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April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 3 NEWS April 8, 2012

A Coup for Cambridge

By John Martin

The Church of England's worst­ kept secret is out now that Arch­ bishop Rowan Williams, 61, has announced that he will become Master of Magdalene College, Cam­ bridge, in January. Speculation has been rife for months, fuelled by rumours that Williams was already in the diary for public events in Cambridge in 2013. The appointment is a coup for Cam­ bridge University, as he is expected to attract a long queue of doctoral theology students from across the world. After serving as Archbis hop of Canterbury for a decade, Williams had made no secret that he was looking at his options for the future. Last autumn, for instance, he told members of the Compass Rose Soci­ ety that he was not minded to take on a second Lambeth Conference, even though this was open to him. He said he would exit in plenty of time for his successor to plan well for 2018. His job may esse ntially be chief parson of the nation, but the role of Archbishop of Canterbury is inevi­ tably political. Four of his prede­ cessors were martyrs (Alph ege, 1012; Thomas Becket, 1170; Simon Sudbury, 1381; and William Laud, Archbishop Rowan Williams is returning to academia. Steve Punter/Crcal!vr Commons photo 1645). An arc hbishop is the target for people's hostility towards the Established Chur ch and the faith it espo uses. Shaiiah into British law was greete d but it is not as if that has overshad­ Williams has been at the centre of with near hysteria. owed everyt hing ," he said in an more than his shar e of domestic The Anglican Communion 's con­ interview with members of the political spats . He called the Iraq vulsive atmosphere created by huge British Press Association . "It has War "immora l and illegal." His sup­ differences over sexuality has meant certain ly been a major nuisance. In port for green issues and concer ns great personal pain for the arch­ every job that you are in there are over global warming drew fire from bishop. His strategy was to keep controvers ies and conflicts and this conservatives. His suggestion that people talking where possible, and one isn 't going to go away in a the legal code needed to acknow l­ to his great credit that continues. hurr y." edge a growing Muslim population "Crisis management is never a The arc hbishop has said the con­ by incorporat ing some parts of favourite activity, I have to admit, troversy is about a broader issue:

4 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 how a communion of chur ches com­ There have been a number of prising a wide range of cultures can recent changes to the operations of consult about major issues. He saw the CNC. The Secretary General of the propos ed Anglican Covenant as the Anglican Communion attends as the best guide to future consulta­ a non-vo ting member , so the Rev. tion. Suspicions that the agreement Canon Kenneth Kearon will be pres­ would override the decision -making ent. A person chosen from among powers of provinces have triggered the Primat es of the Communion will an anti- Covenant campaign which be present with the right to vote. looks likely to succe ed in the Almost certainly this will be an Church of England. The archbishop African, with the choice probably has ask ed whether everyone wants between Bernard Ntahoturi of to see the divisions betw een Angli­ Burundi or Thabo Makgoba of the cans healed. Anglican Church of Southern Aflica. Rupert Shortt, the archbishop's Another first is that the Canterbury biograph er, wrote in the Guardian Diocese will supply six members. March 16 that history would judge Their connections and convictions Williams as "a great archbishop of will be closely scrutinized in the Canterbury in all sorts of ways, months ahead. The national compo­ many yet unsung." nent of the CNC is a standing group "I sometimes wonder whether electe d by the General Synod. Its more fractious members of his flock composition and balance changed realise how lucky they have been to recently with the election of an evan­ have him," Shortt added. "Institution­ gelical, Tin1Dakin, as Bishop of Win­ ally, though, his decad e in office will cheste r and his replacement by a lib­ probably end in honourable defeat. " eral Catholic. In the event that the Even so, Williams steps down Archbishop of York is a cand idate, confident that Cluistianity is not los­ his place on the CNC will be taken by ing the battle against secularisation a senior English bishop. in Blitain. "I don't think that there is The Archbishop of York, the Most somehow a single great argument Rev. John Sentamu, 62, who fled · that the Church is losing . I think Uganda to escape death tlu·eats from there is a great deal of interest still in dictator Idi Amin, is clearly front­ the Christian faith," he said . runner. He has grown in stature with "Although I thin k there is also a lot each successive senior appoi ntment of ignorance and rather dim-witted and is adept at using symbolic ges­ prejudice about the visible manifes­ tures to make a point. He is godly, tat ions of Ch1istianity, which some­ popular, with great media presence, times clouds the discussion ." and evangelicals will be solidly His successor will be chosen by behind his candidature. the Crown Nominations Comm is­ A Sentarnu appointment is not a sion (CNC). The first step in the foregone conclusion . The Rev. process will be Prime Minister Simon Cawdell, a General Synod David Camero n's appointment of a member, told TLC that Plime Minis­ layperson , normally either a senior ter Can1eron may think it politically politi cian or judge and probably a risky to choos e a very artic ulate woman this year, to lead the com­ opponent of gay marliage. "On the mission's work The CNC will offer other hand , if he goes with a propo­ two names to Camero n, who will nent of gay marriage he will very tender the CNC's first choice to the likely find himself choosing an arch­ Queen . He has already signalled that bishop who disagrees with him on while he supports same-sex mar ­ just about everyt hing else." riage he will not insist that the next There are not many English bish­ archbishop hold that view. (Continued on next page)

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 5 NEWS April 8, 2012 Rayna) Studios, Inc. 'I Will BlessYou' Report Released Historical!Y The Episcopal Church's Standing prior to General Convention, and Correct Commission for Liturgy and Music providing it to the wider church then Stained has released 82 pages of its report allowed bishops and deputies to Glass, on proposed pastoral blessings for hear from the wider church as part Wood same-sex couples. The report , "I Will of their discernment about how they and Stone Bless You, and You Will Be a Bless­ might respond at convention," said Restoration ing: Resources for Blessing Same­ the Rev. Ruth Meyers , Hodges­ Gender Relationships," includes a Haynes professor of liturgics at the text of a proposed rite and is avail­ Church Divinity School of the Pacific able through TLC's website at and SCLMchair, in an interview with bit.ly/GDMpGN. Episcopal News Service. "We really wanted to give bishops The SCLMproposes allowing trial

Mary with Child. Trinity and deputies in particular an oppor­ use of the rite from Dec. 2, 2012, until Episcopa l. Staunton, VA tunity to und erstand the material the next General Convention in 2015. R.aynalStudios, Inc. P.O. Box 405, NaturalBridge Station, VA 1.800.305.0959 Challenge Awaits in Rhode Island Fax 540.291.2398 The Diocese of Rhode Island has One challenge the new bishop will Email: [email protected] announced nominees from five states face is a cathedral in limbo. The Rt. in the search for its 13th bishop: Rev. David B. Joslin, acting dean , www.raynalstudios.com • The Rev. Kurt Dunkle, 50, rector, announced Feb. 19 that the Cathe­ Grace Church, Orange Park, Fla.; dral of St. John must suspend its • The Rev. Cathy George , 55, for­ services. mer priest-in-charge, St. Mary 's A diocesan profile published in Church, Dorchester, Mass., who is October acknowledged the cathe­ on a writing sabbatical; dral's difficulties. • The Very Rev. Nicholas Knisely, "Whatever develops in the coming 51, dean, Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix; months, this issue will need a great NASHOTAH HOUSE • The Rev. Ledlie Laughlin, 52, rec­ deal of attention in the next few years THEOLOGICAL SEMI ARY tor, St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia; to determine whether those facilities CONFERENCE • The Rev. Jennifer Pedrick, 45, can be repaired and updated or must rector, Chur ch of the Epiphany, be relocated elsewhere," the profile Rumford , R.I. said. "The new bishop will obviously USTIFICATION The diocese will accept nominees be a key leader, either in choosing by petition until March 25. The elec­ the direction that is taken , or in help­ tion is scheduled for June at St. ing to implement whatever decision JLIFE & THOUGHT Paul's Church, Pawtucket . has been made." A Coup for Cambridge (Continued from previous page) many women serve as priests in his PART2: ops in the right age range, and sev­ diocese . RETROSPECT& PROSPECT eral able new bishops, but most of Other names being mentioned these lack the needed experience. include Nick Baines (Bradford), The Rt. Rev. Richard Chartres (Lon­ Christopher Cocksworth (Coven­ APRIL 19-21,2012 don), a former chapla in to Arch­ try) , Stephen Cottrell (Chelmsford), bishop Robert Runcie, is much and Graham James (Norwich) . REGISTERNOW talked about. He may be considered too old at 64, and he has not John Martin is TLC's London cor­ http://events.nashotah.edu ordained any women, although respondent.

6 THE LIVING CHURCH• April 8, 2012 New Hampshire Bishop Vogel Dies at 88 May Repeat History Bishop, educator and ecumenist and earned a Ph.D. at Harvard Uni­ Arthur A. Vogel died March 6 in versity in 1952. The Diocese of New Hampshire , Kansas City. He was 88. A native of He was rector of the Church of which elected the first bishop of the Milwaukee , Vogel was a graduate of St. John Chrysostom , Delafield, Wis., Episcopal Church who spoke openly Nashotah House Theological Semi­ 1953-57. Vogel was Williams Adams of his same-sex partnership, has nary and the University of Chicago (Continued on page 26) nominated another openly gay man to become the diocese's 10th bishop. Reflecting changes in both the Episcopal Church and civil law since NOTICE: MOVING SERVICES the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson's elec­ tion in 2003, the Rev. William War­ wick (Bill) Rich wrote about "the Skip Higgins love and unwavering support of my husband, Dr. Don Schiermer, now a 877-477-8177 physician at Exeter Hospital." "Moving Episcopal clergy to new ministries since 1982." Rich, senior associate rector for • Clergy discounts •Only one survey / 3 estimates • Major van lines represented Christian formation , Trinity Church, • Full value protection plans • $200/Day late pick -up/late delivery penalty * Boston , is one of three nominees for • Internet satellite tracking • 24n cell phone contact to assure your peace of mind a May 19 election, which will choose CUSTOM MOVERS - FHWA Lie. # MC370752 a bishop coadjutor. The coadjutor • Certain Restrict ions Apply. will become the bishop diocesan in January 2013. The diocese announced the nomi­ nees March 15. The other two nomi­ st nees, both of whom alluded to going Church Schools in the 21 Century through divorce earlier in their lives, The Saint James Conference 2012 praised the diocese's decision to elect Robinson in 2003. June 8 & 9, 2012 The Rev. Penelope Maude (Penny) Bridges, rector of St. Francis Saint James School • St. James, MD Church, Great Falls, Va., praised what the diocesan profile has called Participant Highlights: "modest year-to-year growth. " Figures from the Episcopal Church's Office of Congregational ♦ Gain insightful information as Vitality indicate that the diocese's it relates to the Humanities baptized membership has declined by 13.4 percent from 2001 to 2010 8 Scholars will present their but only by 1.5 percent in 2009-10. ♦ The Rev. A. Robert (Rob) latest research papers Hirschfeld, rector of Grace Church, Amherst, Mass ., compared Robin­ son's election to the parting of the ♦ Worship and Fellowship Time Red Sea. "It seems to me that something in Hospitality of historic Saint ♦ our Church has been split wide open JamesSchool and its surroundings for all God's children to step in," Hirschfeld wrote. "And it happened in New Hampshire, and the good For complete details and to register online: people of your diocese bravely, www.stjames.edu/SJSConf2012 miraculously set forth."

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 7 J Sister Dorine of the Community of Sisters of the Church at the sisters' home, "the Hill of Women affected by the floods at their home in Charsada, Pakistan. Prayer," outside Honiara in the Solomon Islands. Anglican Alliance photos Alliance Stresses Food Security

By John Martin theology at Oxford and sociology at the University of South Africa, after which she worked as a journalist , gypt ought to be the breadbasket of the Middle first in South Afiica and then in Binningham in the U.K. EEast. Instead a nation endowe d with the highly Midlands. fertile Nile Delta and a heritage in wheat growing that Later she worked for the Labour Party and the Inner predates the story of Joseph cannot grow enough for London Education Authority, and was head of its domestic needs. Mexico gave the world maize, yet communications for the GMB trade union (600,000-plus today it has to rely on imports. members), then entered the first rung of B1itish politics These are just two of many examp les of a problem as a full-time council lead er in inner London . evident the world over and illustrates why food security In 1997 she was elected to the West minst er has emerged as the top prio1ity issue for the Anglican Parliament when Tony Blair's Labour government Alliance. The purpose of this initiative launched just a came to power, as one of the so-called Blair Babes (she year ago by Archbishop Rowan Willian1Sis to connect laughs). She eventually became part of his government, and strengthen Anglican development, relief and serving first as a minister in the Department of advocacy. Transport, Local Government and the Regions and "The truth is that a billion people are going hungry later in the Department for International Development . today when there is no need for it," says Sally Keeble, In Parliam ent her voting record reveals concerns director of the alliance and a former U.K. government about deforestation and climate change, religious minister. liberty and human rights in Tibet and support for debt Keeble says the problem is not lack of capacity to relief for developing countries and for people with a produce enough food. "It reflects a whole complex learning disability. Not one to shirk controversy, she of issues: lack of proper distribution systems, publicly withdrew her support for Blair's successor, international trade in commodities which distorts Gordon Brown . She said it was the role of a Prime food prices, emphas is on cas h crops rather than Minister "to offer a vision to voters, but sadly, this is no food for locals and lack of support for small farmers longer the case." who grow 80 percent of our food." The effects of This formidable CV means she is very much at climate change and war take their toll too. home in political corridors, both in London and Born in 1951 as the daughter of a former U.K. further afield. She believes U.K.-based community Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Keeble studied work, rather than her previous work in international

8 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 Shinya Yawata, provincial secretary of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, amidst the flood damage in Japan. Lighting candles at the Anglican Alliance Women's Day service at St. George's Camberwell in London. development , better prepared her for the alliance. streams comes much further down the line. The major The alliance addresses a vacuum evident in the emphasis is on the prophetic voice of the church and Anglican Communion for many years. After the famous advocacy work that's got access to people in authority 1963 Toronto Congress, a program arose which but is rooted in the life of the local church ." became known as MRI (Mutual Responsibility and What have been the highlights and lowlights of the Interdependence in the Body of Christ). The aim was alliance's first year of operations? The big task was not all that different from what the allianc e is setting up and finding out what needed to be done. "We attempting, but MRI eventually implod ed, having started looking at what I call 'demonstration projects.' become primarily a clearinghouse for projects seeking It's not the same as pilot projects. It was simply looking funding. In the 1980s there were attempts to set up an at examples of what people in the churches were Anglican International Development Agency, but this doing." failed, not least because some existing players in the One example was how the Anglican Board of field saw it as a threat. Mission partnered with the Church of Pakistan to do During four regional consultations , the alliance flood relief work "Then I spent time in Burundi seeing identified nine priorities: how we could do advocacy there. • Climate change The Department for International • Community empowerment Development had decided to cut • Economic empowerment off British governm ent funding to • Food security Burundi. We provided a report that • Governance brought the Archbishop of • Migrants and refugees Burundi to London to make the • Peace and recon ciliation case before a Parliamentary Select • Women's empowerment Committee. • Youth empowennent Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi of "Speaking there as an Anglican Keeble says food security is the major theme Burundi gives evidence to the Archbishop in his own right had U.K. Parliament's International for the alliance's global advocacy. The alliance Development Select Committee. more clout than being an adjunct to is not the standard relief and development an aid agency," she says. Even so, agency. "It doesn't do top-down international the move was not a complete success. The corrnnittee development structures or progran1S,"Keeble says. "It supported Burundi's case, but the government did not works from the grassroots up , empowering chur ches relent. "We always knew it would be hard to get the and building on the work they are doing." government to change its mind." She adds: "It means you don't have that awful donor­ The initiative heralded changes noneth eless . donee relationship. The issue of resources or funding (Continued on next page)

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 Top: The Most Rev. Rowan Williams with Esther Nakamatte {left) of Anglican microfinance agency Five Talents and other guests at the Alliance Women's Day service in London . Bottom : Sandra Andrade, Alliance steering group member for Latin America and the Caribbean (left), and Tania Nino, Alliance relief manager, at the Latin America consultation in Sao Paulo.

(Continued from previous page) Burundi has reopened its Consulate in London, so lobbying continues. It is seeking membership in The Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 54 countries that support each other and work together towards shared goals in democracy and development, and the alliance is assisting with the search for voluntary sector development funds. Building up the capacity of the churches is important. The alliance successfully applied to the Commonwealth Professional Development Scheme. The upshot was that church-education administrators, collectively overseeing 200 church schoo ls in Ghana, the Solomon Islands, Nigeria and the Caribbean, came to London for a tailored nine-week programme to learn new skills in finance, administration and governance from U.K. people and each other. Negotiations are underway to see if the programme , completed in mid­ March 2012, can be repeated. The alliance has just signed a contract with Britain's Open University (OU) to provide access-level modules on aspects of community development: consultation, inclusion, work programming, financial management, governance and protection of vulnerable people. It will be available online and offline, piloted in Africa and church moving beyond its own community in offering then rolled out globally. It is an important first step in literacy training for women and vocational skills the OU's plans to go global. The OU has worked before training for young men. with companies, but not with churc h or voluntary In Honiara, Solomon Islands, a women's refuge run agencies. by an Anglican order of nuns is doing highly in1pressive Keeble is keen to emphasise that while her U.K. work, linking up social workers, lawyers and the courts connect ions have enabled the alliance to build to assist vulnerable women in a context where there is bridgeheads into the Commonwea lth and the U.K. much general hostility towards the church. government, it is not a British organisation. It has In several South American countries people from a enlisted the support of Presiding Bishop Katharine small denomination earn respect by advocating for Jefferts Schori, who has supported the food security exploited indigenous mine workers or helping local issue with a letter to the Obama administration. It is people secure their land against companies trying to building links with the Primate of Canada's Fund for drive them off in favour of huge cattle ranches. World Relief. All over the world women's groups like the Mothers' It joined with the church in Uraguay to apply to the Union deliver care and press for change. Everywhere Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank for funding services there are Anglican priests capab le of bringing to mothers and early-years children. It is setting up counse lling skills to people trawnatised by natural offices in different parts of the world so that disasters, war or drought. In its own way the alliance development funding can be better accesse d. is finding ways of joining the dots. The core daily work for the alliance is sharing stories What is the role of faith in the work Keeble observes? of best practice. Chur ches are engaged in a massive "It's massive," she says without hesitation. "Yes,faith level of unheralded caring work. Wars and natural provides the vision and commitment for people to do disasters leave a trail of casualties for local churches this work , often in very difficult surroundings. It's to help. In the arid northeast of Kenya the church is rooted in Anglicanism's Five Marks of Mission, bringing help where a combination of civil war in particularly responding to human need, seeking to Somalia and the worst drought in 60 years is taking confront and transforn1 unjust structures, and working its toll. to protect the life of the earth." In Peshawar, Pakistan, what began as a church response to flooding has widened into a minority John Martin is TLC's London correspondent.

