September 1, 2013 LIVING CHURCH CATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL
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Icons in Transformation Worship and Postmodernity Renewing the Senses THE September 1, 2013 LIVING CHURCH C ATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL $3.50 livingchurch.org Liturgica l Arts & Music Issue Music for Living ‘TLC is a smart publication, in the classic sense: lively, intelligent, and bright. It will freshen up your tired and dog-eared perspectives on church life.’ —The Rt. Rev. John Bauerschmidt, Bishop of Tennessee The Living Church Call or subscribe online I 1-800-211-2771 I www.livingchurch.org THE ON THE COVER "Heaven and Nature Sing 5" Virginia Wieringa, Mixed media 2009 LIVING www.virginiawieringa.com “The hearer rides the CHURCH rhythm, floats upon the feeling of what is good, what is sorrowful, what is THIS ISSUE | September 1, 2013 lost, what is found” (see NEWS “Music for Living,” p. 26). 4 EfM Broadens its Scope CULTURES 9 Icons Interpreted By Gaylund K. Stone BOOKS 11 The Church Visible by John-Charles Noonan, Jr. Sammlung Philippi by Dieter Philippi 12 A Practical Handbook for Divine Services by Father Gregory Woolfenden 14 Coptic Culture: Past, Present and Future by Mariam Ayad Reviews by Peter Eaton 15 From Memory to Imagination by C. Randall Bradley Review by David Heetderks 17 Poetic Theology by William A. Dyrness 9 Review by Mark F.M. Clavier CATHOLIC VOICES 18 20 18 Keeping it Real By John Kenneth Gibson THIRD IN A SERIES ON THE BIBLE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH 20 Limited Success By Michael Cover OTHER DEPARTMENTS 22 Cæli enarrant 26 Sunday’s Readings 28 People & Places We are grateful to the Diocese of Dallas [p. 25], and Trinity Church, Southport, LIVING CHURCH Partners Connecticut [p. 27], 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. September 1, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 3 NEWS | September 1, 2013 EfM Broadens its Scope A popular program in lay theologi- they’d like it to be in one direction or This year’s changes mark only the cal education is undergoing its first the other, but I feel that our calling is latest of several revisions to EfM, major revision in 15 years to help to be a program for the broad which has been evolving since in- participants better navigate today’s church.” ception in 1975. Since that time, diverse theological landscape. EfM helps Christians learn the 80,000 have participated in some ca- Education for Ministry (EfM), a craft of reflecting theologically on pacity and 35,000 have graduated program of the University of the their lives, careers, and callings. with certificates. South’s School of Theology, will no Around the world, 1,400 groups of This revision is necessary in part, longer rely on a single guidebook to six to 12 participants do the program Meridith said, to expose students to introduce students to biblical texts, by gathering weekly for nine months the most recent biblical and theolog- Church history, theology, and ethics. of the year. In any given year, 8,000 ical scholarship. Revision also will Starting in September, EfM will add individuals take part, including 7,000 help the church in a time of polar- eight textbooks to its curriculum, in the United States. ization. which students follow in a four-year Participants discuss readings, Too often dialogue fails, she said, period. share prayer concerns as well as because one person’s self-expression “There’s been a complaint in the worship, and learn with a mentor’s may trigger another to assume in- past that perhaps EfM was a little on help how to discern God’s calling. Af- surmountable differences. the liberal side,” said Karen Meridith, ter receiving their certificates com- But with deeper understanding of EfM’s executive director. “Now the memorating four years of study, origins and emphases in theological broad spectrum of the church will some students continue to the dia- terms, such as born again and or- find ways to come into the study. … conate or priesthood, but most con- thodox, Christians better appreciate The extreme ends may still be un- tinue in lay careers in fields from what binds them together. happy that it’s not as extreme as business to nursing and teaching. “To be critical of where our own particular statements are coming from, and be able to really listen to Bishop Lambert to Serve Brothers what another person is saying, is of deep value in this program,” Meridith The Rt. Rev. Paul Lambert has been says. “We need to understand that named chaplain of the Brotherhood the particular context that we come of St. Andrew. Bishop Lambert was out of sometimes colors the way we introduced June 20 during the broth- talk about these things.” erhood’s National Council meeting G. Jeffrey MacDonald in Irving, Texas. He succeeds Bishop TLC Correspondent Keith Whitmore of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. “We’re honored Bishop Lambert will be our spiritual leader,” said Tax Credits Imperiled Robert Dennis, the brotherhood’s Church Pension Group has informed president. The Brotherhood of St. An- clergy and lay employees of drew has more than 4,000 members in churches who want premium tax 390 Episcopal and Anglican churches Lambert credits under the Affordable Care in the United States and thousands Act (ACA) to urge members of Con- more worldwide. “I’m looking for- you do that, nothing can stop the gress to cosponsor the Church ward to working with him to further brotherhood. Remember: Jesus Health Plan Act of 2013. the brotherhood’s goal of bringing started with just 12 men.” “Beginning in 2014, the ACA will men and youth to Jesus Christ.” Lambert was elected seventh offer premium tax credits to certain Bishop Lambert is a life member Bishop Suffragan of Dallas in March low- and modest-income families to of the brotherhood. “Always remem- 2008, after serving six years as the reduce the cost of commercial health ber your story,” Bishop Lambert told Rt. Rev. James M. Stanton’s canon. insurance plans offered through a brothers, who are dedicated to bring- For 15 prior years he was rector of St. health exchange (health insurance ing Jesus Christ to men and boys. “If James’ Church in Texarkana, Texas. marketplace),” says a notice on 4 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 1, 2013 CPG’s website. “Unfortunately, fed- eral law does not extend the same BACK TO THE ANGLICAN FUTURE: premium tax credits to low- and modest-income clergy or lay employ- THE TORONTO CONGRESS 1963 AND THE ees of churches receiving coverage UTURE OF LOBAL OMMUNION through a church health plan.” F G C Laurie Kazilionis, CPG’s senior Wednesday September 18, 2013 vice president of integrated benefits account management and sales, has Toronto, Ontario sent a letter to CPG’s participants that includes the same warning. The For more information or to register CPG offers a draft letter to members please visit of Congress and a page that ad- www.wycliffecollege.ca dresses 23 questions about health- With special guests: care reform. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Andrews, Bishop of Algoma The Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, Primate of Egypt & the Middle East Moving Beyond The Most Rev. Ian Ernest, Primate of the Indian Ocean Goat-hooved Satan The Rt. Rev. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Bishop of Kaduna, Nigeria If popular culture shapes how 21st- The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, Archbishop of Burundi century people understand the after- The Most Rev. Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya life, then some literature and movies The Most Rev. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, are more helpful — and truer to the will address the conference via Skype Bible — than others. Perhaps a guide can help sift the wheat from the chaff. Greg Garrett, 51, a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal Church and a professor of English at Baylor Uni- versity, hopes to provide such guid- ance in Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Literature and Culture. The book, scheduled for 2014 by A Columbarium in the life of the Church Oxford University Press, explores preserves a tradition of remembrance. how popular ideas of heaven, hell, and purgatory are shaped by what we watch, what we read, and what we’ve derived from religious traditions. “Most Christians hold many of their beliefs about the afterlife as much from art and literature as from Scripture and theology,” Garrett said via email. 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