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NEWS | December 2, 2018 POSTCARD FROM NOVA SCOTIA What We Remember on Remembrance Day By Matthew Townsend and civilians had died. Estimates vary, churches throughout Canada. Many of but most sources suggest about 10 mil- them contain plaques that commemo- For Americans, November 11 marks the lion soldiers died, and roughly the rate parishioners who died in the war, moment in which we give thanks to all same number of civilians. lest we forget. military veterans, living and dead, for In Canada and the British Com- Remembrance Day takes on special their service to God and country. monwealth, Nov. 11 is Remembrance meaning at St. Paul’s Anglican Church Memorial Day, held on the last Monday Day, a day in which those dead are in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and not only in May, serves to acknowledge and brought to mind. Canada’s losses were because of its losses in the Great War. remember people who died in that felt intensely. About 61,000 members Ninety-one parishioners were killed service. Memorial Day is said to have of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the war; their names were read emerged from the established practice were killed, with another 172,000 as a litany during Holy Eucharist on of decorating graves of those lost in war injured, according to the Canadian Nov. 11, along with names of those — and the Civil War’s shocking toll. War Museum. Another 1,305 New- who died in World War II. Elsewhere in the world, it was World foundlanders (not yet part of Canada) St. Paul’s — built in 1750 and said to War I that provided a jarring entry into were killed, as well. With around be the oldest building in Halifax and modern, mechanized combat, with 424,000 Canadians sent overseas — or oldest Protestant church in Canada — battles lasting for months and wars for around 5 percent of the country’s pop- is planted at the south end of the Hal- years. What began in 1914 as a war to ulation, at the time — the math is ifax Grand Parade, the city’s most end all wars, a short war to bring shocking. More than one in two Cana- prominent public square. At the north lasting peace, quickly proved to be oth- dians deployed did not come home or end is Halifax’s city hall; the city’s ceno- erwise. By the time the war ended on did not return physically unscathed. taph lies between government and Nov. 11, 1918, millions of combatants That pain is visible in Anglican church, a somber reminder of Haligo- nians who died in the world wars and in the Korean War. St. Paul’s front doors open upon the cenotaph. On days like Nov. 11, the Grand Parade is Halifax’s busiest public space. This year, well more than a thousand people packed into the square to hear memorials of the dead, 100 years after World War I ended. As solemn poems and prayers were read at 11 a.m. by city dignitaries, veterans, and youth, can- nons on Citadel Hill (about a quarter- mile away) loudly saluted the hour of armistice. They also heard of death, of sacrifice, of post-traumatic stress dis- order, and of loss — but they did not hear, as St. Paul’s rector told the church before the ceremony, glorification of war. That is not a part of the Remem- brance Day program. “This is a day of remembrance. Let us give thanks for those who offered their lives in the hope that their sacrifice in a short war would create a long peace,” the Rev. Paul Friesen preached. “We remember above all the love of Matthew Townsend photo God that heals.” Haligonians share a moment of silence around the Halifax cenotaph on Remembrance Day. St. Paul’s participation in events

4 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 refuge from the morning’s near- tion for what they’ve done.” freezing temperatures and harsh Lynch, an associate member whose winds. Staff and volunteers hauled family served in conflicts, was among king-sized pots of hot chocolate those to carry a poppy wreath to the between the small parish kitchen and cenotaph during the Remembrance the narthex, where youth presided over Day Ceremony. (Poppies are the uni- cups and ladles. (Marshmallows, how- versal symbol of war dead throughout ever, were a self-service affair.) the Commonwealth, thanks to the Canada’s observance of Remem- poetry of Canadian physician and sol- brance Day seems to strike a balance dier John McCrae, one of those who sometimes hard to find in the United did not see 1919.) States. Somewhere in between “The She said that Halifax’s military his- Battle Hymn of the Republic” and tory — and the active duty personnel “Down by the Riverside,” the day cre- that call the city home — give a special ates a space and time in which anti- significance to Remembrance Day. war sentiment and respect for service Lynch said support for the Legion’s men and women can coexist. War is work during “poppy season,” the time deeply lamented while the warriors are between the end of October and Nov. embraced. Warfare is not glorified, and 11 when Canadians of all stripes (and soldiers are not sanctified, but the politics) don lapel poppies and drop Ashley Stephenson photo depth of their sacrifice is honored. funds large and small into Legion col- Airmen await the start of the Remembrance Karen Lynch, chairwoman of the lection boxes, had been overwhelming. Day parade. Halifax is home to land, sea, and air personnel. Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of She said, however, that support of vet- the Royal Canadian Legion, told TLC erans and the fallen is not limited to a that Remembrance Day, for her, is a single day. included hospitality. The church way of “showing that we understand “It’s almost like a daily part of our remained open as a warm space before, their commitments and the sacrifices lives here,” she said. “It’s not just during, and after the ceremony — that they’ve made, and the apprecia- (Continued on next page)

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December 2, 2018 • THE LIVING CHURCH 5 tics, personal views on war, and NEWS December 2, 2018 familial connections. | “Individuals will have different feel- Remembrance Day ings when they hear the bells. They (Continued from previous page) may look at it as a celebration. They Remembrance Day. It’s something we may think of their families, their lost strive to do every day, especially the ones, who served in past wars, past Legion in its advocacy for veterans.” conflicts,” he said. “It’s a mixed bag. I’m For Lt. Mike Campbell, a member not about to tell people what they Nov. 30 of Canada’s Air Force Reserve who should think. Let them make up their Liturgical Folk Concert attended the ceremony with his wife own minds.” (also in uniform), the day was as much A live music event about remembering as teaching future Matthew Townsend and his wife, Kate at Canterbury House, Dallas, TX generations. He said that Remem- Crane, live in Nova Scotia as Kate pur- brance Day is a way to be sure knowl- sues academic studies. They worship at edge of sacrifice is passed on. “It’s the St. Paul’s and, from time to time, King’s same thing in the U.S. and a lot of College Chapel, Halifax. Dec. 8 other nations in the world where people have served,” he told TLC. “It’s St. Augustine of Hippo as Catechist nothing too deep — just to come, be A study day at St. Anne’s out here, and remember.” Christmas Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA The Grand Parade cleared after the cenotaph was decorated with wreaths, and Humility but events continued throughout the day. On the national level, the Legion in Las Posadas Dec. 13 offered materials to local branches sug- gesting that church, municipal, and By G. Jeffrey MacDonald The Prayer of Jesus’ Life: Legion hall bells be rung 100 times at Christology and the Lord’s Prayer sunset — “Bells of Peace.” Episcopal parishes are bringing a touch A Faith Talks event with John D. Meehan, president of Legion of drama, playfulness, and Latino cul- Dr. Wesley Hill Branch 161/Eastern Marine, Nova ture to their Advent traditions by Scotia, told TLC that he worked with observing the liturgy of Las Posadas, at Canterbury House, Dallas, TX local churches to include them in the which depicts Joseph and Mary’s long- program. He said he promoted the suffering search for shelter. event through social media, with more Popular in Mexico, Cuba, and parts than 300 shares. “That might not seem of Central America, Las Posadas a lot to you, but when you realize involves a flexible program of prayers, Look for more events where we live, in the rural area, 300 processions, and singing as characters launching in 2019. shares is good.” dressed as Joseph and Mary are turned Meehan, a veteran who served in the away again and again. Finally, they are British and Canadian navies (39.5 welcomed into a humble refuge, fol- years of service, mostly attached to lowed by a fiesta of sharing traditional submarines) said he hoped people foods and smashing a seven-pointed would think about the 100 years that piñata representing the deadly sins. Visit the have elapsed since the end of World “It has been discovered by the Calendar of Events War I. “But I’d also like them to think Anglo congregations as a wonderful at livingchurch.org/tlci that the Great War was not the solu- drama that kinds of accentuates and tion” that it was expected to be. puts flesh on the Advent season,” said to register and learn more. “We’ve had wars and conflicts since Al Rodriguez, interim director of Or see Upcoming Events then, and we still have them,” he said. Latino/Hispanic Studies at Seminary on the Living Church Institute’s “Originally, I think it could have been of the Southwest. “They’re also dis- Facebook page. a celebration of 100 years of peace. But, covering that it’s a wonderful way to of course, that didn’t happen.” have an outreach to a local neighbor- Meehan’s view on what people hood or area. In reality, it’s kind of an should think when hearing the bells — evangelistic tool.” when remembering — may encapsu- Doors are opening to make Las late why Remembrance Day sees wide Posadas more accessible to congrega- adoption in Canada regardless of poli- tions. Since 2015, Forward Movement

6 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 has offered a free Las Posadas resource Las Posadas nightly from Dec. 16 side in Advent, according to Vince in Spanish (bit.ly/Posadas1) and Eng- through 24 — one night for each Anderson, director of arts and com- lish (bit.ly/Posadas2). month of Mary’s pregnancy — with the munity development at Bushwick In July, the 79th General Conven- fiesta on the ninth night (Christmas Abbey. tion approved adding Las Posadas to Eve). Anglo churches in the United “We used the traditional Posada the Book of Occasional Services. States often condense Las Posadas into operetta,” led by a retired priest who On Nov. 10, the Diocese of East Car- fewer nights, with some observing it has experience with it, Anderson said. olina augmented its promotion of Las in a single evening, Clarkson said. “He led the singing and did the little Posadas with a six-hour cooking work- Congregations are adapting the pro- dialogue. He even ended up singing shop on how to prepare Las Posadas gram to their settings. For instance, on the parts for the bodega owner. It was cuisine from Mexico, Colombia, and Dec. 23 at St. Bede’s in Atlanta, Mary all pretty scrappy, which adds to the Venezuela. and Joseph will move from one room beauty of it.” “When we’re thinking about our to the next within the church building Forward Movement reports growing Advent and Christmas traditions, until finally they are welcomed into the usage of its Las Posadas guide. English- they’re kind of a hodgepodge bor- nave for Holy Eucharist, followed by language downloads have increased by rowed from a bunch of different cul- decorating a Christmas tree and a 20 to 30 percent annually since 2015, tures anyway,” said the Rev. Fred piñata for the kids. said Hugo Olaiz, assistant editor for Clarkson, Spanish-language ministry At Bushwick Abbey and its host Latino/Hispanic Ministries. Spanish- coordinator for the Diocese of East church, Iglesia de la Santa Cruz in language downloads have been steady, Carolina and a priest at St. Peter’s Brooklyn, congregants last year brought he said. Church in Washington, N.C. “This is a Las Posadas into the streets. Mary, “If, instead of overeating, buying way of really engaging the biblical story Joseph, and pilgrims sang for shelter expensive gifts, and celebrating Santa, and really engaging the gift of Hispanic outside a few local bodegas that are dis- were we to celebrate Posadas as they do culture. And that’s the gift that it playing art in their windows as part of in many parts of Latin America, we offers.” the church’s Bodega Advent Project. would have Christ-centered Christmas,” Las Posadas often looks different Las Posadas gave the two Episcopal Olaiz said via email. north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Mex- congregations a way to transcend lan- Among the congregations that have ican congregations usually celebrate guage barriers and do ministry side by (Continued on next page)

