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September 9. 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 5 NEWS September 9, 2012
LexingtonElects from Georgia 'Called by God' About 200 people gathered August For the second consecutive time, college groups using this method of 11 in the Courthouse Square of the Diocese of Lexington has drawn action/reflection: What is God up to Hayneville, Alabama, to honor the from the Diocese of Atlanta in elect in the brokenness of homelessness, memory and heroism of Jonathan ing its bishop. The Very Rev. addiction, domestic abuse, Daniels Myrick. The Pilgrimag e Douglas Hahn, rector of St. or the juvenile justice sys and Procession for the Feast of Thomas Church, Columbus, tem? What does God show Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Martyr was elected on the second us about the world and our of Hayneville, and the Martyrs of ballot Aug. 18 during the call to that world in our Alabama is in its 14th year. diocese's annual conven ministry among 'the least of Hayneville (pop. 932) is roughly tion at Christ Church Cathe these'?" in the middle of Alabama's famously dral, Lexington. Similar questions arose fertile Lowndes County, once popu Dean Hahn led on the when Hahn was treated for lated by wealthy plantation owners first ballot, followed closely Hahn prostate cancer in 2011. living in pillared mansions. When by the Rt. Rev. Marray Santosh, "I made use of the wise counsel of Jonathan Daniels, a 26-year-old assisting bishop in the Diocese of a man who has been my spiritual Episcopal seminarian from New East Carolina. guide for many years. Having Hampshire , came to Alabama to The sixth Bishop of Lexington, the walked with me through every twist work in the civil rights movement Rt. Rev. Stacy F Sauls, was rector of and turn of these years, he asks in the summer of 1965, the county St. Bartholomew's Church, Atlanta , what God might be up to in every sit had become what Time described when he was elected in 2000. Sauls uation, encouraging me to consider as "a gritty collection of cattle became chief operating officer at even the rockiest ground as soil farms and dying towns living in a the Episcopal Church Center in Sep where the spirit can flourish ," he hand-me-down past." tember 2011. wrote. "I encourage every priest to Daniels had been studying for The other nominees were: find and nurture such a relationship , the ministry at Episcopal Theolog • The Rev. Ronald Abrams, rec and it was especially life-giving in ical School in Cambridge, Massa tor, St. James, Wilmington, North my days of distress." chusetts. After joining the Selma Carolina Through a missionary couple, St. to-Montgomery voting rights march • The Rev. Bruce Boss, rector, Thomas is involved in education and in March 1965, he returned to Cam Church of the Nativity, Indianapo health ministries in central Tanza bridge to finish the school year, lis, who was added by petition nia. The Rev. Sandra McCann, M.D., then went back to Alabama to • The Rev. LaRae Rutenbar, pro and her husband, Martin McCann, spend the summer working with fessional interim minister, most M.D., have served in Dodoma, Tan the Episcopal Society for Cultural recently at St. Peter's Church, Rome, zania , since November 2004. and Racial Unity. Georgia Sandra McCann is communica On August 14, while picketing • The Rev. Nigel Taber-Hamilton, tions director and chap lain of stores in nearby Fort Deposit, rector, St. Augustine's-in-the-Woods, Msalato Theological College. Mar Daniels and two dozen other pro Freeland , Washington tin McCann operates a histopathol testers were arrested and locked In his profile for the election, ogy laboratory in the Mackay House in the Hayneville County Jail. Hahn said that the question "What is Anglican Mission Clinic in the Dio Daniels and several others were God up to?" has characterized his cese of Central Tanganyika, and con unexpectedly released on August ministry since his pastoral training sults and teaches at the Mvumi 20, and while they waited for a in the late 1970s. Anglican Mission Hospital about 30 ride back to Selma, they walked "What is God up to in the various kilometers outside of Dodoma . He across the street to Varner's, a crises of life and faith I encounter? also teaches HIV/AIDS courses at small grocery store, for something What is God up to in the interac Msalato Theological College. to drink. tions of this band of clergy?" Hahn Through the McCanns, the parish Standing near the doorway with wrote. is building a well to provide safer a shotgun in hand was Thomas L. "When I spent a period of my min drinking water to a village of 3,000 Coleman, a 54-year-old state high istry in Christian social ministry in peopl e. way engineer and part-time deputy Atlanta, I trained lay volunteers and Douglas L eBlan c (Continued on next page)
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lect from Lesser Feasts and Fasts: "O God of justice and compassion, you put down the proud and mighty from their place, and lift up the poor and the afflicted: We give you thanks for your faithful witness Jonathan Myrick Daniels , who, in the midst of injustice and violence, risked and gave his life for another; and we pray that we, following his example, may make no peace with oppres- Gary G Yerkey photo sion; through Jesus Christ the just Some of the 200 people who gathered in Hayneville August 11 to remember Jonathan Daniels. one, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for (Continued from previous page) man was taken into custody, ques ever and ever." sheriff. As the group approached the tioned and charged with first-degree Don King, verger at St. Paul's Epis store, he shouted, "Get off my god murder. He was released the next copal Church in Selma, led an hour dam property before I blow your day and eventually he was acquit long pilgrimage to the former gro goddam brains out, you black bas ted by a jury composed entirely of cery store and the old county jail. tards!" Then he opened fire. white men. The commemoration concluded with Daniels died instantly as he The ceremony in Hayneville to a worship service at the Hayneville attempted to shield Ruby Sales, a honor Daniels and the other Ala County Courthouse, where the jury 17-year-old girl, from the blast . Cole- bama martyrs began with this col- (Continued on page 28)
September 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 7 PARISH INITIATIVE Back in the Loop Telecoil technology helps believers hear more clearly
By Lauren Anderson
The Gospel reading ends and it sounded muddled. Now, as the sermon begins, it's hard to piece the words together, like attempting a phone conversation during bad reception. No one else can tell , though, because hearing loss is an invisible disability. Juanita Yoder For the 36 million Americans with hearing loss, attending worship services can be an isolating expe Liturgical Art rience. Reverberation, background noise, or even a Suspended Silk Paintings quiet minister can make it difficult to hear a message coherently . Stained Glass Design David Myers, a professor of psy chology at Hope College who has experienced this problem many times, described it as "being cogni Processional Pieces tively locked out and stuck ther e." But then Myers www.JYKArt.com attended a service at Iona Abbey in Scotland . As [email protected] Myers listened to the cloud of sound reverberate off (609) 448-5335 the 800-year-old stone walls, his wife pointed to a sign tr( with a Ton it, which referred to a sma ll component in hearing aids called a telecoil. National Episcopal Historians Myers flipped the telecoil switch on the back of his #./T and Archivists recently purchased hearing aid. Suddenly, the verbal Hearing Loop 9-JNEHA fog of noise distilled into a crisp voice reaching the M c h hear ing o;d to I-coll episcopalhistorians .org center of his head. Myers didn't know this level of clarity was possible in church . Collect, preserv e, The T sign indicated that Iona Abbey was equipped with a "hearing organize and share your loop," a wire surrounding a room which sends magnetic signals from church's history. an audio system to heaiing aids. A hearing aid's telecoil receptor, a component found in 69 percent of hearing aids, picks up the signal and Archives for Congregations amplifies it direct ly to the ear, acting as a personal loudspeaker . With A practical book to establish and the flip of the hearing aid's telecoil switch, the vast sound distance maintain a parish archives. between priest and pew is eliminated , allowing the person to hear with the clarity of a one-on -one conversation. Writing a Congregational History After experiencing hearing loops in Europe, where the technology A practical book for the layperson and first emerged 40 years ago, Myers lrnew he needed to bring this dis experienced historian. covery home to Holland, Michigan. Since his return , Myers has advo Escribiendo una Historia Congregadonal cated for hearing-loop systems in venues throughout Western Michigan. Un libro de facil lectura, practico para In the past 13 years more than 350 venues, including churches, schools, el laico e historiador e}.."Perimentado. libraries and businesses throughout Western Michigan, have installed loops. His advocacy has spread nationwide, with churches at the fore front of the movement. To order: St. Francis of the Valley Church's hearing loop has become vital to C A LL - 610.544.1886 the church's ministry since its installation severa l years ago, the Rev. E J\LA IL - n ehahq s@ao l.co m Daniel Messier says . Located in the Arizona retirement community M A IL - NE HA, 509 Yale Avenue known as Green Valley, St. Francis serves a congregation widely Swarthmor e, PA 19081 affected by hearing loss . Many members rely on the loop during wor Only $6.50 per book (S&H includ ed). ship. The church is equipped with loops in the sanctuary and parish O utside U.S. enquire abo ut postage. hall, and provides signs throughout the church to raise awaren ess of O rd ers biL\ed wi th shipm ent. the system. Messier says the loop is essential to the mission and min-
8 THE LIVING CHURCH • Septembe r 9. 2012 Grace Church photo Grace Church in Holland, Michigan, was one of the first in the United States to install a hearing loop system, eliminatingthe vast sound distance between pulpit and pew. istry of the congregation, as it increases accessibility for all mem bers. "We have now broadened our pos sibilities in worship," Messier said. "I think our numbers would be much A Colurnbariurnfor Your Church low er if we didn't have that pro Church burial removes the separation gram, because if someone feels iso between life and death by reuniting the church family lated and can't hear what's going on, with those that have touched their lives . it affects their participation." Most American churches use FM assistive hearing technology, which delivers microphone sound to a The ageless elegance of bronze user's ear using headphones and a is combined with the beauty of granite in this new introduction handheld receiver box. Typically, by Armento . FM systems require users to go to the back of the church to pick up the device and are used by multiple peo 8I8 ple , raising hygienic concerns. The equipment is also one-size-fits-all i\QMENTO and tends to be incompatibl e with COLUMBARIUMS each user's hearing needs.
"FM systems are well-intended, BLENDING but people don't really want to look ARTISTRYa CRAFTSMANSHIP SINCE 1946 different . They would rather not hear. So there are a lot of people just sitting in church not hearing well," said Juliette Ster kens, an audi ologist and advocate with the Hear SEND FOR OUR FREEINFORMATION KIT 8-DVD ing Loss Association of America. "If you are the grandma of the bride in 1011Military Road, P.O. Box 39, Buffalo, NY 14217 a wedding, are you going to go to the Toll Free 1-866-276-3686 e-mail : [email protected] Visit us at www.Arrnento-Colurnbariurn.com (Continued from page 33)
September 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 "Spiritualbut Not Religious" as Seed of Evangelization
By Matthew Dallman gion, to all human hunger for God." John Macquarrie leads in the same direction when he writes that "to pray urely enough ink has been spilt about how the is to think in such a way that we dwell with reality, and claim "I'm spiritual but not religious" reflects faith's name for reality is God" (Paths in Spirituality, Ssome sort of depravity. Whether it is a pervasive p. 30). God is the Truth about life, full stop. laziness or unthinking reaction to any whiff of insti What's more, our identity is only found through tutional religion (usually the Christian Church) is Christ, whose Incarnation inaugurated a new creation, unclear. Perhaps it is both. Perhaps it is the original a new reality. As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has written, sin for Westerners born into the global village. Per "the question about what the human being is finds its haps it demonstrates the detrimental consequences response in the following of Jesus Christ" ("In the of a culture that has become increasingly secular. Beginning ..., "third homily, p. 58). The question Who Regardless, the statement often meets scorn and am I? is ultimately christological, no matter how it is derision. The Rev. James Martin, SJ, writes in The asked. To understand Christ's revelation as merely one Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything that "spiritual possible religious option among others is to miss the ity without religion can become a self-centered com point. Our creed reads: "Through him all things were placency divorced from the wisdom of a community" made. For us and for our salvation he came down (p. 50). His is not an isolated reaction. "SBNR," as it has from heaven." Therefore we can speak of Christianity come to be known , is widely seen as an irritating pose as the root of "not religious." against any sense of obligation beyond oneself. SBNR Yet what of "I'm spiritual"? Here we need merely adherents describe themselves on a Face book page as point to our liturgy, in which we confess our thankful people who "believe spirituality can exist outside of ness to God "for the goodness and love which you organized religion." At heart, SBNR is clearly a decla have made known to us in creation"; God who is the ration of spiritual autonomy. "fountain of life and source of all goodness, you made But what if there is more to SBNR than first meets all things and fill them with your blessing; you created the eye, or at least an additional dimension? What if, them to rejoice in the splendor of your radiance." To the for even a minority, SBNR expresses thoughtfulness, extent that "being spiritual" - what Martin Thornton a grasping of something truly significant? What if the calls "being-aliveness" (Prayer, p. 49) - means appre statement actually issues from a sensibility that can hension of the beauty of creation, then , yes, being spir only find a proper home in Catholic Christianity? itual is the beating heart of Christianity. If that were the case, then SBNR could be inter preted theologically, and in fact must be. But is there er haps SBNR is not a sidetrack from, but rather basis to do so? "Not religious" might seem to be an Pa step along the road toward, Catholicism. My immediate disqualifier, but maybe it is not. Christ said, own journey reflects something of just that. I was "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes raised in an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amer to the Father but by me" (John 14:6). Hence Alexander ica congregation in suburban Milwaukee. Going to Schmemann calls Christ's incarnation the "end of all church every Sunday was something my family just religion" (For the Lif e of the World, p. 19). "But the hour did, and hence I did as well. I went through Sunday is coming, and now is" (John 4.23), Christ said to the School , youth groups, and off to college without Samaritan woman at the well . This hour destroys cult holding a modicum of ill will toward the Church, and and religion , which are born of separation between in fact loving its music. Yet subsequently, outside of God and man, now obliterated by the Incarnation. "He Christmas, Easter, and my wedding, I didn't set foot has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion," Schme into any church for the next 17 years. Simply put, mann writes, reminding us that pagans called the first nothing called me. Christians atheists. Christ is the "answer to all reli- I was a seeker, only elsewhere. First it was through
10 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 music, which my paternal grandmother, herself a faith our formation began. ful church person, taught me to love as a spiritual Yet, in another sense, we knew more than we reality. During college I became a "Phishhead," tapping thought we did, and perhaps this is true for many peo something of the search for beauty in the band's 25- ple. As our rector teaches , something of the "grammar" minute free-fonn jazz performances. After college I of English Catholi c spirituality is imparted simply developed a meditation practice through free work through one's experience of life. To be sure, the Holy shops at a Zen monastery in Minneapolis. Later it was Spirit led us (back) to the Church. But the Spirit kept through study of the works of the American philoso his identity secret till we were ready to bear it. pher Ken Wilber, who assembled a particularly intrigu Through beauty in works of art and literature and ing mix of psychology, biology, and spirituality. Wilber the landscape of Creation, in people's lives, in asked me to write a few hundred pages of research farmers' markets, the Spirit mad e himself that would make his work more accessible to working known, chall enging us to explore deceptively artists, and after 18 months I started my own (now simple questions like Where does beauty defunct) web journal - no longer to proselytize for come from? and Whom are we thank Wilber, but to develop an online community of artists ing when we feel thankful? seeking to live in a reasonably balanced, philosophical, Among those who adopt- more spiritually aware way. or less articulately- SBNR as their During this time something of a vague call to the identity, there already resides a seed Churc h appeared. It grew after I finished one year of of evangelization. To open oneself to adult education in a Great Books program offered by the silent beauty of a flower in the University of Chicago, where discussions of Scrip bloom is a step toward under To open oneself ture inspired me to see the central place of the Bible standing the loving adoration of in the history of thought. Elsewhere, I discovered Mor Christ in solemn liturgy. The to the silent beauty timer Adler and Marshall McLuhan. Learning that silence, and the love, are the same. Adler was a late -life convert to Anglicanism and that The evangelical challenge is to of a flower in bloom McLuhan converted to Roman Catho licism long show rather than tell, starting from before the media was the message was deeply intrigu the profound sacramentality of all is a step toward ing to me. things. A theology of creatio n is Then the first of my four girls was born. The ques iconographi c, and as Macquarrie understanding tion Where does this new life actually come from? led writes, "to believe in creation is theloving to the doors of local churches, yet the first places we already to believe in the Church " knocked didn't feel like home. We tried a couple of (Principles of Christian Theology, adoration of Christ Lutheran churc hes, then a Roman Catholic parish (to p. 347). Both notions cou ld bear investigate the Latin Mass). Later we tried a local Pres refinement for purposes of evan- in solemn liturgy byterian congregation. Finally we found a Catho lic gelization. True thoughtfulness Anglican parish that seemed like a fitting community about our being in the world and about "all ye Green in which a family might thrive. And so we have. My Things upon the Earth" might very well require a girls and my wife (a filmmaker) all feel perfectly at "Catholic imagination" that yearns for the ancient and home. And I am now four semesters into graduate renewing liturgies of holy Church , supplemented with work in theology , discerning a call to the priesthood. the support and guidance of ecclesial comm unity. As Without doubt I was hungry and thirsty for righteous Thornton writes, "the taste of coffee, the smile of a ness, that "conte mplativ e awareness" of the christo child, the embrace of lovers, the smell of a cherry tree, logical truth of "one's place in creation and one's rela the sound of music, or any such experience can be holy tion with God" (Thornton, Prayer, p. 56). communion ... a sharing in the sacred humanity" (Prayer, pp. 105-06). This is nothing less than the efore finding our parish, was I "spiritual but not Christhood of all human experience - the world Breligious"? Yes. And yet nothing of my journ ey charged with the grandeur of God. Holy, holy, holy. ■ from SBNR to Catholic Anglicanism felt like a leap or momentous change from that sensibility. Instead, it felt Matthew Dallman studies at Nashotah House and like a somewhat surprising, yet seamless and natural, Catholic Theological Union, and is the author of The next step. If there was a leap at any point it came later, Benedictine Parish: A Model to Thrive in a Secular in realizing how much there is to learn about Church Era, published by Akenside Press. He lives near vocabulary, and how little my wife and I knew before Chicago with his wife and daughters.
