Raleigh,
North Carolina, June 21-23, 2010
Printable Version of the Conference Brochure
Available Here
Pre-Conference Event: Sunday, June 20
7:00 p.m.
Annual
Dinner of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, at the
Clarion Hotel
presentation by
the Rev. Canon J. Robert
Wright, D.Phil.,
St. Mark’s
Church in the Bowery, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and
Historiographer of
the Episcopal Church,
“Globalization and
Catholicity: The Historiography of a Recent Tri-lateral Dialogue”
Monday,
June 21
3:00
p.m.
Tri-History Conference registration,
Church of the Good Shepherd
Reception immediately following service in Shepherd’s Hall, Church of the Good Shepherd
Tuesday, June 22
8:00
a.m. Morning Prayer Service
Chapel in Parish Life Center - Church of the Good Shepherd
9:00-10:30 a.m. - Panels I
The
Rev. Dr. Heather A. Warren
The
Rt. Rev. Carol J. Gallagher, Ph.D. B.
Globalization and the Witness
of the Church
Miranda
K. Hassett, Ph.D. Globalization
is
a phenomenon created by individuals and organizations actively forging
worldwide connections. The development of a sense of global Anglican
identity in the late 1990s and early 2000s was closely tied to the
Anglican
struggle over attitudes towards homosexuality during the same period.
New North/South inter-Anglican alliances
developed to oppose church tolerance of homosexuality, strengthened by
highly-motivated Northern partners and by norms of reciprocity that
made Southern partners’ participation meaningful. The success of these
global alliances carries lessons for anyone seeking to build
trans-local
relationships for common mission.
Gardiner
H. Shattuck
Jr., Ph.D. This
paper examines the involvement of Anglicans in refugee relief in the
Middle
East from the beginning of the Armenian genocide prior to World War I
through the
creation of the state of Israel following World War II. It places
Anglicans’ longstanding concern for
the plight of refugees in the Holy Land and other parts of the Middle
East within the context of evangelistic efforts by the Church of
England and the Episcopal Church throughout that region.
Assoc. Prof., University of
Virginia
“‘That They
All May Be One?’:
Ecumenism,
Missions, and Partnership, 1910-2010”
This
paper looks at shifts in ecclesiology that arose as the international
ecumenical movement gained
momentum through the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. From
the World Missionary Conference of 1910 through the Toronto Anglican
Congress of 1963, church leaders’ ideas about the nature of missions
and the nature of the church influenced each other, leading to the
articulation
of new arrangements for the ways that the churches understood
themselves in
relation to each other. The post-colonial decades
have stirred their own share of ecclesiological exploration, resulting
most recently in the tragic irony of debate over “inclusiveness” in
Episcopalian ecclesiology, whether directly or indirectly, becoming a
flashpoint for
disunity.
Rector, All
Saints' Church, Harrison, NY
“Beaded
Prayerbooks: Episcopal
Partnerships with
Native Peoples”
This
paper will look at the many ways the Church has partnered with Native
people over
the past four centuries. It will also help us understand what the real
impact of
those partnerships has been on our Church and the Anglican Communion.
Panel Moderator: Rev.
Dr. Harold Lewis
Rector, Calvary Church,
Pittsburgh, PA
Asst.
to the
Rector, St. Andrew's Church, Hopkinton,
N.H.
“Common
Priest-in-Charge, Church of the Good Shepherd, Pawtucket,
R.I.
“Serving Christ in the Land of
His
Birth: Anglicans and Refugee Relief in the Middle
East,
1895-1950”
Panel Moderator: The Rev.
Dr. Grant
LeMarquand
Academic
Dean, Trinity
School for Ministry, Ambridge, PA
C. NEHA Skills Workshop -
Introduction to Archives
Susan G. Rehkopf
Archivist and Registrar, Diocese of Missouri
This
is a workshop for both novice and experienced archivists alike.
Whether your congregation already
has an archival system – or
you don’t know where to begin – this workshop will provide you with information to
improve on the system you currently have in place, or will help you get
started and get you energized to
take the next steps.
