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From the Rector
Trusting in the Apostolic Witnesses to Easter
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esus said, “I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” (John 17:20-21) These words in John’s Gospel comes from Jesus’ so-called “High Priestly Prayer.” The whole thing goes much longer, lasting 26 verses, but in it we encounter a highly evolved theological exposition of Christ’s saving identity and relationship to the Father. According to John, Jesus utters this prayer on Maundy Thursday, and then goes to Gethsemane, where he will be arrested. The difference between John’s Gospel and the other three is tremendous. In Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus’ prayer before being arrested is a single verse, in which all he does is ask God not to make him drink of “the bitter cup” of suffering and death – unless it is God’s will that he do so. In the past century or more, mainstream scholars have argued that this difference and the apparently greater
complexity of John’s Gospel in general, suggest that the book was written much later than Matthew, Mark and Luke. What’s more, it has been frequently argued by many modern scholars that John’s Gospel contains numerous sayings which Jesus didn’t actually say, and the high priestly prayer could be an example of this. But, I am not so sure I agree. Now to be clear, we have numerous ancient manuscripts to study John from, and there are differences between them. It appears some later manuscripts have minor additions to them. Things added after the original work was composed perhaps. Yet, none of those additions are particularly meaningful to our understanding of Christ. Moreover, some of the most advanced theological writing about Christ are found in the letters of Paul, and they were written before any of the Gospels See RECTOR on page 11
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oyce Hathcock likes to play basketball. Growing up in inner-city Phoenix with his single mother 2 Easter: Ancient & New and his grandmother, he spent a lot of his spare 4 Come Out to Camden St. time shooting hoops. At age 16, he joined a friend on the court 5 Lunch at the Circus for practice so he could make the 6 Your Pledge Dollars team at his new high school. what’s inside
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One day his friend’s coach came around and invited him to play at the gym at a local church. Royce had never set foot in a church, but well, it was basketball after all. “I was weirded out by church people,” says Royce, thinking back to that pivotal day. He joined the coach on the court and played; then at midnight, they took a break. They had a snack, then the coach passed around Bibles, a book Royce had never opened. He was asked to read
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a verse from the Bible, and though a word in the passage his eyes fell on read “comforter,” Royce read it as “confronter.” Confront. That’s exactly what it felt like Jesus was doing in his life. “My friend had met Christ but I was not exposed to that world,” he recalls. But in time, as he learned about Jesus’ message, he began to embrace this new idea. “I had my two worlds,” he says, “home and church.” His mother had never been to church either, but as he grew, she saw him change, and by Easter that year, she, too, became a Christian. “She started singing in the choir, teaching Sunday school. God let me know that He loves everybody,” even a knucklehead kid from the inner city who never knew his dad.
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reparing for Easter, I have been reflecting on Luke’s account of the Resurrection. It starts with the faithful women — it’s always the women! — finding the tomb empty, and being told by two angels that Jesus has been raised from the dead. Luke then tells the Emmaus story, with two otherwise unknown disciples walking with Jesus, talking with him about his death, but recognizing him only when he breaks bread with them at the table, at which point Jesus vanishes. Luke’s Easter account ends with Jesus appearing before all the gathered disciples and sending them out as witnesses, “to all nations, beginning with Jerusalem.” So much is said in these final chapters of Luke about the importance of all Scripture for understanding Jesus, the gift of the Eucharist, and our mission as Christian people. One detail however stuck out for me as especially unexpected. When Jesus commissions the disciples as witnesses, the message they are to proclaim is one of “repentance and the forgiveness of sins.” This is strange; this does not seem right. Suddenly, at Easter, this message throws us back to Ash Wednesday, or even further back, with John the Baptist preaching repentance in the wilderness. Is not the Paschal message one of God’s Kingdom triumphant, of Jesus’ Lordship, of the resurrected meaning and love and hope? Where are the lilies and trumpets? How can we hear this proclamation of the need for repentance as an Easter proclamation, as Good News? Is this really all that I as a minister, and the church as Christ’s body, have to offer “all the nations” of the world? When we share our faith, should our message really begin with something like: “You really should repent, and forgiveness will come to you through Jesus.” Is this real Easter preaching? For me, it all depends on our prior knowledge of Jesus, and experiencing how radically he can bring healing and a restoration of true life. Knowing Jesus, walking with him, and learning from him, eating with all the strange people whom he invites to the table, we learn from Jesus a new way of being in the world. For me, this new way of being seems radical and new, and at the same time it also touches back on what seems most simple and basic to me, what is at the root of my dawning awareness as a human being. This dawning awareness is about the sacredness that is in everything, each blade of grass, each lance of sunlight. This dawning awareness knows the sacredness and vulnerability and preciousness of every human person. It knows each of us is the source of delight, compassion and pity in God. Repenting, in the light of Easter, is turning around from the ordinary, old way of being in the world, full of anxiety and self-concern, and rejoicing to claim again this primitive light, this new way of being given to us in Jesus. This way of being is something we have always known, and almost always forgotten. And it is here right in front of us, ready to be lived. Proclaiming forgiveness in Jesus’ name is proclaiming that the profound hurts of life, hurts we have suffered and hurts we have caused — are now no barrier to living as God made us to — and living our true life with one another in a community of the forgiven. In whatever situation we find ourselves, we now have the strength to walk with him, in “newness of life” in the original and blessed life that has always been at the very center, and that is our baptismal birthright. No longer does living our day have to mean alienation from this blessed life. Jesus, Lord and Savior and Friend: he goes ahead of us and he goes with us, he heals and inspires, encourages and leads. Blessed may he be.
