We Anglicans prize ourselves on noting that scripture, tradition, and reason, all three interwoven, guide us as we try to be faithful in the thoughts, words, and deeds called for in our own times and places. In the articles in this issue we can see how some writers go about working with familiar and unfamiliar beliefs, texts, and practices in order to bring them alive for us here and now. And this may help us with the equally complicated and necessary task of figuring out what we ourselves want to pass along to those we hope will follow us.

This year's winner of the Charles Hefling Student Essay Prize, Jeffrey Metcalfe, engages in retrieving and reconstructing Augustine's theological virtues, with particular attention to the virtue of hope. Alison Lutz considers the church's significant theological, spiritual, and pastoral resources for forming moral imagination in economic life. Thomas E. Breidenthal's essay exercises moral imagination in exploring how the contemporary diaconate might serve "as a structural remedy for the church's addiction to privilege." As with Metcalfe's essay, Julie Clawson's contribution considers the difficulties with notions of hope, in this case beginning from the seminal work of Jürgen Moltmann now some forty years ago.

In the first of two Practicing Theology pieces, Tim Vivian describes how the tribulations and exclusions of life in a highly conflictual and, eventually, divided diocese have been transformed by deliberate focus on those marginalized and dispossessed through the conflict. Then Marshall A. Jolly reflects on the concrete realities of coal mining in Appalachia, with its stark positive and negative aspects.

"A word of advice," a previous incumbent offered before I left to take up my new charge, "the wind: either you will learn to love it, or it will drive you mad." I wasn't sure at the time how this counted as advice, but after living the past few months on the Magdalene Islands, a windswept sand dune archipelago in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, Québec, I'm now beginning to understand. The winds of our almost daily winter storms routinely reach over 100 kph, blowing car doors off their hinges and tossing anything not tied down into the frosted waters of the sea. In fact, 1925 the church had to be rebuilt after one such gust blew the church several feet off of its foundations. If you are not careful, the wind might blow you away too.

Yet the iciness of the wind is matched equally by the warmth of the islanders' welcome. Descended mostly from shipwreck survivours and refugees who have fished lobster for generations, you would have to search the parish long and hard to find an unfriendly face, or a kitchen without a kettle boiled and ready to offer a hot cup of tea to any unexpected guests. The wind might have its chill, but it's nothing a hot cup of tea can't teach you how to love.

--Jeffrey S. Metcalfe,

Parish of the Magdalen Islands in the Diocese of Québec

Jeffrey Metcalfe's winning essay, "Hoping Without a Future: Augustine's Theological Virtues Beyond Melancholia,"

is available here .

When I was a boy, I knew that I was the member of a religious community that was united in its worship regardless of where we lived. We Anglicans were united by a prayer book that gave shape to our identity as well as to our spirituality. Then I grew up and went off to seminary. There I learned that the prayer book myth was just that: a myth that sprung from our past but was not entirely true about our present. Despite our lengthy common border, for example, Anglicans living in the United States did not worship exactly like our Canadian neighbours. There were, to be sure, family characteristics, but our differences were, and are, real and significant.

This summer the ATR will publish a special issue with the theme of "What Is Common about 'Common Prayer'?" with three major essays focusing on Christian initiation (John Hill of Canada), eucharist (Ron Dowling of Australia) and daily prayer (Paul Bradshaw of the United States and United Kingdom). These scholarly essays will be enhanced by seven Practicing Theology essays by writers from various parts of the Anglican Communion offering their insights from their specific contexts: Marilyn Haskel, Jacob Slichter, and Clay Morris (United States); Shintaro Ichihara (Japan); Richard Geoffrey Leggett (Canada); Eileen Scully (Canada); Paul Sneve (Lakota/United States); Sylvia Sweeney (United States); and Pamela White (England).

This issue is not the last word on the question of Anglican identity and how that identity is expressed in worship, but it is intended to contribute to the conversation that goes on every time Anglicans gather to worship and to proclaim our understanding of the Christian way throughout the world. It is a conversation worth having and that's why the ATR offers this special issue to our readers and to the church.

-- Richard Geoffrey Leggett

guest editor of the Summer 2013 issue

The ATR is happy to report that Bishop Keith Whitmore and Dean Jan Love have accepted the invitation for Candler School of Theology's Episcopal Studies Program at Emory University to become a supporting institution of the Anglican Theological Review. Dean Love has appointed Joy Ann McDougall, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, as Candler's representative on the Board. We welcome Candler's participation in the work of the journal in the years to come.

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Dear Ms. Winter,

I just wanted to say thank you again for sending the ATR to Reformed Theological Seminary, Indonesia. We have received two issues of the journal so far. One of our students is particularly grateful for the latest edition because there is an article on the debate on justification. He is working on that issue and he just got accepted at Emory University to pursue his MA in theology. Attached are some pictures of the library that I took this morning, with the ATR gloriously displayed. We only have few excellent international journals. Most of the journals are local and are not sufficient for an excellent theological education. ATR is a significant addition to our resources.

The Anglican Diocese of Singapore will explore the possibility to forge an MOU with our seminary to train future Anglican Indonesian priests, with the hope to establish a St. Peter's Hall at the seminary for ordinands. I thank you for your generosity in providing your wonderful journal for our seminary. Have a blessed Lenten season.

yours in Christ,

Emil Salim, PhD

Priest's Warden, Anglican Church of Indonesia