September 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 11 By Jake Dell effective a witness to the truth of Jesus Christ during his encounter with an Ethiopian eunuch, ention advertising around Christians and how many more people could be reached by a you're sure to provoke a reaction. Sug well-written advertisement for the truth? Mgest that churches should market to cer Church advertising is no more than evangel tain targeted segments of the national population ism in print. and you're starting to tread forbidden turf. If advertising is salesmanship, then the great But last May a group of 52 seminarians , vestry ad men of the 19th and 20th centuries concluded members, lay leaders and active clergy all gath that the only way to tell good advertising from ered at the University of the South's School of bad was by sales figures; good advertising ben Theology to learn how to think more like fic efits the bottom line. On a similar note, good tional 1960s-era ad man Don Draper. Could Church advertising keeps bishops busy with churches learn anything from the golden age of confirmations. advertising? Jesus sent the first disciples out in pairs to The Church has known something about effec preach the coming of the Kingdom of God door tive marketing and advertising for a long time to-door , person-to-person. Later , the Church now. The introduction to the Gospel of Luke (1:1- added epistles and gospels to its marketing mix. 4) has all the hallmarks of an effective product Still later , during the preaching revolution led by pitch: It casts doubt on the quality of the compe the Dominican and Franciscan friars, the Church tition, vouches for its own superiority by appeal perfected the preaching model at scale. ing to eyewitness testimony , and offers a "satis It wasn't long before the Church adapted to faction guarantee" based on Luke's integrity. the disruptive new technology of the printing Albert Lasker, one of the greatest ad copy press and other forms of mass communication writers of the past two centuries, championed to spread its message. Finally, it sent missionar the idea that commercial advertising was "sales ies to nearly every inhabited comer of the globe. manship in print." In other words, the printed It's a proud legacy that spans 2,000 years. word could replace the door-to-door salesman. In contrast, commercial advertising has only St. Luke knew as much. If Phillip could be so been around for a little more than a century. But
12 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 Church advertising is no more than evangelism in print. despite being the greatest marketing organization to your congregation's or diocese's website is also a the world has ever seen, the Church has been, for the source for leads. If all your church has is a homepage most part , sitting on the sidelines during the ad rev with very general information such as your address olutions of the past 50 years. That's ironic, because and phone number, then you aren 't even trying to commercial advertisers have no qualms about appro convert the traffic that 's coming to your site - how priating our vocabulary ("technology evangelist"). ever pretty and up-to-date the site may be. Effective commercial advertising sells products. Use your website as an entry to potential conver Effective Church advertising gets confirmed, com sions. Use Google Analytics to look at your traffic: municant butts in the pews. Both commercial mar How many unique page views does your website keters and Christian evangelists chart their success attract in a month? Is it more than your average by one measure: conversions. Sunday attendance? Don't think of your website as A converted consumer becomes loyal to the brand, a single homepage where everyone has to come in or an "evangelist," to the point of recommending a through the front door. Your website should change brand of car or appliance or cosmetic or conswner as often - more often - than the liturgical seasons! packaged good to family and friends. A converted Are you blessing the animals? Set up a special page Christian who has taken all the public steps (baptism, just for that. Is your church school holding an enroll Holy Communion, confirmation, regular attendance at ment drive? Make a new page. For almost every rea Sunday worship and financial support) to demon son a person might Google your church, you should strate visible, outward adherence to the teachings of have a separate landing page for them to discover. Jesus Christ becomes an evangelist, or "brand an1bas If your church has a social media presence ( which sador," for the Church. Effective marketing and adver you should) , Facebook likes and Twitter followers tising - whether it's commercial or evangelical - are also leads - and good ones, at that, as they can drives this conversion process. be your digital word-of-mouth evangelists to their friends for your church. Personal referrals and word The ConversionFunnel of-mouth recommendations generate the highest The consumer conversion process starts with a con quality leads. What's your plan for using these leads version "funnel." The funnel first siphons in the to convert some people in their network into con widest possible targeted reach of all those who firmed, communicant members? might consider buying a certain product and, By using digital media intelligently and purpose through rigorous market research and then very tar fully, you can increase the number of inbound leads geted advertising, narrows them down to the point quickly. Your goal is to build a list of people who of sale . The Church's conversion funnel is similar. It have shown an interest in what your church has to starts by reaching all of those who might consider offer. You want their names, email addresses, phone going to a church "someday, maybe, when I have the numbers and a record of how and why they con time," and narrows these potential converts all the tacted you (e.g., "via custom landing page on web way down to the point when a bishop 's hands are site, for blessing of the animals" or "pew card , for placed on a confirmand's head. church school"). There are four stages to the Church's fwmel: inten As a group of skeptical theologians realized after tion, consideration, evaluation , and conversion. further exploration of the dirty word advertising last Good evangelists, like good advertisers , learn how to May, commercial marketing is much like church speak differently to people at each of these stages. marketing , in that they both require a coordinated The story is the same throughout, but the messages strategy of sending messages to a targeted group of will chang e to meet the potential convert's stage people so they buy a specific product . By the end of and other needs of the moment . the first session, participants agreed on one thing: all People interested in learning more about the of us really are advertisers; and the church - be it Church's message - known as "inbound leads" or a congregation, diocese, denomination, or the uni prospects - drive the conversion process. Most versal Body - cannot afford not to market itself. ■ churches have at least a rudin1entary lead-generation system , even if it's just the guest register to handle Jake Dell is the manager of digital marketing and walk-ins or a visitor card in the pews. But the traffic advertising sales for the Ep iscopal Church .
Septembe r 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 13 Each Bite a Gift
By Amy Lepine Peterson month, and said it again today: "I just want to sleep and never wake up." y grandmother is in her 90s, not that you But I'm not ready for her to be done , and I Mcould tell by talking with her. Apart from can 't stop thinking about her , in the hospital , the stray repeated story or racially charged eating her last supper . remark, her age simply doesn't show. She's sharp as a tack, to use one of her expressions. Last ast week I turned 31. Special days center on month when I was home I recorded her telling Lfood for me, so my husband, Jack , braised our family history. She hardly faltered, even after short ribs in red wine and fresh rosemary and an hour, and it wasn't until her cracked voice thyme from the garden, stirred goat cheese into started to fail her that she lost her train of the creamy polenta. I made my own cake, a four thought . layer beauty with cream cheese, coffee, rum, and Though her mind remains alert, her body is deep dark chocolate. We celebrated, in our own growing weaker each day. Today, a bout of pneu quiet way, and I didn't mind being a year older. monia has landed her in the hospital. Her esoph I have found comfort in my thirties: I'm at agus is so weak that food and water are entering hom e in my skin, my choices, my sense of self. her lungs, not her stomach. Tomorrow she will I'm beginning to feel like I've lived long enough get a permanent food tube, and then she will to have an opinion and to be someone people never eat or drink again. can rely on. Maybe it took me too long to get The doctors refer to this as an "end-of-life" ail here , but I finally feel like an adult, free from ment. That frightening phrase keeps bouncing having to prove or pretend anything. around my brain as I think of Grandma, so tired. Of course aging isn't all grace and beauty . This She's ready to be done - she told me that, last was the first year that my birthday wish list
14 THE LIVING CHURCH• September 9, 2012 included wrinkle-reducing eye cream. Up until I age and experience we come together to wor had kids, I was often mistaken for a teenager, but ship the same God, each of us illuminating dif now that my body has borne the weight of two ferent aspects of his face for each other . We see children , the wear begins to show. Wider hips, him more clearly together than we ever could deep circles under my eyes, and stretch marks individually. And when we face sadness and on my stomach testify clearly to the fact tha t my inexpressible loss, we have each other, and we teenage years are long gone. have the prayer book , giving us words to cling to My body is starting to fail. Apparently I've when we have no words of our own, rituals to mention ed this, because last week when Jack follow through the dark night of the soul. asked our three-year-old Rosie about the red I am only beginning to comprehend what it bumps on her back, she sighed dramatically and might mean to grow old, and frankly , I have lit said, with resignation, ''I'm probably just getting tle faith in my own ability to approach the end old, Dad." I'm pretty sure I know wher e she with grace and with good courage, like Madonna heard that one . or my grandmother. But this much I know: that whatever, and whenever , and wherever my last esterday I was the reader of the Epistle at supper will be, it will be eucharistic. T church. I stooped low toward the micro It may not be the blessed sacrament itself . It phone and said: might be a subpar hamburger before an unex pected end, or a spicy vegeta ble curry in a far Therefore we do not lose heart. Though out country, or a bland bit of chicken from a hospi wardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are tal tray, like Grandma's last supper likely was . I being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubl es are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is uns een, since Let us celebrate what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. For we know that if the holy food the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eterna l house in heav en, not built by hum an and drink of new hands .
At coffee hour, white-haired Madonna, and unending life. practically a patron saint of our parish, complimented my reading. "Up in the balcony with the choir, I can't always hear the might relish it, or I might barely be able to taste readers," she said. "Some of us just have trouble it. But it will be bread broken and it will be hearing in general these days." shared , and as I eat it, I will remember that every Most members of our church are over 60, and bite is a gift, every sip a reminder that it is God, many are well over 60. While I've loved the always God, who nourishes and sustains us. The poetic beauty of this passage for as long as I can Last Supper, after all, demonstrates that life is remember, they understand its meaning far more born out of death , and that by Jesus' death we intimately than I can. I'm barely beginning to may live again. know what it means for my body to be wasting Therefore, let us keep the feast - together, as away. It hints at me in my knees creaking, but I we savor the unknowns of our futures , our fears see it plainly in my grandmother as she loses her about aging and death: let us celebrate the holy ability to hear, to walk unassisted, and to eat. I'm food and drink of new and unending life. ill-equipped to face its reality. What is each bite , but a gift? ■ This, though, is one reason why I love the Church: what I may be unable to comprehend Amy Lepine Peterson teaches English as a Second about the realities of aging, Madonna may be Language at Taylor University in Upland, Ind i able to help me understand. In our diversity of ana, and blogs at amylepinepeterson.com.