— The Rev. Robert Fruehwirth
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“I knew God wanted me to find knuckleheads like me,” Royce says, so he attended a Christian college, where his intent was to become a PE teacher. But something else was happening, and he soon found himself working with friend Kevin Modesto in inner-city Los Angeles, running a holistic youth and community development program. In 1996, Royce and his wife, whom he’d met in college, felt God’s tug was pulling them in a different direction. Kevin had moved to Raleigh 3 years earlier to start a new program here, and while visiting family on the east coast, the Hathcocks decided to drive up and see what it was all about. “Driving around, we felt like this was where we were supposed Royce Hathcock, n2n executive director to be,” he says. They packed up and moved here, three days after Hurricane Fran had left devastation all over the city. They had no funding but were committed to help get Neighbor To Neighbor to reach its full potential, and now, 21 years later he is executive director. Royce and the n2n staff/volunteers spend afternoons and evenings talking God and community to hundreds of kids who remind him of himself as a boy. N2n provides families in southeast Raleigh with a variety of programs — after-school one-to-one mentoring, enrichment classes, homework labs and physical education through the MAD House (Make a Difference basketball league). There’s a sprinkling of wisdom and spiritual truths in every aspect.
“About three years ago n2n and its Job for Life program for adults and youth moved in an entrepreneurship direction,” Royce says. “Now we have a program for entrepreneurship. Out of this program n2n launched a catering company called Neighbor Cater and just opened a moving company. The youth also participate, selling vegetables from the n2n garden as well as making solar lights for people around the world who only have fire for light. It’s an important mission, Royce says, to provide what the community sorely needs. “Mother Teresa said, ‘If the poor are not in your life, you can’t know me.’ It’s not about feeling sorry but feeling solidarity with the poor. God in Scripture is connected in the margins and he asks us to join him there. John Wesley said if the poor aren’t your friends, you can’t know God.” Royce Hathcock was once that kid in the margins, but God was confronting him. “I can look back and see God working in my life but I couldn’t see it then. God calls us to something more. People are being left behind. Compassion shouldn’t be relegated to a committee.” Join the ECW on May 4 and be a neighbor to our neighbors down the street. — Susan Rountree
N2n doesn’t view the program as outreach. It meets kids where they are, looking through a lens framed by Jesus’ words to love our neighbor as ourselves. “The goal is to come alongside and do life for the long haul with one another,” he says. “Everyone is important and everyone is necessary. Holistic flourishing is the what the Lord has in mind for all his people, and that is the goal of n2n.” The St. Michael’s ECW has chosen n2n as the recipient of funds raised at their annual Garden Party, planned for Friday, May 4, at 6 p.m. We’ll celebrate the evening with food and fellowship and with silent and live auctions to support n2n’s efforts. St. Michael’s support will help update N2n’s technology platform — laptops, iPads and mobile devices, and to help n2n tell their story better. N2n would like to see students tell their stories through art, dance, poetry, drama, music and video. Funding will also help pay for a branding process that will allow n2n to prepare for the it’s future.
