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ur ec o LI THE d [ IVING Sister Joan Chittister and the Archbishop of Canterbury on gratitude, Kenda Creasy Dean on teenagers and Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, CHURCH George Guiver on the components of worship music: these are some THIS "'SUE I May 8, 2011 of the authors and themes in this issue. NEWS Each new season brings another 4 Secretaries of State: crop of books that help us make sense of life and of Christian faith. Values Enhance Diplomacy As the Church steps into another FEATURES Easter season, may your reading and reflection draw you closer 10 OUR UNITY IN CHRIST series to the risen Lord. Committing Unity to Print By David Richardson

REVIEW ESSAYS 12 Vision Upon Vision by George Guiver Review by Daniel H. Martins 15 Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson Review by Jean Mccurdy Meade 18 Hannah's Child by Stanley Hauerwas Review by Elyse Gustafson 20 Almost Christian by Kenda Creasy Dean Review by F.Washington Jarvis

OTHER BOOKS 13 Divine Art, Infernal Machine 16 Undone by Easter 18 Uncommon Gratitude

CATHOLIC VOICES 23 Post-Cosmo Cosmology By Andrew John Archie OTHER DEPARTMENTS 22 Cultures 26 Letters 27 People & Places 28 Sunday's Readings The Living Church is published by the Living Church Foundation.Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Commun­ ion is to support and promote the Catholic and evangelicalfaith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world.

May 8, 2011 • THE LIVING CHURCH 3 NEWS May 8, 2011

Former secretaries of state Colin L. Powell, Madeleine K. Albright and James A. Baker Ill at the Washington forum . © 20 I I, Donovan Marks Secretaries of State: Values Enhance Diplomacy "I can't imagine having an Ameri­ including many college students, to be values-based. can foreign policy that didn't have during an evening conversation "We have seen how our values values," said Madeleine K. Albright, sponsored by the cathedral and the have worked over the last 30 to 40 the 64th secretary of state and the Aspen Institute, which promotes val­ years," he said, citing the dissolu­ first woman named to the top U.S. ues-based leadership as part of its tion of the communist Soviet Union. diplomati c post. mission. But he warned that as a nation it is Speaking at Washington National Aspen Institute President and not the United Stat es' place to Cathedral on April 7, Albright was CEO Walter Isaacson , a previous impose its version of democracy on joined by two other former secre­ chairman of CNN and former editor other nations. taries of state: Colin L. Powell, a of Tim e, moderated. "I know that China is not going to retired four-star Army general, and Isaacson posed an opening ques­ get rid of its authoritarian system," James A. Baker III, who also served tion to the three speakers: Should Powell said. "We don't know how to as secretary of the treasury and sec­ the United States be involved in run a country of 1.3 billion people or retary of commerce. global humanitarian issues or feed 1.3 billion people." All three are Epis copalians, and should it focus on its own national Baker agreed that values, includ­ Albright wrote The Mighty and the interests? ing respect for human rights, must Almighty : Reflections on America, Powell, a former national security underlie U.S. foreign policy, and he God, and World Affairs (2005). advisor and former chairman of the went further. The three spoke on values and Joint Chiefs of Staff, agreed with "To say that you have to make a diplomacy to a crowd of 2,000, Albright that U.S. foreign policy has choice between values and princi-

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ples on the one hand and national support military intervention there, North Dakota Bishop interests on the other is wrong," he Baker said. said. "During the cold war we still All three speakers noted that there to Lead Cathedral promoted our principles and values is a historic new trend going on The Diocese of with the Soviet Union." throughout the world - one that North Dakota's He cautioned that, generally emphasizes human rights and the diocesan council speaking, there should be a strong freedom of countries to choose their has agreed to a national interest when the United own leaders. "This is something of a one-year trial of States intervenes militarily. tsunami; it's going to reach every Bishop Michael Baker cited U.S. intervention in shore," Powell said. Baker said that G. Smith's pro­ Libya as an "appropriate exception this historic trend "could very well posal that he to the rule" of needing a national represent an alternative to Al Qaeda" serve as the dean interest for military intervention and its terrorist, repressive tactics. of Gethsemane Bishop Smith because it is a "limited exercise" in "When the leader of a country Cathedral, Fargo. a country with a dictator whose does not protect [the people], does When the bishop proposed the army was slaughtering civilians. the international community have idea in mid-January, he foresaw But Baker warned against "mis­ an obligation to go in? This is a new devoting two-thirds of his time to sion creep" in Libya and said there concept," Albright said. "I think it's the cathedral and one-third to the must be a defined exit strategy. If an uncooked process at the episcopate. Instead, he will devote there is not a strong national inter­ moment. . . . Do you do nothing 62 percent of his time to the cathe- est, "when the body bags start com­ because you can't do everything?" ing home" most Americans will not Peggy Eastman (Continued on next page)

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May 8, 2011 • THE LIVING CHURCH 5 NEWS I May 8 2011

L.A. DioceseOpposes Second Parish Settles in Virginia

AnglicanCovenant As the Diocese of Vir­ The bishops and General Con­ ginia and several Angli­ vention deputies for the Diocese can District of Virginia of Los Angeles have urged the parishes approach a Episcopal Church not to adopt new round in court the proposed Anglican Covenant. April 25, the diocese The recommendation emerges has reached a settle­ from a study period that included ment with a second discussion among more than 800 congregation. delegates to the diocese's annual Under the settlement, convention Dec. 3-4. announced April 19 by Church of the Word, Gainesville, Va. "Wecannot endorse a covenant the diocese and by that, for the first time in the his­ Church of the Word, tory of the Episcopal Church or Gainesville, the parish keeps the construction along Route 29 that the Anglican Communion , will property and the diocese keeps eliminates direct access to the pave the way toward emphasizing $1.95 million of a paymen t made by church, create significant chal­ perceived negative differen ces the Virginia Department of Trans­ lenges for any congregation in that instead of our continuing positive portation for construction-related space," Burt said. and abundant commonality," the damage to the property . If members of the parish decide leaders said. The settlement, like others to move the parish's location, Burt "We strongly urge more direct reached in recent months , requires said, "the Diocese of Virginia has face-to-face dialogue , study , the parish to cut its ties with the given them the certainty and con­ prayer and education before the Anglican Church in North America trol they need to determin e what is adoption of a document that has for five years . Church of the Word best for the congregation and the such historic significance in the also must cut its ties to the Angli­ day school they offer to the life of the Anglican Communion can District of Virginia, which will Gainesville community." and the Episcopal Church . Our vote in May on whether to become The church's rector called the differences should not be seen as a diocese of the ACNA. settlement "a failure to 'respect the something that must be proved Henry D.W. Burt, secretary of the dignity of every human being,' as wrong or endured but rather a diocese, said in a statement that the the baptismal covenant says ." motivation to dig deeper into dis­ parish's location shaped the settle­ "This settlement allows us to cerning God's purposes for God's ment's terms. keep the church building that was church." "Changes in the immediate vicin­ paid for by us, not the Episcopal ity of the church, namely massive Church," said the Rev. Robin Adams in a statement issued by the parish . "Our goal is to return to the North Dakota Bishop to Lead Cathedral ACNA fold when the disaffiliation period is completed as a stronger (Continued from previous page) Christian body," Adams added. dral and 38 to the diocese. Several under this plan the Bishop will "We'll continue to worship in our clergy and administrative staff will have enough time for the Diocese ; accustomed manner, and for most assist the bishop, many in part-time and whether the Dean will have of our members, this provision will positions. enough time for the Cathedral ; and not even be something they'll "The conversations and delibera­ whether I will have enough time for notice in our day-to-day church tions of the past three months have the Diocese, the Cathedral, my fam­ ministry." yielded, in my opinion , a better ver­ ily and myself," the bishop added . The Fairfax Circuit Court will sion of my original proposal," he "I don't think we will know the begin a new trial in the case that wrote to members of the diocese answers to these questions until we remains against seven parishes . April 14. try it out. I look forward to all of The Virginia Supreme Court over­ "It is my sense that there are the things we will learn during the turned the circuit court's original valid concerns about whether coming year." finding in favor of the parishes .

