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Young people from New York work in Cuban fields. Michael Pollack photo THIS ISSUE | October 21, 2012 Cuban Transformation NEWS 4 Archbishop Nominations Stall “Over several days we planted banana, plantain, and coconut trees in fields of yucca and sweet potato, FEATURES painted and varnished the church interior, and dug 8 Better Together: An Experience of Cuba holes for new fence posts. … As the days passed, it By E.P. Licursi and Michael A. Bird became apparent that any work we accomplished would be matched and likely surpassed by the 10 The Living Christ of El Salvador Christ-inspired hospitality of our hosts” (see “Bet- By Anne Thatcher ter Together,” p. 8). 13 What Are We Waiting For? Reclaiming Advent for Time to Come By William H. Petersen 15 Dreams Come to Life By Lauren Anderson BOOKS 18 Real Austin by Annie Vocature Bullock Review by Douglas Travis 18 Magdalene House by Sarah VanHooser Suiter Review by Joanna Seibert 10 19 By Divine Permission by Janet Goodridge Review by Peter Eaton 20 Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics by Robert Benne Review by Jordan Hylden 21 The Obama Question by Gary Dorrien Review by Timothy F. Sedgwick CATHOLIC VOICES 22 A Fragment is a Fragment By A.K.M. Adam 24 Missionspeak Decoded 22 By George Sumner OTHER DEPARTMENTS ALIVING CHURCH Sponsor 26 Letters We are grateful to All Souls Anglican Foundation, 28 Sunday’s Readings Oklahoma City [p. 29], whose generous support helped make this issue possible. 30 People & Places

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Archbishop Nominations Stall

How deep is the deadlock as the member made anti-Sentamu possible to reduce the list to Crown Nominations Commission views known in a forceful two candidates and face an continues to work toward recom- manner. Sentamu’s stance impasse. A simple majority mending a successor for the Arch- on sexuality could be one (9-7) is not sufficient,” he bishop of Canterbury? What looked possible reason; lack of pop- writes. like a fairly uncomplicated process ularity among some com- “If six members are — the Commission choosing a name mission members may be unwilling to vote for a can- and an alternate for Prime Minister another. didate, members keep vot- David Cameron to place before There are suggestions Welby ing until a candidate has Queen Elizabeth II for her approval that the six Canterbury rep- 11 votes and if that does — has stalled. Some headlines are resentatives voting in soli- not happen then deadlock even saying a decision could be darity could block a partic- has been reached.” Then “months” away, with the succession ular candidate or even stall in order to obtain a second still undecided when Archbishop the entire process. Chartres name voting begins all Rowan Williams leaves office at the is rumoured to have told over again (without the end of the year. friends he is out of the reck- elected candidate and with Speculation is rife. Ruth Gledhill, oning. While he recently sig- the possibility that six Sentamu religion correspondent for The Times, nalled willingness to ordain members could stall the believes the commission has settled women as priests and take process). on Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham, part in consecrating women It’s not entirely clear but is undecided between John Sen- as bishops, his earlier stance what would happen in the tamu, Archbishop of York, and Gra- could still be held against event of an insoluble dead- ham James, Bishop of Norwich, as him, particularly by Canter- lock. The most extreme the second name to be sent to the bury representatives. They scenario would be disso- Prime Minister. Earlier Jonathan include Clare Edwards, lution of the CNC and an Wynne Jones of the Sunday Tele- canon pastor at Canterbury James appointment of new mem- graph tweeted that the commission Cathedral, who is influential bers. It may call upon the had “ruled out” Richard Chartres, in the campaign for women in the mediation skills of Cameron to sort Bishop of London, and there had episcopate. something out. In 1987 Prime Minis- been “strong opposition” to Sentamu. Further, in a close vote the role of ter Margaret Thatcher provided the Without doubt members of the Barry Morgan (the Archbishop of only known example of overturning commission are sworn to offer “no Wales, representing the primates of a church nomination when she pre- comment” to media questions, but the Communion) would be crucial, ferred Mark Santer to James Thomp- Gledhill is a streetwise reporter either in supporting or blocking a son as Bishop of Birmingham. This who “called” the Rowan Williams candidate. kind of intervention is unlikely. appointment correctly ahead of offi- The electoral process has proved There are rumblings, however, that cial announcements. She will have to be more complex than many leaving such an important decision contacted several members of the expected. Writing on the Fulcrum to a small group meeting in secret is commission and one or two of the website, London theologian the Rev. arcane and an open election would less experienced could have deliv- Andrew Goddard says that in a close be preferable. But that is an unlikely ered a vital cue revealing the chosen contest a 16-member commission future prospect, not a present real- name. could be hard put to achieve the ity. If there is substance to the tweet required two-thirds majority. Meanwhile, being an acknowl- signalling “strong opposition” to “The vote takes place by succes- edged candidate for Canterbury has Sentamu, it suggests the Archbishop sive secret ballots with the bottom thrust the Bishop of Durham into of York is not amongst the “also candidate being eliminated. Cru- the media spotlight. He is related to rans.” It probably means a section of cially, however, a candidate needs a former Conservative Deputy Prime the commission or perhaps just one to get 2/3 of the vote so it is quite Minister, Lord Richard Austen “Rab”

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4 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 Butler, and as a Cambridge under- This Far by Faith graduate signed up as a Christian Tradition and Change in the Episcopal Diocese Union member, which positions him of Pennsylvania among evangelicals. He left a Edited by David R. Contosta £100,000 annual salary with Enter- With telling detail and compelling narrative the prise Oil to enter the ministry and essays in This Far by Faith track the origins and his previous church posts include evolution of an important diocese that charted a being co-director for the Interna- middle way for American Christianity over four tional Ministry Centre at Coventry centuries. Throughout the book the authors show a Cathedral, succeeding the colourful diocese struggling with such varied but intersecting “Vicar of Baghdad,” Andrew White. issues as a changing geographical and demographic In 1991 the Church of England compass race doctrinal disputes discipline and skipped a generation which included personality. This Far by Faith opens the red door to options such as Richard Harries the whole church from pulpit to pews. In doing so it (Oxford) and the former test crick- provides a most sensitive and sensible examination eter David Sheppard (Liverpool) and of a diocese as a living organism. It also provides instead plucked a little-known bishop a model for writing church history hereafter. It is from the west of England to succeed then a book that transcends its subject and invites Robert Runcie. Archbishop George anyone interested in American religion to consider Carey had less than three years expe- its method and meaning. —Randall M. Miller rience as a diocesan. Should Welby St. Josephs University emerge as Archbishop of Canterbury  pages |  illustrations | $. cloth he will have spent less than half that time as Bishop of Durham. In times long gone, when choos- pennstatepress ing an Archbishop of Canterbury was the sole prerogative of the  N. University Drive USB  Suite C | University Park PA   | [email protected] British Monarch, he or she was said .. |  to have carried out this task as the representative of the laity. In 2012 the commission consists of four bishops, five clergy and seven laypersons. Their chairman is Lord Evensong (Richard) Luce, a former Conserva- tive Cabinet Minister. The Anglican Communion is represented by Arch- BY BROOKS FIRESTONE bishop Morgan as a voting member Evensong and the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Just published, is a new book about Secretary General, present as an discovery, love and the power of church choir adviser. and sacred music. For the first time there were inter- Author Brooks Firestone, without prior singing ex- views from a shortlist agreed during perience, decided to join his wife in the choir earlier meetings of the commission. “A compelling story of one couple who at St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley, Los Olivos, CA at the This creates an irony: appearing to believed dreams are possible at any age” surprising age of sixty five. Singing lessons and be ambitious tends to disqualify cler- music theory study led him from the choir to ics eager to attain high office, but choral groups, and singing around the world. Mr. Firestone and his wife have sung to- these candidates will need to com- gether in concerts in The Royal Albert Hall, London, the Strasburg Cathedral, St. Peter’s pile a CV and inevitably answer Rome, and many other singing adventures. questions like Why do you want the job? and What qualities do you The couple had the great pleasure of singing Evensong in the Guildford Cathedral, think you can bring to it? England fifty years after they were married there by Kate’s father, Dean Walter Boulton. Before the commission met again This inspirational book not only explores the historical background of choral singing in in late September, Sentamu, 63, was Episcopal, Anglican and other places of worship, but defines “not settling” and dis- considered the popular choice. A coveringrenewed passion in findinga vital activity and purpose in one’s retirement former high court judge in Uganda years. who fled the wrath of the feared dic- $14.95, 316 pages tator Idi Amin, he has grown in Available at selected book stores and amazon.com (Kindle also available) (Continued on next page)