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St. Michael’s Budget 101: Where Does Your Pledge Money Go? So, you pledged to the Annual Fund. Thank you! Have you considered how your pledge is used? A look at how your pledge funds St. Michael’s operating budget gives you a glimpse into the life of a growing, active parish. Pledged income is St. Michael’s primary revenue source — at least 93 percent of our income comes from your pledges. Other revenue sources are estimates based on previous years’ receipts. These include non-pledged income, loose offering, miscellaneous, kitchen income, and credit card convenience fees. The Parish Day School donates to the church annually also. As in most organizations, employees’ payroll and benefits comprise more than 50 percent of St. Michael’s expenses: salaries, insurance, pensions, etc. Other expense categories include: • Office Expenses (supplies and maintenance, postage, audit, technology) • Operations and Management (utilities and trash services) • Building and Grounds (insurance, building maintenance, capital heritage, grounds maintenance, office furniture and equipment, household expenses, and depreciation) • Programs (adult and youth Christian education, EYC, publications, parish life, music and choirs, altar expenses, liturgical assistants, library, kitchen expenses, nursery, miscellaneous, outreach, adult and youth mission trips, Vestry expenses, pastoral care, senior member’s ministry, stewardship, communications, newcomers) • Diocesan Assessment — St. Michael’s is required to give the Diocese a formula -based portion of its budget each year for their operations and outreach. These expenses are budgeted at more than $1.7 million.
Under our Programs budget, outreach doesn’t appear to be a large line item. However, the budget presents but a sliver of St. Michael’s outreach efforts. Here are a few organizations to which our church contributes funds and provides volunteers: • Gifts of Grace • The ECW’s Spring Garden Party • Habitat for Humanity • Rise Against Hunger • Family Promise • Belize’s Holy Cross School • Red Cross Blood Drive • Camden Street Learning Garden • StepUp Ministry • Environmental Stewardship • Backpack Buddies • Meals on Wheels • EYC’s REACH summer work camps — Charlotte Griffin, Director of Development
St. Michael’s 2017 Year-End Revenues & Expenses 2017 Revenues $1,800,793 2017 Expenses $1,750,067 2017 Pledges Budgeted $1,535,837 2017 Pledges Received $1,548,650
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A Hidden Spot Nourishes the Minds of Our Tiniest Gardeners Tucked up against the church walls, facing the playground, lies a tiny garden that most parishioners have never seen. Depending on the season, these small beds are filled with pumpkins and winter squash, cabbages and broccoli, or tomatoes, basil and mint, all nurtured by curious kids for many years. It belongs to the Parish Day School, and offers tiny hands a chance to dig in the dirt and learn how a garden grows. The St. Michael’s Parish Day School garden has its early roots with a couple of raised beds built by Lee Walker during his tenure with the Boy Scouts. Typical of time, however, they slowly showed their age and grew more weeds than wonder. In 2015, Parish Day School parents and teachers came together to resurrect the old beds into space that would once again reconnect young children to life found in a garden. They mixed soil from the old beds into the new, adding heaps of compost. Now the garden spaces that surround the playground and the patio provide a joyful place of inquiry and imagination, of surprise and service.
Are they still alive? What are they doing? What do Day School students think of their garden? “I love to garden, its cool!,” says Austin, in pre-K. “I like digging for worms, and one time I found a smushed potato. I love to do it all. But there are a lot of weeds.” Weeds. The bane of every gardener! Austin had never gardened before and now has convinced his mother to build him his own raised bed. Wanting to get in on the conversation, Catie Claire, Ryan, Christopher and Aidan chimed in with their likes:, “I like green kale! I like strawberries!” “Remember the kohlrabi?” “Yeah, it was great!” Under the gardening leadership of Ms. Lori, the pre-K students explore science ideas in the garden. They learn to try new vegetables and — perhaps the best part — they open their hearts a little wider by donating much of the produce to “Plant a Row for the Hungry,” sponsored by Logan’s Garden Center. Food grown by small hands for neighbors that need it the most.
Even the smallest among us have busy, plugged-in lives. The garden offers the opportunity for all students to learn by doing, to explore and discover with all of their senses. They can smell and taste the mint, nibble on the broccoli or get dirty by noodling in the soil.
I love the last verse of Dorothy Frances Gurney’s poem and feel like it rings true for the young gardeners in the Day School: The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, –
Garden-based learning builds problem-solving skills, critical thinking and responsibility. One year, the pumpkins couldn’t be weeded because a nest of baby bunnies had snuggled in tight, hidden under big leaves. During playtime, these bunnies became the talk of the playground for weeks among the pre-Kindergarten set. When would they leave the nest?
