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Slavery and the Episcopal Church Pension Fund Election Jesus For FOUR June 14, 2006 Issue Two Forbearance, Trust and Respect By Susan D. Fawcett and Lauren R. Stanley Center Aisle is an opinion journal offered by the Diocese of Virginia as a gift to General Convention. Special Legislative Committee 26 has been those who testified yesterday are striving to family than a legislative body, and as in many We offer analysis and opinions from a variety of charged with all the hot-button issues of this respond faithfully to the concerns of the rest of families, there are great tensions. How those sources that reflect the transformational center of General Convention: responding to Windsor, the Anglican Communion, while at the same tensions are worked out is as important as our church. episcopal pastoral oversight, human sexuality time affirming our own identity and polity. What getting them worked out. and the blessing of same-sex unions. they are doing embodies the tension between Tonight’s meeting will be fruitful if The hearing tonight (7:30 p.m., Regency autonomy and interdependence, two words that all involved – committee members, those Ballroom, Hyatt) is anticipated to be so well- carry significant weight in the aftermath of the testifying and those listening – bring that same ‘The middle is not the midpoint on a line between two extremes. In the life of faith, the great bulk of people are at the center, and that center is faith in the Risen Christ.’ attended that deputations are receiving entrance 2003 General Convention. faithfulness, diligence and care. The Pastoral Address to the 210th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia, 2005, the Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee tickets to ensure they get a seat. The committee’s work is intentional and If we manage to do that, there’s a possibility This could be a cantankerous meeting. relational, exemplified by its discussion of that this General Convention could come up with Perspective Editorial But what we’re seeing at the hearings held forbearance, trust and respect as signs of how an authentic response to the rest of the Anglican thus far makes us optimistic. we are to live together in community. What Communion that we can all live with while also Slavery and the Episcopal Church Pension Fund Committee 26’s work has been faithful, seems to be emerging in these hearings is the reflecting who we are as a church. • By Julia E. Randle, Archivist, Virginia Theological Seminary diligent and care-filled. The committee and idea that the Anglican Communion is more a Election Should the church apologize for its ties to slavery? period, were constructed with the assistance of To prepare for that important vote by General slave labor. Some parishes owned slaves to work Many pension funds may be struggling, but ours Exhibit Spotlight Convention, Center Aisle asked Julia Randle to dig the parish glebe lands for the benefit of the parish is thriving. Dennis Sullivan, president of the into the record books of the early church, particularly or the rector. The major benefit to the church from Church Pension Fund, reported Monday that the Jesus for Free at Rebecca’s Keepsakes within what became the Diocese of Virginia. Read on. the slave system, however, came through taxes. fund’s assets have topped $8 billion as of March By Thomas Eaves Parish churches were supported by the parish 31 of this year, thanks to 16.9 percent annualized What was the economic tie between slavery tax, or levy, not voluntary contributions. A head growth over the past triennium. Rebecca Lauren Miller, daughter of the and the Episcopal Church in Virginia? How did tax, or “tithe,” was paid on white males, as well There’s a happy result from that Rt. Rev. Steven and Cindy Miller of the Diocese of the diocese, the Virginia Theological Seminary as “unfree” laborers, male or female, 16 years performance. Benefits will be expanded, Milwaukee, has set up quite an exhibit this year at and its churches benefit from the and older. While the master, not the slave, beginning July 1. Surviving spouses and those General Convention. It features several different system of involuntary servitude paid the tax, a large percentage of parish at the lowest end of the pension-benefit scale crèche scenes she has hand-crafted using clay that had been an integral revenue in slaveholding areas was will be among the major beneficiaries. Also, the and other materials. part of Virginia’s society and based on slave labor. clergy resettlement benefit has been dramatically At the age of 3, Lauren discovered her talent economy since the first sale In 1785, the last vestiges of increased for those newly retiring, making the for making things with “found materials.” She first of slaves at Jamestown in the an established church ended transition from active ministry much easier constructed a boat using scraps of paper, trash early 17th century? in Virginia and the Diocese of financially. and gum wrappers. By the