10 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 Spatial Catholicity

By Mark D. Chapman another as local and universal. The spur to thought has frequently been that of conflict: the Larnbeth Confer­ n Anglicanism: Unity and Diversity in the Angli­ ence was born out of disputes on doct1ine and the use can Communion (Mowbray, 2007), the book I of the Bible. As it developed from 1867 the Commun­ Iedited on the Anglican Covenant, I suggested that a ion came to establish a minimal doctrinal system, but "tepid constitutionalism" was what was perhaps at the same time the notion of a fellowship of needed for the Anglican Communion (p. 82). A mod­ autonomous churches founded on Scripture and Tra­ est mechanism for mutual accountability between the dition remained crucial for Anglican ecclesiology. autonomous national churches was necessary if the Despite frequent calls for greater centralisation, it was Anglican Communion was to be a "catholic" body not until the 1960s and '70s that further structures united over both space and time, rather than simply a were established with the Anglican Consultative Coun­ loose federation of national and regional churches cil and the Primates' Meeting. The seeds of an Angli­ with a number of affinities. From my understanding of can doctrine of spatial catholicity were sown . the Anglican tradition, I am clear that the traditional In the past ten years or so, this question has become Anglican idea of national or provincial autonomy increasingly pressing: while there have been serious which emerged with the break from Rome in the 1530s divisions, not least over sexuality and biblical inter­ cannot easily develop an ecclesiology of "spatial pretation, there has not been a generally accepted catholicity" - of how each autonomous church is an form of conflict resolution. The existing structures expression of the one holy catholic and apostolic have shown their ineffectiveness at solving disputes. Church. Where most of the time in the past churches have Over the past 200 years or so, the Anglican Com­ been respectful of others and have upheld boundaries munion has been working out how to be spatially and territorial integrity through their bonds of affec- catholic, how its autonomous churches relate to one (Continued on next page)

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 11 OUR UNITY IN CHRIST

(Continued from previous page) light this set of issues. Recent disputes have stemmed tion, following the election of Gene Robinson there mainly from the extent to which developments in the was very little by way of formal structure to maintain recognition of certain sexual relationship s are a first­ spatial communion and national integrity. For this rea­ or sec ond-order matter . If they wer e universally son, The Windsor Report suggested that there might be regax·ded as simply a second-order matter , then some sort of Covenant to allow the different churches provinces could legitimately disagree (as over the of the Communion to sign up to a common set of ordin atio n of women). The reasoning behind the teachings as well as a method for conflict resolution . Covenant is to try to ensure that there are mecha­ While there were some who sought an Anglican Com­ nisms which will allow communion to be maintained munion canon law which perhaps would have resem ­ to the greatest possible extent between (and within) bled that of Rome, this has been firmly resisted. So too the different churches. How far does one province's has a confession of faith or a subscription to a partic ­ understanding of what constitut es a first-order matter ular way of reading the Bible. affect anoth er provin ce's, and what sort of mecha­ The opening sections of the Covenant provid e a nism could there be to ensure that there was some sort fairly clear summary of Anglican method from the first of respect and commitment to remain in communion centuries after the break with Rome. The Covenant is even when there i.s disagreement on ftmdamentals? firmly committed to the view that Holy Scripture con­ While many in England may perceive little obvious tains all things necessary to salvation through faith in need for the Anglican Communion, I think that there Jesus Christ, and that the Catholic Creeds provide the are good reasons for keeping ourselves in as close a sufficient summary of the Christian faith. Anglicans schooled on the threefold understanding of theological method of Scripture, tradition , and reason might well The principleof mutual raise objections about the absence of any discussion of reason in the Covenant document. While there is some responsibilityimplies ambiguity about the use and status of reason , I think a willingnessto learn that the key point is that reason fills in the gaps where Scripture is silent. This did not mean that reason was and understand a source of doctrine, but rather that it was necessary to supply what was missing from Scripture for the good acrossthe divides. order of the Church. For Anglicans, the crux of the matt er is, first , relationship of communion as poss ible with church es whether something is "revealed in Scriptur e" and, sec­ which are often ministering in difficult and hostile ond, whether it is a matter of salvation, which is why environments. The principle of mutual responsibility Lambeth 1998 Resolution 1.10 (which ruled out homo­ implies a willingness to learn and understai1d across sexual practice as incompatible with Scripture) was o the divides of wealth, cultur e and status , which in important . It clearly push ed homosexual practice into turn should make us at least willing to acknowledge the realm of first-order matters , at least on the basis of that our own understandings and actions may need to Anglican method. Different understandings of pre­ be restrained for the sake of the relationships oftrn t, cisely what can be chang ed and what cannot be re~-pect and cmmnitment. reformed in different parts of the Anglican Commtm­ This puts me in a real quandary. First, I am fumly ion, and - perhaps just as importantly - within the committed to the belief that suitable candidat e who vaiious national and regional churche s of the Anglican ax·e in a faithful and cornn titted same-sex partnership Communion have led to threats of schism and a mnn­ should be eligible for appointment or election as bish­ ber of separations and cross-boundaxy disputes. The ops in the same way as anybody else. This I belie e to key difference betwe en the cuITent situation and that be a matter of faithful interpretation of Scripture rather (say) of 1662 is that there ax·esimply no legal mecha­ than simply adoption of current ideas of permissive nisms to ensure conformity between the provinc es or freedom . I also believe that it i not a matter which to decide under which category a paxticular action or affects salvation and that there is therefor e legitimate chai1ge falls. The histori c bonds of affection are not diversity on this matter. That said, however, I am also sufficient to uphold the principle of spatial catholicity aware that many will, and do, disagree with me pro in times of conflict. foundly on good and solidi Anglican grounds: it is a The paiti culax·disagreements of recent yeax·s high- matter of fact that the regulation of human conduct

12 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 an d re lationships so lely in monog am ous marriag e me diation and confli ct resolution , which has be en between ma le and fem ale o celibac is re ciar ded by consp icuousl y absent in the past few years . mo t Christi ans (including mo t 1gli an ) as a cen ­ As far as I can see it, the Communion is only likely tral and unc hang eable aspe ct of the deposit of faith . to hold togeth er with som e sort of me chanism for That bein g the cas e, there will inevita bly be dis­ deba te, discussion , and re commendation on precisely pute over first-order matt er betw een (and within) these issues. That is the ro le of the Standing Commit­ different chur ches . Conflict over what is ne cessary to tee in the proposed Covenant. This does not affect the salvation is part of what it is to be a catholi c Christian. legal autonomy of each church. Each church retains The local needs therefore to relate to the universal. the right and ability to act without recourse to other Catholi city cannot be limited purely to one's own con­ churches , and it may decide that what it regards as a text (Intro . §4 and sect. 3). My brother or sist er who second -order matter is really a first-order matter and disagrees with me in Lagos is still my brother or sister thus so important that it cannot wait for agr eement . and a member of one and th e same catholi c Church ; Thus , where a church felt it was more in accord with and , pro vided that th ey are operating using the meth­ its understanding of the Gospel to act despite the rec­ ods accepted as constitutive of catholicity, I have to ommendation of the Standing Committe e, nothing tak e them seriousl y and they too have to tak e me seri­ could prevent it from doing so . The only san ction ously, pro vided that I too an1 adopting the se methods. wou ld be to lose its representation on the various For Anglicans the universal is nothing less than all Instruments of Communion ; ex communication othe r Anglicans ( and more widely all those who call remains solely a matter for national chur ches . What is themsel es Christians). It is for this reason that I proposed is a me chanism which would provide som e woukl aclmowledge th e possibility that the current sort of structure for dealing with change and possible Covenan t proposal , which is very circumspe ct and conflict , espe cially over th e differentiation betw een which encoura ge dispute resolution and listening first- and second -order issues . before legal re course , may be bett er than the curr ent Overall, then , I consider the Covenant to be an situation of unregulated disagreement and schism , or example of "tepid constitutionalism. " While there may leaving everything up to the Archbishop of Cant erbury . well be tough decisions and splits ahead , it seems to While I still belie ve th e word covena,nt it.self can be me that these ar e already happening in an unstruc­ misleading in that biblical cove nants in general are tured and sometimes highly acrimonious way. Obvi­ between God and human beings , neverth eless the idea ously it may we ll tum out that the Standing Commit­ of covenanti ng with on e another as a conscious act is tee will not be able to gain the trust and authority that at th e heart of th e curr ent draft . It se ems to me that is required for its decisions to be effective in conflict recognition of difference, and that th e Chur ch is big­ resolution, in whi ch case th e Communion will mutate ger than any one provin ce, are esse ntial for a chur ch into a mu ch looser federation of chur ches rooted in a to be (spatiall y) catholi c. On the Covenant model , historical Anglican identity . For many , this may not be spatial catholicity is Pstablish ed on the notion of a an undesirab le development: Anglicanism would freely ent ere d agre ement about th e contents of faith become identical to the national church idea . For the (s ections 1-3), and a regulation of tho se actions whi h Covenant to work requires an attitude of discipline , might be contro versial wh en ther e are no obvious and obedience , respect , and tolerance , as well as a readi­ straigh tforw ardl y rec ogni ed answe r to deci de nes s to listen and learn. The Covenant will not work wheth er something is a first - or seco nd-order matter. w1less there is a desire to make it work , and that In oth er words, while I might be convinc ed that what requires far more than any modest constitutional doc­ I believe to be tru e form con text abo ut the ordination um ent can achieve : What I hope will emerge is a of peo ple in comrnitte d sam e-sex partn erships is not renewed consciousness of the importan ce and diver­ a matter of faith an d therefore open to different con­ sity of the Anglican Communion , as well as the desire textual practice , I reco gnise that oth ers - thP major­ to build up respe ct and trust even when there is seri­ ity - -hold different views and for good Anglican rea - ous disagreem ent . ■ ons. Trying to decide whether somethin g falls into one category or th e oth er is never easy, and it is ome­ The Rev. Mark D. Chapman , vice principal and lec­ thing tha t requires a great deal of liste nin g and reflec­ turer in syst errwt ic theology at Ripo n College Cud­ tion . Under th e ovenant there i a olunta com­ desdon, Oxf ord, is the author of Anglicanism: A Very mitmen t from all chur ches to liste n to oth ers before Short Introdu ction (Oxf ord, 2006) and Anglican The­ acting . And there is also a re ognition of the need for ology (T&T Clark, 2012).

April a, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 13

Second Annunciation Woman, behold your son: behold your mother

By Jon Adamson

hirty-four years before these words, Our Lady And so, she stood at the foot of the Cross for this, a T received the angel's message - declaring her second Annunciation. Once again without husband, a full of grace and soon to be full with the Child widow, she was minutes from losing her firstborn. who would pour grace upon the whole world . At Having spent years pondering all the events in their this Annunciation , she was troubled at the saying. lives had meant, she obeyed to the apparent end, sta ­ She was betrothed but had not consummated the ble when so many others proved faithless. Did she marriage and her mind reeled to consider how know that the hour of conversion was at hand? That this could be. new life was to burst forth for Jew and Gentile? That And yet she obeyed. She not only heard God's the barren grave could give birth as assuredly as a vir­ message through the angel, she listened to it. She gin pure ? Did her mind reel at how this could be? All internalized it even as the Word was becoming we know is that she went to the disciple's home, con­ incarnate within her. And senting to the adoption . Behold! as we hear later in response It is not improper Her descendents will be as numer­ to her kinswoman, her ous as the stars! spirit rejoiced! She obeyed to look ahead even It is not improper to look ahead not only because she had even as we remember our Lord's listened to this specific as we remember Passion. For a birth was to come message but because she from this second Annunciation. had been listening to the our Lord's Passion. Just fifty days later, Our Lady Scriptures and the story of would be at another birth - of her people all along. Her song - the Magnificat - the Church - and she would become both its icon is such a succinct declaration of the Covenant, the and its mother. The tongue of fire kindled a familiar Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets and an feeling deep within her; she knew what the Spirit felt announcement of their coming fulfillment. like. The Word was now written on her heart as it had Behold! The handmaiden of the Lord! been knit in her womb. And when she spoke - a sec­ Her obedience ripened into stability. Amid the ond Magnificat - in the Magi's tongue, she declared rush of circumstances and tribulations in the the Good News of salvation that was to come to the flight to Egypt or the routine of cares and toil dur­ ends of the earth, an unrecorded song of grace. It is ing the years in Nazareth, she exercised her voca­ because of this second birth that we can call Mary tion of motherhood such that her Son grew in our Mother, Jesus our Lord, and this Friday Good as stature, in wisdom , and in favor with God and we make our song even at the grave. ■ man . So much so that years later he would use her as an exemplar in his teaching. Who is my mother Jon Adamson is secretary to the Bishop of Northern or brother or sister? The one who does the will of Indiana and a licensed lay preacher at St. Paul's God. Behold! She is a mother twice over! Church, Mishawaka .

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 15

Take Your Place at God's Banquet By Daniel H. Martins

aster is an occasion of great celebration - have needed them? If so, there is a banquet table EChrist is risen from the dead. It is an occasion of prepared for you, overflowing with God's abundant great thanksgiving - death, the mortal enemy of blessings; come, and take your place. Are you in humankind, has been swallowed up in victory. It is mid-life, and feeling yourself stretched by having to an occasion of great joy - death has been attend to the needs of both your parents and your declawed and defanged, and we need no longer children at the same time? If so, there is a banquet fear it. It is an occasion of eating and drinking and table prepared for you, overflowing with God's making merry - we have been freed from the grip abundant blessings; come, and take your place. Are of sin. you a young person, with more plans than memo­ This is an occasion for singing and dancing - ries, and full of both anxieties and aspirations? If Universal Evil itself has been sentenced to obliv­ so, there is a banquet table prepared for you, over­ ion; its days are numbered, and when it goes into flowing with God's abundant blessings; come, and the pit of destruction it will carry with it all fear, take your place. anxiety, pain , shame, anger - in short, all suffering Are you filled with sorrow? Are you grieving a will be sucked into the eternal loss - the loss of a loved one, the loss black hole of God's redeeming and of a dream, the loss of an ideal? If so, undying love. This is an occasion The feast there is a banquet table prepared for of great hope - all across the you, overflowing with God's abundant world , people will renounce their is ready. blessings; come, and take your place. attachment to the realm of sin and Are you tortured by doubt and skepti­ death and embrace the kingdom of The table cism, wanting to believe, but not finding life and health and peace; they will yourself able to? If so, there is a banquet be born again in the waters of Holy table prepared for you, overflowing with Baptism; they will be anointed has been God's abundant blessings; come, let the with the Holy Spirit and marked as faith of those around you carry you to Christ's own forever. prepared. your place. Are you wracked by guilt, Have you kept a holy Lent? Have feeling yourself unworthy of God's love, you been faithful in prayer, fasting, unworthy to even come under the roof and self-denial? Have you read and meditated on of his house? If so , there is a banquet table pre­ God's holy Word? If so, there is a banquet table pre­ pared for you, overflowing with God's abundant pared for you, overflowing with God's abundant blessing and infinite merciful forgiveness; come , blessings; come, and take your place. Has Lent and take your place - there is absolutely nothing been a struggle for you? Have you lapsed from your you can do to make God love you any more, and rule, or fallen into sin? Have you been neglectful of nothing you can do to make God love you any less . your obligation to private prayer and public wor­ The feast is ready. The table has been prepared . ship? If so, there is a banquet table prepared for The price has been paid in full. The invitation to the you, overflowing with God's abundant blessings; banquet has been sent out. There is a banquet table come, and take your place. Have you totally prepared for us, overflowing with God's abundant ignored Lent, completely blown it off? If so, there is blessings; come, let us take our places. This is an a banquet table prepared for you , overflowing with occasion of great celebration - Christ is risen God's abundant blessings; come, and take your from the dead. Alleluia . ■ place. Have you lived a long life, and known God's mer­ The Rt . Rev. Dan iel H. Martins is Bishop of cies to be richly laid out before you whenever you Springfield .