One is nearer God’s heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. — Liz Driscol, ECW President
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Chronicles of Canterbury Older, Wiser, Learning, Sharing
OWLS Wrapping up the Program Year I can’t believe it is already. April! The days are growing longer and it’s warmer. So the OWLS are ready to take it outside for their April outing. On Thursday, April 5, we will meet for lunch at 11:30 am at J.Betski’s, located in Seaboard Station near Logan’s Home and Garden. Since it is not far from St Michael’s, and there is ample parking, please carpool so we can save the expense of renting buses. After lunch, we will drive the short distance to the Mordecai House, One Mimosa St., Raleigh. We will tour the house and gardens at 1p.m. The Mordecai House is the oldest residence in Raleigh on its original foundation. The oldest section of the house was built in 1785 by Raleigh founder Joel Lane for his son. Seven years later, Joel sold 1,000 acres south of the house to the state for the new capitol.
This will be our final trip of the spring “semester” of OWLS, but please don’t forget to save the date for our Annual Spring Fling on Thursday, May 17! Our final speaker for this year will be Valerie Bauerlein Jackson, who is not only a member of our Vestry but is also a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. She has been a National Reporter with the Wall Street Journal for the past 12 years, covering the Southeast, particularly the Carolinas and Virginia. Valerie is the mother of two. Valerie is a life-long Episcopalian who grew up in Wilmington and graduated from Duke University. She will speak on what her life is like as a reporter for such a prominent newspaper, but we must remember that if she is called away to a breaking story, we may have to cancel on short notice! — The Rev. Holly Gloff
For All the Saints
Tikhon – Patriarch, Confessor and Ecumenist
This month’s saint is quite a departure from saints whose lives we have visited in the past. Tikhon, who was born Vasily Ivanovich Belavin in 1865 in Russia, was born in a peasant village where his father was a Russian Orthodox priest. From a very young age, Vasily was fascinated by religion and began his seminary training at age 13. His friends nicknamed him “Patriarch.” He graduated as a layman at the age of 23 and taught moral and dogmatic theology. After three years, he became a monk and was then called Tikhon, after Tikhon of Zadonsk. Tikon was consecrated Bishop of Lublin in October, 1897.
A year later, he was appointed Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, and he became a naturalized American citizen. He visited emerging Orthodox emigrant communities all over the US: in New York, Chicago, Fond-du-Lac, and steel-making cities in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was no longer considered to be just Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, but of the “Aleutian Islands and North America.” Tikhon established many new cathedrals and churches, but we Anglicans remember him for his activities in ecumenical events, especially with the Episcopal Church. In its theology, the Anglican Church is more closely aligned with the Eastern church than it is the Roman Catholic faith, so it is not a
surprising alliance for a Russian Orthodox clergyman to work with our denomination. In 1907, he returned to Russia and a decade later, he was elected Patriarch of Moscow. When the Russian Revolution came, the church was in chaos. People were starving, and Tikhon began selling precious artwork in order to feed the hungry peasants. The government started seizing church property for itself, and many churchgoers were murdered. The Communists tried to take control of the Church from Tikhon, and he tried to shelter his people. He encouraged his priests not to antagonize the government but to try to keep the peace. He was imprisoned for a year, and was criticized both by the government and the other bishops, because both groups felt that he had compromised too much. Exhausted by his struggles, he died on April 7, 1925, at the age of 60. He was canonized as a saint in 1981. A seminary named after him in Pennsylvania still trains Russian Orthodox priests, where the “formation of the heart” is of utmost importance; where they are taught to integrate their theology into their pastoral ministries. It is important for them to not separate the “head” from the “heart” and become mere theologians, but priests who can seamlessly combine both of these aspects of priesthood. — The Rev. Holly M. Gloff
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A Mission for Matthew: Lumberton Suffers 16 Months Later
Flooded with Help: Fourteen people participated in the Diocesan Mission Day in Lumberton on March 3. Working in conjunction with NC Baptists on Mission, we were able to move three different houses closer to being completed, and consequently three families closer to getting back into their home after Hurricane Matthew destroyed portions of the area in 2016. These families have been out of their homes for more than 16 months, living with family and friends until they can return. Work included demolition, plumbing rough-in, hanging sheetrock,and painting. A heartfelt THANK YOU to all the participants, including George Wait, John and Kate Rivers, David Haase, Phil Lambe, Jeff McLamb, Joe Dietzel and Dave Sendall from St. Michael’s. Former associate rector John Gibson also particpated. Look for more opportunities in the future!
