholars, both ordained and lay. Light Shining in the forms of that culture: how a film communicates, a Dark Place is the most valuable collection of essays on whether a song is in minor or major, whether we should the topic i have read since Robert K. Johnston edited his consider a narrator ironic or sincere. The best more scholarly Reframing Theology and Film (2007). i theological writing on culture should show us how form commend it as a tool for sermons, teaching, and and meaning — beauty and truth, if you will — shape formation, and as a thoughtful guide to an overcrowded each other. it should, as an essay in this collection does, field that nonetheless can still reward the reader. understand what Anderson is doing in Magnolia as well as what the film might be communicating to us. it Greg Garrett is the 2013 Centennial Professor at Baylor should explicate the form and prevalent images of University, writer in residence at the Seminary of the zombie films, as well as their themes. it should know Southwest, and a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal that the visuals of the landscape of Paris, Texas Church.

How to Survive the Apocalypse that we now perceive Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics ourselves as gods and at the End of the World “the authors of our own By Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson destruction” (p. 3). Eerdmans. Pp. 206. $18 Since the Cold War era there has been a marked n this helpful and jauntily titled book, Robert shift from utopian Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson attempt to turn the stories (TV’s original itide of simply bemoaning the surrounding culture. Star Trek) to dystopian They challenge us to take a critical look at the stories stories such as Star Trek: that our culture is trying to tell today, particularly the Into Darkness by J.J. apocalyptic stories in television and film, with an eye Abrams. on how Christians might respond to the narratives. Why has this “We want to peer through the lens of apocalypse at happened, and how is it ourselves, looking at these dystopias to see how we revealed in our stories today? Joustra and Wilkinson conceive of our life together — our politics,” they trace the history of this shift from God-centered write. “We want to see what is good and what is apocalypse to man-centered apocalypse. They broken in our culture, so we can then have more examine Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, Breaking meaningful discussions about how to maximize one Bad, House of Cards, Game of Thrones, The Walking and heal the other” (p. 4). Dead, and ABC’s Scandal, and two recently popular Joustra and Wilkinson draw heavily from films, Her and The Hunger Games. Christian philosopher Charles Taylor in The Malaise The authors conclude on a weak note. While of Modernity and A Secular Age. And because Taylor making some helpful suggestions about the need for can sometimes be a dense and difficult writer, they engagement and dialogue, they fall a little flat in also draw on his interpreter James K.A. Smith’s How addressing how the gospel might address the hurts, (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. in effect, needs, and pathologies of the surrounding culture. Joustra and Wilkinson’s book acts as a condensation Still, this book is a very useful resource for clergy, of Taylor’s thoughts through the lens of pop culture. those engaged in evangelism, and for Christians Joustra and Wilkinson diagnose how apocalyptic seeking a better grasp of the times. stories have moved within our culture from being The Rev. Kyle Tomlin God-centered to man-centered, in effect revealing Fredericksburg, Virginia

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 35 CATHOLiC VOiCES The List

Once a year, members of the Living Church Foundation’s board honor their forebears.

