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INSIDE: Bishop o . F-W lin P, CONTENTS

3 From the President:/o/ira Rhein brings us up-to-date on the move ofthe PBS from Florida to Philadelphia, and speaks of plans for the future.

4 Go Edmond Go: A new association calls for the resignation ofthe Presiding Bishop. The Church Pension Fund: Episcopalians United investigates. Dixon Ordains Homosexual: Jane Dixon ordains non-celibate lesbian in Washing­

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ton National Cathedral. ESA statement onWomen's Ordination: r/ie^SAwswes stofemenrcowceraOTgpro- The Rev'd D. Barrington Balms, Memphis, TN posed changes to Canon law. Church ofthe Good Shepherd

Mr. D. Kirke Erskine, Carmel, CA 5 Reflections from the Editor's Desk: Dr. Toon ponders the significance ofthe near Treasurer obsession with the word "community" in the House of Bishops.

The Rev'd Joseph S. Falzone, Whitehall, PA St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 6 Choose ye this day: The Rev'd Jerome Politzer makes suggestions as to the character and beliefs ofthe next Presiding Bishop. The Revd Gordon D. Griffitli, Santa Rosa, CA

Dr. Janet Hildebrand, W! Monroe, LA 7 Dear Bishop Browning: A letterfrom the Editor to the Presiding Bishop about what the latter understands to be the identity and meaning of "God". Mrs. Leo (Bree) Kelly, Atlanta, GA

The Rev'd David C. Kennedy, SSC, Lantana, FL 8 Prayer Book Studies: Basic Questions addressed to the 1979 Prayer Book-Who is God? Church ofthe Guardian Angel Is He the same God as the God of the 1928 Book?

The Rev'd A. Darwin Kirby, Jr., Pittsboro, NC 9 Nashotah's Loss! An interview with theRev'dDr. Charles Caldwell as he leaves Nashotah Mrs. Jan Mahood, Huntington, NY House to take early retirement in Florida.

The Rev'd Dr. David A. Ousley, Philadelphia, PA Church of St. James the Less 10 Bishop On Itial: William Murchison explains what the trial of retired Bishop William Righter is all about. The 76 Bishops who consented to the Trial are listed. Mr. John H.W. Rhein, III, Garden City, NY President 12 No F-Word in Beijing: Jan Mahood describes the ideology of the UN Conference of

Mr. Robert Robinson, New Canaan, CT Women and the involvement of the ECUSA in it.

Mrs. Jerry (Marilyn) Ruzicka, Clifton Park, NY 13 Sexuality and Homosexuality: Collection of pieces on sexuality and homosexuality. The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon, Oconomowoc, Wl Vice-President 14 Getting the Words Out: The PBS and Preservation Press join hands to propagate the Mrs. Alfred (Nancy) Von Klemperer, Mill Neck, NY Gospel. Secretary

Mr. Luther D. (Dan) Wallis, Pebble Beach, CA 15 Sense and Nonsense: The Rev'd Dr. William Ralston calls for the parallel use ofthe 1928 and 1979 Prayer Books within the ECUSA. Mr. Joseph Warren, Chicago, IL

EMERITUS AND HONORARY DIRECTORS 16 Making and Equipping Disciples Today: Mrs. Cris Fouse and the Rev'd Dr. Will­ iam Blewett have suggestions. The Rt. Rev'd Clarence R. Haden, Ret. Emeritus and Honorary, Lake Oswego, OR 17 WhyWe Support the Prayer Book Society:/m andNormaWhitacre explain their The Rev'd John Hildebrand commitment to the Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church. Honorary, Ft. Worth, TX

The Rev'd Jerome Politzer 18 WillYourWill Be Done? Howyou can help the Prayer Book Society. Emeritus and Honorary, Carmel, CA 19 Colin Powell Mourns the Loss of the Traditional Liturgy: in his best-selling The Rev'd Herbert Ward Honorary, Boulder City, NV book. My American tourney, the four star general writes emotionally ofthe 1928 BCP (Bp. Righter photo - Amy Toensing \ New York Times] MANDATE —Vol. 14, No. 3 Editor: The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon; Managing Editor: James T. Whitacre; Typesetting and Design: Preservation Press, Inc. © 1995 by The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church. AU rights reserved. MANDATE is published six times a year by The Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer, Inc., a non-profit organization serving the Church. AU gifts to the Prayer Book Society are tax-deductible. Subscriptions: $28 tax-deductible donation for a one year sub­ scription. Editorial Correspondence: EO. Box 35220; Philadelphia, PA 19128; 414/569-7721; Fax 414/569-7418; E-mail [email protected]. Advertising and Subscriptions: PO. Box35220, Philadelphia, PA 19128; 609/467-4597, Fax 609/467-4621. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Prayer Book Society, EO. Box 35220, Philadelphia, PA 19128-0220. Following our Lord's MANDATE: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son and of the Holy Spirit" Matt. 28:19

2 MANDATE: October 1995-Speclal Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church From the President

John H.W. Rhein III

CALLED TO PHILADELPHIA

hen a Director of the Prayer Book Society suggested Philadelphia area, and the transportation facilities are among establishing a House of Studies to serve as a tradition the best in the nation. And coincidence of all coincidences, we Walist theological "think tank", he thought a city with found our new ZIP code is 19128. deep, historic Anglican roots might be the ideal place for us to We are grateful to God that parishes in and around the city locate. use the Cranmer-Seabury Liturgy. However, we cannot forget It was further proposed that our House of the illegal ordinations of eleven women in Studies, Cranmer-Seabury House, must be 1976 and of homosexual persons recently in easily accessible: served by a world class JOURNAL the city. airport, super highways and railroad trunk PROCEEDINGS We can never fully express our gratitude to lines. It should be near a top-notch seminary Q T Ti! E those who stood by us during this period of or university, and it must be in a community Bifliops, Clergy and Laity, transition, with thought, prayers, and

where one or more parishes still worship from OF THE contributions. We promise we will continue to

the 1549-1928 Cranmer-Seabury Liturgy. Proteftant Epifcopal Church fight to retain the doctrine, discipline and Further, if such a place would be appropriate IS THE worship so beautifully expressed by the 1928 for the Society's House of Studies, it would be UNITED STATES Book of Common Prayer. We seek to bring the equally desirable for the national office ofthe Living Past into the Present for the Future. AMERICA, Society itself. During our transition, we discovered We found Philadelphia to be the answer to CONVENTION instances in which we had been unresponsive all we were seeking, including our new HELD IN THE to some of our supporters, letters that had not Administrative Executive, Jim Whitacre. Jim's CITY ot PSIIADELPHIA, been answered and requests improperly f K O M

spiritual home is St James the Less in Tutsn.Y, Sift'*6*' 19l',' to F"°*Y. O*'*"- l6th' handled. To any subjected to this lack of follow Philadelphia and his rector is the Reverend through on our part, we truly apologize. We Doctor David Ousley, a director of the Prayer promise we are going forward -wehaveawar P JI J L .1 1> E C ? 11 I 4:

Book Society. P,r-ItD Bt HALL A^H SELLfcHi. to win, and will need the support of all who Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, take their rehgion seriously if we are to win it. embraces philosophically the genuine Now that we're in Philadelphia, we're inclusiveness we have found so sadly lacking in the ECUSA. It looking forward to our new beginning, and we're excited about was the birthplace of the first American Book of Common the future. We shall be there to welcome the 1997 General Prayer [1789; see inset]. What's more, freedom to choose the Convention. rites used in worship goes hand in hand with the place where the Liberty Bell resides. Several universities are in the May our Lord Jesus Christ keep you in his gracious love.

PHILADELPHIA — Christ Church (1695-1995), first parish church, site ofthe first General Convention ofthe Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, which approved the first American Book of Common Prayer.

The Rt. Rev'd William White, ninth rector of Christ Church, Chaplain of the Continental Congress, and first Bishop of Pennsylvania

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue 3 'Go Edmond Go," cries the CCLEC ESA deeply disappointed and angry with the recommendation ofthe ad hoc Committee for A new, vocal, activist and growing group is calling for the resignation of the Presiding Dialogue on Canon III.8.1. Bishop. A booklet,^ Catalog of Concerns: The ECUSA under Edmond Lee Browning, is This Committee, established by the General Convention of available from Concerned Clergy and Laity 1994, has been discussing how Canon III.8.1 which permits the of the Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 36433, ordination of women can be implemented in the whole of Grosse Pointe, MI 48236. Send a large S.A.E. with $2.50 in stamps ECUSA. On July 7,1995, by a 5-4 vote the Committee adopted a for the booklet. series of proposed changes to canon law which would forbid The Prayer Book Society shares many of the concerns of consideration of the sex of the candidate in matters of CCLEC and also prays that Bishop Browning will repent (do a postulancy, ordination, consecration and the calling of clergy U-turn) and embrace the Gospel of God concerning the Lord to the staffs of parish churches. Jesus Christ as set forth in Holy Scripture and the Common The Episcopal Synod of America has made the following com­ Prayer Tradition ofthe Anglican Way. ment:

The Church Pension Fund If these provisions were to be accepted by General Con­ vention in 1997, no member ofthe Episcopal Church, from investigates and raises serious concerns. vestry member to Bishop, would be allowed to give more than a bare intellectual assent to the doctrine that the In the September 1995 issue of United Voice there is a long ar­ Chrisdan ministerial presbyterate and episcopate can only ticle entitled, "Church Pension Fund gambles with Episcopal be exercized by a male human being. No parish would be clergy's future." Even if only half of what is written there is true, permitted to refuse on doctrinal grounds to call a woman we have once again another scandal at the center ofthe ECUSA. as its rector, nor would any agency of this Church, includ­ Does the Fund exist for the good of those who work for it or ing diocesan Bishops, be able on doctrinal grounds to for those who pay into it? Alan F. Blanchard, the president, earns refuse candidacy, ordination, letters dismissory, or license triple the salary of his counter-part in the United Methodist Church-and the latter oversees twice as many assets as does to officiate to a person whom they are unable to recog­ Blanchard! nize of lawfully exercizing that ordained ministry. Much has changed, it seems, in the few years since the presidency of Bob Robinson. Apparendy, in the first three years The Synod goes on to say that this is not dialogue - it is of the Blanchard presidency administrative costs went up 116 blatant tyranny ofthe bare majority. It is a democratic process percent for officers and 31 percent for non-officers, while gone wrong and unmasked in its worst light. investment fees rose 63 percent. Bureaucracy has increased, costs have increased and the clergy's financial future has been The PBS sympathizes with the ESA, but must in all honesty jeopardized! point out that the 1979 Prayer Book, which the ESA approves, It would appear that a full investigation ofthe Pension Fund does actually presuppose the ordination of women. In contrast, is necessary. We congratulate United Voice for its investigative the traditional BCP of 1662 and 1928 makes no such allow­ research. ance.