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6 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 explosive attack on the Anglican lion people worldwide do not have Church of Kenya’s St. Polycarp access to clean water.” Parish, Nairobi, Sept. 30. The arch- The Greenes founded WMI, which bishop and Bishop Joel Waweru of is based in Charleston, South Car- Nairobi Diocese visited and prayed olina, after working in Honduras with four of six children who were with victims of Hurricane Mitch. admitted at Kenyatta National Hos- They are members of St. Philip’s pital after the blast. Church, Charleston. In a statement released at the scene of the explosion, Wabukala said Kenya is a multifaith society, Bishops Choose called the attacks atrocities, and Historiographer urged that its perpetrators face the The House of Bishops has elected full rigor of the law. He called upon Robert Bruce Mullin of General The- the government to offer adequate ological Seminary as the Episcopal security because asking citizens to Church’s historiographer. Presiding be vigilant is not sufficient. Bishop Katharine Jef- “This is a cruel provocation, ferts Schori nominated but I appeal to Christians not to Mullin for the role and feed violence with violence, the bishops elected him either in word or deed, because during General Conven- we are called to overcome evil tion. with good,” he said. The office of histori- Njoroge Ndirangu, Nairobi ographer dates to 1838, provincial commissioner, and Mullin when the church recog- Sheikh Adan Wachu, secretary nized that the records of general of the Supreme Council of its founding were being lost. The Kenyan Muslims, also condemned directive to the first historiographer, the attack. Samuel Farmer Jarvis (1786-1851), Bishop Waweru and Ndirangu later was to prepare “from the most orig- visitedthebereavedfamilyofIanMaina, inal sources now extant, a faithful a 9-year-old who died in the blast. Ecclesiastical History, reaching from the Apostles’ times, to the forma- tion of the Protestant Episcopal Water Ministry Honored Church in the United States.” Water Missions International, an Today, in part, the office honors a engineering ministry founded by historian for long-standing service Molly and George Greene III in 2001, to the church. Mullin is the third received the Solar World Einstein GTS scholar to hold the position. Award on Sept. 25 in Frankfurt, Ger- Previous historiographers included many. Jarvis, who joined the faculty in “Molly and George Greene use 1819, and J. Robert Wright, who solar energy to power water treat- recently retired as the seminary’s St. ment systems in developing coun- Mark’s Church in the Bowery Pro- tries and regions affected by catas- fessor of Ecclesiastical History. trophe,” SolarWorld AG said. “Their “My immediate predecessor, Bob aid organization Water Missions Wright, was renowned for his work International has already imple- in ecumenism, and Presiding Bishop mented over 600 projects in 49 coun- Frank Griswold made much use of tries. Thanks to their dedication, him,” Mullin said. “I have, for the child mortality, human exposure to past six years, served as a historical parasites and the number of chronic consultant to the chancellor’s office illnesses have declined in numerous of the Episcopal Church in church villages. It is estimated that 1.2 bil- property and other legal cases.”

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 7 Youth groups from New York with friends from Itabo. Michael Pollack photo Better Together An Experience of Cuba By E.P. Licursi and Michael A. Bird

or the past six years the youth groups of San Andres, Yonkers (Iglesia Memorial de San Andres), F andChristChurch,Bronxville,havefoundthatwearebettertogether.Ouryoungpeoplemeetevery Monday night. Wehave traveled to the monastery at Taizé in the spirit of reconciliation and trust. We have met and worked with those in need in New York City and across the nation. Our kids long to be challenged and tested. They want to engage their faith. They want love to be active, not passive.

The Rt. Rev.Griselda Delgado Del Carpio, Bishop of Cuba, invited us in August to expand our under- standing of “better together.” This was a gift greater than any of us could have imagined. As a mixed group, ranging from ardent capitalists to crypto-communists, the young people had high hopes for the trip. They wanted to see American cars from the 1940s and ’50s and experience the culture of the Buena Vista Social Club. They wanted to pose in front of Che Guevara murals and step back into the world of Hemingway.They wanted to ask about universal medical care and the education system in Cuba. And they were able to do it all. But what most profoundly affected them was the extraordinary gen- erosity and spirit of the Cuban people.

8 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 Bishop Griselda arranged for us to work on a sustainable agriculture farm operated by the parish of Santa Maria la Virgen to serve the small village of Itabo. Each day we woke at around dawn and began work on the farm, directed by a group of experienced and gracious laborers. Over several days we planted banana, plantain, and coconut trees in fields of yucca and sweet potato, painted and varnished the church interior, and dug holes for new fence posts. The work was engaging and at times very difficult, made more so by the August heat. But it was always balanced by great conversation with our brothers and sisters from Itabo, and meals prepared by dedicated parishioners with ingredients grown and raised on the adjacent farm. As the days passed, it became apparent that any work we accomplished would be matched and likely surpassed by the Christ-inspired hospitality of our hosts. We definitely learned a lesson that many of us had not known: how to accept gifts from others. We spent our evenings visiting with the parish’s children and teenagers, playing games on the beach, dancing and sharing music, joining in bilingual Bible study, and walking and talking in the village. As Christians we are committed The church in Itabo is partnered, through a decades-old program of the Diocese of to loving our neighbor, Florida, with St. Mark’s Church in Jack- sonville. We were the beneficiaries of that relationship, and our experience proved to and we do important work us that parish and diocesan mission initia- tives in other parts of the world are making in our local communities. a difference. Our young people, Cuban and American, were transformed by this time in communion. unique beauty of their culture. Their vision is As Christians we are committed to loving our expansive. The people of San Andres and Christ neighbor, and we do important work in our local Church hope to overcome the real obstacles of communities. But expanding our definition and blockades and embargoes to support their grow- experience of the body of Christ can only bring ing diocesan youth ministry. We hope to expand us closer in line with God’s hope for humanity. It the union of our two New York churches to can stretch us in new ways. One of our young include parishes in Cuba and even elsewhere. people said she was no longer interested in being Why? Because our young people have demon- a “comfortable Christian,” but wanted always strated and experienced that we are truly better to remember that the kingdom of God has not together.
been fully realized. As she said, “Love sees what is needed, and responds.” E.P. Licursi is a recent graduate of Columbia Bishop Griselda and the people of her dio- University and one of the young adults from cese are doing great things in the name of Jesus. Christ Church who traveled with us to Cuba. They are responding to the spiritual and physical The Rev. Michael A. Bird is rector of Christ needs of the Cuban people while celebrating the Church.

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 Mission San Pablo, San Lucas Region

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10 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 The Living Christ of El Salvador

By Anne Thatcher

hat does the living Church look like? If you ran into it, would you recognize it as your own? In action? On W Children, teachers and American visitors at San Jose, the ground? Relevant in the everyday lives of God’s people? El Congo, Villa Anglicana #4 What does the future hold for the Episcopal Church?

Recently I traveled with a group from the Berkeley Divin- ity School at Yale to visit the Anglican Diocese of El Sal- vador and there I encountered the living Church. Not the dying, shrinking Episcopal Church that we lament in the United States alongside other mainstream denomina-

tions. I mean a vibrant and growing Anglican diocese that Mission San Marcos Health Clinic has people to house, mouths to feed, children to edu- cate, and families to vaccinate. A living Church. One that puts Christ at the center, the cross at the center. Not just the crucified Christ represented in the cross but the res- urrected Christ, alive and present in the midst of the Sal- vadoran people. For it is this Christ, the Christ who suf- fered alongside us, the Christ who brings us life, who is relevant to this country that lost more than 70,000 people to repression, homicides, massacres, and kidnappings by their own military and government. This country watched those in power target and assassinate the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, of the Episcopal Church. The people of this country were told by their own gov- ernment that they were worthless and that nothing was sacred, not even the Church. (Continued on next page) San Marcos Izalco, Sonsonate, Villa Anglicana #2

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 11 War Memorial, “Monumento a la Memoria y la Verdad” (Monument to Memory and Truth), Cuscatlan Park, San Salvador