By Richard J. Mammana of such annual meetings — now nicotine-free. Our work and our shared love in Christ have been knit t is a cold Thursday morning near the banks of the together by correspondence, by family celebrations and Cumberland River in Central Tennessee, and i am funerals to which we have invited one another. The ones ipreparing for a board meeting. i have had a mug of i do not know from cheerful and serious conversation i coffee with the morning’s portion of the Psalter before a know from the pages of the magazine it has been our brief attempt at inbox triage — and then the last-minute happy toil to create in an often quixotic-feeling confi- compilation of the list that makes this board meeting dif- dence that we had of our strength any good word or ferent from every other board meeting. work to build up the body of Christ. The list is the annual necrology of the Living Church Foundation, read during the course of our yearly And now, O Father, mindful of the love requiem: a constant practice that sets our time together That bought us, once for all, on Calvary’s tree, about the common task of reports, nominations, votes, And having with us him that pleads above, motions, budget discussions, and social fellowship. We here present, we here spread forth to thee, The list contains the names of every deceased editor of That only offering perfect in thine eyes, THE LiViNG CHURCH, its major benefactors across almost The one true, pure, immortal sacrifice. 140 years, its recently deceased employees, and others in whose memory gifts have been made to the foundation i have read the list in that disused parish church in during the course of a year. Reading the list has become Tennessee, in a seminary chapel in Chelsea, in a great my privilege and my duty for the last decade or so, and i Ancient and Modern church of Dallas, in the tired bas- seldom make it all the way through without my voice tions of the Upper Midwest, while the mud of a hurri- quavering or a tear welling up at the name of a strong cane-battered Houston was still fresh. The tradition — one or a loved one. because it is a tradition, of unknown origin — keeps our minds, but more our hearts, aware that we are inheritors And then for those, our dearest and our best, and stewards with a goodly heritage. By this prevailing presence we appeal; if the names of the founders, John Fulton and Samuel O fold them closer to thy mercy’s breast! Smith Harris, have been forgotten, they are not this O do thine utmost for their souls’ true weal! morning. if the names of Frederic Cook Morehouse and From tainting mischief keep them white and clear, his son Clifford Phelps Morehouse, those devout and And crown thy gifts with strength to persevere. intellectual servants of both church and country, have ever been forgotten, they are spoken at the altar today. if These are my friends and siblings in the Lord, asleep we remember — some of us — H. Boone Porter, Carroll now until the last trumpet when we shall all be changed. Simcox, and Peter Morton Day, the necrology tells us As a church archivist with that highly developed affinity that the proper place for our memories, our gratitude, for dead bishops that only those who possess it can rec- our vexations, our blessings from God, met uniquely in ognize, the names i read are not by and large strange each of them. it tells us that the place for all of this is at ones. i have known and supped with some in that storied the foot of the Cross in the sacrament of remembering. i dining room in Milwaukee whose wallpaper and win- would wager a Mercury dime that the annual requiem is dowpanes hold the powerful memories of a half-century the only time when the name of Charles Wesley Leffing-

36 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 well, sometime editor, is ever still spoken aloud. And so we come; O draw us to thy feet, Most patient Savior, who canst love us still! Look, Father, look on his anointed face, And by this food, so awful and so sweet, And only look on us as found in him; Deliver us from every touch of ill: Look not on our misusings of thy grace, in thine own service make us glad and free, Our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim; And grant us nevermore to part with thee. For lo! between our sins and their reward, We set the passion of thy Son our Lord. This board meeting is different from the other board meetings because of the list, and because we gather at We do not read their names because they were heroes, God’s Board. No person who has given real labor for the though three of them probably were. We do not read work of the foundation, or served on its governing their names because they were especially venal — though board, can know it to have been other than a wrinkle of some of them probably were. We read them not to change the service of perfect freedom to which we are all called. their souls’ state with God, which would be folly. There is a leveling here, an awareness of our mortality: i We pray for the light perpetual and the mercy of God, have stood as worshiping neighbor in a room today with because it is what we need today as they did in their day. persons whose names i believe will someday also be on We pray the names of the ones who have gone before us, the necrology, and the best of hopefulness and thankful- sealed with the seal of faith, because we want in our fee- ness well up here. This is not morbid; it is Christian real- ble ways to be more conformed to them in duty, in serv- ity and honesty. Whether in the old Biretta Belt or in ice, in devotion to one another. We hold their names on Texan-Canadian tones of reverence and awe, i have a our hearts as we approach the throne of grace because good hope that it shall continue as long as THE LiViNG this is how a family cares for its loved ones. CHURCH is in the Living Church. o