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December 2, 2018 • THE LIVING CHURCH 7 Las Posadas does appeal to people copal Church shall not be used any- NEWS | December 2, 2018 when they see it. It’s really about the where in the Diocese of Albany.” Las Posadas story and why we really celebrate In response, Presiding Bishop Christmas, as opposed to this kind of Michael Curry said in a statement, (Continued from previous page) commercial nature of Christmas and “Along with other leaders in the Epis- celebrated Las Posadas in the past two what it has become. That’s really the copal Church, I am assessing the impli- years: Church of the Good Shepherd in beauty of it.” cations of [Bishop Love’s] statement Silver City, N.M.; St Dunstan’s in and will make determinations about Madison, Wis.; St. John’s in Wash- appropriate actions soon.” ington, D.C.; and St. John’s in San Bishop Love’s Bishop Lawrence C. Provenzano of Bernardino, Calif. Lone Stance on Long Island, who was instrumental in Because the liturgy is flexible, it can negotiating the compromise at Gen- be adapted to suit various Advent Same-sex Marriage eral Convention, told TLC by email: “I themes and emphases. Some have used know that in his heart, Bill Love would it to inspire action on immigration News analysis by Kirk Petersen never do anything or say anything to issues by framing how Joseph’s and directly harm an individual. He is a Mary’s plight has parallels to today’s A decision by Albany Bishop William gentle, kind man. His decision regarding challenges facing refugees and migrants. H. Love to reject a compromise on B012 is breaking my heart. I truly Others take turns hosting a Las same-sex marriage reached at the 79th believe it is the responsibility and duty Posadas event in different neighbor- General Convention has placed Love of the diocesan bishop to interpret and hoods each night and use the occasion and the diocese under a spotlight that pastorally implement the decisions of to invite neighbors over for what is, in might soon become a microscope. General Convention in the context of a effect, a comfortable rendering of the Battle lines are being drawn for what particular local church.” Christmas story. may become disciplinary action Going into the July convention in “A lot of the Christmas traditions against Love, who in a pastoral letter to Austin, bishops of 93 U.S. dioceses that we tend to practice don’t really the diocese declared “the trial rites supported same-sex marriage rites that engage the biblical story,” Clarkson authorized by Resolution B012 of the were initially approved on a trial basis said. “That’s one of the reasons why 79th General Convention of the Epis- at the 2015 General Convention. The

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8 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 2015 resolution said the rites could that reflect and uphold the discern- Under Title IV.4(1)(h)(2), members only be used with the approval of the ment and decisions of the General of the clergy, including bishops, are diocesan bishop. Albany was one of Convention of the Church.” required to refrain from “holding and eight dioceses in which approval was Whether conformity requires obe- teaching publicly or privately, and not subsequently granted. dience may be a matter for a hearing advisedly, any Doctrine contrary to The 2018 resolution curtailed that panel. that held by the Church.” veto power, declaring that conservative The 2018 resolution does not take As seen in the case of Bishop Jon bishops must find an amenable bishop effect until the first Sunday of Advent, Bruno of Los Angeles, it can take years to guide a congregation desiring to per- which is December 2, so there may not for a formal complaint against a bishop form a same-sex wedding. This path, yet be any party with proper standing to to make its way through the convoluted conceptually similar to Delegated Epis- make a complaint against Love under steps of Title IV. However, Title IV.7(3) copal Pastoral Oversight (DEPO), Title IV of the church’s canons, which also gives the presiding bishop broad could allow bishops to affirm tradi- deals with ecclesiastical discipline. (Continued on next page) tional teachings on marriage within their dioceses without preventing congregations from seeking an alternative arrangement. Same-sex marriage liturgies — where permitted under civil law, approved by a rector, and supported by parish leadership — were thus made available to the whole church. “To their credit,” said the Rev. Canon Susan Russell, a longtime LGBT activist, the other seven bishops have all developed ways “to make marriage available, in some way, to the same-sex couples in their dioceses. And Bishop Love has drawn a line in the sand.” For example, the Rt. Rev. Daniel Martins told the Diocese of Springfield a few days after General Convention that although he remains opposed to same-sex marriage, he will ask another bishop to provide temporary spiritual and pastoral oversight to any congregation seeking to conduct a same-sex wedding. In his eight-page letter to the Dio- cese of Albany, Love quoted from the ordination declaration made by all bishops, priests, and deacons: “I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation.” Love then cited multiple passages from Scripture in support of his position against same-sex marriage. There is a second clause in the ordination declaration that Love did not quote: “I do solemnly engage to conform to the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Episcopal Church.” Curry’s response pointedly borrowed that language: “In all matters, those of us who have taken vows to obey the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church must act in ways

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Ascension Press NEWS December 2, 2018 of the Order of the Ascension | Bishop Love To seek the presence of Jesus Christ in the people, things and circumstances of life through stability, obedience and conversion of life (Continued from previous page) … The development of parish churches grounded in Anglican pastoral powers to take action against a bishop and ascetical theology, especially Benedictine spirituality. “without prior notice or hearing” if the bishop “may have committed any Practicing Prayer: A Handbook, Lowell Grisham, OA Guidance for enhancing your Offense, or that the good order, welfare experience of personal prayer. or safety of the Church or any person or

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In Your Holy Spirit: Shaping the Parish Through Spiritual Practice, Robert Gallagher, OA cise of ministry, or order the bishop The revitalization of the parish by focusing on spiritual practice. into administrative leave. Curry cited this section of the canons Fill All Things: The Dynamics of Spirituality in the Parish Church, Robert Gallagher, OA on Aug. 1, 2017, when he stripped “Real-life models for the day-to-day work of leading healthy congregations. Spiritually grounded, yet pragmatic. May be the most helpful resource I've encountered for Bruno of any authority over St. James of building a vital church.” Newport Beach for actions Bruno took during the Title IV proceedings against Information on each book and to order: www.orderoftheascension.org/ascension-press/ him. It may not take long for a catalyzing case to emerge. Albany is a conservative diocese, and Love’s stance against Visit our website: livingchurch.org same-sex marriage reportedly enjoys substantial support among the clergy. and our weblog: covenant.livingchurch.org There are, however, pockets of resist- ance. At St. Andrew’s in Albany, parishioners burned a copy of Love’s letter outside the front door of the church on Sunday, Nov. 11. The rector, the Rev. Mary Robinson White, said by email, “The congregation of St. Andrew’s felt anger and frustration at the contents of Bishops Love’s pastoral letter and directive.” Her husband, John White, told TLC that St. Andrew’s has been operating under a DEPO relationship with the neighboring Diocese of Central New York, under which Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe of Central New York provides pastoral oversight to the church. “The House of Bishops devised DEPO in 2004 for congregations that so severely disagree with their diocesan bishops on matter of human sexuality and other theological matters that their relationship is completely broken,” according to Episcopal News Service. Designers and Crafters of Vesture For the Sacred Liturgy Sacred the For Vesture of Crafters Designers and At St. George’s in Schenectady, the Rev. Matthew Stromberg told his parish Visit us at www.holyroodguild.com in a September newsletter that he hoped Love would accept the will of the Gen- St. Joseph’s Abbey | Spencer, MA 01562-1233 eral Convention despite the bishop’s Toll Free: 866.383.7292 | Fax: 508.885.8758 profound disagreement. “Failure to do

10 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 so could lead to serious consequences canon),” Prior said. for our diocese. … Please pray for dis- “However, it was determined that Actions Before Words cernment for our bishop, that he will Michael could benefit from engaging Most New Zealanders believe that the make the right decision.” in some time in professional develop- most effective approach to evangelism “I would have liked to see him follow ment. As such, Michael will be taking a is to demonstrate Christian actions the lead of the other seven conservative leave of absence from ECMN for the before speaking of one’s faith, bishops,” Stromberg said after the month of November to work with according to a new survey. bishop’s announcement. Stromberg LeaderWise.” More than half of New Zealanders said he has “a lot of regard for him per- (59%) thought they were more likely to sonally,” and would not act in defiance The 40th Province be influenced to investigate the Chris- of Love’s instructions. tian faith by seeing it in Christians’ One priest in the diocese told TLC The Iglesia Anglicana de Chile, the lives, especially in caring for people he “intends not to abide by” Love’s Anglican Church of Chile, became the experiencing trauma or life change. directive and will celebrate a same-sex 40th province of the Anglican Com- The survey also found that 54 percent marriage if the opportunity arises. munion in a celebratory service in the of New Zealanders were open to The Rev. Glen Michaels is an assis- capital, Santiago. changing their religious beliefs or tant attorney general for New York During the service, Bishop Héctor exploring other beliefs. State. He serves as priest in charge of Tito Zavala Muñoz was installed as Faith and Belief in New Zealand All Souls Memorial Chapel in St. archbishop and primate of the new reports on a survey commissioned by Hubert’s in the Adirondacks, about 100 province. Archbishop Justin Welby the Wilberforce Foundation and con- miles north of Albany. All Souls is prayed over the new archbishop and ducted by McCrindle Research of Aus- open only in the summer, and presented with a primatial cross. tralia. The survey, which also draws on Michaels said it frequently serves as a More than 800 people, including New Zealand Census records of reli- wedding venue. many from overseas, attended the gious affiliation, used online question- Michaels said that as he reads the service Nov. 4 at the Grange School. naires to establish patterns of percep- canons, Love’s prohibition of same-sex Chile began seeking autonomy is tion and belief across a group of 1,007 marriage is “not enforceable” because 2015. It received approval from the respondents. of the action of the General Conven- Standing Committee of the Anglican Just under half of those who com- tion. Consultative Council and support pleted the questionnaire (46-47%) “For better or worse I see myself as a from a majority of the Anglican Com- believe that spirituality is important for good person to challenge this,” he said, munion’s primates. Its inauguration as well-being and mental health. because his livelihood does not depend 40th province comes just over a year Respondents said stories of sexual on his work as a priest. after Sudan became the 39th. abuse are the greatest barrier to people Adapted from ACNS (Continued on next page) Complaint Dismissed

