The newSpin Newsletter, May 14, 2012
By Bill Lewellis
Published Monday, occasionally also on Thursday
I received a good report from Fox Chase Cancer Center, and have been given another six-month reprieve. Thanks for your prayers.
TopSpin
• Maryland church leaders offer forgiveness ... and funeral services for homeless shooter of priest and assistant. Episcopal Café and Baltimore Sun. • Earlier: Canon Andrew Gerns did yeoman journalism work for Episcopal Café when this story was breaking, keeping us updated on the volatile events that began with the May 3 shooting. Find his account here. A May 5 Baltimore Sun story says the shooter was angry about being told to limit his visits to the church's food pantry.
• Dr. Paul Farmer at Yale Divinity ... [Bill] Those of us who read Tracy Kidder's 2003 book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, know something about Dr. Paul Farmer. The book came highly recommended to me by one of my sons and by a CREDO faculty member. Worth a read. The recent article about Dr. Paul Farmer's recent presentation at Yale Divinity School begins: It is an interesting commentary on the state of the church when the most well-attended event in Yale Divinity School's recent history is a lecture not by a minister or theologian, but by a physician. On April 26, Dr. Paul Farmer, chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, addressed the Divinity School community on "The Corporal Works of Mercy and the 21st-century Struggle Against Poverty." More here. I've often used the Haitian peasants' proverb I read first in Mountains Beyond Mountains: "God gives but God doesn't share." It's a response to why God permits such misery. Farmer explains that “God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he’s not the one who’s supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.” That's worth a few paragraphs in a stewardship sermon.
• President Obama says same-sex marriage should be legal ... [NYTimes] Long a proponent of civil unions, Mr. Obama said his views had changed in part because of prodding by friends who are gay and by conversations with his wife and daughters. “I had hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought that civil unions would be sufficient,” Mr. Obama said. “I was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people, the word marriage was something that invokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.” Mr. Obama also invoked his Christian faith in explaining his decision. “The thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the golden rule — you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated,” he said. “And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids, and that’s what motivates me as president.” More here. • NYTimes editorial. On the other hand, from the Charlotte Observer, evangelist Franklin Graham accused the president of having “shaken his fist” at God. “It grieves me that our president would now affirm same-sex marriage, though I believe it grieves God even more,” Graham said in a prepared statement. Finally, Andrew Sullivan has an excellent round up of reaction focusing on the religious aspects of President Obama's historic endorsement of marriage equality and a Newsweek cover story the First Gay President.
• The new normal ... [Gallup Politics] U.S. acceptance of gay/lesbian relations is the new normal. The slight majority of American adults, 54%, consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable. Public acceptance of gay/lesbian relations as morally acceptable grew slowly but steadily from 38% in 2002 to 56% in 2011 and is now holding at the majority level.
• Herbert D. (Hap) Syle, III, died this morning (May 14). Details are not available at this time. Hap and Mary Jane Syle, served the diocese and their home parish, St. Paul's Montrose, in many ways over the years. Hap was the great-grandson of Henry Winter Syle, the first deaf person to receive Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church, 1876, commemorated in Holy Women, Holy Men on August 27.
• Requests now being accepted for New Hope Grants ... [Daniel Gunn] The New Hope Grants Committee is ready to receive and consider requests for disbursements from the New Hope Campaign. The total amount we are able to grant for the 2012-13 calendar year is $70,000. This is the last year of major grants. We are inviting Letters of Intent from parishes and Episcopal-related organizations within the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem. The Deadline for Letters of Intent is 2 July 2012. More here.
• Churches remain relevant despite decline in membership ... [The Morning Call, Bill Lewellis, May 4] Declining numbers in churches of whatever flavor have become a truism, probably since the halcyon I-Like-Ike 50s but especially over the past few decades. Wednesday's Page One story detailed the past decade's local decline. Declining numbers often mean church closings. Witness the closing of Roman Catholic churches over the past few years. They received remarkable publicity because they were done wholesale and drew controversy. There have been many others, somewhat under the radar. Is there positive spin we might give to this phenomenon of changing churches? More at The Morning Call and the newSpin blog.
• Benedictine Wisdom ... Trinity Bethlehem rector Laura Howell will present a program on Benedictine Wisdom at the May 16 annual gathering of the diocesan Episcopal Church Women at Kirby House. The topic: Prefer Nothing to Christ: Benedictine Wisdom for the Christian Life. Bishop Jack will also be there. More here.
