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Anglican Journal Inspiring the faithful since 1875 vol. 138 no. 3 • march 2012 In God’s slipstream Church pioneers urged to get behind Him

Diana Swift East and North Africa—which staff writer no experts saw coming. And he At the Feb. 2-4 Vital Church That presents us quoted the words of Alexander Planting conference in Toronto, Graham Bell to a reporter: “It the U.K.’s Rev. David Male with an image may sound cocky of me, Sir, but imagined the future by sug- I foresee the day when there gesting that pioneering church of what we are will be a telephone in every planters committed to expand- town in America!” ing the mission-shaped church called to do. As an exemplum for modern- should “keep in the slipstream —The Rev. David Male day disciples, Male spoke of the of God.” uncertain future faced by the During his inspirational key- disciples after Jesus’ death. He note address, Male compared ing. “That presents us with an also quoted John V. Taylor’s ob- image‘ of what we are called the difficult and uncharted servation that mission is more work of church pioneering to do—keep in the slipstream like an unexpected explosion to competitive cycling. Key of God because it is so hard than a physical extension of an to long-term survival in this to predict the future,” he told old building. gruelling sport is to stay within delegates to this year’s confer- Male was particularly careful centimetres of the rider ahead ence, entitled “The Missional to warn those who hold onto the without colliding. In cycling Roadmap.” In looking to what past at the risk of losing the fu- parlance, riding in the slip- lies ahead, Male said, “Listen to ture. He cited the sobering case stream means staying in the the whisper of the spirit.” of the once-mighty Eastman low-pressure area found in the He also warned church Kodak company, which last space immediately behind a cy- pioneers not to fall into the trap month filed for bankruptcy pro- clist. For someone riding in this of tarting up a bankrupt, old- tection. Although Kodak once low-resistance zone, a process model church in contemporary held 90 per cent of the world known as “drafting,” the effort disguise to try to attract the photography market with in- required to maintain the same unchurched. He compared this novations such as Kodachrome speed is much reduced. to the makeover given old cars colour film and the Instamatic “You are literally that close on the television show Pimp My camera, it passed over several to the guy in front of you, but Ride. Stay away from the “pimp early opportunities to enter the [his effort] makes it easier for my church” approach, he said. digital era in an effort to protect you to cycle,” said Male, who is As proof of the future’s its film empire. a tutor in pioneer mission train- unknowability, Male referred to the 2008/2009 economic ing at Ridley Hall, an Anglican More stories from the Vital theological college in Cam- meltdown and last year’s Arab Church Planting Conference Herbert Kratky : Shutterstock.com bridge. Male is also director of Spring—or pro-democracy on pp. 6–7. Staying close to God makes it easier to move forward, says priest. the Centre for Pioneer Learn- uprisings across the Middle

I N S I D E 11 What about Finding the right words Attawapiskat? At the May 2009 ACC meeting in Turning our attention to Kingston, Jamaica, the Canadian church the work of peace and presented its 2007 proposal again as Tell us what you think resolution 14:05. Responding, the ACC Love your diocesan news- 15 I love Lent! reconciliation endorsed the request from the Anglican paper but use the Journal Church of Canada and the 2009 Mutual to line the cat’s litter? This Diana Swift Responsibility and Mission Consulta- is your chance to tell us Canada’s staff writer tion in Costa Rica to add a sixth Mark of how these newspapers 13 Since 1984, the Anglican Communion Mission relating to peace, conflict trans- serve you. Please take 10 greatest has promoted the Marks of Mission as a formation and reconciliation to the current minutes to fill out the read- humourist resource to help local missioners focus list of five. It also requested the mission ership survey on pp. 8 and their tasks. To date, there are five marks. department of the Anglican Communion 9 of the Journal and re- Back in 2007, the Anglican Church of Office to take this process forward and turn it in the postage paid Canada proposed a sixth Mark of Mission, report to the 15th ACC meeting scheduled envelope provided. Or sub- 12 Learning to one relating to peace, conflict transforma- for Auckland in October-November, 2012. mit your feedback at www. speak Anglican tion and reconciliation. This proposal “We’ve had recent experience of how anglicanjournal.com. rested on the realization that Christians complex the process of healing and Your input will help us need to turn their attention to the work reconciliation is, and we are looking at a improve these vital com- The unlikely priest of peace and reconciliation. variety of wordings in conjunction with munications links—to your 16 Although the Anglican Consultative the Anglican Communion Office,” says church and to each other. Council (ACC) accepted the concept of Suzanne Lawson, national campaign liai- Got a minute? We’re listening. a sixth mark at its meeting three years son, Resources for Mission. “The challenge Funding for this national survey was provided by ago, the exact wording has yet to be is to find the right words.” the Ministry Investment Fund of General Synod. determined. See Further, p. 6 2 Anglican Journal ? December 2009