April 8 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 17 Reprinted with permission from The Soci~:::!~~~i~~;;/fJIijlo,:y be1o 1fiee . .Rlm19~ uod.our beau~ mt her,

18 THE LMNG CHURCH• April8 , 2012 By Dennis Raverty done the entire drawing in intaglio, only the body of Jesus, rendering Christ as black. llan Crite was a painter of urban life. Align ing In the background is a water tower looming himself with Social Realist trends that domi­ imperiously over the scene. However, the mob nated American art from the Depression through the seems to have dispersed and Christ is alone and postwar period, his work shows the influence of abandoned. During this period of heavy Klu Klux Archibald Motley, Jr., and Palmer Hayden, fellow Klan activity , semi-public whippings were not African American painters a generation older than unknown , but this kind of vigilante "justice" was Crite, who had been associated with the Harlem usually meted out far away from town at night by Renaissance, or as they called it, the "New Negro" torchlight , not openly in the square in broad day­ movement. light as it is here, suggesting a certain brazenness Crite's work typically portrays everyday life in about this organized assault. predominantly black neighborhoods in Boston , That the town is in collusion with the mob is sug­ where the artist lived - people playing horseshoes, gested by an oppressive, modernistic office build­ hanging out on their doorsteps or dressed up for ing in the background , the type of bland structure church on Sunday morning. These are what he that haunts small-town America, and a larger build­ called his "neighborhood " paintings. ing, which looks institutional and may be a school, Much less familiar are his works devoted to Christian themes such as the illustrations he did for a small volume on the Mass published by Cowley Press. Crite was an Episcopalian and the book is a mystical Anglo-Catholic interpretation of the Eucharist in pictures. One illustration [left] shows a priest celebrating Mass with huge candlesticks on both ends of the altar, the light from which illuminates giant six­ winged seraphim that hold even larger candle­ sticks high above. Enshrined at the very top of the painting in a burst of light are the Hebrew charac­ ters spelling the ineffable name of God. The priest does not dominate the composition but is ren­ dered as a small figure at the bottom . It is clear from Crite's illustration that it is not the priest who transforms the bread and wine, but God himself. In some of his most interesting work , the artist combines the realism of his genre scenes with 1936 . Allan Rohan Crite. Oil on canvas 30 1/4 x 36 1/8 in. Smithsonian Ame rican Art Museum Christian themes, such as the series of pen-and­ "School's Out," one of Crite's many portrayals of everyday urban life. ink drawings on the words of the Apostle 's Creed. Each line from the creed is accompanied by an courthouse , or government bureau. The civic build­ illustration. ings witness the crime and are powerless to stop it. In Suffered under Pontius Pilate (bit.ly/Critelmages), In drawings like this, Crite poignantly reminds his Christ is shown after his flagellation tied to a pillar in viewers that Christ understands what it means to what appears to be a public square in a contemporary suffer, to be despised , to be abandoned by his town or suburb. He is limp and hangs forward sus­ friends, and the artist challenges us to take a hard pended by the ropes. The figure of Christ, stripped to look at how Christ will continue to be crucified as the waist, is rendered in intaglio, a technique of long as injustice and racism exist. describing form with white lines against a black ground (as opposed to the more common method Dennis Raverty, assistant professor of art history at of using black lines on a white ground), often exe­ New Jersey City University, is a special ist in early cuted with a razor blade or stylus. Yet Crite has not 20th century Modern ism.

Ap118, 2012• T1iEI.MNG CHUF1CH 19 I

For Elizabeth Agnes, on her baptism

Yesterday afternoon Elizabeth and I I peeled its skin and pulled one ripe segment, touched fruit a perfect partition, then ripped heaped in a bowl on our sunlit sideboard . its pulp with my teeth and One by one administered the potion. I made them pass by her, placing them under her infant hand. That too was the hour when summer died, when Persephone took the pomegranat e First a clementine, gnarled and bumpy, Fr~m Hades's waiting palm. an orange toad squatting beneath her supple knuckles. She tapped To be sure, a poor inheritance new fingers on dry skin. of fallen flesh to bequeath a firstborn daughter. Then an apple, smooth , speckled, But I repeat: And grass-snake green . An orange was all I had.

After that, a large red grapefruit, Ill robust and rounded , with one brown spot. And last of all Today, because we will use ,,,. a pair of ripe bananas. an Eastern rite, Elizabeth will do more than just break water. As we disturbed their still life, She will again, as Eve, She felt each skin, fresh-picked , taste fruit, severed from its maternal source. but this time taken from the hand of another Adam. II IV The first fruit Elizabeth ingested When she is older was just the juice I will try to explain of one orange wedge sucked how once in history from my pinky finger while we waited grapes grew on in the delivery room. a tree.

I meant to bring champagne; Michael Cover but that plan changed when Sus's water broke two weeks too soon. The orange was all I had.

20 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 Review by Jordan Hylden the way Cluist ians have gone about it in recent years is both sociologically naive and theologically unsound. luistians are world-changers - so says the Regardless of whether Hunter is right about that, advertisement for Indiana Wesleyan Univer­ at the very least he has succeeded in changing the C sity in Christ'ianity Today. Seattle Pacific Uni­ way that evange lical Christians think about cultural versity similarly proclaims itself as the place where change. Among evangelicals, the book was the pub­ world change begins. And no doubt it is, but the Epis­ lishing event of 2010, widely discussed and debated copal Church 's Office of Congregational Vitality is giv­ by a who's-who lineup ofleaders. Hunter, himself an ing it a run for the money with a "Transform ing evangelical Christ ian and a widely respected pro­ Chmches, Changing the World" video series . fessor of religion, cultur e, and social theory at the Will Christians indeed change the world, in con­ University of Virginia, wrote the book in large part centric circles of culture-impact ing power radiating out of a sense that for all of the enthusiastic energy outward from Indiana, Seatt le, and New York? Prob­ put into "changing the world" and "engaging the cul­ ably not, James Davison Hunter argues in his latest ture" by his evangelical brethren, they lacked an book, or at least not if we keep on the way we've adequate understanding of how worlds and cultures been going about it. The book's title is meant to be actually change. And beyond simply being ineffec­ ironic: Hunter thinks the church in America is not tual, he thought, their efforts in the political sphere even close to changing the world, and that moreover (Continued on next page)

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 21 REVIEW ESSAY

(Continued from previous page) and cultural vision offered by Christian schools. Such all too often did significant damage to the Church's world-historical changes occur when one set of cultural mission. elites is displaced by another: the Enlightenment, as Hence the book And although much of it does Hunter describes it, was "a revolution generated by an indeed speak most directly to evangelical concerns, alternative network ofleaders, providing an alternative the book's reach extends to the broader spectrum of base of [financial]resources, oriented toward the devel­ Christia ns in America as well. It has already been opment of an alternative cultural vision (anew anthro­ called the most important reflection on church and pology, epistemology, ethics, sociality, and politics), culture since H. Richard Niebuhr's classic Christ and established in part through alternative institutions, all Culture in 1951, and so it may well prove to be. It is a operating at the elite centers of cultural formation." sweeping book, blending together social and political None of this, of course, sounds very congenial to theory, cultural observation, and theology into an Christians accustomed to thinking of themselves as argument of great power and perception. It is also a called to dwell on the margins of society, to speak contentious book that finds more enemies than allies truth to power , and to follow their Lord to seek out the in Hunter's survey, at times needlessly. But above all least and the lost. But if Christians take their world­ it is a book that should be read and thought through chang ing, structure-upturning aspirations seriously, carefully. Hunter argues, they had better take account of hard How do cultures change? Not the way Christians today tend to think, Hunter argues. Christians too often assume that if TO the hearts and minds of ordinary people HANGE change then the culture changes with them. TH[ WORLD To Changethe World Not so, Hunter says - such a view is overly The Irony,Tragedy, and Possibility idealist and individualist, and fails to account of Christianityin the Late ModernWorld for the much greater role played by cultural By James DavisonHunter . Oxford . elites, institutions, and networks. Culture, Pp. 358. $20 . Hunter argues, is much more than a set of propositions that individuals carry around in their heads. More deeply, it is the pre­ reflective framework of meaning through which we see and experience the world, the symbolic language by which we understand what is sociological fact. Anything else, in the end, amounts to true and false, right and wrong. Ideas are involved, not much more than an exercise in naive do-goodery but only as they are embedded within institutions and and false consciousness - we might wish that speak­ embodied by communities. Understood this way, cul­ ing truth to power will change the world, but wishing ture just isn't the sort of thing that can be changed at will not make it so. To extend somewhat the title of the drop of a hat by arguing about it. Instead, cultures Jeff Stout's recent book: blessed are the organized, and are carried down through history by the core institu­ blessed are the powerful. tions of communities, which themselves are led by If this is where Hunter ended the book, it would be networks of social elites. In the long run, it is the pow­ difficult to see how it amounts to mor e than just one erful elites at the center of powerful institutions that more strategy to change the world on behalf of what­ matter most. ever cause one might support, and not in a clearly Change them, the elite gatekeepers, and the culture Christian manner : after all, Jesus said that blessed does in fact change over time. As proof, Hunter pres­ are the poor and meek, not the organized and pow­ ents the evangelization of Rome and Europe, which erful! But Christianity, Hunter argues, is not about was in large part accomplished by the conversion of changing the world - instead, it is about being faith­ emperors and nobles and the compelling intellectual ful to God in Christ, who alone is the one through