A Title IV complaint against the Rev. Canon Michael Pipkin, whose name was removed as a candidate from the bishop search process in Colorado, has been dismissed. The Rt. Rev. Brian N. Prior, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota, wrote about the dismissal to members of the diocese, in which Pipkin is canonically resident. “In consultation with the President of the Standing Committee, the Chair of the Personnel Committee and the Chancellor, we obtained the services of an independent investigator. After FaithEncourage.org conducting multiple interviews, the Call 972-839-3773 investigator reviewed the findings with [email protected] the Reference Panel and the Chan- cellor. It was decided that the complaint be dismissed, as the concerns were not a Title IV violation (the Epis- copal Church clergy disciplinary

December 2, 2018 • THE LIVING CHURCH 11 Grief, Prayers, Action NEWS December 2, 2018 | The Bishop of Los Angeles responded New Zealand with a statement and a prayer in (Continued from previous page) response to the shooting death of 12 people on Nov. 7 at Borderline Bar and coming to faith. The most off-putting Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif. aspects they cited were sexual abuse “The Episcopal Diocese of Los within the church (76%), hypocritical Angeles joins in mourning the victims attitudes or behavior by Christians or of the Borderline shooting in Thou- churches (69%), church teachings on sand Oaks and offering words of com- homosexuality (47%), and the perceived fort and support to their families and conflict of proclaiming a loving God those who were wounded,” said Bishop who sends some people to hell (45%). John Harvey Taylor. Just under 10 percent of the respon- “This act of anger, hatred, and vio- dents did not know a single Christian lence reminds us of Jesus Christ’s invi- and a quarter knew fewer than two. tation to his realm of forgiveness, love, Another statistic showed that more and peace. We make our way there than half of the respondents knew next together by merciful acts of prayer and to nothing about their local churches. consolation and then resolute acts of The survey indicated that Jesus con- justice and mercy: Advocating along stituted good news: 92 percent of with Bishops United Against Gun Vio- respondents knew about Jesus, 53 per- lence for common-sense reforms; sup- cent associated him with love, and porting organizations pledged to serve members of a non-Christian focus veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq who Davis d’Ambly group largely agreed that they saw Jesus are battling trauma and the effects of as relatable, approachable, and gracious. moral hazard; and working to erase the Liturgical Artist John Martin stain of social isolation by making our The finest quality churches and other faith institutions.” Bishops Against Gun Violence also custom liturgical art Polynesian Election responded with a statement, and a rite The Rev. Fereimi Cama, vicar of St. that mentions the nationally known firmly grounded Peter’s in Lautoka on the Fijian island shootings in recent years. in the traditions of Viti Levu, has been elected Bishop of “While the phrase ‘thoughts and Polynesia. prayers’ might have become devalued of the Church When he is consecrated and by elected leaders who believe speaking installed, he will also become one of these words discharges their duty in the the three archbishops and primates of wake of a massacre, we nonetheless Paintings the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New believe that we are called to pray for Zealand, and Polynesia. The election the dead, those who mourn them and was announced Nov. 11 by the two those who respond to the scene of mass Altarpieces incumbent primates, Archbishop Don shootings,” the bishops said. Tamihere and Archbishop Philip The rite lists each mass shooting and Woodcarvings Richardson, who have responsibility the number who died. for the church’s Maori and Pakeha tikangas, or cultural streams. Deepening Roots Furnishings The 63-year-old archbishop-elect is a former dean of Holy Trinity Cathe- For a second year, a Boston conference dral in Suva. has given Anglo-Catholics a place to Sacred Vestments “The fact that he will be the first consider their history and future. Bishop of Polynesia of indigenous Fijian descent is something else worth By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Altar Hangings celebrating,” Abp. Tamihere said, “though I know that Fr. Cama is com- Episcopalians gathered in Boston for mitted to serving all the nations and two days of exploring Anglo-Catholi- www.liturgicalartist.com people of Polynesia with equal effort cism’s roots and what it offers a 21st- 610-955-2462 and respect.” century world. Adapted from ACNS “Anglo-Catholic Roots II,” a con-

12 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 ference sponsored by Church of the ‘‘AA as g thinnisotn t ur dog e ffoo ecr ’, …‘ riv jointea urneg yurne ’…, ‘...a . b nalilri t Advent and THE LIVING CHURCH, gave aacritathe insl naoitairpnd ena nceriexpl e’……enceriexpl aloS nngege D naeS itn s, EpEp csi ooppal JJoo lanru scholars a platform to discuss the nature of unity in light of Scripture St.St. Mark’sMMaark’’ss GGospelos sspepel and ecclesiastical tradition. It also e rfeP ffoo encrma and minaeS rmina e ev nt gave clergy and laity to probe their A turnkey program for clericus meetings, lay education, Diocesan conventions program, funds tradition for insight into how live raising event, evangelism, retreats, or as a stand-alone theater performance. their faith in challenging times. “I’m committed to serving the Lord Jesus and I want to be able to be a witness for him in the world today,” said Anastasia O’Melveny, a parishioner at Church of the Advent. “But there are so many negative things that so-called Christians do that when someone says What’s your religion? I hesitate to say Christian because they will think of you through this lens. That’s very, very upsetting.

“So I look at this conference as a For more information or booking, call 401-450-1626 or email [email protected] sign that we’re all searching for ways www.tombairr.com.com and www.stmarksgospel.com to make the church a living witness for the Lord.” Anglo-Catholicism is a strain of Anglicanism that traces its begin- nings to the Oxford Movement of the 19th century, which gave rise to a cohort of street priests who worked among the destitute in England’s cities. It is marked by emphases on traditional worship, orthodox doctrine, service among the poor, and A Division of radical hospitality. Anglo-Catholicism has shown signs of dying out in recent decades, said the Rev. Jeff Hanson, Roots II organizer, a research associate in phi- losophy at Harvard University and curate for Christian education at Church of the Advent, which hosted Roots II on Nov. 1 and 2. But the movement has more to offer than has been realized, he said. “The Anglo-Catholic tradition did not set out to say, Well, we’d better bring back chasubles,” Hanson said. “That wasn’t the first impulse. The first impulse was revival.” He said early Anglo-Catholics emphasized how church was for everyone, not just for patrons who had paid for a box or a pew, and a church for all can be energizing. “I want to see that vision come back where the Anglo-Catholic tradition, it seems to me, ought to be a rival for something like Catholic social teaching,” (Continued on next page)

December 2, 2018 • THE LIVING CHURCH 13 Keep Watch — Live on Facebook NEWS | December 2, 2018 For a Nashville church, the social media the idea: What if we were to do Com- Roots II platform’s streaming feature is a portal to pline … every night here at the church, a peaceful night. but then broadcast it via Facebook (Continued from previous page) Live?” he said. Hanson said. “We all recognize the By Kirk Petersen Through more discussion, the team body of moral teaching and instruc- realized it was not necessary to make tion shaped by Roman Catholic the- For the third straight Advent at a someone come to the church every ology. But I don’t think we know a Nashville church, a nighttime liturgy night, that staff members could take thing in the world about what sort of dating to the sixth century will connect turns broadcasting Compline from their moral vision was articulated by our with a technology platform dating to homes. predecessors.” 2004. Hines said he normally does not like Before turning to social and polit- At 9 p.m., six times weekly, staff mem- social media, believing that it helps rein- ical matters, Hanson said, Anglo- bers at St. Bartholomew’s will take turns force a “malformed liturgy” of the con- Catholics need to find their common reading Compline from the Book of temporary secular world. But “any moorings in the tradition’s core prin- Common Prayer on Facebook Live, pro- opportunity we have to redeem it in ciples. To that end, Bishop John viding a few minutes of tranquility some way, and to make use of it to Bauerschmidt of the Diocese of Ten- during what can be a hectic season. reform our people in the image of nessee set the tone with a talk on Sally Chambers, director of communi- Christ, I’m excited about that,” he said. church unity and how it depends on cations at St. Bartholomew’s, said the prac- During Advent, the beginning of the preserving orthodox beliefs. tice arose from a brainstorming session church year, St. Bartholomew’s has “Scriptures create sacraments and among members of the clergy and staff, found “there’s a willingness in people to episcopate,” Bauerschmidt said. “These who asked, How do we get people to open reorient … toward spiritual disciplines, elements have roots that stretch back to up the prayer book and engage with it? that they can engage more in the the first centuries of the church. They The services last about ten minutes rhythms of the liturgical life of the are explicitly the basis of the unity that and can be watched live or after the fact. church,” Hines said. “Compline is a characterizes our own churches in the Chambers estimates the service averages simple service, it’s an easy entry in,” and Anglican Communion.” 25 daily viewings. it comes at the end of the day, when fam- In the Scriptures, he said, are “Our community is so geographically ilies typically are gathered together at common beliefs that transcended dispersed, and with the way Nashville is home. local settings of the early Church. The growing now, it’s getting more and more Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who Bible also contains warnings about difficult to bring people to our church work, or watch, or weep this night, and heresy, or false teachings that lead fol- building,” said the Rev. Travis Hines, give your angels charge over those who lowers astray and create division that associate rector. sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest leads to destruction. Among the texts “Sally, who’s our communications to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the he cited was Titus 3:9-11, which calls director, but really functions also as a suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the for avoidance of “stupid controver- pastor for our community, came up with joyous; and all for your love’s sake. Amen. sies” and consequences for “anyone who causes divisions.” “There the heretic is one who causes divisions, rather than any theme of church unity and its nature. average Sunday. Unlike many Epis- formal concept of false doctrine,” Among them, Virginia Theological copal congregations, Church of the Bauerschmidt said. “We’re more Seminary theologian Katherine Son- Advent attracts more men than accustomed to think of division as deregger spoke on “Catholic Visi- women to worship, and millennials schism, but there is a common thread bility.” Christopher Wells, editor of are well-represented. of thought. The heretic chooses his or TLC and executive director of its “Now there’s a sort of critical mass, her own truth, while the schismatic foundation, explored “Anglican and they bring other young people of chooses his or her own leadership. It’s Augustinianisms.” that age,” said the Rev. Jay James, asso- the preference for one’s own that pro- Laypeople listened for deeper ciate rector at Church of the Advent. vides the connection.” insight into their tradition, which has “That was not representative of the Bauerschmidt said he does not enjoyed a resurgence of late in Boston, church 25 or 30 years ago. It was want to restore heresy trials. He where it is drawing even hard-to-reach dying off.” argued instead that heresy can be “an demographic groups from across one “Roots II” marked the second time important diagnosis tool” for of America’s least religious cities. in as many years that Church of the assessing what lies at the heart of It is not uncommon, parishioners Advent has hosted a November con- church divisions. and clergy say, for Church of the ference on Anglo-Catholicism. The On the conference’s second day, Advent to pack its 11:15 a.m. Rite I parish hopes to host two more in four presenters further explored the High Mass to near capacity on an 2019 and 2020, Hanson said.

