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December 12, 2022The latest issue of our ACS journal, Shared Treasure (Volume V, No. 2) is now sent to ACS members*, with print and Kindle copies available for purchase at Amazon.
The issue's principal feature article is a republication in full of the late Rev’d W. Chave McCracken’s Lewis Carroll’s Left Hand, Or, The Religious Symbolism of “Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland,” which was published serially in five issues of this journal between 2018
and 2021. Dr. McCracken (1920-2005), who had a long ministry in The Episcopal
Church, for the most part in Ohio, unveils the serious satirical intent which underlies this
seemingly whimsical story. Carroll in fact wrote his tale as in part an extended
commentary on the English religious scene of his day (specifically, the 1860s): both the
religious rivalries between the Church of England and other Christian bodies, both
Catholic and Protestant, and the enmities within the Church of England itself, between
the “High-Church” or “Anglo-Catholic” party, on the one hand, and the “Low-Church” or
“Evangelical Protestant” party, on the other, all of which McCracken explains and
unfolds in his commentary. McCracken, an accomplished artist, illuminated his work
with numerous line drawings, which are reproduced in the article (but which cannot be
reproduced in Kindle format, which is why this issue of our journal is available to those
wishing to purchase it only in paperback bound form).
Dr. McCracken’s “thesis” (which he wrote while undertaking graduate study in 1959 at the “College of Preachers” at the Episcopalian “National Cathedral” in Washington, DC, in 1959), is preceded by a new account of Dr. McCracken’s life and work written for this republication by Joseph G. Blake, whom many of us will know as one of the Founding Fathers of what is now the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society and its president during its first decade of existence. Mr.
Blake, during his years as an Episcopalian, was a member of St. Paul’s Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where Dr. McCracken was Rector from 1960 to his retirement in 1983, and so is well-placed to provide an account of the author and his work. This latest issue can be purchased at Amazon.com for $10.00 (plus, for purchases to be delivered in the United States, $5.99 postage) and also, for comparable prices, at Amazon.ca (Canada), Amazon.com.au (Australia) and Amazon.co.uk (Great Britain).Four recent issues of Shared Treasure can also be purchased from Amazon as “single
issues:” Volume IV, No. 10 (Candlemas 2020), Volume IV, No. 11 (Holy Cross
2020), Volume IV, No. 12 (Easter 2021), and Volume V, No. 1 (Lent 2022), at
$10 each for paperback booklets, and for $3.49-$3.99 in Kindle format, for the first three of these (Volume V, No. 2 is, as mentioned above, available only in paperback booklet format).For those interested in obtaining a deeper knowledge, both of the background to the
Ordinariate phenomenon and of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society (formerly the
Anglican Use Society), we have also published on Amazon this November five
hardbound volumes of this publication, Shared Treasure (formerly Anglican Embers),
from its beginning in 2004 onwards.
The hardbound volume numbers correspond to those of the original. Anglican Embers Volume I, 2004-2006 binds together the twelve issues that comprise that volume; Anglican Embers Volume II: 2007-2009 its twelve issues; Anglican Embers Volume III: 2010-2012 its twelve issues; Anglican Embers/Shared Treasure Volume IV, Part I: 2013-2019 its first nine issues; and Anglican Embers/Shared Treasure Volume IV, Part II its last three issues; the size of the final four issues of this volume made it necessary to produce it as two separate books. Each book is priced at $34.99, with (at least at present) free shipping. Members and friends of our Society, and interested “onlookers,” are urged to take advantage of these new publications!
*Note: ACS subscribing members, please check your email for the ACS email which contains your updated password to the Digital Archive where the latest issue of Shared Treasure, and our past issues, are all held.