10:45
a.m.-12:15
a.m. - Panels II D. Education and
Mission
“Good
Intentions: The Diocese of Alabama and Female Education ca.
1845-1920”
Mary
Sudman
Donovan, Ph.D. At the
end of the Civil War, the Episcopal Church formed the Freedmen’s
Commission to address the plight of newly freed blacks. Under its
direction,
a troop of northern women moved into the South to establish schools and
religious programs. This paper examines the clash between the
political and religious bureaucracies established
to “aid the freedman” and the idealistic reformers recruited to
administer the “aid” and suggests some future implications of that
struggle.
Several
attempts to establish an Episcopal school for girls in Alabama were
made in the diocese's first 75 years. All
failed, in contrast to the schools established by other denominations
in Alabama and Episcopal schools elsewhere. The
history of these schools tells something about Alabama Episcopalians
and their attitudes. The conclusions will suggest
reasons why the schools failed.
former President,
Historical Society of the Episcopal
Church,
“Educating
the Former Slaves: Isabella James and the Freedmen’s Commission,
1866-1870”
Project Archivist; ECW
Archivist/Historian, Diocese of North Carolina
“A Distinctive Contribution: The
Bishop Tuttle Memorial Training
School, 1925-1941”
Panel
Moderator: Fredrica
Thompsett, Ph.D.
“Where
can a young Colored woman get training for Church work?” You, too,
might have asked this
question in the early 1920s. Through its funding and
organizational leadership the Woman’s Auxiliary answered by building
the Bishop Tuttle Memorial Training School in Raleigh. This
school’s rise and demise form a long
overlooked chapter in Episcopal Church and American social history.
President, Historical Society of
the Episcopal Church
“
Rector, St. Matthew's Church, Hillsborough, NC and Historiographer,
Diocese of North Carolina
In
the mid-1960s, North Carolina was home
to the NC Fund, an ambitious statewide, bi-racial organization that
sought to confront directly issues of race and class in an effort to
address
systemic and entrenched poverty. Headed by a lay
Episcopalian, George Esser, the NC Fund brought into prominence
community organizer Howard Fuller, whose controversial project, the
Malcolm Liberation University, Durham, NC,
initially received financial support from the 1967 General Convention
Special Program. The film Change
Comes Knocking documents the work of the NC Fund – its
lasting achievements and its unfinished agenda. Commentators
will highlight the engagement of the
Episcopal
Church in
this work.
Commentators
Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.,
Ph.D.,
Priest-in-Charge, Church of the Good Shepherd, Pawtucket, R.I.
The Rev. Lisa Fischbeck, founding Vicar of the Church of the Advocate,
Carrboro, N.C.
David Dodson, President, MDC (an outgrowth of the NC Fund)
This
workshop seeks to provide basic guidance for those who find themselves
with
archival responsibilities. The focus is
upon proper storage and conservation practices, complete with “Show and
Tell,”
led by the state’s chief preservationist.
12:30
p.m. Annual
meeting of the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists 2:00-3:30
p.m. Workshops
the Church of the Good Shepherd
Established
in 1821,
* Note: H and I will be staggered for the benefit of those who wish to do both
All
Tuesday Afternoon and Evening Sessions at St.Augustine College 4:00
p.m. 5:30
p.m. 6:00
p.m. Keynote Speaker
Tour of St.
Augustine’s
College, including the Bishop Tuttle School
Chapel Service, St. Augustine’s
College
Conference banquet celebrating
the
100th anniversary of HSEC
and 30th of EWHP
Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Center
The Rev. Dr. Harold Lewis,
Rector Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh
|
There
is a last
minute change in keynote speaker for the Tri-History Conference - The
Rt. Rev.