The Living Christ of El Salvador

(Continued from previous page) The Catholic Church of El Salvador, led by Arch- people to live a dignified life and to serve as civil and reli- bishop Óscar Romero in the late 1970s, became alive, gious examples to the Salvadoran people. standing in solidarity with its people: standing against the But this living Church is doing more than establishing death and violence, and sheer brutality displayed against a foundation for a better equality of life. Prison visits and anyone who dared speak about human rights and for the meetings with gang members are also part of living in the Salvadoran people. The church called Jesus to be pres- midst of a country torn apart by violence, crime, and gang ent in the midst of the suffering. This church called warfare. Gangs based in Los Angeles are battling for turf Jesus to the center of the crisis. Romero said: “When the in this country that has one of the highest daily homicide church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but rates in the world. Martin Barahona, Bishop of El Sal- denounce the social structures that give rise to and per- vador, told us: “We have lost two generations: the first to petuate the misery from which the cry arises.” the Civil War, the second to gangs.” Now the focus must The Anglican church joined in solidarity, creating a be on educating children, teaching them to play to com- social services agency called CREDHO (“Conscience bat the cycle of violence in their lives. as action for the Spiritual and Economic Recuperation The living Church is present in El Salvador. Jesus as of Mankind”) in 1973. CREDHO founder Father Luis intercessor is alive every day; the Jesus from John, the Serrano, the only Episcopal priest in the country at the Jesus who prays to God: “I am not asking you to take time, said that “Eucharist doesn’t work if the stomach is them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from empty.” The church focused on providing food and the evil one” (John 17:15). The crosses behind altars in teaching literacy. Through the Civil War (1980-91), the the churches we visited have a Jesus who is alive. This Anglican church helped those in need and sheltered is the first time I have encountered such an intentional those who fled the violence of the countryside. The theology behind the presence of the altar cross in medium-sized courtyard at St. John the Evangelist in San church. Jesus with his arms outstretched is present, Salvador held more than 1,000 people at the height of the now and every day, in the struggle for daily existence. Civil War. Jesus suffers with El Salvador. Jesus intercedes and But while the Civil War has been over for 20 years, the asks God for his presence amid the violence, the hunger, diocese has remained present amid a still impoverished the poverty. people. The diocese has identified four pillars necessary This diocese has a mission or “a strategy,” as Bishop for the sustainable development of El Salvador: shelter, Barahona describes it. The goal is sustainable develop- healthcare, education, and church. The development of ment and a dignified standard of living for all Salvado- four Anglican communities (Anglican Villas) began with rans, for we cannot raise leadership if people lack the assistance from Episcopal Relief and Development basics: food, shelter, water, healthcare, and education. (er-d.org), Foundación Cristosal (cristosal.org), and other What does the living Church look like? What does agencies. These communities are open to anyone who Jesus in our midst look like? If we integrate Jesus into needs housing. No church involvement or membership our daily lives rather than compartmentalizing him into was required of those who were given houses. Each villa Sundays in a church building, if Jesus is at our center, has housing, a school, a church, and a healthcare clinic. what does that Church look like?
In addition the diocese has its own doctor, dentist, and pharmacist. This medical team travels to nine rural com- Anne Thatcher is a student at Yale Divinity School munities twice monthly, administering healthcare and and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. She keeps a blog preventive care. The goal is to provide an opportunity for at annethatcher.wordpress.com.

12 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 What Are We Waiting For? RECLAIMING ADVENT FOR TIME TO COME

By William H. Petersen time” theme, such is the Church’s complicity with the culture that this focus is frequently abandoned after t’snot too early to start planning for Advent, as the lec- Advent 1. Incredibly, last year in a parish of the Epis- Itionary shows: Scripture readings for Advent start at copal Church on the first Sunday of Advent I found the the beginning of November rather than at its end. Since hymns pointing us to Christmas, the choir’s anthem at 2005 the Advent Project Seminar in the North American the offertory was Mary Had a Baby, and, if the sermon Academy of Liturgy has promoted an expanded Advent had a title, it could only have been “Advent is about get- season. There are two aspects of this ecumenical recla- ting ready for Christmas.” All this in the face of a collect, mation project. First, it recognizes that Advent was a three lections, and the proper preface of the season to longer season that was truncated to four weeks. Indeed, the contrary! In effect, the central focus of the Sunday the Orthodox, always wary of Western innovations, still and season was ignored, if not contradicted. observe a longer season, though they do not see it as we While there is scant hope of changing the culture do as the start of the liturgical year. around us, the Church need not be a fellow traveler. The Second, the project reclaims the eschatological call is for the Church to reclaim for the sake of its own urgency at the heart of Advent. Our work envisions a life and mission Advent’s focus on the reign of God and, seven-week Advent that begins between Nov. 5 and 12, in so doing, to hone once again the counter-cultural edge just after the culmination of the Church year in the Feast of the Gospel at the very beginning of the liturgical of All Saints. The intent of an expanded Advent season year. is to look to the end, to the fulfillment of the implications With a recovery of the eschatological urgency of of the Paschal Mystery set forth “for us and our salvation” Advent as its principal focus, the season is capable of (Nicene Creed) in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In being reclaimed from a totally incarnational observance other words, the focus is on the Christian hope repre- to providing a “purpose” or “end” context for the entire sented by the reign of God as established in Christ as liturgical year. A proper Advent observance that moves Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. to an incarnational emphasis only in its last week keeps The proposal for an expanded Advent is rooted in a the liturgical year from being merely a repetitive cycle. very simple idea: to make the Advent we observe con- An expanded Advent calls us to enter the circle of each gruent with the lectionary we already have. Everything year with deeper understandings, wider horizons, and else is commentary. There is, however, a problem. higher expectations. We are not simply passively wait- ing for the end (either with a “bang” or a “whimper”), “Christmas Culture” but actively called to participate as agents of God’s The Church long ago lost Advent to the now-global reign, demonstrating our eager expectation of its full “Christmas culture.” Whether seen from inside or out- manifestation. side the Church, by the time our short four-week Advent season begins it appears as a late ramp-up to Christmas. The Work Ahead of Us So overwhelming is the surrounding and pervasive I have already noted the change in atmosphere that Christmas culture that, even in the Church, Advent occurs in the lectionary near the beginning of Novem- becomes exclusively observed as a preparation for ber. But what might the practice of an expanded Advent Bethlehem rather than focused principally on the full entail? First, of course, is a renumbering of the Sundays manifestation of God’s reign. from I to VII. Substantively, each Sunday, according to Yet even where lip service is paid to Advent’s “end (Continued on next page)

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 13 What Are We Waiting For?

(Continued from previous page) Of course, there are surprises in all this. It may come a now established principle, must be a feast of Christ, as a shock that the Advent Project recommends singing a celebration of the Paschal Mystery, whatever the sea- “Joy to the world” (Hymnal 1982, #100) during Advent. son. An expanded Advent might feature, then, an Why? Not because (as everyone seems to think) it is a unpacking of the familiar hymn Veni, Emmanuel with Christmas carol, but because a careful reader of the text its messianic titles. The hymn was composed in the will discern that the hymn celebrates not the child born 18th century as a condensation of the seven “O” in Bethlehem but the Lord whose kingdom is fully man- antiphons for the Magnificat at monastic evensong on ifested. Again, the call is to start the liturgical year by ensuing days of the last week in Advent. In our time, attending to the conclusion, keeping our “eyes on the we might open that compression for projection upon prize.” To grasp the goal firmly is one sure way not only the larger screen of the Sundays in a seven-week to deepen our participation in the arc of the liturgical Advent. year but also to shape the life and mission of the Church Thus, and in order, the focus would move from effectively. Christ as Wisdom (I, Sapientia), to Lord (II, Adonai), to King (III, Rex gentium, already the Feast of Christ Taste and See the King), to Root of Jesse (IV, Radix Jesse), to Key of With four years’ experience, the Advent Project Seminar David (V, Clavis David), to Morning Star (VI, Oriens), continues to invite congregations to participate in a trial coming appropriately at the usage for one cycle of the end of Advent to “God with lectionary. Parishes of the us” (VII, Emmanuel). In this Episcopal Church in all sec- ordering, the medieval pro- tions of the country, and an gression is altered only to ecumenical array of congre- ensure that Rex gentium gations in other traditions, falls on Christ the King Sun- have already done so. This day (a 20th-century addi- coming Advent they will be tion to the calendar). For joined by parishes and con- the lectionary, the Advent gregations in both the Angli- Project’s website (thead- can and United Churches of ventproject.org) provides a Canada. Details for partici- chart of all 63 readings in pation and evaluation can the three-year cycle with a also be found on our web- précis of each reading. This design for a home Advent wreath uses six blue (and one site. We introduced the proj- Other resources will, white) ceramic tea-candle holders. The central candle is ect to the Standing Com- reserved for the final week. A brief liturgy for wreath-lighting is mission on Liturgy and however, be required in available online at www.theadventproject.org. order to meet the liturgical Music in 2011 and plan observance of an expanded Advent. Part of the practi- another presentation in this triennium. cal work of the Advent Project is to provide some of Next to Easter, Advent has always been my favorite these on its website. Already in place is an ecumenically season as it looks to the fulfillment of the Paschal based musical index of familiar and unexpected hymns Mystery. Partly this feeling was inculcated in me as a that mesh with the three-year lectionary cycle. A series boy chorister of a cathedral choir and by having early of new collects (with the exception of Christ the King imbibed the glorious music of Handel’s Messiah. But Sunday) has been composed in the light of the “O” I also took to heart those amazing words of Advent antiphon titles of the Messiah. Two proper prefaces for hope that the composer chose from Revelation: “the an expanded Advent are proposed (and appear along kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of with plainsong settings): the first is for weeks I-V,where our God and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever the focus is exclusively eschatological, while the second and ever. Hallelujah!”
is for weeks VI and VII, when the lections just begin to turn toward an incarnational focus, thus presaging the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany. The Very Rev. William H. Petersen is emeritus dean We are also addressing the natural first question for and professor of ecclesiastical and ecumenical history altar guilds: “What do we do with the Advent wreath?” at Bexley Hall Seminary, where he also taught litur- Several solutions are possible, but all fall under the gics. He is the founder and convener of the Advent Proj- rubric of “not letting the tail wag the dog.” ect Seminar.