Dixon Ordains Non-celibate Homosexual

Bishop Jane Dixon, suffragan ofthe Diocese ofWashington, re- centiy ordained to the diaconate Barbara Clarke, a non-celi­ bate lesbian from Kensington, Maryland. Dixon acted as eccle­ siastical authority in a ceremony in Washington National Ca­ thedral on June 17, while the diocesan bishop ofWashington, Ronald Haines, was on sabbatical. Dixon read a statement at the ceremony that declared that "it is clear that there is broad and firm support in the diocese for what we have come together to do this morning." In response, three persons arose to de­ clare the ordination to be "contrary to doctrine and teaching." Deacon Clarke was presented by her life partner, representing the laity, and the rector of her sponsoring parish, the Rev'd Duane Alvord of St. Johns, Norwood. She said she had been in a committed relationship for 10 years.

Source - Episcopal News Service

PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 1974-FIRSTWOMEN INTHE PRIESTHOOD-Despite a controversy over the legality ofthe ceremony, eleven women line up to receive their vows as priests in the Episcopal Church during a ceremony at Church of theAdvocate.They were the first to be be sworn in as priests in the church, but the illegal ceremony was overshadowed by an announcement shortly thereafter from the Houseof Bishops that the women would not be permitted to celebrate Holy Communion. (AP/Wide World Photos)

4 MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church L The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon

IS SCHISM WORSE THAN HERESY? Community, Community and more Community

oyalty to the Community should How do faithful Anglicans, nourished in the Common Prayer Tradition, respond? make Bishops refuse to bring Here are several points to ponder: LBishop Walter Righter to trial. This was the position adopted by the Presid­ 1. To call the Church a "community of faith" or "faith-community" is to use a sociological ing Bishop in his address to his fellow not a biblical or theological description. People of similar views get together for common Bishops at Kanuga in March 1995, when purposes. Further, it presupposes that there are many American denominations and that the ECUSA is one, howbeit an ancient and privileged one, among these. In the great he emotionally and vigorously opposed supermarket of American religions the ECUSA is in competition with others for members. the moves to bring Bishop Righter to trial. Thus its senior executives ought to be loyal to the Company! At the lower level a loyalty This word Community was often on his like that of a worker to his company or of a car salesman to the brand of vehicle he is lips. selling is called for - a blind loyalty to a Corporation with an excellent Pension Scheme. The House of Bishops is aCommunity 2. The word "community" is not a good translation of the Greek word koinonia, which is of faith or a faith-Community, he said; better rendered "communion" or "fellowship" - as in virtually all English Bibles and in the Episcopal Church is also a the traditional Prayer Books (1549-1928). Koinonia is a keyword in the New Testament, especially for St. Paul and St. John. The Catholic Church is a fellowship which embraces Community. His theme was. Schism is heaven and earth: its members in glory or in travail are in communion with the Father worse than heresy. Loyalty to the through the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit; also they are in communion one Community is primary. All other loyalties with another in Christ. Locally, where believers are joined together in the Lord they are a come second and are to be understood fellowship in the Spirit. And since this fellowship and communion is holy, it ought not to be and to do that which is sinful and evil. in the light of the primary loyalty to the Community as Community. Thus loyalty 3. Where the one Church is divided into, or is known through, many denominations as in to the Communion of Saints and to the America, there will always be a tension for sensitive souls between loyalty to the Gospel historic. Catholic Faith takes second of the Kingdom of God on the one side, and to a particular denomination on the other. Where a denomination self-consciously calls itself or its senior pastors "the community place - as also does adherence to of faith," this tension becomes very pronounced, especially for such members as place traditional, biblical morality. loyalty to the Catholic Faith above loyalty to specific denominational statements and At all costs the Community of structures. Episcopal Bishops or of Episcopal 4. The right way to minimize this tension, and to make it creative, is for the denomination Dioceses or of Episcopal Parishes must (in this case the ECUSA) to aim in all possible ways to be a genuine expression of the stay together, was his theme. There must one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. Thereby it is called to be a "household of God" be absolutely no exclusion of those who (see 1 Peter 4:17 & 1 Timothy 3:15). This description is, of course, very different from that of the church as "a community of faith." The former suggests godly, ordered relations are breaking new ground and opening up and loyalty to "the Father," while the latter suggests rights and privileges of association new frontiers. The only exclusion is to be with loyalty to fellow members. of those who persistendy refuse to make the preservation ofthe Community, as it 5. Thus, for a denomination to aim to be a faithful microcosm or part of the one, holy, apostolic and catholic Church, it will always have to be prepared to exercise discipline now is (and as it is becoming), their first of its senior pastors as well as of its ordinary members. Holy discipline ensures that the loyalty. Here the commitment is not to church is not a community which looks horizontally within the spirit of the age to the Church as it ought to be and should conform to the world, but is an ordered, godly household, looking vertically through Christ Jesus and in the Holy Spirit to the Father in order to please him. strive to be, but to the Church (i.e., the Episcopal Community) as it is and will 6. Community can become an idol, a false "god." The way that the Presiding Bishop calls be, with warts and all! for loyalty to the Community of ECUSA is spiritually dangerous - it borders on idolany.

Everything Christian has a communal dimension. Still another way of designating the church is to understand it as a faith community. As a faith community, the church's faith is that ofthe community; the faith belongs to the community — it is the community's faith. Because the faith is ofthe community, th only way the faith can be discerned is communally — dialogically within the community. Here we can understand the truth ofthe contention that schism is worse than heresy. Why? Because schism is isolation; it withdraws from, and cuts one off from, the means of discerning Christian truth. From a paper, written by Bishop Arthur Vogel, and sent by the Presiding Bishop to new Bishops in the ECUSA. The argument would be true if, and only if, the present ECUSA were in and of itself the only Church in America and also the one and only Catholic Church!

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-SpeGial Issue 5 "Choose ye this day" - the next Presiding Bishop he choice of the next Presiding Bishop to lead the Epis­ There is no doubt that Communism debased language and copal Church into the third millennium will be of great with language, thought. The relentless effort to sanitize the Timportance to all Episcopalians. Regrettably, the events Church's Scriptures, Liturgy and Hymnody in accordance with ofthe last few months have left both the office and the current "Political Correctness" is a clear example ofthe invidious aspect incumbent badly tarnished and deeply wounded. of this unsavory inheritance. The censoring of words which convey an imagined racist, sexist or militaristic connotation has A Church Betrayed altered not only the form, but the meaning as well of these vitally important repositories of the Church's Faith. The suicide of Bishop David Johnson of Massachusetts, a close The insistence that the latest fad of "Political Correctness" associate of the Presiding Bishop, and the subsequent revela­ be promoted through the worship of the Church betrays its tion of his numerous extra marital affairs, has cast a pall over parentage. There is no understanding ofthe creative inspiration the Church. Coupled with this unfortunate event has been the which faith and devotion bring to the prayers and hymns of termination of another good friend ofthe Presiding Bishop, Ms the ages. The demand that prayers and hymns must be about Ellen Cook, the Church's National Treasurer. She has been forced some social problem or other is a direct heir of Socialist Realism to resign and subsequently accused ofthe alleged absorbed by "Political Correctness." embezzlement of $2.2 million of Church funds. The Communist propensity for intolerance and These shocking occurrences have raised serious questions concerning the Church's highest office persecution has also been inherited by the and the role Bishop Browning has played in these ideology of "Political Correctness." Coupled with matters. a pretended moral superiority this is its most Further alienating himself from the Church destructive side. The ruthless attempt to cast aside which he leads. Bishop Browning has endorsed an all those who for honest reasons hold to different Open Letter apologizing for the necessary wartime points of view has silenced some ofthe Church's action of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and most creative thinkers and has driven one third of Nagasaki by the United States government. He was the membership away. joined in this effort by the usual suspects of the Far Left and the A Time for Change National Council of Churches of The Rev'd ft iTsK •• Ui\ h wns^ Christ. They seem to have forgotten In spite of its faults, "Political that "great and terrible things" must Correctness" does have a positive be accomplished in order to win a war. Within a very short time side. It can help us to examine our assumptions and to review after the bombingWorld War II ended and millions of lives, both out attitudes and behavior in the light of what is true and good. Allied and Japanese, were saved. Unfortunately, for every man or woman who is truly concerned Bishop Browning has stated that for him the past six months over the problems of society there are ten more whose real "have been terrible; have been horrible," and that he has felt motive is to obtain power for themselves. What Bishop betrayed. The truth is that the Church has been betrayed, not Browning is learning the hard way is the universal truth that by any individual person, but by the ideology of "Political power which is not undergirded by spiritual principles and Correctness," which has guided the House of Bishops for the which is not guided by moral precepts always corrupts. last twenty years. The man-made ideologies of the Twentieth Century have proven to be failures. One would think that the Bishops ofthe Church would be aware of this truth by now. All those who have The Influence of Political Correctness chosen "Political Correctness" as a new dogma for their lives If this ideology, which attempts to give meaning to life by the will also be betrayed by it. As St. Paul has said, "To be carnally righting of every perceived social wrong in the world by politi­ minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace" cal action, is not critically examined and seriously questioned (Romans 8:6). during the next two years leading up to the 1997 General Con­ The current spiritual malaise which has settled over the vention, the likelihood is that the Church will experience more House of Bishops can be overcome if a serious effort is made to destructive behavior on a wider scale. And if "Political Correct­ return to the simple teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is ness" remains the standard for the selection of candidates for "the Way, the Truth and the Life" for the Christian Church. If the office of Presiding Bishop, the Church will continue to de­ the House of Bishops decides to choose its next Presiding cline and die numerically and financially. Bishop in accordance with the standards of spiritual and moral Thoughtful observers ofthe current scene have pointed out correctness the Church will be able to move forward into the that the phrase "Political Correctness" was born in the West at third millennium with confidence and hope. On the other hand, the same time that Communism was dying. This is not to if the House decides to conduct business as usual, the future suggest that the revolutionary program of Marxism has lived for the Episcopal Church is bleak indeed. # on amongst those who promote "Political Correctness." Rather, it is the same habits of mind which have been absorbed, often Fr Politzer, a former President ofthe PBS, is retired and lives in unconsciously. Monterey, Ca.