6 THE LIVING CHURCH • May 8. 2011 South Sudan Steps Toward Freedom With turmoil and revolution rag­ out such an election. There was also percent of voters chose independ­ ing across the Middle East and North good reason to believe that the ence. And surprisingly, considering Africa, the recent triumph of peace­ Sudanese government would inter­ its past history of violating and fail­ ful democracy in South Sudan's Jan­ fere with the referendum, which was ing to implement peace agreements, uary 2011 Referendum on Secession the culmination of the 2005 Com­ Khartoum accepted the results of the has been all but forgotten. It was in prehensive Peace Agreement. And vote without dispute. South Sudan's vote for independence there were fears that tribal conflict, The new Republic of South Sudan from Sudan that a true democracy, vote-rigging, and other problems still has a long road ahead. The Africa's 54th nation, was born. could plague the vote. Southern Sudanese are deeply con­ The worldwide Church, and par­ But the referendum, bathed in cerned about the disputed north­ ticularly the people of South Sudan prayer by South Sudan's Christians south border areas, not part of the themselves, should never forget and their friends around the world, referendum although their history is what God has done for South Sudan. was conducted with peace, integrity, entwined with that of South Sudan. Nor should the rest of Sudan's mar­ and dignity. Although ten Southern The destiny of the oil-rich region of ginalized and oppressed peoples be Sudanese traveling from northern Abyei, the homeland of the Ngok forgotten. Sudan to vote were murdered by Dinka, has not yet been decided. Many doubted that people who northern Arab Misseriya tribesmen, Although two separate, disinterested have been devastated by decades of there were no such incidences panels of judges (including the Inter­ genocidal war waged against them within the South. When the votes national Court of Arbitration at The by their own government could carry were tallied in February 2011, 98.83 (Continued on page 9)

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(Continued from page 7) Hague) found Abyei to belong to ment are key. There are tremendous South Sudan and not the north, the business and investment opportuni­ Sudanese government has rejected ties, but there are also enormous the rulings. obstacles that must be overcome. The international community has And the churches in South Sudan - tolerated Khartoum's violation of the the only functioning element of civil ST. WULFSTAN'S CPA, in which the regime agreed to society during the war - need to be BOOKS abide by the judgment on Abyei. And equipped for a continuing influence Selling rare books of interest to Christians Khartoum has incited the Misseriya, on civil society. Many South of the Anglican-Episcopal , Catholic , and Reformed Traditions, and sprea din g the who use Abyei as grazing land for Sudanese fear that Khartoum and its Gospel (and other good books) to others. their herds , to attack their hosts , the partners in the Arab world will Known for our extens ive inventory Dinka. In an early March 2011 attack attempt to buy the influence and of liturgical texts (including the Book of Common Prayer) and a thorough on Abyei, militias armed by the power over South Sudan that they collection of religious antiquarian Sudanese government killed more could not gain during the war. volume s from incunabula to the present. than 100 people and burned 300 Churches must be strengthened to Contact Charles Kester buildings. Satellite images released continue warning against the seduc­ Phone : (4 79) 582-0249 on April 7 by the Satellite Sentinel tion of silver and gold. Email : [email protected] Project, an initiative of actor and The three main peace talk events We also encourage you to view a sampling of our offerings at: activist George Clooney to provide that led to th e CPA were actually www.biblio.com/bookstore/ an early warning system and deter reflected in the names of the places st-wulfstans-books-fayetteville war between North and South where they were held. The signing of Sudan, show a major escalation of the first protocol in July 2002 helicopter gunships and tanks within brought about a ceasefire that striking distance of Abyei. seemed like a miracle. It took place The other disputed areas, the at Machakos, Kenya, a formerly arid, Nuba Mountains /South Kordofan unprodu ctive area that had been the and the Blue Nile region, are to hold subject of so successful an agricul­ elections and "popular consulta­ tural experiment that it was known tions " in 2011. According to the CPA, as the "Machakos Miracle." the popular consultation will offer The final protocols were agreed the option of some autonomy from to after a long, hard struggle that Khartoum to both of these areas, almost ended the peace talks. They which comprise the Episcopal were signed at Kenya's Lake Church of Sudan's Diocese of Naivasha, the British misspelling of Kadugli and Diocese of Wad Medani. the Masai word Nai 'pasha, which Citizens fear fraud and vote-rigging means "rough water." And the Janu­ that could affect both elections and ary 9, 2005, signing of the CPA took the popular consultation. For place at Nairobi's Nyayo Stadium. instance, in South Kordofan, Khar­ Nyayo means "footsteps." For South toum has nominated an indicted war Sudan these footsteps were toward criminal, Ahmed Haroun , to run freedom and peace. against the well-loved SPLM guber­ Like Samuel, who sought to con­ natorial candidate, Commander struct a permanent reminder to the Abdel Aziz Adam el Hilu. people of Israel of God's goodness, follow ing a readin g in wo rship , it soundsso i111plt1 11sihle? It is becau se the chur ch-a cro ss denomination s- has In addition to concerns about mercy, forgiveness, and deliverance , slipped into such bad habit s for reading and presenting the neighboring regions, the people of the Church in South Sudan will be scriptural text alo ud, chat it scarcely sounds like anythin g God wu ul

May 8. 2011 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 Committing UNITY

OUR UNITY IN CHRIST In Support of the Anglican Covenant to Print

By David Richardson running in those years, but its importanc e was rec­ ognized because the goal of unity is there in Scrip­ he Second Vatican Council's "Decree on Ecu­ tur e - not an optional extra for the ecumenically menism" (1964) marked a clear sign, a written minded so much as an imperative from the Lord T sign, from a church which likes things clearly about the ordering of the Church's life. The dialogue written down, that the Roman Catholic Church had instituted that morning by the pope and the arch­ bounded into the ecumenical arena from which in bishop led to statements published over a period the past it had remained separate and aloof. Earlier exceeding 20 years in which agreement was reached documents such as the 1928 encyclical of Pope Pius on issues which previously had been seen as insur­ XI, Mortalium Animas, and the 1944 encyclical of mountabl e barriers of division. These included Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi, had been clear : eucharistic doctrine, ministry , ethics, authority and the only road to unity recognized by the Holy See for much else. all those not in communion with Rome was to admit But a cloud had appeared in the ecumenical blue their error and return. sky. Notwithstanding the agreements that had been For the churches of the Anglican Communion the reache d, our Roman Catholic interlocutors wer e Decree on Ecumenism was particularly heart-warming unclear what "Anglicanism" was and who, if anyone, because it mentioned us by name in the text: spoke for it. What was the glue, or bond, that held it together, described as "affection"? It seemed to have Other divisions arose more than four centuries later lost its power to hold. in the West, stemming from the events whi ch are The consecration of Gene Robinson may have usually referred to as "The Reformat ion." As a result, rais ed eyebrows about the question of where Angli­ many Communions, national or confessional, were canism stands on homosexual practice; it may have separated from the Roman See . Among those in be en a triumph for hon esty in morality over dissim­ which Catholic traditions and institutions in part ulation; but it raised the question about ecclesiology continue to exist, the Anglican Communion occu­ and authority for our Roman Catholic interlocutors pies a special place. (para . 13) in quite a new way, as they felt they had been misled about how Anglicanism works at the universal level. On the heels of this advance, Pope Paul VI and Enter the Covenant, whose role and goal is to Archbishop Michael Ramsey, the 100th Archbishop help the churches of the Anglican Communion face of Canterbury, were able, on March 24, 1966, to sign the challenges of living out the principle of auton­ a common declaration to "inaugurate between the omy in communion by committing them to mutual Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Com­ accountability, consultation and the achievement of munion a serious dialogue which, founded on the conse nsus . It may indeed have been brought to birth Gospels and the ancient common traditions , may in a particular set of circumstances, but the lead to that unity in truth for which Christ prayed." Covenant represents not a revolution so much as True, the ecumenical train was not the only one one small step in an evolution of developments

