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E P I P H a N I E S F R O M T H E a N G L I C a N J O U R N a L E P I P H A N I E S F R O M T H E A N G L I C A N J O U R N A L Differences “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 I S S U E 3 | V O L U M E 1 | S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 C O N T E N T S 3 The vision of Juan Diego Matthew Townsend 5 The dignity of difference Linda Nicholls 6 Technocratic society and the world to come Mark MacDonald 8 Taking sides Matt Gardner 31 Black Anglicans of Canada aims to give life to church’s racial charter Tali Folkins 36 ‘God’s total identification with the incarcerated’ Matt Gardner 50 Both/and Joelle Kidd 58 ‘Difference is God’s gift to us’: Anglicans, ethnicity and culture Matt Gardner 69 ‘We are always summoned to become different’ Tali Folkins 73 For all of you are one in Christ Jesus! Edmund Laldin 76 One of the lucky ones Lyds Keesmaat-Walsh 79 Postscript: On religion and politics Matthew Townsend COVER IMAGE: Protesters in Toronto rally in support of Wet’suwet’en preventing the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in January 2019. PHOTO: UNDR/SHUTTERSTOCK E P I P H A N I E S is the online magazine of the Anglican Journal, published by the Anglican Church of Canada. Editor: Matthew Townsend; Guest Managing Editor: Matt Gardner; Writers: Tali Folkins, Joelle Kidd, Matt Gardner, Matthew Townsend; Contributors: Linda Nicholls, Mark MacDonald, Edmund Laldin, Lyds Keesmaat-Walsh; Design: Saskia Rowley anglicanjournal.com • [email protected] SPRING 2020 T H E V I S I O N S O F J U A N D I E G O IMAGE: SHUTTERSTOCK/BILL PERRY By Matthew Townsend She asked for a church to be built on that site. On her final appearance to Juan Diego, she arranged roses E D I T O R in his cloak; when he opened his cloak before the In 1531, three years before the Church of England was archbishop, later, the flowers fell away and revealed an born, the seeds of an Indigenous church were planted. image of the Madonna. Many Canadians may not be familiar with the story Church leaders immediately doubted Juan Diego’s of St. Juan Diego, who encountered a Marian apparition claims. Evidence is sparse, and as far back as the 16th on the Hill of Tepeyac, which later became part of the century, Roman Catholic clerics wondered if Indigenous village of Guadalupe, outside Mexico City. Growing up in beliefs in the Virgin of Guadalupe missed the doctrinal Florida, though, I frequently encountered icons, candles mark. Over the centuries, scholars have wondered and churches dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, and whether he made the whole thing up. Some have so I feel a certain attachment to her. Juan Diego is said wondered if Juan Diego existed. The Catholic Church’s to have encountered the Virgin Mary four times, with decision to beatify and canonize Juan Diego (in 1990 another appearance to a family member. She spoke to and 2002, respectively) saw public opposition. There is him not in Spanish (or Latin) but in Nahuatl, a language much more to read on this. of the Aztecs—for Juan Diego was, himself, Indigenous. I, for one, believe that Juan Diego encountered E P I P H A N I E S | S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 | 3 the mother of God. I am neither an historian nor a visiting a people who are all of these things—in fact, theologian, but something about the story meshes well the history of Marian visitations worldwide is tied to the with my read of the Magnificat, the song Mary sings after poor, the oppressed, the othered and the conquered. God her visitation by the angel Gabriel (Luke 1): doesn’t just ask us to treat one another fairly; God, the God-bearer and the angels physically show up among “My soul magnifies the Lord, the suffering, the poor and the outcast. and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, This issue of Epiphanies explores the differences we for he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his find between us—and like Mary or St. Paul in his letter to servant. the Galatians, we consider here the differences human Surely, from now on all generations will call me beings define, the lines we draw and categories we form blessed; that separate us from one another and from God. We for the Mighty One has done great things for me, consider the people with whom God is deeply present and holy is his name. and perhaps speaking—people marginalized by society, His mercy is for those who fear him but not by God. I wonder what they might share with us from generation to generation. in the pages ahead. He has shown strength with his arm; It is easy to be proud of (and, at times, frustrated he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their with) the progress the Anglican Church of Canada has hearts. made in setting aside differences. It is important that we He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, recognize, I think, that we are merely following God’s and lifted up the lowly; call to renounce our human pettiness—and to realize he has filled the hungry with good things, that God is already out in front of us in this regard. I and sent the rich away empty. do believe that the Virgin Mary visited Indigenous He has helped his servant Israel, Christians in 1531, spoke to them in their own tongue in remembrance of his mercy, and charged them to build a church that would be theirs. according to the promise he made to our ancestors, It took more than 200 years for the Roman Catholic to Abraham and to his descendants forever.” Church to afford Guadalupe papal honours. Canadian Anglicans signed off on the idea of Indigenous self- It’s in the Magnificat that we see Mary speak directly determination, in their own context, later still. to differences—not the differences we are born with or We have as a church, at times, been behind God in that make us rich in diversity, but the differences we appearing to and advocating for the people rejected impose upon one another. The proud, the powerful and by (or crushed under) empire. Yet now—and especially the rich be advised: God favours the lowly, the hungry in a time of pandemic—we are blessed by a God who and the conquered. The unwed mother and the elderly. reminds us of our duty to let go of our differences, that It’s not much of a stretch to imagine this holy lady we all may be one. Thank God that God is ahead of us. g 4 | E P I P H A N I E S | S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 By Linda Nicholls P R I M A T E O F T H E A N G L I C A N C H U R C H O F C A N A D A T H E D I G N I T Y O F D I F F E R E N C E At the 2008 Lambeth Conference, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, we also profess to hate absolute sameness. The science- then chief rabbi in England, was a guest speaker at one of fiction TV seriesStar Trek: The Next Generation featured the plenary sessions. As he began to speak he wondered a community of cyborgs known as the Borg, who had how he, a rabbi, had ended up being invited to speak to a been forcibly assimilated into a collective in order to serve room full of Anglican bishops! Having read several of his “perfectly.” They were clearly considered an enemy, and books I had no doubt that he was the right person to speak efforts were made to destroy this collective! to us as we wrestled with our differences. Rabbi Sacks has Sacks offers us a vision of difference as good, as a gift of reflected on the nature of difference and the challenges of God. Differences invite us into new perspectives, new ideas a living in a multifaith, globalized world where differences and experiences that expand possibilities and keep us from have been polarized to such an extreme that to many, enmity the arrogance of believing our own way is the only right and violence appear the answer. In his book, The Dignity way to live. Jesus crossed the boundaries of differences of Difference (2002),Rabbi Sacks writes, “One belief, repeatedly in his ministry, using love as the guide. He more than any other…is responsible for the slaughter of ate with tax collectors and sinners; healed Gentiles; and individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals. It disrupted ideals of religious purity. My own experiences of is the belief that those who do not share my faith—or my living in another culture; working with people with a variety race or my ideology—do not share my humanity.” Once the of disabilities; and engaging ecumenical dialogue, each has other is not seen as human then discrimination, violence, humbled me and taught me the gifts the other brings to my denigration or indifference become easily acceptable.
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