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‘Advent Begins in the Dark’ Fleming Rutledge discusses Advent’s unflinching gaze at evil and its themes of wrath, judgment, and hope.

By Zachary Guiliano

10 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 very year, Advent begins in the dark.” quently in her writing, though her reading and intellectual This phrase opens and punctuates a series engagement are both wide and deep. The reader is just as of sermons by the Rev. Fleming Rutledge, likely to encounter a quotation from Augustine or Anselm from the mid-1990s to the present day. or modern scholars like Brevard Childs, Robert Jenson, It condenses into one poignant phrase Paul Riceour, and Katherine Sonderegger, all set alongside a theme that emerges again and again in her preaching, references to current events and literature. Each sermon, “Espeaking, and writing: the necessity of confronting realities therefore, is something of a master class and topics that modern people, Christians, and perhaps es- in preaching. In this and other ways, pecially Episcopalians want to avoid, even when the sharp Rutledge considers herself an heir to the edges of those realities recur. The problem of evil, the judg- deep intellectual and spiritual traditions ment and wrath of God, the inescapable strangeness and of Protestantism, as well as part of “the power of the biblical witness — all these animate Rutledge’s great Church” of the ages, always seeking thinking and expression. God’s truth and communicating it effec- “That’s what I think is so important about the season,” tively. she told TLC. “The uniqueness of Advent is that it really As a sought-out speaker, preacher, and forces us more than any other season, even more than Lent, retreat leader, Rutledge’s homiletic skill to look deeply into what is wrong in the world, and why the has long been recognized by those inside Rutledge best-laid plans don’t work out the way we meant them to, and outside the Episcopal Church. Advent is her seventh and why our greatest hopes are so often confounded, and collection of published sermons with Eerdmans, and the why things happen the way they do, and why sometimes it late Hughes Oliphant Old, author of a definitive multi-vol- is so difficult to see where God is acting.” ume work, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ Worship of the Christian Church, classed her appreciatively (Eerdmans, 2018) is her latest offering, a collection of 46 with other “generous orthodoxy” preachers like Methodist sermons delivered in the past four decades, paired with a Will Willimon. “When the Word is truly preached, the glo- thematic introduction and other writings. Her intended ry has by no means departed,” he said of Rutledge. audience includes preachers, teachers, liturgists, and lay- Grappling with and struggling to understand that di- people “who want to live more deeply out of the gospel as vine Word is the preacher’s calling, before any sermon can it is dramatized in the church’s year” (p. 30) She admits the be delivered. “Giving up oneself to the fresh reading of a volume “has a conspicuous Episcopal (Anglican) flavor” passage of Scripture is a very humbling exercise, because if but her “hope is that Christian believers of all persuasions we’re really reading it and receiving it, we’re going to find will find that the depth of theological meaning in the obser- ourselves reoriented. We’re not going to be able to use the vance of Advent holds inexhaustible significance for them illustrations we plan to use. We’re not going to be able to say as well in these days” (p. 31). To that end, the sermons and the things we planned to say,” she says. other resources refer constantly not only to Scripture, but “This Word is alive, and God speaks through it. And to Advent liturgies and hymns, Handel’s Messiah, and the that means my little notions of what I was going to say

Lawrence Lew, OP/Flickr photo OP/Flickr Lew, Lawrence poetry of Auden and Eliot — each drawing out and extend- may be overturned and, by God’s grace, reshaped for othing the themes of the appointed lectionary readings. ers.” Preachers need to be “seized by the text.” Rutledge describes her training in preaching with a Lutheran professor utledge’s career has spanned one of the at Union Theological Seminary as “intensely demanding, most dramatic periods of change in the rigorous, and biblical.” Episcopal Church. Made deacon in 1975 Rand priest in 1977, she was among the earliest he season of Advent particularly needs these disci- ordained women in the church, and began her plines in its preachers, for it confronts us with truths ministry at a time of great liturgical upheaval, we wish to avoid: the problem of evil and “rampaging as the 1979 Book of Common Prayer was au- Tdemonic powers.” “Advent requires us to think about judg- thorized. Her temperament and influences have ment, that theme we scorn and disdain and omit and gloss long been distinctive. One of the sermons, “The over throughout the year,” she says. “If you take Advent as Great But,” provides some sense of her impa- a seven-week season, beginning with the Sunday after All tience with political correctness among other Saints, then you have a full biblical picture in the lectionary seminarians in the ’70s. Moreover, she takes of what it means to experience the wrath of God. And that, pride in having been molded, as a sixth-gener- of course is a great challenge for preachers because no one ation Episcopalian, by what Paul Zahl calls “the wants to hear about the wrath of God.” Protestant Face of Anglicanism.” The sermons inAdvent therefore engage in an activity The “justification of the ungodly” is a con- that Rutledge describes in the introduction as “looking into stant theme, and her intellectual influences are the heart of darkness.” Many of them describe historical or more Continental and Reformed than those of contemporary horrors: war, murder, the torture of children, many other Episcopalians. John Calvin, Ernst atrocities from Nazi Germany or the Rwandan genocide, Käsemann, Karl Barth, and others appear fre- (Continued on next page)

December 2, 2018 • THE LIVING CHURCH 17 Rutledge “I have personally been present when new names for the (Continued from previous page) candles of the Four Sundays of Advent have been proposed along the lines of Peace, Joy, Love, and Hope. This presents natural disasters and accidents, or the great divide between quite a contrast with the medieval Advent themes of death, rich and poor that becomes so evident in the run-up to judgment, heaven, and hell—in that order!” Christmas. The theme has been countercultural throughout Rutledge’s Her goal is not to convince her audience of the evil that education and ministry. “When I was young, I was told that lies somewhere out there, but of the evil within each human We don’t believe that anymore. I was told that by seminary heart. In “When the Man Comes Around,” she criticizes New professors and highly educated clergy and other ‘large’ fig- York Times columnist David Brooks for decrying the horrific ures in the church. … Well, in my old age I have come to crimes of Saddam Hussein’s regime, while elevating Amer- believe that without that promise the gospel becomes simply ican moral character. “Brooks does not allow any room for consolation for individuals and nothing of world-historical understanding that Americans, too, are part of the dark real- importance.” ity of human nature.” Rutledge has been seized by that Word of God encoun- “Every day we learn more and more how the United States tered in Holy Scripture and proclaimed in Advent. And so is implicated in evils around the world,” she told TLC, citing she can preach with conviction about judgment and wrath, the recent example of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and but also hope, addressing “all of history, all of humanity, all the war in Yemen. “American companies are deeply, deeply of the future, because God can create out of nothing.” involved in supporting and providing intelligence and other types of cooperation with the Saudis. … There’s an intricate web of Sin and Death in our world which cannot be over- Other books by Fleming Rutledge come by human imagination or human resolution or pro- posals or propositions or actions.” • The Bible and The New York Times (1998) • Help My Unbelief (2000) his necessary Advent meditation on the mystery • The Undoing of Death (2002) and problem of evil is analogous to looking into the • The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien’s Divine Design in The depths of hell, a comparison Rutledge draws in her Lord of the Rings Tacclaimed book The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of • The Seven Last Words from the Cross (2004) Jesus Christ (Eerdmans, 2015). To consider Christ’s descent • Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Sermons from Paul’s Letter to into hell, she writes, is partly “to look without blinking at the Romans (2007) the presence and potency of radical evil in order to register • And God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old the worst about human nature, to fortify ourselves to resist Testament (2011) that worst, … by acknowledging that there are submerged • The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ dark inclinations in all of us that under certain circumstanc- (2015) es can come to the surface” (emphasis original). As one of • Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ (2018) her sermons puts it, quoting Václav Havel and his evocation • Three Hours: Sermons for Good Friday (forthcoming) of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, “The line between good and evil runs through each person.” We would misread Rutledge if we imagined her preaching is meant merely to take us to the moral brink and throw us in the abyss, like some caricature of a fire-and-brimstone preacher. Rather, the contemplation of evil highlights how we live like the biblical prophets, in a time between times. We await the coming of the Messiah to usher in the new creation and bring an end to evil. “It can only be overcome in the last analysis by an intervention from another sphere,” she says. “This is what is promised in Jesus Christ.” On the Second Coming rests “the integrity of the whole gospel.” Without it, Christ would not truly be the long-await- ed Messiah: “the Christian gospel would not come to its completion, and … take on the world-historical, cosmic rele- vance aspect that it has in Isaiah and Revelation, not to men- tion Paul and his letters.” Rutledge is aware of how countercultural Advent’s message is, both for contemporary culture and for a church whose liturgical and biblical sense is often adrift. “[N]othing short of a full court press could bring it back into the worship of the church,” she writes in Advent.