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 37 mated, however, about the 36 bishops Lord Williams, the 104th Arch- news December 3, 2017 (Lords Spiritual) who sit in the Lords. bishop of Canterbury, appeared luke- | A new report from a working group warm, as did Archbishop Vincent New Debates led by Lord Burns, ex-chairman of a Nicholls, when asked for a defense of national television station and the re- the status quo. (Continued from page 13 ) tailer Marks and Spencer, signals full Explaining his reasoning, Lord slimming down. Fueling debate are speed ahead with reform. But it deftly Burns said he thought including bish- regular media revelations of members sidesteps the issue of the bishops. Ear- ops in the menu of reform legislation who make no contribution but con- lier in the year the National Secular So- would prove a distraction and it could trive to show long enough to collect ciety launched a petition for their com- wait until the rest of the process was the prescribed £300 allowance for daily plete removal, which attracted 10,000 complete. attendance. People become truly ani- signatures within days. Now, Thought for the Day: it is a monologue, hardly in tone from the rest of Today, in which confrontation is the order of the day. it’s meant to bring a faith dimension to current affairs, with mainly Christian contributors and a sprinkling of other faiths. Debate about the segment emerges regularly, most recently when Radio Times magazine covered the 60th an- niversary of the program. it quoted John Humphrys, senior presenter, as calling Thought “deeply, deeply bor- ing,” inappropriate in an increasingly secular society, and “only occasionally interesting.” Somewhat colorless ripostes from church figures, including the Arch- bishop Justin Welby, were eclipsed by the Rev. Canon Giles Fraser, a regular on Thought. He said a “culture of snig- gering contempt towards religion is en- demic within the BBC. And one ac- ceptable way of demonstrating this is to slag off Thought for the Day.” Fraser is plain-spoken figure who resigned as a canon at St Paul’s London after a very public disagreement with the dean when protesters occupied the cathedral square in 2012. He is now vicar of an inner-city parish south of the River Thames. On air he claimed church atten- dance was larger than crowds attend- ing football (soccer), which gets more time during Today. When Humphrys questioned this, Fraser challenged him to a £5 bet. Later he confronted the BBC man with a bundle of statistics. Humphrys says his check is in the post. Both Bishops in the Lords and Thought for the Day symbolize how the U.K. maintains institutions that, on the surface, seem to be anachronisms. When anyone calls for change, how- ever, it stirs up a tempest. John Martin

38 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 LETTERS A Reason to Smile?

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about possibly putting the store on the AmazonSmile registry, so that on the one hand, for our customers buying [on Amazon] what we don’t sell here, we could benefit from those pur- chases,” Kay Becker, who has worked at the store for 12 years, told TLC. “On The incarnation and New Worlds the other hand, we wouldn’t want our customers to get everything from it is helpful to have Andrew Davison’s survey of theological views, Amazon and not patronize us.” going back to the 15th century, on the possibility and the One of the few remaining Episcopal implications of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe [“Lord of bookstores, the shop sends packages to all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Vir- the Starfields,” Nov. 19]. gin islands. it distributes church calen- But not only have theologians considered that extraterrestrial dars, worship and sacramental materi- possibility, they also confronted directly an intra-terrestrial als, hymnals, and prayer books, while actuality about 500 years ago. This happened when Europeans also stocking other books and gifts. became widely aware of entire civilizations existing in what we now Becker, who helps prepare items for call the Americas. That discovery led naturally to questions like shipment, said the bookstore has not these: Was the incarnation for the American peoples also? How can been immune to the effects of the God’s salvation be understood to extend to peoples separated for 15 Great Recession and the ascendancy of centuries by nontraversable seas from the cross and the good news online retailers like Amazon. “When i emanating therefrom? Such questions were pondered, for notable first started working here, i would pre- instance, by the Salamancan school of the 16th century (Francisco pare books to be shipped every day. de Vitoria et al.). And there are ways of answering such questions Now, i could go several days without without impinging upon the uniqueness of the incarnation or its preparing a book to ship, even though universal effect. we continue to ship lots of gifts and in that sense also it would not be a new question to ask: How was church-specific material — but regular the salvation wrought by the incarnation effective for intelligent books we ship less of.” Support from Smile could help the beings elsewhere in the universe, separated for vast times by store’s bottom line, yet Smile’s math is nontraversable outer space from the cross and its good news? And simple and brutal: $1 million in annual again, there are ways to answer that question without restricting the AmazonSmile purchases by patrons universal reach of the one incarnation of the Son of God. would only translate to a $5,000 check The Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin to the Cathedral Bookstore. Under Dallas these conditions, could the store thrive without relationships with Episco- Buried Treasure palians? “Episcopal bookstores have been “Giving for the Long Term” [July 16] is excellent but it omits one disappearing, so that’s one reason we’re important fact: The 1979 Book of Common Prayer, like its serving a much wider area than usual, predecessors, requires clergy in charge of congregations to instruct and there are things that we carry that their parishioners on planned giving. are very particular and unique to the Curiously, this requirement is contained in a rubric at the end of church. However, if we don’t get the “A Thanksgiving for the Birth or Adoption of a Child” (p. 445): patron support we need, we won’t be “The Minister of the Congregation is directed to instruct the able to offer what our churches rely on us for.” people, from time to time, about the duty of Christian parents to make prudent provision for the well-being of their families, and of Katy Crane has worked as a labor organ- all persons to make wills, while they are in health, arranging for the izer and a community development mis- disposal of their temporal goods, not neglecting, if they are able, to sioner for the South Wedge Mission, a leave bequests for religious and charitable uses.” Lutheran-Episcopal church plant in The Very Rev. Canon John H. Park Rochester, New York. She studied econom- Ambridge, Pennsylvania ics at Smith College in Massachusetts.

