Article: Old and new in worship and community: Culture's pressures in global Anglicanism

In the early 1930s, Charles Addams, the well-known New Yorker cartoonist, produced a cartoon for the magazine that was prescient for the subject of this consultation on tradition and innovation in Anglicanism. A young African man is standing with his back to the reader and with his arms held out, confidently but without fanfare, before a great sea, perhaps Lake Victoria or Lake Tanganyika. And, behold, before his outstretched arms the sea has parted and made a way to walk, as before Moses and the Hebrews at the Red Sea. Sitting under a palm tree to the side and with an open Bible in his lap is a white Anglican missionary, looking mildly nonplussed as only a white Anglican can. Squatting ...