10 THE L,IVING CHURCH • May 8, 2011 which, since the mid-19th century, have formed the on the ecumenical progress made between Angli­ Anglican Communion. As Archbishop Rowan cans and Roman Catholics in the past 40 years. "Is expressed it in his 2009 reflections, "Communion, the ecumenical dream dead in the water or are the Covenant and our Anglican Future": agreements that have been reached money in the bank?" he asked . He believed it was the latter. This The Covenant proposals of recent years have been a year in May the ARCIC dialogue resumes and firmly serious attempt to do justice to that aspect of Angli­ on its agenda are these topics: "Church as Com­ can history that has resisted mere federation . They munion - Local and Universal" and "How in com­ seek structures that will express the need for mutual munion the Local and Universal Church comes to recognisability, mutual consultation and some shared discern right ethical teaching." processes of decision-making. They are emphatically The Covenant, with its commitment to an internal not about centralization but about mutual responsi­ unity and mutual accountability, offers some hope bility. They look to the possibility of a freely chosen commitment to sharing discernment (and also to mutual respect for the integrity of each province , which What the Covenant has to offer is the point of the current appeal for a moratoriwn on cross-provincial pastoral the churches of the Communion interventions). They remain the only proposals we are likely to see that is an instrument of unity and address some of the risks and confu­ sions already detailed, encouraging us to mission which, in good Anglican act and decide in ways that are not sim­ ply local. fashion, steers a middle path between Our Roman Catholic ecumenical partners have always liked the idea of centralism and juridical structures the Covenant, and it is that last sen­ tence, about acting and deciding in on the one hand and unfettered ways that are not simply local, that probably helps to explain their affec­ licence and mutual irresponsibility tion. However, as mentioned earlier, the Roman Catholic Church likes things written down, codified. A body on the other. But it does more. of written canon law is essential for the pastoral good practice of the Church, and certainly they preferred the earlier that as the dialogue between the Anglican Com­ drafts of the Covenant in which Section 4 was munion and the Roman Catholic Church goes for­ fiercer, seeming to have ajuridical tone lacking from ward it may yet be that "serious dialogue which, the final text. founded on the Gospels and on the ancient common What the Covenant has to offer the churches of the traditions , may lead to that unity in truth, for which Communion is an instrument of unity and mission Christ prayed." ■ which, in good Anglican fashion, steers a middle path between centralism and juridical structures on The Rev. Da vid Ri char dson, dean emeritus of Mel­ the one hand and unfettered licence and mutual irre­ bourn e and honorary provincial canon of Canter­ sponsibility on the other. But it does more. bury, is the director of the Anglican Centre in In a paper given at the Lambeth Conference in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury's Repre­ 2008, Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor reflected sentative to the Holy See.

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Worship Wars Ceasefire

Review by Daniel H. Martins those categories, but is yet all three of There is no pretense of objectivity those, and more (e.g., philosophy and or disinterest; it nowhere approaches ithin the contemporary Chris­ cultural criticism, inter alia). the character of a polemical tome, W tian universe, there is certainly Guiver divides his work into two but Guiver is not reticent about advo­ no shortage of published material on sections: "How We Became this Kind cacy. After introducing the ecologi­ the subject of liturgy and worship. of Worshipper" and "What Kind of cal notion of microclirnates as "small One might even go so far as to say Worshipper Do We Need to Become?" areas where special conditions pre­ that it's a "hot" topic. Ordinarily, any The first is more heavily historical, vail," he proceeds to an incisive mis­ one of these articles or books can be but threads of contemporary worship sional application: the Church ( and, rather easily classified as taking an practice and conflict over worship by extrapolation, the liturgy) is the approach toward the subject that is are constantly woven in and out of "climate of Jesus-with-his-peopl e .... either historical, or theological, or the historical material. The second pastoral . Or, an author may attend to devotes considerable energy to exam­ all three of these perspectives, but do ining various facets of 21st-century so in a manner that is ordered and western society, with generous assis­ The Church logically sequenced. tance from the likes of Charles Taylor Vision Upon Vision is an exception (A Secular Age), David Tracy (Plu­ has always to such generalizations, and a rather rality and Ambiguity), David Brown refreshing one at that. George Guiver (Discipleship and Imaginat ion) and is an Anglican monastic and Superior Jonathan Sacks (The Dignity of Dif­ operated on of the Community of the Resurrec ­ ference), but always in the light of the tion in Mirfield, England. He is also an historical material covered earlier. the principleof experienced keyboard musician, an If nothing else, this book is an intel- organist. He is well-traveled, and has lectually integrated effort. One among the microclimate. many possible exa mples: Bouncing off Taylor's con­ cept of a "social imaginary" Vision - a society's collective skill The Church has always operated on Upon Vision set , its repertoire of tools the principle of the microclimat e. It is Processes of for negotiating its place in as small and vulnerable as the fems Change and the world - Guiver over- on the inside of a well, but also akin Renewal in lays it onto the Church and to a nuclear reactor as an instrument Christian Worship her worship: "If therefore of God's mighty works. It is an envi­ By George Guiver . we are to think of the ronment that allows the release of Canterbury. Church as having its own powerful forces normally repressed" Pp. 232 . $29 .99. social in1aginary, we must (p. 175). The question of the eucharis­ ISBN 978-1-8531-1992-7 remember that this will tic presider's position vis avis the rest always have an ambiguity of the assembly - one that seems about it. What seemed a perpetually unsettled , more so now, glorious revival of church perhaps, than it was 10 or 20 years wide exposure to a broad swath of life in a previous era can look rather ago - also draws his efforts as an particular Christian subcultures. different to us today, more like advocate. Guiver is not unaware of Each of these components of his progress all rolled up with continuing recent energy toward reclain1ing the background makes an evident con­ failure: much-needed advance hand­ pre-Vatican II eastward-facing prac­ tribution both to his scholarship and in-hand with failure to recognize all tice, but calmly supports the post­ his pastoral observations in this book that needed to be tackled. In any age, conciliar consensus on both historical that is neither history nor theology there is good and bad, and our own is and pastoral grounds. nor pastoralia, in the strict sense of no exception" (p. 189). One of the difficulties that peren-

12 THE LIVING CHURCH • May 8, 2011 rually vex either purely historical or from trends and movements in secu­ processes played out over time, a purely theological or purely pastoral lar society. Both would evaluate liturgical version of evolutionary nat­ treatments of worship is how to potential change in terms of their ural selection. We know a good bit account for - and, at times, justify­ respective yardsticks. about what has survived. We know development and change. Some Guiver's approach is both orgaruc considerably less about what has not would posit a normative "golden age" and dynamic: The ways Christians survived, the evolutionary dead ends. against which all liturgical practice worship today are not simply distilla­ While historians might lament this should be measured. Others would tions of 20 centuries of experience loss of what we do not and cannot invest heavily in the notion of encul­ and practice; rather, they represent know, those who are the stewards of turation, and take cues generously syntheses from robust dialectical (Continued on next page)

more ephemeral media. Certainly periodicals, including THE LM NG Divine Art, Infernal Machine CHURCH, are redefining their roles in The Reception of Printing in the West from First the face of competition from televi­ Divine Art, Impressions to the Sense of an Ending sion and the internet. By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein . Pennsylvania . Pp. 368 + xiii. $45. ISBN 978-0-8122-4280-5 The position of books is a little dif­ ferent, with this very volume as a case in point. (Print, as the author reminds and information overload. (Of course us, can be a self-promoting medium.) we hear the same complaints today Probably most of its readers get much The media are, so to speak, very about all media.) of their news and general informa­ much in the news these days, as we "Confidence in the capacity of the tion from non-print sources; Google is realize how much power newscasters printed word to diffuse useful knowl­ very handy. and journalists have to sway public edge has persistently been under­ Yet here is a substantial volume, opinion, for good or ill. This phe­ mined by the diffusion of seemingly illustrat ed, well provided with notes nomenon is neither new nor simple, useless and often repellent printed and references, full of information as professor emerita Elizabeth Eisen­ matter," she writes. The dustjacket of that could not easily be assembled stein's account makes clear. Her sub­ Divine Art illustrat es this neatly with elsewhere. It is both scholarly and title is exact: this not a "history of two 18th-century prints, one of Min­ readable; the author quotes exten­ printing," but a history of the recep­ erva descending from Olympus with sively from original sources, not from tion of printing in Western society. a handpr ess, the other of a donkey in critics. It will be of inter est to stu­ The book is much too full and too a dark cellar setting type. dents of mod em history, to those wide-ranging to summarize, but some Printed matter , and the accompa­ interested in media issu es, and to highlights may be noted. nying growth of literacy and "public many general readers. Many of us were taught in school opiruon," were instrumental not only It is, as some of us are fond of say­ that the invention of printing in the in the Reformation but also in the ing, a Real Book, a permanent thing, 15th century was a Good Thing, American and French Revolutions to be held in the hand, browsed in, because it promoted the Reformation and the political and social upheavals referred to, kept on the library shelf. and democracy and uruversal educa ­ of the 19th century. Eisenstein We will all be much poorer ifwe ever tion and many other expressions of believes that print has now passed its lose these. There have been several freedom. This is true enough as far as zemth, with the development of the premature obituaries of Print, as the it goes, but print has also been criti­ newer media, but many of the same author reminds us, but a Book such cized, from the beginning, for the ambiguities remain . She also differ­ as this is alive and well. spread of falsehood, scandal, trash, entiates between the role of books Sist er Mary Jean, CSM and pornography - and junk mail and that of newspapers and other Greenwich, New York