December 3, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 39 The Rev. Daniel Gross is associate rector of Nativity, Scottsdale, AZ. PEOPLE & PLACES St. Peter’s, Morristown, NJ The Rev. Lisa Ransom is interim minister Appointments The Rev. Marcus Halley is rector of St. at St. James, Woodstock, VT. The Rev. Robert Berra is chaplain at Trinity Paul’s on Lake of the isles, Minneapolis. The Rev. Frank Russ is interim rector of St. Episcopal Campus Ministry, Arizona State The Rev. Ted Holt is interim rector of Sts. James the Fisherman, Shallotte, NC. University, Phoenix. Philip & James, Morenci, and All Saints, Saf- The Rev. Anjel Scarborough is priest-in- The Rev. Brent Carey is interim rector of St. ford, AZ. charge at St. Peter’s, Ellicott City, MD. Michael and All Angels, Mission, KS. The Rev. Kenn Katona is priest-in-charge The Rev. Brad Smith is senior associate for The Rev. Ralph Clark is priest-in-charge of of St. Clement’s, Rancho Cordova, CA. Christian formation and spiritual development St. Joseph’s, Fayetteville, NC. The Rev. Gene LeCouteur is rector of at St. John’s, Charlotte. The Rev. George Daisa is rector of St. Emmanuel, Middleburg, VA. The Rev. Regis Smolko is priest-in-charge Patrick’s, Thousand Oaks, CA. The Rev. Frank Limehouse is chaplain of of St. Brendan’s, Franklin Park, PA. The Rev. John F. Dwyer is chief operating Christ Memorial Chapel, Hobe Sound, FL. The Rev. Susan Brown Snook is canon for officer of Church Divinity School of the Pacific. The Rev. Matthew Lukens is acting chaplain church growth and development in the Dio- The Rev. Glen Graczyk is rector of St. at Canterbury House, University of Michigan. cese of Oklahoma. Mary’s, Palmetto, FL. The Rev. Gary Nicolosi is interim rector of The Ven. Canon Patricia Soukup is archdeacon of the Diocese of the Rio Grande. The Rev. Jennifer Southhall is priest-in- charge of Redeemer, Biloxi, MS. The Rev. Chuck Sowinski is a deacon at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix. The Rev. Kirsten Snow Spalding is rector of Nativity, San Rafael. The Rev. Dana Strande is priest at Nativity, Burnsville, MN. The Rev. Shawn Strout is associate dean for academic affairs at the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania’s Stevenson School for Ministry. The Rev. Geraldine Swanson is deacon to the Richmond Episcopal Ministry, which over- sees new ministry development on Staten island, NY. The Rev. T.J. Tetzlaff is assistant priest at St. Philip’s, Southport, NC The Rev. M. Dion Thompson is associate priest for pastoral care at St. Anne’s, Annapolis, MD The Rev. Edward Thompson is associate rector of Trinity, Galveston, TX. The Very Rev. John Tidy is canon to the ordinary of the Diocese of Southeast Florida. The Rev. Marilyn van Duffelen is vicar of St. Paul’s indian Mission, Sioux City, iA. The Rev. Joshua Varner is canon missioner for children and youth in the Diocese of Geor- gia. The Rev. Alyse Elizabeth Viggiano is curate at St. Paul’s, Alexandria, VA. The Rev. Kate Wesch is rector of St. John the Baptist, West Seattle. The Rev. Ginny Wilder is rector of St. Anne’s, Winston-Salem, NC. The Rev. Claire Woodley is canon for min- istry support in the Diocese of Long island.

