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"Be on your guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be brave. Be strong. Be loving in everything you do." - I Corinthians 16:13-14 |
Well, at least as we expected.
Karen from Lent & Beyond sends along this chart showing the steady decline since 2000. From my thumbnail calculation, there was a 7.2% decline in average Sunday attendance in between 2001 and 2004.
Of course, these are the numbers that reporting parishes and dioceses choose to report to 815. I know there are some folks out there on both sides of this debate waiting to spin these numbers up and down, so have at it.
Bishop Gene Robinson joined Bishop William Swing of California in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Episcopal gay advocacy group (I know, I know... redundancy alert) Oasis. In a statement released by Oasis, Robinson is sure to get a lot of run from his remarks that gays and lesbians will one day win the battle for "full inclusion" in the Episcopal Church. Lodged squarely between his remarks about inclusion, though, is this observation about the non-crisis:
In related news, six Episcopal churches in the Diocese of Florida have left ECUSA, but not because there's a crisis. Bishop Howard wrote his diocese about the events, acknowledging that everything is just bubbles and lemondrops. A letter from the six churches kindly implies that Bishop Howard is lying through his teeth, while the folks at Calvary Anglican announce they're handing over the keys. (Meanwhile, three parishes in Los Angeles moved closer to winning their property suit with the diocese, not that anything's wrong out there). And orthodox lay organization Anglican Alliance of North Florida agrees that everything is hunky-dory, feeling the love and releasing this statement.
And finally, over in Cairo, they're sending flowers and boxes of sweets to ECUSA and Canada. Meanwhile, don't forget about our annual stewardship drive, and there's coffee and danishes in the parish hall...
NASA has made available a video clip showing all the named storms of 2005. It uses QuickTime, so you may have to download a plug-in for it to work. It's well worth the effort to see this amazing clip. (Click "Continued" below).
On the heels of Archbishop Robin Eames' visit to Virginia Theological Seminary, during which he opined that ECUSA was in compliance with the Windsor Report, comes this call via Integrity's email listserv from John Clinton Bradley, Integrity's director of communications (at whose "wedding" to The Rev. Michael Hopkins, Bishop John Chane of the Diocese of Washington. D.C. officiated):
Everybody got that? If you're having your same-sex relationship blessed in the Episcopal Church, which the Windsor Report asks the church not to do, please contact the BBC so they can interview you for a film on it, which isn't happening, because Archbishop Eames says ECUSA is in compliance with Windsor.
by Bill Boniface
It’s nothing new to find myself appalled by statements from our presiding bishop, but in an address recently to a Japanese audience here he goes again, though this time in a more political vein:
Dateline Japan - Griswold also told the congregation that "Perhaps the single most disappointing moment for me as primate of the American Church is the decision by my government to wage war against Iraq."
Going abroad to represent all of us in his billing as "the primate of the American Church" and publicly trashing the country in front of a congregation of foreign church folks? Man, I’m glad none of my hard-earned dollars helped pay for that trip!
It does prompt me to sit back and reminisce a little, though. You know, like when a funny smell wafts by zephyr-like and takes you immediately back to some earlier time and place.
In this case, I was taken back to January, when some of us held a prayer vigil outside our capital’s National Cathedral while inside the bishop was giving his keynote convention address. After hearing particulars about the speech we had missed while we were out praying to God to somehow save our confused Church, I was glad not to have been there listening to him lay down the gauntlet to those of us who, in so many words, don’t embrace ECUSA’s new agenda.
I thought that fortuitous timing had allowed me to escape the worst, but as we prepared to leave the convention floor later in the day (I can never get through a full day at the cathedral anymore - it’s like apostasy by a thousand cuts), a speaker was at the microphone to ostensibly address the issue of support for military families. The last words I heard, though, were "We need to find a way to help more military men and women become conscientious objectors."
In addition to a gripping bout of nausea predictable for one who’s spent most of his life alongside men and women in uniform who are willing to fight and even die every day for the principle of freedom and our own national security, those outrageous words sent another one of those little "smells" into my nostrils like a blast of compressed air.
