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Louie Crew
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Married February 2, 1974
12/21/1974
8/17/2006
From Easter 2007
Christ is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
Relentlessly, dependably, resurrection, joy, forgiveness, and hope are upon us. Rejoice and be glad in the day that God has made.
The conflicts of our time are nothing to the conflicts in Israel during the first century. Then high priests, now called primates, were pushing for creedal purity. They felt the law held the only key to God's blessing. They were absolutely certain that they should worship God in Jerusalem. Our Samaritan ancestor challenged the exclusiveness of that venue. She would not have been welcome there, nor did she seek to worship away from her own people, whom the Jews considered low caste, half-breeds. Jesus responded that no one has a corner on God, no group holds an exclusive franchise. "God is a spirit. The time is coming, nay, now is, when those who worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth."
God still seeks such to worship.
Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, Bishop of Newark, recently reflected: "One of the gifts of my new role is to see how people in the diocese bring Christ's light into circumstances and conditions that the wider culture has trained us not to see.... A couple of Saturdays ago I joined with the clergy and some parishioners of St. Mark's, Teaneck on their twice-weekly ministry to day laborers, who wait on a side street from dawn until midday -- every day, hoping that someone will come along and hire them -- if not for a day, then at least for a few hours. Not only are these Latin and South American men not easily seen (which is one of the reasons that on a good day one or two get hired), but the would-be patriots who gather around an American flag across the main street carry sandwich boards that express a very clear wish that the 50 or so men not be seen at all." See all of his examples.
Davis Mac-Iyalla, Director of Changing Attitude in Nigeria, will visit the United States in May and June. He is a courageous young man, and you will want to hear him if you can. If you have a group that can sponsor him and host him during that time, please contact Josh Thomas, who is in charge of Davis' arrangements. Click Davis' calendar to date (May 6, 2007) to see whether he's coming to a site near you.
Archbishop Peter Akinola is gadding about too. He was in Virginia on May 5th to do mischief. He installed Martyn Minns as director of CANA. See Wayne Besen's Nigeria's Frequent Flyer
Was the Archbishop of Canterbury deliberately tardy in responding to this crisis? ++Akinola was already in the United States when ++Williams wrote appealing to him not to install Minns, according to a report in USA Today.
When General Convention in 2003 consented to the consecration of +NH, ++Rowan called an emergency meeting of the primates to react. Will ++Rowan call an emergency meeting of the primates to react to ++Akinola's invasion of The Episcopal Church? Is he afraid to?
We can perhaps best survive these late throes of the patriarchy by keeping our tickleboxes in good repair.
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