age of 10, Lauren had While it is clear the Episcopal Church Virginia was officially created. Tax Add all that together and it’s a no-brainer started her own business, making each unique benefited from slavery, documenting the details support of the church was replaced by voluntary who receives our support for election as Church figure with baked clay. Prices for her models and is difficult due to the absence of rich institutional contributions by parishioners. The absence of Pension Fund trustees. Center Aisle endorses figures range from $12 each to $164 for a set. records and the nature of the records that survive. tax income for parishes, however, did not remove all nine incumbents for re-election. We also She has received several commissions over Diocesan records prior to the Civil War are almost slavery’s monetary benefits from the churches, recommend the election of three other nominees, the past few years, including one to decorate the non-existent beyond the diocesan Journal. the diocese, or later, the Virginia Theological two of them former trustees, whose gifts sidewalks of Racine, Wis., where she lives. She The Archives of the Virginia Theological Seminary Seminary, founded in 1823. Historically, Virginia complement those of the incumbents. contributed an otter and a birdbath to the project. contains Board of Trustees minutes for only half Episcopalians were slave owners, deriving much To help keep the strong financial trends Formerly of Annandale, Va., Lauren will of its antebellum existence and a handful of of their disposable income from the labor of their going, we need continuity among the trustees. attend the Prairie School as a junior next year. other related documents, while parish records slaves. Voluntary contributions to parishes, Proven expertise will also provide the base for an She will explore many media, ranging from are scattered and incomplete. For evidence of the diocese or the seminary all came from the important initiative contained in Resolution A147: conventional two-dimensional arts to glass- the ways the Episcopal Church benefited from disposable income either directly produced the Church-wide Healthcare Feasibility Study. blowing. While this may sound like a busy life, slavery in Virginia, one must look for answers in by slave labor or from the economy based on The increasing strain on dioceses and parishes Lauren maintains an “A” average in school, where government records, scholarly assessments of the involuntary servitude. Oral tradition indicates that from ever-increasing, health-care costs might her favorite class is chemistry. economy and records of personal actions. slaves were donated or willed to various levels of be mitigated by a denominational health-care The inspiration to us all from this exhibit can During the Colonial period, prior to the 1785 the church in Virginia, but records have yet to be benefits program. It’s worth a look. be summed up by something Lauren said to one organization of the Diocese of Virginia, the Church found to document this tradition. Overseeing the critical data-gathering for of her customers. “I don’t know why my mom put of England was the established or official church Monies invested by the diocese or the such a study requires a strong, diverse and that on there,” she said, checking off the box next of the colony, and all inhabitants were members seminary in banks or bonds in Virginia were also experienced team of CPF trustees. Their role is to “Jesus” on the order form. “Everybody gets by law, regardless of personal preference. Virginia intimately connected with the slave economy, crucial, given the financial possibilities. Studies Jesus free.” • Thomas Eaves church buildings, like other major structures of the raising the same linkage continued on TWO through the CREDO continued on THREE TWO THREE Letters to the Editor Slavery continued Virginia Voices We’re interested in our opinions—and yours! in the Anglican Communion emerges” (par. issues as surfaced in the 1980s and 1990s E-mail your comments, analyses and reactions 134). The report seeks a similar moratorium on regarding investments in U.S. companies With Independence, Comes Interdependence to [email protected] or bring them to authorizing “public Rites of Blessing of same supporting apartheid through their business By The Rev. Robert W. Prichard our offices in Room 30 on the third floor of the sex unions” (par. 144). And so, any embrace of activities in South Africa. The Virginia economy Columbus Renaissance Hotel. Windsor would be “remiss” without placing this was based on slavery, so there was no way to Some contemporary Episcopalians view financial support and adjudication of disputes. “instruments of unity.” Candor is welcome. So is brevity. Shoot for 80 important “R” near its center. benefit from the economy and not benefit from centralization in the Anglican Communion as After the war, former missionary dioceses began The Lambeth Conference of 1948 created words or less.
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