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JournalMONTHLY EDITION | $3.75 PER COPY Vol. 9 No. 4 | April 2019 He is risen! Same-sex spouses not invited to

By Mary Frances Schjonberg Fearon wrote. “That is the position as set Episcopal News Service out in Resolution I.10 of the 1998 Lam- 3 beth Conference. Given this, it would be service honors rchbishop of Canterbury Justin inappropriate for same-sex spouses to be female priests Welby is not inviting same-sex invited to the conference.”

NEWS spouses to the 2020 Lambeth The Lambeth Conference is held AConference of . approximately once per decade. The Public word of Welby’s decision came invites bishops in an News Service from across the Anglican Communion to blog post by Anglican Communion Sec- attend. The last gathering was in 2008. retary General Josiah Idowu-Fearon. He The July 23-Aug 2, 2020, gathering will wrote that “invitations have been sent to be held, as is tradition, in Canterbury, every active ” because “that is how continued on page 6 it should be — we are recognizing that all those 12 consecrated into the of- Three artists fice of bishop should be

ts cite Abraham as able to attend.” Those faiths’ patriarch invitations traditionally a r come from the archbish- op of Canterbury. Photo/via Wikimedia Commons “But the invitation An intimate Easter moment process has also needed This image of “The Risen Christ” (1658) by Rembrandt to take account of the van Rijn, a portrait of the resurrected Jesus, emphasizes Anglican Communion’s a personal relationship with the figure at the center position on marriage of Christianity’s key moment. Rembrandt painted which is that it is the Photo/Anglican Archives a number of Passion scenes, including the raising of lifelong union of a man Spouses who attended the 2008 Lambeth Conference of bishops the cross, Christ’s descent from the cross and Christ’s and a woman,” Idowu- pose on the University of Kent campus in Canterbury. 16 entombment. Cuban church to re-join Episcopal Church Episcopalians, Methodists ponder full-communion proposal NEWS

By Mary Frances Schjonberg and David Paulsen The dialogue committee is due to gather Plan,” which did not change the UMC’s posi- Episcopal News Service again in a previously scheduled meeting April tion on the full inclusion of LGBTQ people 29 in Austin, Texas, during which, Rose said, in the life of the denomination but hardened he United Methodist Church’s recent Episcopalians “will hear directly from those some of the its current policies. A G E decision to reinforce its opposi- For instance, it set a minimum penalty

I D PA tion to same-sex marriage and the of one year’s suspension without pay for US P O S T Bellmawr NJ PE R M IT #1239 ordination of LGBTQ clergy has clergy performing a same-sex wedding for No n -Profit O rg. T not sidetracked pending consideration of the first offense, and loss of credentials a full-communion agreement between the for the second, according to UM News Episcopal Church and the United Meth- Service. And the plan reinforced the odist Church. church’s existing prohibition on “self- Each denomination is discerning the avowed practicing” gay clergy. vote’s impact as the Methodist church The delegates rejected plans that would awaits a denominational ruling on the have either eliminated all restrictions on constitutionality of some parts of the de- same-sex marriage and ordination of gay cision. clergy in the denomination’s Book of Dis- “At this moment, we are in the same cipline or left such decisions up to indi-

place that we were six months ago, except Photo/Paul Jeffrey/UM News Service vidual geographic entities known as con- that we are deep in prayer for their situa- Delegate Shayla Jordan receives hugs after speaking in ferences. tion,” the Rev. Margaret Rose, ecumenical support of the One Church Plan during the 2019 United The Special Session also approved a and interreligious deputy to the Episcopal Methodist General Conference. disaffiliation plan, sometimes called an Church’s presiding bishop, told ENS. “exit plan.” It would allow congregations Six months ago, the United Methodist- who have been deeply involved in this work to leave the denomination with their property, Episcopal dialogue committee made final edits and are saddened by the decision.” with limitations, “for reasons of conscience” to the full-communion proposal, “A Gift to On Feb. 26, the United Methodist Church’s regarding issues of human sexuality. The plan’s the World: Co-Laborers in the Healing of Bro- 2019 Special Session of General Conference provisions would stand in contrast to the Epis- kenness,” that was first released in May 2017. approved, by a vote of 438-384, a “Traditional continued on page 7 2 Episcopal Journal April 2019 Conversations What are you giving up for Lent?

By Tara Isabella Burton though hard numbers are diffi- ject to God. This practitioner Religion News Service cult to find, abundant anecdotal is precisely trying to focus less evidence supports the idea that a on the self, not more. If you’re a practic- solid minority of those who ob- In giving up chocolate, say, ing Christian — and serve Lent belong to the ranks of or alcohol or sex (or even my likely if you’re not — the religiously unaffiliated. planned abstention: social you’re familiar with the A few years ago, Monica Potts media), we’re not necessar- exhortation to give up wrote in “The Case for Secular ily focusing on self-denial so something for the tra- Lent,” on Talking Points Memo, much as self-improvement. ditional season of peni- “I know tons of people who We’re stealth-dieting, giv- tence. The season commemorates the aren’t observant Christians but ing ourselves another oppor- period leading up to Christ’s passion and who nevertheless participate in tunity to be better (and, if resurrection, and for the approximately some kind of targeted fast for the we’re thinner, fresher-faced 1 in 4 Americans who observe it, Lent religious holiday meant to evoke and more productive to boot, is a time of sacrifice, prayer, fasting and Jesus’ 40 days and nights wan- then so be it). Photo/Derrick Brutel/Creative Commons reflection. dering through the wilderness.” Glasses with fresh organic vegetable and fruit juices as part of While Lent is by no means But, increasingly, the popular concept Potts, an avowedly “nonre- a detox diet. Many people opt to make healthier diet decisions as secularized as, say, Christ- of Lent has been transformed into a kind ligious” person, argues that her during Lent, rather than simply abstaining from certain things. mas or Easter, it’s worth of vaguely theistic detox. It’s a chance own regular Lenten observance thinking about the way in not to give up earthly pleasures but to is a vital part of her meditative which the Lenten season has exorcise toxins. practice. “We all need a time and increasingly become, as the An article published last year in U.K. space for quiet reflection,” she Rev. Giles Fraser, the journal- tabloid The Express, by way of example, writes, “to consider what con- ist and priest in the Church provides readers with a handy list of the nects us, and to wish each other of England, put it in a 2014 health benefits of giving up some of the well. From ‘peace be with you’ to article for The Guardian, “a most popular fasting targets, such as ‘namaste,’ there’s a universal de- second go at the new year smoking or chocolate, before remind- sire to pull ourselves out of the resolutions that ran into the ing them of the upsides of giving up sex. everyday and set our intentions sand somewhere in mid-Jan- “Abstaining over Lent might help you for a better life.” Lent, she wrote, uary.” reconnect with your partner in other is “a way to consider what gave Are we using a season ways,” the article reads, before adding: me real pleasure.” designed for contemplation “However, you might be tempted to But is reflection all Lent is Photo/Adrianne Bonafede/The Bay City Times of the holy to alleviate our break this when you hear how many about? What does it mean to Diners fill their plates with a variety of fried fish at the Knights of own insecurities about our calories sex burns.” divorce the personal benefits of Columbus Lenten fish fry in Bay City, Mich. bodies, our work ethic, our Modern Lent has come to have more Lenten observance — even the personal health? And if so, is in common with Dry January — the spiritually attuned goals of increased ticular Lenten fast who sees the disci- it time, as we’ve done with Christmas, to viral sensation encouraging New Year’s mindfulness, a better life — from their pline as necessary for a kind of surrender take stock of what the “true meaning” of resolvers to give up alcohol for a month divine referent? If we are not fasting to to God’s will, rather than a triumph of Lent really is? n — than with its ecclesiastic antecedents. love God, but rather to optimize our self-control. No wonder that it’s not just the faith- own existence, are we not risking trans- “For the first time I was using the Tara Isabella Burton holds a doctorate ful who are getting in on the Lenten forming a season of penitence into one (fast) day to find God’s will for my life,” in theology from Oxford University and action. A 2014 Barna study found that of glorified diet culture? the person tells Foster. “Began to think is at work on a book about the rise of the American millennials, famously less In his 1978 book “Celebration of Dis- about what it meant to surrender one’s religiously unaffiliated in America, to be likely to be religious than their elders, cipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth,” life.” Foster’s anonymous Christian isn’t published in November 2020 by Public were nonetheless more likely than the Quaker theologian Richard J. Foster trying to exert willpower, but to explore Affairs. Her novel, “Social Creature,” was average American to fast for Lent. And quotes a long-term practitioner of a par- what “will” really means in a world sub- published in June 2018.