18 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 The Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci, 1472-75 Wikimedia Commons photo Past and Future Meet in Advent By Lawrence N. Crumb The first Sunday gives us the three expressions of the Synop- tic apocalypse: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and n 2018 December is the month of Advent, a mystical time the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused when the Church year comes full circle and overlaps it- by the roaring of the sea and the waves” (Luke 21:25). The self. It is, as we are often reminded, the beginning of the second and third Sundays are about John the Baptist, wheth- Iliturgical year, the time when we think about how God pre- er the prediction of his birth (including the canticle Benedic- pared the people of the Covenant for the coming of the Mes- tus Dominus) or his preaching. The fourth Sunday is about siah, through the work of patriarchs, prophets, and psalm- Mary, whether the Annunciation, the Visitation (including ists, and we reflect on the announcement of the angels to the canticle Magnificat), or the Nativity. Zechariah and Mary about the imminent births of John the Advent is an appropriate time for approximating the med- Baptist and his cousin, Jesus. itative quality of a retreat as closely as is possible in our hus- It is also, in a sense, the end of the Church year — a time tling, bustling world just before Christmas. Finding a time when we think about the Second Coming and the Last Judg- and place of quiet may not be easy, but it can be done. ment at the end of time. Just how we can relate to events so Since many churches are not open during the week, a qui- long ago or so far in the future is a mystery, and thus the et corner at home or at work can usually be found, at least for element of mystery — always a part of the Christian experi- a few moments. If a prayer book is at hand, or brought along ence — is especially present at this time. We await something for the purpose, the Advent collects and the psalms appoint- truly awesome, and a kind of awed hush should be our nat- ed for the season can help to set the tone of a meditation or ural reaction. provide its principal content. The current readings in For- In Advent we especially appreciate the restoration of the ward Day by Day can provide food for thought, as also the First Testament to the eucharistic lectionary, as we share in Daily Devotional published by TLC (bit.ly/TLCDailyDevo). the life of the people of the first covenant. Readings from Isa- Many Advent hymns are suitable for private prayer. Any iah, Jeremiah, the Minor Prophets, and 2 Samuel help us to or all of these practices can be, not only a welcome break understand their longing for the Messiah and the extension from the commercial world, but also an enhancement of the of the Davidic kingship. Like Mary the expectant mother, joy that will come when Christmas is celebrated in hymn bravely riding the donkey to Bethlehem, the entire nation and sacrament. had been pregnant with expectation for the birth of a Mes- An Advent calendar has a window for each day, but the siah. As we read portions of the Hebrew Scriptures, we can Advent season is a window into eternity. gain a fresh sense of how God cares for us by preparing us for better things to come. The Rev. Lawrence Crumb is priest in charge of St. Andrew, It is the Gospels, though, that set the tone for each Sunday. Cottage Grove, Oregon.

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Mark Rothko: Reflection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, photo Rothko’s Icons By Dennis Raverty analyzing characteristics of appearance and style to the ex- clusion of any other considerations. Yet Rothko says that arc Rothko’s abstract color field paintings, execut- his pictures address “the timeless and the tragic” — middle ed between the mid-1950s and his death in 1970, 20th-century, existentialist, perhaps even atheistic, but still are said to have pared down and eliminated any- profoundly Romantic and spiritually sublime. Mthing extraneous to the stained and painted surface of the These works are sometimes interpreted iconographically canvas, reducing everything to what he sees as the essence of (in terms of subject matter). Art historian Stephen Polcari painting: color. Abandoning drawing, abolishing chiaroscu- says Rothko’s monolithic canvases represent doorways or ro, jettisoning representation — even eschewing any sort of windows, and as such recall the Renaissance conceit of the asymmetrical composition, Rothko favors instead a large, picture plane being a transparent window to an idealized, static, frontal, monolithic arrangement of two or three hov- Platonic world of perfect forms, as they are said to exist in ering rectilinear shapes of sometimes subdued, sometimes the mind of God. But unlike the clear picture plane of the Re- saturated color arranged within a relatively two-dimensional naissance painter, Rothko’s windows are murky, translucent, field from which they seem to emerge. or opaque and are visually impenetrable, like an ordinary The viewer of these commanding paintings confronts a window with the shades pulled and the curtains drawn: the substantial canvas that is often slightly larger than human light perceived, as Paul writes, “but through a glass darkly.” scale, and which is difficult to capture on a magazine page. The pristine, atmospheric surface of each of these paint- As is true of most non-objective, abstract painting, Rothko’s ings represents a veil suspended over a threshold or portal mature works are usually discussed in formalist terms alone, from behind which emanates a mysterious light — some-

20 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 times dim, sometimes bright — with an unseen and unsee- ty present before a way of knowing mediated by representa- able source. They are in some ways like altarpieces — in ef- tions, narratives, images, and texts. All of these are, in a cer- fect, luminous, Jewish icons of the Unrepresentable (i.e., the tain sense, “veils” on the face of the Shekinah, which seems uncircumscribable ultimate). Rothko’s mature painting is a just about to dawn in every abstract, mystical threshold rep- veil over a threshold in anticipation of the dawning of this resented by the artist. eternal, unnamable, unrepresentable God of the Jewish mystical tradition (sometimes referred to by Hasidic Jews as the Dennis Raverty is an associate professor of art history at New Shekinah, which literally means “the Presence”). Jersey City University, specializing in art of the 19th and 20th The organizers of the recent, quietly spectacular exhi- centuries. bition of Rothko’s work at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts seemed cognizant of this similarity to Rembrandt’s sense of light, which also appears to be coming from behind the painting somehow. In fact, the exhibition opened with a small, early Rembrandt from Boston’s collection: a self-por- What is the signi cance trait in front of an easel, in which the depicted canvas is represented as turned away from the viewer. Yet it seems to illuminate its surroundings, almost giving the effect of a modern flat-screen television or computer monitor emanating a soft, cool light.

n the Book of Exodus, it undoubtedly took a few minutes of careful observation for Moses to notice that the burning bush was not just ADVENT Ian ordinary brush fire. And following the freeing of the slaves in Egypt, Moses had to veil his face for the church? from the Hebrews after encountering God on that same mountain, because his face was so resplen- dent that no one could behold him directly. Rot- hko’s paintings are similarly a veil upon the face of the enlightened Moses, whom Russian Ortho- Fleming Rutledges Advent preaching bursts dox Christian iconographers would not hesitate to upon us with the same elemental force represent face to face, but which would be strictly as the preaching of John the Baptist prohibited by Jewish tradition. In keeping with this iconoclastic attitude, Rothko’s icons are utter- Do not drift anesthetized through another ly faceless, like the stark missing façades on cer- season of Advent; read this book. tain Renaissance churches like Brunelleschi’s San Lorenzo in Florence. —Richard Hays This reading of the paintings as latter-day, abstract Russian icons — Jewish, not Christian — by an emigre artist heralds the arrival of the Shek- inah, a sort of user-friendly interface of God. Like the veil of the semi-legendary Christian saint, Veronica (whose name means “true image”), the ADVENT veils of color in Rothko’s paintings both reveal and by Fleming Rutledge conceal the divine visage, present by implication. The veil represents the suggested but unspoken: the Presence is implied, but nowhere to be direct- Available Now ly found. 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December 2, 2018 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 19 22 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 Building the Worldwide Communion Review by Peter Doll the Empire. The series editor, Rowan Strong, istory, in its perverse way, does argues that in this century Anglicans not conform to the tidy but showed not only a strong tendency to- arbitrary bounds imposed by ward division and mutual hostility but Hchronology. In Anglican history, the also a remarkable shared capacity to 19th century does not begin in 1801, adapt to a variety of global places and which is still part of the “long 18th cen- contexts. Without this adaptability it tury” (c.1689-1832), when all English, is unlikely the church that began this Welsh, and Irish officeholders were still period as a national and monarchical required to be communicant Anglicans. institution could have ended it well on The repeal of the Test and Corpo- the way to being a global Communion ration Acts in 1828 allowed Noncon- of self-governing national churches. formists to be part of the political na- With the particular chronological fo- tion. During much of the rest of the cus of this volume, it is unfortunate that 19th century, Anglicans — whether The Oxford History of it does not recognize sufficiently how British or not — had to come to terms the way toward a disestablished identi- with that momentous change. The cen- Anglicanism, Volume III ty was prepared by Laudian theologians tury reached its cataclysmic end with Partisan Anglicanism and its during the Cromwellian interregnum in the beginning of the First World War. Global Expansion, 1829-c.1914 the 17th century and by nonconformist Edited by Rowan Strong While the title of this volume blunt- Oxford University Press. Pp. 448. $135 Anglicans in the northern American ly puts the focus on the importance colonies in the 18th century. of church party within the developing Anglo-Catholics would respond in uni- This volume, and the whole series, is Communion, the story that its contrib- form ways to the common challenges an outstanding contribution to modern utors tell is more nuanced. they faced. In Central and South Amer- historical scholarship generally and not In the widest sense, the Church of ica, evangelicals ministered almost to Anglican studies only. The last 30 England ended up exporting its fun- entirely to Anglophone expatriates, years have seen a flowering of histori- damental tensions into the burgeon- whereas in India and Africa they were cal studies treating Anglicanism not as ing Anglican Communion. The High pioneers in translating the Scriptures the subject of narrowly denominational Church Society for the Propagation of into native languages and encouraging history but as a significant contributor the Gospel (SPG) and the Anglo-Cath- the development of an indigenous min- to wider movements in politics, sociol- olic mission societies were in competi- istry. ogy, economics, science, literature, gen- tion with the Church Mission Society The high-church Community of der studies, music, art, and architecture. (CMS) and its evangelical allies, and the Resurrection took on running Where once the religious contri- they divided the British Empire be- Codrington College in the Caribbean, bution was written out of any kind of tween them. The SPG tended to focus but the Society of St. John the Evange- secular history almost as a matter of on white settler colonies and to cooper- list was reluctant to be part of the “civ- course, that is thankfully no longer ate with the colonial authorities, while ilizing mission” in India. In Australia, possible. That all of those who have the CMS was committed to tropical evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics alike contributed to this volume write from colonies as well as regions beyond Brit- were drawn to minister to the rural universities in secular academia is an ish control. hinterland through the work of the encouraging acknowledgment of the Even today, the heritage of the differ- Bush Church Aid Society and the celi- wider-than-religious significance of ent mission societies is easily discern- bate Bush Brotherhoods, but both alike their research. Many of the chapters are ible within the Communion. It was not failed to establish any lasting ministry condensed versions of major studies, accidental that the impetus toward an to the Aborigines. thus providing a useful starting point Anglican Communion represented by Both evangelicals and Anglo-Catho- for the general reader, the student, and the Lambeth Conference and the Lam- lics responded to the desire of women the researcher alike. For anyone want- beth Quadrilateral was the work not to serve God in ministries independent ing to understand how the Anglican of the imperial Church but primarily of male control, evangelicals in re- Communion got to where it is today, of the American Episcopal Church — sponse to the holiness movement, and this book is an essential place to start. now a matter for rueful reflection. Anglo-Catholics through the religious It does not follow, however, that communities that became an essential The Rev. Canon Peter Doll is canon librar- evangelicals or Broad Churchmen or part of mission both in Britain and in ian and vice dean of Norwich Cathedral.