Ordinations Priests Albany — John Carter Cairns and Donna Louise Howard Steckline Oregon — Regan M. Schutz Western Michigan — John Edwin Infante Pinzón

Retirements The Rev. Paul Gennett Jr., as rector of St. Thomas’s, Newark, DE The Rev. David B. Huxley, as rector of St. Nicholas’, Flower Mound, TX

40 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 SUNDAY’S READiNGS 1 Advent, December 3  | SOCIETY OF KING CHARLES isa. 64:1-9 • Ps. 80:1-7, 16-18 • 1 Cor. 1:3-9 • Mark 13:24-37 THE MARTYR  XXXV ANNUAL SOLEMN MASS OF As You Wait S. CHARLES, K.M. nd when [Jesus] came up out of against the world, but kindled flame in “Athe water, immediately he saw every soul. “Restore us, O LORD God of the heavens opened and the Spirit de- hosts; let your face shine, that we may scending upon him like a dove; and a be saved” (Ps. 80:19).   voice came from heaven, ‘Thou are my The espousal love of Christ for the 11 a.m., 2Saturday, January 201 :W)QDFLOJQ$V·\KWRPL7W ;7KWUR: beloved Son; with thee i am well Church and every member of the S OH& KWLH. QDPUHNF$ pleased’” (Mark 1:10-11). Because the church is a complete self-offering. Preach, Rt Rev’d Son was in the beginning with God, Christ gives “All that i am and all that  NFD-YH5W5JQLGLVHU3  UHN, and because this beginning is before i have” (marriage rite). He loves the  KWLZULRK&HVHFRL'KWUR:W) DUWVHKFU2K time and forever, the Word spoken church to the end, which is to say that Followed by BUFFET LUNCHEON $20/ from the rent heavens concerning the he loves without end. So loving and so  person, reseverations required.WRPL7W \KW Son is an eternal Word. The heavens giving, every moment is the moment Make check “Sto ’s” cannot be shut and the Word cannot be of his arrival. Every moment he is near, memo line\E “SKCM”    church the to Send to the churchGYO%OOHKFWL0  JanuaryKWUR:WUR) 7 atJanuary ;7 muted. “The Father spoke one Word, at the very gate (Mark 13:29). His pres- ., , . which was His Son, and this Word He ence invades and burns the brushwood    Church RIQL contact: - FFDV\KWRPLWW - PRF always speaks in eternal silence, and in of sin, ever creating ever a new being in or @s silence it must be heard by the soul,” St. Christ. The grace of God given in SOCIETY INFORMAATIONTTION John of the Cross wrote in Maxims and Christ comes in signs and wonders, Founded 1894 - Oxford Movement Counsels. “For God alone my soul in si- and in hidden mysteries strewn upon www.skcm-usa.orrgg lence waits; from him comes my salva- land and sea, in the depths and upon or email [email protected] tion” (Ps. 62:1). the heights. God is and is coming in Join our growing devotional society viasociety website; click “Join or contribute” Faith is a posture of waiting. Faith is the wonder of a transparent universe. the assurance of things hoped for, but Jesus is God with us. And yet he never an assurance that blunts the deep awakens and inflames our deepest de- yearnings of hope. Faith may have con- sires. Although in some sense utterly solations, but these consolations are a filled with the fullness of Christ, the stimulus to habitual longing. Faith soul persists in a state of emptiness. in- hopes that the God who has arrived in deed, this emptiness deepens and his Word will yet come, will come mo- grows as we await “the revealing of our ment by moment, until all things reach Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 1:7). En- their proper end in the vision of God, riched in every way, there is yet an in- until God is all in all. Faith imagines finite depth of God to know and feel, to cosmic signs that announce transcen- know by not knowing. Every moment dent wonder and power. God will open is a vigil. And hope does not disap- heaven, shake mountains, darken the point us. sun, and scatter stars on the face of the earth (isa. 64:1-2; Mark 13:24-25). God is coming from beyond all knowing, Look it Up coming to those who wait, coming to Read isaiah 64:4. those who seek to do right and are honest about having done wrong. Faith waits for a love that exposes the un- Think About it cleanness of our lives, the filth that fes- Waiting for God is his arrival. tered in the soul, the frailty at the heart of mortal being, the wind that sweeps us away (isa. 64:6). The God who has come and is com- ing in his Word is triune love. God hates nothing he has made, and so the soul’s purgation in the presence of God is the soul’s true healing. The judgment sought in faith is not unending wrath

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42 THe LIVInG CHURCH • December 3, 2017 SUNDAY’S READiNGS | 3 Advent, December 17 isa. 61:1-4, 8-11 • Ps. 126 or Cant. 15 • 1 Thess. 5:16-24 • John 1:6-8, 19-28 The Nation and My Whole Being n roughly the mid-sixth century 133:1). Such unity is rooted in a right- iB.C., after God’s people had suf- eousness in which the irreducible dig- Focused Outward fered the loss of their homeland and nity of persons is acknowledge and temple, they were finally allowed un- respected. Members of the nation are Fellowship, worship, and service are joined der the rule of Cyrus of Persia to re- called “oaks of righteousness.” closely at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Shreveport. turn home from their captivity in The prophet, though speaking for Newcomers are welcomed at breakfast Babylon. Arriving, they saw devasta- the Lord, speaks also for himself, as a once a month before the 10:30 service. On tion and waste on all sides. Church person, and thus gives voice to the Wednesday nights, supper is served before and state lay in ruin. Their migration full life of every person. “i will greatly the evening’s choir practices, youth home, of course, brought moments of rejoice in the LORD; my whole being programs, and a short conversational joy and hope, but the vision of a shall exult in my God” (isa. 61:10). lecture for adults on Scripture and the homeland laid waste by war and neg- The same may be said with Christian spiritual life. lect shook them deeply, so much that emphasis, “May the God of peace e cathedral’s choral program they had little choice but to fall upon himself sanctify you entirely and may includes the Boys and Girls Choir, the faith they had long known, and your spirit and soul and body be kept dedicated to the highest musical wait for the Lord. sound and blameless at the coming of standards, to educating and forming God was faithful and just. God in- our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:23). young people through music, and to tervened through his holy prophet. God is acting to restore the land, the enriching the cultural life of Shreveport. “The spirit of the LORD GOD is upon nation, the temple, and persons, all Adults participate in the Cathedral Choir, me, because the LORD has anointed the way down to the least of these, me; he has sent me to bring good and God calls upon us to take our which sings a repertoire from Gregorian news to the oppressed, to bind up the part in this great drama. chant to 21st-century sacred music for brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to it has never been easy to work for the 10:30 service. e Evensong choir is the captives, and release to prisoners; the continual renewal of the Church, an auditioned group made of up staff to proclaim the year of the LORD’s fa- a more just state, a genuine respect singers and adult volunteers who sing for vor, and the day of vengeance of our for persons, and a proper regard for weekly Choral Evensong, joining the God, to comfort all who mourn” (isa. the land and sea and air and all life. Boys and Girls Choir. 61:1-2). These are not facile words of But the joy of the Lord is precisely e Community Ministries is partic- comfort spoken by an indifferent and this work done in ways known and ularly concerned with meeting the needs distant party shielded by ease. God unknown, ways very small and some- of children, the homeless, elderly, and the acts to provide for those who mourn, times vast. Christ gave himself for the victims of poverty, crime, and religious and not, of course, only for those in life of the world, which pattern of self- persecution, not only locally but around the sixth century B.C. in the land of offering is our own. God shows his the world. e Cooking Crew prepares israel. in every age and every place, strength, brings down the mighty, lifts meals together monthly for several area the Son of the Father says, “Blessed up the lowly, and fills the hungry with groups. in 2014, the Cooking Crew made are those who mourn.” Their comfort good things. “The one who calls you approximately 7,400 meals. is the action and grace of God in is faithful, and he will do this” (1 Christ. Thess. 5:24). God acts on behalf of a whole peo- St. Mark’s Cathedral ple to restore not only their land and 908 Rutherford St. Shreveport, LA 71104 temple, but their collective spirit as Look it Up 318.221.3360 | stmarkscathedral.net well. God “gives a garland instead of Read Luke 1:46b-47. ashes, the oil of gladness instead of A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor mourning, the mantle of praise in- stead of a faint spirit” (isa. 61:3). Think About it imagine, as we should and must, such Mary sees her soul grow and her spirit a promise for our time, a church and rejoice in giving herself entirely to her a community and a nation in which Son. the joy of one resounds as the joy of each and the shared joy of all. “Oh, how good and pleasant it is when brethren live together in unity” (Ps.

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(Continued from previous page) Mobile, Alabama new orleans, Louisiana Durham, north Carolina CHRIsT CHURCH CATHeDRAL DIoCese oF LoUIsIAnA sT. sTePHen’s CHURCH 115 s. Conception st. 1623 7th st. • 504.895.6634 82 Kimberly Dr. • 919.493.5451 Houston, Texas 251.438.1822 edola.org ststephensdurham.dionc.org THe CHURCH oF sT. JoHn christchurchcathedralmobile.org THe DIVIne Potomac, Maryland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2450 River oaks blvd. Tucson, Arizona sT. FRAnCIs CHURCH DIoCese oF PennsYLVAnIA 713.622.3600 sT. PHILIP’s In THe HILLs 10033 River Rd • 301.365.2055 3717 Chestnut st., ste. 300 sjd.org 4440 n Campbell Ave. stfrancispotomac.org 215.627.6434 520.299.6421 diopa.org Houston, Texas stphilipstucson.org Grand Rapids, Michigan DIoCese oF TeXAs GRACe CHURCH Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1225 Texas Ave. • 713.520.6444 Carlsbad, California 1815 Hall st. se • 616.241.4631 DIoCese oF PITTsbURGH epicenter.org sT. MICHAeL’s bY-THe-seA gracechurchgr.org 325 oliver Avenue, suite 300 2775 Carlsbad blvd. 412.721.0853 Houston, Texas 760.729.8901 Minneapolis, Minnesota episcopalpgh.org sT. DUnsTAn’s CHURCH stmichaelsbythesea.org ePIsCoPAL CHURCH 14301 stuebner Airline Rd. In MInnesoTA Charleston, south Carolina 281.440.1600 Denver, Colorado 1730 Clifton Pl., ste. 201 CHURCH oF THe HoLY saintdunstans.org sAInT JoHn’s CATHeDRAL 612.871.5311 CoMMUnIon 1350 washington st. episcopalmn.org 218 Ashley Ave. • 843.722.2024 Houston, Texas 303.831.7115 holycomm.org sT. MARTIn’s CHURCH sjcathedral.org st. Louis, Missouri 717 sage Rd. • 713.621.3040 sT. PeTeR’s CHURCH Columbia, south Carolina stmartinsepiscopal.org Meriden, Connecticut 110 n. warson Road DIoCese oF UPPeR ePIsCoPAL CHURCH 314.993.2306 soUTH CARoLInA san Antonio, Texas In ConneCTICUT stpetersepiscopal.org 1115 Marion st. • 803.771.7800 CHRIsT CHURCH 290 Pratt street, box 52 edusc.org 510 belknap Pl. 203.639.3501 Jackson, Mississippi 210.736.3132 episcopalct.org DIoCese oF MIssIssIPPI nashville, Tennessee cecsa.org 118 n. Congress st. CHRIsT CHURCH CATHeDRAL washington, D.C. 601.948.5954 900 broadway • 615.255.7729 west brattleboro, Vermont CHRIsT CHURCH, GeoRGeTown dioms.org christcathedral.org JeRUsALeM PeACebUILDeRs 31st and o sts. nw P.o. box 2020 • 802.254.0068 202.333.6677 Albuquerque, new Mexico Corpus Christi, Texas jerusalempeacebuilders.org christchurchgeorgetown.org DIoCese oF THe RIo GRAnDe CHURCH oF THe GooD 6400 Coors blvd. nw sHePHeRD Milwaukee, wisconsin orlando, Florida 505.881.0636 700 s. Upper broadway CATHeDRAL CHURCH sT. MARY oF THe AnGeLs dioceserg.org 361.882.1735 oF ALL sAInTs 6316 Matchett Rd. • 407.855.1930 cotgs.org 818 e. Juneau Ave. stmaryangels.org santa Fe, new Mexico 414.271.7719 CHURCH oF THe HoLY FAITH Dallas, Texas ascathedral.org oviedo, Florida 311 e. Palace Ave. • 505.982.4447 CHURCH oF THe GooD CAnTeRbURY ReTReAT holyfaithchurchsf.org sHePHeRD & ConFeRenCe CenTeR 11122 Midway Rd. 1601 Alafaya Trail • 407.365.5571 Cooperstown, new York 