22 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 whom the world will finally be changed. within the world as Christians, incarnating Christ's Too many Christians oflate, HW1tercontends, have sacrificial and noncoercive love for others and leaving made the fatal mistake of supposing that the task of the world -changing to God. "redeeming the culture" is up to them; that history is Faithful presence requires strong formation in the something they can and should control. This is, he says Church, if Christians are to have the discernment nec­ (echoing John Howard Yoder), the Constantinian essary to be in the world but not of it. It will require en-or. It lends itself all too easily to abuse when painstaking cultivation of excel­ its goals (inevitably) are not achieved, and it lence and influence, as the Church sours all too quickly into resentment toward Faithfulpresence today exists on the periphery those who stand in its way. The public witness requiresstrong rather than the center of Ameri­ of Christianity in America, Hunter says, has can culture. It is not meant as a been far too captive to the gambits of power formationin pietistic prescription for individu­ politics, whether led by Jim Dobson on the right the Church, als, but primarily as advice for net­ or Jim Wallis on the left. The irony mentioned works, communities, and institu­ in the book's subtitle is that Christianity is capa- if Christians tions. And if the Church is to be ble of supplying an autonomous source of cul­ are to have faithfully present to An1erican cul­ tural values that could help politics be about ture today, HW1terthinks, it must more than merely power; the tragedy is that it the discernment be aware of the realities of our has not, and by so doing the church has become necessaryto be cultural moment: the challenges nearly indistinguishable from the cultural ills it posed by modern pluralism and decries. in the world technology, and the dissolution At this point, Hunter 's argument begins to but not of it. between language and reality fol­ soW1da great deal like the ecclesially focused , lowing upon it. In other words, in "politics of Jesus" neo-Anabaptist movement a world in which we are forced to led by Yoder, Stanley Hauerwas , and their fellow trav­ choose between the moral and religious visions of elers in the Ekklesia Project. But in HW1ter's estima ­ diverse cultures, and in which the choice can appear tion, while they have been largely right about the to be between one shallow soW1dbite of infotainment American church's maladies, they ironically have failed and another , how can the Church incarnate the stead­ to move beyond the Constantinian paradigm. The neo­ fast covenant promises of the God who has created Anabaptists are merely anti-Constantinian, rather and redeemed the world? than genuinely post-Constantinian - instead of offer­ Such concerns should resonate deeply with those ing a better way to exercise power in the world, they formed in the Anglican way of being Christian. Faith­ recommend "accepting powerlessness," thus making ful presence at all levels of society soW1ds much like it difficult to say anything supportive about the voca­ the Anglican parish system, with its historic emphasis tion of Christians in the workaday world and the influ­ on patient incarnation. And the depth of Anglican ence they will inevitably have there. liturgy and tradition can provide a coW1terweight to In contrast, then, to the Christian right, Christian left, the shallowness of American consW11erculture and and the neo-Anabaptists, Hunter offers what he calls the "seeker-friendly," al1istorical worship that imitates a genuinely new paradigm: "faithful presence." Faith­ it. The Anglican experience, however, also shows how ful presence means participating in every level of soci­ tricky the ideal of "faithful presence" can be to pull off ety as salt and light, working to "retrieve the good to without sliding into Erastianism. which modern institutions and ideas implicitly or Here, HW1ter perhaps overemphasizes his differ­ explicitly aspire; to oppose those ideals and struc­ ences with neo-Anabaptists. Both HW1terand Hauer­ tures that undermin e human flourishing, and to offer was emphasize the central place of the Church in the constructive alternatives for a better way," the way of formation of character, without which HW1ter's"pres­ God's shalom for all people. It is not our job to change ence" would lose its faithfulness. But important dif- the world, HW1tersays, but to be a faithful presence (Continued on next page)

April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 23 REVIEW ESSAY BOOKS ChangingThoughts on Change ChristianPeace and Nonviolence

(Continued from previous page) Review by Scott Bader-Saye ferences do still remain, having primarily to do with the use of power, and whether it is true ( as James KA. After more than ten years of war, it has become Smith has argued, in a passage cited by Hunter) that easy for Americans to think of violence as a neces­ "morality or authentic virtue is possible only for the sary and unavoidable background to everyday life. community of the redeemed." Hw1ter finds more com­ Further, the Obama administration's increased use of mon ground with those outside the Chmch than such drone attacks suggests the possibility of perpetual thinkers do, and herein lies an important theological war carried out one target at a time anywhere debate that one wishes Hunter had spent more time around the globe . We are on the brink of a new level fleshing out. So too, his comments on Christlike power of unchecked and unending violence. This reality are suggestive, but leave the reader wanting further to makes Michael Long's volume, Christian Peace and think through the theological implications. Nonvi olence, all the more important. Long has done Other issues remain as well. In a YouTube, 600- a great service in bringing together this selection of channel DirecTV,blogosphere world, are cultmal gate­ writings, thus keeping alive the consistent, though keepers as in1portant as Hunter asserts? And is the lan­ often minority , voice for peace within the tradition. guage of "center" and "periphery" adequate to describe Long has selected material that spans all eras and a nation that has arguably separated itself out into Red is broadly inclusive of diverse strands of the tradi­ An1erica and Blue An1erica, each with its own set of tion. One finds here both the expected and the unex­ counter-elites and cultme-forming institutions? Hunter pected voices, both the familiar and the unknown. cites an oft-quoted statistic about belief in evolution: The usual suspects appear, of course - Tertullian , if 45 percent of An1ericansbelieve that God created the Menno Simons, Daniel Berr igan - but alongside world within the last 10,000 years, and 38 percent one finds figures such as Charles Spurgeon , Dwight more think that evolution was somehow divinely L. Moody, and Clarence Darrow. The volume also directed, then why (he asks) are such views not includes significant voices of women who are often reflected in om universities and public schools? For overlooked in such collections - Priscilla Cadwal­ Hunter, this is evidence that the hearts and minds of lader, Sojourner Truth , Lucret ia Mott, Jan e Addams, ordinary people matter little for changing the com­ Dorothy Day, and Carter Heyward, to name a few. manding heights of cultme. But the question might just In his preface, Long not es that "readers will ... as easily be flipped: does it not show that the com­ quickly see that this volume includes pieces from manding heights of elite cultme in America aren't so authors who seem to accept violence at certain commanding after all? points or who may not even identify themselves as Such questions , however pressing they may be, do Christian." That this is trn e constitutes one of the little to detract from the great achievement that is strengths of the book Yet, he goes on, "there is no Hunter's book He himself, of comse, would eschew author in this volume whose thought does not the notion that a book or an individual author can strongly emphasiz e - and exto l - the virtues and change the world - if his fine work is to have the practices of Christian peace and nonviolence " (p. in1pact he hopes for in the divided An1erican chmches, xix). Thus , even among those non-pacifists included it will be in the contribution it makes to renewed con­ in the collection (for example, Basil of Caesarea or versation about the Chmch's mission between om Bartolome de Las Casas) there is a clear presump­ many and sorry divisions. Getting us all to speak to tion for the primacy of nonviolence - a presump­ each other just might take a miracle, of course, but tion that has been largely lost on Western Christians then Hunt er would remind us that genuine world who perceive littl e or no distance between their change only happ ens when it comes from above. ■ Christian identity and their national identity. Taking this one step further, one can imagine Long Jordan Hylden, a doctoral student in theology at might have included some writers who stand quite Duke Divinit y School, is a candidat e for holy orders firmly within the just war tradition but who under­ in the Diocese of North Dakota. stand the ways in which such a position in1poses lim-

24 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 its based on the gospel. John Calvin, for instance, only fighting that can be done by Christians is that writes about the sort of pea ceful lives that ought to which is done by prayer - leaving to God the guid­ issue from participation in the Eucharist: ance of history and the work of judgment. The text highlights another fascinating aspect of We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament the Church's historic witness for peace in the selec ­ if this thought is impressed and engraved upon tions dealing with the peace of God/truce of God our minds : that none of the brethren can be movements in the 10th to 12th centuries. Bishops injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any who were troubled by the level of violence in their way offended by us, without at the same time dioceses banded together to call for significant lim­ injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the its on violence - declaring church buildings as sanc­ wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with tuaries, prohibiting the taking of spoil, proscribing our br ethren without at the same time dis­ certain weapons, and demanding that the fighting agreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own ; for they are mem­ bers of our body; and that , as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of ChristianPeace pain which is not spread among all the and Nonviolence rest, so we ought not to allow a broth er A Documentary History to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for Edited by Michael G. Long. him. (Institutes, IV.xvii.38) Orbis. Pp. 368. $40.