14 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 The Rev. Samira Izadi

Dreams Come to Life By Lauren Anderson

s the founder of Gateway of Grace, a Aministry to refugees in north Texas, the Rev. Samira Izadi draws from long experience as a refugee from the Shi’ite Muslim theocracy of Iran. “The Church is called to reach out to the needy and oppressed,” she says. “I believe that the Church has all the gifts it needs to reach refugees.” In 2010, the Texas Resettlement Program saw more than 14,000 people from 44 coun- tries enter the state. In 2011, the national cap on refugees accepted into the United States was 80,000. Refugees flee their countries to escape persecution, often experiencing financial, physical, and emotional exploitation. Fam- ily members are often lost or separated. Some suffer physical abuse. “They are truly voiceless,” Izadi says. Various organizations offer refugees short-term, often disorganized support. One family, for instance, had been in the United States for eight months and still lacked fur- niture. Gateway of Grace furnished their home. A 23 year-old engineering student from Iran has been in the United States for five months. Gateway of Grace arranged for someone from Izadi’s church to pick her up three times a week to run errands. A few weeks later, the student called Izadi, asking “What is Holy Communion?” and “Who is Jesus?” Izadi started meeting with her to read the Bible together. She now attends Izadi’s church. (Continued on next page)

Dr. Robert Hunt (left), professor of World Christianity at Perkins School of Theology, leads Cultural Intelligence Training during a Gateway of Grace conference in August at Lake Highlands United Methodist Church, Dallas.

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 15 Dreams Come to Life

(Continued from previous page) One day while walking down a street in Mexico Izadi was born into a nominally Muslim family, City, they passed a man selling Persian rugs. The growing up amid the revolution of 1979 and a war shopkeeper and Aenehzodaee spoke Farsi to one with Iraq during the 1980s. For much of her child- another, eventually realizing that the shopkeeper’s hood Izadi knew only Western stereotypes of Chris- father had been his tenant in Iran. In a city of 25 mil- tianity. There were a few Christian churches near her lion people, the connection was astonishing. The family’s home, but they were closed to Muslims after shopkeeper helped them settle in Mexico City, where the revolution. they stayed for a year until receiving asylum in Cal- But then, at age 6, Izadi had what is a widespread ifornia, and then quickly moving on to Texas. experience among Muslims: an encounter with God They arrived in Dallas at 7 a.m. and found a Motel through a dream. Hers was a waking vision. 6. Without a Social Security number or documenta- “I was in a [mountainous] place,” she says. “I fell tion, Izadi began searching for apartments, confident and I couldn’t get up. There was a huge rock and this that something would work out. Flipping through a lady came from behind the rock. She was all in phone book she found an Islamic center, which put white. She held my hand and picked me up. She said that she was Mary.” Something that felt like water then ran through Izadi’s body. “And I just loved her and knew I wanted to be where she was.” Izadi later asked her mother who Mary was. “The mother of the prophet Jesus,” her mother responded. And that was that, with no further explanation for years to come. Izadi’s understanding of Christianity, meanwhile, grew through world reli- gion classes in school. “They would only talk about Christianity in terms of the Catholic Church.” At age 9, Izadi watched The Song of Bernadette and was drawn to the story of the 19th-cen- tury saint who also experienced multi- ple visions of Mary. Izadi considers this experience her call to ministry. “I wanted to be a nun. That was how I knew how to belong to the church.”

Photos courtesy of Samira Izadi Coming to America Samira Izadi (left) and Michelle Tanzi, a Gateway of Grace volunteer from Church of Years later, after marrying at 16, Izadi the Epiphany in Richardson, Texas, with a mother and son from Iraq. fled Iran. She and her family were forced to leave in 1997 because her hus- band, Hassan Aenehzodaee, was a Sunni Muslim in her in contact with a Christian woman working with a Shi’ite Muslim country. (They were divorced after Bosnian refugees. Just one month earlier, the woman settling in Dallas.) said, an apartment had been prepared for a refugee After the government seized their possessions, family that never turned up. By 11 a.m., Izadi and her Izadi, Aenehzodaee, and their two children fled on family had moved into the vacant apartment, with foot, walking through the snow-covered mountains groceries in hand. of Turkey for two nights. Another Christian helped with their move into a They flew to Mexico City after Izadi’s brother-in- new home. When Izadi expressed interest in Chris- law wired money for the journey. Upon arriving in tianity, he invited her family to his Baptist congre- Mexico, they were abandoned by a man who was to gation. This was Izadi’s first time in a Christian fly them to Canada to receive asylum. They were church. “All I knew was that I loved Mary and I stranded and without connections. loved the Church and I had no idea who Jesus was.”

16 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 The refugees attended services each week, with Communion. “I would be in physical pain.” Izadi the help of a man who drove them to church and again raised questions with her pastor. “There I was, then took them out afterward for CiCi’s Pizza. The a newly converted Christian, telling him he was congregation was welcoming, but lacked an under- wrong.” standing of Iranian culture. “They kind of didn’t Izadi shared her reservations with a seminary pro- know what to do with me,” Izadi says. fessor, who invited her to an Episcopal parish, Regardless, the church was home, and within six Church of the Incarnation. When Izadi walked in months she was baptized. “It was more of a love rela- for the first time, she knew she was home. It wasn’t tionship than a rational thing.” the liturgy, or the music, or the people. It was a bap- Over the next two years, Izadi felt called to tismal font. She had seen it before. ordained ministry. Because she left her transcripts in Years before, Izadi had a dream of searching for Iran, Izadi was told that seminary admission was water in a room made of marble. In the center of the unlikely. She tried anyway, submitting her paper- room, she found a font. work to the Perkins School of Theology at Southern That day at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Methodist University, and was accepted soon after- Izadi knew she was standing in front of the same font ward. she had seen in the dream. Meanwhile, attending her Baptist church, Izadi “I knew I was where I needed to be,” she says. “It found herself uncomfortable with some of the tenets wasn’t theological or based on research.” of its theology. It started with Communion. “Every Izadi has called the Episcopal Church home ever time the Lord’s Supper happened, I used to tell my since, growing in appreciation of its “focus on prayer pastor, ‘I know that you say that it’s just symbolic, and formation from within, the ontological nature of but I don’t know about that.’” Her pastor, she says, ministry.”
attributed the questions to her “mystical upbringing.” But something still did not feel right. Without a Lauren Anderson studies journalism at the Uni- theological framework to support her feelings, Izadi versity of Wisconsin. felt unsettled when a layperson would administer

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October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 17 BOOKS Ammas and Abbas of the Streets Review by Douglas Travis your coins in the pocket of his coat. Homeless and the Image of God, Ultimately I determined that I had Annie Vocature Bullock challenges n the mid 1980s I lived in Manhat- three options: I could ignore the the reader to do just this: to see the I tan and was exposed to a larger homeless, utterly devote myself to homeless as sisters and brothers in number of the homeless than I had them, or always have some change Christ, individuals with an identity ever been aware of before — entire available to share with them. I and a story, surely created in the communities of the dispossessed liv- resolved to always have some image of God. ing together on this corner or that, change with me. The most startling and transform- constantly panhandling, receiving It never occurred to me that I ing thing Bullock does is to perceive might let them the homeless through lenses pro- challenge my con- vided by the Ammas and Abbas of Real Austin science — not in the Christian tradition, the desert order to solve mothers and fathers. The Homeless and the Image of God their problem (I A student of Christian ascetical Annie Vocature Bullock By . Cascade Books. Pp. 100. $15 cannot), but to theology and an adjunct professor at see each of them St. Edward’s University in Austin, different responses from different as surely created Bullock first encountered the home- folk. Their lives were, of course, in the image of God as am I, as less of Austin riding the bus to work. often tragic. I recall one man who somebody whom God loves as In so doing she had to confront her lost both his hands to frostbite the surely as God loves me. aversion; like the desert mothers prior winter. When you gave him In her provocative and elegantly and fathers the homeless are often money he had to ask you to place written book Real Austin: The unbathed and they often do strange things. But of course there are dif- ferences between a street person in Austin and, say, Anthony the Great. While the antics of a fourth-century ascetic might appear insane today Magdalene House (for example, living in a tomb or A Place about Mercy atop a pillar), in their own time they were lauded as spiritual heroes and By Sarah VanHooser Suiter. guides and, as Bullock amply demon- Vanderbilt University Press. Pp. 189. $22.50 strates, they still have much to teach The author researches and dissects us. with statistics and personal stories a The homeless also have much to highly successful transitional pro- teach us, but they do so from a dif- gram in Nashville for prostitutes and ferent vantage. As Bullock observes: drug users who live free and unsu- “It’s a truism that a significant pro- pervised in community. On their road portion of the homeless are people to recovery, women move from jail to run Thistle Farms, a small with untreated mental illness” (p. cooperative bath and body care company. 17). For Bullock mental illness is not The idea for Magdalene House began with Becca Stevens, an an unfortunate ailment suffered only unconventional and charismatic Episcopal priest in Nashville. by people beyond her immediate The success of the program is attributed to its two-year time for horizons. As is true of so many of us, recovery, its comprehensive and holistic approach to healing, Bullock’s own family of origin expe- and its expectation that residents will live in community and be rienced the challenge of watching treated with dignity. one of their own descend into psy- The Rev. Joanna Seibert, Deacon chological malaise. Her stepbrother Little Rock, Arkansas is schizophrenic and in time became homeless. With her skillful and empathic