214.351.6468 canterburyretreat.org CHRIsT CHURCH goodshepherddallas.org 46 River st. • 607.547.9555 Parrish, Florida christchurchcooperstown.org Dallas, Texas DIoCese oF soUTHwesT sT. AUGUsTIne’s oAK CLIFF FLoRIDA Garden City, new York 1302 w. Kiest blvd. • 214.371.3441 8005 25th st. e. • 941.556.0315 DIoCese oF LonG IsLAnD staugustinesoakcliff.org episcopalswfl.org 36 Cathedral Ave. 516.248.4800 Fort worth, Texas Augusta, Georgia dioceseli.org DIoCese oF FoRT woRTH CHURCH oF THe GooD 2900 Alemeda st. sHePHeRD Greenwich, new York 817.244.2885 2230 walton way • 706.738.3386 DIoCese oF ALbAnY fwepiscopal.org goodshepherd-augusta.org 580 burton Rd. • 518.692.3350 albanyepiscopaldiocese.org Midland, Texas savannah, Georgia TRInITY sCHooL oF MIDLAnD THe CoLLeGIATe CHURCH new York, new York 3500 w. wadley Ave. oF sT. PAUL THe APosTLe GRACe CHURCH 432.697.3281 1802 Abercorn st. • 912.232.0274 802 broadway • 212.254.2000 trinitymidland.org stpaulsavannah.org gracechurchnyc.org navasota, Texas Indianapolis, Indiana Troy, new York CAMP ALLen DIoCese oF InDIAnAPoLIs sT. JoHn’s CHURCH 18800 FM 362 • 936.825.7175 1100 w. 42nd st. • 317.926.5454 146 1st st. • 518.274.5884 campallen.org indydio.org stjohnstroy.org ASSOCIATES san Antonio, Texas Phoenix, Arizona boston, Massachusetts Hendersonville, Tennessee DIoCese oF wesT TeXAs DIoCese oF ARIZonA DIoCese oF MAssACHUseTTs sT. JosePH oF ARIMATHeA 111 Torcido Dr. • 210.824.5387 114 w. Roosevelt st. 138 Tremont st. • 617.482.5800 103 Country Club Dr. dwtx.org 602.254.0976 diomass.org 615.824.2910 azdiocese.org stjosephofarimathea.org salt Lake City, Utah Las Vegas, nevada DIoCese oF UTAH wilmington, Delaware DIoCese oF neVADA Allen, Texas 75 s. 200 east • 800.343.4756 DIoCese oF DeLAwARe 9480 s. eastern Ave., ste. 236 CHURCH oF THe sAVIoR episcopal-ut.org 913 wilson Rd. • 302.256.0374 702.737.9190 110 s. Alma Dr. • 214.785.1612 dioceseofdelaware.net episcopalnevada.org ofthesavior.org Charlottesville, Virginia MoCKInGbIRD MInIsTRIes Maitland, Florida Greenwich, new York Dallas, Texas 100 w. Jefferson st. CHURCH oF THe GooD CoMMUnITY oF sT. MARY sT. MATTHew’s CATHeDRAL 434.293.2347 sHePHeRD eAsTeRn PRoVInCe 5100 Ross Ave. • 214.823.8134 mbird.com 331 Lake Ave. • 407.644.5350 242 Cloister way • 518.692.3028 episcopalcathedral.org goodshepherdmaitland.com stmaryseast.org Fairfax, Virginia Denton, Texas TRURo AnGLICAn CHURCH Miami, Florida Henrietta, new York sT. DAVID oF wALes 10520 Main st. • 703.273.1300 DIoCese oF soUTHeAsT DIoCese oF RoCHesTeR 623 ector st. • 940.387.2622 truroanglican.com FLoRIDA 3825 e. Henrietta Rd. ste. 100 stdavidsdenton.org 525 n.e. 15 st. • 305.373.0881 585.473.2977 Richmond, Virginia diosef.org www.episcopalrochester.org Houston, Texas DIoCese oF VIRGInIA sT. FRAnCIs CHURCH 110 w. Franklin st. • 800.DIoCese orlando, Florida new York, new York 345 Piney Point Rd. thediocese.net CATHeDRAL CHURCH CALVARY–sT. GeoRGe’s 713.782.1270 oF sT. LUKe 61 Gramercy Park n. sfch.org Charleston, west Virginia 130 n. 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