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PEOPLE & PLACES chologist and clinical coordinator for the Okla- homa State Penitentiary in McAlester and sev- Deaths eral other correctional facilities in the region, The Rev. Lynne Bacon, a deacon, died Aug. 30 and as a general psychologist. after a long battle with cancer. She was 72. Born in Denver, she was a graduate of Col- The Rev. Davis Marion Ferrell, a deacon, died orado College and the University of Nebraska. Aug. 14, six days after celebrating his 59th John G. DeMajo photo She taught French and Spanish at Creighton wedding anniversary with his wife, Doretta. St. Matthew’s Church Preparatory School for 31 years and then Born in Long Beach, CA, he was a graduate 1101 Forest Ave., Richmond, VA 23229 worked for Conagra in bilingual customer of California State University-Chico, Chapman 8042081911 • stmattTSWB.org service. She was ordained deacon in 1993 and University, the University of the South’s School At St. Matthew’s we believe that our served at All Saints, Omaha. of Theology, and Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He served as a public information individual and corporate relationship The Rev. Herbert Buckley, a U.S. Navy veteran officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as with Christ is at the heart of our life in who served on the USS Culebra Island at the a roundhouse clerk for Western Pacific Rail- the Church. Prayer and worship together end of World War II in the Philippines, died road while finishing his bachelor’s degree. He are essential to this relationship and the Aug. 22. He was 91. was ordained deacon in 1998 and served at essence of our life and mission. In order Born in Brooklyn, he was a graduate of Trinity Church, Nevada City, CA. Newark Teachers College. He was ordained to know Christ and to make him known, deacon in 1971 and priest in 1975. He served The Rev. Austin Ford, who led Emmaus we place a high priority on fellowship, multiple churches in Arizona, Montana, and House in inner-city Atlanta beginning in 1967, Christian education, and outreach min- Utah. He first saw Montana when visiting a died Aug. 18. He was 89. istries. !rough fellowship we seek to cousin, and loved the state so much that he Born in Atlanta, he was a graduate of know and support one another. !rough adopted the slogan “I wasn’t born in Montana, Emory University and the University of the Christian education for all ages, we but I got here as quick as I could.” South and its School of Theology. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1953. “Austin attempt to better know Christ and his The Rev. Michael J. Curran, a U.S. Army vet- Ford was someone who believed and lived his will for our lives. !rough outreach min- eran and retired teacher who worked in small faith shoulder to shoulder with people from all istries and mission trips, we strive to native Alaskan communities and a Navajo situations and circumstances,” said the Rt. Rev. make Christ’s love known in the world. reservation in Arizona, died Aug. 28 in Water- Robert C. Wright, Bishop of Atlanta. “He was a bury, CT. He was 71. man and a priest who understood that Jesus Born in Derby, CT, he was a graduate of wants his followers with the poor. His shoes A LIVING CHURCH Partner New Haven University. He was ordained dea- will be hard to fill. His example changed

con in 1999 and priest in 2000. He served faith minds, hearts, and lives.” communities in the Alaskan towns of Wrangell, Juneau, and Seward before becoming missional The Rev. Mary L. Forsythe, a vocational dea- priest at Christ Church, Bethlehem, CT, in con and newsletter editor, died Sept. 22. She 2013. During his years of Army service, Curran was 85. was a translator in Vietnam and Germany. Born in Sioux City, IA, she was a graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Grace Church The Very Rev. James H. Dunkerley, who was Nebraska. She was ordained to the diaconate in Broadway born in England but served in the Diocese of 1988. She was convener for the Order of St. 802 Broadway Chicago beginning in 1970, died Aug. 16. He Luke’s, and helped formed its chapter in was 78. Omaha. For 20 years she edited The Servant, a New York, NY Born in Manchester, Dunkerley was a grad- newsletter for deacons. She was a chaplain at 10003 uate of Kelham Theological College and Omaha’s Methodist Hospital for eight years and 212.254.2000 Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He worked at the area veterans home for 20 years. was ordained deacon in 1964 and priest in 1965. He served at St. Peter’s in Chicago, was a Marie Greatorex, a leader of Girls Friendly dean of the Chicago North Deanery, and wel- Society in the Diocese of Los Angeles, died comed the San Pedro Hispanic congregation as Sept. 2. She was 92. it organized. Greatorex was a Girls Friendly Society member and leader since childhood. She served The Rev. William Ferrell Ellington, a veteran many positions on the society’s board of direc- of the U.S. Navy and a general psychologist, tors in Los Angeles, and was its president from Grace Church Broadway is a parish in the died Sept. 21. He was four days short of his 2003 to 2006. A registered nurse, she worked for Diocese of New York. Since 1846 we have 84th birthday. 26 years at Hoag Hospital, and served as camp been worshiping in a gothic revival Born in Arlington, TX, he was a graduate of nurse when the society held sessions in the masterpiece designed by the noted Arlington State College, Seabury-Western The- 1970s at Camp Stevens. She attended GFS ological Seminary, and the Pacific Graduate World Councils in Australia and South Korea. architect James Renwick Jr. Today you Institute. He was ordained deacon and priest in will find here a diverse group of Christians 1964. He served churches in California, Okla- Correction: The second half of “Sexual Sins: who are committed to proclaiming the homa, Texas, and Wyoming, and was canoni- From Lament to Resolve” did not appear in the Christian faith at the bustling intersection cally resident in the Diocese of Los Angeles. In Aug. 5 edition of TLC. The full article is avail- of Broadway and 10th St. To learn more the Navy, he was a reserve regimental chaplain able at livingchurch.org/sins with the 10th Marine Regiment, Second Divi- Clarification: In the Nov. 4 edition, “Cathedral about Grace Church, visit us on Sundays, sion, achieving the rank of commander. After Honors Matthew Shepard” appears in its or visit our website (gracechurchnyc.org). moving to Oklahoma in 2000, he was a psy- entirety on page 10.

A LIVING CHURCH Partner 24 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 SUNDAY’S READINGS | 1 Advent, December 2 Jer. 33:14-16 • Ps. 25:1-9 • 1 Thess. 3:9-13 • Luke 21:25-36 Another Coming he beginning of the Church year is places where the Second Coming is Tthe beginning of ruminations on emphasized and preached today, it is the end of all things. In a few short often used to incite fear and justify phrases the prophet Jeremiah signals absurd predictions. urgency and pleads for a hearing: “The What then are we to do with the days are surely coming, says the Lord,” phrase He will come again to judge the “In those days and at that time,” and living and the dead? It might help to again, “In those days.” He promises recall that the Nicene Creed, written Proclaiming that a righteous branch will spring up in Greek, uses the present participle from David. A King of Kings, a Lord of (ἐρχόμενον), thereby saying He is the Faith Lords, will come and demonstrate sov- coming. The Latin version of the Creed Robust evangelism, church plants, and ereign power chiefly in showing mercy. used in the West employs the future Latino ministry illustrate the rich In the fullness of time, this promise participle (venturus est), saying He is vibrancy of the Episcopal Diocese of arrives in the person of Jesus Christ about to come. Together, they suggest Dallas, where 11,000 believers sit in the our Lord. The coming of Jesus is the present urgency rather than some pews each Sunday to worship at one of arrival of the end. Human history and event in the distant future. We are to our approximately 70 parishes and providence meet to reveal the Word live as if he is about to come. And, missions. We are Resurrection people made flesh, through whom all things indeed, he is coming moment by with a mission to restore all people to were made, all things are guided, all moment in the power of his Spirit, and unity with God and each other in Christ. things are brought to their consumma- he will come at the end of time to Our diocesan borders stretch east to tion in God. Jesus Christ is the center renew all things. Arkansas, north to Oklahoma, west to of all things, the purpose in all time, The signs of his coming are all Tarrant County, and dip just south of and he directs all toward the heart of around us. “There will be signs,” Jesus Dallas. This is where you will find us the Father. He is the beginning, the says, “in the sun, the moon, and the feeding the hungry, ministering to middle, and the end. stars, and on earth distress among prisoners, engaging in formation, and Evil obscures but does not erase the nations confused by the roaring of the changing lives. Come to one of our intervention of God in Christ. Trial seas and the waves. People will faint churches and experience the joy of and suffering, persecution and injus- from fear and foreboding of what is knowing Christ and being in communion tice, hatred and greed spoil so much of coming upon the earth, for the powers with his people. what could be a deeper and fuller life. of heaven will be shaken” (Luke 21:25- We see the overflowing life of Christ as 27). our own, and yet we see through a glass These are the times in which we live, The Episcopal Diocese of Dallas dimly. We have wounds, and we carry in which we are called to be on guard 1630 N. Garrett Ave., Dallas, TX 75206 them; we have tears, and we let them and to be alert. Christian living is 214.826.8310 | www.edod.org fall. But hope is not lost. Knowing Jesus waiting for the one who is about to means knowing how to wait. Calling come. Behold. He stands at the door; A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor the church in Thessalonica to mutual he rides upon the cloud; he is the first love, St. Paul also tells them to wait for light of every day. another coming. “And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we Look It Up abound in love for you. And may he so Read Luke 21:34. strengthen yours hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Think About It Lord Jesus with all his saints” (1 Thess. Be on guard, but not weighed down. 3:11-13). This second coming, an article of the Christian creed, is often ignored or treated with embarrassment. Early Christians expected Jesus to return soon. He didn’t. They were wrong. In