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Anglican Communion News Service in the Church of England, , but also in chap- was also at the service. The laincies; hospitals and service was held March 1 in the Rev. Isabelle Hamley, the hospices, schools, uni- chapel of Lambeth Palace — the Archbishop of Canter- versities and prisons and official London residence of the bury’s chaplain, preached know what an innovative A archbishops of Canterbury — the sermon. Amongst the and positive contribu- to celebrate 25 years of the ordination five female bishops at the tion women priests have of women in the Church of England. service was the Bishop of made. On March 12, 1994, the then-Bishop Derby, Libby Lane, who “Perhaps today we of Bristol, Barry Rogerson, ordained 32 was the first female bishop might give a thought for women in Bristol Cathedral, in the first to be consecrated in the all those women, world- of many ordinations that year. A mes- Church of England when wide whose vocations to sage from Rogerson was read to the more she was appointed Bishop the priesthood have still than 80 female priests who were invited of Stockport in 2015. been neither recognized to the anniversary service. In her sermon, nor tested.” The guests included many women Hamley reflected on Berners-Wilson said who were among the first to be ordained the gift of Jesus that Photo/Lambeth Palace that “it was an amazing in 1994 as well as some of the lay people Mary and Joseph were The congregation at the service in Lambeth Palace celebrates 25 years of thing to be — by a few who were active in the campaign for the given, and the risks and women’s ordination in the Church of England. seconds — the first wom- . Also present were responsibilities of nurturing it. “Let us and the God who has called us to follow an to be ordained to the priesthood in female ordinands as well as a number of cherish this gift where it is public and him”, she said. the Church of England. Today I’ve been other female clergy. obvious, and where it is hidden, private Speaking at the service, Welby said: reflecting with great gratitude on those The Rev. Prebendary Angela Berners- and yet equally powerful. Together, may “Many of those here today have been pio- other women who were priested along- Wilson, the first woman to be ordained we witness to the gift that lives in us, neers as they work out what it means to side me, and the many hundreds of oth- be an ordained woman in the Church of ers since. England — not just for themselves and “For 25 years it has been the greatest their communities, but for the whole of privilege to finally be able to live out my Anglican educational network the Body of Christ. Today let us bear wit- calling, after a 15-year probationary pe- ness to those who paved the way in 1994, riod first as a deaconess then as a deacon. founder is honored as well as upholding those whose way into Today has been a day to celebrate all the ministry has been opened up since.” women priests who have been enabled to Anglican Communion News Service tary, the Rev. James Callaway, present- In his message, Rogerson said that grow into the fullness of who God has ed Chisholm with a certificate signed “over the last 25 years, I have observed called them to be as bearers of Christ’s he founder of the official An- by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin and received the ministry of women in good news for the world.” n glican Communion network Welby, CUAC’s patron. She was joined Colleges & Universities of the at the ceremony by her husband, Alan TAnglican Communion, Linda Chisholm, two of their three daughters HEALING Chisholm, has been awarded the organization’s third Distin- guished Fellowship. The network brings together further and higher education institutions from across the Anglican Communion. It was launched in Canterbury Cathe- dral in 1993, with Chisholm as HOPE its first General Secretary. The honorary Distinguished Fellow- ship of the Colleges & Universi- Sometimes, our most powerful act of love is to hold another ties of the Anglican Communion in prayer. Fostering in Faith ensures that children in need of is awarded to “individuals who forever families are not forgotten. model exceptional and active service to Anglican higher edu- Simply say yes. cation globally.” Chisholm received her fellow- Photo/CUAC Colleges & Universities of the Anglican Say yes that you, your congregation, or your organization will ship last month during a ceremo- Communion (CUAS) founder Linda Chisholm remember a child in prayer. Each month, Saint Francis will send ny in her church, Grace receives a certificate signed by the Archbishop you the story of a child in need of an adoptive home. Church in Nyack, N.Y. of Canterbury, presented by CUAC General “Without her vision, energy, Secretary, the Rev. James Callaway. All you do is pray. We’ll take care of everything else. hard work and consummate skill it was doubtful that CUAC would and a granddaughter. To participate in this ministry of love, contact Lindsey Decker have ever existed”, the retired Bishop She is the third recipient of CUAC’s at [email protected] or 800-898-4896 of New Castle, Martin Percy, a long- Distinguished Fellowship, following in to begin receiving Fostering in Faith each month. standing CUAC director, said. the footsteps of Maher Spurgeon, then The fellowship’s citation said that chaplain at Madras Christian College Say yes to a child who needs your prayers. “building on her pioneering work, in Chennai, India; and Jeremy Law, co-founding with Howard Barry the Dean of Chapel at Canterbury Christ International Partnership for Service Church University in Canterbury, Learning, she fashioned a network for England. Anglican colleges and universities, op- “All three have travelled far and timizing their global community.” wide to strengthen and support Angli- The current CUAC General Secre- can colleges,” Callaway said. n SaintFrancisMinistries.org | 1-800-898-4896 4 Episcopal Journal April 2019 Around the church Transitions Theological Seminary, as the creator and Episcopal Church scholarship coordinator for Forma’s Faith-at-Home Church names resources, and as the author of multiple curricula through Forward Movement applications for the 2019-2020 evangelism officer and Episcopal Relief and Development. Jerusalem Greer has been hired as Greer has also written two books: “At academic year accepted staff officer for evangelism on Presiding Home in this Life: Finding Peace at the pplications are now being accept- church-education-scholarships). Bishop Michael Cur- Crossroads of Unraveled Dreams and ed for educational scholarships Applicants are strongly encouraged ry’s staff, the Episcopal Beautiful Surprises,” and “A Homemade from the Episcopal Church for to read each trust and identify in the Church announced. Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting the 2019-2020 academic year. application those trust funds that best In this new full- and Coming Together.” A — Episcopal Church Public Affairs Office The scholarships are derived from fit their own profile. time position, Greer annual income of designated trust A scholarship applicant must be an will coordinate church- funds established through bequests to Episcopalian and must have the en- wide efforts to inspire, Kathryn Ryan elected the church. A number of these schol- dorsement of his/her bishop. gather, equip, send, and Greer arships support students enrolled in The application form is available in celebrate Episcopalians bishop suffragan inT exas theological education and training. English and in Spanish (www.episco- for the ministry of evangelism and dis- The Rev. Kathryn ‘Kai’ Ryan Other trust funds provide modest palchurch.org/episcopal-church-ed- cipleship, especially through initiatives was elected Feb. 22 as bishop suffragan scholarships for children of missionar- ucation-scholarships). like the Way of Love, Episcopal Revivals, for the western region of the Episcopal ies, bishops and clergy, and other groups Online applications are required. Evangelism 101 trainings and resource of Texas. covering a wide range of eligibility. The deadline for applications is April development. Ryan, 54, currently serves as Canon to When funds are available, the maxi- 5. Only complete applications will be “It was a great day at General Con- the Ordinary for the Di- mum award is $10,000 per student. considered. vention when we secured the funding ocese of Texas. She was Lists of trust funds and scholarships For information, contact Ann Hercu- and mandate for this position. It’s even elected to become the and other important information les, associate for grants and scholarships, more of a joy to now welcome Jerusa- next bishop suffragan as can be found here (https://www. at [email protected]. lem Greer to serve as staff officer,” said lay and clergy delegates episcopalchurch.org/episcopal- — Episcopal Church Public Affairs Office the Rev. Stephanie Spellers, canon to the gathered at the 170th Presiding Bishop for evangelism, recon- Diocesan Council in ciliation and creation care. “She is an in- Ryan The Woodlands, Texas. New York judge dismisses Sauls’ suit spiring evangelist, teacher, preacher and Ryan received 283 of 441 votes cast in the lover of souls, and she brings a breadth lay order and 137 of 235 cast in the clergy New York State Supreme Court Goetz dismissed the claim of defama- of wisdom, creativity, organizational sav- order on the first ballot. judge on March 13 dismissed tion because the one-year statute of limi- vy and expertise that are beyond what we The other candidates were: substantially all the claims in tations had lapsed. Sauls argued that the could’ve hoped for.” The Rev. Hannah E. Atkins Romero, A a lawsuit against the Domes- statute was retriggered by the re-publi- Spellers noted that “evangelism is be- Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Hous- tic and Foreign Missionary Society cation of allegedly defamatory material. coming a core part of our church’s life, ton, Texas. (DFMS), the corporate name However, Goetz said the and these evangelists are leading all of us The Rev. Canon Glenice Robinson- of the Episcopal Church, filed more recent claims did not meet to seek, name and celebrate Jesus’s loving Como, Canon Missioner for Outreach by Bishop Stacy Sauls, who was the standard of re-publication presence in the stories of everyone we and Justice Ministries, Christ Church removed from his post as chief because it failed to identify “‘the meet,” she said. Cathedral, Houston, Texas. operating officer in April 2016. particular words complained of’ Greer began her new position By canon, a bishop suffragan will serve Sauls’ suit against the DFMS nor specify ‘the time, the man- on March 1 and can be reached at “under the direction” of Diocesan Bishop and an unspecified number of ner and the person to whom the [email protected]. More Andy Doyle and will have oversight of unnamed defendants associ- Sauls publication was made,’ nor iden- information about evangelism in the congregations in the western region of the ated with the church claimed that the tify the person who made it.” Episcopal Church can be found at www. diocese, with an office in Austin. church’s decision to replace him as chief In dismissing the claim that the DFMS episcopalchurch.org/evangelism. Ryan’s breadth of experience includes operating officer breached Sauls’ con- had interfered with Sauls’ employment Greer was most recently the minister working in four dioceses as well as in- tract, damaged his reputation and made prospects, Goetz wrote: “There is no al- for formation and connection at St. Pe- volvement in Provincial Synod and Gen- it difficult for him to find a job elsewhere legation that defendants were aware that ter’s Episcopal Church in Conway, Ark. eral Convention. She also participated in the church. plaintiff had sought these employment For the past year, she partnered with in the national Gathering of Leaders for Judge Paul A. Goetz found that Sauls’ opportunities or that they intentionally Curry’s evangelism team as a consulting young clergy and served nearly 15 years contract was not breached because he was interfered with these opportunities.” evangelist and as a member of the work- in a culturally diverse parish as rector. an “at will employee;” and that “noth- The judge also dismissed Sauls’ claim ing group on the Way of Love. Ryan will be seated and consecrated ing in the [DFMS] handbook limits the for compensation for legal fees related to Greer also served as the project evan- as bishop suffragan on June 1 in Austin, defendants’ right to terminate plaintiff’s the suit he filed against DFMS. gelist for Baptized for Life: An Episco- Texas. employment for any reason.” — Episcopal Church Public Affairs Office pal Discipleship Initiative from Virginia — Diocese of Texas Young adult and campus ministry grants awarded xecutive Council has approved awarding a total money for a one-time project and young adult minis- Campus Ministry at Rutgers University, Diocese of of $133,150 in young adult and campus min- try grants provide seed money to assist in the start-up New Jersey; St. John’s Episcopal Church, Diocese of istry grants to 21 recipients. The grants provide of new ministries or enhance current ministries. Ohio. Efunding for dioceses, congregations and com- Campus ministry grants were awarded to All Saints’ Young adult ministry grants went to 3rd Place - munity college/tribal college/university campuses that @The Table, Diocese of Arkansas; Canterbury@Plym- A Young Adult Ministry of the Diocese of Western are engaging or seek to engage ministry with young outh, Diocese of New Hampshire; Episcopal and North Carolina and the Presbyterian Episcopal adults on and off college campuses. Lutheran Campus Fellowship of Macon, Diocese of Campus Ministry at Appalachian State University, “These grants help the Episcopal Church live into an Atlanta; Episcopal Campus Ministry at University of Diocese of North Carolina; Beloved in the Desert, expanded understanding of what it means to be in min- North Carolina Asheville, Diocese of Western North Diocese of Arizona; Emerging Communities, Diocese istry with young adults on and off college campuses,” Carolina; Faithful Futures - Listening Post, Episcopal of El Camino Real; Episcopal Camps & Conference said the Rev. Shannon Kelly, Officer forY oung Adult Church in Connecticut. Centers, Diocese of Virginia; Johnson Service Corps, and Campus Ministries. “This is a growing ministry, Leadership grants went to Pastoral Universitaria - Diocese of North Carolina; Life Together, Diocese one that shows the church how to engage mission and Iglesia Episcopal Puertorriqueña, Diocese of Puerto of Massachusetts; Marquette Young Adult Ministry, the ‘Jesus Movement’ in new, innovative ways.” Rico; Georgia Tech, Diocese of Georgia; Pittsburgh Diocese of Northern Michigan; Plainsong Farm & Campus ministry grants provide seed money to as- University Chaplaincy, Diocese of Pittsburgh; St. Ministry, Diocese of Western Michigan; St. Thomas’ sist in the start-up of new, innovative campus min- Luke’s Episcopal Campus Ministry and the U R Loved Episcopal Church - Dinner Church, Diocese of New istries or to enhance a current ministry. Leadership Library, Diocese of Fort Worth; Jersey. For more information, contact Kelly at skelly@ grants establish new, restore dormant, or reenergize Project grants were awarded to the Diocese of episcopalchurch.org. current campus ministries. Project grants provide Northern Michigan/Canterbury House; Episcopal — Episcopal Church Public Affairs Office April 2019 Episcopal Journal 5 Around the church Executive Council takes action on revenue issues