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into a cold climate call for national Dynamic Irishman Mark Dun- prevention strategy woody of County Cork, Ireland, Cynthia Patterson, suicide pre- will soon leave the Emerald Isle vention program co-ordinator for Quebec and the position for the Council of the North, is of youth ministry consultant urging all Anglicans in Canada to the diocese of Montreal. A to support legislative efforts to General synod archives native of Antrim in Northern create a national suicide pre- Bishop G. Russell Hatton Ireland, Dunwoody has served vention strategy. “The church for the past six years as youth is amazingly placed to activate officer for the diocese of Cork, a wide advocacy network,” she Cloyne and Ross in Eire. Now says. A great he’s more than ready to tackle Two private members’ bills the rigours of youth ministry addressing the need for a in a cold climate. national strategy were tabled ecumenist “The presenting challenges in the House of Commons are mostly the same for every last year by Conservative Bishop George Russell Hatton church community in most died on Jan. 14 after a short Harold Albrecht and the NDP’s parts of the world, in that we Megan Leslie. One of the bills battle with cancer. He was 79. now have to earn a right to be Bishop Hatton was “a great is expected to come up in the heard in today’s society,” Dun- House for second reading ecumenist” and brought a “high woody says. “Young people— degree of energy and enthusi- soon. Patterson is hoping to and the not so young!— are contributed asm to his ministry,” Archbishop mobilize Anglicans across the suspicious of any type of Mark Dunwoody and sons, Ricky, 15, and Dylan, 11. country to contact their MPs Fred Hiltz told the Anglican institution. They come to their Journal. “He had a great capac- and urge them to support this own truths based on the many my visit there clearly want to proposed legislation. ity for really engaging people,” sources of information they listen, respond and take risks said the primate of the Anglican …the folk in the “Until now, Canada has can easily access through the to serve the needs of communi- ignored both the UN and Church of Canada, who delivered online world.” ties in the diocese.” the homily at Bishop Hatton’s diocese impressed WHO [World Health Or- Such challenges, however, In his view, change can help ganization] guidelines that funeral on Jan. 21 at Anglican are not insurmountable, he you find your right direction. Christ Church, Dartmouth, N.S. recognize suicide as a global adds, “if we listen, respond and me, as they have a “It’s always convenient, when health crisis and that call The son of a coalminer, trust the communities in which faced with all the societal Bishop Hatton began his formal upon every country to have we are serving.” vision and a plan. changes going on around both a national strategy for ministry in 1957 in his home A former chef and business- us, to hit the default button —Mark Dunwoody suicide prevention and an province of Nova Scotia. He man, Dunwoody was youth di- and continue doing the same served as assistant priest at adequately funded national rector at Saint John and Saint things we’ve always done,” coordinating body,” said a All Saints’ Cathedral in Halifax Philip International Church of says Dunwoody. “But there’s and as the Anglican chaplain at statement from the Canadian The Hague in The Netherlands. an old saying that if you don’t Association for Suicide Pre- Dalhousie University. Before that, he spent 17 years a‘ post-conflict society. He has know where you’re going, vention. The organization is Bishop Hatton later gradu- led young adults to Luweero, in youth work in Northern you’ll never know if you’ve got urging MPs to support these ated from General Theological Uganda, to implement a build- Ireland as a youth leader and there!” bills and Canadians to sign Seminary in New York and Yale ing project at a local school. scoutmaster. Dunwoody also Dunwoody will arrive in Albrecht’s petition at www. Divinity School in New Haven, Currently, he is a member of has extensive experience in Montreal in May, followed in haroldalbrecht.ca (under Conn. He was the chaplain- a European group looking at reconciliation work and has July by his wife, Diane, and his private members’ business) or director of the University issues of youth ministry. implemented reconciliation three sons, Gareth, Ricky and to send letters of support to Episcopal Center in Minneapolis, What prompted Dunwoody Dylan. “We, as a family, really programs in Northern Ireland, Ms. Leslie’s office. Staff— Minn., from 1964 to 1972, and in Poland and Germany. to leave the mists of Ireland for enjoyed the vibe in Montreal 1971, received his PhD from the In 2007 he set up an the snows of Montreal? “My on a recent visit, and as we University of Minnesota. international summer project discussions with the folk in love to travel, Montreal will be From 1972 to 1977, Bishop for teenagers and took part in the diocese impressed me, as a good base from which to see Hatton served as national affairs a symposium in The Nether- they have a vision and a plan,” the rest of Canada,” he says. officer of the Anglican Church lands on empowering youth in he says. “Those I met during —Diana Swift of Canada in Toronto. He also was a lecturer at the University of Toronto and established the Doctor of Ministry Program at the Toronto School of Theology. mixed picture of Mormonism on religion and public life conducted with more In 1980, he became president With a Mormon candidate as a frontrunner for than 1,000 Mormons across the country—the first of the ecumenical Atlantic the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, of its kind ever published by a non-LDS research School of Theology in Halifax The Book of Mormon, a hit musical playing on organization. Previous studies, including the Pew and was elected suffragan bishop Broadway, and polygamy-themed TV shows such Forum’s 2007 U.S. religious landscape survey, in the diocese of Nova Scotia and as Big Love and Sister have found that Mor- Prince Edward Island in 1986. In Wives, America is in mons make up slightly 1990, he became dean of theol- the midst of what some less than 2% of the U.S. ogy at Huron College in London, have called a “Mormon public. Ont. He also served as the moment.” Almost half (46%) of Anglican Bishop Ordinary to the Now a new survey Mormons say there is Canadian Armed Forces. After from the Washington- discrimination in the SRF retiring in 1997, Bishop Hatton based Pew Research U.S. against members The Rev. Canon Dr. Judy Rois was named assistant to the Center explores how of their faith. More than bishop of Montreal and settled in adherents of the Church two-thirds (68%) say Sweaters for Hope Sutton, Que. of Jesus Christ of the American people Members of Women Presidents, In 2005, he and his wife Latter-day Saints (LDS) do not see Mormonism a group in the diocese of returned to Nova Scotia. Bishop feel about their place in T.D. Muldoon as part of mainstream Algoma, have knit more than Hatton was actively involved in America. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day society, yet 63% say 20 sweaters for Hope Bear, the pastoral care, the local food bank The poll finds a mixed Saints are unhappy with their image in the media. acceptance of Mormon- mascot of the new trust fund, and Commissionaires, and for six ism is on the rise. More picture. Many Mormons Kids Helping Kids. With a $20 than half (56%) feel Americans are ready to elect years he served on the Halifax feel they are misunderstood, discriminated donation, you can have your Dartmouth Bridge Commission. against and not accepted as part of mainstream a Mormon president and 54% say TV and movie own Hope Bear and support He is survived by Barbara, society. Yet, at the same time, a majority think portrayals of Mormons hurt their public image. projects that benefit Canadian his wife of 51 years, daughters that acceptance of the LDS is rising. Overwhelm- Still, more Mormons (87%) than members of children living in poverty, Brooke and Wendy, and grand- ingly, the poll showed, they are satisfied with the U.S. general population (75%) are satisfied says the Rev. Canon Dr. Judy children Matthew, Ian, Chris- their lives and content with their communities. with their lives. More than eight in 10 (82%) re- Rois, executive director of topher and Allyson. He is also And most say they think the country is ready to port that religion is very important in their lives, the Anglican Foundation of survived by his sisters, Emma, elect a Mormon president. versus 56% of the general public; 83% of Mormons Canada. For more information Dorothy and Betty. These are among the findings of a comprehen- say they pray every day and 79% donate a 10th of or to donate, go to www. —Leigh Anne Williams sive survey by the Pew Research Center’s forum their earnings to the church. —Staff anglicanfoundation.org. —Staff

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outliving her husband’s desire. Shafia denied killing the four, of course, but at Family matters trial, he made it clear he thought they got what they deserved. k r i s t i n j e n k i n s In her Globe and Mail column (Culture experts not required, Feb. 1), Nazneen LIKE TO TELL my one and only Sheikh waves aside the notion that child that she’s my pride and joy. Canadians could possibly be misunder- IAnd she is. Despite a rather rough standing this immigrant culture. As for start in life, Vanessa has blossomed into debating “honour killing,” she says, let’s a beautiful, capable young woman with not waste valuable time. “This is noth- a kind and gentle spirit. Last fall, she ing to do with any arcane etiquette that Unlikely graduated from Dalhousie University Canadians must grasp and accept,” she with an Honours BA in international says. “It is a simple, repugnant example prophets of a development. For some reason, she of social hypocrisy, the exercise of chose journalism as her minor. control through misogyny, culminating Recently, I said goodbye to her as in a crime. Such crimes,” she continues, new church she sobbed into my shoulder. She was “should be dealt with swiftly, backed by moments away from climbing into the the full weight of the justice system.” contributed Mark MacDonald car to head to the airport. There, she In all the social justice work we do as boarded a Cathay Pacific jet and made Vanessa and Charlie a church, protecting the rights of immi- lind Moses and Blind Paul the 15-hour flight to Hong Kong. Alone. grant women and girls must be a priority. were native catechists who I swear she was as upset about leaving their own father, mother and brother have Certainly this high-profile case raises Bworked together near the Arctic her Blackberry behind as anything else. shattered common notions of what consti- awareness of how immigrant women can Circle during the first years of the 20th Come to think of it, I would have felt tutes our culture in Canada. Following the be at high risk of domestic violence, But century. Though usually a footnote to vulnerable, too. three-month Shafia trial in Kingston, Ont., it is not the first time we have heard of the story of clergy, they contributed The trip was her idea. Well, hers and which one woman called “the best movie such things happening in our “civilized” much to the life of the church. I believe a former roommate’s. Emma success- you’ve ever seen,” Mohammad Shafia, country. Clearly, much work remains to they are, along with many others across fully met up with Vanessa in Bangkok, 58, his wife, Tooba Yahya, 42, and their be done. What is the role of the Anglican the North, the courageous and vision- an Old World/New World metropolis 21-year-old son, Hamed, each received life church? ary prophets of a new (old) way of of 11 million. From there, the two began sentences with no chance of parole for 25 When these teens reached out for being the church. their 10-week odyssey around southeast years. help, some dismissed their stories as Up until the late 1960s, non-ordained Asia, backpacking all the way. You could almost feel the collective adolescent drama or, worse, a family situ- church ministries, like those of Blind Vanessa may have left well-prepared— sigh of relief, not just across Canada but ation with multicultural roots that should Moses and Blind Paul, had been the innoculations, travel insurance, diarrheal around the world. Justice had prevailed. be respected. Others who tried to help ran mainstay of indigenous churches. meds, mosquito net, emergency proto- But that won’t bring Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, into bureaucratic red tape. The system and Geeti, 13, back to life. Their crime: Though effective and widespread, the cols—but I still say a silent prayer every failed these four—at least while they were acting like any other Canadian teenage use of these church offices was often time I think of her. In a land where ultra- alive. Surely our sense of outrage can be girl—wearing makeup, going out with criticized. Non-ordained ministries conservative values reign supreme and used to fuel advocacy and change. What the distrust and even hatred of women are friends, wanting a boyfriend. Their fate: will that conversation look like and who were frequently used as a way of considered normal, Vanessa will receive death by drowning, their bodies left in a among us will pick up the challenge? expanding the ministry of indigenous an education unlike anything a Canadian car at the bottom of the Kingston Mills peoples who were generally considered, university could possibly deliver. Locks. Kristin Jenkins is editor of the Anglican by the culturally biased agents of a Back at home, convictions for the first- With them, their father’s first wife, Journal. culture-based church, to be incapable degree murders of three teenage girls by Rona Amir Mohammad, 53. Her crime: email: [email protected] of effective ordained ministry. The church, in a laudable response to this recognized bias, focused its work on the letters creation of ordained indigenous ministers. Unfortunately, the unintended Break the silence In July 2012, governments will negotiate points out, there are no internationally consequence was the weakening of one the wording for an international arms trade accepted definitions to differentiate of the most effective elements of gospel The global arms trade is a human rights issue. Each year, hundreds of thousands treaty (ATT) to regulate the global trade civilian from military firearms; nor is there ministry among indigenous peoples. in conventional weapons. Civil society agreement on what defines shooting and Lay readers, catechists and other of people are killed, injured, raped and forced to flee from their homes as a result organizations, including faith-based groups, hunting firearms and their recreational use. non-ordained ministers expanded the have championed the idea of a treaty since Furthermore, Ploughshares notes, Canada ministry beyond the confines of the of the ready availability of weapons and ammunition and a poorly controlled global the early 1990s. Project Ploughshares, the is calling for an exemption that doesn’t institutional church and its buildings. ecumenical peace, research and action exist in Canadian or international law. This They brought the gospel to communi- arms trade. The World Council of Churches general agency of the Canadian Council of proposal could block treaty negotiations. ties that could never afford a church, to secretary said, speaking at the United Churches, and on whose board of directors Our government needs to withdraw its people who would rarely be approached Nations, we must “connect the needs of the Anglican Church of Canada sits, has weapons exclusion proposal and support by a church—prisoners, patients, ordinary people in our communities with been a key player in these efforts. a strong treaty to control the trade in trappers, workers and isolated families. an agenda for a robust control of weapons At international draft treaty meetings in conventional weapons. Canadians are In many places where this ministry that threaten their daily life and peace. 2011, the government of Canada proposed urged to break the silence and to visit the developed, lives were challenged, This agenda of protection and safety that sporting and hunting firearms for “Speak Out” campaign on Ploughshares’ changed and blessed. allows us to make a connection between recreational use be excluded from the website: www.ploughshares.ca/content/ The best lay workers, like Blind our Christian faith and the call for human scope of the ATT. Other countries conventional-weapons. Moses and Blind Paul, ask, “How can rights.” objected. The question of definitions is Debbie Grisdale I bring the gospel to this person or a grey area and, as Project Ploughshares Ottawa community? 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Slower than snails It was a pleasant surprise to see the article on the interview with Bishop Spong. It is interesting that most religions accept the evolution of technology that has changed communications, health care, travel and other parts of our lives, yet won’t see religion evolving. We tend to stay in the past with our doctrines and holy books, or, at best, move slower than snails to accept the inevitable. Al “Woody” Woodhouse Kitchener, Ont. Reset the Amen to that In the article General Synod balances relationship budget [Jan. 2012, p. 1], I read the following on the page 6 turn: “Of major concern Fred Hiltz is the decline in proportional gifts from dioceses...[these] are currently falling at n one armchair was seated the an annual rate of three per cent...There is prime minister, the Right Honour- no indication that this decrease…will be Iable Stephen Harper; in the other, reversed.” the National Chief of the Assembly Then, I was struck by the review of the of First Nations, Shawn Atleo. Behind book by the Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong them was a standard bearing the on page 9. In it, he is quoted as saying, “If Canadian flag. The photo op captured, people believe they have to be literalists to in a flash, the history of colonialism be Christian but cannot bring themselves and the hope of self-determination, the be so, they simply drop out.” legacy of assimilation and a longing I am a dropout and it seems I am for recovery of language and culture. It not alone. General Synod can balance david anderson http://davidandersonillustration.com recalled words of apology in the House the budget all it wishes, but it seems the of Commons and summoned action in Pile of irrelevance solution exists at a more (non) fundamental the indigenous communities. level. The moment anticipated the historic Thanks to bishop Mark MacDonald for putting in print questions that are so On page 4, Bishop Mark MacDonald gathering of First Nations chiefs with important for our church to face (What will they say?, Jan. 2012, p. 4). I too have refers to trying to go through regular channels to implement urgently needed the prime minister in late January. wondered how future generations will look back at us and I shudder to think how According to the Globe and Mail, the we will be judged. Every time the church behaves like an ostrich in ducking the change. “Now, we realize that we’ve got to do it ourselves,” he says. “Now, we’re only stated objective of this meeting social, political, economic and environmental injustices of our time, we are not saying, ‘We will take control, whether you was to “reset the relationship” between just burying our collective head in the sand, we are hastening our complete burial like it or not.’ ” Canada and First Nations peoples. under a deepening pile of irrelevance. Amen. Many were hopeful that steps would be taken to repeal the age-old Indian Act. David Phillips Candace Carnie Vancouver Cochrane, Alta. The prime minister’s unwillingness to consider that was viewed as a real block to resetting the relationship. Many chiefs left the gathering as concerned James’ Cathedral in pre-Confederation Action, not just words Copycats? as ever for their people, their lands and The war on poverty [Feb. 2012, p. 1] was Canada. Accompanying my in-laws to Christmas their resources; concerned for their first-rate. I was particularly pleased that I was not the only delegate who was Mass, I discovered that the newly children and their futures. you profiled examples of Anglican action uneasy with privilege and purview. It was revised Roman Catholic Apostles’ Given all this, I am pleased that to counter root causes of poverty and not a majority view, to be sure—however, Creed now ends with the assumption our church is so deeply committed to homelessness. It was encouraging to read the discourse and questions of business and that Jesus goes to hell. Jesus never resetting relations with First Na- of the efforts by Anglicans to join forces government leaders [indicated they] were talked any such nonsense. tions peoples. I hear expressions of with other groups to address the rich-poor curious and concerned to acknowledge According to this revision, repentance and contrition for wrongs gap and to hold governments accountable. the unrest in nearby streets, to recognize presumably Jesus now appears to Mary committed. I hear words of apology In the diocese of Toronto, we are that socio-economic disparity worked for Magdalene and the disciples, directly and see endeavours to live the words mobilizing Anglicans and others to meet no one’s betterment, and to seem ready from hell? Jesus’ promise that love with provincial politicians and urge them to take some uncharted paths to find a spoken. At hearings and gather- transcends death in his appearance to to support a minimum-wage increase, a solution. ings of the Truth and Reconciliation Mary is hugely uplifting, and certainly housing benefit for low-income tenants and Canada was born out of the pre- Commission, I see people listening in does not take place in hell. the indexation of social assistance rates. Confederation conditions we now see stunned silence and in learning that Will the Anglicans be copycatting We often hear back from politicians. We again—shifts in geopolitics, transitions in moves them to every effort to make this revision as well as banning Morning are also urging our provincial government economic drivers, waves of immigration, amends. I see commitments of time Prayer? to consider fair, modest tax increases to socio-economic disparity and the call for and resources to support the work of finance the measures we advocate. We’ve social justice in tension with established J. Neilson healing. I see people who really hear also published a theology of taxation governance. Dialogue and prayerful Petawa, Ont. the desire for self-determination on reflection paper. consideration and action are required, even the part of indigenous peoples and Our experience is that most politicians if we are uncomfortable, as was Bishop …I think not! who want to really work with them to appreciate engaging in dialogue with us. Strachan, with embracing the change a leap I am aware of the new worship material achieve it. I see humility that accepts Recently, a Conservative politician told an of faith requires. that has been produced by the Roman the hand of fellowship in a journey Anglican delegation: “Everyone talks about Does history not teach us lessons? Let Catholic Church, but I have not read of spiritual renewal leading to “a new poverty, but Anglicans are actually trying to us not repeat the mistakes. the material. As a bishop in the Anglican agape”—a new love. I hear prayers that do something.” Catherine Soplet Church of Canada, and chair of the this country be guided on a new and Murray MacAdam Mississauga, Ont. Anglican Journal Committee, I can different path. Toronto assure you that the Anglican Church of I make these observations not to Expanding the Bible Canada has no intention of copycatting extol how virtuous and wonderful we when will we learn? Thank you for the review of John Spong’s the Apostles’ Creed or any other are but rather to encourage us to press material in the new service ordinal. On November 23, Occupy Toronto book on expanding the Bible to include on with this sacred work. Its roots are As for the idea of banning Morning was removed from its St. James Park other voices of inspiration and insight [The in the justice of the prophets and in the Prayer, I do not know where that encampment just as Ontario government Bible…to be continued, Jan. 2012, p. 9]. I gospel of Jesus, the Son of God. Our concern lies. I, along with many other ministers met with Ontario Economic find it reassuring to know some Anglicans commitment is very much on my heart Anglicans, say Morning Prayer daily. Summit delegates at the Royal York Hotel. in leadership are prepared to admit that as I pray my way through Lent. Although our Sunday worship has At 6 a.m., radio news reported on police traditional dogma and interpretations of the After all, isn’t that what this holy become primarily Eucharist, Morning cruisers closing access roads to the park. Bible are inadequate for faith today. I hope season is all about? The resetting of Prayer services have not been banned I was warm and fed, at the Royal York you will print more articles that explore and never will be. our relationships with God, with one with the 21st-century incarnation of the ways to make Christianity and the church another and with the whole of creation. Family Compact, some 150 years after more fluid and meaningful and relevant. +George Elliott Toronto Archbishop Fred Hiltz the struggles of Baldwin and LaFontaine Paul Mullin is primate of the with Bishop Strachan, who presided at St. Orleans, Ont. Anglican Church of Canada.