• The new user-friendly, useful and attractive DioBeth website ... A complete do-over. Explore a bit. You'll find it eminently user-friendly, useful and attractive. www.diobeth.org . As a retired communication minister, I'm so proud of Kat's work and the work of everyone who had a hand in putting this together. It will become, I'm confident, an effective tool for evangelism. I will not hesitate to refer it to anyone who expresses to me an interest in becoming an Episcopalian and a parishioner in the Diocese of Bethlehem.
• High School Mission Trip ... Here.
• Diocesan Events for 2012 ... Here.
• Diocesan Life, May/June ... Stories on St. Alban's, Sinking Springs, Family Promise at All Saints, birthday bags for the Nazareth Food Bank, our New Hope campaign update from Charlie Barebo, Vocare, Bishop's Day for Kids, the Whitehall Food Pantry, What is a deputy? (for General Convention) and more. Here.
• DioBeth Website ... newSpin Blog ... Re:Create blog for youth and young adults ... Twitter.DioBeth ... Twitter.Kat Lehman ... Facebook.DioBeth ... Flickr, search under dio_beth
• Public news and info lists ... At the Diobeth website , enter your name and email in the "Get Connected" box. You are welcome to subscribe to any or all of these. "Bakery" is our diocesan interactive list.
ParishSpin
• Dallas ... Prince of Peace Church searching for organist/choirmaster. Here.
• Pottsville ... Last concert of the season, May 20, features the Fyve Woodwind Quintet. One of the five classically trained musicians dedicated to the finest performance of chamber music is St. Gabriel Douglassville parish administrator Sally Heist. More here. In the photo, Sally is on the left with the French Horn.
• Wilkes-Barre ... [Times-Leader] The members of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre have been fired up about collecting money for the church’s Reach Food Pantry. But the bowls they’re using to muster the cash have been generating plenty of heat as well. For the fifth year in a row, the church will auction off bowls that have been hand-painted by church members and fired in a kiln. More here.
• Luzerne County ... Regional Ascension Day celebration. Here.
• Note to parishes ... Send news summaries and links to Bill.
• Diocesan Life, May/June ... Stories on St. Alban's, Sinking Springs, Family Promise at All Saints, birthday bags for the Nazareth Food Bank, our New Hope campaign update from Charlie Barebo, Vocare, Bishop's Day for Kids, the Whitehall Food Pantry, What is a deputy? (for General Convention) and more. Here.
• Weekly eNewsletters from parishes
Allentown, Grace Church, May 10.
Bethlehem, Cathedral Church of the Nativity, May 11.
Bethlehem, Trinity Church, May 9.
Dallas, Prince of Peace Church, April 27.
Easton, Trinity Church, May 11.
Trexlertown, St. Anne's Church here, click on "Weekly Calendar."
There may be others. If so, please send me a link.
• Monthly Newsletters from parishes ... Most parishes publish a monthly newsletter that is mailed to parishioners. Many, if not most, of those are available at the parish websites.
• Calendar of Events ... Here.
General Convention 2012 in July
• How resolutions move through General Convention ... Here.
• What is a deputy ... Diocese of Bethlehem deputation chair Anne Kitch recommends Cathy Bailey's new post on the GC Deputies Blog. "As we approach the 77th General Convention in July," Canon Kitch writes, "there will be more and more news about events and issues in the Episcopal Church. The deputies will be posting updates on the blog as our way of keeping you in the loop. As always, please feel free to contact any of the deputies with questions about General Convention. Deputies are available to meet with parish or regional groups. Our contact information is on the blog."
• The Blue Book ... information and resolutions for GC2012 is available for downloading. Here.
• May 9: Live webcast to address Episcopal Church General Convention 2012 ... Here.
Episcopal/Anglican
• Philadelphia cathedral parish houses face demolition ... [Philadelphia Inquirer] The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, a decade after withering criticism of what many viewed as a destructive renovation of its own ornate Victorian interior, is planning to demolish two historically certified brownstone structures in the 3800 block of Chestnut Street to make way for a 25-story apartment tower. The project, which goes before the Philadelphia Historical Commission Friday, would obliterate the cathedral’s parish houses, designed by the noted ecclesiastical architect Charles M. Burns, and connect the proposed tower and administrative offices to the church itself via glass-enclosed walkways cut into the cathedral’s façade. Originally built in 1855 and known as the Church of the Savior, the Philadelphia Cathedral was at one time the home parish of some of the city’s most illustrious families, who showered it with sculptures, decorative furniture, Tiffany stained glass windows, elaborate murals, wall stenciling, and countless other decorative details. In 2000 and 2001, virtually all of the interior was ripped out or obliterated by paint and plaster in an effort led by then-Dean Richard Giles, who favored clear white space. The experience shocked many parishioners and preservationists. More here. No decision on demolition. Here.
• May 19: Episcopal Presiding Bishop, Archbishop Desmond Tutu to discuss mission in live webcast ... Here.
• Cast your vote for a queer positive church ... [Huff Post, Winnie Varghese] St. Mark's Church in the Bowery is one of 40 contestants in an online contest sponsored by Partners in Preservation to give away $3 million of preservation funds in New York City. More here.
• Tom the troubadour ... [Christian Century blog] How bad off can the Anglican Communion be when one of its bishops is a great writer, theologian – and Dylan impersonator? Here. [h/t RNS Daily]
• Misrepresented facts about the ACNA ... [Episcopal Café] The Rev. John Yates, rector of the schismatic Falls Church, is entitled to his own opinion about the events that led him and his followers to break with the Episcopal Church. But his own facts? More here.
• Episcopal News Weekly bulletin inserts ... Download inserts here.
• Episcopal Church new website ... complete transformation and redesign, launched December 28, efficient and user friendly. Read about it here. ... Episcopal News Service ... ENS blog ... Episcopal Church on Facebook ... Episcopal Church on YouTube ... Anglican Communion website ... Anglican Communion News Service. ... Anglican Communion News Service on Facebook.
TaleSpin
• Conversation with a stranger over coffee at FCCC ... [Bill] Near diagnostic imaging on the third floor of Fox Chase Cancer Center is a pleasant waiting area for relatives and friends of those in surgery – coffee, tea, donut amenities, and a volunteer who gently keeps the anxious informed. After lab work and CT-Scan, still an hour before seeing my doctor, I usually break fast there, one donut every six months. Last Monday, I sat near an African-American man of about 50. "Whom are you waiting and praying for," I asked after an appropriate interval. "My wife." I gave him a minute to say more, if he wished to go on. "She's having a trache." He explains why. Then, "We've been married 22 years. She's had a tumor in her chest for 20, often in remission, but the past three weeks have been hell for her... Decisions ... I wish I could trade places with her ... but then she'd feel like I feel now and would want to trade places with me ... Decisions." We spent a few more minutes talking, and sitting in silence. "I'll pray for her ... and you." "Thank you."
• Walter Wink, 76 ... [Epscopal Café] an influential biblical scholar and theologian died on May 20. Here.
• When 'none of the above' doesn't fit ... [Episcopal Café, Andrew Gerns] Better a heretic than an atheist. Kate Blanchard reflects on her spiritual journey and finds that none of the usual labels--religious, spiritual or atheist--fit. More here.
• The historical origins of Mothers' Day ... [Episcopal Café] Read a thoughtful piece here. You may be surprised.
• The Golden Rule rules ... [Andrew Gerns, Episcopal Café] David Gibson at Religion News Service notices that in America, the Golden Rule--treating others as you wish to be treated--is still at the heart of popular (and political) American religious thought. More here.
• Tax exemption and progressive religion ... [Andrew Gerns, Episcopal Café] The New York Times ran a "Room for Debate" on whether churches should continue to enjoy tax exemption. Among the variety of views was the observation that tax-exemption allows for freedom of religious expression by small progressive groups mainly in cities where taxes are generally higher. More here.
TailSpin
• RC bishops investigating the Girl Scouts ... [U.S.Catholic] This is a joke, right? Their cookies are so delicious. Here. Also at Killing the Buddha. [h/t Jim Naughton at Episcopal Café]
• You won, but they can't give you the $40,000 prize at school ... [Catholic News Service] A gay student at a Catholic high school in Iowa won a scholarship from a foundation that honors the memory of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old tortured and murdered in Wyoming in 1998 because he was gay. Everyone is proud of Keaton Fuller, but the Catholic diocese says the Eychaner Foundation folks cannot actually present the scholarship to Fuller at graduation because the foundation also “supports equality in marriage for any two people committed to monogamy.” More here. [h/t Religion News Daily]
• Double play ... [Telegram, Worcester MA] Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus won’t get to go to graduation at Anna Maria College: After McManus pressured college officials to disinvite Ted Kennedy’s widow to speak at commencement, the college asked McManus to stay away as well because they felt the bishop would “be a distraction.” More here. [h/t Religion News Service Daily]
• The horror of Time's breastfeeding cover ... [First Things, Matthew Schmitz] On the cover of this week’s Time magazine, we see a mother breastfeeding her son of nearly four years. In my book, that’s too old for a child to breastfeed. What I’m really worried about, though, isn’t the child’s age. It’s the baring of a breast on the cover of a mainstream magazine. This is just lurid. How could an image of a breastfeeding mother ever be allowed in public? Oh, wait . . . See here.
• Phew! ... [WaPo] New discoveries in Guatemala apparently destroy the notion that the ancient Mayans predicted the demise of the world in 2012.
Resources
• Free online education at Harvard and MIT ... [NYTimes, David Brooks, summary from The Atlantic Wire] Online education has been around for years, but the recent announcement that Harvard and MIT would commit millions to free online education confirms for Brooks that the trend is becoming a "tsunami." "Many of us view the coming change with trepidation. Will online learning diminish the face-to-face community that is the heart of the college experience? ... The doubts are justified, but there are more reasons to feel optimistic," he writes. Online learning will give millions access to the best educational resources. And paradoxically, the concerns that it will diminish interaction and other important elements to learning may force universities who have been ignoring those things even in the real classroom to rethink how to provide them. "My guess is it will be easier to be a terrible university on the wide-open Web, but it will also be possible for the most committed schools and students to be better than ever," he writes. More here.
• In-Formation in Bethlehem ... Canon Kitch's newsletter of lifelong Christian formation resources. May.
• Holy Women, Holy Men ... Download Holy Women, Holy Men as a .pdf file.
• Congregational Resource Guide ... May 1.
• Daily Office ... Lectionary Page ... Lectionary ... Oremus Bible Browser ... Revised Common Lectionary
Opinion/Commentary/Reflection
• Changing the church? Let Peter meets Cornelius ... [America] Like Peter, Acts 10, we may need a voice from heaven to get us to stop dividing the world into the clean and the unclean, the bad and the good, insiders and outsiders. Here.
Moravian
• Moravian Church in North America website. Moravian Church Northern Province website. Moravian Theological Seminary website.
Evangelical Lutheran
• NEPA Synod website ... Here. ELCA website ... Here. ELCA News Service ... Here. ELCA's blogs may be found here. See especially "Web and Multimedia Development."
United Methodist
• Why the Methodists did what they did ... [Episcopal Café] in rejecting any official accommodation of conscience for clergy and laity in the Methodist Church who are supporters of marriage equality. Here. Though The Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have all voted in recent years to end their outright prohibitions on openly gay clergy members, Laurie Goodstein reports in the NYTimes, theological conservatives in the United Methodist Church have held sway in the 40 years that the church has been debating the issue.
• UMC website Here. News Service Here. Communication Resources Start here. Communication newsletter (tips and tools) Here. Eastern PA Conference website Here. Facebook Here. Bishop Peggy Johnson's blog Here.
Roman Catholic
• RC bishops are picking a fight this election year ... [Tom Roberts, Analysis, NCR] Few would have wagered a year ago that this presidential election season would be marked by a call to arms for Catholics to fend off the impending death of religious liberty in the United States. Or that one of the hot-button cultural issues in the presidential campaign would be distribution of contraceptives under the Affordable Health Care Act. Most pundits may see the election as a referendum on the economy, but the Catholic bishops of the United States seem determined to focus on what they insist are dire threats to religious liberty and the claim by some in their ranks that President Barack Obama has a pronounced anti-religious and anti-Catholic bias. More here.
• RC bishops criticize Ryan's 'Catholic' budget ... A day after a House committee approved Paul Ryan’s “Catholic” budget, the Catholic bishops reiterated their opposition to it on moral grounds: “The proposed cuts to programs in the budget reconciliation fail this basic moral test.” [h/t Religion News Service Daily]
• Unfinished work: Examining ten years of clergy sex abuse ... [NCR, Joshua McElwee] Ten years after widespread news coverage of sexual abuse by priests rocked the U.S. Catholic church, hierarchical response to the continuing crisis indicates the church has “lost its ability to be a self-correcting institution,” Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese told a symposium of experts on clergy abuse today (May 11). Reese delivered the keynote speech this morning at a daylong conference titled “Clergy Sexual Abuse Ten Years Later,” being held at Jesuit-run Santa Clara University. Following Reese is a series of panel discussions from a wide-range of sex abuse experts. ... Reese addressed “the unfinished work of responding to the sexual abuse crisis.” He said that despite changes in church policy to better investigate abuse, “the problem in the Catholic church today is that the hierarchy has so focused on obedience and control” that it can no longer fix itself. “Creative theologians are attacked, sisters are investigated, Catholic publications are censored and loyalty is the most important virtue. These actions are defended by the hierarchy because of fears of ‘scandalizing the faithful,’ when in fact it is the hierarchy who have scandalized the faithful,” said Reese, a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Woodstock Theological Center. “We still do not have a system for bringing bishops to account,” Reese said. “It is a disgrace that only one bishop (Cardinal [Bernard] Law of Boston) resigned because of his failure to deal with the sexual abuse crisis. The church would be in a much better place today if 30 or more bishops had stood up, acknowledged their mistakes, taken full responsibility, apologized and resigned. A shepherd is supposed to lay down his life for his sheep; these men were unwilling to lay down their croziers for the good of the church." More here.
