News Brief
Episcopal News Service. December 12, 1978 [78356]
Mrs. Janice Duncan of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., has accepted appointment to be chairman of the Venture in Mission's Speakers' Bureau, according to an announcement by the Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Her committee will set standards and find candidates to supply diocesan needs for speakers on behalf of the Church's renewal/fund raising campaign. Serving with her on the committee are Mrs. Frances Abbott, Manchester, N. H.; the Rev. Maurice M. Benitez, Houston Tex.; Mr. Jon Stuffelbeem, Lincolnwood, Ill.; and Mr. Paul True, Spokane, Wash. Diocesan Venture committee chairmen are invited to call her at (215) 567-6650.
The writings, papers and lectures of Steve Biko, the black politician who died from brain damage while held by police at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on Sept. 12, 1977, have recently been published. Assembled and edited by the Rev. Aelred Stubbs, a member of the Anglican Community of the Resurrection, has published the papers under the title, Steve Biko: I Write What I Like. Mr. Biko's activities and interest, from the formation of the South African Students' Organization, of which he was president, to his formulation of the philosophy of "black consciousness" and its implications for both black and white in South Africa, are reflected in chapters in the book. Father Stubbs sees his memoir of Mr. Biko as "Martyr of Hope" and reports the royalties from this book will go to the Biko family to be devoted by them to a project of which they know Steve would have approved.
The official report of the Lambeth Conference of bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion held last summer in Canterbury, is available from Church Information Office, Church House, Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3NZ, England. The book -- the title of which is The Report of the Lambeth Conference 1978 -- is offered for the price of two pounds and 80 pence by surface mail and for three pounds and 80 pence by air. In addition to a report on the life of the Conference and a list of participants, the 127-page book contains the texts of all resolutions and several of the major addresses.
The Joint Commission on Constitution and Canons of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church is called to meet here Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, according to an announcement by its chairman, Bishop Duncan M. Gray, Jr., of Mississippi. At that meeting the commission will be preparing its report which it will make to the General Convention in Denver next September. The commission is continuing its efforts to locate funds to match the $10,000 offered by the Mercer School of Theology to publish an up-dated edition of the White and Dyckman book, Constitution and Canons, Annotated, which was authorized by the Convention in 1976. Anyone with business to present to the commission should contact Bishop Gray, Box 1636, Jackson, Miss. 39205.
A $2,500 grant from the Hunger Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia -- plus $500 from other sources -- enabled Mrs. Ruth Sterling of the Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry here to purchase 6,000 pounds of turkey hindquarters for needy families on Thanksgiving. The turkey was distributed through a network of neighborhood food banks from Bellingham to Shelton and including several in and around Seattle.