Alabama Psychological Health Summertime THE July 7, 2013 LIVING CHURCH C ATHOLIC EVANGELICAL ECUMENICAL The Civil War, Church, and State $3.50 livingchurch.org Empowering Congregations. Transforming the Church. ECF’s full range of leadership and financial development resources can help your ministry respond to God’s call—helping you to adapt, build on strengths, and reach out to new frontiers of faith. To learn more, call 800-697-2858 or visit www.EpiscopalFoundation.org. ©2013 The Episcopal Church Foundation THE LIVING CHURCH ON THE COVER thinkstockphotos.com THIS ISSUE | July 7, 2013 Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer directed his clergy to omit the “Prayer for all those in Civil Authority” from the liturgy (see “The Civil War, NEWS Church, and State,”p. 8). 4 Texas Gains $1 Billion in Sale FEATURES 8 The Civil War, Church, and State 6 By Worth “Woody” Norman, Jr. BOOKS 11 A Powerful Blessing by Douglas M. Carpenter Review by Gary G. Yerkey 14 Healing Wisdom edited by Kathleen J. Grider Discovering the Treasure Within by R. Carroll Travis Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment by Nancy L. Bieber Review by Robert D. Hughes III 15 Receiving David by Faye Knol Review by Anna Masi 11 22 17 Family Theology by Carol J. Gallagher Review by Emily Hylden Sic et non 18 A Provisional Solution By Mark McCall CULTURES 22 The Ethics of Dr. Spock By Leonard Freeman 24 Summertime By Ephraim Radner OTHER DEPARTMENTS 20 Cæli enarrant 26 Sunday’s Readings 28 People & Places We are grateful to St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston [p. 25] LIVING CHURCH Partners and to the dioceses of Texas and West Virginia [p. 27] whose generous support helped make this issue possible. The Living Church is published by the Living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 3 NEWS | July 7, 2013 Texas Gains $1 Billion in Sale of Health System The Diocese of Texas has received tution that had become too expen- eligible for funding from the founda- more than $1 billion for health-re- sive for the diocese to maintain and tion will be determined in coming lated initiatives, including more than upgrade. In addition to paying the months, said Carol Barnwell, the dio- $100 million for church planting, as sale price, CHI agreed to invest $1 cese’s director of communication. payment in the recent sale of St. billion in aging facilities. In the meantime, CHI will sustain Luke’s Episcopal Health System. “We knew we were going to need St. Luke’s partnerships with other in- The sale to Catholic Health Initia- more scale in order to navigate the stitutions and will continue to em- tives, a national nonprofit health sys- future,” said the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew ploy its staff. tem based in Englewood, Colorado, Doyle, Bishop of Texas, at a June 4 “We wanted a partner who would was completed May 31. Transferred town hall meeting at Christ Church assets include the Texas Medical Cen- Cathedral in Houston. “It is in the ter campus in Houston as well as four best interest of the diocese and the suburban hospital locations in The mission of this health system to sell.” Woodlands, Sugar Land, Pasadena, Proceeds from the sale will fund and The Vintage. The organization is the newly created Episcopal Health now known as St. Luke’s Health Sys- Foundation, which will focus on the tem. unmet health needs of the area’s un- Through the sale, the Diocese of derserved population. Exactly which Texas parts with a 59-year-old insti- types of projects or services will be Pursuing a Balanced Life The path to a joyful, balanced life is found not in self-preservation but in “abiding in Jesus,” the Rev. Amy E. Richter said in an address to members of Episcopal Health Ministries on May 9. Richter, rector of St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis, was keynote speaker at the NEHM national confer- ence, held May 9-11 in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System photo The St. Luke's campus in Houston She addressed the conference theme, “Health and Wellness in a Fran- tic World.” honor our family,” Bishop Doyle Like Jesus in the story of the wedding at Cana, all Christians “are said. “We didn’t just want anybody called to decide when faithfulness is lived through remaining still and to come in and do the business. We resting and when faithfulness is lived through action,” she said. wanted people who cared about do- “So balance, according to Jesus,” she said in conclusion, “ought to be ing the business on God’s behalf defined not as moderation for self-preservation, but as wholeness for love [and] shared that vision that we are of God, neighbor, and self, and discernment of