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WORSHIP WARS (from previous page) plates in history that should be ways that are less refined than many liturgy can relax about it, and the accorded great deference. For Guiver, would readily recognize as appropri­ members of worshiping communities the fourth century is obviously the ate in worship: "You cannot find life are largely unaware - appropriately , most worthy candidate for this honor. without allowing a proper place to Guiver would probably say - that This is, of course, precisely when vulgarity ... . Liturgy that touches the there is even anything to miss, let Christianity emerged from the shad­ sources of life will have vulgarity as alone what they are missing. ows of a furtive underground exis­ part of its fabric .... [I]f all of life, from Such an attitude seems a helpful tence into the full public light of day. the exalted to the earthy, is not rep­ counterweight to the sort of abstract It is also the earliest period about resented ... at the altar, that is a sure historicist purism that liturgical schol­ which we have a significant amount recipe for mediocrity" (pp. 37-38). arship sometimes yields - an of consistently reliable information. Guiver elucidates this idea witl1 par­ impulse (run amok on occasion) to The adaptation of the Roman basilica, ticular clarity as he considers the role strip away "accretions" and return to a venue for the transaction of civil of holy places and holy things and an idealized historical pattern of litur­ business, for use as a place of Chris­ holy actions (not sacran1ents, per se, gical practice. Guiver observes com­ tian worship ( one could say, the trans­ but what are sometimes referred to as pellingly that sometimes a secondary action of business of a different sort, "sacrame ntals") in Christian worship development is actually an improve­ though not without parallels in secu­ and spirituality. ment and not a deviation: "Christian lar life), and the sort of liturgy that "When we light a candle in prayer was practiced in that place, clearly or sprinkle holy water or consecrate serves as a touchstone, a point of ref­ a church building or pray in front of erence, in Guiver's analysis of the an icon, we are aware at some deep VisionU pon Visioni s developments that followed in the level that this is no utterly serious ensuing centuri es. binding action but holy play. All that a salutary invitation "Comparison has been made is necessary for our salvation has [between the fourth-century basilican already been done. Holy places, to step outside the liturgy and] Wagner's invention of the things, and actions stand not on a 'Music drama,' a total work of art foundation of human anxiety, but on (gesamtkunstwerk) in which music, our confidence in something else categories we have literature, theatre, and art come beyond them. The irony of a Chris­ together in a unity. If Wagner's music­ tian attitude to holy things is akin to drawn for ourselves. dramas were that, then the liturgy is the suspension of disbelief that is more. With Wagner, the performers part of drama. It is well illustrated by perform, the audience watches and the Good Friday liturgy, which listens and can clap at the end. In the enters imaginative ly into the solem­ worship sometimes throws up new liturgy this is not so, for all are per­ nity of Christ's death on the cross, all developments that are truly inspired. formers: the drama is enacted by the time knowing, as no Christian . . . One of the most powerful every person present; it is not out­ can forget, that Christ is risen" (pp. moments in the liturgical year is the side them - they are in it as its con­ 43-44). stripping of the altars on Maundy stituent materials" (pp . 32-33). In an environment in which it is Thursday. Its origin is in mundane (Seven of the 20 illustrative plates in distressingly easy to fall captive to spring -cleaning of the church for the center of the book concern this partisan rhetoric and debate when­ Easter. Some inspired person ... rec­ era, and nine provide ancient exam­ ever the subject of worship is raised, ognized its potential for the liturgical ples of westward-facing euc hari stic Vision Upon Vision is a salutary invi­ drama. It would be ludicrous to sug­ presiders.) tation to step outside the categories gest that in the interest of restoring Another thread that appears we have drawn for ourselves, to be purity this powerful moment in the repeatedly throughout the volume - more aware of the forces that shape liturgy should return to being spring­ indicating, no doubt, the degree of our assumptions and prejudices , and, cleaning. Secondary developments the author's passion for it - is the thereby, to sit more lightly to them. like this can sometimes manifest such imperative of Christian corporate authenticity and power that restora­ worship including a quality he The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, the tion to the original state would lead to describes as "vulgar," that is, flowing 11th Bishop of Springfield, was loss" (p. 6). from and connected to the ordinary drawn to Anglicanism while pw,ying This is not to suggest, however, that experience of ordinary people, even hymns as a music student at West­ there are not some normative tem- when that experience is expressed in mont College.

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MYSTERY (from previous page) thinks because of the neural seeing the self, all of which deny the to each hwnan person and capable of impulses which the brain, which is existen ce of what human beings in transcendence and even immortality. without remainder a bodily organ every cultur e hav e always called In the 16th century, the French like the stomach or liver, sends out mind, or soul, are themselves incon­ scientist and philosopher Blaise Pas­ in response to external stimuli. sistent with each other. cal may have said, "Man is only a There has been an attempt to rec­ In doing so, she wittily and some­ reed, but he is a thinking reed." But oncile that philosophy of material­ times hauntingly recalls for the the thinking Robinson takes issue ism with the contemporary theories reader the essence of what human­ with would insist that Pascal was of Freud about the unconscious , ity has always assumed to be true: mistaken, that "man" is a reed which which is posited as the true source that there is such a thing as a soul, has evolved over the centuries from of our motivations, and to reconcile or mind, psyche, to use the Greek lower forms of life to have what he both with Darwin's theory of the word for it, that is unique to each of falsely calls thoughts; or he is a com­ evolution of biological life by sur­ us, and that the inner experie nces of bination of universal human pat­ vival of the fittest. But, as Robinson that mind or soul lie at the heart of terns of emotions and desires over sets forth in these Terry lectures, what it means for each of us to be which he has little control; or he is given at Yale, these three major human , and which is imbued with simply misled into thinking that he modern and postmodern ways of fascination and mystery in liter a-

WilliamH.Willimon the throne. The reign of God has come near, and that nearness in Undone space and time , has subv ersiv e hy Undone by Easter implications, here , now. God tak es Keeping Preaching Fresh up room among us as Lord, and Easter By William H. Willimon. Abingdon . Pp. 110. $14, thereby subverts, pushes aside com­ paper. ISBN 978-1-4267-0013-2 peting rulers. When our preaching of the gospel is detached from visible, active obedience to the gospel here and now (that is, the chur ch) and Even seasoned preachers hav e to support his thesis that the Good from th e tens e, expect ant, disrup­ the urge to find something new and News of God breaking into history is tive power of God's future (that is, innovativ e with which to enlighten not just histori cal, but an essence esc hatology) , our preaching wilts their congregations each time they of th e present. Jesus' bursting forth into some sort of report on a past take to the pulpit, especially when from the tomb on Easter is not just event rather than, as it ought to be, preaching on the major feasts of the an event of long ago, but must be proclamation of a divinely disrup­ Chur ch year. William H. Willimon seen as a bursting forth into our tive present reign" (pp. 38-39). says thos e prea chers have a wrong lives today. Preach ers today need to Undone by East er is a concise perspective, beca us e "High Holy see that "the good news of Jesus book but not quick reading. It is a Days get 'old' mostly for us preach­ Christ stays news." most thoughtful and challenging ers .... No lay person ever asked, Resp onding to a question quoted book and should be given the time 'Easter? Again?' Most laity come to by Brueggemann ("Can God become due its significance, for all who are church on thes e high days hoping it present? "), Willimon recasts it: "Do called to preach the good news of will be 'again"' (p. 3). we preachers have the guts to name Jesus Christ and for laity who are "How can we preachers proclaim the world, the pr ese nt world, the serious about their faith. Willimon's the gospel time and time again with­ world we've got, as God's world , ideas can help those who are on the out destroying the gospel?" Willimon here , now ?" (p. 86). receiving end of sermons to hear the writ es. "The answer lies not in us Willimon adds: "In a sense, on good news as not simply histori cal but in the gospel." East er or any oth er high holy day, but as God working in our present­ The author freely uses reflections our challeng e is the same as on any day lives, bringing to our here and from many theologians and preach­ Sunday - belief not only that Jesus now Incarnation , Redemption and ers, including Karl Barth, Dietrich Christ is Lord, but that he is Lord Salvation. Bonho effer, Walter Brueggemann, now and all other lordl ets are not. (The Rt. Rev.) Ru ssell E. Jacobus Thomas G. Long, and N.T. Wright, There is room for only one Lord on Bishop of Fond du Lac

16 The Living Church • May 8, 2011 Joan Chittister's New Book

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How Hauerwas Found His Faith

Review by Elyse Gustafson has done well precisely because he ings, that Hauerwas hasn't always knows his own limitations. been at home (and perhaps still Hannah's Child is not the memoir Many of us associate Stanley isn't) among university elites; what one would expect from a famous Hauerwas with intellectual prestige. we learn in this memoir is why. intellectual. There is little cutthroat Sure, he's known for blunt one-liners "Good God, I'm a long way from competition or self-congratulation. and a feisty, combative style, but we Pleasant Grove!" is a favorite refrain The memoirist sees in himself no appreciate Hauerwas's candor of Hauerwas's. It first occurs after entitlement to fame or success . because he has walked the halls of Hauerwas leaves his working-class Instead, he offers readers an prestigious universities. He has pub­ hometown of Pleasant Grove, Texas, intensely personal and humble lished dozens of books. He has trav­ to pursue a theological education account of the making of a theolo­ eled the world. And yet we may be amid New England's socially privi­ gian and a Christian from a man who able to sense, in his previous writ- leged. More than 1,700 miles sepa-

JoanChlllisler RowanWlfilams with us offering spiritual direction to llNCOMMON the Church, reminding us that our GRATITUDE UncommonGratitude forebears were people of the exile, Alleluia for All That Is and that growth and change , move­ By Joan Chittister , OSB, and Archbishop ment and exploration, is a state of ALLELUIA Rowan Williams. Pp. 208. Liturgical Press. our being. Throughout our wander­ roR A:,.:::L-"-l --­ $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8146-3022-8 ings, our "dangerous and free God" THATI is with us. He writes simply in another med­ Uncommon Gratitude is a book the arsenal with which we face our itation: "Life, we come to under­ of brief meditations accessible to a enemy . "It is we who are being stand, is simply the process of grow­ broad spectrum of believers . Sister tested for character in conflict , not ing into God." Joan Chittister writes 18 medita­ the enemy, nor the other ." In this collection of meditations tions, and Archbishop Williams She covers such topics as sinners there are beautifully written pas­ writes another five. and saints, and bids us to claim our sages that invite pause and reflec­ In a meditation on "Divisions," Sr. citizenship with the fallen of every tion. The archbishop gracefully taps Joan writes: "Being able to think dif­ age, and with those whose God­ our reflective nature, and sends us ferently from those around us and given goodness and love are an more deeply into thoughts we have being able to function lovingly with essential part of our character. already experienced . Sr. Joan and people who think otherwise is the As may be expected, Archbishop Archbishop Williams offer words ultimate human endeavor." Rowan Williams writes in a very dif­ and reflections that offer a "mini­ Sr. Joan cha lleng es us to move ferent style, but the effect is the retreat" through which one can feel beyond the limited definitions of same: to draw us into faith-filled utterly full and refreshed. words currently in vogue. For exam­ reflection on everyday topics. The book is a walk through the ple , she broadens the definitions of He begins by using common Paschal Mystery. It takes everyday poverty, generosity, liberty , andjus­ words and ideas and offers fresh life experiences and weaves tice so that we can be more expan ­ insights. In a meditation on "Gene­ together death and disappointment, sive in our ability to move through sis" he reminds us: "Instead of point­ insight and growth, sin and libera­ conflict . ing us neatly back towards a golden tion. It is a book of Alleluias for the "Conflict," she writes, confronts age in the ancestral hom e, the story marvelous richness of life. us with the test of integrity. It is one of repeatedly leaving home ." (The Rt. Rev.) Geralyn Wolf requires that we review constant ly It is as if the archbishop is sitting Providence, Rhode Island

18 THE LIVING CHURCH • May 8, 2011 transformation of the self' (p. 10). In outside of the university. He had lost college, he ravenously devoured the interest in "being saved"; questions work of any thinker who had of friendship, character and virtue learned to speak truthfully over the had become far more important. course of a lifetime. The same was After a few years at Augustana , true in divinity school: his first year Hauerwas taught at the University of was spent absorbing the works of Notre Dame for 15 years. Teaching Barth and Aquinas, Kierkegaard and from within a Roman Catholic insti­ Wittgenstein . In his dissertation he tution precipitated in Hauerwas a tried to "demonstrate the link period of intense intellectual devel­ between the truh of what we say we opment. Yet while his academic life believe and the shape of the lives was flourishing, his personal life we live" (p. 69). This was what he was spiraling. During Hauerwas's wanted to do with his life, and he time at Notre Dame, Anne was diag­ Hannah'sChild found the work exhilarating. nosed with bipolar disorder and A Theologian's Memoir Hauerwas soon found a teaching treated without success. By Stanley Hauerwas . Eerdmans . Pp. 287 . position at Augustana College. He had For ten years, Hauerwas and their $24.99. ISBN 978-0-8028-6487-1 married a young woman named son, Adam, learned to live with the Anne, and the two moved out to Rock uncertainty and pain of Anne's ill­ Island, Illinois, to see what life was ness. Anne's mind and behavior rated Hauerwas from Pleasant like among Swedish Lutherans. At were often uncontrollable, but Grove, but the distance was more Augustana, Hauerwas was increas­ through it Hauerwas learned to live than geographical. Both intellectu­ ingly pulled into the life of the "out of control," relying not on him­ ally and spiritually, Hauerwas found Church. He was still uncomfortable self but on the kindnesses of oth­ himself living in another world . calling himself a Christian, but church ers. As Anne's illness forced him to The world of Pleasant Grove that was quickly becoming his main face the limits of his own energy, shaped Hauerwas's early years cen­ source of community and friendship (Continued on next page) tered on frequent revivals at the local Methodist church, which were held in the hopes that someone would "get saved." Sunday after Sun­ day, Hauerwas attended these meet­ ings thinking that he should get saved but unable to make it happen. The words didn't "work" God didn't If Christianity seem "there" for him. is about Even as a teenager, Hauerwas sensed that words are important, anything, that the words a person speaks should reflect the shape of that per­ Hauerwas son's life. If Christianity is about any­ thing, he thought, it is about learning thought, to speak the truth. Hauerwas could not bring himself to fake "being it is about saved." Instead, in a last-ditch effort, learning he decided he would "dedicate his life to the Lord." He decided that if to speak God was not going to save him, he "would at least put God in a bind by the truth. being one of his servants in the min­ istry" (p. 3). From that point on, Hauerwas was drawn to descriptions of Chris­ tianity that demanded a "lifelong

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HAUERWAS (from previous page) mantling religion based on the prin­ Hauerwas learned how to receive On Not ciple that, above all, we should feel friendship from others and discov­ good about ourselves. "We are doing ered what it means to be held Worshiping an exceeding ly good job of teach­ together by the grace of God. ing youth what we really believe: "I've come a long way from Pleas­ Whatever-ism namely, that Christianity is not a big ant Grove!" appears again toward deal, that God requires little." the end of Hannah's Child (p. 283). Review by F. Washington Jarvis Dean defines the basic beliefs of But this time, the distance implies Moralistic Therapeutic Deism as fol­ not an empty gap but a distance This superb book comes out of lows: travelled . "The kind of Christian I the author's work with the National • A god exists who created and am, the kind of academic I am, the Study of Youth and Religion, and is orders the world and watches over kind of person I am, has everything ostensibly for those working with life on eart h. to do with that distance. That dis­ adolescents. But it is really a book • God wants people to be good, tance, moreover, creates the space about the adult church, and one that nice, and fair to each other, as taught that makes the story I have to tell everyone interested in the Church's in the Bible and most world reli­ possible" (p. 17). The distance that future should read. The author is a gions. was once a cultural chasm creating Methodist and a professor at Prince­ • The central goal of life is to be uncertainty and self-suspicion is ton Theological Seminary. The happy and to feel good about one­ now the space in which Hauerwas self. has taken up permanent residence. • God is not involved It is the space in which Hauerwas in my life except when I acknow ledged and embraced his Almost need God to resolve a limitations and, in so doing, learned Christian problem. how to tell the truth. What the Faith • Good people go to of Our Teenagers Hauerwas's memoir is a com­ Is Telling heaven when they die. pelling account of the making of a the American Moralistic Therapeutic theologian and a Christian . Hauer­ Church Deism, in short, is about was gives us a glimpse into the By Kenda Creasy Dean ourselves,whereas Chris­ strangeness of his own journey to Oxford . Pp. 254 . $24 .95. tianity is about God. faith, and in so doing, teaches us ISBN 978-0-19-531484-7 Dean writes about that being a Christian is strange. worshiping at "the Learning this is no small task; it is Church of Benign What­ the work of a lifetime. ever-ism," a feel-good After over 40 years of study and church that demands lit- service, Hauerwas now manages to book's title is taken from the words tle or nothing in the way of belief or call himself a Christian. He doesn't of the father of Methodism, John action, a church devoted to our­ call himself a Christian because he Wesley: "The Church is full of almost selves. Such a chur ch is a far cry had an emotiona l moment in his Christians who have not gone all the from the truly Christian Church that teens, because he wants to look like way with Christ." worships God and follows a Christ everyone else, or even because he's The National Study of Youth and who calls to a life of cost ly self-sac­ indifferent about what being a Chris­ Religion reveals that young people rifice. tian means. Hauerwas calls himself long for a real faith - something to "We confuse Christianity with self­ a Christian because it is true. Han­ believe in, something to live for, preservation, which is the very nah's Child is an important book for something even to die for. But what opposite of Jesus' own witness, and anyone who wants to learn what it the mainline churches are often giv­ the antithesis of his call to his disci­ takes to speak the truth. ing them is what Professor Dean ples to take up their cross and fol­ calls Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. low him," she writes. Elys e Gustafson is the assistant to This is a watered-down , tepid "The God portrayed in both the the rector at St. Peter's Episcopal "impost er faith that poses as Chris­ Hebrew and Christian Scriptures Church in Arlington, Virginia, tianity." It is "a bargain religion, asks, not just for commitment, but where she directs programs for cheap but satisfying, whose gods for our very lives. The God of the youth, young adults, and families require little in the way of fidelity or Bible traffics in life and death, not with young children. sacrifice." It is an easy and und e- niceness, and calls for sacrificial

20 THE LIVING CHURCH • May 8, 2011 love, not benign whatever-ism." It is no wonder that teenagers are not inspired by such a vapid reli­ gion. In 1956, speaking at the 100th anniversary of St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, Paul Tillich spoke of how the youth of Germany in the 1930s were longing for meaning and purpose in their lives, something to live and die for. The church offered them a tepid, undemanding version of Christian ­ ity. Not surprisi ngly the youth of f.a'J r'fafher0Jfhe

May 8, 2011 THE LIVING CHURCH 21 The Suburbs Arcade Fire Merge Records

Suburbia's Steady Drone

When the Grammy for "Best Album" was to music together, grow their hair long and awarded to an alternative rock band from dream of escape. Canada over such popular acts as Eminem The album speaks of an aimlessness to and Katy Perry, a flurry of outrage swept life. Perhaps the suburbanite has a job, per­ through various social webs. Many people haps even cars and a 1970s house, but there simply had never heard of Arcade Fire, is no real life there. Resignation prevails; the although it fills very large venues and tours people in these songs show no struggle tirelessly. If Lady Gaga is a spectacle of against the powers, no anger, no zeal. This modern culture, Arcade Fire is a mirror. shows up sonically too. In previous records Arcade Fire's first record, Funeral, is a pro­ vocalists infused almost every song. On The found expression of unfettered youth, a Suburbs they show up rarely and do not polyphony of parts barely yet successfully rally listeners. Likewise there is a near single­ held together by thunderous drums and a minded focus on the guitar, which either chorus of vocalists. The Suburbs is in many drives a fuzzed and droning tempo or drifts ways the negation of Funeral and a search­ listlessly above the chord structure . Arcade ing tale of the modern suburbanite. Fire's familiar organ, piano, violins and accor­ Funeral and Arcade Fire's second album , dion are very rarely heard. Neon Bible, abounded in movement , in run­ The Suburbs captures a youth culture of ning, in singing. The Suburbs struggles even endless stimulation but few job prospects, of to remember what movement was like limited incomes but multiple electron ic ("Ready to Start" and "We Used to Wait"). devices. In this landscape college is still the Instead, "Modern Man" waits in a line, pas­ norm but students doubt that it leads to a sively accepting the hidden and pervasive more prosperous future . Boomerang chil­ authority of forces outside his control. dren live with their parents into their 30s and Suburbs are the eerie realm of flat change careers multiple times . Arcade Fire "Sprawl" and the rising peaks of "dead sees contemporary youth culture with dis­ shopping malls." Such an oppressive space comfiting clarity. How well are politicians feels like "A City With No Children" in it, a and preachers responding to the widespread space from which vigorous life has been pessimism and skepticism of the suburban drained, where there is "No Celebration" and wilderness? where hours now are "wasted " and the "half­ Tony Hunt lit" nights are spent driving through the Minneapolis , Minnesota streets, recalling when friends used to listen http://theophiliacs .com

22 THELIVING OHURCH •- 11.:2011 Cosmology

VANI T All By Andrew John Archie

Out of the blue, there was a face from the past. It was as if I had run into an old friend. Sitting in a movie theater, I was watching The King's Speech, the story of the stuttering King George VI and his partnership with Lionel Logue, the maverick Australian speech therapist who forged an unlikely friendship and worked together to cure the king of his disability. It is rich and fascinating, with some excellent performances. And, in the middle of this psychological drama, onto the screen walks the 97th Caricature of the Bishop of Stepney, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop from Vanity Fair, April 19, 1906. of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang.

