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Toxic Injusticeinjustice When Marginalized Communities Bear the Burden of Environmental Hazards VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN of Virginia Diocese Magazine of the Episcopal Quarterly The Spring 2019 ToxicToxicToxic InjusticeInjusticeInjustice Ecological Crisis in Marginalized Communities FOR JESUS. FOR THIS TIME. FOR ALL TIME. 4 12 14 16 Heard on A Youth Connecting Messy Church the Listening Pilgrimage to to Defeat Attracts a New Tour Ghana Poverty Crowd On the cover John and Ruby Laury at 7 their farm in Union Hill, Toxic Virginia. Injustice Photo by Robert Dilday. Virginia Episcopalian CONNECT WITH Who We Are THE DIOCESE Spring 2019 / Volume 128 / Issue 2 THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE Published by the Diocese of Virginia – Circulation 17,900 OF VIRGINIA Bishop Suffragan & Ecclesiastical Authority : The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff thedioceseva Bishop Associate: The Rt. Rev. Bob Ihloff Publisher: The Rt. Rev. Susan Goff Editor: Nancy Chafin The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is a part of the @TheDioceseVA Design/Layout: John Dixon worldwide Anglican Communion and The Episcopal Circulation/Advertising Manager: Erin Kamran Church. We are a community of 80,000 baptized members and 425 clergy in 38 counties and several Diocese of Virginia Virginia Episcopalian (ISSN 15353621, USPS 019711) is published cities of central, northern and northwestern Virginia, Mission & Outreach quarterly by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, periodicals postage serving the world through 179 congregations, six Shrine Mont Camps Center Aisle paid in Richmond, 23232-9998. Copyright 2017. Contact the editor diocesan schools, two diocesan centers and six for reprint permission. Views expressed in this magazine are not diocesan homes, and home to the largest Anglican official statements of policy by the Diocese. Editorial/advertising seminary in the world. Our episcopal seat is the TheDiocese policy is set by the editor and Executive Board. Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration, Orkney Springs. Organized 1785. Postmaster: Send changes of address to the Virginia Episcopalian, 110 W. Franklin St., Richmond VA 23220. Office hours are 8:30 a.m.- The Mayo Memorial Church House 4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday. 110 West Franklin St. thediocese.net/eCommunique Richmond, VA 23220-5095 Communicants: $5/year Non-Communicants: $6/year 800-DIOCESE 804-643-8451 Fax 804-644-6928 SPRING 2019 / VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN Failure Brings Transformation “The one who was seated on the throne said, What do we ‘See, I am making all things new.’” Revelation 21:5 human beings It’s all about how God makes things new. In this season of Easter joy, we see new life in blooming creation. We hear do in the face of new life in nature’s songs. We feel new life in the lifting of our such dying and spirits on warming days. It may seem like a disconnect, but the context of all seeming failure? this new life is death. Spring comes after winter. Resurrection Bishop Goff happens after dying. Easter joy follows suffering and loss. It was true for our Lord. In the days before Easter, When people aren’t coming to church the way everything was changing. The mission to which Jesus called they once did, go out to them with the message of God’s his friends was about to fail. Miserably. Jesus knew that he transforming love. Change the dominant verb from come to would be arrested, mocked, abused and killed. So what did go. When there doesn’t seem to be a next generation to carry Jesus do on the night before he died? He did a new thing. on beloved traditions, engage with younger people where Three new things, in fact. they are. When people don’t know the love of Jesus Christ, Jesus washed his disciples’ feet, saying “I have set you show it by word and example everywhere, every day. an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.” In the eyes of the world, Jesus’ mission failed miserably. (John 13:15) Jesus gave a new commandment that we love But look what God did with that failure! God transformed that one another as he has loved us. (John 13:34) And Jesus gave loss. God brought new life even out of death. If God could do new meaning to the most mundane of things, daily bread that with Jesus’ crucifixion, just imagine what God will do with and common wine. (Luke 22:19-20) In the face of death, Jesus the Church! didn’t do business as usual. He made things new. So don’t be afraid. Everything is changing now for us. Christendom, the Follow Jesus’ example. 