6 MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church '

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God the Father and of Jesus the Lord.

This is a reply to your official Summer Letter "from the P.B. /or the clergy ofthe Episcopal Church," the clergy whom you call "my dear sisters and brothers." I have read it several times, discussed it with others, and now write down my thoughts for your consideration on one matter only - the identity of the deity you call "God." In fact, the word "God" occurs 12 times on the 3 pages of your Letter. The last is near the end where you write that "God is God, with you, in you, loving you, leading you." However, it is not clear to me who or what your "God" is. I say this because you do not use a personal pronoun (e.g. "he"), mention Jesus, or make use of any the familiar expressions ofthe Scriptures, Creeds and Prayer Book - e.g., "the Father Almighty," "the LORD our God," "the Son of God" and "our Lord Jesus Christ." Thus it is not at all clear that your "God" isYahweh [Jehovah], the God of Moses and Elijah, the "God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." I am puzzled that you do not greet your "sisters and brothers" in apostolic style in the name ofthe Lord Jesus, and you do not bless them in the Triune Name of "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." I hardly need tell you that "God" is being used today within American denominations, including the Episcopal Church, as a noun in the neutral gender. Are you using it in this way? It certainly looks as though you are, but I do not know whether it is deliberate on your part. I wonder what is the problem? I cannot believe that you are embarrassed to join the aposdes, saints and martyrs in their united naming and adoring of "the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" I cannot think that you are involved in a process of ditching the authentic Faith merely to please that minority, who fashion "God" in their own image and in "politically-correct" speech. May I be so bold as to remind you of what you already know? The apostie Paul passionately proclaimed the Gospel of God the Father concerning his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in a hostile, pagan world. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, he wrote: 'There are many "gods" and many "lords," but yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist' (I Cor.8:5-6). I believe that this is your Faith of your Baptism and Ordination and that you include yourself in the " us"? 1 cannot believe that your "God" is one of the many gods and lords." So I have a suggestion. Let the angels rejoice! Make thousands in your Church truly happy by declaring wholeheartedly for God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ! In your next Letter please use the usual Christian vocabulary of a servant of the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. As you are aware, the President of the Prayer Book Society has consistently declared since Phoenix 1991 that there are basically two religions in the Episcopal Church. One religion is Trinitarian, the religion of the Bible and the Creeds, and is beautifully expressed in the Common Prayer Tradition of Anglicanism. The other religion, which some think that you appear to support in your Letter, and which gains an entrance via the newer liturgies of Prayer Book Studies 30 and less official and more innovative texts, names and addresses another "God" and supports a different spirituality and morality. Again, I do not need to tell you that "God" is the word which many use today in the neuter gender of some ultimate Mystery or some cosmic Spirit or some universal Mind. "God" functions as a projection of their imagination, a name for the un- nameable. In contrast, for biblical Christians "God" has been filled with revealed and holy content because "the Word [the Only-Begotten Son], was made flesh and dwelt among us." Thus Christians pray to the Father through the Son, and in the Holy Spirit. As a part of creation they believe they are not only created but also redeemed by the Father through the Son and by the Spirit. For them "God" is the Father with his Only-Begotten Son and his Holy Spirit. For the sake of the AngUcan Way in America, and moreso for the sake ofthe Gospel which you and I are called to preach, I beg you joyfully to use the language hallowed by Scripture and Tradition, when you name and address the living "God." For this, I believe, is truly the faith of your heart. The Lord be with your spirit and grace be with you, Yours faithfully,

Peter Tbon

PS. I have also read your article in Episcopal Life for September 1995 on "Evangelism." Here again I believe you could have spoken more positively in the biblical language of an apostie of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue 7 to change the three Names to "Creator, Redeemer/Revealer and Sanctifier.") PRAYER BOOK STUDIES Apparently this "God" is like a triangle or a three-leaf clover in that while he is One Basic Questions Addressed to the 1979 Prayer Book he is both manifested and experienced as threefold. to accompany the traditional, received The response of the people in the l.WhoisGod? ways of the Roman Missal and the Acclamation is, "And blessed be his The Church has been talking about and Common Prayer Tradition. One is first kingdom...," where the pronoun, his, is in addressing the living God for a very long aware of this novel formula in the the singular. Thus obviously there is one time. Thus She has accumulated a lot of misleading translation of the ancient "God" — the "God" who has the three experience and has created a lot of care­ hymn, Phos Hilaron, in the service of names. If "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" are fully expressed statements (doctrine & Evening Prayer (p. 64). Here we have the intended not merely to be names but truly dogma). In the 1979 Prayer Book the line, "We sing thy praises, O God: Father, the Names of Three distinct Persons (Gk. Episcopal Church has attempted to Son and Holy Spirit." If we take the colon hypostases) as the Church has taught modify and change this holy tradition. seriously, this suggests that one Person concerning the Trinity, then the pronoun is addressed who has three names, should be "their." For the kingdom is the expressions, aspects or attributes. And kingdom of the Three Persons — the The received tradition of teaching this interpretation seems to be Father, the Son ofthe Father, and the Holy Spirit ofthe Father. After the Resurrection, the first Christians confirmed by the use of "thy" (singular) spoke ofthe God and Father of our Lord in Rite I. Jesus Christ." For them "God" was "the Since Evening Prayer is not much used A new doctrine taught Father," the Father who sent his only and these days, the place where most people eternal Son into the world to be incarnate meet the new formula is in the The formula, "God: Father, Son and of the Virgin Mary, to die on the Cross and Acclamation at the beginning ofthe Holy Holy Spirit," is found in the "Outline ofthe to be raised from the dead. The same Fa­ Eucharist: Faith" (= Catechism) in a context which is ther sent the Holy Spirit in the name of very revealing. Instead of the Question, his incarnate Son into the world — to Celebrant: Blessed be God: Father, Son "Who is the Trinity?," leading to the continue the work of the Son and to and Holy Spirit. answer, "The Father and the Son and the indwell the Church, which is the Bride of People: And blessed be his kingdom, now Holy Spirit," we have another Question, Christ. So it is not surprising that con­ and for ever. Amen. What is the Trinity? To which the answer verts were baptized "in the Name of the supplied is. The Trinity is One God: Father, Father and of the Son and of the Holy The Acclamation is in both Rite I and Son and Holy Spirit. Again, the idea Spirit." II as well as in the three Ordination appears to be that the Holy Trinity is not At the Ecumenical Councils of Nicea services for Deacon, Priest and Bishop. Three Persons in holy, eternal relations (325) and Constantinople (381) the What is wrong with this Acclamation? one with another within the unity of the dogma of the Blessed, Holy and To answer this question we need to note One Godhead; rather, the Trinity is Three UndividedTrinity was proclaimed by the the source on which it is based. It was an Attributes, Expressions or Modes of the Bishops in their Creeds (the second of intentional rewriting ofthe Blessing from One Personal God — a form of which is used in the Eucharist). Later the beginning of the Liturgy of the Unitarianism (known historically as either Ecumenical Councils confirmed these Catechumens in the Divine Liturgy of the SabeUianismorModalism). # Creeds and this teaching. Naturally, being Orthodox Church. In the original text, the the foundational teaching of Christianity, priest blesses the people as he holds the the dogma ofthe Holy Trinity entered the Book of the Gospels saying: "Blessed is content of the worship of the Church: the kingdom of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now, and ever, and "If anyone will not confess that the thus we find it is beautifully expressed in Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit both the Eastern Liturgies of St unto ages of ages." This blessing recognizes that there is one divine have one nature or substance, that Chrysostom and St Basil and in the they have one power and authority, Roman Rite. kingdom but that there are three divine Person in the one Godhead. Thus this that there is a consubstantial When Archbishop Cranmer produced kingdom is the kingdom of all Three. It is Trinity, one Deity to be adored in the Book of Common Prayer in 1549, he "their" kingdom. Three Subsistences or Persons: let was guided by these ancient liturgies in The Episcopalian revision of the him be anathema. all kinds of ways, not least by their Orthodox Blessing first of all addresses presentation of the dogma of the Holy "God," who is neither the Father (as in the There is only one God and Father, Trinity as the foundation ofthe Faith. New Testament) nor "the Godhead" or from whom all things come, and "the Trinity" (as in traditional Western one Lord, Jesus Christ, from A new tradition introduced theology). "God" is the Divine Being who whom all things are, and one Holy has three names, "Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in whom all things are." However, in modern times, the Spirit." That is, God is One but is a triad Episcopalian liturgists who produced the in the sense that he has three Names. (It The Second Ecumenical Council of 1979 Book decided to create a new way may be noted that since 1979 it has Constantinople, 553 A.D. of speaking of and/or addressing "God" become common in parts ofthe ECUSA

8 MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church An Interview with NASHOTAH'S LOSS! Fr. Charles Caldwell

EDITOR: Charles, you graduated from CALDWELL: The liturgical movement CALDWELL: Prayer Book Studies 30 seminary in 1961, and you ended your seems to have combined the shows a desire to revise further the 1979 ministry as a Nashotah House professor traditionalist's desire to restore the use of liturgy in the direction of a feminist un­ in July 1995. Now you are taking early re­ ancient liturgical forms and the derstanding ofthe God[ess]. General Con­ tirement and moving to your native modernist's desire to re-envision the vention has already proposed work on a Florida. What changes have you noticed meaning of Christianity. The 1979 BCP new Prayer Book. Often the way we use in the content of theology taught in Epis­ pleased the reforming traditionalist by the 1979 BCP indicates that it was "out of copal seminaries over the years? placing the "Glory to God in the highest" date" almost as soon as it was made offi­ at the beginning of the Eucharist, add­ cial. CALDWELL: Thirty-five years ago we ing the "Blessed is he who comes" to the For example, although the rubrics were taught that the two great dogmas "Holy, Holy Holy..." in the Eucharistic direct that at the beginning of the or teachings of Christianity are the Holy Prayer, providing for special Holy Week Eucharistic Prayer the priest is to turn and Trinity and the Incarnation of God the Services (even though the traditional face the people and then turn again to Son. I remember debating with a fellow texts were revised) and providing such face the altar (to celebrate eastward), student whether the third great dogma things as forms for individual confession many priests have been influenced by a was the Patristic doctrine of Deification and absolution. liturgical reform which ignores the rubric by Grace or the Reformation doctrine of and requires that the priest celebrate from Justification by Faith. behind the altar. Today, the third great dogma is often When priest and people pray in the understood to be a modern doctrine of traditional way, facing east, it symbolizes Liberation by Enlightenment. At Baptism that we are a people open to we renounce allegiance to the world, the transcendence, living in expectation of flesh and the devil, and we confess faith the coming of the risen Christ and the in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. dawning ofthe new Day ofthe Lord. When Is our liberation to be understood in a priest and people pray facing each other traditional or a modern way? Does the around theTable, it can symbolize that we blood of Jesus set us free from the powers are an inclusive though closed of Satan, sin and death or does the community, focused on the God-within example of Christ set us free from the our face to face circle. laws of nature, man and God? For many people liberation has meant sexual EDITOR: The 1979 BCP was commended revolution, political reform and a revision by many as a liturgical reform which did of religion. not involve any change in doctrine. Do you think that the 1979 BCP does contain ED/TOR; You were ordained in 1961. You theological as well as ritual and ceremo­ must have seen a lot of changes in soci­ nial revision? ety and in the Church since then. Please describe them. Fr Charles Caldwell - ten years ago - CALDWELL: Yes there are changes in the at the peak of his career, now retiring texts of the services and in the new Cat­ CALDWELL: For many people, the 1960s to Naples, Florida. echism which invite us to revise our un­ provided a series of "defining events," derstanding of God, Christ and Salvation. which shaped the character of life and These changes may serve to reinforce society. One thinks, for instance, of the At the same time, the 1979 BCP popular misunderstandings of Christian­ Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); the provided for the ordination of women, ity. For example, many think that the doc­ Civil Rights Movement; theVietnamWar; the revision of the Creeds, the trine of the Trinity is a mystery in the sense the landing of a Man on the moon. One amendment of the biblical text of the of an incomprehensible puzzle about also remembers the increasing secular­ Psalter, thus calling into question the four God; that Jesus is a human being who is ization ofthe schools and social services; points of the Chicago-Lambeth also divine and who provides a revealing the "Pill"; no fault divorce; legalized abor­ Quadrilateral [Scripture, Creeds, example ofthe love of God; and that sal­ tion; the "God-is-dead" movement; the Sacraments & Historic Episcopate] and vation is a way of finding Self-fulfillment. charismatic movement; the feminist contributing to a world-wide crisis in our In the 1979 BCP the one God can be movement; the rise of neo-paganism and understanding of Anglican identity. understood as our Creator, Revealer and the worship ofthe "goddess;" and the in­ Sustainer. The wording ofthe greeting and troduction of official new liturgies in vari­ EDITOR: In what sense is the revision of response at the beginning ofthe Eucbarist ous churches. the Book of Common Prayer part of a can suggest to us that God is one Person larger liturgical movement of revision with three faces, aspects, or ways of EDITOR: Let us talk about the 1979 Epis­ and reform? relating to us. "Father, Son and Holy copal Prayer Book and its use by Anglo- Spirit" [in the greeting] can be taken Catholics. continued on page 14

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue 9 William Murchison mmmm mmoip WMrm

BISHOP ON TRIAL Keith Ackerman, diocesan bishop of Quincy t

Fitzsimmons Allison, ret/red fa/sfiof) of South Carolina

John Ashby, retired bishop ofWestern Konsos he basic facts are not in dispute. On September 30, 1990, Bishop Walter C. Stanley Atkins, retired bishop ofEau Claire Righter ordained Barry Lee Stopfel to the diaconate. Righter, a retired Bishop F. Scott Bailey, retired bishop of West Texas of Iowa, was acting as Assistant Bishop of Newark. Stopfel had been certified T David Ball, diocesan bishop of Albany t for ordination by the rector and vestry of his parish; the diocesan standing commit­ tee had recommended him. He also lived with a man who was his homosexual lover. William Beckham, retired bishop of Upper S.Carolina Here the dispute commences with volume and passion - and with unknowable implications for the future of the Episcopal Church. Peter Beckwith, diocesan bishop of Springfield t Sometime within the next few months - probably after the first of the new year - Maurice Benitez, retired bishop of Texas

Walter C. Righter will ask that a nine-member tribunal of fellow Bishops exonerate William Brady, retired bishop of Fond du Lac him on charges of violating Church teaching and his own ordination vows. The Righter trial, however it comes out - and the betting is on acquittal - is sure James Brown, diocesan bishop of Louisiana t to stand as a landmark in Episcopal Church history. John Buchanan, diocesan bishop ofWest Missouri t To begin with, trials of Bishops on doctrinal grounds are rarities in the Episcopal polity. There hasn't been such a trial since 1924, when the Bishop of Arkansas, one Charles Lee Burgreen, retired bishop-Armed Forces William Montgomery Brown, was convicted of explicitiy teaching communism. Anselmo Carral-Solar, retired bishop ofTexos Moreover, the premise of the Righter prosecution is, shall we say, un-modern. The premise is that practicing - as sharply distinguished from temperamentally Gordon Charlton, Board of Examining Chaplains inclined - homosexuals may not be ordained to the priesthood. Robert H. Cochrane, retired bishop ofOlympia This is the age of "gay rights" - a movement that liberal clergy have supported with enthusiasm and, increasingly, success: chiefly by ignoring everything the James Coleman, dioceson bishop ofWest Tennessee t Christian Church has believed and taught about homosexuality since the Church William J. Cox, retired bishop of Oklahoma came into being. Alex D. Dickson, retired bishop of West Tennessee Already, amid hearty self-congratulation, the Bishops of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Newark - not counting Righter who was acting for John Spong of Richard E. Dicus, retired bishop ofWest Texas Newark - have ordained practicing homosexuals. James Duncan, retired bishop of Southeast Florida On what grounds? The simplest, the clearest. They wanted to. For these enlightened prelates, scriptural reprehension of homosexuality is a trivial Charles Duvall, dioceson bishop of C.Gulf Coast t matter. Scripture, they would have us believe, is "culturally conditioned." St. Paul Richard S. Emrich, retired bishop of Michigan himself, according to Spong, was a repressed homosexual. The Church's "homophobia" - a cruel burden for Christian gays to carry throughout the centuries Andrew Fairfield, diocesan bishop of North Dakota t - must be smothered, trodden down, interred forever, so that spiritual equality may James E. Folts, bishop-coadjutor ofWest Texas flourish. Or so the prelates tell us. William Frey, Dean ofTrinity School of Ministry A Church that has put up with so much over the past 30 years, from the rape and pillage of the Prayer Book to the ordination of women - such a Church, wouldn't Charles Gaskell, retired bishop of Milwaukee you think could painlessly swallow the ordination of homosexuals? Bishops like Reginald H. Gooden, retired bishop of Panama Righter thought so. Events proved them wrong. Last February 12, ten active diocesan Bishops sought to bring Righter to account Harold C. Gosnell, retired bishop ofWest Texas for the Stopfel ordination. They filed what is called a presentment - a statement of Francis Gray, dioceson bishop of Northern Indiana t theological charges. Why Righter and not the others? Because the Stopfel ordination was oldest in time; the statute of limitations was about to run. Hal Gross, retired bishop of Oregon The presentment accuses Righter, in ordaining a non-celibate homosexual, of Clarence Haden, retired bishop of N. California departing from the doctrine ofhis Church, as expressed most recently in a House of Bishops resolution disapproving of homosexual ordination. Bishops ofthe Episcopal Robert Hargrove, diocesan bishop ofW. Louisiana t Synod of America were in the forefront, but others necessarily joined in. (There are Joseph M. Harte, retired bishop of Arizona just four Synod-related diocesans.) Deeply involved was Bishop James Stanton of Alden Hathaway, diocesan bishop of Pittsburgh t Dallas, a women's ordination supporter who has otherwise proved a stout champion of Christian orthodoxy. Edward Haynsworth, retired bishop of South Carolina Through his lawyers - five diocesan chancellors - Righter replies that Church Bertram Herlong, diocesan bishop ofTennessee t doctrine does not touch the matter of whether a Bishop may ordain a non-celibate homosexual. In any case, says the defense, doctrine is different from moral and social John Howe, diocesan bishop of Central Florida t teaching, which is "open to modification...development...and even repudiation in light of changing perceptions and understandings of the human condition."

