| Show RELIGION Saturday December 27 The Salt Lake Tribune COMMENTARY it to be subsequently incorporated in every state With the incorporation an initial group of officers were selected for a corporate board I have been advised that these actions violate the churchs right and need to protect its name from misleading and unfair use creating confusion within our church community and for the public more genersaid Episcopal Church Presiding ally Bishop Edmond Browning in a Dec 13 letter to the bishops of the 25 million-membe- r denomination The Episcopal Church an unincorporated body since its founding in the United States in 1789 has cried foul and demanded that Wantland undo the whole move The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America was the denominations original name adopted when it sep BY ED BRIGGS Religion Returns to The Basics How are Christmas sales going? I asked a distributor in Mississippi People seem to be buying the basics he replied Underwear I see something similar happening in the world of faith This was a tough year for organized religion especially for those gilded institutions which seem rooted in a former era But for faith itself it was a banner year Not only did pollsters tell us more people believe in God but people seemed to be acting on their faith: building houses with Habitat for Humanity launche ministries ing forming Bible study groups all in a saying their prayers sort of way crisis-respons- A Look Back: In that peculiar winter solstice exercise of looking backward to gauge the year we just lived heres what I see in the world of religion: First denominations continued their slow painful slide into irrelevance Most historic denominations devoted their national conventions to argua subject ing about sex about which Jesus said virtualand fighting over ly nothing power The power struggles werent yeasty tensions a new generation wanting to be heard for example but bleak' battles over ideology like&ngry children bickering ov?r whos right Southern Baptists squirmed under the iron grip of ultraconservatives and made headlines with a boycott of Walt Disney Co for daring to provide benefits to gay employees among other things At the local level most folks ignored the boycott and jis unwanted publicity Roman Catholics in America cheered the pope but drifted further from his conservative views This years Roman Catholic heroine was Mother Teresa who once walked out on a former pope when he seemed more concerned about her wearing a nuns habit than about her ministry to the wretched Transformation: Second Generation X has arrived and they are transforming the religious environment While retired men passed out bulletins to sparse crowds at traditional congregations traffic police were required at nontraditional congregations focused on the young Inside pipe organs and European hymnody gave way to rock en- sembles and hand-clappin- g music dark suits gave way to you guessed it khakis and flannel Its more than a style change Its the difference between making a church decision based on ones station in life and making life decisions based on what one heard at church Deeper Faith: Third from my limited view of a vast hori- zon it seemed that people were going deeper into faith A growing church in Corpus Christi Texas designed its new building around a prayer labyrinth an ancient tool for spiritual growth Spiritual retreats seemed popular Religious books and music sold big Daily newspapers expanded their coverage of religion My predictions for the coming year? First sex issues wont go away Theyre a great substitute for dealing with reality Second some congregations will invite women to polish brass and run bazaars and everyone will worry about fi- nances Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in NC an author and Winston-Sale- il former Journal" reporthim at journey r'Wall Street er NEWS SERVICE A traditionalist Episcopal Church bishop apparently has gained legal control over the denomination's name and ecclesiastical flag which lacked copyright protection Some church leaders see the move as an effort to hold the church hostage to traditionalist demands which are in opposition to the views of generally liberal church leaders The instigator of the move Bishop William Wantland of the churchs Diocese of Eau Claire Wis incorporated the name The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America Inc in his home state more than a year ago according to Wisconsin state records A church source said that move allowed Utah Displays Of Faith Make Big News Continued from C-- l The diocese also broke ground in the fall for a Draper complex that will include the new St John the Baptist elementary school and parish church and Juan Diego Catholic High School Skaggs had donated the land and pledged to pay for construction of the high school And in the fall Niederauer ordained 16 deacons who represent the third group of Utah men ordained to the office since the diac- - World Saw A Banner Year For Spirituality B Continued from C- -l The Rev Henry Lyons president of the National Baptist Convention USA the nations largest predominately black denomination came under fire for possible marital infidelity and misuse of church funds after his wife set fire to a luxury home he with a female church official After a tumultuous national meeting in September Lyons retained his beleaguered presidency as state and federal officials continue to investigate his finances Alabama Judge Roy S Moore became embroiled in a legal battle to keep a replica of the Ten Commandments on his courtroom wall The brouhaha developed into a national debate that pitted church-stat- e separa-tionist- s against religious conservatives and Gov Fob James who declared he would call out the National Guard to stop federal au- (at)interpathcom onate was revived at the Second Vatican Council in the early quorums made up of an initial 134 area authority seventies" were created In addition to the existing First and Second Quorums of the Seventy Hinckley said the new Third Fourth and Fifth quorums will be part of a leadership pattern in which the 10 million-membe- r church may grow to any size and cultivate indigenous leadership throughout the world Another unusual event in the April General Conference involved the calling of a new general presidency for the Relief Soc- 1960s The Rev Rosemary Redmon Cosby the charismatic founder of Salt Lake Citys Faith Temple Pentecostal Church died Jan 4 at age 65 The Indianapolis Ind woman traveled to Salt Lake City in 1961 in response to what she called Gods call to found a church Faith Temple now a church was thriving started in 1968 Most of its members continue to revere Cosby who still is referred to as Mama In addition to overseeing the pioneer sesquicentennial At national meetings throughout the summer delegate decision-makers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) the Presbyterian Church (USA) the Reformed Church in America and the United Church of Christ extended a hand of reconciliation to one another by adopting A Formula of Agreement a pact establishing full communion between the churches However the ELCA rejected by a slim margin the Concordat of Agreement a similar unity proposal with the Episcopal Church which earlier had been by the Episcopalians