2019
VOL. 61 NO. 1
Published quarterly by the Society for Promoting and Encouraging
Arts and Knowledge of the Church (SPEAK, Inc.).
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAIRMAN
THE REV. CHARLESTON D. WILSON
VICE CHAIRMAN
THE REV. CHRISTOPHER COLBY
SECRETARY/TREASURER
DR. E. MITCHELL SINGLETON
THE RT. REV. JOHN C. BAUERSCHMIDT,
THE RT. REV. ANTHONY J. BURTON,
THE REV. DR. C. BRYAN OWEN
MARION CHANCELLOR
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
THE RT. REV. ANTHONY F. M. CLAVIER,
CATHERINE S. SALMON
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Reflecting the words and work of the
faithful throughout the Anglican
Communion for more than fifty years.
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leading quarterly publication serving the Anglican Communion.
From its inception, TAD’s mission has been “to reflect the words
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A Letter from the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
This is the third in what will be a series of four issues focusing on the
parables. As you read these pages, I hope your faith is strengthened
and your load is lightened.
Will you continue to pray for the Digest, and may I be so bold as to
ask for your support?
Yours in Christ,
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6 You Made Them Equal to Us!
9 The Wise and Foolish Builders
12 A Royal Invitation
20 “All In” for Jesus
23 The Unjust Judge
27 Salt, Light, & Lamps Under A Bushel
31 The Anglican Bookstore
38 Lazarus & the Rich Man
41 Too Many Bushel Baskets
44 Which of You?
47 Hurry Up and Wait
54 The Pharisees and the Publican
57 Necrology
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Front Cover:
Sculpture in Hillspeak Cemetery by Ben Bunyar
Back Cover:
Foland Memorial Cross and Memorial Bricks;
Cross by Charles Robbins and Rick Allee
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that strikes to the heart of our right I will give you.” This sec-
sense of economic fairness. ond group gets no guaranteed
It follows on the heels of Je- amount, merely “whatever is
sus’ encounter with the rich right.” But they go, and the
young man who is told to sell vineyard owner repeats this
all his possessions and give offer to two more groups of
the money away and then laborers at noon and 3 o’clock
come follow Jesus; the young — he’ll give them “whatever
man turns away grieving be- is right.” At 5 o’clock he finds
cause he has many posses- more laborers and asks them
sions. Jesus closes this teach- why they are not working —
ing by saying, “Many who are “Because no one hired us” is
first will be last and the last the response. The owner then
will be first.” This parable also tells them to go work in the
illustrates that motif. vineyard.
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and you will find rest for your Therefore, though Christian
souls.” (Matthew 11:28-30) discipleship is not the easiest
life to live, if we want to tru-
We should not fear follow- ly live, we should fully com-
ing Jesus, for he, through the mit to it. Jesus’ victory on the
cross, overcame all destruc- cross shows that we have been
tive powers, and his resurrec- given the power to do bat-
tion from the grave opened tle against “rulers…authori-
to all who confess him the ties…cosmic powers of this
way to everlasting life. Only present darkness…[and] spir-
through Christ can we bear itual forces of evil in the heav-
life’s struggles and stand up to enly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)
oppressive forces. Christ’s way Jesus showed on Calvary the
“bears all things…endures all extent to which God goes to
things.” (1 Corinthians 13:37) prove his love for all of us.
“No one has greater love than
this, to lay down one’s life for
Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313- one’s friends.
386), one of the foremost
theologians of the Early “You are my friends if you do
Church, said, “Let us not…be what I command you.” (John
ashamed to confess the Cru- 15:13-14) And what does Je-
cified. Be the cross our seal sus command? “As I have
made with boldness by our loved you, you also should
fingers on our brow, and on love one another.” (John
everything…in our comings 13:34) To be a Christian dis-
in, and goings out; before our ciple, to walk Christ’s way of
sleep, when we lie down and the cross, is to really live, not
when we rise up; when we are just on Earth, but forever with
in the way, and when we are Christ in Heaven.
still.”
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tent either not to shine our der what light we could shine
light, or to shine our light if we weren’t afraid. I wonder
safely behind the closed red what light we could shine if
doors that we think holler we uncovered the simplicity,
“Sanctuary” but more likely the catchiness, the stickiness
whisper the words of Mr. Cel- of the Gospel.
lophane: “You can look right
through me, walk right by me,
and never know I’m there.”
This Little Light Of Mine re-
fuses to whisper meekly, not WHICH OF YOU?
only in the face of oppression, Luke 11:5-8
but also in the everyday, hum-
drum reality of a world that The Rev. Brian McVey
Church of the Advent,
needs fewer bushel baskets Nashville, TN
and more Jesus. It’s no won-
der the song was and contin- The blessings of pastoral
ues to be such a powerful tool ministry are usually unpre-
in outreach addressing social dictable. Few argue that the
deprivation. It is a powerful holiest moments are antic-
tool because the light it shines ipated. Rather, they are of-
is the light of Christ, a light ten discerned after the fact,
that darkness comprehendeth and in times and places that
not, a light that is the word of are surprising. I had one
God. such blessed conversation on
Christmas Eve. I preached on
I wonder what evangelism in birth stories and how Jesus’
the Episcopal Church would birth story made him more
look like, what light we could relatable to us. In the course
shine, if we knew the power of my sermon, I made a com-
of the tools we carry. I won- ment that his dwelling with
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ing planted. Scattering seed is his Kingdom, the mystery of
often equated with preaching that expansion does not be-
the Gospel, but it can just as long to us. In Christ’s day, the
easily be works of service or farmer “knows not how” such
holiness of example — any growth happened. Today we
means by which others can have scientific explanations.
taste and see that the Lord is But far from being a victory of
good when they encounter Je- secular scientism over faith,
sus through us. That’s why the we find ourselves all the more
General Thanksgiving keeps puzzled how the Spirit actu-
before us the prayer to honor ally causes God’s Kingdom
God with our praise “not only to advance. So we entrust pe-
with our lips, but in our lives.” riods of lull in our mission
We are committed from bap- to a kind of sabbath, praying
tism to spread the Good News for growth and keeping vigil
in word and deed. No one is against known pests and ene-
exempt, and ideally we use all mies that might seek to ravage
the means at our disposal to or diminish what our Father
make our faith public. is trying to do.