September 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 15 s
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By William G. Witt the ordained are not priests. The Catholic tra Isa. 6: 1-8, Psalm 119:33- dition says that because 40, Phil. 4:4-9, John 10:1-16 there is the one High Priest, the ordained are those who am a layperson, which A Sermon Preached share in Christ's priesthood. I means that I am a sheep, not am going to engage in some typ Ia shepherd. It is a great honor at an Ordination ical Anglican fudge here by quoting for a sheep to address someone who the Anglican Divine George Herbert . is on the verge of becoming a shep In The Country Parson, Herbert herd. Perhaps when you've been a be ordained this morning to be a writes: "A Pastor is the Deputy of sheep as long as I have, and you've priest. What is a priest? If we look to Christ for the reducing of Man to had the dubious privilege of observ the epistle to the Hebrews, we read: the Obedience of God." Herbert ing more shepherds than I can "[W]e have such a high priest, one goes on to say that, in consequence count, you may be able to give some who is seated at the right hand of of Christ's resurrection and ascen advice to a shepherd who is about to the throne of Majesty in heav en, a sion, he was no longer to be physi be turned loose on the flock. Of minister in the holy places, in the cally present with the Church: "after course, not all metaphors hold up true tent that the Lord set up, not he had fulfilled the work of Recon completely. I've also been a layper man" (8:1). What is a shepherd? In ciliation . . . he constituted Deputies son long enough to know how our gospel reading this morning, we in his place, and these are Priests." laypeople too often treat their read: "I am the Good Shepherd. The Herbert says that the priest does priests. A lot of these sheep have Good Shepherd lays down his life that which Christ did, by Christ's teeth. So be forewarned: you're also for the sheep" (John 10:11). So my aut hority , as his "vice-regent." Most a shepherd who is being turned first observation is that there is only important, however, the priest also loos e in the midst of wolves, some one. Jesus is the One High Priest, does it "after [Christ's] manner." of whom are dressed up just like and Jesus is the One Shepherd. It helps, I think, to understand the sheep. The Reformation and Catholic tra priest as an icon of Christ. Paul There is another image besides ditions divide at this point. The Ref writes in 2 Corinthians 4: "For what shepherd that the Church applies to ormation tradition says that, because we proclaim is not ourselves , but those in ordained ministry. You will Jesus Christ is the one High Priest, Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves
16 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 NEW! THE MEDITATIOSERIES
as your servants for Jesus' sake. For authority for the priest's authority. Brief contemporary guides to God, who said, 'Let light shine out of The priest was no longer an icon of the practice of meditation found darkness ,' has shon e in our hearts to Christ, but a therapist, a social in the teachings of the first give the light of the knowledge of worker , or the chief operating offi Christian monks. the glory of God in the face of Jesus cer of the congregation. Christ . But we have this treasure in At the same time, when people Thefirst three volumes in the series are: jars of clay, to show that the sur are uncertain about the source of passing power belongs to God and their authority, they become fright not to us" (vv. 5-7). The priest is not ened, and they fall back on their Christ. The priest is ajar of clay. The own authority. I have met plenty of priest represents Christ primarily in clergy who have no problem imag pointing away from him or herself, ining themselves to be icons of by pointing to Christ. But the priest Christ , but the icon they prefer is also represents Christ in that he or that of Christ enthroned in glory, she shares in Christ's suffering. Paul Christus Pantokrator, or if not goes on to say, "We are afflicted in Christ, perhaps Dirty Harry. We have every way, but not crushed, per all known these kinds of priests and plexed, but not driven to despair, bishops. The contemporary Angli persecuted, but not forsaken, struck can mess offers particularly bleak down, but not destroyed, always examples with its depositions of carrying in the body the death of clergy for abandonment of com Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may munion, and lawsuits over property, also be manifested in our bodies" on the one hand, and, on the other, The Goal of Life (vv. 8-10). As George Herbert, says, bishops who have placed them LAURENCEFREEMAN , O.S.B. the priest does what Christ did "in selves under the authority of African Insights into understanding Jesus his manner." bishops only to declare themselves to better understand ourselves I think this gets us some way independent of those bishops a few and the goal of our lives. toward resolving the apparently short years later. If it is any com 978-1-934996-30 - 0 80pp French Flap. Library Bound $12.50 irreconcilable differences between fort, misuse of clerical power is not Reformation and Catholic under new. If you want some very practical Why Are We Here? standings of priesthood . The priest examples of both good and bad LAURENCEFREEMAN, O.S .B. does represent Christ, but as an icon. Anglican clerical leadership, I would Engages the radical question of our The priest is an icon of Christ who suggest reading the 19th-century being and guides the reader to the points away from himself and his novels of Anthony Trollope. prayer of Christ in our hearts . own competence to the competence In the first epistle of Peter, the 978-1-934996-31-7 80pp of the crucified and risen Christ. It is apostle explains the proper type of French Flap, Library Bound $ 12.5 0 Christ who saves , not the priest. But priestly leadership: "Shepherd the the priest also takes up the ministry flock of God that is among you, ExperiencingGod of Christ, "after his manner," and that exercising authority , not under com in a Time of Crisis will mean suffering. pulsion, but willingly, as God would SARAH BACHELARD have you , not for shameful gain, but Suggests how meditation may he first way in which the priest eagerly, not domineering over those help us endure and integrate Tpoints to Christ is in the area of in your charge, but being examples times of crisis in our lives. authority. There is an authority that to the flock" (5:2-3). You are called 978-1-934996-32-4 120pp comes with being a priest, and it is to exercise authority as did Jesus, French Flap, Library Bound $13 .95 an essential part of the job. Post who said "[W]hoever would be great A joint 11e11ture of Co11/!ivium Press and the modern culture does not like author among you must be your servant, World Commu11ity.fo r Christian Meditation. ity, and the Church has been trying and whoever would be first among to downplay that part of the priest's you must be your slave, even as the mission for decades now. One of the Son of Man came not to be served www.conviviumprcss.com chief ways in which the 20th-cen but to serve, and to give his life as a [email protected] colToll Free: (855) 276- 7337 tury Church did that was by substi co Fax orders: (305) 887-5463 tuting different understandings of (Continued on page 36) co
September 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 17 Dennis Prager's Ethical Monotheism
By Douglas LeBlanc generations of hostility toward Jews . In the same week several years ago eek after week , evangelical Chris Andrew Sullivan gave two different inter Wtians who call Dennis Prager 's three views on Salem Radio . One host treated hour program on Salem Radio w ill tell him the interview like taking the depos ition of he is their rabbi. The affection is mutual. a hostile w itness in a civil lawsuit , which Prager, Rabbi Daniel Lapin and Michael left him with few answered questions , an Medved are perhaps the three Jewish agitated guest , and some disappointed public intellectuals who feel listeners. the least fear about public In the other, Prager did not expression of Christianity . hide his disagreements with Sul Baseball, Dennis and the livan, who is known for his advo French is a 90-m inute docu cacy for gay marriage and his mentary wending its way fierce opposition to "Christian through California (the direc ists." But Prager welcomed Sulli tor 's home state) and more van with such clear warmth and conservative-friendly states. A curiosity that the better climate DVD is available through the was evident even from Sullivan's web (baseballdennisandthe relaxed tone . Prager concluded french .com) for $19.95. the show with better answers , Director Paul Croshaw , Baseball, Dennis his guest 's dignity intact, and a who attends All Saints Angli and the French more informed audience. can Church (ACNA) in Long Directed by Paul Prager is one of several betes Beach , describes growing up Croshaw noir for the political left, and in in a liberal and secular home . Claire Annette that case the suspicion is Croshaw tells of his boyhood Media Arts mutual. Prager has engaged in pride that his parents voted respectful conversat ion w ith for George McGovern rather than Richard Howard Zinn , and less respectful TV con Nixon, and his fondness for French cin versation w ith Ed Schultz, but he begins ema. He shows images of himself with with courtesy rather than fisticuffs . such Democratic luminaries as presidential Croshaw starts slow but sets up an candidate Michael Dukakis , Tipper Gore essential element involving a miraculous (for whom he printed TIPPERROC KS posters) home run when Croshaw played little and the late Sen. Paul M. Simon. league baseball. The journey he chron icles But, to paraphrase C.S. Lewis, a young in this film brings him back to encounter modern cannot be too careful about books the God whom he implored for that mira or radio programs . In Prager, Croshaw cle as a boy. found a man who overturned his home Baseball , Dennis and the French is not a truths about econom ics, popular culture, definitive documentary about Prager, and and (most significantly} faith. Prager sees it makes no claim to that goal. It is, how ethical monotheism as the heart of ever, worthwhile material for Prager fans Judaism. Indeed, Prager and Joseph who wish to learn more of his backstory . Telushkin argue in Why the Jews? The Rea And it would make a fine gift for any friend son for Ant i-Semitism (Simon & Schuster, who seeks a better understanding of the 1983) that ethical monothe ism (and the ideas that motivate cultural and religious idea of God's chosen people) best explains conservatives. ■
11 TH&.f.tl4N!I We believe in one God.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ.
We believe in the Holy Spirit.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We believe in the whole Church, not just some of the Church.
Not just the left or right sides of the Church.
The whole Church.
No one is excluded.
We need each other.
t ~ ft ~ a:nnVIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. WE BELIEVE. 3737 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA 22302 j www.vts.edu Dee\areDo \nc\u~\'J_eM~~~~()~ feara pr eoccupationwitl11 den1i\yand fu hlll11! t fO Uru no w~n ~ By MattTownsend inclusionmay ow ~rshadowa more ingthe mission field." Pai·k agrees witl1 this charge and pressing need for mission-focused he 77th General Convention practices it openly. He does not, how work in the world . Tturned to the idea of inclusion ever, discuss th eological politi :s. multiple tilnes in eight legislative days I subsequ ently s pok e wi t h T C B C y own ex:p rie n ·e in campus as it approved a provisional rite for rnin.istry informs thiS concern . chur ch elder Dennis Miller, also a bl s:sing sam e-sex coupl~s,added gen M For have attended the familiar face from Empty Tomb, about d e r identity and expression to the pro- three yearsI Chapel of St. John the Divine, a paiish the church's appeal among students . tected -status list in the canons , and at the heart of the University of Illinois What, I asked him, was the church's welcomed the participation of another at Urbana -Champaign. I have been crreatest asset? "We're a 10-minute Official Youth Presence. b " active in can1pus ministry and served walk from 40,000 young people, One could be forgiven for thinking Miller said. He explained that TCBC as junior warden in 2011. the subject of inclusion could not wear invites students to participate in all of out its welcome in Indianapolis. St. John's operated as a model for cainpus ministries as recently as the the church 's missions, that it connects Finally, with a proposed amendment them to the world , and makes them that appointments to the newly 1980s and '90s . In recent years tl1e church has catered to smaller if very feel a part of something greater. It authorized restructuring task force feeds them. should be free of clisc1i.minationbased dedicated groups of students. Most of on "age, race, ethnic origin, national them are lifelong Episcopalians - few have simply walked into church. I have ack at St. John the Divine, I won origin, marital status, sex, sexual ori dered about mission. St. John 's entation and gender identity ," the known several of them well and B watched them venture into successful 1ich liturgical and musical traditions demand for inclusive declarations certainly feed parishioners and stu- started to dry up. The House of careers, seminary, and the Episcopal Deputies showed its fatigue with list Service Corps. I ain proud of them all. den ' but Bervicean d mission are writing, and the amendment failed. At I only wish there were mor e of them. quiet , in the background. In a recent some point, one deputy said,the house In the last yeai· I have explored other parish survey, only 10 percent of would have to trust leaders to respect campus ministries in Chainpaign and respondents said they participate in diversity in their decisions. Urbana. Part of this grew from my chape l-re lated service activities at Perhaps the least controversial desire to serve more students at St. least once a montl1. Parishioners reg demand for inclusion in the church John's and part arose from my experi ularly represent St. John's at the local involved yotmg people. Even though ence with mission in the community . I soup lcttchenand host fundraising din the vast majority of deputies were have spent manySaturday s working at ners for the Millennium Development older than 40, young deputies were Empty Tomb , a Champaign -bas ed Goals , but student schedules and present and vocal in committee meet Christian ministry that helps those in finances often conflict with these ings and in the House of Deputies. need both at home and abroad. I have visions. I have come to wonder how More than a dozen of them showed up met many young Christians ilirough students hungry for mission would be at a meeting of the Structure Commit this group and noticed patterns in their fed at St. John's. And I have wondered tee, where they called for a significant church attendance . how tl1e parish might stretch itself to percentage of the church restructuring Twin City Bible Church in Urbana is provide opportunities - not just for task force to be younger than 40. 111e very populai· ainong students. TCBC is the students, but for all at the chapel. convention ultimately required that a medium-sized evangelical church I see the san1e thing at St. John 's as each local conversation about restruc with a strong focus on mission. My at other Episcopal parishes I visit: a turing include at least one person friend David Park, whom I met at certain comfort with who we are, a younger than 35. Empty Tomb, suggested I visit TCBC. pride in wonde1iul liturgy, and a sense Young deputies spoke confidently Park is young, intelligent , and pas of fainilial closeness. The chape l is a about issues of equality and same -sex sionate about helping others in Christ's part of your personal identity, as a stu blessings, pointing out their own tol naine; he is also a student. During my dent or as a parishioner, and you miss erance and tl1e presumed inevitability first visit I noticed many young people it sorely when you leave. But is that of a more liberal, inclusive church. in the congregation, even on Thanks enough for college students? Are those These young Episcopalians may be giving weekend , and the call to mis necessaiy a11dwhole components of 1ight about our church's future, but I sion was clear. A banner hangs above being Cluistian?