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EDIToRIAL Executive Director and Editor Dr. Christopher Wells Preparation Managing Editor John Schuessler Senior Editor ustin Farrer once said in a homily, will come to save those who are in Douglas Leblanc News Editor A“The Holy Eucharist is not a spe- darkness and who sit in the shadow of matthew Townsend Associate Editor cial part of our religion; it simply is our death. Forgiveness is not enough. He is The Rev. Dr. Zachary Guiliano religion sacramentally enacted” (Essen- Associate Editor for International News the light that enlightens everyone John martin tial Sermons). Again and again, it is coming into the world. “He has Assistant Editor The Rev. Emily Hylden critical that the whole gospel be told deigned,” says Columbanus, an ancient Contributing Editors and enacted in ways memorable and Celtic Abbot, “so to excite from the The Rev. Dr. Jeff boldt The Rev. 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26 THE LIVING CHURCH • December 2, 2018 SUNDAY’S READINGS | 3 Advent, December 16 Zeph. 3:14-20 • Cant. 9 • Phil. 4:4-7 • Luke 3:7-18 A Beautiful New Being ohn answered all of them by astounding musician and composer at “Jsaying, ‘I baptize you with water; age 12, as she responds to a few critics: but one who is more powerful than I is “Some people have told me that I coming; I am not worthy to untie the compose in the musical language of thong of his sandals. He will baptize the past, and this is not allowed in the with the Holy Spirit and fire. His win- 21st century. In the past, it was possible nowing fork is in his hand, to clear his to compose beautiful melodies and Abundant Life threshing floor and to gather the wheat beautiful music, but today, they say, I’m St. George’s Church, Nashville, is a into his granary, but the chaff he will not allowed to compose like this any- growing and vibrant parish committed to burn with fire.’ So, with many other more because I need to discover the a gracious expression of Anglicanism exhortations, he proclaimed the good ‘complexity’ of the modern world, and within the Episcopal Church. Our reason news to the people” (Luke 3:16-18). the point of music is to show the ‘com- for being is to “receive, live, and share the The Holy Spirit burns and strips plexity’ of the world. abundant life of Jesus Christ.” This tri-fold away the chaff of a false and narrow “Well, let me tell you a huge secret. I purpose of worship, discipleship, and life. The Holy Spirit is the heat that already know that the world is complex mission is embedded within every parish expands life and breaks the husk of sin, and can be very ugly, but I think these ministry. opening the self to new life in Christ. people have gotten a little bit confused. If Our common life flows out of a primary In the triune life of God, the Holy the world is so ugly, what’s the point in commitment to beautiful, reverent, and Spirit is the begetting love of the Father making it even uglier with ugly music? inspiring Anglican worship that places the and the responsive love of the Son, an … But I think most people go to con- crucified and risen Christ at the center. exchange that is natural and never certs because they want to hear beau- Our commitments to discipleship and ends. In the life of a sinner and in the tiful music, music full of melody that mission flow from the conviction that the life of the Church, however, the Holy you can hum or sing, music that speaks risen Christ has called to all who would Spirit causes the pain of becoming a to the heart, music that makes you want hear, “Follow me,” and “Go forth for me.” son or daughter of God. Sin, the flesh, to smile or cry or dance. There’s enough By placing the Great Commandment and the devil are being torn away. ugliness in the world. I want to write Jesus, the Son of God, is good news beautiful music, music that makes the and the Great Commission ever before us, to the people. The invitation to be a world a better place” (“Why music we strive to follow Jesus’ intention from the child of God by adoption and grace is should be beautiful,” YouTube, Feb. 21, beginning, that every Christian will the best news we will ever hear. Yes, 2017 (bit.ly/Almamusic). become a disciple who is equipped to there is fire to feel and a winnowing Preaching is permission to rejoice witness to the life of Christ in all the fork to separate, but the newly baptized and exult, to sing and feel gladness, to various spheres of his or her life, equipping emerge as beautiful new beings in feel safe and gathered in love, to rejoice and blessing others as disciples. We seek to Christ. The pulpit and pews are a fit- and give thanks for new life in Christ. be an ever brighter light in our city. ting place to feel this beauty, to sense Preaching is praise. Good preaching is, St. George’s Episcopal Church the emergence of a new being, to know God being our helper, beautiful, and it 4715 Harding Road the abounding hope and joy of life in makes the world a better place. Nashville, Tennessee 37205 Christ. 615.385.2150 Will a serious preacher show such Look It Up stgeorgesnashville.org hope, permit such joy, and announce Read Zephaniah 3:14. the newness of life in Christ? Does the A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor preacher gravitate to illustrations in extremis of holocaust and genocide, Think About It graphic depravity and the depths of Love God with all your heart. evil, or, when speaking of redemptive action, is the preacher overly committed to heroic examples of sacrifice and suffering? Is the preacher bereft of gospel joy and baptismal beauty? Are the pews solemn and always silent, a bench of boredom and weariness? Consider Alma Deutscher, an