18 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 A Widow’s Vivid Tribute

Review by Peter Eaton new Inter-Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission which met for ehon Goodridge, who died in 2007 the first time in 1981 and included such Sat the relatively young age of 70, remarkable minds as Lady Helen was one of the most able, articulate, Oppenheimer, Professor John Pobee, accomplished and attractive leaders Bishop Lakshman Wikremesinghe, of his generation in the West Indian (then Professor) Rowan Williams, and Church. He was born in 1937 in Bar- Professor Richard Norris. bados, and came of age as the island Goodridge accepted the post of nations of the region were gaining principal of the Saint Simon of Cyrene their independence and as the old, Theological Institute in London in mostly British expatriate, leadership of 1989. This gave him a further breadth the church was either retiring or with- that many of his contemporaries, who craft Bullock assures the reader an drawing to facilitate the preferment of never spent significant time away from entry into her circle of awareness local clergy. the West Indies, did not possess. Just and sympathy. It was a heady, hopeful time for the as the concept of the institute was What have the Ammas and Abbas church, consecrating bishops and imaginative, so Goodridge’s appoint- to teach us about the homeless? The installing cathedral deans at young ment by Archbishop Robert Runcie goal of their ascetical practice was ages, and Goodridge took his place as was inspired. During his time in the apatheia. While apatheia is the root the first West Indian principal of Church of England, Goodridge was of our word “apathy,” desert ascetics Codrington College, the historic sem- also made a Chaplain to the Queen, an enjoined their disciples to be any- inary in Barbados and jewel in the honor in which he took evident thing but apathetic. Rather, they crown of the province. He was 35. delight. taught that one should be “indiffer- The appointment made his eventual In 1994 Goodridge was elected ent” to passions, those desires and election to the episcopate almost cer- Bishop of the Windward Islands, a dio- drives which render us blind to the tain, and if that took a presence, needs, and reality of our bit longer than some sisters and brothers whom we might might have predicted, By Divine Permission find less than attractive. In short, Goodridge filled those A Biography of the Rt. Rev. Sehon Goodridge, the goal of their stringent asceticism intervening years with Bishop of the Windward Islands was precisely to see the other per- the sort of activity and By Janet Goodridge . Barbados Museum son, and so to know her as God productivity that made and Historical Society. Pp. v + 200. $60 (BBD) knows her. As Evagrius put it, him a better, more well- “Agape is the progeny of apatheia. rounded bishop when Apatheia is the very flower of asce- the time came. As principal, he was cese which includes the islands of St. sis” (Praktikos #81). not only responsible for seeing the col- Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada and in To truly know God is to love him lege through a crucial time in its his- which he had been ordained both a and his creatures, especially those tory; he became the trainer and men- deacon and a priest 30 years before. created in his image. tor of another generation of West The cathedral and the bishop’s house From the crucible of her own Indian Church leaders, several of are on St. Vincent, but the Bishop of lived experience, asceticism, and whom are now bishops, including the the Windward Islands travels con- study Bullock has written a subtle, present archbishop. stantly.In his decade of episcopal min- fine, and very challenging book, Following 11 years at Codrington, istry, Goodridge served both his dio- which will go a long way to making Goodridge moved to the Cave Hill cese and the wider Church tirelessly, the homeless icons of the presence campus of the University of the West and he accomplished more than many of God for the reader. Indies as warden. Although not a bishops who serve twice as long. Not church post, it was a position to which, surprisingly, the government recog- The Very Rev. Douglas Travis is as an educator and administrator, nized Goodridge’s ability by including dean and president of Seminary of Goodridge was well suited. During this him in the membership of the Truth the Southwest. time, he was made a member of the (Continued on next page)

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 19 BOOKS Back to Political Basics (Continued from previous page) and Reconciliation Committee that examined hat isn’t really theology, it’s just politics.” “They say they care the bloody events that had taken place in ‘Tabout Christian values, but it’s just politics.” One often hears Grenada in 1983. these kinds of things. People say “it’s just politics” when they sus- In the face of increasing illness, Goodridge pect that the real driving force of whatever it is doesn’t come from reluctantly resigned his See in 2005. He and authentic Christian faith, but from an all-too-worldly agenda of one his wife, Janet, moved back to Barbados for kind or another. Conservatives often say this about the political their retirement and he lost a leg and his sight proclamations of mainline churches, and liberals say the same to complications from diabetes. But in spite of thing about the Christian right. And then you have the people who this debilitating condition, Goodridge was suspect the people who have suspicions about the over-politiciza- never diminished. He managed to keep his tion of the churches. “Well, they would spirits bright and his say that — their side lost, after all!” enthusiasms enlivened. What to do with all of this mess? Robert His death two years Benne decided to do something con- later robbed his family structive, at least — he wrote Good and of a devoted grandfa- Bad Ways to Think about Religion and ther, father, and hus- Politics. It’s very short and very sensible; band and the Church of one can read it in an afternoon and come a powerful mind and away much more informed about the irresistible personality. Christian tradition and the contemporary Goodridge deserves a scene. Benne, an emeritus professor of careful, scholarly biogra- Christian ethics at Roanoke College and a phy, interwoven with a seasoned academic veteran, has written history of the West Indian his share of technical treatises. But this Church of his time which book is aimed at the busy pastor or layperson who wants to think he helped to shape. It will be a great book. For- more sensibly and clearly about religion and politics. At that task, tunately, in the meantime we have this vivid and it succeeds very nicely. engaging memoir by his widow, Janet, to whom Benne is a Lutheran, and he thinks that the historic Lutheran “two he was married for 41 years, and who has been kingdoms” perspective is still the best view around. Taking his an important eyewitness to his life and work. cues from H. Richard Niebuhr’s “Christ and culture in paradox,” This book includes reminiscences by others, Benne contends that the paradoxical vision of Lutheranism helps us including colleagues and members of the fam- avoid the twin errors of either separating religion from politics ily, some of his fine sermons (and Kortright entirely or forcing them into a seamless whole. Go the first way and Davis’s sermon at Goodridge’s consecration), as you get secular separa- well as a valuable bibliography of his writings. tionism (think French In his enthronement sermon, Goodridge laïcité) or Christian sec- Good and Bad Ways to Think urged: “Let us be a church reflecting God’s mys- tarianism; this makes the tery within the realities of the Caribbean con- theological error of for- about Religion and Politics text. Let us be a church practicing love and getting that God is the By Robert Benne. Eerdmans. Pp. 120. $14 hospitality. Let us be a church faithful in stew- creator, sustainer, and ardship and service. Let us be a church bearing judge of the world. Go the second way and you get the fusionisms a prophetic sign as an instrument of God’s grace of both left and right, where the transcendent Gospel of salvation to a world crying out for healing and reconcili- becomes equated with this or that political cause. Benne reminds ation. And let us be a church where action and us that worldly political causes always involve an element of coer- reflection are in the perspective of God’s saving cive force, while the Gospel is meant to be offered freely to all. purpose for all humankind” — words that There simply is no straight line from the core of the faith to the neatly summarize Sehon Goodridge’s own life details of public policy, Benne argues. But at the same time, Chris- as bishop, teacher, and man, to which this book tian faith should lead us to uphold certain core political values, such serves as a splendid testament. as the equality and dignity of all people, especially the poor. And Christian wisdom should remind us that we are a fallen people, and The Very Rev. Peter Eaton is dean of St. John’s that Pollyannaish attempts at salvific politics are doomed to fail. Cathedral, Denver. The Barbados Museum and Except in rare cases, then, the Church does best to shape the moral Historical Society sells By Divine Permission character of its people and inform their consciences on specific online: http://is.gd/GoodridgeBio. issues (such as abortion or the death penalty), while leaving specific

