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THE Worlds Apart This issue of THE LIVING CHURCHoffers , in LIVING part , a brief addendum to Stewart Brand 's How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They're Built (Penguin, 1995). In Garden Grove, California , the Crystal Cathedral is CHURCH now a property of the Roman Catholic Dio cese of Orange, and Catholic artists dream THIS ISSUE I February 12, 2012 of what that glass structure may become. NEWS Roughly 2,100 miles away in Kalamazoo, Michigan , we see how a former Episcopal 4 Merry Times at Mere Anglicanism cathedral has become an adjunct structure for a megachurch. The Word has been pro FEATURES claimed and enacted within both structures, 10 From Meetinghouse to House of God and will continue to be for many years, Lord Reverse Engineering the Crystal Cathedral willing. Their future as buildings, as expres By Matthew Alderman sions of design, places them much farther 26 Balancing Worship and Tourism than 2,100 miles apart . at Old North Church, Boston By Joe Thoma BOOKS 13 The Sacred Castle Review by Douglas LeBlanc 16 Cultivating Soil and Soul by Michael J. Woods, SJ Keeping God's Earth Edited by Noah J. Toly and Daniel I. Block Green Church by Rebekah Simon-Peter Review by Stephen Blackmer 18 A Secular Age by Charles Taylor Review by Craig David Uffman 20 The Worship Mall by Bryan D. Spinks Review by Daniel H. Martins CULTURES 22 Jessie Van Brunt's Stained-glass Testimonies By Karen Fieg OTHER DEPARTMENTS A L1v1NGCHURCH Sponsor 24 Letters to the Editor This issue is sponsored by the Church of the 28 Sunday's Readings Redeemer, Sarasota, Florida [page 29]. 30 People & Places The Living Church is published by the Living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to support and promote the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church , to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. February 12. 2012 • THE LIVING CHURCH 3 NEWS February 12, 2012 Merry Times at Mere Anglicanism About 260 people gathered at the tradition is "not afraid to reason and her blind for six months until treat seventh annual Mere Anglicanism not ashamed to adore" and that its ment in America restored her sight. conference in Charleston, South prayer book "embraces the whole Gloria discovered that within one Carolina, Jan. 19-21 to hear bishops person not just the mind; it engages square mile of her house there were and deans from across the world the affections." no less than 400 orphans. She picked speak about their confidence in Worship grounded in the Book of six of the most vulnerable and "The Once and Future Church." Common Prayer was woven brought them into her own home to The Rt. Rev. Richard Chartres, throughout the conference. So mov care for them, along with her own Bishop of London, said he had first ing was the Festal Eucharist in the six children. Archbishop Kwashi thought he was invited to "Merry historic splendor of St. Philip's told how he would travel and when Anglicanism." Hot biscuits, South Church that not a few worshipers, he returned home there would be ern hospitality, and the historic city's men included, were in tears. 16 orphans, then after the next trip occasional scent of magnolias, It was particu 33, and finally 57 orphans living in camellias and roses helped provide larly symbolic when their house. some of the cheer. the Most Rev. Ben Gloria established a feeding cen The bishop's plenary address high jamin Kwashi, Arch ter for another 200 orphans wher e lighted a historic link The Bishop of bishop of the Dio they could also be bath ed and London originally had responsibil cese of Jos, Nigeria, - clothed. The archbishop is now ity for the church in the British climbed the wind looking for a young evangelist to colonies in North ing staircase to the play soccer with the 200 children America, although second-story pulpit Kwashi and teach them the gospel. after the American to preach. 'l\.vo cen- The offerings given during the Revolution only the turies earlier most black Africans in conference worship were ear British West Indies Charleston would have been house marked for the Kwashis ' work and remained under his or plantation slaves. If they had that of the Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, jurisdiction. Legis entered this church, they would who also serves persecuted Chris lation in 1706 made have been consigned to its bal tians. the Church of Eng Chartres conies. Now a West African bishop The conference attracted bishops land the established preached to a predominantly white and clergy from numerous North religion of the colony of South Car congregation, at the conference's American Anglican denominations olina. In recognition of this transat invitation. outside of the Episcopal Church, lantic link, the University of the The escalating violence endured most notably the Most Rev. Robert South in Sewanee , Tennessee , con by Christians like Kwashi in mainly W. Duncan , archbishop of the Angli ferred an honorary doctorate on Muslim northern Nigeria remains can Church in North America. Dun Chartres Jan . 24. high. The day before the archbishop can did not concelebrate with Mark As a young ordinand Chartres had spoke , two bombs had been thrown Lawrence, Bishop of South Carolina. been told that there was no future at two chur ches in Bauchi, while in Lawr ence expressed person al for him in the modern church. But Kano at least 166 people were killed frustration that, by his count, there as the title of a recent book by an in eight violent attacks perpetrated were no less than six Anglican bish editor at The Economist proclaims, by Boko Haram, an Islamist sect. ops with overlapping jurisdictions God ls Back. The archbishop and his wife, Glo in his geographical area. He asked Chartres said that, unlike French ria, have shared in the suffering of why this should be so, when they believers, English voices of faith can persecuted Christians. held no major theologi cal differ still have a place in the public Although Gloria Kwashi did not ences. square. But he warned that the state attend the conference , her presence The Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull, can turn into an intolerant "church" was felt. In many ways she repre principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford , of a rather prescriptive , premodern sents the persecuted Church that spoke on "Anglicanism in Full type, and that secular religion might does not retaliate but continues to Flower: The Eighteen and Nine be enforced by law. "I hope we shall serve others. A few years ago, a vio teenth Centuries." He examined the resist," he said. lent mob , intent on killing her hus interplay between freedom and Chartres said the best in Anglican band, brutally assaulted her, leaving order in the ministries of John Wes- 4 THE LIVING CHURCH• February 12. 2012 Visit livingchurch.org for daily reports of news about the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. ley and George Whitefield, noting tists and forty Episcopalians entered stressed that mis how they expressed a traditional ordained ministry and four of them sion should be rela faith through radical methods but became bishops. tional and showed within a trad itional chur ch order. Eight card players who atte nded how demographi cs Turnbull also highlighted some of the reviva l me et ings int ending to affect mission. In the incredible humanitarian work of break them up were thems elves bro 1900 there were 7 the devout Lord Shaftesbury (1801- ken by God's Spirit. The eight came million Chlistians in 85) whom he has profiled in Slwftes out confes sing Chris t and one, sub-Saharan Africa; bury: The Great Reformer (2010). William Jones Boone , eventually there are today 4 70 Nazir-Ali Dr. John McCardell, vice chancel becam e the first Anglican Bishop of million. In 1949 there were 3 million lor of the University of the South, China , where he served until his Christians in China ; tod ay there are spo ke on "The Great Beaufort deat h in Shanghai in 1874.