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NECROLOGY
The Rt. Rev. David Em- nary, and Drew University,
rys Richards, 97, in Coral he served parishes in Rum-
Gables, FL. A graduate of Le- son, Palmyra, and Salem, NJ,
high University and General served on the Bishop’s staff
Theological Seminary, he was in the Episcopal Diocese of
ordained to the priesthood in Central Pennyslvania, and in
Panama, and was consecrated Ames, IA, for 27 years before
Suffragan Bishop of Albany in retiring as rector of St. John’s-
1951. In 1957, he was elected by-the Campus in December
Bishop of Central America, 2017.
where he served until 1968,
during which time he provid- The Rev. Derrill Plum-
ed leadership in the growth mer Crosby, 94, in Sterling,
of a national and indigenous VA. A highly decorated naval
ministry in Central America. aviator, he served in the Navy
He later became the national for over 30 years, fighting in
coordinator of the House of Second World War, Korea,
Bishops’ Committee of Pas- and Vietnam. A graduate of
toral Development, a position the University of Maryland
he held for 20 years until his and Virginia Theological
retirement in 1988. Seminary, he served as rec-
tor of parishes in Buchanan,
The Rev. Canon Alexan- VA and Newport, NH; after
der Anthony Aiton, Jr., 68, retiring, he did supply work
in Ames, IA. A graduate of and assisted with services in
City University of New York, Peterborough, NH.
General Theological Semi-
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The Rev. Marcus Thomas and the School of Theology at
Cunningham, Jr., 55, in Ri- the University of the South,
pon, WI. A graduate of the he was a tireless advocate for
University of Wisconsin, Atlanta’s disenfranchised and
Green Bay, he served parishes poor. In the late 1960s, he
in Ripon and Wautoma, WI, founded and served as the
in addition to serving as the first director of Atlanta’s Em-
chaplain for various police maus House; in the course
forces. of that work, he set up an af-
ter-school program, once-a-
The Rev. Robert Melvin month transportation to the
Durkee, 92, of Nashua NH. state prison for families of
He joined the Navy at 17 and inmates, chapel services, hot
fought in the South Pacific meals, and a poverty rights
during Second World War; office. He also led efforts for
he went on to serve in the Air welfare rights, neighborhood
Force and the Army Reserves. empowerment, and racial jus-
A graduate of Tufts University tice.
and Boston University Theo-
logical School, he was initial- The Rev. William Alley
ly ordained as a Methodist French, 86, in Brookville,
minister and served parishes PA. Following service in the
in Massachusetts before be- Army, he graduated from Ed-
ing ordained as an Episcopal inboro State Teacher’s Col-
priest. He served as rector of lege, and went on to teach
Grace Episcopal Church in history, communications, so-
Medford, MA for 25 years. cial studies, and law at
Brookville High School for
The Rev. Austin Mcneill 36 years. A lifelong Episcopa-
Ford, 89, Atlanta, GA. A lian, he was ordained to the
graduate of Emory University diaconate in 1991, and to the
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The Rev. John Richard The Rev. George (Ted)
Tinklepaugh, 81, in North Edward Ridgway, 88, in Chi-
East, MD. A graduate of The co, CA. He left the University
King’s College, in Briarcliff of California at Berkeley to
Manor, NY, and the Conser- join the US Army, serving in
vative Baptist Theological battle zones as a radar techni-
Seminary in Denver, CO, he cian during the Korean War.
was initially ordained as a After leaving the Army, he
Baptist minister. After he lat- completed his undergraduate
er began working for a cam- studies before attending the
pus ministry at the Univer- Church Divinity School of
sity of Rochester and other the Pacific, and was ordained
area colleges, he attended an to the priesthood in 1959. He
Episcopal church and felt “at went on to serve churches in
home”; after additional study Monterey, Danville, San Luis
at Virginia Theological Semi- Obispo, Windsor, Mt. Shasta,
nary, he was ordained to the and Redding, CA.
priesthood and joined the
staff at St. Paul’s, Rochester, The Rev. Sidney Herbert
NY. After spending some time “Herb” Shears, 105, in Lom-
as a missionary to Rwanda, he poc, CA. A graduate of Syra-
returned to the US and served cuse University, Rochester Di-
parishes in Savona, NY, and vinity School, and Columbia
Powelton Village and Lafay- University, he was originally
ette Hill, PA. After retiring in ordained a Methodist min-
2006, he served parishes in ister. He served in the Navy
Diocese of Easton, MD and (Pacific Fleet) for 21 years, in-
the Diocese of Fond du Lac, cluding two years as the chap-
WI. lain on the USS Midway. After
pursuing additional studies
at Episcopal Divinity School
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MEMORIAL BRICKS
HILLSPEAK
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS