Two New Journals Aid Diverse Ministries
Episcopal News Service. February 2, 1984 [84013]
NEW YORK (Feb. 2) -- Two new journals have begun publication in response to requests from the General Convention and the Anglican Communion. Jubilee addresses the social ministries of the Episcopal Church while Anglicanos explores the mission in Spanish and Portuguese countries.
Both quarterly publications made their debut in January.
In an editor's note introducing Jubilee, Mabel Allen pointed out that the magazine was the result of the 1982 Convention's affirmation of the concept of a jubilee ministry emphasis on meeting human needs and building a just society. The concept is based on the decree in Leviticus 25 of a Year of Jubilee and its development through Scripture, especially the prophecy of Isaiah and Christ's identification with it in Luke 4:18-19.
Allen said that Jubilee-- which was specifically mandated by the Convention -- was designed as a vehicle to help increase awareness of the problems of poverty and injustice and of the programs that meet these needs, especially the Jubilee Centers that provide service and advocacy programs in a wide variety of communities and settings. Each issue will include a theological reflection on the issues by the Rev. John Kater.
The first issue also explores the work of the Jubilee Centers in Lewistown, Penna. and Durham, N.C.; looks into advocacy and ecumenical energy cooperatives; examines Richard Harmon's efforts to get ministry and workplace thinking together; reprints Dr. Allan Parrent's address to the Church's Peace Conference: "Making Distinctions about Making Peace;" and asks about Episcopalians' adversary role with their Church.
Although the second publication takes an equally eclectic view, its origins and audience are quite different.
Anglicanos is a Spanish language 16-page mission newsletter that grew out of long unmet need in the Anglican communion, according the Rev. Onell A. Soto, mission information officer at the Church Center and editor of the new venture. "It is an answer to many requests for a publication on the missionary work of the Anglican Communion," he explained, especially for people in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries who have often felt isolated from the rest of the Communion. "I pray that Anglicanos will fill that gap and serve as a link among Anglicans and other Christians," he added.
The first issue features an interview with Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie and comments by Canon Samuel Van Culin, secretary general of the Anglican Consultative Council. Runcie's comments on Christian unity are followed by articles on the Hispanic presence in the United States; the new Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in South America and the missionary characteristics of the Church in Chile. It also carries a meditation on prayer by a Salvadoran priest, the Rev. Luis Serrano and a photograph feature on work in Guatemala and many shorter news items.
Anglicanos is being produced in cooperation with the Churches in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, Canada and with the Council.
Copies of both publications are available from the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, NY 10017.