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Vital Church Planting Conference 2012, Feb. 2-4, Toronto Diana Swift recently attended the VCP conference as part of the Journal’s commitment to documenting missional forms of church as Church planting 101: they unfold across Canada and the Anglican Communion. These reports have now been formalized as part of our new Stories of Mission Project (STOMP), in which we examine how know your demographics Anglicans in Canada are embracing new ways f you would be fishers of being church and how they are living out of men, then first you must their faith through the Marks of Mission. Watch for more stories be dredgers of data—de- by Swift that reflect these themes, both in the Journal and at I mographic data. That was the www.anglicanjournal.com message sent For more information about fresh expressions in Canada, by the Rev. go to www.freshexpressions.ca Ryan Sim in a workshop on the importance of missional listening at The Missional Keep your contributed Roadmap, the hearts and recent Vital Ryan Sim Church Planting conference in minds open Toronto. “You must know your target and don’t community,” said Sim, associate priest for entrepreneurial ever give up. activity at Toronto’s St. Paul’s, —The Rev. Beverley Bloor Street. Sim is embarking ‘ Williams on the research phase of a five- year plan to start a new church in Ajax, a dormitory suburb Chris short of Toronto and home to many THE common cup A live-music pub church is scheduled to open in young commuting families. Scarborough’s Olde Stone Cottage Pub this year. Good sources of hard data on Tyler Olson the makeup of target communi- Activity on neighbourhood streets tells you a lot about people and their needs. ties include diocesan or denominational headquarters, real homes suggesting the presence tourism)? And: What would estate agencies, the websites of of aspiring young slap shot most improve your quality of New faces and local organizations, municipal masters? Which is bigger in the life? A veteran of such surveys, offices and Statistics Canada. local bookstore: the kids’ section Sims said, “You get a lot of data “Sometimes you can even get a or the travel section? “The local this way. People talk a lot about custom study done if you have bookstore is not going to stock money.” places of church the budget,” he said. a lot of kids’ books if there’s a lot A few interested respondents Ryan also recommends esus conducted his of retired people in the com- can be given longer, more exploring the neighbourhood mission on the hillside, munity who are travelling,” Sim specific questionnaires and may yourself—on foot or by car. by the wayside and at said. eventually become partners J “What you see on the streets can the seaside. And today, Chris- After the observation phases, in your information gathering. tell you a lot about the people tians committed to missional come the more interesting—and Questions for this group might there and their needs.” Are there re-engagement with society potentially riskier—phases of include: What are the problems signs of permanence or tran- are taking church to the streets interpretation and evaluation. in this community? How is the sience? Poverty or affluence? and other once seemingly ‘You may be wrong about what community shifting? How is Safety or danger? Community unlikely venues. you see,’ ” Sim said. Christianity perceived here? involvement or isolation? What, The Vital Church Planting Be interactive in the obser- What is your dream for this michael Hudson if any, are the signs of faith? (VCP) conference’s keynote vational phase. Hang out in community? How can we help? Do people rush home speaker, the Rev. David Male, VCP conference keynote speaker, the coffee shops and start up “Ask them if you can put after work carrying cartons of told delegates how U.K. the Rev. David Male conversations. “And do some them on your emailing list so take-out and a bottle of alcohol Christians of different denomi- demographic work of your own,” you can let them know if you tucked under their arm? Does nations are gathering at 2 a.m. Cottage Pub not far from stressed Sim, who was instru- use any of their ideas,” he said. the fast-food deliveryman show outside the clubs of London Christ Church, Scarborough, mental in starting Reconnect, “Ask, ‘Who else can you connect up at a lot of doors in the eve- and Manchester to help the an eastern suburb of Toronto, a church community for young me with?’ This can lead to really nings? “What do you see, what young people who emerge lost, where she serves as priest. stressed-out professionals living fruitful partnerships that your do you hear, what do you smell? broke and addled by alcohol or Passionate about live music in downtown Toronto. church can be a part of.” Take it all in,” he said. drugs. of every kind, Williams is He suggested conducting Gather a think tank and tease No grist is too lowly for your In a northern English town, attuned to the deep spiritual- 30-second two-question street- out trends and formulate ideas demographic mill. Are there a Methodist church about to ity and sense of the sacred in corner community surveys in for helping people. “We saw pat- a lot of empty diaper boxes close its doors, transforms it- the words of secular music. which passersby are asked two terns emerging. A lot of people put out for garbage pickup? self into the Wesley Playhouse, “We have discovered that a simple questions: What brings said, ‘I want to reprioritize my Are there holes in the garage a gathering spot for mothers lot of musicians have a secret you to this neighbourhood time.’ There are opportunities doors of otherwise well-kept and children that turns into a story in their lyrics,” she told (work, study, shopping, living, there.” —D.S. new and vibrant place of wor- the opening session of Vital ship. Springing up everywhere Church Planting 2012. She are skateboarding churches, cited the words “surrender to sports churches and even be free” in Joseph Arthur’s Further refinement recommended knitting churches—the latter song “Travel as Equals.” The surprisingly catching on with musical pub church launches Continued from p.. 1 follow,” says Kafwanka. “It was she says. “There’s a sequential 20-year-olds— where people March 25. After the ACC standing decided that the final wording aspect, and we’ve proposed that knit, then put their needles A veteran of the annual committee reviewed the first would be presented and adopted this one become number five.” aside to pray quietly together. VCP conference, Williams said, draft, it recommended further at ACC-15.” Lawson will attend the New Here in Canada, the Rev. “One of the many things I’ve refinement. To that end, Lawson And according to Lawson, Zealand meeting, which starts Beverley Williams, who learned here is that you must is working with the Rev. John the sixth mark may move up Oct. 27, with Bishop Sue Moxley admits to being a “church hone in on your passions. Find Kafwanka, director for mission the ladder a rung to number of the diocese of Nova Scotia planting junkie” and a “church the thing that lights the fire in at the Anglican Communion five, following mark four, which and Prince Edward Island and planting geek,” is launching your belly. Keep your hearts Office in London. There’s no is: To seek to transform unjust the Very Rev. Peter Elliot, dean a live-music pub church at and minds open and don’t ever serious semantic problem, how- structures of society. “The list of of Christ Church Cathedral in the picturesque Olde Stone give up.” —D.S. ever. “It’s just the procedure we marks is not based on priorities,” Vancouver.

6 anglican journal • March 2012 stories of mission Transforming a broken church Mennonite mentor helps revitalize Anglican ministry

Diana Swift staff writer our years ago, after a devastat- ing church fire, the Rev. Canon Dr. FCathie Crawford Browning and the congregation of St. John the Evangelist in Thorold, Ont., were both headed in the wrong direction. Both rector and members were exhausted. Attendance was down. Financial giving was dwin- dling. Participation in ministries was on the wane. “For the first time in my 20 years of ministry, I felt like giving up—and not just moving to a different parish but taking a new path,” Crawford Browning said at an informal Vital Church Plant- ing presentation. Ron Nickel All that began to change when she More contemporary music was part of the makeover. The Apostles’ Creed was removed from the service and a full-time children’s and youth worker hired. met Peter Warkentin, the past modera- tor of nearby Southridge Community SHE thought HE SAID None of this was easy, Crawford Church, which began life as a small Browning says, and there were painful Mennonite Brethren congregation confrontations along the way, including but became a large successful place …he’d Maybe we the resignation of the new music direc- of worship with an average Sunday tor, and the turning backwards of some attendance of more than 1,500. “I was be really can have church members who had seemingly well aware of this huge vibrant place been committed to the new direction of that was alive with young people,” said impressed. coffee St. John’s. “Had I not had a mentor to Crawford Browning. —Cathie walk with me, I would have capitulated.” Warkentin and his wife took the Crawford Browning sometime. Today, the pulpit, choir stalls and rector up on her invitation to visit St. —Peter Warkentin pews are gone, but Sunday attendance John’s, a visit that would eventually diana swift‘ diana swift‘ is up—on average to 125 from 85. A start the rector and the church on a high-tech electronic screen drops down new path. Crawford Browning thought blown away. “The music was top-notch, appetites but not feeding them.” for people to read and sing from. There Warkentin would be taken with the upbeat and alive, and the sermon was Warkentin also challenged the still are prayers, songs, psalms and church’s friendly attendants, simplified one of the best I have ever heard,” she decision-making structure with the (non-gospel) scripture readings but alternative service, $400,000 organ and said. “I started praying to God to show rector as CEO of the corporation. He nothing is written in stone. Crawford brilliant organist. “I thought he’d be re- me what it would take to lead that many suggested that she step into a more Browning commits her sermon to ally impressed,” she said. But when she people in church.” pastoral role supported by a team of lay memory so she doesn’t have to read it. asked him what he thought, he replied, “ Warkentin agreed to help Crawford leaders. Her 21-year-old music student daughter ‘Maybe we can have coffee sometime.’ ” Browning “with more grace than I can Along with changes to the sermon, is the new music director and the parish Kindly but frankly, Warkentin told describe,” and he outlined three prin- came changes to the liturgy, including young people are engaged. Even the her that he and his wife—both church ciples of Southridge’s success. the removal of some repetitive aspects ladies of the Altar Guild have noticed. goers since toddlerhood, were “lost and 1. A determination to preach the word of such as the Apostles’ Creed, which were These changes notwithstanding, you intimidated” by the Anglican liturgy. God in relevant ways. putting people to sleep. Warkentin said, still know you’re in an Anglican church, And he thought the people worshipping 2. Developing a fully engaged leader- “If you want me to read it every week, said Crawford Browning, who admits there were not engaged. He admitted ship team and pastors from within the put it up on a poster.” that sometimes she misses the comfort that he never knew what book or what congregation. More contemporary music was also zone of old Anglican liturgy and even page he should be reading from, even 3. Creating a church that kids want to part of the makeover and this led to the the hard pews and kneeling boards. “But with the help of kindly parishioners who be a part of. loss of the church’s long-serving organ- I don’t talk a whole lot about being an saw their distress. One of the first things Warkentin ist. And despite its financial woes, the Anglican anymore, or even about being That summer, Crawford Browning at- challenged was her 10-minute homily. church hired a full-time children’s and a Christian,” she said. “I talk about tended a service at Southridge and was He said she was, “whetting people’s youth minister. being a follower of Jesus.”

Embrace the call to mission, urges archdeacon rchdeacon Paul generation Part of that response is the nion’s Five Marks of Mission, keynote speaker the Rev. Dave Feheley, principal sec- “goes back Anglican Church of Canada’s a short statement of the core Male, and supporters such as A retary to the primate, to the new national strategy, Vision values that express God’s the Institute for Evangelism for greeted delegates on behalf of time when 2019, which invites the Holy mission in the world. “Confer- moving the church forward and Archbishop Fred Hiltz and the church Spirit to take the life of the ences like this, Back to Church helping us “reclaim our voca- Anglican Church of Canada at ceased to be church more and more deeply Sunday and other Fresh Expres- tions as evangelists, storytell- the opening of the Vital Church a dominant into the paths of service and sions enterprises are critical if ers, caregivers, advocates for Planting Conference 2012. He force in mission. “It challenges Cana- we are going to be faithful to peace and stewards of creation. harked back to a Fresh Expres- people’s dian Anglicans to go beyond the great mission given to us by I believe the church, can and sions video of a few years ago, Paul Feheley lives,” the institutional framework our Lord,” Feheley said. will and must find new ways to which made the point that not Feheley said. “But the church is and embrace the call to mission He expressed the gratitude express our service to God and only do we not have children in finally beginning to wake up to that is at the heart of Christian of the church to conference to our neighbours.” our churches but we also do not this fact, and across parishes, discipleship,” Feheley said. organizers such as Dr. John He called the VCP confer- have their parents and grand- communities and dioceses, we That call has been articu- Bowen and the Rev. Nick ence another great step in that parents. That third missing see it responding.” lated in the Anglican Commu- Brotherwood, leaders such as journey. —D.S.

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…when the Anglican church in Canada obtained its autonomy from the mother church in England, its first liturgical business was…the production of a new hymn book! The Golden‘ Jubilee of the BCP though the prayer book has undergone mental basis) for use in the Canadian 1962 Canadian BCP is the First Sunday Celebrating the 50th many changes since then, the wording church. Why is it called the 1962 BCP in Advent, December 2. After the of many of the prayers and exhortations when it was first published in 1959? In revised prayer book received approval has stood the test of time for more than our Canadian church, any legislation at the 1962 General Synod, the then anniversary of the 1962 450 years. that comes before General Synod and primate, Archbishop Howard Hewlett, The second date is Wednesday, has the potential for changes in doc- sent out an episcopal decree to the edition of the Canadian May 2. This is the day of the nation-wide trine must be passed by two consecu- entire Canadian church that the 1962 celebration of the 1662 English edition tive General Synods to come into effect. BCP would come into effect, and be used Book of Common Prayer of the Book of Common Prayer in the For Anglicans, doctrine is enshrined exclusively, as of the First Sunday in United Kingdom. This celebration will (in part) in our liturgical formularies, Advent 1962. As it turns out, Advent also Gordon R. Maitland take the form of an evensong at St. Paul’s and thus changes in the prayer book fell on December 2 in 1962, so this year’s Cathedral in London. The 1662 Book of have potential doctrinal implications. anniversary date will be exactly 50 years he year 2012 is Common Prayer was the edition used It was not until the revised prayer book to the day that the 1962 BCP became the full of anniversary by the United Empire Loyalists and first was passed at a second General Synod official worship book of the Anglican Tcelebrations. It is the Anglican settlers in what is now Canada. in 1962 that it could be accepted by the Church of Canada. Bicentennial of the War of 1812 Since the 1662 BCP was the one in use church as a whole. Between 1959 and The 1962 Book of Common Prayer is and the Diamond Jubilee of when the Anglican Church of Canada 1962, the new prayer book was used still authorized for use in the Anglican the accession of Her Majesty obtained its autonomy from the Church only experimentally alongside the 1922 Church of Canada, and it is hoped that Queen Elizabeth II. It is also the Golden of England in 1893, it is the edition Canadian BCP. even congregations who primarily use Jubilee of the 1962 Canadian Book of of the BCP referred to in the Solemn The September 3 date has further the Book of Alternative Services for their Common Prayer. In response to the Declaration. significance. It was on this day in 1578 worship will consider using the BCP for request by General Synod 2010 that the It is interesting to note that when the that the first recorded celebration of some of their celebrations this year. The Anglican Church of Canada observe this Anglican church in Canada obtained the eucharist took place in what is now BCP is a part of our Anglican heritage, anniversary, the Prayer Book Society its autonomy from the mother church Canada, celebrated by the Rev. Robert and a significant marker of Anglican of Canada (PBSC) is working with the in England, its first liturgical business Wolfall in Frobisher Bay. The historical identity. Educational resources and sug- Faith, Worship and Ministry depart- was not a revision of the BCP but the significance of the September 3 date gested liturgical material for celebrating ment of the national office to make this production of a new hymn book! The was not lost on the Anglicans assembled the anniversary dates will be available observance a memorable one. first Book of Common Praise appeared for General Synod in 1959, because the on the website of the Prayer Book As part of this jubilee celebration, in 1908. The revision of the prayer book b ishop of the Arctic, D. B. Marsh, was Society of Canada (www.prayerbook. the Prayer Book Society is suggesting was delayed by the First World War, but allowed to be the first cleric to celebrate ca) and we invite people to explore the four dates be observed. Each of these the first Canadian edition of the prayer the eucharist using the new prayer book. interesting resources to be found there. dates has a historical significance in book came into use in 1922. The service took place in St. George’s An informed acquaintance with the 1962 the history of the BCP. The first date After the Second World War, the Church, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que. Canadian Book of Common Prayer will is Wednesday, March 21. This is the need for revision was felt again and a Since September 3 falls in the Labour help Canadian Anglicans to appreciate date of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s new revision was published in 1959. Day weekend, Canadian Anglicans may the deep and rich legacy of faith our martyrdom. Archbishop Cranmer was This brings us to the third significant wish to celebrate the occasion of the forebears have entrusted to us. the architect and compiler of the original date for the Golden Jubilee year, which first use of the 1962 BCP on a Sunday or Book of Common Prayer in 1549 and this is Monday, September 3. It was on this weekday following the long weekend. The Rev. Gordon Maitland is the national day is Cranmer’s feast day in both the date in 1959 that the 1962 Canadian The final date in the cycle of celebra- chair of the Prayer Book Society of Canada and BCP and BAS liturgical calendars. Al- BCP was first authorized (on an experi- tions marking the Golden Jubilee of the a parish priest in Windsor, Ont.

