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October 8, 2017 the LIV ING CHURCH CATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL Robert W. Jenson, RIP Winning Student Essay Primates’ Meeting October 8, 2017 THE LIV ING CHURCH CATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL Christianity in Cultural Contexts $5.50 Education livingchurch.org A chance to listen, share, and look to the future. What are thought leaders saying about issues of interest to the Episcopal Church? Find out at Insights & Ideas, a series of conversations focused on: The Demographics of a Changing Church and The Impact of Positive Investing. Four opportunities to join the conversation: • October 26 New York City • November 3 Minneapolis • January 24 Houston • February 7 San Francisco There is no cost to attend, but you must register, as space is limited. Learn more at www.cpg.org/Insights&Ideas THE LIV ING ON THE COVER CHURCH That Mary would visit Juan Diego THIS ISSUE October 8, 2017 Cuauhtlatoatzin, “a humble | commoner, a poor ordinary person,” communicates that God, through NEWS Mary, has a special concern for the 4 Dispatches from Hurricane Irma common people of Mexico (see “‘They are no less capable of our FEATURES Christianity, ’” p. 22). 12 Tune in to Formation | By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Tomasz Pado/Wikimedia Commons Photo 15 Reaping God’s Abundance through Church Planting By Kirk Petersen 17 In Memory and Anticipation of Robert W. Jenson 17 By Matthew Burdette 22 FIRST PlACE , S TUDENT ESSAyS IN CHRISTIAN WISDOM COMPETITION ‘They are no less capable of our Christianity’ By Rebecca Bridges Watts BOOKS 25 Deviant Calvinism | Review by J. Scott Jackson CATHOlIC VOICES 26 Instruments of Communion | By Colin Podmore OTHER DEPARTMENTS 22 31 letters 33 People & Places 34 Sunday’s Readings LIVING CHURCH Partners We are grateful to the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Good Shepherd Church, Dallas [p. 33], and the Rt. Rev. and Mrs. D. Bruce MacPherson [p. 35], whose generous support helped make this issue possible. THE lIVING CHURCH is published by the living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. news | October 8, 2017 Dispatches from Hurricane Irma Harvey was the hurricane of flooded towns and bayous [TlC, Sept. 24]. Irma was the hurricane of island havoc. Irma caused significant damage and power outages on mainland Florida, but the areas hit hardest were islands, primarily in the Caribbean, but also the Florida Keys. At press time, some of these same islands were bracing for even further damage from Hurricane Maria, which was expected to follow a similar path. + + + There are 14 Episcopal churches in the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, on the five main islands that comprise the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. From the British island of Virgin yvonne O’Neal/ENS Gorda, the Rev. Esther Georges of St. Irma destroyed most windows at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. Mary’s reported by email that 130 pris - oners had escaped from Balsam Ghut prison on the neighboring British is - the Virgin Islands. She said there were copal church on either island. He also land of Tortola, and that there had no known injuries among church oversees some mission work on Cule - been widespread looting. She said mil - members. bra. itary from the United Kingdom and Quick serves as diocesan coordina - “From my congregation, I have from Caribbean nations had restored tor in Alabama for Episcopal Relief about three or four families that have order, a curfew had been imposed, and and Development. She said the Rev. trouble with the water that entered more than 100 of the prisoners had Ian Rock, rector of St. George’s on Tor - from the roof to the property, and they been recaptured. tola, had provided shelter in the church lost some of their stuff,” Diaz said. He Of the U.S. islands, St. Croix, 40 for more than 100 people. said a Red Cross representative expects miles south of the other four tightly “We’re praying that Maria will not that number to double. The church clustered islands, escaped serious dam - hit St. Croix,” Quick said, although it had no important structural damage, age, and has been used as a staging area was projected to do just that. but will require some repainting be - for relief to the other islands. St. John cause of leaks in the roof. and St. Thomas were hit hard. Clergy + + + Diaz was shuttling back and forth from the five churches on St. Thomas between the two islands and the town and one on St. John have not been The first formal response that Episco - of Fajardo on the main island, bringing reachable, as communications were pal Relief announced in the wake of supplies on the ferries. still knocked out nearly two weeks af - Irma was for Vieques and Culebra, two ter the hurricane made landfall there small islands east of the main island of + + + on Sept. 6. Puerto Rico. They are working with Much of the available information the Diocese of Puerto Rico to provide The eye of Hurricane Irma plowed came from the Rev. Deacon Judy temporary housing, food, and other through the middle of the Florida Quick of the Diocese of Alabama, support to about 600 people. Keys, a string of small islands stretch - which since 2015 has built an active The Rev. José Diaz is vicar of Todos ing 130 miles into the Gulf of Mexico. companion diocese relationship with los Santos on Vieques, the only Epis - The Keys are connected by a single 4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • October 8, 2017 highway with 42 bridges, including one tures of the Keys, among other loca - “People were glad to come back to nearly seven miles long. There are five tions. “We’ve seen the NOAA pictures, church and feel a little bit normal for a Episcopal churches in the Keys. and we know that St. Francis has lost a change,” he said. “We had people in the One of the hardest-hit towns was lot of shingles, as has the pavilion,” community who were not members of Marathon, but “the church came Todd said. the church who saw the signs up and through fantastic,” said the Rev. Canon There are two Episcopal churches said, We just want to come to church Debra Maconaughey, speaking of St. half a mile apart in Key West, the out - today .” Columba in Marathon. She evacuated ermost island. The Rev. larry Hooper He believes one of the people at the before the storm, but some parish - and his wife, Katherine, stayed at St. service was from nearby St. Peter’s, ioners and others refused to do so, and Paul’s through the storm, huddled in where signs were posted. The Rev. “we had 25 people who sheltered at the the choir robing room. He said they lenworth Haughton is priest-in- church,” she said. “It’s a big concrete elected not to evacuate because of re - charge there, and he evacuated. But the building on stilts.” ports of snarled traffic. He felt they smaller St. Peter’s also was occupied In Big Pine Key, the Rev. Christo - would be better off in the church, during the storm. pher Todd has two churches, St. Fran - which is on high ground, than in a car. “There was a lady who called, almost cis-in-the-Keys Episcopal and lord of “We lost some shutters, and part of crying … she had 20 cats, and nowhere the Seas lutheran. He also evacuated the tin roof of the parish hall was to go,” Haughton said. “Of course, I and then gathered information on his peeled off,” but the large trees on the couldn’t tell her no.” All the cats were in flocks by phone. He spent an anxious property weathered the storm. cages, and they stayed at the church few days unable to contact the organist He alone among the Episcopal with their owner for three days. at the lutheran church, before she clergy in the Keys managed to hold a Haughton knows the woman, a regular checked in. worship service on Sept. 17, just seven patron of the church’s thrift shop, and The National Oceanic and Atmos - days after the storm hit. There were he is optimistic about what he will find pheric Administration (NOAA) web - about 35 worshipers, all of whom had when he returns to the building. site provided post-storm satellite pic - stayed through the storm. (Continued on next page) FEBRUARYFEBRUARBRUARRYY 2–3,2–3, 20182018 A TRINITY INSTITUTE CONFERENCE FEATURINGFEAATURINGTTURING Additional Speakers TBA WANTWWANANT TTOO CREATECREAATTE A BBETTERETTER WWORLD?ORLD? 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He is grateful for support from Episcopalians everywhere, but says “it’s The Episcopal Church Task Force on (Continued from previous page) a month and six weeks from now that the Study of Marriage has reported on “Whenever a hurricane comes we’re really going to need help and sup - its latest meeting, held Aug. 28-30 in through this region, it’s always costly to port,” after the headlines are gone.
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