10 MANDATE: October 1995-Special issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church Nonetheless, 66 Bishops, active and retired, found the 10 presenters' accusations persuasive. That made 76 consents - or votes - for a trial: one more than the stipulated minimum of 25% ofthe House of Bishops' membership. (Bishop Clarence UT m mm® Haden, patron ofthe PBS, was unsurprisingly among those consenting.) The consents having been given, the matter moves to the body canonically mmrm r© mmi constituted to try Bishops - assuming there are any in need of a good trial. The Donald Hultstrand, retired bishop of Springfield court's nine members are elected at General Convention for staggered three-year terms. jack Iker, dioceson bishop of Fort Worth t The present membership ofthe Courtis: Fred Borsch, Los Angeles; Denis Patterson, Russell E. Jacobus, diocesan bishop of Fond du Lac t retired from Dallas and now assisting in the Central Gulf Coast diocese; Cabell Tennis, Delaware; Arthur Walmsley, Connecticut; Roger White, Milwaukee; Ted Jones, Steven Jecko, diocesan bishop of Florida t Indianapolis; Robert C. Johnson, Western North Carolina; Andrew Fairfield, North Girault Jones, retired bishop of Louisiana Dakota; and Douglas Theuner, New Hampshire. Nominally at least, the court tilts to the theological left. Patterson and Fairfield Terence Kelshaw, dicesan bishop of Rio Grande t consented to the trial (which does not disqualify them from sitting in the case), and James Krotz, diocesan bishop pf Nebraska t White was one of 106 Bishops who signed an "Affirmation" of traditional moral standards. But Borsch, Theuner andWalmsley signed Spong's "Koinonia" statement, Edward MacBurney, retired bishop of Quincy insisting on the validity of homosexual ordination. Righter, indeed, presently works John MacNaughton, diocesan bishop ofWest Texas + as an assistant to Theuner. The other Bishops on the panel commonly support liberal causes. (Johnson, at the 1994 General Convention, called himself "an unintential Gerald McAllister, retired bishop of Oklahoma sexist" who changed, thanks to the women's movement.) Earl McArthur, retired bishop ofWest Texas Will such a panel vote to convict a brother Bishop for doing no more than Bernardo Merino, diocesan bishop of Columbia t numerous other Bishops hope to do as soon ofthe Episcopal Church repents of its "homophobia"? "If there is a conviction," says Episcopal Synod Bishop William Robert Moody, diocesan bishop of Oklahoma t Wantiand of Eau Claire, a ramrod for the original protestors, "I will be pleasantly W. Moultrie Moore, retired bishop ofEaston surprised." But does that render the holding of the tried any the less worthwhile? Not in the Afredo Morante, diocesan bishop of Ecuador + least. If anything, it may render the trial more important. The great miracle the Donald Parsons, retired bishop of Quincy presenters have wrought is that of obliging the Episcopal Church, that great lumbering beast, to pause deliberately and answer a question. The question is of Donis Patterson, retired bishop of Dallas the essence: Does the Church believe what it says it believes? Claude Payne, diocesan bishop ofTexos t If a majority of our shepherds regard Sin as a concept to be rethought every generation or so, let them say so. If not, let them deny it. Either way, ordinary Hugo Luis Pina-Lopez, retired bishop of Honduras Episcopalians will learn something important, something they must know for their George Quarterman, retired bishop of N.W.Texas souls' health.

G. Paul Reeves, retired bishop of Georgia The homosexual rights' question vexes the Church more than any other theological question it has faced in our time. To say yes to gay rights is to offend, almost certainly, Victor Manuel Rivera, retired bishop of San Joaquin the great majority of ordinary Episcopalians; to say no is to offend a sizable and Edward L. Salmon, diocesan bishop of S. Carolina t passionate constituency, not to mention the Zeitgeist. This is why many Bishops have wavered this way and that, and why the Church John-David Schofield, diocesan bishop of Son Joaquin t has wavered with them, not quite condoning and not quite sanctifying William Sheridan, retired bishop of Northern Indiana homosexuality. The Righter proceeding forces the Church to look at the question squarely, as the media spotlight plays on gleaming collars and pectoral crosses. Harry Shipps, retired bishop of Georgia Whoever said "O.J." is the trial ofthe decade? + Lemuel Shirley, retired bishop of Panama William Murchison is a professional journalist based in Dallas. He edits "Founda­ James Stanton, diocesan bishop of Dallas t tions" for the E.S.A. and has a deep affection for the 1928 BCP William Sterling, suffragan bishop ofTexos

William Stevens, retired bishop of Fond du Lac It was right for the original presentment to have been brought against Bishop Righter. It John Thompson, retired bishop of Northern California is right that he (and other Bishops) should be tried for violating Church teaching. However, Edward C.Turner, retired bishop of Kansas this trial is no basis for gloating by anyone, least of all by any ofthe Bishops who voted for the trial, or by their supporters. Isaiah's words before the LORD in the temple ought Edward M.Turner, retired bishop ofVirgin Islands to be on the lips of all Bishops — indeed on all our lips right now. Robert P. Varley, retired bishop of Maryland "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of William Wantiand, diocesan bishop of Eau Claire t a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts" (6:5) James D.Warner, retired bishop of Nebraska The LORD is judging all of us in this affair! We are "a people of unclean lips" and Robert Wolterstorff, retired bishop of Son Diego unclean lives. However, until we see the LORD of hosts in his glory we shall hardly Milton Wood, retired bishop of Atlanta recognize and aclmowledge this fact. Repentance begins in the Household of God! " t " = Diocesan Bishop The Editor

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue 11 declared, "Whatever is done in Beijing moral education ofthe child in con­ must not stop there. We are dedicated to formity with convictions of their NO F-WORD IN making the UN's actions a living part of choice." our ministry." SEIZING Among those actions that will be urged "...a child is every human being to By Jan Mahood on Episcopalians are measures that will the age of 18 years.." undermine the Church's partnership with [emphasis mine] the family in teaching children the o Communist China - world capi­ Christian faith and morality based on the tal of atrocities against men, tenets of that faith. One glaring example The document goes on to ensure that women and children - came T is the emphasis the Conference places on "competent authorities" under the 30,000 women to discuss human rights. "children's rights" that would be jurisdiction of the U.N. have the right to The United Nations Fourth World Con­ guaranteed by an international remove the child from a home ference on Women and its satellite ses­ regulatory and legislative body sions and tours were supposed to focus empowered to remove children from the on amelioration of real abuses - ritual family and place them in state genital mutilation, forced abortion of fe­ institutions. A specific example: The male fetuses, rape as a weapon of war, to conference's Draft Platform for Action name a few. These genuine concerns, urges governments to ratify the U.N. however, were virtually ignored by the I Convention on the Rights of the Child ultraliberal concatenation of male- and to enact related legislation "as quickly bashers, lesbians, gender feminists, sym­ as possible" to guarantee "full respect for V pathizers and dupes who were there to the rights of children," which are equated advance their own agenda to "empower" with the rights of parents. women and "the girl child" to the detri­ ment of the traditional family. The F- The Episcopal Church has heeded the Word, "F" being for Family, apparently call to political action. The 1994 triennial was not in their vocabulary as they went General Convention in Indianapolis about their work of weakening the fam­ passed a resolution, "Rights of Children," ily unit. originated by the Diocese of Newark and submitted by the Church's National and Beijing, starting block for Mao's Great International Problems Committee. The leap Forward that resulted in the deaths measure exhorts every diocese to work of 30 million humans, was host to the toward U.S. Senate ratification ofthe U.N. bizarre event. Picture Donna Shalala, Convention on the Rights of the Child, U.S. director of health and human again, "as quickly as possible." By doing services, proclaiming, "Women smell so. Episcopalians would hand over their victory in the air!", shortly before she was parental responsibility to a world roughly shoved around by Chinese government permitting children limidess US First Lady Hillary Clinton speaks at the "Women and security men. Hear an Episcopal priest, Health" seminar sponsored by the World Health Organiza­ although uninformed options and equal all a-flutter to be 50 feet from Hillary, tion at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women Sep­ rights with their parents in all things, tember 5 in Beijing. Mrs. Clinton called for the conference Betty and Bella. "Way cool! Way cool!" she to move beyond rhetoric and ensure specific action to guat^ including choice of religion. Some ofthe gushed about the first lady ofthe United antee women's right to good health care. "Rights of Children" the U.N. and ECUSA States, who soft-pedaled China's human are pushing: environment that the child or others may rights abuses in a speech to her eager perceive is in some way violating his audience. Taxpayer bill for her trip: An freedom to practice a religion different estimated $1 million. "The Child shall have the right to from his parents', to associate with The Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) freedom of expression; this right whomever he chooses, to read children's was also generous in sending women to shall include freedom to seek, re­ books provided by the state, to enjoy rest the conference and on tours of China and ceive and impart information and andleisure, to "participate fully in cultural other Asian countries. Representatives of ideas of all kinds, regardless of fron­ life and the arts," however they are The Anglican Women's Network at the tiers, either orally in writing or in defined, and on and on. conference included delegates from 28 print, in the form of art, or through This sort of law might be considered ECUSA groups under the umbrella ofthe any other media of the child's helpful in, for example, curbing state- Council for Women's Ministries, choice." sanctioned infanticide in backward including the ultraliberal gender feminist countries. But such measures are group. Episcopal Women's Caucus. "The States Parties shall equally re­ uncalled for in a presumably enlightened Ann Smith, executive for ECUSA'S spect the liberty ofthe child and his country such as the USA, where the law Office ofWomen in Mission and Ministry, parents...to ensure the religious and already protects abused and neglected children, while at the same time leaving "THE F-WORO, 'F# BEING FOR FAMILY, APPARENTLY the rest of us alone to raise our children WAS NOT IN THEIR VOCABULARY AS THEY WENT ABOUT without interference from the THEIR WORK OF WEAKENING THE FAMILY UNIT" government. continued on page 18