Gift planning workshop inspires generous bequests ileen and three of her friends recently She values being part of a healthy, disciple-making Eparticipated in a gift planning workshop in community of faith, and is so thankful for God’s their parish church, held in cooperation with many blessings to her and her family. General Synod’s Resources for Mission staff. They were certainly impressed with a key message: have Eileen has shared the ingredients of her new Will with a valid Will and review it regularly. her close friends and rector. She has set aside funds to help her grandchildren’s education fund, and has So all three decided to seek legal counsel, as made a bequest of 10% to her parish for outreach circumstances for each have changed in recent years ministry, 10% to General Synod as an undesignated — and so have their priorities. Eileen, particularly, gift, and 10% to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. has become quite involved in the life of her church She feels very comfortable with her decisions and is and especially appreciates the outreach ministry grateful for the opportunity to be generous and to developing in the local community and far beyond. make a difference in the lives of others.

For more information about Wills and bequests, and other forms of gift planning, please contact Archdeacon John M. Robertson Senior Gift Planning Officer, Resources for Mission General Synod of The Anglican Church of Canada 80 Hayden St., Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 • Telephone 416.924.9199 ext. 268 Toll-free 1.888.439.GIFT (4438) • Email: [email protected] or your diocesan gift planning consultant

10 anglican journal • March 2012 feature What about Attawapiskat? The situation is not hopeless, but we need to make better choices

David Schulze Affairs provides budgets below the provincial average to reserves where everal yeas ago, my daugh- needs are greater. Communities ter and I visited the Magdalen serving deprived populations in SIslands, a small chain in the Gulf remote locations become trapped in a of the St. Lawrence that is part of the downward spiral of underfunding and province of Quebec. Unconnected to underperformance. the rest of the chain and separated by Things do not have to be this way. 12 kilometres of water is Entry Island. Just across James Bay, on the east It has about 130 inhabitants and can be coast, life in the Cree and Inuit com- reached only by sea or air. We learned munities of Quebec is not perfect, but that the provincial government pays much better. for a teacher to live on Entry Island The James Bay Cree and Inuit of year-round and teach elementary Quebec were never asked to sign a school. treaty. As a result, when the Quebec In Canada, we see it as reasonable government announced in the early that families like those living on Entry 1970s that a hydroelectric project Island should have a public school in would flood their traditional lands, their own community, yet it occurred the Cree and Inuit went to court to to me that similar spending on ab- stop it. Settlement negotiations led to original communities is often viewed Reuters the James Bay and Northern Quebec as a waste. Since sailing past Entry About 20 Attawapiskat families were slated to move into temporary shelter before Christmas Agreement (JBNQA), the first modern Island, I no longer see a reason why to escape households without running water or toilets. land claims agreement, and the project First Nations should apologize for the went ahead. amounts their communities cost the The JBNQA left the Cree and Inuit taxpayer, but many thought differently with regional school boards, health during the recent controversy about and social services agencies, police Attawapiskat. forces and local government structures A Cree community of 1,900 people under their control. These institutions situated on the western coast of are funded jointly by the federal and James Bay in Ontario, Attawapiskat is provincial governments, to the same connected to the outside world only by level as comparable bodies in the rest air, water and, in winter, an ice road. of the province. Many Canadians were shocked when The JBNQA also recognized a state of emergency was declared at their right to hunt, fish and trap, and Attawapiskat on Oct. 28, 2011, and the Reuters provided the Cree and Inuit with a role Red Cross was called in to help resi- Oranges for sale in Attawapiskat. in wildlife management and environ- dents cope with frigid temperatures mental assessment in their territory. and insufficient housing. Several com- With compensation for settling their mentators suggested the best solution land claims, the Cree and Inuit bought would be to shut the community down Why do so many businesses. Where Attawapiskat de- and move residents to the south. rives benefits from a single mine, the Yet paying jobs are now available believe we owe so Quebec Cree and Inuit have a growing near Attawapiskat: only 90 kilometres role in the regional economy. from the reserve, De Beers has opened little to the people Reuters The question raised by the example an open-pit diamond mine employing Seven-year-old Ferlin Iahtal (top) and his of the Cree and Inuit of Quebec is this: over 500 workers. Thanks to an agree- of Attawapiskat? sister, five-year-old Verna, live with 19 why did they have to go to court and ment negotiated by the band council, other people in a house that has plastic on accept massive development on their about 100 of those workers are from the ceilings to keep water out. lands in order to obtain the benefit of Attawapiskat. ‘ adequate locally controlled services A fundamental question for me is settlement. From the aboriginal point government has gradually provided and economic opportunities of the why so many believe we owe so little of view, the Crown had promised to indigenous people with the same kind we would consider a minimum for to the people of Attawapiskat, with protect their way of life. services that the provinces provide to other Canadians? whom our federal government entered Life changed very little for the other Canadians, such as health care, The real question raised by At- into a solemn agreement in the form Attawapiskat Cree so long as they education and social assistance. Since tawapiskat is whether all we promised of Treaty 9? It was among the last in a could still live off the land, since set- the 1970s, service delivery has been its people in Treaty 9 was underfunded series of “numbered” treaties signed tlers never came. But in the 1950s and systematically delegated to the First resources on unsustainable reserves by Canada from the 1870s to the 1930s, 1960s, the fur trade ceased to offer a Nations themselves. and an invitation to move elsewhere with First Nations from northern viable livelihood. At the same time, the Federal funding depends on the if these did not suit them. Or is it pos- Ontario to the Rocky Mountains. federal government pressed the Cree annual budget and on a minister’s sible that we owe them institutions and Representatives of the Crown met with to settle permanently on reserves and discretion, however. Services such as services of at least the same quality we chiefs and had them sign a surrender enforced attendance for their children local policing may simply stop from take for granted in the rest of Canada of their land. In return, the federal in residential schools. one year to the next, to be replaced by and a chance to participate in the government promised them small The communities were emptied of a distant provincial police detachment. economic benefits that can be derived annual payments, reserves and the their children, and the parents sat on Moreover, federal funding does not from their lands? right to hunt and fish throughout their the reserves waiting for them to return. have to match the level of provincial territory. They had little else to do if they could funding allocated for the same services David Schulze is a partner in the law firm From the government’s point of not hunt, fish or trap, and the commu- off-reserve. Often, federal funding is of Dionne Schulze in Montreal, which view, the land had been cleared of nities remained isolated. lower. specializes in representing aboriginal competing claims and was ready for Since the 1950s, the federal In areas such as education, Indian communities and individuals.