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political proposals to the laypeople. service of a larger story and The Obama Question Benne knows that parishioners do argument that is never lost A Progressive Perspective not like being “told what to do” when from view, in good measure By Gary Dorrien. Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. 245. $35 it comes to politics. He also knows because he lets the actors that “staying out of politics from the speak for themselves with well-cho- together and a moral realism that pulpit” is not an option, if that’s taken sen quotations. The audience for the reflects Reinhold Niebuhr’s realism to mean disengagement from the book is not specifically or especially and Obama’s own experience in com- moral issues of the day. His wise little religious. The book is rather for those munity organization. Substantively, book will help pastors and parish- who read The New York Times and “freedom, equality, and community ioners alike move beyond this listen to NPR, although the hope is go together in a healthy society.” dilemma and into genuine engage- that the book would find a larger This vision requires “a deliberative ment between Christian faith and pol- audience. politics of the common good that itics. Much of what he writes here Behind this offering in the year of builds up new and old communities was once taken to be good Christian the presidential election is Dorrien’s of memory to achieve a good soci- common sense; it should be again. work as arguably the premier Chris- ety” (p. 221). Jordan Hylden tian social ethicist in the United Vision, though, must be born St. Louis, Missouri States. Episcopal priest and the Rein- through a pragmatism that mediates hold Niebuhr Professor of Social rival positions, finds common ground Ethics at Union Theological Seminary where possible, and uses power and professor of religion at Columbia deftly in matters of compromise and University, he is author of the most compulsion. These matters of theol- significant historical account of social ogy and ethics may be of greatest ethics, the three-volume Making of importance for religious communi- American Liberal Theology (West- ties to understand and hence for minster John Knox, 2001, 2003, 2006) preachers and teachers. That is not and more than ten other books. the purpose of this book. It may, In The Obama Question, a broader though, be an invitation to read Dor- theological and ethical framework rien’s historical and constructive shapes the narrative. In short, Obama work in theology and ethics. stands between a moral and reli- Timothy F. Sedgwick giously grounded vision of human life Virginia Theological Seminary

rom a progressive liberal perspec- F tive, this book offers a detailed, engaging narrative apologia for the politics and presidency of Barack Obama. Filled with the political events and voices that mark the battle between conservative libertarians and liberal communitarians, the chapter titles convey the arc of this narrative. “Becoming Obama” and “To the White House” tell the story of the construc- tion of Obama’s political identity as formed from the diverse and diver- gent strands of his life. “Saving Capi- talism from Itself,” “Timidly Bold Oba- macare,” “Moral Empire and Liberal War,” and “Banks and Budgets” detail the politics. Gary Dorrien is a masterful story- teller. His writing draws on a breadth of sources. Details are great but are in

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 21 CATHOLIC VOICES A Fragment Is a Fragment

By A.K.M. Adam

eason after season brings change and surprise, but a canny gambler could do well by betting that Safter any protracted silence on the “sensational news about Jesus” front, another shattering announcement is right around the corner. In mid-September Karen King — the eminent and highly respected professor of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School — announced to startled fascination that she had been entrusted with a very small scrap of papyrus in which Jesus is quoted as referring to “my wife.” News spread like wildfire, fueled (it must be said) by her injudicious decision to label the frag- ment “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.”Larry Hurtado of Edinburgh University has more neutrally dubbed it the “Jesus’ Wife Fragment.”Headlines blared and reporters queried, and observers from outside the networks of academia wondered what to make of the whole furor. The controversy should be parsed into two distinct questions: First, is the papyrus fragment an artifact from antiquity or is it the work of a modern forger? Second, assuming the fragment to be a genuine ancient manuscript, what does it tell us about Jesus?

22 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 significant warning sign when evaluat- marriage in a number of his sayings. ing sensational archaeological finds. This papyrus fragment — including a Second, the lettering of the fragment fragmentary saying that she dates to seems unusually thick; King attributes the second century — does not consti- this to the use of a dull pen, but some tute the faintest evidence concerning scholars find that suggestion uncon- Jesus himself, even if the fragment be vincing. Stephen Carlson, a specialist genuine. And in showing that a fourth- on literary forgery, notes that so far the century scribe, or a second-century fragment seems to have been studied author, thought Jesus had been mar- only for physical signs of antiquity, not ried, it does not tell us anything we did for the characteristics that might betray not already have grounds to imagine a forger’s activity, and Francis Watson on the basis of texts we know. of Durham University has produced an Though I was initially inclined to ingenious comparison of the lines of trust King’s judgment on the dating of Coptic in the Jesus’ Wife Fragment the physical manuscript, Watson’s thor- with other known Coptic and Greek ough and intriguing counterargument sources, reaching the conclusion that has persuaded me that the fragment is the fragment is most likely a pastiche probably a forgery. Further, if the frag- of other previously known texts. ment were genuine, I couldn’t be con- Moreover, if the fragmentary lines fident about her ascription of the were fully written out, they would fourth-century fragment to a second- not fit on the typical size of columns century source; might not a later scribe of Coptic text. Of course, these chal- have introduced Jesus’ alleged mar- lenges do not themselves decide the riage into an argument as well as an case, any more than King’s positive earlier one? On such an inference, the analysis demonstrates the genuine- best argument will nonetheless remain ness of the fragment. In all likeli- highly speculative. hood, there is a long way to go before Even if the papyrus fragment be gen- the preponderance of scholarly judg- uine, however, and even if it reproduces The first question seemed simpler to ment weighs on one side or the other. an otherwise unknown text that one answer at the outset of the news cycle. Another question, though, concerns could confidently assert belonged to King is a scrupulous scholar of unques- the implications of the papyrus if it be the late second century, we would still tioned integrity. She holds views inimi- found to be the true record of a fourth- know only that we had further data to cal to those of many traditional Chris- century scribe. On that score, exciting support a conclusion for which we tians, but mean-spirited attacks on the as the discovery undeniably would be, already had ample evidence: namely, integrity of her scholarly judgment the answer is relatively less dramatic. that some late second-century Chris- reflect only on the ignorance of the We already know that some Christians tians supposed that Jesus was married. accuser, not on the validity of King’s from the late second century onward The overwhelming testimony from analysis. King showed the fragment to may have thought Jesus had a wife. almost every other source, however, two outstanding experts, who together Although this would be a solid confir- shows that Jesus was not remembered confirmed the likelihood of its authen- mation of what we already have reason as having been married, and many ticity, and she has submitted full and to believe, it would not change the sta- sources record him as having been sin- careful documentation of her analysis tus of that point. As King herself gle. One small, unprovenanced scrap of to the public for examination — not emphasizes, it tells us nothing what- papyrus will not overturn the weight of the typical actions of a duplicitous ever of Jesus’ marital status; on that that testimony.
fraudster. Initial findings from King and count, the situation remains that we her consultants made a quite plausible know of no reason to think that anyone case that this was actually an ancient before the late second century thought The Rev. A.K.M. Adam, lecturer in document. Jesus was married. Jesus was strongly New Testament at the University of Since then, a number of features of associated with two other apparently Glasgow, is author of Faithful Inter- the papyrus have occasioned skeptical celibate men (John the Baptist and the pretation (2006) and coauthor of Read- questions. Most prominently, the frag- Apostle Paul), and he was remembered ing Scripture with the Church (2006), ment is of unknown provenance, a very as having relativized the importance of among other books.

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 23 CATHOLIC VOICES Missionspeak Decoded

By George Sumner of planting and overseeing churches, such its scope is as expansive and cos- led to new language of the missio Dei mic as can be (and so we see already ho cares about a state- (mission of God), beginning at the mis- the themes of which we spoke). With ment, in this case about sion conference in Willingen, Germany, this idea of life extended to the limits of W mission and evangelism, in 1952. The goals were salutary: a creation the text aims to infuse into of the World Council of Churches? Do renewed focus on God, his plan, and his Missionspeak “dynamism, justice, the pronouncements of such an inter- grace, and thus a hope to make energy diversity, and transformation” (p. 3). national bureaucracy impinge on real for mission simply inherent to being The breadth of this mission, defined by church life? Very little. The WCC has the Church. But this desire to turn away these themes, requires bundling together just released its first statement from ourselves did not survive the polit- a number of subjects. Mission goes to on mission in 30 years, called ical upheavals of the 1960s, during the ends of and includes care for cre- “Together Towards Life: Mission and which time the term came to refer to ation. Mission includes social and eco- Evangelism in Changing Landscapes” social trends within society in con- nomic as well as spiritual life, and in (http://is.gd/ WCC_Mission_2012). It tradistinction to the Church, trends this regard clashes with what the New should matter to the readers of THE which Church leaders often saw as Testament calls “powers and principal- LIVING CHURCH, for it demonstrates the coinciding with their own political ities” as it challenges the kingdom of struggle over mission, and the pluses agenda. Mammon. It includes not only the mes- and minuses of Missionspeak, of Against this slide in the meaning of sage but also the range of the charis- which our church has a share. So ana- missio Dei the Scottish missionary mata in the present time of Pentecostal lyzing this pronouncement is in fact leader form South India, Lesslie New- growth. This brings to the fore the coming to terms with our own effort bigin, was a clarion voice of protest. theme of the Spirit that suffuses cre- to understand our common life. Finally the WCC conference in Upp- ation and binds in one, and so the Toward this end, a succinct historical sala in 1968 involved a confrontation Spirit’s work organizes the rest of the review is helpful. In the wake of the between what were unfortunately work, though one would do well to great era of Western missionary send- called “ecumenicals” and “evangeli- recall that the work of the persons of ing in the late 19th and early 20th cen- cals,” the former thinking that mission the Trinity are always together. The turies, culminating with the recently should emphasize social transforma- statement tries to differentiate two commemorated Edinburgh Conference tion and the latter believing it should kinds of work of the Spirit, to and from of 1910, attention turned in new direc- center on personal witness for conver- the Son, but the passage is muddled tions. The conference in Jerusalem in sion. The great Anglican evangelical (pp. 3-4). The work of the Spirit 1928 emphasized values which the John Stott raised his voice on behalf of includes the breadth of spiritualities, churches held over against secular soci- what came to be called “holism,” the cultures, kinds of people (however mis- ety, and in common with other faiths. idea that the two needed to be held treated), bodies and spirits (in many The pendulum swung from more lib- together. states), denominations, and religions. eral to more traditionally doctrinal con- In each of the three eras I have men- The Spirit includes them all as the Spirit cerns, especially the particularity of the tioned an oscillation took place, amid leads them all to life. Into this move- Church’s claim about Jesus Christ; the hopes to overcome an either/or. Missio, ment, prior to the Church and definitive spokesman for this new (old) emphasis the shift south, inherent motive, holism: of its nature (in the great words of Emil was the Dutch missiologist Hendrik each theme recurs in the new WCC Brunner about fire and burning), we Kraemer in his writings for the Tam- statement — just as in the life of the are invited. baram Conference in 1938. Anglican Communion at present. I found it curious that the statement Similar oscillations may be found in nowhere mentions “Gentiles.” It speaks thinking about mission in the post- ogether Toward Life” begins with a of diversity, of cultures, of margins, and World War II era. A dawning awareness ‘Tstandard missio Dei affirmation: the nations are implied in all these. But of the emerging leadership of the that mission refers first to the Triune the nations figure in the plot line which Majority World, and a desire to turn life itself, out of which mission over- is the backbone of Scripture. The away from the Church’s own business flows into the whole of creation. As nations rage against God, and long for

24 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 him, and are promised a suffering ser- Japanese science fiction movies, were assigned various sections.) This is vant, all in the Old Testament. Jesus is among them the classic The Manster not just a theologian’s quibble. What if hesitant about summoning them during (Google it). Due to injections from a the things left side by side are parts of his earthly ministry, but at his resur- strange chemical experiment a man Christ’s body? What if this means being rection and ascension the door is begins to sprout a second head out his unable to understand our Anglican thrown wide open. We live in the time shoulder, and walks about for much of brothers and sisters who are at once of the summoning of the Gentiles, in the film with his head turned and talk- evangelical and committed to strug- whose number most of us are included; ing to this unwelcome guest inside his gling with great forces of oppression? this is the central fact for all missiolo- own body.I thought of the film, for this My own sense is that the WCC state- gies. It locates us in time and space, latest WCC statement seems to have ment gives more airtime, and greater not to bring but to witness, await, cele- two missiologies caught inside the one passion, to the “social activist” pas- brate, for the kingdom of Christ. Gen- text. Themes that have oscillated back sages. We may note the imbalance by eral themes, even deeply Christian ones and forth in modern mission history the manner in which warnings are like “mission of the triune God” or “dis- seem to be parked side by side. The meted out. We are told that mission has pensation of the Spirit,” which leave prologue talks of Jesus Christ, his incar- a concern with souls, and a concern aside the when, where, and why of our nation and resurrection, and the sec- for creation, and then we are warned calling usually float in midair or wander tion on the “Call to Evangelize” offers against a kind of Christianity which astray. would list into “individualist spiritu- ality.” But what about the kind of hat are we to make of this church that loses the nerve to wit- Wsummation of mission today ness to individuals with the hope that by the WCC? One way to answer this Themes that have by grace, in faith, they might find eter- question is to consider its forebear 30 nal life? The statement rightly years ago. The imperative for the oscillated back reminds us of times when missionar- Church to respond to the ecological ies have wrongly indicted the culture crisis (i.e., the expanding of mission- and forth in modern they found. But what of the opposite ary scope to the world itself) is a new possibility of taking the local culture, contribution. The prominence of the mission history seem unredeemed, on board wholesale? Pentecostal movement is great, as is What is good for the missiological the urgency of the issue of migration to be parked goose is good for the gander. and displacement. Still, much of the I like the joke about the visitor to rest of the message was already pres- side by side. the parish who is reluctant to return ent a generation ago: the challenge to since he experienced the place to be the international economic system, full of hypocrites, to which the rector the call for mission from and to six con- replies, “No worries, there’s room for tinents, the standing imperative to an emphasis on conversion (p. 14). But one more.” On the whole the state- inculturate the Gospel. In some cases the sections that follow speak of the ment’s challenge to the Church on eco- the facts we find on the ground today, kingdom in terms of its spirituality, or nomic and social matters is well taken, 30 years later, underline these truths. In the coming of justice for the poor and but moralism always carries a risk. At other cases they complicate matters. marginal, or the overcoming of preju- one unfortunate juncture the report The greatest missionary sending dice, or the healing of the earth. We sternly warns: “[The Church] must nations after the United States are Nige- should assume a holist purpose on the refuse to harbor oppressive forces ria and South Korea. The rising capi- part of the authors throughout the within its ranks.” But if the sinners are talist power in the world is communist work as a whole, and to be sure it run off the property, no one, including China, followed by socialist and neo- should be possible to relate these two us, will be left. When it comes to “holis- Hindu India. The rapidly expanding kinds of Missionspeak to one another. tically” holding themes in tension, the churches “from the margins” are insis- In the New Testament the eventual call to social justice had better be tently evangelical. The call for a truly defeat of the “powers and principali- yoked, indeed led, by the news of the global mission awareness and a ties,” including as it does worldly justification of the impious by the gra- prophetic denunciation of the eco- oppression, begins and ends in the vic- cious act of the risen Jesus Christ, the nomic kingdom of Mammon are apro- tory of Jesus Christ on the cross and one who has brought and is bringing pos, but the present realities have the empty grave, culminating in his the kingdom of his Father.
moved further than the statement return. Setting these ways of speaking seems aware. of the kingdom side by side leaves the The Rev. George Sumner is principal There is a deeper problem. My uncle- real work undone. (One wonders at and Helliwell Professor of World Mis- in-law wrote the scripts for B-grade times if different committee members sion at Wycliffe College, Toronto.

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 25 LETTERS

Inspired Preaching to this day, is this “pietistic” approach to theology. As a retired priest, and on Tillich noted that theol- looking back on my years of ogy and worship, even working to fulfill my call- morality, have all become ing and ordination, I was feeling and psychology. thoroughly inspired by Then everything is deter- William G. Witt’s “Icons of mined by how much one Christ” [TLC, Sept. 9]. feels. In Charlie Brown’s Because of this great famous words, “How can message I recalled and pon- I be wrong if I’m so sin- dered how I served as an icon cere?” of Christ in the role of a shep- Braaten speaks prophet- herd. It was likewise something ically about this. Pannenberg I would like to share with some of has stated his whole project as my fellow priest friends as a reminder a theologian is to get theology back of what our calling and responsibilities to having an intellectual and spiritual entail. foundation, truly “theology” and not “pietism.” The Rev. Nels D. Moller The Rev. Canon Dale Coleman Spokane, Washington Rector, St. George’s Belleville, Illinois Braaten and Tillich In an otherwise fine review of Carl Braaten’s mem- oirs [TLC, Oct. 7], my friend Richard Kew mis- states Braaten’s intellectual debt to Paul Tillich. Two Centuries Off Braaten edited Tillich’s very insightful A History I just finished reading, with both interest and of Christian Thought and Perspectives on 19th approbation, Prof. Ephraim Radner’s article on and 20th Century Protestant Theology based French king Henri IV (Quatre) [TLC, Oct. 7]. It is on Tillich’s lectures at Union Theological Semi- a well-written and thoughtful piece, but one item nary in New York and the Divinity School of the jumped out like a snake. Radner writes that Henri University of Chicago, and these were published was “[c]aught up, and indeed an active leader mil- as one book in 1972. itarily, in the late eighteenth-century conflicts of Braaten is very clear in his introductory essay France.” that he learned the Christian tradition from Henri IV was not around in the late eighteenth Tillich, not the Gospel itself. century in France, as that would have put him at I asked him about precisely this question at a the time of the French Revolution. The century in conference held at the Episcopal Cathedral at question is the sixteenth. But this is a relatively Charleston, South Carolina, in 2001. Braaten small mistake. Radner might have mentioned that went on to speak of problems in Tillich’s theol- Henri IV is probably one of the most popular mon- ogy due to the great influence of Hegel and archs in French history. His nickname in French is Schelling, but particularly Schleiermacher. le Vert Galant. Those who know Paris well may be While Tillich criticized the emphasis of aware that the westernmost tip of the Île de la Cité Schleiermacher’s maintaining that religion was is known precisely as le Square du Vert Galant. In “the feeling of absolute dependence” thereby any event, Henri IV was a most interesting man. changing theology into “a concealed psycholo- Prof. Radner is to be congratulated for his per- gism,” in Rowan Williams’s words. Tillich himself ceptive article. Let’s just be careful to place Henri fell victim to this feeling approach by summariz- in his rightful century. ing religion as one’s “Ultimate Concern.” Our era Robert Stanley of much Protestant theology, greatly affecting us Chattanooga, Tennessee

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October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 27 SUNDAY’S READINGS | Pentecost 21, October 21 THE LIVING CHURCH First reading: Job 38:1-7 (34-41); Ps. 104:1-8, 25, 37b Alternate: Isa. 53:4-12; Ps. 91:9-16 • Heb. 5:1-10 • Mark 10:35-45 VOLUME 245 • NUMBER 9

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28 THE LIVING CHURCH • October 21, 2012 SUNDAY’S READINGS | Pentecost 22, October 28 First reading: Job 42:1-6, 10-17; Ps. 34:1-8 (19-22) Alternate: Jeremiah 31:7-9; Ps. 126; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 10:46-52 Jesus Responds to Job n the end Job’s fortune is restored. ment against the apparent silence of IHe has sons and daughters, live- God are deeply heard and deeply felt stock and cash, lengthening of days by the One who bears them. The equaling 140 years. God comes to wounds are still in place. Priested for- him in wonder, a whirlwind and a ever, Jesus stands before the Father. voice exceeding all human knowl- There he continuously says every- edge. Who is Job to question? “I have thing we have ever said. The Father’s uttered what I did not understand, silence is the most attentive listening Upholding Worship things too wonderful for me” (42:3). (Hebrews). You may approach God And yet we love this righteous man through him “for all time.” and Theology precisely because he says — however Consider one example, one man’s All Souls’ Anglican Foundation was obsequious his soul may be in the end bitter pain and his journey to a secret established in 1994 by a group of parish- — “Listen and I will speak. I will inter- heaven. Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, ioners from All Souls’ Episcopal rogate you. Respond to me” (42:4). sits where he ought to sit, by the side Church in Oklahoma City as an inde- Encountering God through sight, Job of the road. He is blind, begging, and pendent and duly registered 501(c)(3) repents in dust and ashes. He is the vested to evoke pity. He voices a charitable entity. The Foundation has argument of every person consigned to droning chant: Have mercy on me. as its sole purpose the perpetuation and drink the bitter cup of sorrow. God is All he wants is daily bread. Hearing expansion of traditional Anglican wor- the mystery sustaining and permeat- that Jesus is coming, he begins to cry ship and theology. It has over the course ing all creation before whom we bring out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy of the years sponsored and organized a “words without knowledge” (38:2). on me!” Beware all disciples who love number of theological conferences and It is right and a good and joyful to protect their Savior from imperti- seminars with such noted speakers as thing always and everywhere to give nent supplications. Bartimaeus will William H. Ralston, James I. Packer, thanks to you. But is it always a joy- not be silenced. He cries more loudly. Robert Crouse, Peter Kreeft, Victor Lee ful thing? “I will bless the Lord at all Jesus, standing in the street, com- Austin, Leander Harding, George Sum- times” (Ps. 34:1). We know, however, mands Bartimaeus to be called. ner, Ephraim Radner, Edward Salmon, from dear Job that “many are the Do you know what faith is? Accord- Michael Hawkins, Tony Burton, and tribulations of the just” (34:19). ing to our story, faith is throwing off numerous other clerics and theologians. The prophet Jeremiah describes the old cloak, jumping to Jesus, saying The Foundation was also a sponsoring the awaited return of God’s exiled what you want. The last and best mir- partner in the development of the app people. Through the prophet, the acle is this: sequebatur eum in via (he iPray BCP. It is presently collaborating Lord speaks: “Sing with joy for Jacob, was following him in the way). with the Prayer Book Society of the cry to the chief of the nations; sound, Closing our Bibles, we find the U.S.A. on a special educational project. sing, and say, ‘Save, O Lord, your peo- same old world. But a voice speaks. ple, the remnant of Israel” (31:7). “I Inwardly, the Spirit bears witness to All Souls Anglican Foundation will gather them from the ends of the our spirit that we are sons and 6909 NW Grand Blvd. earth, among whom will be the blind daughter of God. Bearing whatever Oklahoma City, OK 73116-5001 and lame, those with child and those wounds we must, we are invited to in labor” (31:8). The psalmist pro- throw off the old life and get into the vides a coordinating thought: “They flow of life-giving grace. A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor went out weeping, carrying the seed for sowing; returning, however, they return in exaltation carrying their Look It Up sheaves” (Ps. 126:6). Read Mark 10:46-52. Steps to salva- Our Old Testament meditation tion. confirms what we know. Life is suf- fering. Our meditation suggests a Think About It truth to which we must return again Theodicy is the luxury of the pon- and again if we are to live in hope. derous and privileged. People who God is with us. have really suffered need help, hope, Our sufferings and our bitter argu- and consolation

October 21, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 29 and priest in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army John’s Church, Chevy Chase, MD, 1988-95; PEOPLE & PLACES Corps of Engineers in the Philippines and director of studies at the College of Preach- Japan during World War II. He was a contribu- ers, 1995-97; and rector, Grace Church, Silver tor to the Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spring, 1997-2009, when she retired. Deaths History, and his love of St. Nicholas led him to The Rev. Michael Cleare Boss of Jack- portray the saint many times. He served as The Rev. Donald E. Warner died Aug. 28 in deacon-in-charge and priest-in-charge at St. sonville, FL, died Aug. 6. He was 73. Owasso, OK. James’s Church, La Grange, TX, 1952-56; He was born in Waverly, NE, and his mother Born in Jacksonville, he was a graduate of curate, St. Andrew’s Church, Houston, 1956- the University of the South and its School of died when he was 14 months old. He worked 58; rector, St. Matthias’s Church, Athens, TX, his way through the University of Nebraska’s Theology and was a former communications 1958-64; assistant, Trinity Church, Princeton, officer with the U.S. Navy. He was ordained Agriculture Culture by living in the horse barn NJ, 1964-67; chaplain, St. Luke’s Hospital and caring for animals before attending deacon in 1966 and priest in 1967. He served as South, Overland Park, KS, 1967-78; canon pas- assistant, St. Christopher’s Church, Pensacola, classes. Warner met his wife, Elizabeth Ann tor, Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, 1978-84; “Betsy” Kouanda, at the university and they FL, 1966-71; rector, Trinity Church, St. Augus- vicar, St. James’s Church, Clayton, GA, 1984- tine, FL, 1971-75; rector, Church of the Good were married on campus in 1947. He was 87; associate, St. Clare’s Church, Blairsville, ordained to diaconate in 1985. He served at the Shepherd, Charleston, SC, 1975-87; and rector, GA, and Grace-Calvary Church, Clarkesville, St. Paul’s Church, Jacksonville, 1987-91. He is Church of St. Francis in the Valley, Green Val- GA,1988-92; and supply priest in the Diocese ley, AZ, 1991-92, and at St. Stephen’s Church, survived by Nancy Davis Boss, his wife of 51 of West Missouri during his retirement. He is years; daughter Laurie B. Clark of Orlando; Grand Island, NE, beginning in 1985. The Warn- survived by Sally Bangs Lockhart, his wife of ers moved to Oklahoma in 2006 to be near fam- sons Michael W. Boss of Jacksonville and 60 years; daughters Ann LaGrange and Susan Aldrich L. Boss of Bethesda, MD; a brother, ily. He is survived by his wife; son, Donn Lockhart; a sister, Betty Hayes; seven grand- Warner; daughter, Wendy Buss; four grandchil- William A. Boss, of Chicago; nine grandchil- children; and eight great-grandchildren. dren; and two great-grandchildren. dren, Josie Warner-Smith, Erin Warner, Sara Jones and James Hobbs; and three great- The Rev. Janice Marie Robinson, who The Rev. Arthur John Lockhart, a veteran grandchildren, Oscar Warner-Smith, Brianna served in the Diocese of Washington Jones and Nathan Jones. Deacon Warner was of World War II and a priest for 59 years since 1988, died Sept. 2. She was 69. who served in Georgia, Kansas, New Jer- preceded in death by his parents, a sister, two Born in Philadelphia, she was a graduate of brothers, and a daughter, Janis Ruth. sey and Texas, died Sept. 2 at John Knox the University of Bridgeport, New York Uni- Village Care Center in Lee’s Summit, MO. versity, and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He was 87. Ordained deacon and priest in 1988 by the Send your clergy changes Born in Houston, he was a graduate of the late Bishop John Thomas Walker, she was a [email protected] University of the South and General Theologi- founding board member of the Bishop Walker P.O. Box 514036 cal Seminary. He was ordained deacon in 1952 School. She was assistant and associate, St. MiIwaukee, WI 53203-3436 The 56th Episcopal Musician’s Handbook Lectionary Year C, 2012-2013

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