By Mary Frances Schjonberg “We have made incredible progress,” members granted waivers to Arizona, vajoland. The Episcopalians there will Episcopal News Service she said. Haiti, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Virgin pay $100 as payment in full through a Council members agreed to give the Islands and West Texas. deduction from its next monthly block he Episcopal Church’s Executive Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast a The waiver decisions came on the grant payment. They also pledged to pay Council made a number of deci- waiver because it had submitted a plan to same day that council agreed to forgive Navajoland’s full assessment beginning sions about the church’s finances increase its payments over the course of a loan and interest of $233,614.38 ex- this year. Tduring its Feb. 21-24 meeting in the triennium. The council also granted tended to the Episcopal Church in Na- continued on page 9 Midwest City, Okla. one-year assessment waivers to the Dio- The main actions centered on rev- cese of Colombia, which will pay $1,500 enue, including its ongoing response to this year; the Diocese of the Dominican dioceses that say they cannot pay the full Republic, which will pay $15,000; and, New translations planned for 15 percent of their income — or the as- the Episcopal Church in Taiwan, which sessment — that the church’s canons re- will pay $3,000. Book of Common Prayer quire they contribute to churchwide op- The council denied the waiver request erations. Council also considered how to from the Diocese of Dallas. Lloyd said Episcopal Church Public Affairs Office languages, in the U.S. and abroad. handle the money it earned from the sale the Dallas diocese has pledged to be at The task force is organized into three of a city block in Austin, Texas. the 15 percent mark by 2022, he Episcopal Church is develop- language teams who will work with At the 2015 General Con- but noted that its “15 percent is ing new translations of its Book the translators. Members of the teams vention, bishops and depu- split between about 12 percent of Common Prayer 1979 into are: French — Bishop Pierre Whalon, ties turned the then-voluntary that comes to us and 3 percent TSpanish, French and Creole, the Rev. Pierre-Henri Buisson and the diocesan budgetary asking that goes to other ministries of according to the Rev. Rev. Luk DeVolder; Hai- system into a mandatory as- the church of their choosing.” Juan M.C. Oliver, tian Creole (Kreyol) — sessment, beginning with the “The committee felt that custodian of the Book the Rev. Nathanael St. 2019-2021 budget cycle. Dio- the assessment is not a split- of Common Prayer. Pierre, the Rev. Magarettie ceses may ask for full or par- “For some time Saintliver and the Rev. An- Lloyd able entity,” she said. tial waivers. Without getting a The council’s Assessment now, the church has dré Wildaine; and Spanish waiver, a diocese that does not pay the Review Committee has waiver requests been aware of the — the Rev. Susan Saucedo full assessment will be unable to receive pending from Colorado, the Convoca- need for new transla- Sica, the Rev. Frederick grants or loans from the Domestic and tion of Churches in Europe, Honduras, tions, carried out by professional liter- Clarkson and the Rev. Juan M.C. Oliver. Foreign Missionary Society (the church’s Pennsylvania, Rio Grande and Venezu- ary translators of proven ability,” added The project is being widely adver- legal and corporate entity). ela, according to Lloyd. Oliver. tised to encourage qualified persons to The Rev. Mally Lloyd, chair of the Albany and Florida have committed He heads the project as chairman of apply. Applicants must be native speak- Executive Council’s finance committee to paying less than 15 percent and have the Task Force for Liturgical Transla- ers of French, Haitian Creole (Kreyol) reported to the council that, by lowering not asked for waivers, she said. Fond du tions, a subcommittee of the Standing or Spanish, bilingual in English and the percentage that dioceses were asked Lac has also committed to less than the Commission on Liturgy and Music. experienced in literary translation, in- to pay and adding the waiver process required amount but will be requesting The 2018 General Convention man- cluding poetic prose. Additional desir- while requiring payment, the number a waiver. Thirteen dioceses have not yet dated and budgeted the project, which able, but not necessary, qualifications of fully participating dioceses has gone submitted their commitments. will likely be completed within three are experience with liturgical, biblical from 44 in 2013 to 75 in 2019. At its October 2018 meeting, council years. In January, the task force met or theological vocabularies, as well as to review plans for hiring professional some knowledge of music. 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Lambeth continued from page 1 “After a lifetime of discussion, have been together for 10 years I am relatively confident that The and married last December. England, with most of the sessions at the Episcopal Church will never again “I actually find it quite offen- University of Kent. turn its back on the LGBTQ com- sive. I know that’s a strong word, Idowu-Fearon said that the munity. Will the same be said of but I’m aware the Anglican Com- archbishop of Canterbury “has had a Lambeth 2020?” munion is not of one mind around series of private conversations by phone Glasspool told ENS that Sander marriage,” he said. “However, the or by exchanges of letter with the few noted in their conversation about decision to invite all the other individuals to whom this applies.” Welby’s decision that it seems to spouses without inviting ours, I The Episcopal Church currently has be based in part on an apparent think, sends a very clear message one actively serving bishop who has assumption that “spouses are sim- about the way that same-sex rela- a same-sex spouse. Mary Glasspool is ply an extension of the bishop to tionships are regarded in the com- bishop assistant in the Diocese of New whom they are married, and that munion. I think that’s a troubling York and is married to Becki Sander. somehow there is a view of mar- sign.” Glasspool told ENS that she received riage that doesn’t quite sit well Photo/2020 Lambeth Conference Robertson said his first instinct a letter from Welby on Dec. 4, 2018, in with an egalitarian or reciprocal or Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and his wife, was not to go with Lambeth with- which he said that he was writing to her a mutual partnership” model. Caroline, are featured on the home page of the 2020 out his spouse. While he has not Lambeth Conference. “directly as I feel I owe you an explana- The bishop said that she ex- made a final decision, he said that, tion of my decision not to invite your pects to attend Lambeth 2020, and she Mary, but that it was too much of a step at the moment, he thinks it’s important spouse to the Lambeth Conference, a de- has asked Sander to come with her for to invite our spouses as well.” for all of the bishops who will find them- cision that I am well aware will cause you support. “The issue is, will she be includ- Their conversation came on the same selves in this position to go so that their pain, which I regret deeply.” ed in the conversation?” Glasspool said. day that Nigerian Archbishop Nicho- voices are at the table. Welby met with Glasspool and Sander The Rev. Thomas Brown is due to be las Okoh, the primate of the Anglican Spouses have typically participated in ordained and consecrat- and the chairman of a parallel program. However, in 2020, ed on June 22 as the next the Global Anglican Future Conference, there will be a joint program for the bishop of the Diocese of or GAFCON, issued a “warning” saying first time. Spouses of bishops will attend Maine. He is married to that he expected that Robertson “and his combined sessions “at key points in the the Rev. Thomas Mous- partner will be attending [Lambeth] and overall program,” according to informa- in. The diocese elected received in good standing.” tion here. There will also be separate ses- Brown on Feb. 9. Brown Okoh said, “With great sadness we sions on the specific responsibilities of told ENS that he would therefore have to conclude that the the ministry for bishops and spouses, ac- Lambeth Conference of 2020 will itself cording to the Lambeth website. Left to right, Diocese of New York Bishop Assistant Mary Glasspool, Maine Bishop- be an obstacle to the gospel by embrac- In 2008, then-Archbishop of Elect Thomas James Brown, Diocese of ing teaching and a pattern of life which Canterbury Rowan Williams refused Toronto Bishop Suffragan Kevin Robertson are profoundly at odds with the biblical to invite Bishop Gene Robinson, witness and the apostolic Christianity who had become the first openly gay in September when he visited Trinity through the ages.” and partnered bishop in the Anglican Wall Street. She called it a get-acquainted Robertson said the refusal to invite Communion in 2003. He served as session, which did not touch on the his and Glasspool’s spouses is hurtful. bishop of New Hampshire until his Lambeth Conference. He and Sharma, who have two children, retirement in January 2013. n Glasspool said she and Sander, New York Bishop Andrew Dietsche and New York Bishop Suffragan Allen Shin Bishops object to Lambeth exclusion “have been praying about this and talk- ing about this” since receiving the let- Episcopal News Service Assistant Mary Glasspool currently is ter. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry Photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg/ENS the Episcopal Church’s only actively Then-Diocese of New Hampshire Bishop also met with Glasspool and Sander to Gene Robinson signs copies of his book, “In he Episcopal Church’s House serving bishop who has a same-sex discuss Welby’s letter. “One of my take- the Eye of the Storm,” in July, 2008, at the of Bishops said March 15 that spouse. The Rev. Thomas Brown is aways was how can we make a positive, Lambeth Conference Marketplace on the it is “aggrieved and distressed” due to be ordained and consecrated creative, responsive witness to the love of University of Kent campus in Canterbury. Tby Archbishop of Canterbury on June 22 as the next bishop of the God in Jesus Christ our Lord,” she said Justin Welby’s decision to exclude the Diocese of Maine. He is married to about how they and the church should not comment about the Lambeth Con- same-sex spouses of bishops invited to the Rev. Thomas Mousin. respond to his decision. ference decision because his election is the 2020 Lambeth Conference. The Lambeth Conference is sched- Both Glasspool and Sander replied to in the consent process, where a major- The bishops said they “are con- uled to begin on July 23, 2020. Welby in separate letters later in Decem- ity of diocesan standing committees and cerned by the use of exclusion as a The only other active bishop in ber. Glasspool said her two-page letter to bishops with jurisdiction must sign off means of building communion.” the Anglican Communion to whom Welby, parts of which she read to ENS, on each election. Welby says on the website of the Welby’s decision is known to apply is told him about her 30-year experience in In the Anglican Church of Canada, gathering of Anglican Communion Diocese of Toronto Bishop Suffragan The Episcopal Church “and where the Diocese of Toronto Bishop Suffragan bishops that he prays that “the Lam- Kevin Robertson. He married Mohan church has come,” and evoked Martin Kevin Robertson is married to Mohan beth Conference will reinvigorate the Sharma, his partner of nearly 10 years, Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birming- Sharma. Robertson said in a telephone Communion.” The website notes that last December. ham Jail, especially his emphasis on just interview that Welby told him in person Welby has invited “every eligible bish- The statement includes a statement and unjust laws. that Sharma would not be invited. op and spouse.” from the Bishops Spouses Planning “When will the church accept to it Robertson was at Lambeth Palace, The majority of the house plans to Group saying they “join our voices with the gift of the LGBTQ community?” she Welby’s official London residence, on go to Lambeth, according to the state- those in the Episcopal Church who asked Welby. “Young people are watch- Feb. 7 as part of an annual 10-day new- ment. The bishops said they want to have expressed their disappointment” ing us. If they haven’t written off all of bishop orientation run by Canterbury continue to build relationships across with Welby’s decision. “We especially Christianity for being homophobic, they Cathedral when he was summoned to the communion, “further the conver- stand with our fellow spouse, Becki do find The Episcopal Church inviting Welby’s office. sation around the various cultural ex- Sander, spouse of Bishop Mary and inclusive.” “He said to me there are only two of pressions of marriage” and “reflect our Glasspool,” they said. She told the archbishop, “The im- you in the communion in this situation, understandings of marriage, as well as “The spouse community under- portant thing I want to say is it’s about you and Mary, and he said if I invite our commitment to the dignity of all stands that the Anglican Commu- love. I am talking about people who love your spouses to the Lambeth Confer- human beings, including the human nion is not of one mind with regard one another and look to the church to ence, there won’t be a Lambeth Confer- rights of LGBTQ+ persons.” to marriage, and that, in the life of support them in their life-long marriage ence,” Robertson said. The statement passed on a voice the communion, this is a complex where the values of faithfulness, respect, Welby, Robertson said, seemed to be vote. At least one bishop, Dan Mar- issue,” they said. “Exclusion of same- dignity, truth-telling, monogamy and “willing to move beyond what happened tins of Springfield (Ill.), could be gender spouses, however, seems like the love that is our loving God’s gift to in 2008 when Gene Robinson was not heard voting no. a simplistic reaction to this complex all of us are upheld. invited. He was willing to invite me and Diocese of New York Bishop issue.” n April 2019 Episcopal Journal 7 News