20 THE LIVING CHURCH• September 9, 2012 An obsession with personal identity gives young Episcopalians the oppor ignores Christ's greatest commission tunity to help others in Christ's name , to us, which has more to do with what and I've seen its power to transform we do than who we are. Jesus invites cocksure college students into com us not only to his table but into the passionate and thoughtful adults. It is streets, where the work of being Chlis a wonderful progran1, but this work tian is often most challenging, reward cmmot be left only to national-profile ing, and important. As we exercise our projects. We must all find ways to faith beyond our pmish's red doors , meet Jesus out in the world, to make only one identity matters: Christian . that world more just with our actions We do not need a list. as well as our words. Many young people I meet know The Episcopal Church will never be this and feel it deeply. Trapped able to declare itself into being an between a fading generation of the inclusive, youthfu l church. Nor is self-interested and a future of incredi declaring its interest in mission equiv ble economic uncertainty, the youth alent to participating in mission. of our country have nowher e to go but Rather, we must embrace mission in out into the world with Jesus. They our church, our dioceses, our parishes, show up and ask to be put to work , to and our homes. Jesus offers work for be given a charge and the resources to us at the entrance of the church and If we do, young people will come execute it. If that charge is withheld, beyond, at the intersection down the with us, fully included in Christ's work they go elsewhere. way and in the mountains of another No declarations required. ■ land. If we want diverse people in our he Episcopal Church has not churches, then we must be willing to Matt Townsend, a 29-year~old web Tentire ly failed to char ge young bring the light of Christ into dark, unfa entrepreneu1;was part of TLC'sreport people. The Episcopal Service Corps milim· places. ing team at General Convention.
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"The introduction is simply flabbergasting ... A profound book, Lana Valenta, Dallas, Texas which deserves to be read more than once." Louis Roy, O.P. Dr. Shirleen S. Wait, Atlantic Beach , Fla. www.newcitypress.com www. newcitypress. Dr. Christopher Wells, Milwaukee , Wis. f Septe mber 9. 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 23 Anglican complete ly to God came in the wake of a personal tragedy. Catherine Ann FACES Cannon married in 1851 and moved to California, intending for Harriet to join -- her when she had established a home on the West Coast with her husband. A telegram brought the news in 1855, just as Harriet was preparing to leave for the West, that Catherine had died. The event changed the direction of her life completely; later, she wrote: "You know, she was my all - neither father, mother, or brother. We were two, but were one - but if God had left her with me, I should not have been here." In New York City in 1856, the 32- year-old Harriet was received into the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion, a parochial association of "evangelical sisters" who worked under the direc tion of William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796-1877)as nurses at his newly built St. Luke's Hospital. Harriet thrived in her earliest medical and religious work among the poor. By 1863, however, conflicts with Muhlenberg's collabo rator and friend Anne Ayres, who was in imm ediate charge of the sister hood's activities, led to the withdrawal of four sisters and the essential disso lution of the order. (The last Sister of the Holy Communion died in 1940.) Harriet was one of the four who left. During the following two years, she and her former associates felt a strong call to continue on new lines the work they had begun under Muhlenberg and Ayres. On Feb. 2, 1865, Harriet and four friends, Jane Haight, Mary Heartt, ArneliaAsten, and Sarah Bridge, were received by Bishop Horatio Potter of Harriet Starr Cannon New York (1802-87) as members of the newly formed Sisterhood of Saint Founderof the Communiryof Saint Mary Mary. They had the strong support of the diocesan bishop and a circle of By Richard J. Mammana, Jr. - making for seven children in one committed local clergy who under house in this then-bustling mercantile stood the critical importance of a rec arriet Starr Cannon was born in center on Long Island Sound. As a ognized form of women's ministry to HChar leston, South Carolina, on young girl Harriet lost her sight in one meet the needs of the Church, and to May 7, 1823. Both of Harriet's parents eye in an accident, but all accounts provide a way for these five individu died of yellow fever when she was 17 point to a happy childhood despite als to share their gifts in an organized months old; she was left with her elder many significant early setbacks . One way. Before the end of the summer sister and closest friend Catherine relative described her as fond of they received their first novice, and Ann, then three years old. An aunt wel dancing, "a great society girl and not undertook management of a variety comed the two orphaned sisters into at all religious." of ministries among the homeless and her home in Bridgeport , Connecticut The decision to consecrate her life orphans. They had formed the first sta- 24 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9. 2012 ble and sustainable women's religious Mother Harriet directed CSM's growth with the advice of Morgan Dix and community in the Episcopal Church. from what was to become the order's founding Cowley Father Richard Opposition to the Community of motherhouse in Peekskill, New York Meux Benson . A full round of daily Saint Mary (CSM) and its good works In her history of the community, Sister prayer and the Eucharist framed all of was swift and intense. Sermons and Mary Hilary notes: "Whatever her bur their activities. newspapers denounced the fledgling dens of responsibility , she lived the Today, the order Mother Harriet order as "Romanist," "ritualist," full of quiet routine and performed the small guided into stability and lasting growth "popery," a threat to family life and the chores of the conventual life. Fre has three autonomous provinces . The Protestant character of Anglicanism. quently she took on additionaljobs to Southern Province, begun in 1871 Acceptance of the order grew, how relieve a sick or absent sister. At one when Harriet sent the first CSM sister ever, after the sacrifices of four sisters time, serving as sacristan, bookkeeper from New York to Memphis, has a con who died while nursing yellow fever and Novice Mistress, she reported vent and retreat center near the Uni victims in Memphis in the summer of merrily that she was monarch of all versity of the South at Sewanee. The 1878.James DeKoven wrote near the she srnveyed." Western Province, created in 1904,had end of his life that the deaths of these From the 01iginal group of five sis historic ministries of retreat direction , four sisters, Constance, Theda, Ruth, ters , 104 sisters had been professed education and altar bread production and Frances, gave "the sisterhood a when Mother Harriet died on Easter throughout the upper Midwest- par place in the hearts of the people which Day in 1896. CSM sisters were in ticularly in Chicago, and in Milwau cannot be shaken." They are com charge of more than a dozen church kee, Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin. memorated on the calendar of the institutions - hospitals , orphanages, The Eastern Province's convent is in 1979Book of Common Prayer on Sep schools, convents and mission houses Greenwich, New York, where the sis tember 9, and known widely along - in New York City and Peekskill, ters share a 603-acre facility with the with their priest and physician collab Memphis and Sewanee, Chicago, and Diocese of Albany's Spiritual Life Cen orators as the Martyrs of Memphis. Kenosha, Wisconsin. They lived under ter. The sisters in Greenwich farm host For the last two decades of her life, a rule forn1ed by the community itself (Continued on next page) September 9,,2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 25 ATTENTION ALL CLERGY IN RECOVERY Anglican RACA {Recovered Alcoholic Clergy Association) RETREAT October 24 -26, 2012 FACES Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada RAGA is hosting a retreat from Monday, October 24 at 4:00 PM until 10:00 AM on Wednesday , October 26 at the Stratosphere Hotel (Continued from previous page) in Las Vegas, Nevada (www .stratospherehotel.com) . Registration: Send $20 .00 and your name and address to Fr. Henry A., and lead retreats and assist with activ 621 Mayflower Rd #204 , Claremont CA 91711 . ([email protected]) . ities at the Spiritual Life Center. A Accommodations: You are responsible for making your own hotel branch house of the Eastern Province reservations at the very reasonable cost of $35 .00 per night which includes opened in Malawi in 2002. the resort fee . Meals are taken either in the hotel or in nearby restaurants . The retreat is AA based under Fr. Henry 's leadership . The two most complete accounts For more information visit RACA's web site www.racapecusa.org. of Mother Harriet's life are Morgan Dix's Harriet Starr Cannon: First Mother Superior of the Sist erhood God calls, we respond. of St. Mary (1896) and Sister Mary Hilary CSM's Ten Decades of Praise: Church structures that reflect the Baptismal Covenant. The Story of the Community of Us ing the bapti s mal cove nant this book exa min es what is involv ed in a partn ers hip with God. This book will help Saint Mary during Its First Cen to provid e a firm foundation for a healthy , God-cent ered, tury (1965). Both are available free, Chris tian community. along with a wealth of other mate • Chur ches in Transition/ decline rial about the early history of the • Vestry training • Congr egational renew al Community of Saint Mary, at angli Do You Believe? • Spiritu al retr eat s and futur e pl annin g canhistory.org/usa/ csm. Avai labl e for $16.00 through Chur ch Publi shing: churchpublishing.org Or from the author - Nan cy Ann McLau ghlin , D.Min.: www.godparenting.info 'Holding on to Some Tender,Small Tree· Mother Harriet's letters give brief glimpses into her reactions to daily events in the life of the Community of St. Mary: sisters' personalities, ill nesses , work assignments and activ ities all figure in these parts of her correspondence preserved by Mor gan Dix in his 1896 memoir.