Barbara Harris who was scheduled is not able to travel at this time due
to injury. Instead, the keynote
speaker will be the Rev. Canon Harold T. Lewis, rector of Calvary
Episcopal
Church in Pittsburgh, PA, and author of “Yet With a Steady Beat: the
African
American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church,” and various
other
books. Dr. Lewis's biography may be found here. |
8:00
a.m. Morning Prayer Service
Wednesday, June 23
Chapel in Parish Life Center - Church of the Good Shepherd
9:00-10:30
a.m. - Panels III
Carl R.
Stockton, D.Phil.
Professor
of
History and Academic Dean emeritus,
“No Step Backward:
Alexander Crummell’s Vision of ‘God’s Gracious Designs for Africa’”
This
paper will explore the origins and development of Crummell's theology
of mission; his motivation to be a missionary in Africa; his
missionary
activities in Liberia;
and
finally his disillusionment with missionary enterprise in general and
Liberia
in particular. The paper will attempt to evaluate Crummell's
contribution to foreign mission efforts, especially of the 19th century
Episcopal
Church, in a period of domestic turbulence (1853-1873).
Jesse
Zink
Student, Yale/Berkeley
Divinity
Schools, and former Young Adult Service Corps missionary of the
Episcopal
Church to Mthatha
“Local Control vs. ‘Noblesse Oblige’:
Reconciling Conflicting Mission Values in Mthatha,South
Africa”
Two
central
values in overseas mission work are local control of mission efforts on
the one
hand and, on the other, the use of the superior wealth, education, etc.
of
developed countries for the benefit of people in less developed regions
of the
world. This paper argues that these two values are often in conflict in
mission, particularly when it comes to medical care. Drawing on the
mission
experience of Jenny McConnachie, an Episcopal missionary from North
Carolina who runs a clinic in a shantytown outside Mthatha, South
Africa, the paper cites two examples in
which these values directly conflicted and identifies possible
resolution in appealing to Biblical commands to build up the members of
the local
community. In this way, "empowerment" becomes not just a mission
buzzword but a
meaningful strategy for furthering God's mission of reconciliation.
Lauren
Winner, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof., Duke Divinity School,
and Book
Review Editor, Material Religion
“The
Common Cup and
the Body
Politic:
Episcopalians,
Other Protestants, and the Turn-of-the-Century Debate about Germs”
In
the late 19th century, new knowledge about germs prompted
many clergy, especially in Methodist, Presbyterian, and
Congregationalist churches, to set aside the common cup in favor of
individual communion
cups. This paper will explore both why ministers in other
denominations adopted individual cups (including fears about
immigration and the
"wrong sort" of people's communing with white middle-class Christians),
and
why many Episcopalians resisted the change. Turn-of-the-century
debates about the intersection of health and liturgical practice
reflect
interlocutors’ commitment to health, but they also reflect fears and
anxieties about
the social and political body. Reflection on these past debates
may
illumine the complexities of current-day efforts to implement the MDGs.
Samuel
C.
Shepherd, Jr., Ph.D.
“Bringing
Social
Christianity to Virginia:
Walter Russell Bowie, 1912-1923”
This
paper examines the ministry of Walter
Russell Bowie, called to historic St. Paul’s
Church in Richmond in 1912. Amidst a city known for its
conservatism and its heritage as the capital of the Confederacy, he
brought a vision
of social Christianity to Virginia. He soon inspired his own
parishioners to launch a city-wide campaign
for better
housing conditions. For more than a
decade, Bowie
also championed an array of progressive reforms in his roles as chair
of a new
Diocese Social Service Commission and as an editor for the influential
regional
journal The
Southern Churchman.
Panel
Moderator: J.
Michael
Utzinger, Ph.D.
Elliott Associate Professor
of Religion, Hampden-Sydney College
L. NEHA
Skills Workshop
Susan
Johnson
President, Episcopal Women’s History Project
The Rev.
Dr. Matilda E.G. Dunn
Vicar, St. Mark's church, Copperhill, TN
“Workshop
on
Oral
History: Some What For’s and How To’s”
Discover
some essential questions to ask about your project before you begin to
ask questions
of your subject. Explore the ins and outs of background research,
equipment, audio/video formats, transcripts,
agreements, and distribution of your final product.