12 MANDATE: October 1995-Speciai issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church Resolution GS700 ofthe 1987 General Synod ofthe Church ofEngland A Homosexual Person

"This Synod affirms that the biblical and Is there in the Church today an agreed concept of a homosexual person? The traditional teaching on chastity and fidel­ answer is clearly "No." ity in personal relationships is a response The older and once widespread way of understanding homosexuality is "the to, and expression of, God's love for each medical model." Here homosexuality is seen as a psychological disorder, of one of us, and in particular affirms: obscure origin, but usually to be traced to early childhood influences, and difficult, if not impossible, to remedy. (1) that sexual intercourse is an act A second way and popular since the 1960s is "the sexual identity model." of total commitment which be­ This asserts homosexual persons received their distinct orientation with their longs properly within a perma­ personal being: thus it is wrong either to try to change it or to deny its full nent married relationship, expression. Here homosexuality is an aspect of personhood and is in this sense metaphysical. (2) that fornication and adultery are The second model, unlike the first, authorizes the division ofthe population sins against this ideal, and are to into two classes or types - heterosexual and homosexual. The first model, unlike be met by a call to repentance the second, denies that homosexuality is ever "normal." and the exercise of compassion, A more recent approach, pioneered by socially active intellectuals is "the social/political model." Here the claim is that the Gay/Lesbian Movement is a (3) that homosexual genital acts also social/political movement distinctively of our own times andis thus historically fall short of this ideal, and are conditioned. The advocacy ofthe rights of homosexual persons at the present likewise to be met by a call to re­ time is, therefore, to be removed from the medical field (as in the first model) pentance and the exercise of and metaphysics (as in the second model) and roundlyplaced with the political compassion, and social movements ofthe twentieth century- e.g., with those of feminism and civil rights. In this context, the social agenda ofthe Gay/Lesbian Movement (4) that all Christians are called to be is the "eroticization of society," with the implication that the traditional exemplary in all spheres of mo­ heterosexual relation of marriage can be a form of oppression. rality, including sexual morality, This "social/political model," which has many advocates in the Episcopal and that holiness of life is particu­ Church, challenges virtually every aspect of traditional Christian sexual larly required of Christian lead- morality!

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The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Speciai issue 13 Caldwell-continued from page 9 mean that we treat the Bible as if it were as metaphors for God as Creator, a foundational document for our Getting the Words Out Revealer and Sustainer, rather than as community, like the Constitution of the The PBS Publishing Company revealed Names for the Three Persons USA. We may feel free to read the Bible and Preservation Press who are one and the same God in a with a strict or a loose construction, or Pressing On Together communion of holy love. The feminist even to amend, revise, or rewrite it It may be noted that Anglicanism may object because the use of the he Prayer Book Society Publishing personal pronoun "his" [in the response] contains examples of renewal through repentance and faith. The Evangelical Company, a division of the Prayer indicates male gender. The traditionalist Book Society of the Episcopal may object because "his" indicates that Movement of the 18th Century asserted T Church, was founded to assure the con­ God is a single Person who relates to his that ministers of religion were not simply ministers ofthe State but ministers ofthe tinued availability of the 1928 Book of kingdom in three ways. In either case, Common Prayer to all churchmen. further change seems called for! Gospel. In the 19th Century the Anglo- Catholic movement asserted a doctrine Through the Company, the Society has of Apostolic Succession to indicate that sold hundreds upon hundreds of prayer EDITOR: What can be done about the cri­ clergy (even bishops!) were to be thought books to parishes and individuals all over sis in Anglicanism? Is it just a matter of of as ministers of Christ and not merely the Nation. going back to the 1928 BCP and then all agents of the national State or Church. In the early nineties, the Company will be well? By their efforts the monastic life was published its first book relating to the restored and other aspects of historic interests of traditional Episcopalians. CALDWELL: Renewal requires repen­ Christianity were restored to The well researched and documented, tance and faith. If God is calling us to Anglicanism. The Plight ofthe Church Traditionalist: judgment at this cross-roads of history, A Last Apology, by the eminent Yale then simply continuing the use of the linguist, Donald Hook, PhD. detailed the 1928 BCP or the religious style of the EDITOR: As we face the present crisis in ongoing battle being waged for the soul 1950s will not do. If we need to repent and Anglican identity, do you see the Refor­ of the Church, and brought into sharp think again about our modernist inclina­ mation of the 16th Century as being a focus the plight for all who were involved tion to follow the spirit of the times, no positive "defining event" for future in the struggle. The success of this book doubt we also need to reconsider our tra­ Anglicanism? led the Company to publish two other ditionalist inclination to continue along books one in 1992 and the other in 1993 in the way things were. CALDWELL: Yes! In the 16th Century by the Reverend Doctor Peter Toon. Dr. An Anglican form of Christianity Anglicanism was reformed according to Toon graduated from King's College, and existed before Gregory the Great sent the doctrine of Justification. We are saved Christ Church, Oxford, with a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford, and was Augustine of Canterbury as a missionary by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ordained in the Church of England in to Britain. But Anglicanism was indeed through faith working by love, which is 1973. Until September of 1994 he was the changed in the 16th century under Henry shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy William Adams professor of Systematic Spirit who is given unto us. And faith VIII. Perhaps both the 16th and the 20th and Philosophical Theology at Nashotah comes by hearing. Reformed Anglican century "reformations" have involved House Seminary. These books. Knowing "de-formations" of Christianity. For piety is focused on hearing and receiv­ God Through the Liturgy and instance, under Henry VIII it maybe said ing the Word of God. Proclaiming the Gospel Through the that we became a National Church rather The two great contributions of Liturgy positioned the Prayer Book than the Church in a nation. The royal Anglicanism to English religion are the Society in the vanguard of theological supremacy over both the national Book of Common Prayer (1549 and education. Church and State meant that first the will further editions) and the Authorized of the king, then the will of Parliament, Version ofthe Bible (1611). Regrettably, In a recent move to make its operations and then the will of the people the daily reading of the psalms and more effective and efficient, the determined the character of "Anglican" lessons is not always part of our popular Company entered an agreement with religion. The national will took primacy practice so that we are in danger of losing Preservation Press to market and over the authority ofScripture, tradition our sense of an ongoing Biblically- distribute its published titles. In 1994, and reason. shaped culture. # Preservation Press published the 1928 BCP bound with the Authorized Version In the American Church this may (KJV) Bible and Apocrypha and published Which Rite is Right?, written by Dr. Peter Toon. Available for the Propagation ofthe Gospel The affiliation should serve to re­ The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon, Editor of Mandate and the Rev'd Dr. Charles Caldwellenergiz e the Company's mandate to keep traditional Episcopalians theologically are available to preach the Gospel at parish services, to provide teaching on informed and spiritually nourished. the Faith in lectures and seminars, and to lead retreats based on the major Prayer Book Society president, John Rhein, commented, "This is a remarkably Scriptural themes. They represent and commend the joyful orthodoxy of the good fit. Preservation Press has been classic AngUcan Way. Please call 1-800-PBS-1928 to book them. dedicated to bringing the living past into the present and on into the future. Now we can do this together." *

14 MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church tolerable to him. The perpetrators never The Rev'd William H. Ralston Jr. confessed or were discovered by him. The whole student body conspired in silence to save the guilty, and to try to apologize properly to our guest. This was when I discovered what I had SENSE AND NONSENSE not known before. Apart from trips to the Chapel of the Sisters of St. Mary at Parallel Use of 1928 and 1979 Sewanee, the Anglo-Catholic tradition was unknown to me. New York was Pandora's box. Soon I was singing in the chancel choirs of St. Mary the Virgin and ike the thorn in the lion's paw the virtually identical to what traditionalists the Resurrection. I even ventured over to "Prayer Book issue" continues to want and (supposedly) need, what would St.Paul's in Brooklyn, where, as Dr Lpain the Church. Or, if that is not be the problem with following the Simpson (whom I served at St.Mary's) strictly true, it still gives pain to a consid­ eminendy sane and pacific suggestion remarked with glee," I got an eyeful." I got erable minority of her communicants, ofthe Prayer Book Society and authorize a nose full, too. both laity and clergy. the 1928 services as alternatives? The seminary Chapel remained the When the remedy for this pain is so stable, steady thing, like a gyroscope, simple, so sensible, and so easy it remains Since the Presiding Bishop and most keeping one in balance. It has remained mysterious why the House of Bishops other Bishops resist this sensible my criterion for reverent, godly worship and the Executive Council, in particular suggestion or dismiss it as divisive and in the Anglican tradition. It is the the Presiding Bishop, do not adopt it. All corrosive of a single common standard paradigm before my mind when I try to that is needed to pull this thorn is of liturgical practice in the Church, one plan the services at St John's, Savannah. authorization of parallel use ofthe 1928 must probe a little deeper. Please pardon What I learned in those five years in Book alongside the 1979 revision. me if I indulge in a bit of personal history. New York was the immense diversity of mode and custom within our single Unnecessary Pain A Personal Reflection Church. Later on, at Harvard, I worked as assistant both at Christ Church (the Even those of us who have continued to I grew up in a solid, middle-of-the-road, lowest ofthe low) and at the Church ofthe use, faithfully and regularly, the tradi­ very "common" Episcopal Church in the Advent (one ofthe highest ofthe high). In tional Book, and even those of us who Eastern Kentucky mountains. It was Holy the first place it was the Prayer Book in continue to use it at specific services or Communion every Sunday at 8 o'clock, diminution; in the other, the Prayer Book on specific occasions, do so under adver­ and on "first" Sundays and Festivals; oth­ by enrichment. But it was the Prayer Book sity, sometimes benign and rather indif­ erwise Morning Prayer at the later ser­ in both places. ferent, as towards a kind of "lost colony;" vice. Everything was done decentiy and and sometimes under whatever inhibi­ in order. There were no Eucharistic vest­ tion the episcopal authority thinks it can ments, no bells or smells, and the Bishop Pull the Thorn manage. wore rochet and chimere. We were the It is this background of real liturgical in­ The general tone has been that since only Episcopal Church for fifty miles in tegrity provided by the real Book of Com­ the large balance of the dioceses and any direction. mon Prayer which is involved at present, parishes have adopted and settled down When I went to Sewanee [the in a specious and disingenuous way, in the to the new rites, and a whole generation University ofthe South] the pattern in the argument to enforce the uniform use of of Episcopalians has grown up with them chapels there was much the same: the 1979 Prayer Book. The problem is in and accepts them, the traditionalist hold­ Marvelous music, to be sure, and the the thing itself. The 1979 Prayer Bookpro- outs can be left to wither on the vine. Its continuation ofthe tradition introduced vides no uniform use. It is a compilation too much trouble to prune them out. Like by Dr Du Bose of white linen Eucharistic and a collection, not a true, coherendy old soldiers, they will fade away. vestments with appropriate colors of thought out Book of Common Prayer. So whether as a thorn or as an stoles and apparels, but still the same You can make of it what you will. unwanted branch, we who continue to pattern. Perhaps the Church needs this "legislated love and adhere to the old theology and The Chapel at General Seminary [New uniform diversity" (a nonsense ritual of our Church are not "removed;" York City] went "up" a notch or two. We contradiction, to be sure) in order "to but are borne with by the institution at sang more (which I loved) and there were minister effectively in contemporary the price of its relative discomfort. But colored vestments for the Eucharist. But society." The issues in this claim are too why should this be so? It is in reality the Prayer Book [1928] was strictly many to be raised here. nonsensical to perpetuate this state of observed, and still no bells or smells. But granted all this, since the new things. This pain is not necessary. There was one exciting morning when Prayer Book is diverse and heterogeneous One of the arguments thrown up {ad the local Anglo-Catholic mafia filled the by nature, even to its feeble arm nauseam) is that the Church can chapel with incense before the morning outstretched unwillingly to traditionalists, authorize only one Book of Common service as a rude greeting card for an what is the obstacle preventing free and Prayer at a time, and that the Rite One elegant and gentlemanly visitor from unfettered use of a genuine unitary options provide sufficiently for Virginia. It did not amuse Dean Rose. standard as an open option within the traditionalists within the new order. This Nothing that indicated the least is circular. If Rite I is considered to be irreverence towards the Chapel was continued on page 18

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue 15 Isn't it time we recognized that Jesus Making and Equipping knew what he was doing? Disciples Today The Early Church recognized the value of Jesus' method and continued doing what he had showed us to do. The leaders followed Jesus' example and designed a process called the catechumenate to bring people into the e are commanded by the Lord The Rev'd Canon William E. Blewitt, Ph.D. full life of the Church. They recognized that Jesus Christ to form believers not Lay Canon Cris Fouse, M.A. formation takes time - as Jesus took time (up Wskeptics! We are to teach the cer­ Christian Formation Ministries to three years). They knew that this process tainties of the Faith. " takes a single-minded commitment to bring pagans from darkness into light and to enable them to become Jesus has given to his Church a method of making disciples holy persons before God. ofthe kingdom of God. We can see the method in the Gospels. It is a dynamic, interactive process. He himself used it to form Jesus - the Same Yesterday, Today and For Ever and shape his first disciples and train them to carry on his own ministry. Then he said to them, "Go and make disciples of all The same type of process, used in parishes today, provides a nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the locus - to see evangelism, formation, and enabling for ministry Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I as the very purpose ofthe Church, not just several "nice" pro­ have commanded you; andlo, I am with you always, to the close grams. ofthe age" (Matthew 28:18-20). As Jesus formed and trained his firstdisciples , so he continues Jesus spent nearly three years ofhis life, day in and day out, through his holy Word and by his holy Spirit, to form and shape to raise up disciples to whom he could entrust his work It's and train us. The Lord wishes to make disciples today who will time we too used his proven and successful method and be as effective as his chosen twelve, the seventy (Luke) and the claimed his presence with us. five hundred (I Corinthians 15:6). There is a proven resource to help a traditional parish, which uses the 1928 BCP, to be renewed, to bring in and incorporate Why do you think our Church is in the fix she is in? new members, and to equip all members for the ministry Jesus In our time we have forsaken the serious demand on people has given to all of us. This is called Christian Formation: A that the old must pass away in order for new life to begin. We Twentieth-Century Catechumenate. It has been developed by have forgotten that a person must be intentionally formed, the Rev'd Canon William E Blewitt, Ph.D., and Lay Canon Cris shaped and trained to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Such a pro­ Fouse M.A. and they are available to work in and with parishes. cess does not happen by chance! And this intentional method Do make use of them. They may be reached at Christian of formation must be dynamic and interactive if it is to be ef­ Formation Ministries, 750 Knoll Road, Copper Canyon, Texas fective. 75067. (Phone 817/430-8499 or 817/455-2397) #•

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16 MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church the 1928 BCP but a revision carefully within the actual spirit of biblical norms and catholic truth (which is what was originally claimed in the 1960's when revision began). Why We Support the Since this is so, it is so important to keep alive the classic Anglican tradition in the Church today so that there is Prayer Book Society something to revive! The 1979 Book bears so many marks of the ill-digested post Vatican II reform movement and of the poorly understood Liberal Theology of the mid-twentieth century that any biblical and catholic truth it contains is by Norma and Jim Whitacre swamped by modernism. Then thirdly, there is so much - from the point of view of t a dme when many consider the culture and sound religion - that is Prayer Book Society no longer to precious in the Common Prayer have a vital ministry in the pres­ Tradition that we must hold on to it. It is A of course great literature. The KJV and ervation ofthe traditional Anglican way, we have embraced its cause with greater BCP stand together as great monuments fervor. We have listened carefully to ar­ to the best of English religion. Further, guments from conservative-minded in the BCP is sound doctrine - biblical, Christians, who believe we should offer patristic and reformational - set in the our efforts to the EU and ESA, on the language of prayer. Young people today basis that the PBS has lost the battle for are ready for this classic form of the Prayer Book anyway. Why all the fuss Christianity when it is presented in a over the old Prayer Book? It is claimed dynamic and devotional way. The that the EU and ESA are engaged in con- content of the 1928 BCP lends itself to temporary battles that will keep the Norma and Jim Whitacre memorization and to use in personal church alive. One is defending morality meditation and prayer. and the other is defending the sacred To summarize. Without the Common ministry. The issue we pondered with great care is - by what Prayer Tradition and its great legacy to the Anglican means, and at what level, should the batde be fought? If you Communion of Churches, modern conservative organizations will afford yourself the time to read on, you will know exactly such as the EU and the ESA could not fruitfully exist. They are why our enthusiasm and support belong to the PBS. only conservative, and can only be truly conservative, because they presuppose the depth and the breadth of the theology, First of all, the foundation on which both the EU and the ministry, spirituality and morality of the Anglican Books of ESA, as well as other conservative groups in the ECUSA stand, Common Prayer (1549-1928). ECUSA needs and cannot do is one of sand! The 1979 Prayer Book is that sandy foundation! without the PBS, for it stands as the foundation on which all How can the ESA use it and defend it, we say, when they know the other godly societies are able to function! May God look that within its very pages are services for the ordination of both favorably upon the Prayer Book Society and all its works. # women and men to the sacred ministry. How can the EU use it and defend it when they know that material in the Book undermines the inspiration and authority of Holy Scripture Norma and Jim are the principles of Preservation Press. They (e.g., the erroneous translation of canticles and psalms - see have four children, Shannon-16, Jim-15, Andrew-10, and Psalm 1:1). Laura-5; and attend St. James the Less in Philadelphia. The truth of the matter is that the doctrine of the sacred ministry which the ESA is seeking to maintain is that doctrine which is found in the Ordinal ofthe classic Books of Common Prayer. In fact, without the existence of the 1928 Book (and A General Thanksgiving earlier Books), what they call for could not exist. Though they may use the 1979 Book, their doctrine of ministry requires that lmighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy they accept - albeit unknowingly, the Ordination Services in servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks the Books from 1549-1928. The 1928 Book is there - invisibly Afor all thy goodness and lovingkindness to us, and to all propping up their cause. men; [* particularly to those who desire now to offer up their Also, the view of Scripture which the EU holds in order to praises desire to return and thanksgivings for thy late mercies stand firmly for biblical morality and genuine evangelism is vouchsafed unto them.] We bless thee for our creation, preser­ the view contained in the classic BCP's. If the 1928 Book were vation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine not invisibly there to undergird the 1979 Book, they could not inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord appeal to a truly biblical Anglican tradition! They could only Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. appeal to the liberal theology which lies behind the Lectionary And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, and much ofthe content ofthe 1979 Book. that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show In the second place, if there is to be a genuine revival of the forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giv­ biblical and catholic Anglican Way in the Episcopal Church, it ing up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in will not be via the 1979 Book. It will be by renewing the genuine holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ Common Prayer Tradition (1549-1928) for today and into the our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour future. The living Anglican past will come into the present and and glory, world without end. Amen. will go on into the future. Such renewal will mean a revision of

The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue 17 Alohood-cont/nued from page 12 range of Christian adulthood without the education to understand its meaning. In We're old AND we're new. The potential for mischief in this Old, in that we defend the faith once delivered to bullying edict of the U.N. - and ECUSA is this way, young heads can be filled with the saints. New, in that we've changed the way we apparent. A child is not an adult with all whatever the current church leadership do it. the attendant rights, responsibilities and deems politically correct at the moment. FOUNDATIONS, the news magazine of the Episcopal Synod of privileges until he is fully prepared for Is this what we, as Christians and Americans, want for our future America, speaks to -i^aa ^v\V adulthood through years of education, traditionalist training, live and support. The family, generations? Anglicans with the help from the Church, has Baptism, in the 1928 Book of Common inside and outside the traditionally provided a secure Prayer, exhorts Episcopalians to pledge renunciation of the devil and all his Episcopal environment in which the child's Church. We tell character can be formed and works, believe the Articles of the you what's going strengthened. Christian faith and keep God's on - with clarity And where does our Church stand commandments. The 1979 wording is and vigor, not to mention a sense of these days in Christian education? Does quite different. In the new Prayer Book version, the vows have been thrown humor, ECUSAbelieve, along with Hillary and the FOUNDATIONS "Group of 77," as the conference together into a "Baptismal Covenant" isn'tjust for Synod attendees called themselves, that the along with a promise to "strive for justice members, but for state is more competent than the family and peace among all people," which, as Anglicans period, wherever they've chosen to weather the theological in matters of rearing children? church leadership sees it, provides them with authorization to meddle in storms. Apparently, ECUSA is abdicating its The cost? lust $19.95 a year for six issues full of teaching role, at least concerning ultraliberal causes, including attempts to hard facts and reasoned analysis. Confirmation and the prerequisite weaken the family structure through To subscribe, send $19.95 to FOUNDATIONS, such measures as the U.N. Convention 6300 Ridglea Place, Suite 910, Fort Worth, Texas instruction. In dioceses across the 76116. To receive a free copy, call 1-800-225-3661. country, priests are being told to scrap on the Rights ofthe Child. Confirmation for 12-year-olds. In its Soon to descend on our local churches stead, we are offered something called will be Beijing fallout in the form of calls Rahton-continued from page IS Affirmation of Baptism which will take to action by bullying gender feminists place at, oh, perhaps the age of 16 or later. and their starry-eyed fellow travelers. diversity? Why not let the 1928 Prayer In addition, we are to allow children of Cover your heads. #• Book, the legitimate articulate all ages to partake of Holy Communion, representative of four hundred years of whether or not they have any inkling of Mrs. Jan Mahood, a cradle-Episcopalian, Anglican liturgical life and practice, be its significance. Rather than an orderly lives on Long Island, is a Director of the an authorized alternative use in the progression as an adult within the Prayer Book Society, and writes for several present Episcopal Church? church, the child is permitted the full magazines. Pull the thorn and engraft the branch. Remove the pain. We can all attempt to live together. When your Estate is settled will your Will be done? Everyone should have a "will" assuring that their wishes will be adhered to when they are Power, Vanity and Guilt with the Lord. Today a will is no longer a sensitive subject - it is a sensible subject. Still When I try to imagine why this simple and it requires both sensitive and sensible treatment. Has your will been properly drawn by sensible thing is not done, I am faced with a lawyer? Have you provided for the persons, places and things that mean the most to three factors. It is a combination of power, you...the things that have made a difference in you life? vanity and guilt on the part of our ruling We believe you care enough about your religion to want to perpetuate it into the future class, in particular our Bishops. to nourish others spiritually in the way you have been nourished. Because you do care, They still hope they can force us to get wont you consider a bequest to the Prayer Book Society? out or wait for us to die; they still sincerely believe that we can be assimilated within In order to function in its mission to preserve and promote the doctrine, discipline and their new ecclesiastical order of things, worship contained in the 1549-1928 Books of Common Prayer, the Prayer Book Society once we see the light; they know what needs the continuing support of caring Christians. And the Prayer Book Society is the damage they have done, and cannot bear only traditional organization that is pledged to bring the living liturgical past into the to have their shabby little book held up present and on into the future. What a satisfying thing to know that your will could before the light of what ordered and make it possible for succeeding generations to have access to the comfort of those beautified our Church in all her former "comfortable words" in a liturgy which is based upon Scripture. life. + The Prayer Book Society of the Episcopal Church, also known as The Society for the Preservation ofthe Book of Common Prayer, is a non-profit 401c3 corporation, Fr. Ralston is Rector of St. John's Parish, Sa­ incorporated in the State ofTennessee. Our address is P.O. Box 35220, Philadelphia, PA vannah, Georgia, where the 1928 BCP is 19128. (609) 467-4597 used for all public services. He was one of the founders ofthe Prayer Book Society in We shall be eternally grateftd, and so will those who follow. the 1970s, when he was a professor at the University ofthe South.

18 MANDATE: October 1995-Special Issue The Prayer Book Society ofthe Episcopal Church sor. But in the change, something Colin Powell Mourns was lost for me. Long years after­ ward, I buried my mother from St. the Loss of the Margaret's Church at a time when the old liturgy had been displaced Traditional Liturgy by the new. God now seemed earth- bound and unisexed, not quite the magisterial, heavenly father figure n his book. My American Journey, the of my youth. It saddened me. I miss retired four star general, and former the enchantment of the church in INational Security Advisor and Chair­ which I was raised, (page 18) man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks I lovingly of the classic Anglican Prayer Book. Let us first note his description of Finally, he personally experienced - at his mother's funeral of all places - the new parish life in the anglo-catholic, tradi­ religion which has taken over the Episco­ tional Anglicanism at St. Margaret's pal Church in so many parishes. Many Church in The Bronx, New York. families, widows and widowers, know only too well the same terrible feelings as Sundays meant attending St. the General describes: Margaret's Church, where we had our own family pew. Pop was se­ nior warden, Mom headed the al­ The funeral service was held at St. tar guild, and Marilyn played the Colin Powell speaks 9/16/95 to the press on the first day Margaret's, our old family church in of his tour to promote his new book"My American Jour­ piano at children's services. I was ney" at the Crown Books store in McLean, Virginia. the South Bronx. By now, the mod­ an acolyte. My folks always worked Powell could not give an answer when asked by report­ ernists had taken over. All that had ers if he would consider running in the 1996 Presiden­ meant so much to me, the imagery, on the bazaar, the bake sale, and tial Elections. the annual dance, where you could the poetry, the liturgy, had been let your Episcopalian hair down, changed. The church had adopted do the calypso, get a little tipsy, and He has vivid memories of Confirmation a new service, and the present young even share a nip with the priest. - old style: priest at St. Margaret's had taken (page 17) modernism to the extreme, render- / can still remember confirmation, As a young man he had definite views as watching those to what a church ought to be and look sweet, scrubbed chil­ "God now seemed earthbound like: dren as the bishop and unisexed, not quite the seized them one by / had definite ideas of what a one by the head: "De­ magisterial, heavenly father church was supposed to be, like the fend, O Lord, this thy figure of my youth." high Anglican church in which my Child with thy heav­ family was raised in Jamaica, with enly grace; that he spires, altars, priests, vestments, in­ may continue thine forever; and ing God genderless and ordinary. I cense, and the flock genuflecting daily increase in thy Holy Spirit knew my attachment to the forms of and crossing itself all over the place. more and more, until he come unto the past was more emotional than The higher the church, the closer to thy everlasting kingdom." I would intellectual. But I found it discon­ God; that was how I saw it. At swing the incense burner, lustily certing to discover that the rock of Christmas, our priest, Father chanting 'Amen,' convinced that I faith I was raised on could move. My Weeden, turned St. Margaret's into was witnessing the spirit of God en­ mother received a unisex, low-key, a magical place of candles, lights, tering that child's head like a bolt nontriumphant burial service. I do ribbons, wreaths, and holly. of lightning. St. Margaret's was im­ not recall hearing the word "God" (page 17) agery, pageantry, drama, and po­ mentioned once. I found myself etry, whispering, "Don't worry, Mom. (pp. 17-18) We'll do something better later, be­ cause this is not the way you would Collect want to go." (page 301) lessed Lord, who hast caused all holy And he feels deeply the loss of the pre­ BScriptures to be written for our learn­ cious 1928 Prayer Book: ing; Grant that we may in such wise hear The Prayer Book Society is grateful to General Powell for what he has written. them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Times change, and the liturgy has them, that by patience and comfort of thy Maybe, when is less busy with public changed with the times. I suppose I affairs, he will offer his help to the cause holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold have to yield to the wisdom ofthe fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, of preserving the Book of Common Prayer bishops who believed the 1928 book for the Anglican Communion! ^ which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus of Common Prayer needed updat­ Chvist. Amen. {2nd Sunday in Advent, 1928) ing, just as it replaced its predeces­ [My American /ourney is Published by Random House]

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