One can only wonder how it would change the application of just war teach­ ing if we were to believe that "none of the brethren can be injured , despis ed, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without at the same time, injuring , despising, cease on certain days. The goal was not to end vio­ and abusing Clffist." For instance , what might this lence altogether, but to place pragmatic constraints mean in a situation in which Christians are fighting upon the unchecked dissemination of violence . Christians in the name of national interests? Long suggests that this volume "can help some of In addition to containing a variety of voices, this us confront the raging politics of fear with the volume displays a variety of arguments for Christian breathtaking courage of Jesus" (p. xx). In noting nonviolen ce - that is, it unpa cks the diverse logic of this he has touched a nerve at the center of our cult peace. So while some make direct appeal to the of security . As so many of these readings suggest, it teachings of Christ, others invoke sacramental or is only as we come to trust more fully in God's pro­ ontological warrants . Origen, for instance, who died vision and Christ's redemption that we can embody after being tortured under the Emp ero r Deci us, the courage necess ary to live without recourse to makes an argument based on the priesthood of all coercion as a means to protect ourselves and further believers. Since it was generally assumed, eve n our interests. ■ among the pagans, that priests should not fight, Ori­ gen made the case that Christians as a whole bear a Scott Bad er-Say e is the Helen and Ev erett H. Jones priestly role in the civil society, working for the good Professor of Christian Ethi cs and Moral Theology of the civitas through divine mediation. Thus, the at Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas.

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(VOGEL from page 7) anniversary of the founding of Italy's Professor of Philosophical and Sys­ Camaldoli monastic community, tematic Theology at Nashotah which includes a presence at San House from 1952 to 1971, when he Gregorio, a site of major signifi­ was consecrated as bishop coadju­ cance to the origins of the Church of tor in the Diocese of West Missouri. England. He was the diocese's bishop from Echoing the words of the Second 1973 to 1989. Vatican Council's "Decree on Ecu­ The bishop wrote 14 books, menism ," Williams described the including Body Theology: God's communion between the Anglican Presen ce in Man's World (1973), I Communion and the Roman Know God B etter than I Know Catholic Church as "certa in yet Myself (1989), Christ in His Time imperfect" during a sermon that and Ours (1992) , and Radi cal extolled St. Gregory's virtues of Christianity and the Flesh of Jesus humility and prophecy. (1995). The archbishop told Matthew He participated in the Consulta­ Davies of Episcopal News Service: tion on Church Union (1962-66), the "We're working together for the first and second Anglican-Roman kingdom , we're praying together, Catholic International Commissions and of course we hav e a huge (1969-90), the national Anglican­ agenda institutionally, which we've Roman Catholic dialogue (1964-84) no idea how to sort out, but mean­ Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the fourth Assembly of the while we go on working and praying Nazareth, Galilee, World Council of Churches (1968). in great affection." the River Jordan, and more The bishop is survived by his wife, Adapt ed from ENS Katharine Vogel; two sons, John and Tony Vogel; daughter Kit Smith ; N.Z. Cathedral Coming Down brother, John; and five grandchil­ The Diocese of Christchurch's dren. The bishop will be buried at quake-crippled cathedral will be Nashotah House. brought down to a safe level of between 2 and 3 meters. Atlanta Adds One Nominee Some walls may be lower ed even further, for safety reasons, whil e The Rev. Martha N. Macgill, 54, rec­ none of the walls will be left intact. tor of Memorial Episcopal Church in But the footprint will remain , and Baltimore since 2000, has joined a no bulldozers or wrecking balls will slate to become the Diocese of be used in the demolition. Atlanta's next bishop. Macgill, a 1995 "This has not been an easy deci­ graduate of Virginia Theological sion for the church," Mayor Bob Seminary, was priest-in-charge of St. Parker said. "It is not an easy deci­ Francis Church, Walkerville, South sion for many of us to accept either." Africa, from 1997 to 2000, and assis­ Bishop Victoria Matthews said tant rector of St. Stephen's Church, taonga and heritage items, includ­ Richmond , Virginia, in 1995-97. ing stained-glass windows , would be removed in the next few months. Pope, Archbishop Pray in Rome N.Y. Coadjutor Consecrated The Archbishop of Canterbury and The Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche Pope Benedict XVI pray ed together was consecrated the Diocese of March 10 during an ecumenical ves­ New York's bishop coadjutor March pers service at San Gregorio Magna 10 at the Cathedral Church of Saint al Celio in Rome. John the Divine . Dietsche has The service marked the 1000th served since 2001 as the diocese's

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April 8, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 27 SUNDAY'S READINGS I Easter Day, April 8 LIVINGCHURCH Acts 10:34-43 or Isa. 25:6-9 • Ps. 118:1-2, 14-24 • 1 Cor. 15:1-11 or Acts 10:34-43 John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8 VOLUME 244 • NUMBER 8

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28 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 SUNDAY'S READINGSI Easter2, April 15 Acts 4:32-35 • Ps. 133 • 1 John 1: 1-2:2 • John 20:19-31 To Be FullyAlive in Jesus Christ All are welcome at Trinity The Heart of the Multitude Church. Our doors are open every day, all day, for prayer and rest. quick conversion illustr ated : the that of a long preparation to which We have a beautiful, recently A enthroned ego leading a chaotic Christian witnesses feel a deep respon­ restored Carpenter Gothic church life is repla ce d by an enthroned sibility. "We declare to you what was with a very long history in the Ch.list who puts one 's daily agenda in from the beginning, which we have seaside village of Southport, Con­ manag eable if not p erfe ct order . heard , which we have seen with our necticut. Our spire can be seen Clear , but not tru e. Conversion is not eyes , which we have beheld, and our for miles, and we mer ely private, nor is Christian trans ­ hands have touched, concerning the have been a center of fom1at ion immediate . Insisting that word of life" (1 John 1). worship and Christian one go from ha bitual sin to sup er John's te stimony to "the word of community since san ctity in sho rt ord er mak es a sorry life" is first person plural, not singu­ 1724. Today, Trinity Christian : irrita ble, unhappy , unwis e. lar, be cause faith in Jesus Christ is serves a congregation Christian forma tion occurs in a the common faith of the Church, nei­ of 400 familie s that Cluistian communi ty, as we see so ther an individual possession nor a continue s to grow in clearly in th e Acts of th e Apostles . se ctarian claim. "Is Christ divided?" size and spirit. The editors of the New Vulgate have St. Paul asks th e Corinthians. There We have many titled this pericope from Acts "Mul­ is One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, opportunities for titud inis Car" (the heart of the mul­ One God and Father of us all. The learning, mission and titud e), a time ly consideration as we Chur ch is "One" because the Spilit of service in the parish obs erve so cial movemen ts and civil the ris en Lord suffuses and knits and in the wider community, and unr est unl eas he d beyond the con­ togeth er the whole body. we have a thriving Nursery trolling capaci ty of tanks , guns , and The passage from John's Gospel School that welcomes children of governm ent crackdowns . A crowd shows Thomas moving from doubt to all faiths to learn and grow in our can become fearless : fearless in right­ faith, pr esented as he is by a tradition. eousness, fearless in folly. In short, it Wounded Cluist standing in the midst Trinity also has a long and cannot be trusted. It mutates by the of his Living Church . Jesus gives his illustrious history of fine music. moment with a collective mind puz ­ peace and so prepares the disciples We are blessed to have inherited zling even to willing participants. for the world they fear. Will unity and a beautiful tradition that mani­ The consensus fid eliurn in the witness be difficult? Yes, of course. festly amplifies God's word, Church , however , goes to the heart of But will it be beautiful? "It is like fine through which we and our chil­ what is meant by the renewal of our oil on the head that runs down upon dren can come to know God, our­ minds : not th e mere change of indi ­ the beard of Aaron, down the collar selves and each other better. All viduals, but a transfonnation of how of his robe" (Ps. 133). St. Ignatius of six choirs happily welcome new members of Cluist's body regard each Antio ch could hear the "music" of members throughout the year. other . "The heart of the multitude of Chmch unity , the priests singing to those believing was one heart and the bishop and the whole church Our Mission: To becomea compas­ sionate community of Jesus Christ one soul" (Acts 4:32). For this reason , singing with one voice tlrrough Cluist where we serve God's people,celebrate "they had all things in common ." to the Father . Jesus Christ is praised, God's blessings,and discover a saving Though a crowd, the Church willingly Ignatius says, by consensus and con­ balanceto the pressuresof the world. restrains itself "for the common cordant love. Unity is not a human good" as each member seeks the accomplishment . It is a divine gift we Trinity Episcopal Church good of the other, as each has need . receive from moment to moment. 651 Pequot Avenu e, Southport, CT 06890 203-255-0454 The First Epistle of John also high­ www.trinitysouthp ort.org lights the Church 's communal life and Look It Up witness. St. John opens his letter by Read 1 John 1:1. The beginning was a gathering up the scattered fragments pr eparation for your adoption into of an old story extending from creatio Christ. Now you, with many, touch e.,1:nihilo to the moment of epistolary and behold him. composition. He shares what "was from the beginning." Thus the reader is ThinkAbout It alerted to the first line of Genesis and Imagine a more profuse chrismation: the first line of the Gospel according to oil running down upon the collar of A LtvrNG CHURCH Sponsor Johl1. Cumulatively, the impression is your robe.