Roman Catholicism the unity also had its highs Leaders of the Common Ground project gathered in March for their first formal meeting in which 40 lay leaders scholars and church officials from the moderate left and moderate right discussed such divisive issues as approved Within quest for and lows churchs womens the iety organization the LDS Church announced several changes during the year Last April at General Conference Hinckley announced the reorganization of the churchs quorums of the Seventy Three new arated from the Church of England following the American Revolution But Wantland said he wants to maintain control of the church's name and flag for traditionalist members who think the generally liberal denomination has strayed from historical Anglican standards The Episcopal Church headquartered in New York is the US branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion Browning said he found out about the move in early December Church sources said the incorporation was discovered by a church staffer who happened upon Internet chat rooms of traditionalist Episcopalians Browning called Wantland and asked that he dissolve the corporation In response according to Browning Wantland said he would alter some of the A Dew woman Sheri was called to serve as a never-marrie- d counselor in the Relief Society presidency The call was unusual in a church that long has promoted marriage and motherhood the role of women and the meaning of human sexuality On the ecumenical front Catholic bishops from the Americas ended their monthlong synod at the Vatican by recognizing that they first need to speak with one Catholic voice before they can find commonality with other Christians But perhaps the most divisive issue in all of Christiandom in 1997 and beyond has been the increased focus on homosexuality: The nations Roman Catholic bishops extended to parents and families of homosexuals an outstretched hand of support in an October pastoral statement that also reaffirmed church teaching that homosexual activity is a sin Episcopal bishops kept alive the issue of blessing same-seunions in July when they approved a directive for the churchs liturgical experts to continue a theological study of such x stated purposes of the corporation but he would continue to hold title Quoting Wantland Browning said in his letter that the traditionalist bishop told him the new corporate board would continue to hold onto the denomination's name to ensure there will always exist in the United States a church which remains in the Anglican Communion upholding and propagating the historic faith and order of the Book of Common Prayer" Browning called Wantlands comments unfortunate The presiding bishop said he will confer with the presiding-bishoelect of the church Bishop Frank Griswold of the Diocese of Chicago and Pamela Childress House president of the churchs clergy-la- y of Deputies as to what action to take against Wantland Dew is the biographer of Hinckley as well as one of his predecessors President Ezra Taft Benson Another LDS milestone was reached last spring when church statisticians announced that more than half of the churchs 10 million members live outside the United States a major development for a church organized in 1830 in upstate New York with six members In the October General Conference Hinckley announced the church will build a series of minitemples in areas where population is sparse and not expected to reach the large numbers of Latter-day Saints necessary to justify full-siztemples Faithful Mormons receive endowments and families and ancestors are sealed together in temple rites In other religion news a con e blessings and to come up with recommendations for the next General Convention in 2000 This spring the presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (USA) adopted the fidelity and chastity amendment for the ordained Largely viewed by critics as a measure to bar homosexuals from the ministry the General Assembly later adopted a softer proposal that substituted integrity for chastity and sent the matter back to the presbyteries And the nation's oldest continuous Mennonite congregation located in Philadelphia was expelled from its conference for accepting homosexuals This fall Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew spiritual leader of the worlds 250 million Orthodox Christians spent a month crisscrossing the United States and raised American awareness of the Greek Russian and other national expressions of Orthodoxy to new heights sortium of mostly Protestant Salt Lake Valley churches organized and conducted a major evangelical crusade in Salt Lake City last spring The event UTAHAlive featured evangelist John Guest and included a series of arena all meetings and altar calls reminiscent of the popular big-cit-y Billy Graham crusades And an old controversy are Mormons Christians? was re- vived last summer when the member Southern Baptist Convention premiered a documentary film about Latter-da- y Saints and the churchs history during its annual meeting in Dallas to better acquaint church members with Mormonism The conventions annual meeting in 1998 will be in Salt Lake City and the Baptists plan to witness Latter-daSaints and anyone else who will listen y The issue of religious persecution around the world continued to capture national attention in 1997 after a congressional bill was proposed in May to impose a variety of economic and other sanctions against foreign nations that persecute religious minorities Later in July the State Department issued a report on the persecution of Christians in 78 nations mostly communist formerly communist or Muslim-rule- d in which the government believes problems may exist In Russia President Boris Yeltsin and the Parliament haggled over a proposal that denies full legal status to all faiths other than relithe nations traditional gions of Russian Orthodoxy Judaism Islam and Buddhism In the end Yeltsin signed a measure that included a vague reference to Christianity as a protected faith And in Germany the Church of Scientology continued to face an ongoing government crackdown ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE ECKANKAR thorities from removing the of Religion plaque In March 39 members of s Heavens Gate a group that mixed elements of the light & Sound of God Freedom Through Prayer quasi-religiou- Service Worship 10 507 E 1700 So Suite am Public Welcome SIC A apocalyptic Christianity with UFOs and the Hale-Bopcomet committed suicide in California after posting their beliefs on the Internet and leaving videos of themselves explaining their actions In Israel liberal Reform and Conservative Jewish groups delayed until early next year their push to attain legal status in the Jewish state after months of angry confrontation with government-appointed Orthodox leaders who have the final word on Jewish religious issues there In the United States some Reform and Conservative leaders publicly urged halting financial support to Israeli causes until Orthodoxy's hegemony in the Jewish state is broken Also grabbing headlines in 1997 was the continuing effort toward achieving unity among Christians of various stripes p jfeiSSii (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE! 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