anglicanjournal.com 11 reflection Learning to speak Anglican Michelle Hauser taken. Moments later, with good enough.” They forgave someone else, I am told not me my tendency to butcher ow that’s a Lambeth of an idea!” exclaimed the to use “homily.” Now what? their language with hard r’s bishop. Should I say, “I really enjoyed and badly conjugated verbs. “N This led to a hearty round of knee-slapping and your talk this morning” or When this happened, I would head-tossing by everyone in the room. make up my own words, as in, receive a smile and a “muy Everyone except me. “You really blew the doors off bien,” urging me onward and Recognizing that I had missed the inside joke, with that sermily today”? upward. I did what anyone else in that situation would Can somebody help me out By contrast, Episcopalians have done: I faked it. And pretended to- here? do not suffer fools gladly. Ex- have a delayed reaction to the Once, I was corrected by a perimentation is akin to heresy utter hilarity of a reference priest about having referred to and offenders are often set that flew way over my head. “the sacrament of marriage” in right in the most ungenerous After the meeting, I an email. He wrote back that and unforgiving way. Come to googled “Lambeth.” The marriage is “not widely known think of it, this may contribute official London residence of as a sacrament.” The exchange to the reason why lay people the Archbishop of Canterbury left me red-faced, and I im- (oops, sorry, “the laity”) are in England. Then, I carefully mediately began placing sticky sometimes very, very quiet at stored the meaning and its notes all over my cerebral Bible studies. context in my cerebral file. It’s not easy folder. But the very same In the immortal words The one that’s labelled “useful week, I read a reference to “the of that famous amphibian- tidbits on being Anglican.” being green. sacrament of marriage” on the American philosopher, Kermit I was five years into my life —Kermit the Frog Church of England website. the Frog, “it’s not easy being with the church and had still Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com The C of E is the mother ship, green.” The same could be said not learned to speak fluent for heaven’s sake! Surely they for being Anglican. Anglican. I had no idea what ment work when I really felt the same time, being careful know if marriage is a sacra- However, I have not lost all an odyssey of trial and error, I had arrived. I was having a to include enough everyday ment or not. Will the confusion hope. There are always options shame and humiliation, it was prolocutorial, hermeneutical, language for everybody else. I never end? to explore for those of us who going to be. Lambethian good time! But noticed this new, dual ap- Lacking the confidence I seek both to understand and be Before I joined the church, ‘on congregational visits, proach reduced the number assume is afforded the cradle understood. I was delighted to I thought of myself as gifted I soon discovered that my of people who visibly winced Anglican, I dwell betwixt and meet some Spanish-speaking with languages. After all, it Dickensian love affair with whenever I spoke. between, caught in linguistic Anglicans at the diocese of had taken me only six months the uncommonness of my Still, I have not been able to limbo. I wonder what might Toronto synod recently and to learn to speak fluent Span- new language was alienating completely divest myself of my happen if a more generous pos- I’m toying with the idea of ish. But more than a decade me from the very people I amateur standing in the speak- ture was adopted to acquaint asking them to teach me how post-confirmation, I was still had been called to serve. I ing Anglican department. In people with our language? I to speak Spanglican. Then I tongue-tied and suffering had inadvertently become an spite of my best efforts, many think Spanish-speaking people, can translate it back to English, from an acute case of “foot in “insider’s insider”—difficult to slap-on-the-wrist moments some of whom encouraged and maybe, just maybe, I’ll mouth” syndrome whenever understand and even harder to remain. It’s left me wondering me to practise their language finally get it right. I ventured out of the safety warm up to. if I will ever get it right. the way a child does, would of my pew and did anything I quickly remedied the For example, I used to make wonderful role models. Michelle Hauser is a parishioner at more than pray silently. situation by adopting a hybrid say “sermon” as in “I re- In their company, I was free to the Church of St. Mary Magdalene There was, however, a vocabulary: calling on ap- ally enjoyed your sermon this experiment and make mistakes in Napanee, Ont., and manager period during my diocesan propriate Anglicanisms so as morning” until I was told that without fear of looking foolish. of annual giving for the Anglican congregational develop- not to offend clergy; and at it ought to be “homily.” Note Their ethos? “Close enough is Church of Canada.

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feature funnyV Bred in our bone One hundred years ago, the release of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town had Canadians in stitches

ron dart was much more to Leacock than the academic, as the Canadian public was his year marks the 100th about to learn. Those who take the time anniversary of Sunshine Sketches to read some of Leacock’s earlier writings Tof a Little Town, one of the clas- can appreciate a humorist in the making. sics of Canadian literature. When it was It was just a matter of time before another published in 1912, Leacock had most aspect of Leacock’s multi-gifted personal- Canadians holding their sides in laugh- ity would emerge. ter. Leacock became a pioneer of the Leacock, in a timid and shy way, distinctive published Literary Lapses in 1910. It Canadian Sunshine celebration was an immediate success. Leacock was genre of heralded as the new Mark Twain and irony and The city of Orillia, Literary Lapses was reprinted many humour, Ont., home to the times to keep up with the demand. Then and Leacock Museum came Nonsense Novels in 1911—another Sunshine National Historic bumper crop. Leacock had an uncanny, Sketches Site, will be marking incisive, gentle yet probing way of mak- was pub- the 100th anniversary ing Canadians see their foibles and follies lished in of Stephen Leacock’s through the use of irony. Satire was too Sunshine Sketches many edi- much fist to head. Irony awakened in of a Little Town all tions. When the readers a deeper way of seeing, and summer. This will Leacock Leacock was soon taking North America include a three-day died in late Sunshine City Festival and Britain with his humour. March 1944, in August. Go to www. In the compact missive, Sunshine The New leacockmuseum.com Sketches, romance, religion, politics, York Herald economics, prohibition and literature are Tribune each, in their turn, playfully unveiled in suggested that “Stephen Leacock, surely, the small town of Mariposa. There can was the First Citizen of Canada.” High be no doubt that Leacock cares for those words of praise for an Anglican, political he sees through, and this means there is economist, raconteur and literary genius. a tenderness in his humour that is often I encountered Leacock as a young lacking in those who only criticize. The child living in Toronto in the 1950s. My book can be divided into six sections: the grandmother lived with the Archbishop karsh of ottawa hypocrisy of prohibition and the inflated of Canada at the time (Derwyn Trevor Yousuf Karsh, on assignment for Saturday Night magazine, took this photograph of Stephen sense of importance of Mariposa citizens; Owen: 1934-1947) and his family. Owen Leacock, Canada’s greatest humorist, in Orillia in 1941. Karsh described Leacock as “jovial and the stock market and the rise and fall of was a good friend of Leacock’s, and when fulfilled, intellectual, but still casual.” wealth; the Anglican rector, Dean Drone, Leacock died, Owen made the journey to and the fate of his parish; the melodra- St. George’s parish at Sibbald Point, Ont. matic romance of Peter Pupkin and Zena The first biographer of Leacock, Ralph Pepperleigh; the election of 1911; and Curry, had this to say about Owen’s jour- tensions between the demands of city life ney for the funeral. “Archbishop Owen, a and a deeper longing for the possibilities long-time friend of Stephen’s, had come of another more centred place and space. 50 miles from Toronto through the snow There is much in Sunshine Sketches to assist the local rector in the last rites of that is dated, but those who take the time Canada’s most famous author.” Leacock to read deeper will soon discover that was, indeed, in his passing, Canada’s most the underlying themes that permeate famous author, and my grandmother and this gem of a book are perennial—this, of mother were more than keen to make course, is what makes it a classic. sure this was known to their children. I Margaret MacMillan, in her 2009 took in Leacock in many ways. book, Stephen Leacock, brought her admi- Who was Stephen Leacock before rable biography to a close with Leacock’s the publication of Sunshine Sketches own words. “There is not yet a Canadian leacock museum archives, orillia and what was it about this alluring book literature,” he wrote in 1941. “Nor is that held the attention of Canadians for McGill University’s Professor Stephen Leacock, seated in the wheelbarrow, with his wife, there similarly a Canadian humour, nor many a decade? Leacock was born in Beatrix (second from right), and friends at his Old Brewery Bay retreat in Orillia in 1908. any particularly Canadian way of being England in 1869, and his family migrated funny.” How wrong he was, of course. He to Canada in 1876. In typical Leacockian the University of Toronto in 1891 and Building still stands) and throughout was in the middle of creating both. fashion, he declared, “I decided to go with eventually returned to Upper Canada most of the initial decade of the 20th Leacock is, indeed, bred in our bone, them.” College, where he was on staff from 1891 century, he established himself as one whether we realize it or not. And Sun- The family settled in the Lake Simcoe to 1899. Leacock was 30 years of age, and of the leading lecturers and published shine Sketches of a Little Town has done area, and tried to make a living farming, the publication of Sunshine Sketches of a authors in the areas of Canadian history much to inform us how his writing is but misfortune dogged them. Leacock’s Little Town was still more than a decade and political thought. He even clashed part of our collective Canadian psyche mother and extended family supported away. with the young Churchill in one of his and soul. the Leacock clan as they eked out a living Leacock decided to enter doctoral tours of England. (the father was often absent and not the studies at the University of Chicago in Since Leacock had solidly established Ron Dart teaches at the University of the Fraser easiest man to live with) and eventually, the area of political science and econom- his reputation as a fine academic in the Valley in Abbotsford, B.C., in the department Leacock left to attend Upper Canada ics, and in 1903 he was awarded the early years of the 20th century, most of philosophy and politics. He is the political College in Toronto, where he was head degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Leacock assumed this would be his chosen science adviser to the Stephen Leacock Home/ boy in 1887. He went on to graduate from was hired at McGill (where the Leacock discipline and life vocation. But there Museum in Orillia, Ont.