Yes, I’d seen these kinds of folks before. Nothing to them is worth fighting and dying for. I taught for a few years at a liberal arts college and can personally attest to the proliferation of this kind of thinking throughout academia (and by the way, any other thinking there on this subject is unofficially proscribed - so much for the broad academic experience mom and dad are paying that $100K for...). This particular college was a Jesuit one, and I recall clearly the day a visiting Jesuit lecturer just back from an escorted visit to Baghdad told the assembled students and professors that Saddam’s palaces were not to be seen as "bad" things - they were part of a wonderful work program for "the people."
Even as I write this, I have a small piece of marble from one of those palaces weighing down the papers on my desk. I picked it up in one of these wonderful "work program" palaces - this one destroyed by Kurds before completion (guess they didn’t get the memo about the "work program" this one was part of ) - the same day I visited Halabja, the infamous village where over 3,000 villagers were killed by a chemical weapons attack. I keep this little jagged piece of stone where I can see it simply to remind me that there is indeed horrible evil in this world - even when a priest cloaks it in the guise of a "work program."
Having dedicated a fair amount of time myself working alongside the UN, Human Rights Watch and various non-governmental relief agencies and other organizations in Iraq to try to save Iraqis and rid them of the evil of Saddam’s unholy Babylon, I find Griswold’s statement naïve in the extreme but typical of many Episcopal clergy who have somehow lost any belief in evil except to apply it in some strange way to their own countrymen. The Iraqis I know don’t think we waged war "against’ them as they go about their lives for the first time in their memories with hope as they look toward the future.
My life experience tells me that people like this lie low and look the other way when women in places like Afghanistan are taken to soccer stadiums and executed before the crowds for half-time entertainment - yet staunchly proclaim rights for women from the safety of the public square. But there are many of us - and I feel assured in daring to say many, many of us - who think the proximate result of that other invasion solved more than putting a terrorist enemy on the run. We understand that rights for people start with the assumption that you have to be alive to enjoy them.
When it comes to Iraq, people like this overlook the half million corpses of men, women, and children having to be dug up today in southern Iraq and the calculated murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the north, the latter a part of a campaign which involved the widespread use of chemical weapons and the wholesale destruction of some 2,000 villages. One project I worked on together with Human Rights Watch was a very lengthy translation effort for tons of captured Iraqi secret police documents. We were looking for a "smoking gun" to expose Saddam once and for all, but the Kurds who captured the documents saw it more simply, pleading with us to "Please just find out what happened to our families who disappeared."
Many - too many - of those with whom I worked in that part of the world are no longer alive, existing for me today only in photo albums thanks to brutal campaigns by the Iraqi regime even as we and the UN tried in vain to protect them. These people never had the chance to dip their fingers in ink, vote for a constitution, or have any reason to hope for their children’s futures. I sense somehow that our presiding bishop in spite of his elevated position is not privy to any special wisdom that might lead him to draw a connection between the encouragement of rising democracy in the near geographic epicenter of jihadist terror and the safety of our families at home.
I used to think many of the folks like Frank were simply guilty of naiveté - and some of them particularly from my generation clearly are, having likely gone into "safe" vocations to escape military service so many years ago so never received any education in realpolitik - but it goes far deeper, and that’s where the biggest problem lies.
They don’t believe in evil the way most people believe in evil. In any event, to their apparent way of thinking, if evil exists in the world at all, it is greatly circumscribed.
Their understanding of evil is limited to those whom they have not yet been able to convince to set aside their stubborn belief in Scripture, to those unwilling to embrace and call down God’s blessings upon moral degeneracy in our culture and our Church, and even now apparently to those who think there is a reason to fight the one enemy of America that can potentially bring the destruction of our way of life - on our terms and on their soil.
I see evil differently and my own "single most disappointing moment" as a member of Frank’s and my common church occurs in Groundhog Day-fashion every morning when I wake up and have to face the fact that there really isn’t "more that unites us than divides us."
My world view - including my view of evil and what our response to it must be if we are to both survive as a people and remain faithful as a Church - and that of Frank Griswold will always divide us. No doubt Frank and I both pray to the same God to make us all one in the Body of Christ as He intended, but even in that context, how can we ever find common ground when all that he apparently thinks makes for a better world and a better Church are exactly the things which I believe to the depths of my soul will destroy both?