1700 years when Christianity was a dominant geopolitical Try something new. power in the world, is over. Or if not completely over, then Fail. on its deathbed in our rapidly secularizing world. Christianity Learn from the failure. is no longer at the center of American culture. It is no longer Try something else. normative, it is not assumed. Fail again. What do we human beings do in the face of such dying Learn from it. and seeming failure? All too often we do exactly what we’ve Follow Jesus always done. We do the same old things in the same old ways. All the while trusting that God is at work. We convince ourselves that if we just try harder, do more, work smarter, then we won’t die; we won’t even have to change. God in Christ is making all things new. Even in and In most places most of the time, that strategy is not though us, even in the Church, even right here and right now. working. The old ways are not serving anymore. The old models give us more frustration than hope. So what is Jesus Faithfully yours, calling us to do? He’s inviting us to follow his example, to do something new, as he himself did. He’s urging us to try something different, something risky, something as wild and crazy and unexpected as washing feet or giving deep meaning to ordinary things. Jesus is calling us to take the risk of trying Bishop Susan E. Goff something new in vulnerable community with each other. VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN / SPRING 2019 1 El fracaso produce transformación “Y el que está sentado en el trono dijo: ‘He aquí ¿Qué hacemos queYo hago todas las cosas nuevas.’” Apocalipsis 21:5 nosotros frente a Se trata de reconocer cómo Dios hace las cosas nuevas. En esta temporada de alegría Pascual, vemos una nueva vida en la ese fracaso tan floreciente creación. Escuchamos nuevas vidas en las canciones de la naturaleza. Sentimos una nueva vida con el calor que notable como comenzamos a sentir y que levanta nuestros espíritus. Puede parecer que no existe una conexión, pero el agónico? contexto de toda esta nueva vida es la muerte. La primavera Obispa Goff viene después del invierno. La resurrección ocurre después de la muerte. La alegría de la Pascua viene después del las cosas ordinarias. Jesús nos llama a tomar el riesgo de intentar sufrimiento y el abatimiento. hacer juntos algo nuevo, unidos como una comunidad vulnerable. Y fue lo mismo con nuestro Señor. En los días anteriores Si la gente no viene a la iglesia de la manera que una vez a la Pascua, todo estaba cambiando. La misión a la que Jesús lo hizo, entonces ¿por qué no salir hacia ellos con el mensaje llamó a sus amigos estaba a punto de fracasar. Miserablemente. del amor transformador de Dios? ¿Por qué no cambiar el verbo Jesús sabía que sería arrestado, burlado, maltratado y dominante de venir a ir? Cuando no parece haber una próxima asesinado. Entonces, ¿qué hizo Jesús la noche anterior a su generación para seguir tradiciones queridas, interactúa con las muerte? Hizo algo nuevo. En realidad, tres cosas nuevas. personas más jóvenes allí donde están, en sus propios mundos. Jesús lavó los pies de sus discípulos, diciendo: “Les he dado Cuando la gente no conoce el amor de Jesucristo, demuéstrelo un ejemplo, para que también hagan lo que yo les he hecho” por palabra y por ejemplo en todas partes, todos los días. (Juan 13:15). Jesús dio un mandamiento nuevo: que nos amemos A los ojos del mundo, la misión de Jesús fracasó unos a otros como él nos amó (Juan 13:34). Y Jesús dio un nuevo miserablemente. ¡Pero miren lo que hizo Dios con ese fracaso! significado a las cosas más comunes, el pan de cada día y el vino Dios transformó esa pérdida. Dios hizo surgir nueva vida común. (Lucas 22:19-20). Ante la muerte, Jesús no siguió haciendo aún después de la muerte. ¡Si Dios pudo hacer eso con la las cosas como si todo siguiera igual. Él hizo las cosas nuevas. crucifixión de Jesús, imagínense lo que Dios hará con la iglesia! Ahora, para nosotros, todo está cambiando. La Así que no tengas miedo. cristiandad, los 1700 años durante los cuales el cristianismo Sigue el ejemplo de Jesús. fue una potencia geopolítica dominante en el mundo, ha Prueba algo nuevo. terminado. O si no terminado completamente, entonces Falla. está en su lecho de muerte en un mundo rápidamente Aprende del fracaso. secularizado. El cristianismo ya no está en el centro de la Prueba otra cosa. cultura estadounidense. Ya no es normativo, no se asume. Falla otra vez. ¿Qué hacemos nosotros frente a ese fracaso tan Aprende del fracaso. notable como agónico? Con demasiada frecuencia seguimos Sigue a Jesús haciendo exactamente lo mismo que siempre hemos hecho. Siempre confiando que Dios está obrando. Hacemos las mismas cosas viejas de la misma manera. Nos convencemos que si simplemente tratamos más, hacemos Dios en Cristo está haciendo todas las cosas nuevas. En más, trabajamos más inteligentemente, entonces no nosotros y por medio nuestro; y en la iglesia, aquí y ahora.
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