-RJM Undated letter I know you are very weary and things look rather dark; but as a matter of fact things are not really dark God ruleth over all, and if we feel trou bled, is it not a want of faith on our part? Just think of our blessings: what are our trials compared to our bless ings? .. . I realize that the checks we receive as a Community are blessings in disguise. Sometimes it comes to me we are too worldly, do too much to please people outside; so let us believe that when God speaks to us, as He has in the events of the past Visit us at www.holyroodguild.com summer, that He longs to make us all more entirely His own, that He would St.Joseph's Abbey I Spencer, MA 01562-1233 have our very best. . . . I am writing Toll Free : 86(,.383.7292 I F,1x: 508 .885.8758 you a long letter, and have still some- 26 THE LIVING CHURCH• September 9, 2012 thing more to say: when the School is way, His wonders to perform." Church is certainly passing through fairly in order, you must go away for a great crisis , and I may say, Reli a rest. This is a positive command; do [The Sister Hannah mentioned in this gious Orders through a still greater not tltink it cannot be. letter is Hannah Grier Coome (1837- crisis than even the Church. I feel 1921), mother-founder of the Cana like one who is holding on to some Undated letter, c. 1884 dian Society of St. John the Divine.] tender, small tree, the tree looking as We had two Novices admitted this if there was scarcely anything to morning: one is for the Canada Sis Letter dated Peekskill, hold on to, yet feeling sure that the terhood. I think you know we are Nov. 13, 1891 root, which one could not see, was training two Canadians to be My dearest Sister: film, strong, solid, and would not fail returned to Toronto, to found there a Yes: it is some time since I have writ one. . .. The lesson of detachment is Sisterhood. Sister Hannah, who is to ten to you, but I know you will for a very hard lesson for most of us to be the Superior, will probably be give me. I have been so pressed at learn. [ ... ] My special love to dear professed in September and go every turn, and my eye is very weak, Sister H. T[redacted] and to all. I am directly to Toronto. Sister Hannah and I am often obliged to stop in the having many worries just now; if one goes to New York this week to get a midst of my writing and give that had only some one to look to for little insight into our work in the city; one eye a rest. It does not pain me in help! But such is not God's will, and you may see her at the Infirmary, the least but is very, very weak. I there must be perfect trust and no Varick St. It has been very pleasant spent two weeks at [redacted], and murmuring. ■ to have the training of these two Sis on my return found such a load of ters: one would hardly have thought work! I was days and days getting at Richard J Mammana, Jr., a recent that St. Mary's would have trained the bottom of it .... I will not write of graduate of Yale Divinity School, is two Englishwomen for the Religious all that is in my mind concerning the founder and director of Project Can Life. "God moves in a mysterious action of the [Cowley Fathers]. 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September 9, 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 27 NEWS September 9, 2012 RGYret~c Ask fora clergymoving specialist and discoverwhy thousands of churches, (Continued from page 7) clergyand seminarianshove reliedon • ClergyDiscount had rendered its verdict nearly 50 us fornearly two decodes. • GuaranteedDates years ago. • 3 Estimates with only I survey Carolyn Maull McKinstry, a grad A Division of • All Maior VanLines uat e of Beeson Divinity School and author of While the World Watched: ref~cation A Birmingham Bombing Survivor CENTER 800-733-0930 Comes of Age During the Civil www.clergyrelocation.com • [email protected] Rights Movement, preached the homily. McKinstry is a longtime civil rights activist who demonstrated as a young girl against racial injustice in the face of Birmingham Commis sioner of Publi c Safety "Bull" Con nor 's German shepherds and sting ing fire hoses. She survived a Sept . 15, 1963, bomb blast at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham , which killed four of her friends. "I believe God was please d with him," McKinstry said of Daniels. He was an "agitator," she said, who "stirred up those things that needed to be stirred up" and refused to com promise his Christian princip les. "He was called by God," she said. "He gave the greatest gift, the gift of life .... He gave his life to save Ruby's What if... life." McKinstry said she had never you click three times met Daniels , but "we are of the san1e body and of the same Spirit." and you still can't go home? McKinstry later told a small group in the law library of the Hayneville Many of the childr en who come to Saint Francis Communi ty Services have been court hous e that the events of the abused. abandon ed, or neglected. Through foster care and adoptio n programs, 1960s had left her depr essed for residential care, alcoh ol and drug counseling, com munit y outreac h, and more, many years. "I had los t four girl Saint Francis honors a legacy of generosity by cari ng for at-risk children and families friends, " she said. "I was horrified and fostering through faith. for a long time." But as a young girl, she said, she At Saint Francis, all children can make strid e's toward hope , happiness. and a better was confused that peop le hated her tomorrow. To learn more about Saint Francis and how you can help a child , please simply because of the color of her call Saint Francis at 1-800-423-1:342. skin. "But what could I do to change that ?" she said. Asked if she had ever Join us in this journey. considered retaliating against white people, she said she had not, because of her Christian faith. She said that today she remains con cerned about confrontational and even hateful rhet01i c. 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Yerkey 28 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 LICHTEN CRAIG DONALDSON A RCHITECTS, LLP HISTORIC PRESERVATION MASTER PLANNING & CONDITIONS SURVEY One Parish's LITURGICAL DESIGN Journeyto PEAR INTERIOR DESIGN ENERGY ANALYSIS After spending the past nine months GRANTS & CAPITAL debating questions of affiliation, CAMPAIGN ASSISTANCE members of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, a congregation in the north ern suburbs of Colorado Springs , affirmed the recommendations of its pastor and leadership team , voting 82-6 to end their affiliation with the Anglican Mission in the An1ericas KEVIN LICHTEN, AIA and to become part of PEAR USA JOAN CRAIG, AJA, LEEDAP (the North American Missionary BARRY DONALDSON, AJA,LEED AP District of Province de L'Eglise 6 West 18th Street. 9th Floo" New York, NY I 00 I I 4 East Oh,o Stree t, Suite 18. Chicago, IL 606 11 3 12.321.7400 Anglicane au Rwanda). The July 22 vote followed a lively, hour-long discussion involving dozens of parishioners. The discus sion reflected the parishioners' backgrounds in the Episcopal Church (about half), evangelical, Refinishing and Protestant chur ches. One mem ber supported his argu Upholstering ments with references Reversible Cushions to apostolic succession and the restoration of New Pews and Kneelers Charles I to the English throne, while another plainly said, "I didn't grow up Episcopalian , or Anglican , so I don't Burnett have a background in church hierarchy." Ultin1ately the vote hinged on the The distinction between church and para Benedictine Parish: church organizations, a subject that is A Model to Thri ve in a Secular Era familiar for many here in this head Benedictine Parish is an invitation to parti cipate in by M:irrhew D:1.llm:111 wirh F:uher TI10m:1s Fraser quarters city for dozens of major inter th e qu estions and challenges th at man y matur e national Christian ministries such as C hri stian s are increasingly facing. This book sug Compassion International, Focus on gests that perhaps we, the children of God, mighr not the Family and Biblica (fonnerly the only endure through , but also prayerfully thrive in, an era increasingly secular and torn by social discord. International Bible Society). Th ere are no easy remedies in parish life; yet as Father "It's a choice between aligning Fraser ren1ind s us, it all docs c01ne down to two with a parachurch organization or words: "preferring Christ''. with a historical, ecclesiastical 36 pp., $5.95. To order , send an email to: group," the Rev. Matt Burnett, rector ord ers@akensid epr ess.com said before the vote . "Making this choice is good for us, in a way. It AKENSIDE PRfSS makes us decide who we really are and how God has put us together." AkensidePress is a Mission of St Pauls Parish It has been a long journey for Bur- 60 Akenside Road, Riverside, IL 60546 AKENSIDE PRESS www.akensidepress.com (Continued on next page) September 9, 2012 • THE LIVINGC HURCH 29 NEWS September 9, 2012 (Continued from previous page) tially attended services during early during the past nine months. "At nett, a former Episcopal priest, and 2004 with members off the Interna times I have been angry that our for Holy Trinity, a congregation orig tional Anglican Church. agenda has been dominated by this," inally fonned around a family dinner "We intentionally, and at their very table in late 2003. The congregation generous invitation, 'incubated' with "Either vision could have merged in 2009 with Christ the King IAC and started public services after brought us new energy Anglican Church, founded in 2000 we had prayed, talked, and felt like as one of the earlier AMiA congre it was time to begin public worship and new opportunities." gations in the nation. as Holy Trinity Anglican Church," - The Rev. Matt Burnett Burnett was ordained in 2002 and Burnett said. served as assistant to the rector of Holy Trinity held its first service he said. "It certainly kept me from St. Michael's Episcopal Church for on Trinity Sunday in June 2004 at a being able to give as much attention 18 months. He resigned from St. local school . At that time, there were as I would have liked towards some Michael's and the Episcopal Church three AMiA congregations in Col outreach and discipleship possibili after the 2003 consecration of orado Springs. Following Holy Trin ties. We will also have a few people Bishop Gene Robinson of New ity's vote, there are now none. leave our congregation, which is Hampshire. For Burnett, Robinson's Burnett was not an alannist about very hard. But the Holy Spirit is consecration represented an official the cho ice Holy Trinity faced. capable of leading us during tur embrace of worrisome changes in "Either vision could have brought moil." faith, discipline and the authority of us new energy and new opportuni The debate was complicated one Scripture that had been occurring ties for moving forward," he said. week before the vote when the Rev. in the denomination for many years. But he does regret the time, Bob Grant, former rector of Christ The founders of Holy Trinity ini- energy and turmoil the issue caused the King, and now director of clergy 30 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9. 2012 formation for the AMiA, asked Holy Trinity members to postpone their vote. "For us church/parachurch was the watershed issue and when , hav STAINED GLASS ing asked, there didn't seem any pos sibility that new information would Design substantively affect that core issue, :M.anufacture then we decided to proceed as Insta{{ation scheduled," Burnett said. During the debate over the affilia Restoration tion options, Holy Trinity's leaders ' :: ~,~J- -'.::-. TEXTILE APPOINTMENTS kept members informed by hosting '" _'A[tar:frontafs & .Jlnteyenaia regular Saturday morning informa tion and discussion sessions and 'Eucharistic Yestments flooding them with documents :funera{Pa{{s & Parish 'Banners describing the options they faced. .Jlfrar Linens "No matter how imperfectly we have done it, our team has tried to work in a spirit of equity, fairness and I 5 % Di,count on ,elect teHtile appointment, until October :SI transparency to be sure we would Call for detail, make the best and most informed choice for our whole community," ROBES & CLOTHING C{ergy Sfiirts for men Burnett said before the vote. Cassocks ana Sury{ices &women "This has been a time of mixed Cassock :A.{6s 'Ra6ats emotions," he said. "We have been Traaitiona{ :A.{6s :Acaaemic J{ooas & faced with a series of events, and Cemetery Cfoaks (jowns interpretations of those events have Yerger's 'Rega{ia Cfioir Yestments varied widely, with members of both sides feeling hurt and put upon. 