The May 25 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. In the cover essay, the Rt. Rev. R. William Franklin considers what lessons today’s Episcopal Church, and his diocese in particular, might learn from the example of Bishop Charles Chapman Grafton. Bishop Franklin writes:
In the spring of 1969, I came to Fond du Lac as a Northwestern University student to do research on Bishop Charles Chapman Grafton in the diocesan archives. My subject was the Belgian Old Catholic communities in Door County with specific reference to Grafton’s deposition of the later
wandering archbishop, J. René Vilatte. I was attracted to Fond du Lac by clerical scandal, but I went back to Evanston transfixed by Grafton’s vision of mission in changing times. This reflection re- turns to that seed planted: Grafton’s vision of the mission of a diocese and a diocesan bishop, particularly in times of crisis, and how that vision is applicable to the crises of the Episcopal Church today.
The issue’s full contents:
News
Benedictine Hospitality for the PB
Features
Bishop Grafton and the 21st-century Church | By R. William Franklin
Cultures
A PG-13 Noah | By Leonard Freeman
Books
Reasons for Belief • Asking • Gospel in Action Living Evangelization • Loving to Tell the Story • The Searchers | Review by John Tang Boyland
Backpacking through the Anglican Communion | Review by Andrew Petiprin
The Missionary Letters of Vincent Donovan, 1957-1973 | Review by Jesse Zink
Imperial to International | Review by Richard J. Mammana, Jr.
On the Holy Spirit | Review by Peter Eaton
Catholic Voices
Jesus Would not Coexist | By Karl C. Schaffenburg
Other Departments
People & Places
Sunday’s Readings