Methodist continued from page 1 would have to be empowered to gather and set policy for all the churches.Half of copal Church’s canonical and legal stance the General Conference delegates are laity, that local property is held in trust for the half are clergy. Bishops attend the General entire denomination and thus cannot be Conference but cannot vote. Some bish- retained when a majority of a congrega- ops serve as presiding officers, but other tion and its leaders decide to leave. bishops cannot speak unless permission is The UMC Judicial Council will rule specifically granted by the delegates. on the constitutionality of some of the The vote was not monolithic among provisions related to the Traditional all U.S. Methodist delegates. The Rev. Plan when it meets in Evanston, Ill., Joe DiPaolo, pastor of First United April 23-25. Methodist Church in Lancaster, Penn- Deirdre Good, the Episcopal co-chair sylvania, is part of the Wesleyan Cove- of the dialogue committee, told ENS via nant Association that successfully cham- email, “We are all praying for, and stay- pioned the Traditional Plan. ing in touch with our UMC sisters and “I think I will lose some folks who brothers whilst we wait specifically for are more progressive,” DiPaolo told UM what the Judicial Council will say.” News Service. He issued a statement Bishop Gregory Palmer, resident about the General Conference and held bishop of the United Methodist Photo/Mike DuBose/UM News Service a church meeting to discuss the out- Church’s Ohio West Area and co-chair Florida delegates Rachael Sumner (front left) and the Rev. Jacqueline Leveron (front come. “Things are kind of raw,” he said. right) of the Florida Conference join in prayer with bishops and other delegates at the of the dialogue committee, noted in an front of the stage before a key vote on church policies about homosexuality during the Michael McDowell, 21, a junior at interview with ENS that the Judicial 2019 United Methodist General Conference. Rice University who is planning a career Council has ruled that some portions of in United Methodist ministry, said he the Traditional Plan are constitutional. recognizes the other as a catholic and ap- wine while Methodists use grape juice. had mixed feelings about the vote. They include an “augmented” definition ostolic church holding the essentials of And there is the sacramental differ- “I’m pretty conservative theologically, of “self-avowed practicing homosexual” the Christian faith.” The churches “be- ence over marriage. The Rev. Kyle R. and a lot of young United Methodists and the minimum penalties provision for come interdependent while remaining Tau, the UMC Council of Bishops’ ecu- are a lot more conservative theologically clergy performing a same-sex wedding. autonomous,” the church has said. Such menical staff officer, told ENS that he than the general discussion about them Even if the council decides that agreements are not mergers, and Rose thinks the dialogue committee will need seems to be. … I’m glad the church vot- the provisions on which the General said, they are “permissive, not proscrip- “to take an honest look at the implica- ed to stick with their theological guns.” tive,” meaning no part of tions of the General Conference’s deci- But McDowell said he worries “that either church is required sion for both of our communions, and this pretty much means that the church to do the things that the what it might mean for the timing and is going to split.” agreement would allow. process related to the full-communion There are 12.5 million Methodists Meanwhile, Palmer agreement. We remain committed to with just more than half of them in said he plans to “move working together, to staying in dialogue the United States, among members of full steam ahead” with and to moving the goal of unity forward the 80-million-strong World Method- the proposed agreement in whatever way we can.” ist Council. The Episcopal Church has “across the table with Two other aspects of the UMC vote nearly 1.9 million members and is a our Episcopal colleagues” are important to note. First, LGBTQ province of the Anglican Communion, and within the Methodist people have not been banned from the which has 85 million members in 165 Council of Bishops. “The United Methodist Church, the UM countries. Photo/Paul Jeffrey/UM News Service basic outlines of the full- News Service said in an explainer article The Episcopal-Methodist full-com- United Methodist Bishop Robert Hoshibata meets with communion proposal are after the vote. However, since the 1972 munion proposal outlines agreements protestors upset about the passage of the Traditional Plan, still essentially the same, General Conference, the UMC has said on the understanding of each order of which affirms the church’s current bans on ordaining LGBTQ even though many voices, that while all people are of sacred worth, clergy and officiating at or hosting same-sex weddings. ministry. The ministries of laypeople, including many Episco- “the practice of homosexuality is incom- deacons, Episcopal priests and United Conference asked for a ruling are palians, had hoped that we might become patible with Christian teaching,” accord- Methodist elders would all be seen as in- unconstitutional, Palmer said, “it won’t more inclusive in terms of who could be ing to UM News reports. terchangeable yet governed by the “stan- undo the other parts, at least in a clergy and what clergy could do,” includ- Second, UMC polity is very different dards and polity of each church.” technical sense; whether or not it will ing being in a same-sex marriage or per- from that of the Episcopal Church. The The Episcopal Church currently is in make their impact less is an unknown, forming them for others, he said. United Methodist Church’s General Con- with the Evangelical but it won’t take them off of the books.” Palmer is due to present the propos- ference is an international body of nearly Lutheran Church in America; the Mar However, the next General Conference al to the Council of Bishops this May. 1,000 delegates that generally meets every Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India; in Minneapolis May 5-15, 2020, could He said he will urge them not to slow four years. Delegates are elected by an- Old Catholic Churches of the Union of make such a decision, he said. down the agreement’s timeline. Some nual conferences and represent all annual Utrecht; the Philippine Independent As it stands now, the legislation is not might suggest a pause, he said, adding conferences around the world. No such Church; the Church of Sweden; and the the official church law until Jan. 1, 2020, that it will be important to discern if the body exists in the Episcopal Church, even Northern and Southern Provinces of the for churches in the United States. It takes hesitancy stems from the human sexual- though General Convention has depu- Moravian Church. It is also engaged in effect in churches outside the U.S. after ity stances of the two churches or, for ties and bishops from outside the United formal bilateral talks with the Presbyte- the 2020 General Conference, according example, from questions some bishops States. To replicate something resembling rian Church (U.S.A.) and the Roman to a UMC report. have always had about the sacramental the General Conference, representatives Catholic Church via the U.S. Confer- The current timeline calls for the differences between Episcopalians and of every Anglican Communion province ence of Bishops. n UMC to consider the full-communion Methodists. proposal at that same 2020 meeting The two churches’ theologies of Holy and for the Episcopal Church’s General Communion differ in matters of empha- Convention to do likewise in 2021. The sis, according to an explanation by the work that led to the proposal began in dialogue committee here. Both Epis- MOVING? 2002 after General Convention autho- copalians and Methodists believe that rized the conversation in 2000. Under Christ is really present in the Eucharist. 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By Mary Frances Schjonberg primarily in New York where it is both a Episcopal News Service developer and a landlord. The church’s vestry is now the semi- rinity Church Wall Street and nary’s governing body. “But our vestry Church Divinity School of the will not manage CDSP,” Lupfer said. Pacific (CDSP) announced“We will have staff members supporting TMarch 4 that the New York parish the folks who are currently managing has acquired the Berkeley, Calif.-based CDSP.” seminary. The Association of Theological The Very Rev. W. Mark Richardson, Schools, the accrediting agency for all CDSP president and dean, told ENS Episcopal Church-tied seminaries, has that the deal will put the school on a agreed to continue to accredit CDSP solid financial footing and position it for under the new governance structure. growth. CDSP and its assets now belong That means CDSP can continue to grant to Trinity, he said, and the value of those degrees. assets “will be a fund, among other re- Lupfer, Richardson and others in- sources they have, that supports the pro- volved in the discussions, which went gram at the school and operation.” on for close to 18 months and led to the “It’ll be starting point of the kinds of agreement, told ENS that Trinity and funds we need to, say, augment faculty CDSP expect to maintain the seminary’s or to provide scholarship funding for current management, faculty and staff at Photo/Church Divinity School of the Pacific students,” he said. “This becomes part of the school for the near future. The cur- The campus of Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., is just north of the their assets that are poured back into the rent curriculum also will be maintained University of California, Berkeley. mission of the school.” in the near term, they said. Trinity sees CDSP as part of its strat- Lupfer and Richardson announced dents and faculty with the fresh energy “We seemed to have started at an in- egy “to present and offer the curricu- the agreement in CDSP’s chapel to and ideas we need in the 21st-century spirational moment,” Richardson said. lum that will bring new leaders into the students, faculty and staff. That gath- church,” she said in a statement emailed “They knew we weren’t there to get into world that can gather communities and ering began two days of meetings and to ENS. “This new alliance between their pocketbook. We just really had resource them in a way that we have not question-and-answer sessions with Lup- CDSP and Trinity Church Wall Street some things we needed to do and knew been able to do currently,” the Rev. Wil- fer, Richardson, faculty and CDSP and is a visionary and innovative way to pair they had the expertise.” liam Lupfer, Trinity’s rector, told ENS. Trinity senior staff. that energy with resources and partner- Richardson said the seminary would Ultimately, Trinity and CDSP hope to Quoting the spiritual that says, “I got ships that span the globe, all in the ser- base any potential development on the add more faculty and an expanded cur- a home up in that kingdom, ain’t that vice of the gospel. Our church needs just goals of adding value to the neighbor- riculum that will train clergy and laity good news,” Presiding Bishop Michael the kind of leaders that this partnership hood, providing income for the school for a changing church, especially in the Curry said in an emailed statement that will provide.” and driving mission. areas of leadership development, forma- the agreement “is not simply a matter of CDSP, founded in 1893, is one of “It’s got to meet all three, or it’s not tion and community organizing. Mak- institutional rearrangement.” 10 seminaries with ties to The Episco- serving the school’s long-term history ing theological education more afford- “That would be news. But this is more pal Church and it is not the first to face and needs,” he said he told Lupfer and able is also a goal, church and seminary than news. This is good news in the bib- economic challenges. In 2012, Bexley others. officials say. Both organizations hope to lical meaning of that phrase. For this is Seabury Seminary was formed through The rector replied that he and Trin- expand their cur- about a creative re- a federation of two Episcopal seminar- ity take an even broader, more holistic rent relationships lationship that will ies, Bexley Hall Seminary in Columbus, approach to such questions. The con- across the Anglican enable the semi- Ohio, and Seabury-Western Theological versation eventually left the parking lot Communion. nary to train and Seminary in Chicago. behind as its scope widened. “It’s going to form leaders for a In 2017, Episcopal Divinity School Trinity, Lupfer said, has always looked strengthen and church daring to be announced it would be closing its Cam- at land “as an economic opportunity that enhance our pro- more than merely bridge, Mass., campus and entering an needs to be activated” for broader, mis- gramming,” the an institution,” affiliation agreement with Union Theo- sional uses. Thus, the parking lot con- Rev. Ruth Mey- Curry said. “This logical Seminary in New York. The versation evolved into a recognition that ers, the school’s is about forming new entity is called Episcopal Divinity Trinity has cash and CDSP has “all this academic dean, leaders for a Jesus School at Union. Earlier this year, EDS intellectual power, and it’s aligned in told ENS. “Trin- movement com- at Union said it had begun a long-term the ways in which we are interested in,” ity has this history mitted to living, lease for its remaining Cambridge prop- Lupfer said, including leadership devel- of not only doing proclaiming and erty with The Church in Cambridge. opment, formation and community or- work in leadership witnessing to his The move was the latest in a process that ganizing. development but way and message began in March 2008 when the semi- The “inspirational” part of the agree- [building] rela- of unconditional, nary sought to secure its financial future ment was striking to CDSP alumnus tions around the unselfish, sacrifi- Photo/Canticle Communications by entering a partnership with Lesley and trustee, the Rev. Brendan Barnicle. Anglican Commu- cial liberating love. University, in which Lesley bought seven A stock analyst and investment banker nion, and I think The Rev. William Lupfer, Trinity Church That movement Wall Street’s rector, left, and the Very Rev. of the 13 buildings EDS owned on its who had seen “lots of deals over the that’s really going W. Mark Richardson, Church Divinity changed lives and eight-acre campus. years” before he went to seminary, Bar- to enhance the School of the Pacific president and dean, the world in the nicle said that, as he watched “the dia- work we’re doing at announce the acquisition. first century, and it Request for advice led to agreement logue and the way this was being done, CDSP.” can do it again in Trinity and CDSP did not set out to maybe not surprisingly, I’d never seen a Trinity Wall Street includes the his- the 21st century. This new relationship strike an acquisition deal. “It started by deal where the Holy Spirit was so appar- toric church in Lower Manhattan, near- helps to form leaders for that. And that accident, frankly,” Richardson said. He ent because there was so much new and by St. Paul’s Chapel, and the Trinity Re- is truly good news!” and then-trustees chair Don White had creative about this.” treat Center in West Cornwall, Conn., The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, presi- turned to Trinity for advice when the Barnicle, of St. Peter’s Episcopal as well as partnerships that involve hous- dent of the House of Deputies, also school was considering how it might Church in Portland, Ore., added, “If we ing for the elderly, the homeless and praised the agreement. capitalize on its parking lot, one of expect parishioners to think about how people with disabilities, among others. “I’ve just returned from serving as St. the few nominally empty spaces in the they steward their resources, then we, as The parish also has a $6 billion portfolio Margaret’s Visiting Professor of Women neighborhood just north of the Univer- the church, need to be a model, and I that includes major real estate holdings, in Ministry at CDSP, where I met stu- sity of California, Berkeley. continued on page 9 April 2019 Episcopal Journal 9 News

