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Two Episcopalian Ministries

The purpose of this research is to examine the contrasting views of military chaplaincy of the Episcopal Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which the different views of each ministry have recently emerged, and then to discuss the history and position of the Episcopal Church on providing ministry to Episcopal military personnel and their families, the role and ministry of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces, and the role and ministry of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and its view of military chaplains and chaplaincy.

When on March 24, 1990, Charles Keyser was consecrated as Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces, the ceremony, held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., brought to the surface a controversy of religious values within the Episcopal ministries. Representatives of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship interrupted the consecration ceremony to stage a brief protest, in which EPF Chair Ann McElroy read a statement that urged the Presiding Bishop and the policymaking bodies of the Episcopal Church to not only stop the consecration but abolish the office of Suffragan Bishop for the armed Forces altogether. The protest was not unexpected, for the EPF's views of the office of Suffragan Bishop appear to have been common knowledge. Nor was it particularly disruptive, for written into the ritual of the ordination of a Bishop in the Book of Common Prayer are these words: "[I]f any of you know any reason why we should not proceed, let it now be made known."

The statement McElroy read contained four major and overlapping themes, two with moral content and two with administrative or institutional content: The moral peril for the Church's mission implicit in the perpetuation of a formal churchstate relationship, as symbolized by the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in the fourth century A.D.; the moral ...

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