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Case in point. Father Bowen Woodruff, Vicar of the Anglican Church of the Incarnation (ACOI), applied for UM membership in February 2002. His church, a parish of the nation-wide Anglican Province of Christ the King, includes a substantial number of Harvard students and faculty and meets in the Swedenborg Chapel, right in the middle of campus. In April of that year, Woodruff received a letter back from Dennis Sheehan, the chair of the UM’s membership committee, detailing concerns the UM had about the ACOI’s relationship with mainline Episcopalians...
...Expos and other relevant aspects of life at Harvard. Mixed in with this mailing is a Religious Interest Card, which allows students to request information from College religious organizations before arriving on campus, but the list is not exhaustive. Organizations not affiliated with Harvard’s United Ministries (UM) do not make it onto the card, are not listed in the Harvard directory, cannot advertise on student activities day or on campus billboards and their leaders do not get any University privileges. Without UM membership, religious groups face real obstacles communicating with students—a situation that...
Including more than one church from a similar denominational root is not alien to the UM either. There are two Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist sects among Harvard’s ministries. Surely, then, there is room at Harvard for two Episcopalian sects with unique traditions. Anything less denies students adequate religious choice...
...irregularities in the UM’s response to Father Woodruff are difficult to explain. Woodruff claims to have addressed the denominational issues raised by Sheehan in his original application. Still, he offered to meet with UM representatives to explain further at a meeting in April 2002. Afterwards, Woodruff expected to hear the UM’s decision by May, as prescribed in the UM’s bylaws...
...response; not even a “no.” Bureaucracy, carelessness, neglect—or some other unknown reason—prevented the UM from fulfilling its duty to foster religious choice at Harvard. Bewildered further by a meeting with the UM in January, Father Woodruff had to write a letter the University President Lawrence H. Summers before the UM felt obliged to contact him again. This happened in May 2003, more than five months later, and, coincidentally, after that year’s UM application deadline. In this letter, sent by current UM Membership chair Pat McLeod...