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Day School Students Join Seniors for Lunch and Circus Time Carolyn L’Italien’s Transitional Kindergarten class in the Parish Day School has taken on a new project: connecting with the older members of our congregation. They’ll be participating in Wednesday lunches once a month, and in early March, they performed their annual circus for the lunch crowd, complete with
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clowns and tigers who jumped through rings of fire. The special lunches provide engaging connections to both generations.
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Camden Street Kitchen Structure Takes Shape The Camden Street Garden’s Teaching Kitchen will soon be a reality! Contractors installed the shed structure, complete with roof and cupola, in late March, paving the way for the concrete floor, electrical needs and the kitchen installation. The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and the Camden Street Garden invite everyone from St. Michael’s to the Spring Garden Party, when they’ll showcase the Outdoor Kitchen and new composting building (center left). Anyone wishing to volunteer will have opportunities to sign up. The St. Michael’s ECW raised more than $50,000 to help build the teaching kitchen, which will provide opportunities for learning for children and adults in the food desert of southeast Raleigh. Please join us for this happy occasion!
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Love Your Neighbor:
A Presentation and Discussion by Raleigh Communities of Peace
There’s Still Time! Register for the 2018 Men’s Retreat Program led by Greg Jones & Robert Fruehwirth Visit holymichael. org
You’re invited to come learn about a new group called Raleigh Communities of Peace, formed by neighbors who, respectively, are members of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church and the Islamic Association of Raleigh. On Monday, April 30, at 6 p.m., join Katie Miller and Amin Asfari as they describe the purpose of the group, which is to bring together people of different faiths or no faith, and different cultures or backgrounds, to serve our local community together, thereby building friendships and reducing prejudice. They will give a brief presentation about the service projects the group has accomplished in the past few months, and describe upcoming projects that are taking place this spring. Guest speakers David Crabtree and Imam Abu Taleb will provide a broader context for the need for this kind of work, in a discussion about prejudice, the need to engage with people outside of our own religious circle, and the core message of peace and service to others that is at the heart of both Christianity and Islam. Contact: Katie Miller, at katieviola@gmail.com.
Spring Words & Wisdom Join our book club for lively discussion on the second Wednesday of each month.
Words & Wisdom 7 p.m. April 14
April 11: The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman, at the home of Pat Matusiack, 4428 Touchstone Forest Road, 27612. Discussion led by Dave Crawford. May 9: Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. Location and discussion leader to be announced. Newcomers are always welcome. Contact Lisa Williamson at lisa@dtssoftware.com to learn more. Men’s Retreat 2018
The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman, at It’s not too late to sign up for The Men’s Retreat — April the home of 20-21 at Whispering Pines Country Club. Register online at Pat Matusiack holymichael.org.
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St. Michael’s Hosts Family Promise July 15-29 St. Michael’s will host families in transition from homelessness to permanent housing for two weeks in July. Families will spent evenings and overnights at the church and days working or searching for employment. We will be seeking volunteers to help host, prepare meals, and drive vans during their two weeks with us. Family Promise of Wake County is a nonprofit providing churchbased emergency shelter and meals to Wake County families with children experiencing temporary homelessness. Services also include life-skills training, case management provided by social workers, a day center and transitional housing. The program allows families to stay together, regardless of the ages and genders of the children and parents, sparing parents the difficult choice between keeping their families together and finding a safe place for their children to sleep. More than 50 Wake County congregations offer their buildings and volunteers to host families through our Emergency Shelter program. Every week, two host congregations provide up to five families a safe place to sleep, meals, transportation and a sense of community. Annually, the Emergency Shelter program engages more than 2,000 volunteers. 70 percent of families successfully graduate from our Emergency Shelter program.” Last year 134 volunteers from our parish hosted five families — 18 people — here for two weeks in July. We fed, we drove, we played, we donated. In short, we loved. This year’s Family Promise guests will come to St. Michael’s July 15 to July 29. Signups will begin at the end of April! — Christine Haarvig
Contact: Sam Taylor at samuel.o.taylor@ gmail.com. “I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil.” Ezekiel 37:14
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April 8 He Showed them His Hands and His Feet: Mapping the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus with the Rev. Greg Jones What do we mean by Resurrection? What is Jesus’ risen life like, and what does it mean to us? The Rev. Greg Jones will explore Jesus’ different resurrection appearances from all four Gospels, exploring what is unique and what is strikingly similar. Jesus passed through locked doors and yet also cooked and ate fish. Jesus reproved, blessed, questioned, and commissioned his disciples. Jesus encounters us still, just as he encountered the first disciples then. April 15 Our Hearts Burned Within Us The Rev. Robert Fruehwirth The resurrected Jesus reinterpreted the scriptures for the first disciples, as seen in Luke’s account of the walk to Emmaus, helping them to understand the purposes of God. How do we discover new purpose and direction — an awakening of the heart and brightening of the eyes— through our relationship with the risen Lord? The Rev. Robert Fruehwirth will explore how Jesus steps into our journeys today and opens us to radically new life. • Coffee & The Word: Sundays, following the 9:30 a.m. service. In the Convocation Room. Come enjoy a casual fellowship hour to connect with other church members and share your response to the Gospel and sermon of the day.