Maybe it’s time for one of those recently popular "You don’t speak for me" tours to start around the country. As he stands in the pulpit as the "primate of the American Church" addressing folks on the other side of the globe, Frank Griswold represents all of us in his audience’s minds whether he thinks so or not.
So let me add yet another voice to an ever-growing number in our Church who are saying, "You don’t speak for me, Frank!"
Civil rights legend Rosa Parks has been dead for barely 36 hours, and Integrity President Susan Russell is out of the gate in record time, trivializing Parks' death by comparing the struggles of gays to that of blacks.
If the Supreme Court had waited for consensus Brown v. Board of Education would still be awaiting a decision and segregation would still part of the fabric of this nation.
...And if the Holy Spirit and the Diocese of New Hampshire had waited for consensus before raising up V. Gene Robinson as a bishop in the church of God the Episcopal Church would have failed to live up to its promise of "full and equal claim" for gay and lesbian Christians resolved nearly 30 years ago at the 1976 General Convention.
And Russell, like most gay activists, can't seem to get it through her head that most African-Americans - even those involved in civil rights struggles of the 1960's - dismiss gays' comparisons of their plight to that of blacks as silly and presumptuous:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson also has said homosexual rights are not the same as civil rights.
"Gays were never called three-fifths human in the Constitution," he recently told Boston-area students.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders wrote:
For good measure, she notes that:
It didn't matter that no one could point to any discriminatory act on Lumpkin's part. What he thought was his crime.
Rosa Parks was a courageous woman of whom the civil rights movement in this country can be proud. She doesn't deserve to have her memory defiled by the likes of Susan Russell.
Rosa Parks died today. The woman who arguably changed a nation by the simple act of taking a seat on a bus is now seated at the Heavenly Banquet. The seamstress who insisted that she was entitled to "full and equal claim" on the civil rights promised her as a citizen of these United States has gone to greater glory. May she go from strength to strength in a life of perfect service -- and may her example be for us the icon of activism to which we are called in our own generation.
Lord knows we have not yet finished with the sin of racism in this country but where on earth would we be, I wonder, if Rosa Parks had waited for "consensus" before took that seat to which she entitled as a citizen of these United States -- before she challenged the unjust laws inscribed by those with the power to exclude -- before she put her life on the line by insisting that the "liberty and justice for all" we subscribe to when we Pledge Allegience to the Flag are empty words unless and until the "all" truly means "ALL."
Where would we be indeed.
"Consensus" is great in theory and dangerous in fact -- dangerous when it is used by those with the power to do so to preserve at all costs the status quo that gives them the power they wield to their advantage.
If Rosa Parks had waited for consensus, African Americans would still be riding in the back of the bus.
If the Supreme Court had waited for consensus Brown v. Board of Education would still be awaiting a decision and segregation would still part of the fabric of this nation.
If the Philadelphia Eleven had waited for consensus, General Convention 2006 would still be debating the ontological viability of the ordination of women and the Episcopal Church would have been cheated of decades of mission and ministry offered by women in Holy Orders over these now 30+ years.
And if the Holy Spirit and the Diocese of New Hampshire had waited for consensus before raising up V. Gene Robinson as a bishop in the church of God the Episcopal Church would have failed to live up to its promise of "full and equal claim" for gay and lesbian Christians resolved nearly 30 years ago at the 1976 General Convention.
It is long past time for ECUSA to turn that resolution into a reality. The consecration of Bishop Robinson was a step toward realizing that goal. So was the affirmation that the blessing of same-sex unions falls within the bounds of our common faith and practice. I believe it grieves the heart of God that thirty-plus years into this struggle in the Episcopal Church we are not yet "in consensus" about whether all of the baptized are entitled to be fully included in the Body of Christ. Likewise I believe it grieves the heart of God that as Rosa Parks is gathered into the loving embrace of the One who created us all in God's image racism and bigotry are still alive and well in these United States.
"Consensus" will not eradicate racism or overcome bigotry or bring about the coming of the Kingdom. Rather, we follow the one who proclaimed not consensus in the institution but freedom to the prisoner, liberation to the captive: the one who spoke truth to power in his own day and empowered Rosa Parks to do the same in hers.
May we -- following her example -- be given grace to follow Our Lord with the same strength, courage, dignity and tenacity as we continue to strive for the vision of a world healed of all that wounds it; for the dream of a human race transformed into a human family.
(The Reverend) Susan Russell
UPDATE: The Washington Times picks up on the story, and the Anglican COmmunion Network responds.
Via Media has long worked to cloak its real goal - liberalizing the theology of the Episcopal Church to the point of apostasy and beyond - in the language of acceptance and tolerance of multiple viewpoints.
Now comes a memo from a recent Via Media meeting in which a contingency plan was formulated for a "doomsday scenario" following General Convention 2006 in which the Global South breaks communion and Canterbury follows. The plan includes preparing "blank presentments" for use in bringing charges against those Network bishops who might then claim that they are the legitimate representatives of the Anglican Communion in America - much as a district attorney might prepare blank indictments for a slew of people he was planning to prosecute.
The significance of this memo is partly that it represents the thinking of many of the leaders of the Episcopal Church; partly that their thinking assumes a global split in the communion is not just possible but perhaps likely following GC2006; and partly that a global split is exactly what the revisionist ECUSA leadership and fence-sitting bishops have been publicly dismissing as being out of the question, since, as we know, All is Well™.
In this article on its web site, The Living Church describes the memo this way:
"The steering committee meeting was not open to the public and the minutes were not intended for public release," said Joan R. Gunderson, who is listed at the end of the four-page document as temporary secretary. The steering committee, she said, met prior to the start of the Sept. 29-Oct. 2 annual meeting in Dallas, which was open to the public. Mrs. Gunderson, who is also vice president of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh, an independent local organization affiliated with Via Media, USA, said the "strategy discussion" was part of a "what-if" contingency plan based on a "worst-case scenario" in which after the 75th General Convention next June in Columbus, Ohio, the Episcopal Church would remain in a smaller Anglican Communion with the majority of Anglican provinces in Africa breaking communion with the See of Canterbury and the network bishops seeking to follow.
It should be noted that these are not idle thoughts or suggestions voiced by meeting attendees; these are the minutes of the steering committee's meeting.
It is also important to remember that, as we've long predicted here, the most untenable position in this debate is not the one occupied by those on the right, or those on the left. It is the one occupied by bishops such as Duncan Gray of Mississippi, who continue to believe that this crisis is much ado about nothing, and that the middle can hold. If Via Media's "worst-case scenario" - or even a less-worse variation on the theme - does indeed come to pass, bishops like +Gray will find themselves faced with the choice of supporting presentment charges against several of their fellow bishops (either explicitly or, by doing nothing, implicitly), or opposing 815 by speaking out against its actions. In short, the battle lines have been drawn; all that remains to be seen is whether the battle is actually joined. And if it is, there will be no place for fence-sitting bishops to hide.
For lay people, the important issue is to understand that the revisionist wing of the Episcopal Church is anticipating a split, and that lay leaders who choose to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ over the heresy of ECUSA are, as we speak, having bullseyes drawn on their backs by groups like Via Media, who state their intentions to "coordinate with the PB" (presiding bishop Griswold) their prosecutions of those who have "abandoned communion."
By "communion" they do not mean, in the doomsday scenario, the Anglican Communion. They mean the tiny "communion" of ECUSA, which, after a split such as the one they've outlined, will not be an uneasy coalition between recalcitrant revisionist and reluctant orthodox, but one in which the orthodox, by definition, are outlaws.
Why would Via Media so casually mention that their procesutions would need to be coordinated with the Presiding Bishop, if it weren't a given that the PB would go along with their plans? Anyone needing a clearer sign of just how far ECUSA revisionists plan to go in purging their church of theological conservatives is entertaining a fantasy that this church wishes to tolerate their views.
The question to the orthodox leaders within ECUSA now becomes more urgent than ever: What do you plan to do about this?
Brad Drell was first to publish this document. The full text follows.
UPDATE: Don't miss commentary at T1:9, MCJ, and Descants.
UPDATE: Christopher Johnson's "Sharpsburg" reference is apt. It refers to the Civil War's Battle of Antietam. CJ can elaborate if he wishes, but the significance of Antietam is that it represented, along with Vicksburg and Gettysburg, one of the main turning points of the war, a battle that indicated the course the war was to follow. Perhaps more to the point (and perhaps the real reason behind CJ's choice of titles) is that the Union's success can be at least partly attributed to the fact that Robert E. Lee's battle plan fell into the hands of the hapless Gen. George McClellan. I'll stop there before specualting on who, in CJ's eyes, is playing the part of McClellan.