when to rest and when to transforming lives.” act, when to listen and receive, and when to give.” In keeping with Roman Catholic In addition to its conference, NEHM (episcopalhealthministries.org) of- theology and ethics, St. Luke’s Med- fers resources to support the church in health ministries year round. ical System will not provide surgical NEHM is a partner with the National Institutes of Health’s We Can! pro- procedures related to birth control, gram, encouraging children to eat better and exercise more often. Re- such as tubal ligations and vasec- cently NEHM helped conduct a webinar in which healthcare workers tomies, which had been offered were trained to lead local We Can! programs in parishes and dioceses. through St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Among many other resources addressing healthcare concerns, NEHM System. Likewise, elective abortions lists more than a dozen to promote healthy weight, including advice from will not be offered. the Episcopal Church Medical Trust on starting a walking program. “Our ability to help underserved The next NEHM conference will be in New Orleans in May 2014. women and those with little access Recently the Obama Adminstration announced a new mental health and less choice has been exponen- website (mentalghealth.gov) and recognized NEHM along with dozens of tially expanded by the creation of the other nonprofit and private-sector organizations that promote under- foundation,” Barnwell said via email. standing and awareness of mental health. Barnwell said the foundation will spend only the investment proceeds 4 THE LIVING CHURCH • JULY 7, 2013 from its funds, which (at four per- cent per annum), allows for annual Raynal Studios, Inc spending in the range of $40 million. Of the lump sum received as pay- Restoration ment from CHI, 10 percent — or more than $100 million — will be des- Stained Glass ignated for church planting in the re- gion served by the Diocese of Texas. Wood G. Jeffrey MacDonald TLC Correspondent Stone A Fraternal Beginning In their first meeting, Archbishop 1.800.305.0959 Justin Welby and Pope Francis both spoke June 14 of the bonds of friend- www.raynalstudios.com ship and love between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Natural Bridge , VA Communion. The two leaders agreed The Catherine Wheel Window that the fruits of this dialogue and re- 6DLQW 3DXO¶V (SLVFRSDO &KXUFK lationship have the potential to em- Alexandria, VA²Restored 2012 power Christians around the world to demonstrate the love of Christ. The archbishop and the pope agreed on the need to build an eco- nomic system which promotes “the common good” to help those suffer- ing in poverty. Archbishop Welby said that Chris- tians must reflect “the self-giving love of Christ” by offering love and hospitality to the poor, and “love above all those tossed aside” by crises around the world. The pope said those with the least in society “must not be abandoned to the laws of an economy that seems at times to treat people as mere con- sumers.” They also agreed on the need for Christians to act as peacemakers around the world, which they ac- knowledged could only be done if Christians “live and work together in harmony,” the pope said. “I pray that the nearness of our two inaugurations may serve the rec- onciliation of the world and the Church,” Archbishop Welby said. The pope, who said the closeness of their inaugurations meant “we will al- ways have a particular reason to sup- port one another in prayer,” said the meeting was an opportunity to re- member that the search for unity among Christians is not prompted by practical considerations but by Christ, “who made us his brothers and sis- (Continued on next page) JULY 7, 2013 • THE LIVING CHURCH 5 NEWS | July 7, 2013 (Continued from previous page) ters, children of the One Father.” The archbishop, who was accom- panied by his wife, Caroline, visited the tomb of St. Peter beneath the Basilica before praying at the tomb of Pope John Paul II. Archbishop Vincent Nichols, as well as Arch- Brian J. Morowczynski/Othervertical.com photo Communion at St. James Cathedral during the Diocese bishop David Moxon, Archbishop of Chicago’s convention. Welby’s representative to the Holy See, joined him. Archbishop Welby presented Pope Church in North America. Subse- Francis with the papal motto — quently minorities from four of the Miserando atque eligendo (“by hav- departing congregations established ing mercy, by choosing him”) — in Episcopal Church congregations in gold letters on vellum. different locations. In 2009, clergy The motto is from an English and lay deputies from the Diocese of Church father, Bede, whose Ecclesi- Quincy approved the Rt.