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(Continued from previous page) ration for George VI. No archbishop has ever been When I was a teenager, Cosmo Gordon Lang was closer to the royal family. He was one of Queen Vic­ my hero. Other kids may have revered Mick Jagger, toria's favorite preachers. He had been George V's Che Guevara, John F Kennedy or Mickey Mantle; but most intimate confidant and was at his bedside when my hero was an Archbishop of Canterbury born a he died. He was outspoken in his opposition to hundred years before me. Seeing Lang again after so Edward VIII's romance with the twice-divorced Wal­ long, made me tlunk that with an archbishop for a lis Simpson. He confirmed the present queen. After hero, in the long run, I was probably not good for the 1937 coronation, George VI made him a Knight much else other than being an Episcopal priest. But Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. the movie also gave me a chance to think about Lang Lang was a complex character. His many facets from the perspective of someone who has been a seemed to be best illustrated by their contrasts. One priest for nearly 25 years. contemporary described him this way: "There are The archbishop as rendered by the actor Derek two men in Lang - a canny Scot, and a narrow­ Jacobi had practically no basis in history. As ripping minded man at that, who is on the lookout for what a yam as the movie is, it gets quite a bit of history he can get; and a sentimental Highlander." A friend wrong. The preeminent British historian Andrew said of him: "He might have been Cardinal Wolsey Roberts has pointed out the man who would be king or St. Francis of Assisi, and he chose to be Cardinal would never have disdained Australians by calling Wolsey." After sitting for a portrait by Sir William Logue "a jumped-up jackaroo from the outback." Orpen in 1924, Lang remarked to Hensley Henson, The royal family cherished the ties of the Bishop of Durham, that the portrait made him look empire and the sacrifice Australians had made "proud, prelatical and pompous." Henson replied: in the Great War. Nor did Edward VIII taunt "And may I ask to which of these epithets does his younger brother for his stutter. They Your Grace take exception?" were close friends. It was mistaken to sug­ When an archbishop from Sweden saw the same gest that their grandfather, Edward VII, portrait, he said: "That is what the Devil meant him wanted their father, George V, to "be fright­ to be, but thanks be to God it is not so ." The artist ened" of him. The two men were so close himself said, "I see seven archbishops. Which one that Edward VII brought George V's desk am I to paint?" next to his at Buckingham Palace so they "Lang was indeed a fascinating topic for discus­ could work together. sion," church historian Adrian Hastings said, "a man Similarly, Queen Mary is depicted as a of so many characters, the inner workings of his per­ cold and heartless mother, yet it was to his sonality hidden far more mysteriously than in most mother that George VI turned to for solace great ecclesiastics beneath the varied public roles during his abdication. Nor would Wallis which he played through a long and highly success­ Simpson not have curtseyed to members of ful career with such masterful virtuosity." the royal family, or the Queen said, "Very nice to He had an illustrious academic career at Oxford. meet you" rather than "How do you do?" A private He gave himself as a curate in the slums of Leeds. He secretary would not have spoken of "The built a strong parish church in Portsea, and counted Duke" rather than "His Royal High­ the king as his friend. He was a challenging, cerebral ness." Roberts believes that the preacher. On his summer holidays, he would spend film was badly in need of a his­ hours each day in his chapel, in prayer. A Scotsman tory consultant. from Glasgow, he succeeded brilliantly at the heart of The movie portrays the English establishment, always imparting the suit­ Archbishop Lang as dis­ able spiritual note . loyally trying to maneu­ At the same time, Lang was decisive in 20th-cen­ ver Logue out of the tury Anglicanism. First, as Archbishop of York from picture, forcing another 1908 to 1928, and then as Archbishop of Canterbury speech consultant on until 1942, his leadership shaped the ethos and sym­ the king on the verge of bolism of Anglican worship for generations . the coronation. Nothing Eucharistic vestments, candles on the altar, the use could have been further of wafers instead of bread, the eastward-facing posi­ from the truth. Lang felt tion of the celebrant at Communion - all gained nothing but awe and admi- acceptance under Lang. Lang was the first Arch-

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bishop of Canterbury to wear a miter since the Ref­ n in The LivingChurch are available. ormation. Under his stewardship , Anglican worship clergyand churchdiscounts. ) 646-6529 regained continuity with what had gone before the Reformation. Thirty years after I first discovered Cosmo Gordon SHRINE OF OUR LADY Lang, in the midst of my own career as an Anglican OF CLEMENCY clergyman, it has been fascinating to think back on Continuous Novena daily at 5.45pm someone who had captured my imagination so long Send your prayer requests to ago. I am struck by how much has changed. The Canon Gordon Reid world Lang inhabited might as well be another S.Clement's Church, 2013 Appletree St. planet. Lang was a "churchman" rather than a spiri­ Philadelphia , PA 19103 The King's www.s-clements.org tual leader, long past the time when "churchman­ ship" was the kind ofleadership required. The Gospel Speech has was part and parcel of what had been established made me about Lang's world. The "establishment" was glad he was there. But the Gospel's place at the table was pray once being questioned in his own time. The abdication cri­ again that living sis was a symptom of that questioning. The adventure of ministry today is not found in the soul of being part of the way the world works, but in being a church clear alternative to that world. Lang knew the tide of Archbishop faith had turned and was headed out, but he didn't Lang rest know what to do about it. We know which way the .org tide is heading and we know how to sail against the in peace. tide. We know more clearly than Lang that it is God, not nations, that rule the world. And today we are clear that we come to that realization through con­ Advertisers... version, not assimilation. We have to learn the lan­ guage of faith if we are going to use it. Don't forget these special Not everyone knows what it means to pray. Not issues coming from TLC everyone knows what it means to be a sinner. Not everyone knows what it means to be saved. The June 5 Church is much more important today than it was Ecclesiological Debate in Lang's time 80 years ago. If the world is basically Close: 5/3 Ad Due: 5/ 6 Christian, the Church is not all that crucial. All that is needed is a change of mind, a change of heart, June 19 some tinkering here and there. Today the Church is Summer Parish Administration nothing less than the foothold of the Kingdom of God Double Circulation! More than where you learn a whole new language, where you 16 ,000 issues distributed become a part of a people who wouldn't be without Close: 5/ 17 Ad Due : 5/20 the light of Easter morning. The Church's job is to transform us with an experience of God in Christ, July 3 who is vigorous, righteous, and just. Political Theology The King's Speech has made me pray once again Close: 5/31 Ad Due: 6/3 that the soul of Archbishop Lang rest in peace. I am grateful that this complex character captured my July 17 jejune imagination with the way things once were, Liturgical Arts so that when the time came, I was able to answer Close: 6/ 14 Ad Due: 6/ 17 God's call to the priesthood, and, together with my parishioners, to be faithful in all that is to come. ■ Co nt ac t Tom Parker [email protected] The Rev. Andrew John Archie is rector of The (414) 276-5420 ext. 16 Church of St. Michael & St. George, St. Louis.

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Appointments son administration honored him for his 1975-80;and rector of Zion, Oconomowoc, work on the War on Poverty in Ringwood. WI, from 1980 until 1988 when he became The Rev. J. BrentBates is rector of Grace In 1971 he became executive director of the rector of St. Luke's, Tulsa, OK, where he Church in Newark, 950 Broad St., Newark, Camp and Conference Center of Delaware, served for two decades. At the time of his NJ 07102. then rector of St. John's, East Hartford, CT, death he was employed as a chaplain at St. The Rev. JohnD. Bedingfieldis rector of 1973-82,where he was instrumental in start­ Francis Hospice, Tulsa Survivors include St. Barnabas', 400 Camellia Blvd., ing the Friendship Center which feeds the his wife Lynn; a son, David, of Tulsa; his Lafayette, LA 70503. homeless and families in need to this day. In mother, Ann, of Tulsa; two brothers; and The Rev. ClarkeFrench is rector of Holy addition to his wife, Mary, he is survived by several nieces, nephews. Family, 200 Hayes Rd., Chapel Hill, NC his daughters, Elizabeth of Bolton, CT, and 27517-5633. Mary Lou Shefrin of East Windsor; eight Other deaths as reported by the Church The Rev. WilberforceMundia is rector of grandchildren; and a great-grandson, Pension Fund: St. Bartholomew's, 308 Homestead Park, Cameron Cianci. Apex, NC 27502-4445. EdwardB. Hanson 61 Atlanta,GA The Rev. MichaelC. Nationis chaplain JohnE. Holman 76 Richmond,VA The Rev. WilliamPatrick Douthitt, 64, for Ministry on the River, the Seamen's ClementU. Hulick 88 Berne,NY Arlington,VA Church Institute pastoral care ministry died April 3 at home in Tulsa, of can­ MartinG. Humphrey 59 WalterW. Ives 87 Iron Belt,WI with mariners in the Lower Mississippi cer. He was born in Manhattan, KS, graduated BarbaraA. Knotts 64 Greensburg,PA River region. He is based in Vicksburg, MS. NadineV.H. Leffler 87 Yerington,NV The Rev. JohnJ. Negrotto,Oblate CSJB, from Duncan High School in 1965. He was a is interim rector of St. Thomas', PO Box Methodist before becoming an Episcopalian 742, Red Bank, NJ 07701. while in college at the University of Okla­ The Rev. AdamJ. Shoemakeris rector of homa. He also graduated from Nashotah Sendyour clergy changes Holy Comforter, PO Box 1336, Burlington, House Seminary. He was ordained deacon to Peopleand Places: NC 27216-0557. in 1973 and priest in 1974. Fr. Douthitt was [email protected] curate at St. Mark's, Glen Ellyn, IL, 1973-75; P.O. Box 514036 Ordinations rector of St. Christopher's, Oak Park, IL, Milwaukee, WI 53203-3436 Priests North Carolina- GabrielLamzares, St. Michael and All Angels', 1704 NE 43rd Ave., Portland, OR 97213-1402; Sara E. Palmer,St. Mary's, 108 W Farriss Ave., High Point, NC 27262; KathleenR. Pfister, Good Shepherd, PO Box 5176, Austin, TX 78763- 5176.

