Episcopal Press and News
News Brief
Episcopal News Service. June 3, 1977 [77198]
The Rev. Sumio Takatsu, 50, has been elected Bishop of South Central Diocese of the Episcopal Church in Brasil in Apostolic succession to the Rt. Rev. Elliott Sorge who resigned the see to become the staff officer to the Council on the Development of Ministry of the Episcopal Church. Fr. Takatsu, a native of Japan, is a professor of theology in Brasil and holds an S. T. M. degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained priest in 1956.
Two members of a closed Anglican church here have chained themselves to the church's altar to prevent its removal to a church in Northern Ireland. Although St. Paul's church has not been used as a church for ten years and may be rented as a workshop, Evan Sutton and Moira Leeson want the altar to remain in Bray as part of the town's history rather than sending it to the County Tyrone parish which has paid $750 for it. St. Paul's has been part of the life of Bray for 800 years.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church here has sent $3,300 to the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief designated for Ugandan refugee relief. In an accompanying letter, the rector, the Rev. Dr. D. H. Hamilton said the money, raised in a parish Lenten program, was offered in thanksgiving for the life and ministry of the Most Rev. Janani Luwum, the late archbishop of the province which includes Uganda, who was slain while a prisoner of Uganda president Idi Amin.
The Most Rev. Festo Olang, Anglican Archbishop of Kenya was among six men to receive honorary degrees at the 109th commencement of the University of the South. The citation accompanying his Doctor of Divinity degree cites the church leader for the growth of the Church in Kenya and for his skill in reconciling tribal differences in the nation. Other recipients of honorary degrees were Dr. William Shannon Stoney, Nashville heart surgeon; the Rt. Rev. Reginal Hollis, Bishop of Montreal; Dr. Henry Hope Lumpkin, historian of Charleston, S. C.; the Rev. Alan Patrick Llewellyn Prest, Jr. of Richmond, Va., chairman of the program in patient counseling at the School of Allied Health Professions of the Medical College of Virginia and lecturer in pastoral theology at the Virginia Union University School of Theology; and the Rev. William Davis Henderson, parish missioner of St. John's and Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Va.
Three controversial church leaders have published new books. The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S. J., has written a "Book of Parables" which is being published by Seabury Press. Based on Old Testament stories, the Berrigan book is a call to change the traditional ways in which problems of race, war and poverty are attacked. The Rev. Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest whose Are You Running With Me, Jesus? enjoyed some popularity in the 1960s, draws on his homosexual orientation and his growing ministry with the gay community in his new book Am I Running With You, God? Published by Doubleday, Inc., the book is a plea for the necessity of ministry with the numerous separated communities within the Church. Bishop J. A. T. Robinson, in his book Can We Trust the New Testament? argues that faith in the resurrection should not be based on the "evidence" of the empty tomb. He employs this theme in an examination of the variety of tools of biblical scholarship in the book which is written in a more popular style than some of his New Testament studies.