Council continued from page 5 ments of General Convention. • Council expressed “deepest concern Lloyd also led the council through regarding the humanitarian and politi- a step-by-step recommendation about cal crisis affecting Venezuela and sends what to do with two sources of revenue. greetings to our brothers and sisters in One is how to allocate the $5.7 million the Diocese of Venezuela,” which is part in revenue from the 2016-2018 trien- of The Episcopal Church. The country, nium that remained after expenses were which has been wracked by political up- covered. The other is how to allocate heaval for years, saw a huge outbreak of $19 million netted from the sale of a city violence during the days of the council’s block in Austin after paying off the debt meeting. The resolution sought to assure on the land. Venezuelans “that they are not alone, Council had previously agreed to that we remember them and are praying move $1.1 million of the $5.7 million daily for their safety and well-being, and extra from the previous budget into the that we reach out to them in love and current one because that amount had affection, even as we seek ways to bring been budgeted for racial reconciliation peace and security to them, their fami- work. The money, however, was not ex- lies, and their churches.” n pended because of the program’s long startup process. The members agreed with the finance committee’s recommendation that they Photo/Trinity Church Wall Street via Facebook allocate 20 percent, or $920,000, to the Trinity Church Wall Street is in the midst of a two-year renovation intended to church’s short-term reserves and keep enhance the overall worship experience, make spaces accessible, upgrade technology and the balance of $3.680 million in the infrastructure and address deferred maintenance. treasury’s cash operating account to fund Trinity continued from page 8 true, is often disruptive. All of that will various non-budgetary actions approved be part of the story moving forward.” by council. think that is what CDSP is doing by en- Lupfer agreed. “Being iterative and They also agreed to allocate $2.88 tering into this relationship.” being open to the future and to learning million of the proceeds from the sale The faculty soon became part of the together and experimenting is a critical of the Austin land to the short-term re- conversations about a possible deal. part of today’s world,” he said. “We would serves, bringing that account up to the “This is different from some of the other not want to be with someone who had $9.5 million that the committee has said seminary drama that we have had in the the illusion of certainty of the future.” would be needed to fund three months last few years in that the faculty are really One of those unknowns is how alum- of churchwide operations. The account on board,” Meyers said. ni and other donors will react to the has not been fully funded in a number A member of the faculty sat on the news. Will they think they no longer of years, Lloyd said. CDPS board and joined in the delibera- have to give because of Trinity’s wealth? The council set up a trust fund for the PREPARE FOR tions. Input from those representatives “What we hope is that people will see $16.34 million remaining from the Aus- has been “welcomed and well received this as a strengthening of the seminary tin land sale. The church had hoped to MINISTRY by other member of the board,” Meyers and still be able to give to the focused use the city block as the site of a new Ar- said. The faculty had been “listened to programming of CDSP,” Meyers said, chives of The Episcopal Church, but later IN THE WAY and attended to” during the conversa- explaining that focus might also apply decided that the value of the property had tions and negotiations, she added. to scholarship funds and faculty chair increased so much that it made sense to OF JESUS Kathleen Moore, a CDSP senior endowments. “There’s still going to be sell the land and take more time to de- whom the student body elected as om- continuing need. We are one tiny part of cide on the parameters of a new Archives Students at Pittsburgh Seminary budsperson for this academic year, told the Trinity budget.” building, according to a press release. prepare for ministry in the way ENS she was “pretty excited when I The agreement also represents a sig- Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said of Jesus. Together we welcome heard about it, and I am still pretty ex- nificant change in each organization’s the money was “being put aside for the neighbors. We share meals, cited.” Moore represented students’ in- culture. Combine one of the oldest in- time being” and will not “be frittered differences, and experiences. terests on the Board of Trustees and else- stitutions in the Episcopal Church with away.” He said he hopes the council We expand our minds. And we where, and she said she told her trustee a seminary in the West created to serve members will have a report on next op- are challenged and enriched as colleagues that the deal is an instance the West and there will be “amazing tions for the Archives by as early as their we explore the broad range of of CDSP “putting into practice what contrasts,” Richardson said, including a June 10-13 meeting. beliefs we bring to the table. it teaches and preaches” about adaptive big staff at Trinity and a “small, scrappy Lloyd said that the finance commit- change. school that has a fraction of that.” Yet, tee knows that it, Executive Council and In Fall 2019, Pittsburgh General Convention must be disciplined Barnicle acknowledged, “It’s risky to both Richardson and Lupfer said their Seminary will offer the make a change like this and to poten- institutions are geared toward the mis- about the existence of that money. She Anglican/Episcopal Studies tially give up some of the control and sional work of the church in the world. said there is always the temptation to go authority and what not; yet, as we think And, Lupfer said, Trinity is not aim- after parts of the $420 million the DFMS Track in partnership with about the church going forward, being ing to compete with the other Episcopal has invested. The committee members the Episcopal Diocese of willing to take those kinds of risks are Church-connected seminaries. discussed at length the concerns about Pittsburgh! Join us as priests, some of the things I think that we are “We see this as additive for everyone,” the “slippery slope of the little nibbles deacons, and lay ministers called to do.” Lupfer said, who spoke to ENS right here and the little nibbles there, and we prepare together for service in Moore said she has learned at CDSP after meeting with the dean of another as the finance committee are not going the Episcopal Church. “to look at those unknowns with an open seminary and assuring him of Trinity’s to be party to that,” she said. mind, an excited mind, and we have a ongoing contributions to that school’s The council approved the committee’s scriptural basis for this kind of thing to capital campaign and annual fund drive. proposal via resolutions FIN021 and 1-800-451-4194 go forward not knowing exactly what’s “If there’s any bulking up at CDSP, FIN029 on two voice votes with scat- www.pts.edu/Episcopal going to happen but having trust.” which of course we would expect, that tered opposition. The details of the new arrangement would probably happen with interna- Among other action at the meeting will be worked out, Richardson said, tional students or students who would • Council revised the 2019 budget for “as we stumble over ourselves and learn not go to a residential seminary with- The Episcopal Church to increase the from our mistakes and then pick up a out financial aid,” he said. “We don’t see nongovernment refugee ministry bud- start again.” ourselves competing for students with get; to add $125,000 for Spanish trans- Richardson said, “I think the church other the other seminaries. And we see lation of the Title IV training website; knows, as a whole, that we need innova- ourselves cooperating with the other and to add $449,000 for ongoing soft- tion in theological education and in the seminaries around curriculum areas that ware development, licensing, hosting, church, period. Innovation, when it’s we’re interested in.” n maintenance fees and technical require- 10 Episcopal Journal April 2019 Feature Home sought for buffalo hide symbolizing commitment to indigenous ministries

By David Paulsen Two Bulls, a Lakota originally from Episcopal News Service Red Shirt, S.D., was serving in the Dio- cese of Los Angeles more than a decade he buffalo hide once on display at ago when he first met Chun. the Episcopal Church Center in “He was just a great guy once you got New York is an imposing artifact, to know him,” said Two Bulls, who re- Texpansive enough to encompass called talking to Chun by phone a week native culture, artistic symbolism, bonds before he died. “We were making plans of faith, 400 years of American history to do some other work,” Two Bulls said, and a decade-old connection between a including producing a new issue of the presiding bishop and a Hawaiian Epis- Indigenous Theological Training Jour- copal leader. nal. The hide also is in need of a new Their partnership on the buffalo hide home, displaced by construction to ac- began when Chun acquired it from a commodate a new tenant in part of the “purveyor of such products” and asked Episcopal Church Center. Two Bulls to paint it, using Powhatan’s “The concern is that it not end up in Mantle as his model. Two Bulls con- a place where it would [be] forgotten,” ducted some research on the original, in- said the Rev. Brad Hauff, the Episcopal cluding contacting the museum. While Church’s missioner for indigenous min- aiming to stay true to the spirit of the istries. He’s “pursuing a number of pos- original, he “took a little bit of artistic sibilities” for relocating the painted buf- liberty,” such as his addition of color and falo hide. placing a cross on the chest of the person That search for a new home comes as depicted at the center of the hide. Episcopalians mourn the January death The hide, stretched out and tethered of the Rev. Malcolm Chun, the native to the edges of a wooden frame, was pre- Hawaiian who offered the hide as a gift sented to Jefferts Schori at a time when to then-Presiding Bishop Katharine Jef- she, as presiding bishop, had been in ferts Schori in 2008, when Chun was Photo/Geoffrey Smith discussion with Chun and others with secretary general of the Anglican Indig- This buffalo hide was painted by the Rev. Robert Two Bulls Jr. to replicate the design of the Anglican Indigenous Network about enous Network. Chun, whose funeral Powhatan’s Mantle, a 400-year-old relic made from deer skins and shell beadwork. maintaining the church’s commitment was Feb. 23, saw the hide as a symbol to indigenous ministry, according to an of the early English settlers’ colonial-era preach and plant the true word of God the museum. Anglican Communion News Service ar- commitment to bringing Christianity to among the American Indians was firmly It was made from four deer hides ticle from 2008. America’s native tribes, the Rev. Robert established with the first permanent sewn together and decorated with white Jefferts Schori, in an email to ENS, Two Bulls Jr. told ENS. English settlement in America,” Owa- shell beadwork depicting a human fig- praised Two Bulls’ art as “always strik- “Malcolm … was really just a big nah Anderson wrote in her 1988 book ure flanked by two animals, likely a deer supporter of the Jamestown Covenant,” “Jamestown Commitment.” Anderson, and a mountain lion or wolf. The more said Two Bulls, who serves the Episco- who served as the church’s missioner for than 30 beaded circles may represent pal Church in Minnesota as missioner Native American and indigenous min- settlements and tribes, the museum said. for the Department of Indian Work. He istries, noted the most prominent early Powhatan may have given it as a gift for also is the artist who painted the buffalo convert was Powhatan’s daughter, Poca- King James I, according to one theory. It hide at Chun’s hontas, who was later ended up in possession of the 17th- request. baptized while century Englishman whose collection Chun’s vision “being held hos- became the founding collection of the was to repli- tage aboard an museum. cate Powhatan’s English ship at Powhatan’s Mantle was Chun’s inspi- Mantle, a wall anchor in the ration when preparing the gift for Jef- hanging said to James River.” ferts Schori. Photo/Diocese of Hawaii have belonged The church’s Chun, born in 1954 in Honolulu, The Rev. Malcolm Chun was secretary to the chief who commitment was an indigenous studies scholar with general of the Anglican Indigenous Network first welcomed was renewed degrees from colleges in Hawaii, New when he gave the buffalo hide to Presiding the Jamestown nearly 400 years Zealand and Canada, and he wrote sev- Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in 2008. settlers in 1607 later with the eral books and articles about native Ha- in what today signing of the waiian culture, beliefs and practices. One ing,” and she recalled his buffalo hide is Virginia. “I New Jamestown of his projects was “Na ‘Euanelio Hemo- painting as “a powerful piece.” think this was his Covenant in lele,” described by the Diocese of Hawaii “It would be a gift to many if it were way of still keep- 1997, launch- as “a lectionary-size book containing the more widely seen,” she said. “I hope it ing that connec- Photo/Ashmolean Museum ing the church gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and doesn’t get lost.” The 400-year-old wall hanging known as tion alive,” Two “Powhatan’s Mantle” is displayed at the on a “Decade of John, in the Hawaiian language.” A hardware store is moving into the Bulls said. Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. Remembrance, He was ordained a deacon in 2011 ground-floor space where the hide pre- The first Recognition and and a priest in 2012, but his involve- viously was on display at the Episcopal Jamestown Covenant was a double- Reconciliation.” Jefferts Schori partici- ment in the church’s indigenous minis- Church Center. The church’s Chief Op- edged sword. For more than two centu- pated in a 2007 procession and Eucha- tries predated his ordination and includ- erating Officer Geoffrey Smith asked ries, America’s native peoples suffered a rist at the Jamestown historic site mark- ed service on the Council on Indigenous Hauff to look into finding an appropri- prolonged genocide at the hands of Brit- ing the start of a second decade affirming Ministry, the Indigenous Theological ate new home for it. ish colonists and their descendants, who the covenant. Training Institute Board and the Angli- “It is a teaching tool, so having it in a saw the American Indians as “savages.” The original Powhatan’s Mantle is can Indigenous Network. place where it can be viewed easily/wide- But those colonists also brought with on display at the University of Oxford’s Chun died on Jan. 20, 2019, at age ly would be first and foremost the main them a mandate from King James I to Ashmolean Museum of Art and 64. His funeral was held the following criteria for finding a place to house it,” preach the Christian Gospel to all they Archaeology in England. Although it month at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Two Bulls told Hauff recently by email. encountered in this “new world.” once was thought to be a cloak, it more Honolulu, where he had been named an “I am pretty sure that this would be what “Thus the Anglican commitment to likely was a wall hanging, according to honorary canon in 2018. Malcolm would want.” n April 2019 Episcopal Journal 11 news Miniature Washington Cathedral to be created with Lego bricks

By Adelle M. Banks Charles Fulcher, director of Religion News Service the cathedral’s visitor programs, said the project is a new way to ith boy choristers singing welcome the hundreds of thou- their version of “Everything sands of people who visit the Is Awesome,” the Washington Gothic edifice every year. WNational Cathedral on Mar. 1 “This is a way for visitors to unveiled the foundation of a Lego rep- be hands-on in the life of the ca- lica of the cathedral that will be built as thedral,” he said. a fundraiser over the next several years. At the unveiling, Fulcher re- The “Let There Be Lego!” initiative called stories of people who saw was inspired by a similar project at Dur- the blocks of Indiana limestone ham Cathedral in England. It aims to outside the real edifice as it took help the District of Columbia cathedral shape. raise the $19 million still needed to pay “They never actually picked for the $34 million in damages from a up those blocks of limestone 2011 earthquake. and put them on the building,” The compact church will be con- he said. structed with an estimated 400,000 He envisions visitors pur- Photos/Adelle M. Banks/RNS bricks and will weigh about 1,350 chasing bricks — at $2 each, small or Washington National Cathedral Dean pounds, planners said. There will be 112 large — and placing them in the model Randy Hollerith, at the podium, announces Lego gargoyles, and it will take 9,000 before heading into the sanctuary for a the start of the “Let There Be Lego!” bricks to make the cathedral’s signature guided tour and seeing the real location fundraising project at the Washington “Creation” rose window. While the stone of the spot they built in miniature. Vol- National Cathedral on March 1, 2019. A building took 83 years to build, officials unteers will place bricks purchased by miniature replica of the cathedral will be predict the model will take between two people online in the model, located in a built with about 400,000 Lego bricks. and three years. room once used for a rare-book library. At right, the comparison figures between The completed Lego the Washington National Cathedral and cathedral will be 7 feet the Lego replica. tall, 13 feet long and 8 feet wide — about the size of a minivan. fill the cathedral with joy. cathedral. Washington Cathe- “Faith without joy, as far as I’m con- Hollerith and the Rev. Jan Cope, ca- dral Dean Randy Hol- cerned, is no faith at all,” he said. “So we thedral provost, walked around the foun- lerith said he hopes that are really excited about this project.” dation of the model — paid for with ear- the cathedral, an Epis- The mini-cornerstone-laying ceremony ly donations — and blessed it with holy copal congregation that was an unusual mixture of the holy and water using boxwood branches. bills itself as a “house of the humorous, as Teddy, the mascot of The Rev. Dana Corsello, vicar of the prayer for all people,” can the Washington Nationals baseball team, cathedral, uttered the blessing for the Image/courtesy Washington National Cathedral be a place for fun even as stood by cathedral clergy, grinning, occasion, asking for divine guidance A computer-generated view of the altar area for the new people learn more about clapping and evoking memories of for each hand that lays each brick from “Let There Be Lego!” project to build a miniature, 13-foot- it and help to restore it. President Theodore Roosevelt at the “God the architect, Jesus the carpenter long scale model of the Washington National Cathedral out continued on page 13 of 400,000 Lego bricks. The project, he said, will laying of the cornerstone of the real

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Brought to you by Forward Movement, a ministry of the Episcopal Church. 12 Episcopal Journal April 2019 commentary Traveling exhibit gathers art from the Abrahamic faiths

By Paul-Gordon Chandler

n today’s climate of increasing prejudice and stereotyping, resulting in what some are calling a new tribalism, it may seem that religion is more of Ia divisive force than ever. The rise in anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the West seem to confirm this impression — from a Jewish cemetery in France Hussein recently being vandalized with swastikas to the recent  New Zealand mosque massacre. Now, more than ever, Sinan Hussein, it is essential that creative demonstrations of dialogue Abraham and be developed. Ishmael’s Birth, CARAVAN, the East-West peacebuilding arts non- mixed media on profit, is launching a touring exhibit that aims to canvas. demonstrate artistically that religion can be a force of unity. Titled “ABRAHAM: Out of One, Many,” the exhibit is presented in partnership with the Episcopal Church Office of Ecumenical Art cannot and Interreligious Relations. Referring to the United ‘change events. States’ traditional motto of E pluribus unum (“Out of many, But it can one”), “ABRAHAM: Out of One, Many” is an art exhibition Azoulay change people. that reminds us that Christians,  Shai Azoulay, Muslims and Jews all have the — Leonard Bernstein’ same family heritage, our an- Abraham’s Circle of cestor Abraham, and focuses on Love, oil on canvas. what we can learn from his life and faith about living together represents something that connects people from all harmoniously. backgrounds and breaks down all walls. In a circle we Abraham is a spiritual figure become one. This is something Abraham teaches us.” of distinct significance within Leonard Bernstein, the renowned late Jewish com- the three primary monotheistic poser and conductor, said, “the point is, art never faith traditions, whose followers stopped a war … Art cannot change events. But it can are all referred to as “children change people. It can affect people so that they are of Abraham.” The patriarch changed — they then act in a way that may affect the has much to teach us about welcoming and embracing course of events...by the way they the “other.” In these three faith traditions, the figure behave, the way they think.” of Abraham is seen as a model of hospitality — of “ABRAHAM: Out of One, welcoming the stranger. Many” will begin its 20-month tour The exhibition involves three acclaimed Middle of sacred spaces on May 3, 2019 in Eastern contemporary artists from Muslim, Christian Rome at the historic church of St and Jewish faith traditions: Sinan Hussein, Qais Al Paul’s Within the Walls (Episcopal). Sindy and Shai Azoulay. Each artist has created five It will be then be showcased over paintings that interpret specific themes from Abraham’s Al Sindy the summer in France at the Ameri- life for our contemporary context.  can Cathedral in Paris and in Edin- For artist Qais Al Sindy, a Chaldean Christian Qais Al Sindy, burgh at St. Cuthbert’s Church, as Abraham and Isaac, from Iraq, participating in the exhibition has detail of a sketch-oil part of the Just Festival during the special significance. Reflecting on his artwork in the on fine art paper. Edinburgh Art Festival. In the fall exhibition, Qais said, “Abraham was a Chaldean as of 2019, it will begin touring cathe- well, coming originally from Ur of the Chaldees, drals and sacred spaces in the U.S. which is now called Nassiriya, a governorate in Iraq Shai Azoulay, a through 2020, with the first two situated along the banks of the Euphrates River, celebrated Jewish venues being the Tri-Faith Initiative about 225 miles southeast of Baghdad. I bought an artist who was pre- in Omaha, Nebraska and St. Paul’s old Nassiriyan shepherd’s cloak made of sheep wool. viously featured at Episcopal Cathedral in Boston. In Then, I cut the cloak into pieces and pasted some of the Frieze Art Fair each venue, the exhibition will serve them on the canvases for Abraham’s clothes. I wanted and was awarded as a catalyst for the local Christian, to bring the spirit and soul of this great prophet The Moses Prize Muslim and Jewish communities to through the material of his native land.” from the Jerusalem Artist House, has brought his work together and develop programming focused on The imaginative art of Sinan Hussein, an artist also heritage and contemporary culture into some of his what we can learn from Abraham on living together from Iraq but of Muslim background, leads the viewer work. His style moves playfully, albeit mystically, back peacefully. n to reflect deeply on Abraham’s contemporary signifi- and forth between the figurative and the abstract. In his cance. About his painting titled “Abraham and Ishma- artistic depiction of Abraham’s sacrificial love for God The Rev. Canon Paul-Gordon Chandler is an appoint- el’s Birth,” Sinan said, “In my painting, I am attempting and others, Shai’s energetic painting shows the patri- ed mission partner of the Episcopal Church and president/ to move beyond the traditional understanding found in arch on a flying carpet observing a large circle dance CEO of CARAVAN. the Qur’an and the other monotheistic religions, into whose participants illustrate the diversity of our world. its contemporary meaning for us now. This is what I am About the painting, Shai remarks, “Circle dancing is For more information on ABRAHAM: Out of One, trying to do in my depiction of Ishmael’s birth.” very much part of Jewish culture. For me the circle Many, see: www.oncaravan.org/abraham April 2019 Episcopal Journal 13 Faith and the Arts Rothko’s stark vision graces Houston chapel

By Dennis Raverty other hand, although superficially resem- bling the work of Stella, are their almost pon entering the Rothko Chapel complete opposite. “There is no such in Houston, one is immediately thing as a good painting about nothing,” aware of a quiet, contemplative Rothko quipped. The cycle of paintings Uambience unlike either the noisy in the Rothko chapel are no exception; city outside or the typical atmosphere in they are not about nothing, but rather, a gallery or a museum, where paintings address the nothingness at the core of by the mid-century abstract artist Marc our existential situation, void of intrinsic Rothko (1908-70) are more likely to be meaning. seen. Dimly lit by a concealed skylight These paintings are often interpreted and entirely without windows, the space as a solemn meditation on human lone- has the hushed air of a sanctuary. It is liness and suffering — the void, as allud- only after your eyes have adjusted to the ed to in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, in lower level of light that you notice the which all are free but tragically alone and huge monolithic black paintings that set adrift in a meaningless universe. As in dominate every wall of this octagonal the traditional Catholic sacramentalism space. of the Stations of the Cross, Rothko’s The building had originally been 14 dark icons seem to focus exclusively planned by members of Dominique de Photos/Runaway Productions on suffering, that sense of abandonment Menil’s family as a functioning Roman The Rothko Chapel in Houston features large paintings with subtle nuances of black. and betrayal evident in the desperate cry Catholic chapel that would have served Fourteen canvasses, some hung in ful looking, vague, rectangular, cloud- of Jesus from the cross: “My God, my the nearby campus of St. Thomas Uni- clusters of three like traditional triptychs like shapes emerge out of the blackness, God, why have you forsaken me?” versity. But as the idea for the chapel (as in a Christian altarpiece), tower over and you realize that these paintings are in In his 60s during the years he worked evolved under three successive archi- the visitor, yet without any one of the the same style as Rothko’s mature work, on the cycle, Rothko suffered from bouts tects and as Rothko became involved, triptychs dominating the interior. The his often brightly colored signature of severe, clinical depression exacerbated it turned out to be nondenominational, other walls have single canvasses. All of paintings, but with the color saturation by prescription tranquilizers and alcohol thereby aspiring to universal appeal, the paintings are large, and all of them turned down so low as to be nearly im- abuse. With his health failing, he hired in accordance with the perceptible. You cannot re- assistants to execute the work under his wishes of Rothko, who ally see these paintings until direct supervision. He separated from his was Jewish. you slow down and look at wife and moved into his studio in 1969. Lacking the central them deeply. The subtlety The work for the chapel ended up being focusing element of an of the nuanced, extremely both his final series of paintings and his altar (Christian), be- muted color contrast ren- swansong. After completing that work, mah (Jewish) or mihrab ders these paintings virtu- the artist committed suicide in his New (Muslim), the visitor is ally unphotographable. York studio. The chapel was completed surrounded on all sides Beneath layers and layers and opened to the public the next year. by huge, imposing black of dark color lies a smol- Twelve years earlier, in 1958, at the paintings lacking any hi- dering, saturated Venetian height of his fame and artistic powers, erarchy of importance. red underpainting, almost Rothko delivered an address at Pratt In- This lack of orientation imperceptible in the final stitute and laid out seven principles that is furthered by the way work but muted behind guided his art. Foremost among them neither of the entrances stained and scumbled veils was the artist’s awareness of his mortal- to the interior is posi- of colors that render the fi- ity: “Tragic art, romantic art … always tioned toward any one Some of the paintings in the Rothko Chapel are hung in traditional triptychs. nal reductive surface as es- deals with our knowledge of death.” But

of the walls. As with sentially black, a strangely the seventh and final principle was “10 He found it in the Marketplace. the Byzantine Church of San Vitale in appear to be painted black. luminous darkness that seems to be percentVisit hope” to “make the tragic endur- Ravenna (also an octagonal structure), Upon careful observation, however, faintly lit from deep within. able.” Ultimately, these imposing, black the visitor must reorient in the transi- the viewer begins to notice that the sur- ReachThese soworks could easily be mistak- canvasses may be iconographically emp- tion from the narthex to the interior, face, which appeared at first glance to en manyfor minimalism, for fashionable at the ty in the same hopeful sense with which which suggests that to seek the Eternal, be just flat, matte black, has very subtle time. Minimalist paintings, like those Christians regard the emptiness of the one needs to change orientation or per- nuances of cooler and warmer blacks. of soyounger little artistwith Frank Stella, were de- tomb on Easter morning. n spective. Within a few minutes of sustained, care- scribed a Marketplace by that artist ad. as What you see is online what you see, indicating absolutely no Dennis Ravertywww. is an associate professor message, no hidden significance, no ro- of art history at New Jersey City University, Lego continued from page 11

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14 Episcopal Journal April 2019 book reviews Book traces ancient time of upheaval before Jesus Reviewed by Helen F. Goodkin to sign their work with the name on a throne in judgement; it reflects of an older important Biblical fig- Crucible of Faith: the concerns of an oppressed people ollowing the division of the Greek ure, such as Noah, Abraham, and The Ancient trying to reconcile their understand- empire after the death of Alexan- even Adam and Eve. Revolution That ing of divine justice and goodness der the Great, Jerusalem sat at the Most of this literature remains Made Our Modern with the evil perpetrated on them F crossroads of Greek culture, stra- outside the canon, though works Religious World and their religion by pagan regimes. tegically located between the Ptolemys such as the Old Testament Book Enoch and others in this genre speak in Egypt and the Seleucids to the east. of Daniel and the later section of By Philip Jenkins of a final tribulation in which the The religious life of the Jewish people Zechariah and the New Testament Basic Books, 2017 suffering of the righteous will be was torn between keeping the old tradi- Book of Revelation speak in a sim- 336 pages, $19.99 redressed and the evil will be pun- tions of the Temple and the new Greek ilar voice. ished. As my professor in seminary culture and learning, and their political The author, who is a professor said, apocalypses are not written by life was fragmented between those who of religion at Baylor University, happy people. sought to accommodate their overlords calls this period the “crucible of This book is an excellent intro- and those who chose to rebel and fight faith,” the time in which many of the there was a “fundamental shift in as- duction to the period, but it is a serious for freedom and independence, such as ideas that strongly influenced Christian- sumptions that affect most or all of the read. Those who take it on will, how- Judas Maccabeus. ity were forged—heaven and hell, good belief systems” that influence us today. ever, be richly rewarded with new un- It was this time of dissidence and up- angels and Satan, the notion of a final Of importance, according to Jenkins, derstanding of the world to which Jesus heaval between roughly 250 and 50 BCE judgment, and the resurrection of the is the apocalypse 1 Enoch, probably writ- came and the ideas that he preached. n that gave birth to the rise of apocalyptic body. In a masterful way, he has brought ten originally in Hebrew or Aramaic, thinking. A vast literature, known as the historical context and serious textual (Aramaic fragments were found at Qum- Helen F. Goodkin is a member of the Pseudepigrapha, testifies to the swirl- study together to create a much-needed ran) but now only available because the Church of the Epiphany, New York, and ing intellectual activity of the period. book on the period after the Old Testa- Ethiopian church has preserved it in a regular presenter in churches on Biblical Pseudepigrapha simply means “falsely ment Canon closes and the time of Jesus Ge’ez as part of its Bible. 1 Enoch speaks topics. This review was first published in attributed” because most authors chose begins. During this period, he writes, of a messianic Son of Man who will sit the Episcopal New Yorker newspaper. Heiress saved Jewish children in Nazi-occupied France

Reviewed by Rick Hamlin tions that hint at her rich ment—providing funds inner life. She didn’t have for the French families uzanne Spaak would seem to have any books to refer to, only that took in the children. unlikely makings for a saint. She her memory. Nevertheless, As she made clear to her was a rich Belgian heiress living she could quote Socrates daughter, money was Sin occupied Paris during World (“My enemies can kill me. nothing unless it was used War II in a sumptuous Palais Royale But they cannot harm for good. apartment (upstairs from the writer Co- me”), Shakespeare (“Me- Nelson does a wonder- lette) that was filled with paintings by lodious nightingale, sing ful job of filling in the her friend the surrealist Magritte. Spaak a song to close my eyes”), background that led to raised her son and teenaged daughter— Kipling (“Where the this moment in history. the latter a possible inspiration for Co- mothers are, the children Paris was not Berlin, and lette’s Gigi—with little financial help Suzanne Spaak should be, so they can she helps you understand from her bounder of a husband, as all watch over them”) and what tradeoffs the French the while she was rescuing hundreds of lowing her to do her dangerous work in Piaf (“I regret nothing”). had to make while living Jewish children from the Nazis. full view and yet undercover. “She was As the extent of the Suzanne’s Children in an occupied country. Reading about Spaak’s heroism in always an outlier,” Nelson writes, “a Bel- crisis grew and the aware- Colette, for instance, was Ann Nelson’s magisterial Suzanne’s Chil- gian amid the French, an atheist amid ness of what would hap- By Anne Nelson often accused of being a dren, you wonder, “Why didn’t I ever the believers, an independent among the pen to the children when Simon & Schuster collaborator or at least know about this woman before?” Some militant.” in the Nazis’ clutches be- 336 pages, $17.00 alarmingly passive, but of Spaak’s obscurity was surely due to her In the last months of her life when came clear, the dangers she supported Spaak’s own humility, not to mention the fluid- caught and imprisoned by the Germans, only increased. One of work as she hid her Jew- ity of her aristocratic social position, al- she filled the walls of her cell with quota- the most poignant moments in Nelson’s ish husband in the attic of the Palais book comes when Spaak realizes she Royale. needs to find a safe place—quickly— Nelson’s interviews with the survivors for dozens of children in the Jewish or- as well as with Spaak’s children provide Transforming girls, transforming the world! phanages. She reaches out to the nearby vivid details. Their last communica- Protestant church, the Oratoire du Lou- tion from their mother was a letter she Girls’ Friendly Society vre, and the pastor readily agrees that wrote from prison. She commented An Episcopal fellowship for girls age 5 and up they can find temporary shelter in the on the New Testament, one of the few church’s soup kitchen. books she was allowed to read. She told “God created man in his own image,” her daughter, “I would like you to read he preached to his congregation that a few verses from time to time, my dar- Sunday. The best way to serve God, he ling, and reflect on them well. Even if argued, was to help one’s fellow man, you don’t believe in God you can try to starting with persecuted Jews. exercise Christian morality, which seems Finding the Parisian women who admirable from every point of view.” could take the children out for “their Sometimes it is so-called atheists who weekly walk” while spiriting them away best exemplify that morality. n to safety would have seemed a daunting Visit task for any other woman, but Spaak Rick Hamlin is a member of St. Mi- took to it as though she was arranging a chael’s Church in New York and serves on www.gfsus.org benefit for her favorite charity. She also the Episcopal New Yorker editorial advi- Call 714-330-1156 today! put much of her inherited money into sory board. This review was first published the cause—to her husband’s disgruntle- in the Episcopal New Yorker newspaper. April 2019 Episcopal Journal 15 news Church leaders offer prayer and solidarity after New Zealand mosque attacks