10:45
a.m.-12:15
a.m. - Panels IV
M. The
Millennium Development Goals
and the Episcopal Church
The
Rev. Jay R.
Lawlor
Rector, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo, former economist,
Center for
International Development, Harvard University
“Church
Mission in an Age of Extreme Poverty: The Episcopal Church's Engagement
with
the MDGs”
Alexander
D.
Baumgarten
The
United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), seeking to reduce
extreme global
poverty by half by the year 2015, have provided a comprehensive
framework for
global engagement toward ending the most extreme forms of poverty. This
paper will focus upon how the Episcopal
Church’s engagement with the MDGs grew from a movement within the
church to becoming a top mission priority by actions of General
Conventions, and
upon the shapes that this mission priority has taken at all levels of
the
Episcopal Church.
Director of Government Relations for the Episcopal Church
“New Creation in a New Millennium: How
Anglican Global Advocacy for the
MDGs Grew Out of the
Theological, Geographical, Liturgical, and Missiological Transformation
of the Anglican Communion”
“The
claim of the Christian Church to make its voice heard in matters of
politics and economics is
very widely resented, even by those who are Christian in personal
belief and
devotional practice,” wrote William Temple, then-Archbishop of York, at
the
outset of his influential 1942 book Christianity and
the Social Order. But by the beginning of the 21st Century,
broad Anglican investment in
the fight to eradicate global poverty and achieve the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) had become a well-known hallmark of the
Anglican Communion’s
investment in shaping the world around it. This
paper and presentation will trace the reasons for this transformation
in attitude toward the Church’s social witness over the past seven
decades. Exploring the theological, geographical,
liturgical, and missiological transformations of the Church since the
Second World War, this presentation will explore how Anglican social
involvement evolved during those years to its present condition, and
where it may
go in the future.
Panel
Moderator: The Rev. Robert W.
Prichard, Ph.D.
Arthur Lee Kinsolving Professor of Christianity in America, Virginia
Theological Seminary
(1910-1985)
Panelists:
This
year marks the centennial of the birth of Pauli Murray, a life-long
champion for civil
and human rights who grew up in Durham, N.C. She was the first woman to
graduate from Howard Law School , she
advised Eleanor Roosevelt on civil rights, and she co-founded the
Fellowship of Reconciliation and the National Organization for Women.
In 1977, she
became the first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. Pauli Murray’s first celebration of the
Eucharist took place at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, N.C.,
where her enslaved grandmother worshipped as a child. Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Shori
preached and celebrated in the same Chapel to mark the 30th
anniversary of Pauli Murray’s first celebration.
O. NEHA
Skills Workshop
G.
Michael Strock
Historian, Diocese of Florida
“Introduction
to Parish History”
|
This program will
include comparisons of various styles and techniques by
providing participants with a range of histories – some in color,
brochures,
etc. – and discussion of layout and self-publishing.
Opportunities will
be provided for attendees to respond and talk about their experiences. |
12:30
p.m.
Annual
meeting of the Episcopal Women's History Project
the Church of the Good Shepherd
2:00-6:00
p.m.
P.
“Pauli Murray Heritage Bus Tour” to Chapel
of the Cross in
Chapel
Hill and St. Matthew’s Church in Hillsborough, including sites
associated
with Pauli Murray,
Tour Leader:
The Rev. Dr. Brooks Graebner,
Rector, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, and Historiographer,
Diocese of North
Carolina,
with reception at St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough
(additional fee)
| This guided bus tour will include Pauli Murray’s childhood home, school, and church (St. Titus) in Durham, along with a viewing of some of the Pauli Murray public murals in Durham. The tour continues at the 1848 Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, where Pauli Murray’s grandmother, Cornelia Fitzgerald, worshipped as an enslaved child and where Pauli Murray first celebrated the Eucharist in 1977. The tour concludes with a reception at St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough, where Pauli’s great-great grandfather was a member of the vestry in the 1820s, and where her aunt Pauline was baptized in 1872. |