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Springfield, Illinois SPONSORS DIoCESE oF SPRINGFIELD 821 S. Second St. • 217.525.1876 Tucson, Arizona episcopalspringfield.org ST. PHILIP’S IN THE HILLS 4440 N Campbell Ave. Salina, Kansas 520.299.6421 SAINT FRANCIS mINISTRIES stphilipstucson.org 405 E. Iron Ave. • 800.898.4896 thesaintfrancisfoundation.org Vail, Colorado CHURCH oF THE TRANSFIGURATIoN Shreveport, Louisiana 19 Vail Rd. • 970.476.0618 ST. mARK’S CATHEDRAL episcopalvail.com 908 Rutherford Street • 318.221.3360 www.stmarkscatheral.net Jacksonville, Florida DIoCESE oF FLoRIDA Hagerstown, maryland 325 N. market St. • 904.356.1328 SAINT JAmES SCHooL diocesefl.org 17641 College Rd. • 301.733.9330 stjames.edu orlando, Florida DIoCESE oF CENTRAL FLoRIDA boston, massachusetts 1017 E. Robinson St. • 407.423.3567 THE CHURCH oF THE ADVENT cfdiocese.org 30 brimmer St. • 617.523.2377 theadventboston.org Sarasota, Florida TRINITy WALL STREET CHURCH oF THE REDEEmER Greenwich, New york 222 South Palm Ave. • 941.955.4263 CommUNITy oF ST. mARy oklahoma City, oklahoma redeemersarasota.org EASTERN PRoVINCE DIoCESE oF oKLAHomA 242 Cloister Way • 518.692.3028 924 N. Robinson Ave. • 405.232.4820 Vero beach, Florida stmaryseast.net episcopaloklahoma.org TRINITy CHURCH 2365 Pine Ave. • 772.567.1146 New york, New york Philadelphia, Pennsylvania trinityvero.org EPISCoPAL CHURCH FoUNDATIoN DIoCESE oF PENNSyLVANIA 475 Riverside Dr., Ste. 750 3717 Chestnut St., Ste. 300 Augusta, Georgia 800.697.2858 215.627.6434 CHURCH oF THE GooD episcopalfoundation.org diopa.org SHEPHERD 2230 Walton Way • 706.738.3386 New york, New york Wayne, Pennsylvania goodshepherd-augusta.org ST. THomAS CHURCH ST. DAVID’S CHURCH FIFTH AVENUE 763 S. Valley Forge Rd. • 610.688.7947 Savannah, Georgia 1 West 53rd St. • 212.757.7013 stdavidschurch.org ST. JoHN’S CHURCH saintthomaschurch.org 1 W. macon St. • 912.232.1251 Nashville, Tennessee stjohnssav.org New york, New york DIoCESE oF TENNESSEE TRINITy WALL STREET 3700 Woodmont blvd. • 615.251.3322 74 Trinity Pl. • 212.602.0800 edtn.org trinitywallstreet.org Nashville, Tennessee Tonawanda, New york ST. GEoRGE’S CHURCH DIoCESE oF WESTERN NEW yoRK 4715 Harding Pike • 615.385.2150 1064 brighton Rd. • 716.881.0660 stgeorgesnashville.org episcopalwny.org Sewanee, Tennessee Raleigh, North Carolina CommUNITy oF ST. mARy ST. TImoTHy’S CHURCH SoUTHERN PRoVINCE 4523 Six Forks Rd. • 919.787.7590 1100 St. mary’s Lane • 931.598.0046 sttimothyschurch.org stmary-conventsewanee.org by the generous gift of the Rt. Rev. Cincinnati, ohio & Mrs. D. Bruce MacPherson DIoCESE oF SoUTHERN oHIo 412 Sycamore St. • 800.582.1712 Dallas, Texas diosohio.org CHURCH oF THE GooD SHEPHERD oklahoma City, oklahoma 11122 midway Rd. • 214.351.6468 ALL SoULS’ CHURCH goodshepherddallas.org 6400 N. Pennsylvania Ave. • 405.842.1461 ST. DUNSTAN’S CHURCH, HoUSToN allsoulsokc.com (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) mobile, Alabama Lafayette, Louisiana Greenwich, New york CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHURCH oF THE ASCENSIoN DIoCESE oF ALbANy Dallas, Texas 115 S. Conception St. 1030 Johnston St. • 337.232.2732 580 burton Rd. • 518.692.3350 CHURCH oF THE INCARNATIoN 251.438.1822 ascensionlafayette.com albanyepiscopaldiocese.org 3966 mcKinney Ave. christchurchcathedralmobile.org 214.521.5101 New orleans, Louisiana New york, New york incarnation.org Carlsbad, California DIoCESE oF LoUISIANA CALVARy–ST. GEoRGE’S ST. mICHAEL’S by-THE-SEA 1623 7th St. • 504.895.6634 61 Gramercy Park N. Dallas, Texas 2775 Carlsbad blvd. edola.org 646.723.4178 DIoCESE oF DALLAS 760.729.8901 calvarystgeorges.org 1630 N. Garrett Ave. stmichaelsbythesea.org Ellicott City, maryland 214.826.8310 ST. JoHN’S PARISH New york, New york edod.org meriden, Connecticut DAy SCHooL GRACE CHURCH EPISCoPAL CHURCH 9130 Frederick Road 802 broadway • 212.254.2000 Dallas, Texas IN CoNNECTICUT 410.465-7644 www.gracechurchnyc.org ST. mICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS 290 Pratt Street, box 52 stjohnspds.org 8011 Douglas Ave. • 214.363.5471 203.639.3501 Troy, New york saintmichael.org episcopalct.org Potomac, maryland ST. JoHN’S CHURCH ST. FRANCIS CHURCH 146 1st St. • 518.274.5884 Houston, Texas Washington, D.C. 10033 River Rd • 301.365.2055 stjohnstroy.org THE CHURCH oF ST. JoHN CHRIST CHURCH, GEoRGEToWN stfrancispotomac.org THE DIVINE 31st and o Sts. NW Durham, North Carolina 2450 River oaks blvd. 202.333.6677 Grand Rapids, michigan ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH 713.622.3600 christchurchgeorgetown.org GRACE CHURCH 82 Kimberly Dr. • 919.493.5451 sjd.org 1815 Hall St. SE • 616.241.4631 ststephensdurham.dionc.org maitland, Florida gracechurchgr.org Houston, Texas CHURCH oF THE GooD Providence, Rhode Island DIoCESE oF TEXAS SHEPHERD minneapolis, minnesota S. STEPHEN’S CHURCH 1225 Texas Ave. • 713.520.6444 331 Lake Ave. • 407.644.5350 EPISCoPAL CHURCH 114 George St. • 401.421.6702 epicenter.org goodshepherdmaitland.com IN mINNESoTA sstephens.org 1101 W. broadway Ave. Houston, Texas miami, Florida 612.871.5311 Columbia, South Carolina ST. DUNSTAN’S CHURCH DIoCESE oF SoUTHEAST episcopalmn.org DIoCESE oF UPPER 14301 Stuebner Airline Rd. FLoRIDA SoUTH CARoLINA 281.440.1600 525 N.E. 15 St. • 305.373.0881 St. Louis, missouri 1115 marion St. • 803.771.7800 saintdunstans.org diosef.org ST. PETER’S CHURCH edusc.org 110 N. Warson Road Houston, Texas oviedo, Florida 314.993.2306 Hendersonville, Tennessee ST. mARTIN’S CHURCH CANTERbURy RETREAT stpetersepiscopal.org ST. JoSEPH oF ARImATHEA 717 Sage Rd. • 713.621.3040 & CoNFERENCE CENTER 103 Country Club Dr. stmartinsepiscopal.org 1601 Alafaya Trail • 407.365.5571 Jackson, mississippi 615.824.2910 canterburyretreat.org DIoCESE oF mISSISSIPPI stjosephofarimathea.org San Antonio, Texas 118 N. Congress St. CHRIST CHURCH Parrish, Florida 601.948.5954 Nashville, Tennessee 510 belknap Pl. • 210.736.3132 DIoCESE oF SoUTHWEST dioms.org CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL cecsa.org FLoRIDA 900 broadway • 615.255.7729 8005 25th St. E. • 941.556.0315 Albuquerque, New mexico christcathedral.org San Antonio, Texas episcopalswfl.org DIoCESE oF THE RIo GRANDE DIoCESE oF WEST TEXAS 6400 Coors blvd N.W. Corpus Christi, Texas 111 Torcido Dr. • 210.824.5387 Savannah, Georgia 505.881.0636 CHURCH oF THE GooD dwtx.org THE CoLLEGIATE CHURCH dioceserg.org SHEPHERD oF ST. PAUL THE APoSTLE 700 S. Upper broadway West brattleboro, Vermont 1802 Abercorn St. • 912.232.0274 Santa Fe, New mexico 361.882.1735 JERUSALEm PEACEbUILDERS stpaulsavannah.org CHURCH oF THE HoLy FAITH cotgs.org P.o. box 2020 • 802.254.0068 311 E. Palace Ave. • 505.982.4447 jerusalempeacebuilders.org Indianapolis, Indiana holyfaithchurchsf.org Fort Worth, Texas DIoCESE oF INDIANAPoLIS DIoCESE oF FoRT WoRTH milwaukee, Wisconsin 1100 W. 42nd St. • 317.926.5454 Cooperstown, New york 2900 Alemeda St. CATHEDRAL CHURCH indydio.org CHRIST CHURCH 817.244.2885 oF ALL SAINTS 46 River St. • 607.547.9555 fwepiscopal.org 818 E. Juneau Ave. Des moines, Iowa christchurchcooperstown.org 414.271.7719 DIoCESE oF IoWA Houston, Texas ascathedral.org 225 37th St. • 515.277.6165 Garden City, New york ST. FRANCIS CHURCH iowaepiscopal.org DIoCESE oF LoNG ISLAND 345 Piney Point Rd. 36 Cathedral Ave. 713.782.1270 516.248.4800 sfch.org dioceseli.org ASSOCIATES

Navasota, Texas Phoenix, Arizona Kinston, North Carolina CAmP ALLEN DIoCESE oF ARIZoNA DIoCESE oF EAST CARoLINA 18800 Fm 362 • 936.825.7175 114 W. Roosevelt St. 705 Doctors Dr. • 252.522.0885 campallen.org 602.254.0976 diocese-eastcarolina.org azdiocese.org Fairfax, Virginia Winston-Salem, North Carolina TRURo ANGLICAN CHURCH Tucson, Arizona ST. TImoTHy’S CHURCH 10520 main St. • 703.273.1300 ST. mICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS 2575 Parkway Dr. • 336.765.0294 truroanglican.com CHURCH sttimothysws.org 602 N. Wilmot Road Richmond, Virginia 520.886.7292 Fargo, North Dakota DIoCESE oF VIRGINIA smallangelstucson.org DIoCESE oF NoRTH DAKoTA 110 W. Franklin St. • 800.DIoCESE 3600 25th St. S. • 701.235.6688 thediocese.net Wilmington, Delaware ndepiscopal.org DIoCESE oF DELAWARE Richmond, Virginia 913 Wilson Rd. • 302.256.0374 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ST. mATTHEW’S EPISCoPAL delaware.church DIoCESE oF PITTSbURGH CHURCH 325 oliver Avenue, Suite 300 1101 Forest Ave. • 804.288.1911 Santa Rosa beach, Florida 412.721.0853 stmattsrva.org CHRIST THE KING CHURCH episcopalpgh.org 480 N. County Hwy. 393 Charleston, West Virginia 850.267.3332 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania DIoCESE oF WEST VIRGINIA christthekingfl.org ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH 1608 Virginia St. E. 5801 Hampton St. 304.344.3597 Tallahassee, Florida 412.661.1245 wvdiocese.org CHURCH oF THE standrewspgh.org HoLy ComFoRTER Appleton, Wisconsin 2015 Fleischmann Rd. Allen, Texas DIoCESE oF FoND DU LAC 850.877.2712 CHURCH oF THE SAVIoR 1051 N. Lynndale Dr. Ste. 1b hc-ec.org 110 S. Alma Dr. • 214.785.1612 920.830.8866 ofthesavior.org episcopalfonddulac.org South bend, Indiana DIoCESE oF NoRTHERN Dallas, Texas SoCIETy oF mARy INDIANA ST. AUGUSTINE’S oAK CLIFF AmERICAN REGIoN 117 N. Lafayette blvd. 1302 W. Kiest blvd. • 214.371.3441 Superior: Fr. John D. Alexander 574.233.6489 staugustinesoakcliff.org 114 George St. ednin.org Providence, RI 02906-1189 Irving, Texas somamerica.org Portland, maine CHURCH oF THE REDEEmER DIoCESE oF mAINE 2700 Warren Cir. • 972.255.4171 143 State St. • 207.772-1953 redeemer-irving.org episcopalmaine.org Lubbock, Texas Las Vegas, Nevada DIoCESE oF NoRTHWEST DIoCESE oF NEVADA TEXAS 9480 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. 236 1802 broadway • 806.763.1370 702.737.9190 nwtdiocese.org episcopalnevada.org Tyler, Texas Passaic, New Jersey CHRIST CHURCH ST. JoHN’S CHURCH 118 S. bois d’Arc • 903.597.9854 215 Lafayette Ave. christchurchtyler.org 973.779.0966 stjohnspriestpassaic.com Waco, Texas HoLy SPIRIT CHURCH Henrietta, New york 1624 Wooded Acres Dr. DIoCESE oF RoCHESTER 254.772.1982 3825 E. Henrietta Rd. Ste. 100 holyspiritwaco.com 585.473.2977 www.episcopalrochester.org Charlottesville, Virginia moCKINGbIRD mINISTRIES New york, New york 100 W. Jefferson St. CHRIST & ST. STEPHEN’S 434.293.2347 CHURCH mbird.com 120 W. 69th St. • 212.787.2755 csschurch.org Seattle, Washington DIoCESE oF oLymPIA Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1551 10th Ave. E • 206.325.4200 CHURCH oF THE HoLy FAmILy ecww.org 200 Hayes Rd. • 919.942.3108 chfepiscopal.org Delavan, Wisconsin CHRIST CHURCH 503 E. Walworth Ave. 262.728.5292 christchurchdelavan.com “Grace and Gardens in England’s ‘green and pleasant land’”

VTS keeps the Episcopal Church Connected to England

As part of Virginia Theological Seminary’s Bicentennial preparations, we are inviting men and women who love the connection with England to join us on a pilgrimage.

This pilgrimage will acknowledge our gratitude for Anglican worship, with visits to the Abbey, St. Paul’s, and Canterbury; our gratitude for Anglican scholarship, with visits to Oxford and Cambridge; and our gratitude for the aesthetics of the English garden in the beauty of our liturgy and worship.

For more information please contact Elizabeth Osborn at [email protected]. 3737 Seminary Road, Alexandria VA 22304