Anglican Communion News Service of 10 Christian churches in Christchurch his ordination in the Anglican Church. Bishops Against Gun Violence who were City Centre, including Christ Church He began his Anglican priesthood at the meeting gathered for the group’s nglican and Episcopal leaders Cathedral, published a letter “to the in the Diocese of Christchurch. “I find weekly Facebook Live prayer service. spoke out after a gunman on Muslim Community of Christchurch.” myself as I stand here before you — and The vigil included remarks by Presiding March 15 attacked two mosques In it they say: “In the face Bishop Michael Curry. A in the New Zealand city of of today’s horrific shooting, The Anglican Assistant Christchurch, killing 50 people and the combined inner-city Bishop of Wellington, wounding 39. Christian ministers and their Eleanor Sanderson, and local According to police, 41 people were congregations wish to extend Roman Catholic priest Father killed at the al-Noor mosque and seven our love to the wider Muslim Ron Bennett, Christian co- at the Linwood Islamic Center. Another Community of Christchurch chairs of the interfaith group person died at Christchurch Hospital. and assure them of our the Wellington Abrahamic Suspect Brenton Harrison Tarrant was friendship and support at this Council of Jews, Christians, taken into custody. time of great loss.” Photo/Sky News and Muslims, led a group The Bishop of Christchurch, Peter The Archbishop ofA still taken from a television report shows the police response to the of church representatives Carrell, said, “church leaders are abso- Canterbury, Justin Welby, terror attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. to the headquarters of lutely devastated at the unprecedented expressed “profound sympathy the Federation of Islamic situation in Christchurch … and our for the victims and relatives of the New I should have thought of this because I associations of New Zealand (FIANZ). hearts and prayers go to all involved. Zealand terrorism. Let all Christians was up all night contacting family and In a statement, the group said that it: “We are praying for our Muslim pray for healing of people, interfaith friends to see if they’re okay — to have “condemns the violence against the Mus- brothers and sisters, for those injured relations and New Zealand itself. Jesus something to say, but I find I have no lim Community in Christchurch today. and those who have lost loved ones, for calls us to welcome strangers and love words,” Rice said. While the situation is still unfolding, it the police, ambulance and other emer- our neighbor, however different.” He said he suggested to Diocese of is clear that many innocent people have gency services, and for all in the city of In the U.S., Episcopal Church Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas that been killed — may they rest in peace.” Christchurch who are feeling distress bishops were meeting at the time of the Bishops Against Gun Violence reach out The Chief Executive of FIANZ, and fear due to this event. attacks [see related story, page 6]. to Christchurch Bishop Peter Carrell Sultan Eusoff, responded: “We want “We are upholding you all in our Diocese of San Joaquin Bishop David and Richard Wallace who leads Te Wai to thank you all for your prayers and prayers. We pray too for the shooter and Rice, speaking at the opening of a ses- Pounamu, the Maori diocese, “as an act coming here today. It’s important we stay their supporters, because for any person sion, called the attacks “an unprecedent- of solidarity to send our love.” together at this time of sadness. It’s good to do this, they must have such hatred ed act of terrorism.” Rice evoked the statement from New to know we have friends supporting us in their hearts, such misalignment of the Rice was the bishop of the Diocese Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in all of this. value of human life, that they too, need of Waiapu in the Anglican Church in who said of the victims of the attacks, “Most importantly we must remain our prayer.” Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia “They are us. The person who has per- united and are glad of people of other The Christchurch Inner-City Chris- when he was called to San Joaquin. Born petuated this violence against us is not. faith groups coming together with us tian Ministers’ Association, an ecumeni- and raised in North Carolina, Rice was a They have no place in New Zealand.” and praying for us, which brings us great cal association which unites the leaders Methodist pastor for eight years prior to Later in the day, the members of solace and comfort at this time. ” n

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By Lynette Wilson in the late 1960s. Episcopal News Service “I mean every word when I say, she’s a visionary, she’s a hard worker,” said he Episcopal Church of Cuba Hiltz, in an interview with ENS. “She celebrated its 110-year history will do anything to promote the interest, during its final synod as an au- well-being and resource capacity to sup- Ttonomous diocese in anticipation port the ministry of this church. She’s of its official reintegration with the Epis- steadfast, she perseveres, and it’s not al- copal Church in 2020. ways been easy for her. “For 50 years the Episcopal Church “Not everybody was thrilled with has been isolated,” said Cuba Bishop the idea of returning to the Episcopal Griselda Delgado del Carpio, at the close Church, but she just plodded along con- of the Feb. 28-March 3 General Synod sistently, she’s worked with the clergy, held at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Ha- the laity. I watched her prepare for the vana. Reintegration, she said, “is a way special synod last year to decide what to be part of a big family.” province they would belong to, and just Delgado’s strong the careful way she leadership drove made sure there Photos/Lynette Wilson/ENS the reintegration, was conversation Episcopal Church of Cuba clergy and guests gather with Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio outside Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana at the 110th General Synod. said Archbishop all the way across Fred Hiltz of the the church here in from New York and New Jersey in the The synod marked the final time Anglican Church Cuba. They came United States, the Convocation of Epis- Hiltz, who has served as the chair of the of Canada, who into the synod copal Churches in Europe, Haiti and the Metropolitan Council for 12 years and is serves as chair of with the deci- Virgin Islands. set to retire later this year, would attend. the Metropolitan sion, and that’s a The Cuban church’s reintegration “It’s mixed emotions — great joy that Council of Cuba. huge credit to her with the Episcopal Church was one of things have come thus far. I would have The council has style.” many topics discussed during the synod, felt really awkward ending my time as overseen the Cu- Archbishop Fred Hiltz of the Anglican The Diocese of which brought together clergy and laity the chair of the Metropolitan Coun- ban church since its Church of Canada and Cuba Bishop Cuba is set to join from across the island. cil if things hadn’t been as far along in separation from the Griselda Delgado del Carpio stand outside Province II, which “We are indeed so happy to welcome terms of the reintegration,” said Hiltz. Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Cathedral in Havana. includes dioceses the church in Cuba back into the Epis- “It’s been just really wonderful to watch copal Church; there is so much that we that process unfold since 2015. I’m re- can learn from their creative approach ally happy to see it coming to fruition.” United Thank Offering organizing to ministry and mission,” said the Rev. Pending alignment of the Cuban and Charles Robertson, canon to the presid- the U.S.-based Episcopal Church’s con- Camino pilgrimage ing bishop for ministry beyond the Epis- stitutions and canons and signoff from copal Church. the Executive Council of the Episcopal By Episcopal Journal • A five-day walking pilgrimage from The House of Bishops on July 10, Church, next March, the Diocese of Sarria to Santiago via Palas de Rei, Ar- 2018, voted unanimously to readmit Cuba will hold its first convention along he United Thank Offering, an zua, and Pedrouzo, a distance of 100 km. the Cuban church as a diocese, with the with a celebration and visit from Presid- Episcopal Church grantmaking • A five-day grant site pilgrimage House Deputies concurring. The actions ing Bishop Michael Curry. organization and the Diocese of with visits to UTO grant sites in Sala- of the 79th General Convention acceler- “We are deeply thankful to Archbish- TNorthern Indiana are offering a manca, Leon, Astorga, Molinaseca, and ated the reintegration process first set in op Hiltz, to the Metropolitan Council pilgrimage that will take Arzua. This group will motion four years ago. (of Cuba) and the Anglican Church of place Oct. 5-14, 2019, reunite with the walk- In March 2015, two months after the Canada for their years of faithful part- combining portions of ing group for the final United States and Cuba agreed to rees- nership and support to the church in walking the Camino de mile of the Camino. tablish diplomatic relations following a Cuba,” said Robertson. Santiago in Spain with All pilgrims begin 54-year breach, the Episcopal Church of On Feb. 27, the Episcopal Church visits to UTO grant sites together with welcome Cuba’s synod voted 39 to 33 in favor of announced a campaign to raise pen- in Madrid and North- and touring in Madrid, returning to the church’s former affili- sion funds for retired and active clergy west Spain. Avila, and Portomarin, ation with the Episcopal Church. That in the Episcopal Church of Cuba. The The Camino de San- hosted in part by Bish- summer, the 78th General Convention average priest’s salary in Cuba is $55 per tiago or way of St. James, op Carlos López Lo- called for closer relations with the Cuban month; the Cuban government doesn’t has been for centuries a zano, bishop of Spain. church and a lifting of the decades-long recognize religious employment, ren- journey, mainly on foot, The last two days of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. dering clergy ineligible for state pen- across the Spanish coun- pilgrimage will be spent The Episcopal Church of Cuba traces sions or social security. Over the last tryside to the village of in Santiago. Photo/Delmi Álvarez via Wikimedia Commons its origins back to an Anglican presence 50 years, clergy have had to forgo pen- Santiago and specifically A pilgrim walks the Camino Pilgrimage leaders that began on the island in 1871. In sions. The establishment of a pension the Cathedral of Santiago de Santiago in Spain. include López Lozano, 1901, it became a missionary district of system provides some security to clergy de Compostela. Bishop Douglas Sparks the Episcopal Church. The two churches who can now rely on the church into The pilgrimage, called UTO Pil- of the Diocese of Northern Indiana and separated in the 1960s, after Fidel Castro old age, said Delgado. grims on the Camino, is for walkers UTO Board President Sherri Dietrich. seized power following the 1959 Cuban The Cuban church has 23 clergy and non-walkers and is intended as Registration is now open. Partici- Revolution and diplomatic relations be- members serving 10,000 Episcopa- both a spiritual adventure and an op- pation is limited to 15-20 persons for tween the two countries disintegrated. lians in 46 congregations and missions portunity to raise awareness and funds the walking pilgrimage and 15-20 per- The Episcopal Church of Cuba has across the island. At the time of the for the planning of an Anglican Pil- sons for the grant site pilgrimage. Cost functioned as an autonomous diocese official announcement, The Episcopal grim Centre in Santiago, Spain. The is $4,295 with single supplement of of the Anglican Communion under the Church already had raised more than center is intended to be a home for all $800, not including airfare. authority of the Metropolitan Council half of the targeted one-time amount of Christians, especially Anglicans, to re- For further information on travel of Cuba since the separation in 1967. $800,000. The money, to be managed ceive communion at the end of their arrangements, itinerary and pricing, go The primates of the Anglican churches by the Church Pension Fund, makes up www.unitedthankoffering.com travel along the Camino. to or of Canada and the West Indies and the for the absence of contributions during Two options are available to partici- contact Michelle Walker at miwalker@ Episcopal Church chair the Metropoli- the separation and addresses an injus- n pants: episcopalchurch.org tan Council. tice. n