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With her aid?" date the needs of their members. husband, retired engineer LeRoy Approximately 17 percent of "Churches led the way in Western "Max" Maxfield, she founded Fox American adults report some degree Michigan ," Myers said. "Churches Valley Hearing Loop, a business that of hearing loss, according to the were the first adopters. They wanted helps others get "looped." National Institute on Deafness and people to hear the Word and so they "Over the last three years, [my Other Communication Disorders. pioneered it. Sometimes in our cul husband and I] have been crawling Hearing loss affects 30 percent of ture we see church following cul through church basements installing people age 65-74 and 47 percent of tural trends. Here's an examp le hearing loops because we're so con those 75 or older. where the church can pat itself on vinced this is the right thing," Hearing loss has often gone unno the back. " Sterkens said. "And we attend hear ticed in church, making it a "great Sterkens says word-of-mouth ing loop dedication services where invisible disability ," Myers said. endorsements are fueling the move people have just sat and cried, say Many churches have not addressed ment, which is how it started for ing, 'I can hear without a lot of this accessibility problem simply her. As soon as she heard about the effort.' And that's something I just because they do not know it is an system at a talk by Myers in 2008 don 't get tired of." issue. Many church members do not and witnessed a group of people talk about their hearing difficulty, experience the hearing loop for the Laiiren Anderson studies journal and some end up leaving because first time, Sterkens knew she had ism at the University of Wisconsin . , E:ric Metaxas • • •• OCTOBER 28-30 September 9. 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 33 BOOKS Back to the Future Faith and Order in the U.S.A. A Brief History of Studies and Relationships By William A. Norgren. Eerdmans. Pp. 104. $20 Review by Alyson Barnett-Cowan SACREDMURALS STUDIO Icon-WritingWorkshop This brief history was initially prepared as a background paper to a Presentedby Russianlconographer second North American Conference on Faith and Order that never PhilipDavydov convened. The result is a clear account of the development of the 29 October -2 November 2012 ecumenical study of theology and ecclesio logy by most of the St. John the EvangelistChurch chur ches of the United States. It lists the confere nces, stud ies, staff, 189 GeorgeSt., New Brunswick(NJ) USA and major contrib utors to this stream of the ecumenical movement 5-9 November, 2012 from the time of its founder, Charl es Brent, to 2011. All Saintsof North AmericaOrthodox Church William Norgren was an eyewitness to much of this history, having 397 MelvinAve ., Hamilton (ON) Canada been the first executive director of the Faith and Order Commission from 1959 to 1971, and then ecumenical officer of the Episcopal Tosign up and for moreinformation, Chur ch from 1974 to 1999. He is meticulous in setting out the facts. visit www.sacredmurals.com Only occasionally does his regret that financial decline constrain ed or [email protected] the possibilities of the movement creep into the account . This book is thus a must have for the history of ecumenism , particularly but not only in the United States. Norgren also describes what was happening at the time in the World Council of Churches and Raynal in bilateral relationships around the world, and shows the effect of the Studios, Roman Catholic Church's conversio n to the ecumenical movement in the mid-20th century . Inc. The Faith and Order table has kept expandi ng. Orthodox, Roman Catholics, historic black churches, Pentecostals, holiness churches , Historical!), and evangelicals have all joined in some way with mainline American Correct chur ches in seeking to express the oneness of Christ and his people. Stained Each expans ion has meant a chan ge in focus, or in language, or in Glass, methodology. Wood The list of topics addressed by the stud ies shows the close and Stone intera ction of theology and society. Initi al studies looked at the Restoration eccles iological significance of counci ls of chur ches; more recent ones have considered the spirituality of ju stice and the ethic of justi ce-making. Both traditio nal convergence methods of faith and order and context ual exam ination of issues of women, race, and power were embraced by the movement, though not without some tension. Mwy with Child. Trinity Today one frequently hears sentences like this: "An institutional Episcopal, Staunton, VA survival mode began to prevail in chur ch and counc il circles. The council responded to financia l challenges by repeated restructuring ~al Studios,Inc. - foc using on goals, strategies and organizational design." But P.O. Box 405. Natural BridgeStation, VA Norgren writes it of 1971, a time that many look on with nostalgia as 1.800.305.0959 the high tide of the ecumenical movement! In fact, read ing this Fax 540.291.2398 volume has convinced me that we really do recycle. Email: [email protected] A study of the studies reveals that the same topics being addressed by ecumenists today have been arou nd for decades. The serious www.r~al studios.com 34 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 gaps in the ecumenical memory mean that we reinvent the wheel in each generation , without building well upon what has gone before. That gives even more meaning to this book, which may send people back to those studies and perhaps allow us to recover insights hard won and tucked away. Norgren's book shows also that reception of ecumenical texts has been a constant struggle. From the beginning various attempts were made to help local churches engage ecumenically with Faith and Order topics, and to make the insights and excitement of theological convergence available throughout the United States. Reception is still on the agenda of every bilateral international dialogue; what will bridge the gap, so that local churches throughout the world can contribute their insights to theologians, and vice versa? How can theology be both accurate and accessible? While this book most certainly deserves to be on ecumenists' and historians' bookshelves, I would have hoped for a little more of the flavor of the conversations . Many of the important American ecumenical Bethlehem, Jerusalem, theologians are named here, but Nazareth, Galilee, what of their personalities, passions, the River Jordan, and more and convictions? It might also have been more engaging if there had been a description of what happens in a Faith and Order study process. How are topics identified, presented, discussed, disputed, and turned into consensus? In my experience bilateral and multilateral dialogues, for all their many challenges, are places of deep encounter in the Spirit. Soul meets soul and mind meets mind across difference, and the churches are changed. In an appendix Norgren has printed the "Salvation and Life" statement from a National Faith and Order Colloquium which met between 1964 and 1969. I was left a little puzzled as to why this one particular ecumenical agreed statement was printed out of so many studies . Was it because it had not otherwise seen the light of day? In any case, it illustrates a dilemma: language evolves, and a statement that constantly refers to "man" sounds exclusive to us now and is hard to digest. Yet it also lays out another outstanding and critical question for ecumenical theology: "We support the search for formulations sufficiently multifaceted to reflect legitimate diversity of conviction and emphasis. In seeking such formulations we become aware that there are limits to diversity of conviction and emphasis beyond which legitimacy can no longer be established; that is to say, there is a point at which diversity can become disruptive discontinuity." The churches are still facing these questions: "how do we witness authentically in the present generation to the truth of Christ as we have each received it, and how can that witness be one?" The Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan is director for Unity, Faith, and Order at the Anglican Communion Office. 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Two years THEC \THEDRALOF ALL SAIXTS before I came to teach at Trinity ALBA~Y,NY School for Ministry, my father had a major stroke. After that stroke, he SAT URD\ Y, SEPTEMBER22x n, 2012 could not speak, and he was never quite the same person. I took about 9:30A.M. - 2:30P.M. six months off from work and (DOORS OPE~@ 8:30 DU moved to Arizona to help my COST:$ 20:00 mother care for my father as he recovered. That's where I met Rl~GIS'rER ONLINE Danny. All my fan1ily are Southern HTl'P://WWW.BROWNP.\PERTICKETS.COM/EYENT/256650 Baptists. As an Anglican, I'm the black sheep of the family. Danny FOR),(()RE L 'H'ORYIATION GOrro: was my parents' pastor. Danny had WWW.THEl\ \THEDRALOFALLSAINTS.ORG been a Tennessee farmer who got a call to go into the ministry when he was in his early 40s. By Anglican standards, Danny was not promis $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $25,000 Planned Giving ing. His sermons were long and -,,- repetitive, and they were not expos itory readings of Scripture. Danny had little knowledge of what at Trin Phillips Brooks Benefactors ity School for Ministry we call "bib lical theology." When it came to $250 or more Church history and systematic the Bishop Brooks, for many years rector of ology , Danny did not know the Trinity Church in Boston and preacher Council of Chalcedon from the local to Harvard University, was one of elementary school student council. America's most beloved and respected But Danny knew what pastoral care was about. He was the on e ministers. Your gift at the Benefactor who met me at th e Tucson airport level helps THE LIVING CHURCHcarry on and drove me to the hospital to be his legacy by enriching the intellectual with my father. During the six substance and social outreach of parish life. months when I lived with my par ents, Danny would regularly appear Visit livingchurch.org/donations to see a full list of giving options at the door at least once or twice a week and spend an hour or so engaged in conversation with my father. Remember, my father could Help Us Carry on the Legacy not talk, so Danny did all the talk Your faithful support makes it possible for THE LIVING ing. During those hours, both Danny CHURCHto continue to offer the very best independent and my father would laugh uproari ously. At the end, when Danny news reportin g and theologica l teaching. Thank you! would get ready to leave, he would THE LIVING CHUR CH FOUNDATION ask my father if he want ed prayer. We were not always sure what my 40 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 father could understand after his think that the best way to prepare stroke, but he would always close for this prospect is to grit your teeth, his eyes at this point, and Danny furrow your brow, and get steely would pray for him. eyed. And, again, ifit were ajob that About a year after the stroke my you had to do, anything less would father died , and Danny, along with seem to be irresponsible. But, once my mother, was at my father's bed again, to be an icon of Christ means side when he died . I flew back to that this is not a job that you have to Arizona to attend the funeral. Since do. This is ajob only Jesus Christ can he was my parents' pastor, I assumed do, he has done it for two thousand that Danny would perform the years , and he will now do it through funeral , but he insisted that, since I you. This is good news. had studied theology, I should The message you have to pro preach , and I should lead the service. claim is also good news. Jesus