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op culture may love Christmas and Easter, but Lent usually gets short shrift. Take the movie, Chocolat, for instance. In it, a French-Mayan Pwoman (played by the comely Juliette Binoche) scandalizes an entire French village when she sets up her chocolate shop—just in time for Lent. It’s a charming movie, but Lent is cast as a dour season during which the pious deprive themselves of pleasures such as…you guessed it…chocolate! This year, staff writer Leigh Anne Williams asked Anglicans to share the Lenten practices they find most meaningful. Here’s what they said:

Bishop Mark MacDonald self-doubt.” And that led to a Toronto conversation about giving up The Lenten practice that has negative habits, undesirable forever shaped my imagina- attitudes or destructive habits tion comes from back home and things that don’t help our among the Ojibway in northern relationship with ourselves and, by consequence, our relation- Minnesota. Every Sunday night illustrations by david shaw during Lent, there is a potluck ship with God. I like the idea VORACIOUS READER “I get a couple of books and when Lent comes, start into them. I love it!” followed by hymn singing until of an intentional step toward 2 or 3 a.m. All the singing is something positive as opposed in Ojibway, interspersed with to a denial of something. stories, testimonies, Bible read- The Rev. CANON Dr. Judy Rois Toronto ings and prayers. Matt Koovisk Kelowna, B.C. Lent is a penitential season, traditionally a season to give up something—things like food or I don’t really give up anything drink or social activities—to focus on spiritual things. I think that continues to work for some The Rev. Canon Travis for Lent. I’ve never found that people. For others, it feels punitive, like going on a diet. They are OK for the first week and then Enright Edmonton a beneficial practice for me. I they fall off the wagon and feel worse because they failed in their faith life, so to speak.... In the aboriginal community, immerse myself in prayer. I love I am such a voracious reader. I get a couple of books for Lent and when Lent comes, I start Lent is [a time of] renewal, liturgy and prayer and scrip- into them. I’ve made it a really enjoyable thing that I look forward to, and I don’t fall off the when you start preparing for a tures, so I tend to do more of wagon, so I don’t feel bad. I love it! If I finish my books in Lent, fine, and if I don’t, it doesn’t Sundance. I fast every Friday, that during Lent. I tend to try to really matter. I just keep reading throughout the rest of the Easter season. but I also spend a long time, read through the stations of the usually on a Saturday, [walking] cross at home on Fridays, and Archdeacon Paul Feheley Toronto the land. This is [also] the time read more of the early Christian Without doubt, the most meaningful Lenten practice for me is the opportunity to study and more than any other when I will writers, the spiritual fathers, all engage people in conversation as we learn together. When I was the regional dean of the go to a sweat [lodge]. that kind of stuff during Lent, in deanery of Oshawa, we organized a deanery-wide Bible study each Wednesday night in Lent. Sometimes I think we lose addition to my prayer times. In other parishes, we used the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lenten book, which he commissions connection to who we are. We each year for congregations to use as a study resource. These books were always of a length and can intellectualize and theorize Cynthia Patterson style that were helpful and the material was always “fresh.” This year’s Lenten book is called and philosophize about the Quebec City Love Unknown by Ruth Burrows. Over the years, [we also] have studied films. The congregation nature of Jesus, [but] when I try to be more intentional sees the movie and then later in church, we have the study and conversation about the film’s you actually walk the land, you and spend much more time in meaning and its application in our Christian lives. understand that God walked on prayer. I give up something. this planet in a very particular And then I fast on Wednes- way, and then you’re called to days. I find it helps me connect with poverty all over the walk in that same path. Randy Murray Vancouver, B.C. “I’m giving up Lent for sex!” about the legacies they have world, including outside my Personally, I find the experi- Usually spring arrives early left for me. I focus more at this own door, and [from] a prayer The Rev. Christine ences of Shrove Tuesday and on the west coast and that often time on the significance of the perspective makes me keener Brouillard-CoylE Essex, Ont. Ash Wednesday very powerful coincides with the beginning gospel messages and how I can and sharper. And the last thing Lent is a time to get rid of the and for me, that sets the tone of Lent. The lengthening of bring them more effectively is I take something called red distractions of life and focus. for the next 40 days. I often the days and the late winter into my vocation as a Christian rods and put them in water. It allows us to focus on what take on the role of pancake chef sunshine create an atmosphere communicator. They are very beautiful red God is calling us to. It’s not just at my home parish of Christ conducive to meditation, reflec- So if you see me taking bushes that grow wild in fields something we do in the quiet of Church Cathedral, Vancouver, tion and growth in my faith life. public transit during the days everywhere. By the time Easter our homes; it is something we and I always attend at least one Although this is a pretty of Lent, I probably won’t be arrives, they are producing express in how we live. Imposition of Ashes Eucharist. corny metaphor, my Lenten reading and I won’t have my leaves. So they go from some- This is the second year I don’t give things up or journey does parallel what is earbuds in, but I will be in a re- thing completely dormant that that Social Justice Huron has purposefully add new spiritual happening in nature as the flective place. And during that you cut out of the snow on Ash created a Lenten Social Justice practice or disciplines into my croci, daffodils and tulips begin journey, I may discover some Wednesday to that beautiful Calendar, which offers sugges- regular routine and if someone to bloom. I think about my own deep truth about my spiritual yellowy-green of spring. tions for actions or prayers for were to ask me my Lenten in- mortality, I think about those journey in faith or I might not. each day of Lent. The calendar tentions, I would likely respond loved ones who have finished But whatever the result, the trip was published in the Huron with something cheeky like, their lives on earth and I think is always worth it. Church News, but will also be posted on Social Justice Huron’s Facebook page. Cydney Proctor Halifax mouth so it filled up pretty ing like it was. I realized that my Judy Steers Guelph, Ont. I’ve tried not eating meat for quickly at first, but by the end task benefited our little com- We had a conversation with Lent and fasting, but they both of Lent, I wasn’t even thinking munity. It made me think about youth and young people about failed, probably because of a to swear anymore. words and their effect on those the things that people give up. lack of accountability. Most suc- It’s kinda silly, but curbing around me, and how it makes It is meant to enhance your cessful was the Lenten swear an unseemly habit for Lent me seem to others, and what I relationship with God and jar imposed by my roommates. seems like a good thing. My was projecting about myself to the world around you. One I can get a bad case of sailor’s swearing came back, but noth- the world. It was eye-opening. young person said, “I give up

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Bullfighter, spy, cop, priest

Diana Swift like it or not, is ritual kill- to the silence and meditation, tinued to prohibit birth control, staff writer ing—sacrifice. And the bull however, the action-oriented and I felt that was socially hat’s the best is feared and revered at the Smith left the monastic life in unconscionable.” He broke background for same time,” he says. “All of just over a year and immedi- from Catholicism in 1977. Wbecoming an the taurinos and professional ately was drafted into the U.S. In Central America he Episcopal priest? A stint as a bullfighters I know are in awe Army. The year 1967 saw him befriended a British Anglican teenage toreador? A year in a of the bulls and find them assigned to military intelli- priest from a nearby mission Trappist monastery? Counter- to be majestic and amazing gence with the 9th Infantry and and eventually made his way to intelligence in Vietnam? CIA creatures of God.” sent to Vietnam. England, where he explored the operations in Latin America? Similarly, at the centre of It was later, during his CIA Anglican church. Returning to Two decades with the FBI? contributed Christian orthodox worship career in Central America, the U.S., he became an Episco- For 67-year-old Rev. Perry The Rev. Perry Smith is sacrifice—the sacrifice of that he began his journey to palian and was made a deacon Smith, all these were steps the mass, which is relived the Episcopal church. “It was in 1989. along the path that led to where to Mexico after high school every time it is celebrated. Archbishop Marcos McGrath, a In 2001, as he was contem- he is now: canon for pastoral and tried, briefly, to break into “The solemn beauty and ritual Roman Catholic, who suggested plating retirement after 22 care at St. John’s Episcopal bullfighting. leading up to the moment that my social conscience and years with the FBI, a priest Cathedral in Jacksonville, Fla., With his years as a teenage of truth, the breaking of the sensibilities would be a better friend nudged him toward where he ministers to the sick aficionado long behind him, bread (the body) in the mass, fit with the Anglican Commu- theological school and Smith and dying. “To me, these were Smith does not defend the for example, can be transcen- nion,” says Smith. “Back then, was ordained in 2002. all part of a life of service,” he cruel bloodsport. But he does dent. Then we realize we are it had a broader sense of social says. see some similarities between experiencing something so awareness and concern.” The Unlikely Priest The Kentucky-born Smith, the ritual of the corrida and grace-filled and beautiful that Smith was particularly is available in who last fall published his ritual of the mass, in which two nothing else matters,” Smith supportive of women’s rights e-format and memoirs, The Unlikely Priest, very different types of priestly says. and birth control. “I was seeing trade paperback left evangelical Protestantism figures don beautiful garb and In 1966, at age 21, he entered a lot of abject poverty in the at amazon. for Roman Catholicism in his perform a series of practised the Kentucky Abbey of Geth- environs and women who had com. teens. Inspired by the writ- and solemn moves. semani, whose most famous many children in the home by ings of Ernest Hemingway in “The centrepiece of resident was the Christian mys- multiple fathers,” he recalls. American lit class, he went bullfighting, whether we tic Thomas Merton. Ill-suited “Yet the Catholic church con-

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