Dixie Hutchinson, Lynn Minor, Steve Westen, Rick Matters, Greg Fry, Joan Gundersen, Meg Ingalls, Andrew Grimmke
People began by introducing themselves. Meg’s parish just gave van bought with UTO money to Diocese of Mississippi.
After a prayer by Rick Matters, we began reports from the field.
VMFW Bishop Iker has been fairly quiet, but has gotten very vocal about women’s ordination. He has sent a formal request to Panel of Reference to shelter them from women’s ordination. He is claiming that the church is forcing him to accept women’s ordination. FWVM always responds with a letter. Sent one to the Panel of Reference. Now have a newsletter with a circulation of 950. Sent to all clergy, including the bishop. Got directories from every parish with membership in their group. The group is having to pay for mailing. They are now 501 c3. Fort Worth budget short $70,000 (i.e. one parish which is even MORE conservative).
Discussion of Hurricane relief and the way the Dallas, Fort Worth and Pittsburgh dioceses have ignored the ERD.
Remain Episcopal At clergy convocation Bishop Schofield announced that the Episcopal Church’s refusal to repent at GC will trigger the diocese announcing that the Episcopal Church has left the A.C. This was part of an announcement about "Where he stands." There is supposed to be a DVD of this talk. He expects the network to be recognized immediately after convention. After convention, all bets are off for those priests who don’t follow his lead. They need to "watch out." In the past he had offered to let liberal parishes leave, but not now.
Dallas The group believes there will be a power battle between Stanton and Duncan for control of new church. Special convention voted to approve Windsor Report (3 no votes). DVM had a great turnout when Michael Battle spoke. Raised $2,000 and travel for him from a call for donations and plus had a surplus. Have e mail list of 200. Stanton says there is no Via Media, and Jekko is now assistant bishop. Have stripped all outreach funds from budget to place in evangelism. DVM is getting ready to challenge this. New interim Dean of Cathedral is Network’s church planting guru, Kevin Martin. Expects to be named real dean.
SW FL Diocese in disarray, bishop coadjutor search on hold. Bishop swings depending who he talked to last. Bishop Lipscomb and Bishop Chane trying to work out DEPO swap. Bishop has said he will let each parish make its own decision as to where to go. They are working quietly, meeting with bishop. Hard to have a formal structure, did have an event for diocese looking at the positive things the church is doing. The chair of the standing committee is a member of S.W. FL.
Episcopal Voices have web site that is begirming to really do good work, a yahoo group, meetings 2 3 times a year with speakers. Quiet group, doesn’t know where to go from here. Lay led. Meg got together a group of clergy, most of whom are VM trying quietly to get as many
people as possible on diocesan committees. They are looking for a way at diocesan convention to create "up/down" roll call vote to make clear who is is going to leave and who wants to remain part of TEC. They had been looking for an outreach project that would build bridges with people from other parishes, Katrina and Rita have given them that. Major committees of diocese are all "owned" by network.
PEP has newsletter, chat list, monthly meetings, convention presence, has been effective opposition at conventions, has done consulting with parishes in other parts of the country, has broken national stories about schism, does briefings for convention.
CESLD two founding members died. Herzog is retiring, wants co adjutor. By getting a coadjutor and not retiring until after Lambeth, they can increase the number of conservative bishops at Lambeth.
During the reports, the steering committee members identified the following questions for a discussion of strategy:
How to prepare for split after 2006 GC
How to address ignoring of ERD in relief announcements. Is this a PR opportunity?
Appeal to ABC to suggest that only diocesans be able to vote at the next Lambeth conference, or to ask for other actions.
How to get other dioceses and groups involved
Are there specific actions or outcomes for us to work on for GC?
Strategy discussion what can we do, then how, then how to reach the larger community.
1. What will be our response the "Day After" when the bishops start announcing they are in a
"new" Anglican Communion and the Network is "recognized" as the only legitimate
expressions of the A.C. in North America?
- Have ready blank presentments for abandonment of the communion.
