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Departing Anglican Bishop of the Goldfields Gerald Beaumont had two pieces of advice before handing over his 330,000-sq.-km diocese to Tom Wilmot in February this year: "cruise control and reading books." To these, Wilmot, 53, might add Shoo Roo, the device fitted to bush vehicles to scare away kangaroos with ultrasonic sounds. For an area stretching from Esperance on the Southern Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into...
...volunteer army of pastoral care and social justice coordinators. His church might be in Coomalbidgup or Condingup one week, a farmer's lounge room the next. "What we are talking about is a revolution that involves identifying and energizing the gifts that are there within any community," says Bishop Wilmot. "This is what St. Paul and St. Barnabas discovered as they wandered around the Mediterranean basin." Murray's mission is to take the church to the people - even if those people are sheep farmers with 150-km-long road frontages. "We either go down that path," he says...
...work is involved with the comforting constancy of "hatch, match and despatch," as Bishop Wilmot likes to call it. Out on the Eyre Highway, isolation has taken its toll on the young station and roadhouse workers to whom Murray also ministers. "A lot of people think they're going out there to get away, but they take their problems with them," he says, "and a lot of them don't last terribly long. There's not much to do in places like Cocklebiddy, and a lot of people turn to alcohol." As with the stranded motorists he regularly finds...
...reports similar success in Africa, from which she returned just last month to take her turn as president of the A.M.E.'s Council of Bishops. Some of the African diplomats, politicians and clerics, she says, "would have preferred a man, because a man knows the rules, how to play the game. With a woman, it was like, 'If I push her, is she going to cry?'" Instead, she established a program to build group homes for children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Her African work impressed the home church enough that at least one current female candidate for bishop...
...evangelical piety, in addition to her administrative talents, that won her one of Episcopalianism's prizes. In 1988, although the church as a whole was about to elect its first female bishop, Anderson was a dark-horse candidate for pastor of All Saints, which was more conservative back then. Yet as her intelligence and zeal became apparent, a search-committee member recalls, "hearts were changed," and Anderson was chosen unanimously over 10 other candidates...