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Retirements The Rev. AnthonyNorman Noble, as rec­ tor of All Saints', San Diego, CA. Deaths The Rev. AlvaG. Decker,81, of East Windsor, CT, died March 24. He was born in Newark, NJ, and served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He attended the University of the South and transferred to Fairleigh Dickenson Univer­ sity where he received his bachelor's degree. He graduated from Berkeley Divin­ ity School at Yale in 1960 and was ordained deacon and priest. His served St. Mary Mag­ dalene, Newark, NJ, 1960-63, then served Church of the Incarnation, West Milford, NJ, and Good Shepherd, Ringwood, NJ, • • 1963-71. During this time, the Lyndon John- www .1ncarna t10 n. o rg

May 8. 2011 • THE LIVING CHURCH 27 SUNDAY'S READINGS I May 8, 2011 THE LIVING CHURCH VOLUME 242 NUMBER 10 Third Sunday of Easter EDITORIAL Dr. Christopher Wells ExecutiveDire ctor (ext. 15) Sorrow,Scripture, and Sacrament John Schuessler ManagingEditor (ext. 11) Acts 2:14a-36-41; Ps. 116:1-3, 10-17; 1 Peter 1:17-23; Luke 24:13-35 Douglas LeBlanc Editorat Large(ext . 22) Amy Grau GraphicArtist (ext.13) The story of the disciples on the them. This anticipates his promis e road to Emmaus and their encounter that "I will remain with you always, BUSINESSAND FULFILLMENT Sue Lang with the Risen Lord exposes both even to the close of the age." In what Office/Business Manager(ext. 1 7) their grief and the prospe ct of future manner? As Jesus reclin ed at table Ruth Schimmel Accounting/BusinessA ssistant (ext.20) hope. As the disciples set out, they with th em, "he took bread and Thais Jackson are talking among themselves about blessed it and broke it and was giv­ FulfillmentManager (ext. 21) all that has happened concerning ing it to them." Suddenly, "their eyes ADVERTISINGAND MARKETING were opened and they knew him." Tom Parker Jesus of Nazareth. Their sad delib­ AdvertisingManager (ext. 16) erations have a small glimmer of Jesus having vanished from their Amber Muma hope , as they are said to be, accord­ sight, they "meditate" again asking, AdvertisingAssociate ( ext. 12) Renee Weber ing to the Vulgate translation, "seek­ "Did not our hearts burn in us, while Marketing/Promotion Director( ext. 19) ing" and "meditating." Sorrow, con­ he was talking to us on the way and

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Fourth Sunday of Easter The Rt. Rev. Anthony J. Burton, Secure in His Power to Save Dallas, Texas The Rev. Thomas A. Fraser, Riverside, Ill. Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10 G. Thomas Graves Ill, Dallas, Texas The earliest disciples understood lives upon a certain course, includ­ the risk they were taking in follow­ ing specific binding commitments, Mrs . John M. Hayden, La Crosse, Wis. ing the Risen Lord. Facing their from which we cannot tum back, The Rev. Charles Henery, fears, they engaged in distinctive without doing violence to our own Delafield, Wis . practices to lift their hearts and steal inner being, our own deepest truth, their nerves for the challenge of liv­ which is Christ alive in us? When The Rt. Rev. Bertram N. Herlong , ing their lives. "They devoted them­ the second-century martyrs boldly Franklin, Tenn. selves to the apostles' teaching and confessed their faith, they did so Jordan Hylden , Durham, N.C. fellowship, the breaking of bread because their hearts were wedded and the prayers." In communion to Christ. Their identity and integrity The Rev. Jay C. James , Raleigh, N.C. with their Lord, they exhibited as men and women stood in the bal­ David A. Kalvelage , Pewaukee , Wis . "signs" and "wonders ." They shared ance. Having believed that "It is no their possessions for the good of all, longer I who live, but Christ who David H. Keller, Greenville, S.C. and the relief of the poor. At home, lives in me," they feared the "denial" they broke their bread "with glad more than death itself. The Rev. Steven J. Kelly, Detroit , Mich . and generous hearts ." They did this Even now, in certain places, Chris­ The Rt. Rev. Edward S. Little 11, not only for private or even mutual tians face grave dangers. What of South Bend, Ind. solace, but as a way to store up those less threatened? We have also strength and power for the time of been summoned to Christ, and in The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson , trial. union with him we have vowed our Alexandria , La. Not a popular homiletic theme, to lives to commitments , responsibili­ Richard J. Mammana , Jr., be sure, but who can look into the ties, spouses, and children. Joy in New Haven, Conn. face of Christ for long without hear­ full measure may come, for which ing a summons to sorrow? Yes, he is our heart should sing and our spirits The Rt. Rev. Steven A. Miller, raised from the dead, and he has dance. But sorrow will come too. Milwaukee, Wis. poured his life into us, and he gave God helping and strengthening, we Daniel Muth , St. Leonard , Md . his solemn promise: "I have said walk with Christ along this path. It is these things to you so that my joy what John Henry Newman called a The Rev. Canon Michael Perko , may be in you, and that your joy may sorry martyrdom, not particularly Albuquerque , N.M. be complete." Of the things he said, heroic, and often tedious. We are David R. Pitts, however, the first still holds true: giving ourselves to Christ, suffering Baton Rouge , La. "Come after me ." Midway in the with him "in our ordinary course." gospels, he becomes more specific: God helping, we will endure until The Rev. Nicholas T. Porter, "If anyone would come after me, let the end. And, week by week, we will Southport , Conn . him deny himself and pick up his gather together for the strength of Ethel Ripley, Mt. Pleasant, S.C. cross and follow me." Our lesson bread and wine , the strength of our from 1 Peter says a great deal about common presence, teaching from Miriam K. Stauff , "suffering unjustly" and receiving the Apostolic Word, our sharing of Wauwatosa, Wis. "God's approval." joys and sorrows. In all of this, we The Rev. Canon Mark Stevenson , The question at stake is this: Are encounter the great power of the Baton Rouge , La. we not all summoned, by circum­ Risen Christ, the Great Shepherd stance and providence , to set our who cares for his sheep. Howard M. Tischler, Albuquerque, N.M.

Shirleen S. Wait, Atlantic Beach , Fla. It Look It Up and ThinkAbout Dr. Christopher Wells, Read 1 Peter 2:21. This is about suffering which is absolutely intrinsic to Milwaukee, Wis . one's vocation, not a justification of all suffering.

May 8, 2011 • THE LIVING CHURCH 29 INCARNATION SCHOOL of THEOLOGY June 13-24 2011

Theology of Luke " [IST]is lielping Monday-Friday,June 13-24 J 9:00 am - 11:00 am me to discern This seminar will focus on the theological purpose of Luke in rela­ what place God .h £ ,, . tion to his ordering of the narrative (diegesis), following on his collect­ as ror me ... ing of eyewitness accounts from those who were present, as he was not, - Paul whea~ley . during the events of Jesus' life, ministry, death and resurrection.

INSTRUCTOR: David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of · Literature and Humanities, Baylor University

Christian Unity in Word and Sacrament

Monday-Friday,June 13-24 J l:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Students in this course will examine Scripture and the history of Christian thought on the matter of the Church as a baptismal and eucharistic body under the sign of grace/ election.

INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Wells, Executive Director of the Living Church Foundation and editor of The Living Church magazme

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