• Julian Book Study: Fridays, 1p.m., with the Rev. Robert Fruehwirth, Adult Education Room. We are reading Robert’s book on Julian of Norwich, The Drawing of this Love. All are welcome, no prior attendance needed.
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and within some 20 years of Jesus’ lifetime. So the length of John and its additional sayings of Jesus and so forth are not necessarily instructive as to the book’s authorship or date of composition.
In my view, what happened was the different apostles had different material and they spread it around the Mediterranean world where different traditions were preserved. As the apostles spread the word, along with their individual spin on it, the Christian communities they formed each cherished and preserved the various apostles’ distinctive witness. Paul’s folks preserved different things from John’s, and so forth. What I find incredible is not that the different apostolic communities from Syria to Rome maintained different traditions and material about Jesus, but that the overall whole of their writings were so unified! To be sure, I believe that John the Apostle was the primary author of the fourth gospel, if not its final editor. And this is important to me, because he was the one apostle who actually lived and knew Jesus, saw him die on the cross, visited the empty tomb, witnessed his resurrection and ascension, experienced the Pentecost arrival of the Holy Spirit, attended to the Virgin Mary all her days, learned of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, and lived long enough to raise up subsequent generations of apostolic authorities. And, I think John knew some things about Jesus that none of the others knew. Indeed, though John is very different from Mark, and Matthew is different from Luke, they all bear witness to one Christ. And while they were all written in different places by different people, the fact remains that the entire New Testament was composed within the lifetime of one person, the apostle John. The diverse coherence of the different Gospels and epistles in the New Testament and the way they harmonize with the Old Testament is incredible. The more I study them, the more I trust the apostolic witness of the people who wrote them, and the more I come to believe and know that Jesus truly was the Son of God. — The Rev. Samuel Gregory Jones
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Chronicles of Canterbury is a publication of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church Editor: Susan B. Rountree Phone: 919-782-0731, ext. 122 Email: rountree@holymichael.org
Duff/Capps Scholarship Applications Now Being Accepted If you are a high school senior or a post-high school student planning to attend a community college, college or university or graduate school, St. Michael’s would like to support you. We invite all high school seniors and others planning a first-year education experience to apply for the Duff/Capps Higher Education Scholarship established in memory of parishioner Bill Duff. After Bill’s death in August 2015, donations topped $13,000 for the scholarship, which was begun by Claire Duff Capps, daughter of Bill and Sally Duff, as part of a high school project. Applications are now available online at holymichael.org or at the front desk. Deadline for applications is April 30. Winners will be announced on Senior Sunday, June 3.
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Deadlines: • Canterbury Tales: noon Wednesday before Sunday publication • Chronicles of Canterbury: Wednesday, April 18
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Bluegrass for Belize — Parishioner Bruce Hunn, right, and guitarist Bruce Day perform a little bluegrass before the annual Belize Mission Coffeehouse. The March 24 event raised more than $3,800 for the post Easter mission. About 75 people attended the event despite rain and sleet. Favorite performers were from the Community Music School, their second year participating in the event. Eighteen missioners will travel to Belize, two of whom are sponsored by Baker Roofing Renewable Energy in Raleigh.