Juanita Yoder So Danny and I did the service Christ has died and risen so that we Liturgical Art together. I put together a modified can be forgiven. Christ has enabled version of the Burial Service from us to share in the divine life that is Suspended Silk Paintings the Prayer Book , and I preached; the triune love between Father, Son, Stained Glass Design and , in that way, I was able to say and Holy Spirit. And Christ has goodbye to my father . During that called you to be an ambassador of Processional Pieces last year of my father's life, I had that love. This is grounds for rejoic www.JYKArt.com thought that Danny was providing ing. Christ has called you to lead Juan [email protected] pastoral care for my father, but I his people in worship, to share with came to realize that he was providing them his body and blood so that (609) 448-5335 pastoral care for me as well. And, they may become his body. That is a for that, I am tremendously grateful. "shout out loud" reason for joy. Despite his lack of what Angli I an1 a bit of an Eeyore. From time cans might consider professional to tim e, I need to be reminded that expertise , Pastor Danny understood Christianity is about the resurrec something about the heart of pas tion as well as the cross. I would Trinity College, Toronto toral care. It is not about solving encourage you to remember as you Cj1wda ·s oldcsc ,Ang/ir:-.1u tht:olog;c,11 coflesc people's problems. Only Jesus can prepare to become an icon of Christ do that. It is about taking the time to that you will not only share in Liberal and Catholic in charnclcr be with people, to love them, to pray Christ's sufferings but also rejoice in offering excellence in preparationfo r ministry for all. with them , and to share in their joys his resurrection. To help you that the Church'sclergy may be go want to add one thing more , Bible and your prayer book. It is a Founding member of the A,;sociation of Theological Schools and the TorontOSchool of Theology. fed rm ·d ,, uh Iwhich I'll summariz e with the sin kazoo. There are going to be times the University of Toronto gle word joy. The epistle reading as a priest when you may well find Acc·cssto nil 1hc rc~ourcesof TST and lhc richc:,1t heological tells us to "Rejoice in the Lord yourself feeling overwhelmed by curriculum available anywhere always; again, I say, rejoice." Paul the duties of a shepherd. The first Moderate tuition fcc!l. goes on to write: "Do not be anxious thing you should do is pray. 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St Andrew's is a retirement he was an active member of the variety of interim ministries in the dioceses program sized parish within walking distance of PSU. Job Church of the Holy Spirit, Orleans, MA, description and application information found at of Southern Ohio, Pittsburgh and Missouri. www.standrewsc.org. and the Chapel of St. James the Fisher At the time of his death Fr. Randolph was man, Wellfleet, MA. Fr. Bancroft was pre priest associate at Trinity Chur ch, St. FULL-TIME RECTOR: Grace Church, Waycross, GA. Call ceded in death by his wife, Janet Currey Louis. He was a chaplain for Second Wind or email Dave Callaway at [email protected] or Bancroft. He is survived by one son, (912) 287-0948 for a copy of our profile and other informa St. Louis and interim director for Episcopal tion. www.grace-episcopalwaycross.com. Wayne Curr ey; a sister, Ann Bancroft; and City Mission, and a member of the mis two grandchildren. sion's advisory council. He was national administrator for the Union of Black Epis The Rt. Rev. AlbionW. Knight,Jr., died copalians and a consultant for the Ohio May 22 at his hom e in Gaithersburg, Conference of the United Church of Christ. MD. He was 87. "Michael Randolph served this diocese The retired brigadier general of the U.S. faithfully and was much beloved in numer Arn1ywas buried in a small graveside serv ous parishes in the Metropolitan St. Louis ice at Arlington National Cemetery June area," said the Rt. Rev. Wayne Smith, Bishop 26. His widow, Nancy P. Knight, told of Missouri, in an obituary published by the friends that before his death Knight had diocese. "May he rest in peace, and rise in declined full military honors, saying sum the glory of Christ." mer temperatures were too high for sol Fr. Randolph was author of a mono diers, a brass band and horses. His military graph on Absalom Jones, published by the decorat ions includ ed the Distinguish ed Union of Black Episcopalians in 1991 and Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. A Faithful Journey: Black Leadership in Knight was born in Jacksonville, Fla. He the Episcopal Church, a booklet publish ed was a graduate of the U.S. Military Acad by Forward Movement in 1994. He was also FULL-TIMERECTOR emy at West Point and completed master's the author of a monthly illustrat ed newslet degrees at the Univers ity of Illinois at ter for children based on the chara cte r St. Paul'sEpiscopal Church Urbana-Champaign and American Univer "Thumb Diddle, the magic bear," which at Albany,GA sity. Knight's father was a mission ary the height of its popularity had more than Bishop of Cuba and Bishop Coadjutor of 18,000 subsc1ibers. We are seeking an energetic rector for the Diocese of New Jersey. Knight was Fr. Michael was also a professional sto St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Albany, ordained deacon and priest in the Episco ryteller, and for 15 years beginning in 1983 GA. For information regarding this po pal Church and was the second presiding presented dramatizations of the lives of bishop of the United Episcopal Church in black Americans with programs of story sition, please go to our website at 1989-92. telling, poetry reading, and word games . www.stpaulsalbany.orgto view our In 1992, he was the presidential running Parish Profile. For further information mate of conservat ive activist Howard or to app[y. please contact KariMiddle Phillips for the U.S. Taxpayers Party , ton, Chairof the RectorSearch Com which advocated drastic reductions in Sendyour clergychanges spending, eliminating the income tax and to Peopleand Places: mittee,at [email protected]. withdrawing from the United Nations. They garnered more than 40,000 votes. 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No reproduction in whole or part can be made without per here , please,' while to the one who mission of T HE LIVING CHURCH. is poor you say, 'Stand ther e,' or 'Sit at my feet ,' have you not mad e dis- 44 THE LIVING CHURCH • September 9, 2012 SUNDAY'S READINGS I Pentecost 16, September 16 Ships and Souls First reading:Proverbs 1:20-33; Psalm 19 or Wisdom 7:26-8:1 One hundr ed and fifty years ago, Episco Alternate: Isa. 50:4-9a; Ps. 116:1-8 • James 3:1-12 • Mark 8:27-38 palians gave th eir all to build the magnifi cent structur e kn own as Trinity Church, Southport. Sinc e Christ in the World 1862, this archi tec tural sk any teacher. Students who king of a new world, the ancient and monum ent ha s become th e Ahate knowledge and spurn cor supreme reason for all human history face of Southp ort Village, ..- ~. __ rection travel toward their own and our personal lot, a bridge between and our parish a J5QToc1:r~ destruction. There are, of course, heaven and earth" (Pope Paul VI, Nov. center for th e arts, T~1Ba2N-20 1T'2-· Y exceptions, those who would not or 29, 1970). Thus, the one who appears educati on, and the . cannot learn in classrooms , but oth as a human person is ever the divine Christian life. Epi sco pal Chur ch erwise hear the voice of wisdom sub person through whom all things were Am on g the fin est Southp orL, Cum1<'clicut diva - in th e street, the crowded made and without whom nothing was exa mpl es of 19th byways, the halls of urban business, made. I lift up my eyes to the hills and century Am erican Ca rpent er-G ot hic the radiance of sun and disposition of I see Jesus. In the valley of the shadow architecture, Trinit y Church is symbolic, constellations, the renewal of all of death thou art with me. The morn emblematic and dist incti ve . Its land things (Prov. 1:20-33; Wis. 7:29). ing sun summons a thousand mark spire points to th e heave ns, Whether Wisdom is sought in school Alleluias. "Every ant that I see asks anchors our identit y, and aids th e nav i or discerned in the counsels of civic me, where had I this providence and gation of ship s and souls alike. deliberation or espied in the myster industry ? Every flower that I see asks Over th e ne xt 18 month s we will be ies of nature , she shows herself a me, where had I this beauty, this fra celebratin g the Sesq ui flawless mirror of God's activity. The grancy, this medicinal virtue? Every centennial (150th) heavens declare the glory of God. creature calls me to consider what Anni versary of our hi s Wisdom enlightens holy souls. Ignor great things God has done in little sub tor ic structure an d the ing her is destruction and ruin. jects" (John Donne, 1630). faithful achievement s it Let teachers be warned. "Those All this is contracted and revealed has inspired. But, honor who teach will receive the greater in Jesus . No one has ever seen God. ing th e past will be on ly judgment" (James 3:1). For every He who is in the bosom of the Father h alf th e celebration. We teacher must employ the tongue, "a has mad e him known (exegesis)! At believe thi s is the ideal restl ess evil full of deadly poison " one moment - at this very moment time for Trinit y Pari sh to (James 3:8). At every moment the - the Word turns toward you and adva n ce its leade rship tongue must be governed and directed says, "Who do you say that I am?" Be to a single task , the exposition of Wis assured he issues not only the ques and servic e in ways that benefit future gene ra dom. The teacher will work and pray tion, but supplies the answer as well. and speak, helping students to see When "Tu es Christus" rolls off your tions and are tru e to our "that no certain end could ever be tongue , God will have done a wonder C hristi an callin g. attained, unless the actions whereby it with your most unruly member. "Any Trinit y C hurch was is attained were regular ; that is to say, one who makes no mistakes in built to glor ify Go d and made suitable, fit and correspondent speaking is perfect" (James 3:2). Be to enh anc e the well-being of unto their end, by some canon, rule or perfect , therefore, saying these humankind . Th e next 18 month s will be law. Which thing doth first take place words. Or, rather, let God say them in a time to ce leb rate our ob ligat ion - to in the works even of God himself ' you: "Tu es Christus!" Having said th ose who came before us and sacrificed (Richard Hooker). The tea cher will them , observe how the Church much, to ourselv es, and to th ose who often say, "Look!" The student will grows. "For upon this which you come afte r us - to safeguar d and often wonder. Together they will dis have said: Tu es Christus Filius Dei advance Trinit y Church for posterity cern "an image of divine goodness." vivi, I will build my church" (St. and for th e glory of God in Jesus C hri st. Together they will see that Wisdom Augustine, Se-nno 295). As we launch th ese new missions and accomplishes everything by some ministries, please pray for us, please sup canon, rule or law. Together they will Look It Up port us, please visit us, and please join see that order and beauty have kissed us in th ankin g God for the joy of shar Read John 1:1-18. Pantocrator. each other. ing th e Gospel. The wisdom and power of God has appeared in our midst bearing the Think About It Trinity Episcopal Church solemn name Jesus Christ our Lord. 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