• E.J.Dionne on not quitting the Catholic Church ... Here.
• The landmark Philadelphia abuse trial ... Already seven weeks and counting. Find daily reports and complete Phila Inquirer coverage. The Morning Call has also been publishing daily coverage.
• Diocese of Allentown ... Here. Diocese of Scranton ... Here. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ... Here. Catholic News Service ... Here. Vatican website ... Here. Vatican Information Service blog ... Here. Vatican News/Info Portal ... Here.
Health
• Medline Plus ... Here.
• WebMD ... Here.
Media/Films/DVD/TV/Books/Music/Tech
• Maurice Sendak, author of splendid nightmares, dies at 83 ... [NYTimes] Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83. Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which was simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963. More here. • Find a 2011 interview with Sendak in The Atlantic, on the first book he wrote and illustrated in 30 years, here. • "Where the Wild Things Are," read by Christopher Walken, here. • This fond memory of his mother may explain something of Canon Andrew Gerns ... My mother was a librarian and I remember how "Where the Wild Things Are" was a banned book. Sometime around 1966 or 67 , she worked in a local library when a group of "concerned parents" wanted it put behind the counter instead of on the shelves--along with a long list of other "troubling" books (including I think "A Wrinkle in Time." Why? I don't know!) The director agreed. So one night my mother brought me and my brother and some friends to work one evening when the library was the busiest. She had us all sit behind the counter and quietly read Maurice Sendak and other banned books. There were about six maybe eight of us, I think. Enough to fit into a station wagon. When her boss asked her who all these kids were and what were they doing, she'd say "don't worry, these books are behind the counter just like you asked." Her little protest worked. They went back out on the shelves.
• The power of "once upon a time": A story to tame the wild things ... [Scientific American] "Once upon a time." Four words. You don't need anything more, and yet you know at once what it is you're about to hear. You may not know the precise contents or characters or action that is about to unfold. But you are ready to take on all of these unknowns. You are ready to succumb to the world of the story, Maria Konnikova writes at the Scientific American. And with his many "once upon a times," Maruce Sendak showed us what the power and promise of those words, at their best, can be. [h/t Leadership Education at Duke Divinity]
• God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right ... [NCR] Jerry Falwell: fundamentalist, evangelical, Christian, homophobic, extremist, paradoxical. He was a preacher who transcended lines. Vocal about the moral decline in the United States due to liberal social agendas, by the end of his life Falwell could count Sen. Ted Kennedy and pornographer Larry Flynt as personal friends. Author Michael Sean Winters believed Falwell deserved close study. This biography proves he was correct. Not least, Winters illustrates how Falwell’s legacy is evident in current national politics. More here and here.
• In One Person ... [Bill] That's the title of John Irving's latest book. In my more prudish days, I'd hesitate to recommend it to anyone ... but those were the days. A review in the Seattle Times begins: " In many ways Billy Abbott is the prototypical misfit of an American coming-of-age novel: He hates his parents, he finds little in common with his peers, and he spends much of his waking hours consumed by lust. The twist in this affecting story of Billy's life journey is that his lust is directed at both females and males. 'We are formed by what we desire,' Billy declares early on in John Irving's 13th novel, and although sexual desire in its many and varied permutations is thoroughly explored, it is the humanity of the characters that shines through at the end." The reviewer concludes: "Irving's characters are most memorable. It feels reductive to mention some of them — lest they seem ridiculous ... In Irving's experienced hands, however, they are presented with respect and affection, and never seem less than human." I like John Irving's prose. I feel myself a better human being on those occasions when I'm thrilled by it. You might also enjoy, as I did, the entended article by Benjamin Percy about John Irving, now 70, in Time magazine, May 14. Too bad it's behind a paywall. "If you presume to love something," Irving says for that article, "you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product." Percy says this is Irving's way of "saying that legacy does not concern him so much, that his life as a writer has been about the drills, the practice, the lovely drudgery of putting one word in front of another and building characters and worlds that may speak of their time but will also, with the help of faithful readers, be lasting."
Calendar of Events/DioBeth ... Here.
Additional sources of news/info/commentary
• Religion News Service Daily Roundup ... here.
• Faith in Public Life ... here.
• Episcopal/Anglican
(1) The Episcopal Church
(2) Episcopal News Service
(3) Episcopal Café
(4) AngicansOnline.
(5) AnglicansOnline News Centre.
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