- Have already drafted request stating that the see is vacant and requesting appointment of interim bishop. Need to coordinate with PB on these appointments.
- Have request for special convention ready to give to interim bishop so that vacant spots in diocesan government can be filled (trustees, council, standing committee, commission on ministry, etc.)
- Be ready to take legal action on property identify who will serve as litigants, what property needs to be covered.
- Have plan for locations and personnel to provide worshipping communities and "safe havens" for the faithful remnants. Identify retired priests and deacons, lay leadership. 2.
2. Build a broader awareness and support for VMUSA and the coming crisis.
- Tap into provincial presidents.
- Build sister parish connections and lay leadership.
- Find a group of bishops to work with, including PB candidates
- Cultivate Executive Council, Officers of General Convention
- Cultivate local press
- Develop criteria for recognizing schism
- Recruit 5 7 national leaders to be in a teleconference with us. Rick Matters to set up phone call and hold it. Chris and Joan will be the others involved. They will set followup steps and identify next phone conversation. Possible participants Jenkins, Parsley, Alexander, Titus Pressler, George Werner, Jon Bruno, John Chane, Catherine Roskam, Chilton Knudson, Edward Little, Don Johnson, Mark Dyer, Sauls, Bill Carroll. Deadline Nov. 15.
3. New Public Awareness campaign to be headed by Steve Westen
- To engage seminary professors in discussion
- To connect with others in church who are concerned
- Westen to create his own committee and come back with a proposal by October 29.
4. Each allied group is asked to find someone (not necessarily a lawyer) to act as liason on legal issues to help coordinate and share information.
The committee then looked for volunteers for specific tasks. Meg Ingalls will do letter to request interim bishop after "abandonment." and have request ready to ask to hold special convention to fill vacant spots. Oct. 15
Dixie will talk to a former chancellor about whether he would help us with presentment boiler plate and for lawsuits (Oct. 15)
Every group to get a legal liason for VMUSA. (10/29)
Communicate: Steve Westen talked more about his vision of the wider public relations effort: Name the threat or challenge
Sketch the cost and the promise
Outcome of immediate and long term consequences
Steps to take after having done the above: Broadcast widely, network of seminary educators to do responses to this issue, of fice of general convention, of fice of pastoral care, staff individually, staff of Episcopal Life, NY Times, Jim Lehrer, Washington Post, Bill Moyers, Larry King live, NPR (Barbara Bradley Haggerty).
Joan will talk with George Werner about what happened here and if there is something that we should be approaching Executive Council about. Should we ask an Exec Council to have a representative at our next steering meeting.
VMUSA authorized Rick Matters to meet with ABC in March, (Mar 15 27) Joan to write a letter for us to sign. Cameron as back up if ABC out of town.
Christopher to contact Province Presidents by mid November and establish a contact.
Nancy Key to write up the concept of sister parish.
Next in person meeting in Lodi, Travel to arrive on 1/26/06 through 1/28/06 at noon. alternative dates are first two weeks in Feb.
The Steering Committee adjourned to go to dinner and then open the general conference with a reception that night.
Joan R. Gundersen
Temporary Secretary
I like Brother Hoagland already, who is practicing what he presumably preaches:
Enough was enough, Hoagland said. So the principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School canceled the spring prom in a 2,000-word letter to parents this fall.
"It is not primarily the sex/booze/drugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be; it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity's sake - in a word, financial decadence," Hoagland said, fed up with what he called the "bacchanalian aspects."
"Each year it gets worse - becomes more exaggerated, more expensive, more emotionally traumatic," he added. "We are withdrawing from the battle and allowing the parents full responsibility. (Kellenberg) is willing to sponsor a prom, but not an orgy."
Scottish composer Stuart Mitchell took 20 years to crack a complex series of codes, which have mystified historians for generations. His feat was hailed by experts as a stroke of genius.
The codes were hidden in 213 cubes in the ceiling of the chapel, where parts of the film of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code were shot this week.
Kendall probably doesn't want me mentioning this, but while he and the webelves have been fiddling incessantly with categories (pfft...neat freaks), I've been watching that little SiteMeter counter on the right side of his home page, which recently passed the 1,000,000 mark.
Congrats, big guy!