Churches Reclaim Their Role in Healing – January 1, 2012 January 15, 2013 NewsLeMarquand to Serve Region He LovesThe Rev. Grant LeMarquand was in Egypt last year, preparing for a retreat at a monastery, when the Most Rev. Mouneer D. Anis invited him out for coffee. The bishop asked his friend a life-changing question: Would he consider being appointed an assistant bishop serving the Horn of Africa? FeaturesChurches Reclaim Their Role in Healingby Lauren AndersonAs health care providers anticipate a massive expansion of coverage in 2014, charitable clinics are already feeling the effects of the Affordable Care Act. Since the act’s passage in 2010, donations to charity-funded clinics have declined. Getting People Into the Storyby Joseph ManginaThe Bible does not want to be relevant to our concerns, but to make us relevant to its concerns. Covenants and Fragmentsby Ephraim RadnerThe recently disclosed rupture in the relationship of the Rwandan House of Bishops and bishops of the Anglican Mission in the Americas illumines at least a couple of key elements about ecclesial existence, especially among Anglicans. CulturesIcons from an Urban EngineerIn his formal iconography Luiz Coelho mostly follows traditional Byzantine technique. He describes the work as a “constant struggle,” both in painting and the temptation to “turn the symbol into a simulacrum.” Catholic VoicesUn-silent Nights in BethlehemBy O.C. Edwards, Jr.The residents of Bethlehem allowed to work in Jerusalem or to leave for other purposes start assembling at the security wall as early as 2:30 a.m. so they can have their IDs checked and be permitted by the Uzi-armed guards to go about their business. Guest ColumnStar Trek, or Couples’ Club?By Lawrence N. CrumbThe late Bishop Donald H. Hallock of Milwaukee called it “the Star Trek liturgy,” but if he were alive today he might call it “the couples’ club liturgy.” I refer to Eucharistic Prayer C, as often expanded by adding the name of a Hebrew matriarch after that of each patriarch. BooksFrom Midterms to Ministryby Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.Review by V.R.T. Heard Lay Ecclesial Ministryby Zeni FoxReview by Charles Cassini The Tale of Two Churchesby William Floyd DoppReview by Bruce Robison On the Human Condition and On Social Justiceby St. Basil the GreatReview by Peter Eaton