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Deaths 1962-64; assistant , St. John's , Larchmont , NY, 1964-66; rector, St. John's , Cornw all, The Rev. DavidE. Evansof Vernon, VT, NY, 1966-69; rector, St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo, died peace fully at his hom e on March Tuxedo Park , NY. The clean was diag­ 2, while in the care of his wife, Bar­ nosed with cancer in 1998, and docto rs bara , and family. He was 95. thought he had only months to live. For 24 years, Fr. Evans was rector of "That's when his faith really came alive," FULL-TIME PRIEST ASSISTANT St. Paul's , Holyoke, MA, where he estab ­ said his son, the Rev. Jason E. Leo of Cincinnati, in the "He ju st put St. John's Church, Savannah, GA lished the St. Paul's Nursery School, the Enquir er. Hamilton Learning Center and a choir for hims elf in the hands of his doctors ru1d Full-time priest assistant sought boys. He was named rector emeritus. nurs es, and had absolut e faith they would for lively , program-sized parish Born in Providence, RI, he gra duat ed do the right thing." Other survivors of the attractive to young families, with from Brown University and the Episcopal dean are his son Jonathan Leo of Hrurn­ vibrant teaching and commitment Divinity School of Philad elphia , was gate, TN, and six grandc hildr en. to the Anglican tradition . Preference ordained deacon in 1942 and priest in to priests with strong evangelistic, 1943. Prior to serving at St. Paul's, Fr. The Rev. Robert"Bob" Noel Lockard, a teaching, and pastoral skills, zeal Evans was recto r of St. John 's, Ashton, RI, for the Church's mission , decorated veteran of the Vietnam 1942-45; rector of St. George's , Newport, and experience in connecting War, died Feb. 21 while recovering RI, 1945-48; and rector of St. Thomas', peers to Christ. from surgery. He was 83. Dover, NH, 1948-57.After retiring in 1981, A native of St. Petersburg, FL, he was a Resume and letter he served St. John 's, Walpole, NH, for graduate of the Univers ity of the South of application to: seven years and later was interim at and of its School of Theology. He was chur ches in Vermont, New Hampshire Parish Secretary ordain ed deacon in 1955 and priest in and Massac husetts. He was a fellow of the St . John's Church 1956. He was chaplain of the 5th Marine 1 West Ma con Street College of Preachers, was a gifted artist , Regiment ru1d received the Bronze Star Savannah GA 31401 and played tennis, fished and ice skated for his service during combat. Before his into his 80s. In addition to his wife, he is [email protected] war service he was minister-in-charge at survived by his daughters , Cheryl Czuba both St. Monica's, Cantonm ent, FL, and of Hadd am, CT; Melissa Fountain of Holy Trinit y, Pensacola, FL, 1955-58; Chath am, VA; the Rev. Holly Evans of associate, Christ Church, Greenvi lle, SC, Copenhagen, NY;Helen Evans of London , 1958-60; vicar, St. Paul's , Memphis , 1960- England; a son, Andrew, of Brattleboro , 64; rector, St. Paul's, Colmbus , MS, 1964- ADVERTISERSVT ; and three grandchildren. Other sur­ 66; and rector, St. Thadd eus, Aiken, SC, vivors includ e his brother, John , and sis­ 1966-68. After serving in Vietnam he was Don't forget these ters , Virginia Hawes and Clarinda rector, Church of the Ascension , Birming­ special issues this spring Humphr eys, all of Tiverton , RI. His first ham , AL, 1972-2000. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, died in 1971. wife, Mary Smith Lockard. April 22 The Very Rev. JamesRichard Leo, who Spring Education Issue Recent deaths as reported by the Church welcomed three U.S. presidents to Pension Fund: Street: 4/ 10 the American Cathedral of the Holy Mellie H. Hickey 94 Aiken,SC There is still time to get in. Call now! Trinity, Paris, died Dec. 14 in Cincin­ BertrandN. Honea,Jr. 83 Fort Worth,TX nati. He was 78. JohnT.P. Jackson 73 Lancaster,NH May6 Leo was clean of the cathedral in Paris FrederickJ. Krause 69 Folcroft,PA Spring Book/Music in 1980-91, and then was the first dean of H. Arthur Lane,Jr. 95 Orleans,MA Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati , RobertH. Long 67 Spartanburg,SC Street: 4/23 1991-98. Dean Leo welcomed George VernonC. McKnight 88 Brookings,OR Close: 4/5 Final Ad Due: 4/9 H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Ronald Rea­ John D. Noble 84 Bend,OR gan as visitors to the cathedral. He often William H. Paul 88 St. Petersburg,FL ReubenPineda-Galindo 87 Guadalajara,Mexico May22 took Communion to Wallis Simpson , the C. ThomasRaezer 66 Inglis,FL Retirement Duchess of Windsor and widow of King John w.Ridder 87 Muncie,IN Street: 5/8 Edward VIII. "He cared about the person, DavidE. Shirley 86 Knoxville,TN not their title or position," his wife, Patr i­ JosephC. Spitler 69 Columbus,TX Close: 4/ 19 Final Ad Due: 4/23 cia Leo, told The Cincinnat'i Enquirer. PeterJ. Surrey 82 Morrison,IL "People always said Jim nev er met a Special Ad Packages Available stra nger. He really became best friends For details contact with everyo ne he met." Leo, a native of Sendyour clergychanges Somers Point, NJ, was a graduate of to Peopleand Places: Tom Parker at Bucknell University and General Theo­ [email protected] [email protected] logical Seminary. He was ordained dea­ con and priest in 1962. He was assistant P.O. Box 514036 (414) 276-6520 ext. 16 Milwaukee , WI 53203-3436 rector , Christ Church , Pott sto wn , PA,

30 THE LIVING CHURCH • April 8, 2012 CLASSI FIEDS • School Chaplain School Organist/Choirmaster CHURCH FURNISHINGS • & Director of Music FLAGS AND BANNERS: Custom designed Episcopal flags and banners by Festival Flags in Richmond ,VA. Please contact us by phone at 800-233-5247 or by E-mail at Saint Jam.es School festflags @aol.com. St. James, Maryland TRADITIONAL GOTHIC chapel chairs. Officiant chairs for modem churches. Custom crosses, altars, hymn boards , furniture , cabinets. OLDCRAFT WOODWORKERS, The School Chaplain is responsible to the Headmaster for the direction of the Chapel, Sewanee, TN 37375 E-mail: oldcraft @charter.net Ph: which involves daily morning chapel (required) and evening chapel (voluntary), includ ­ (931) 598-0208. ing High Mass twice a week (Wednesday and Sunday). The Chaplain typically preaches twice a week , teaches Old and New Testament to the eighth and ninth graders and one POSITIONS OFFERED other class in the history department. The Chaplain is also available for pastoral care on campus and shares in the general duties of the faculty (i.e. evening study hall and PART-TIME VICAR: All Saints Episcopal Church, SaF weekend duty) . ford, AZ Small , active church of 50+ members in sunny, south­ eastern Arizona seeking a part-time vicar, either retired or The School Organist plays for the chapel services at which music is provided (six times bivocational. Spanish speaking a plus. We are a progressive, inclusive church of both Episcopalians and Lutherans. Our a week), conducts the chapel choir, directs the program in instrumental and voice in­ community offers many recreational opportunities: hiking , fish­ struction , teaches music theory, and assists with the Christmas play and spring musical. ing, rock hunting , star gazing, and bird watching are some of the The organist is also resident on campus and shares in the general duties of the faculty . past times you can enjoy. The Vatican large binocular telescope is located in our county on Mt. Graham. Eastern Arizona Com­ Successful candidates for both positions will need to be organized and self-motivated, munity College offers many personal interest classes; classes friendly and helpful in their relationships with colleagues and parents , and engaging and are free for people 55 and older. Visit our web site: www.saints.vtchome.net for more infonnation or call Fr. Tim­ appropriate with teenagers . Both positions require energetic and optimistic personali­ othy Dombeck at (602) 254-0976 or [email protected]. ties, strong social skills, and a resili ent willingness to grow and adapt with the job.

Salary is determined by experience, and housing is provided. To place a classified, print or online, Interested applicants should apply to the Headmaster's Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Davis, contact Amber Muma at SaintJames School, 17641 College Rd., St.James, MD, 21740, or: [email protected]. [email protected] (414) 276-5420 ext. 12 Further information about the school is available at www.stjames.edu.

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