October 2013
Welcome

 

Each month, we share news of CDSP's students, faculty, alumni and campus life. We welcome your news, ideas and suggestions via email to Alissa FencsikThank you, as always, for your support of CDSP.
Meet Our Bishops' Scholars
Kelly Aughenbaugh and Maggie Foster from Ohio

Aughenbaugh
Maggie Foster is a Buckeye. She grew up in the Diocese of Southern Ohio and attended Ohio State University. Kelly Aughenbaugh is a native Californian, but she spent most of her life in northern Ohio, attending the College of Wooster and working for City Year and doing youth ministry in Cleveland. 

 

This fall, the two women find themselves at CDSP as the seminary's first Bishops' Scholars.

 

The Bishops' Scholars program is a partnership between CDSP and participating dioceses that covers the full tuition of recipients 

Foster

pursuing either a degree or a certificate in residence at CDSP, says Dianne Smith, director of enrollment services. It is geared to students who have already demonstrated a capacity for leadership and a desire to take on added responsibilities when they return to their dioceses. Sponsoring bishops agree to place the students in full-time positions with salary and benefits once they have completed their programs and returned to their dioceses.

 

Read the interview with Aughenbaugh and Foster.

An Agenda for Prayer Book Revision

Professor David Holeton at APLM Colloquium

 

Join us on November 14 at 7:30 pm in the Tucson Common Room for the annual colloquium of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission (APLM). The event is free and open to all.

 

Professor David Holeton, professor of liturgics on the Hussite Theological Faculty at Charles University in Prague, will speak on "An Agenda for Prayer Book Revision." Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves of the Diocese of El Camino Real, who is a trustee of CDSP, will give a response to the lecture and members of the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions.

 

Also on November 14, Professor Holeton will preach at Holy Eucharist at 5:45 pm at All Saints Chapel. To learn more about this year's APLM Colloquium, please talk with Professor Lizette Larson-Miller. 

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Prospective students invited to campus on November 6-8 and March 12-14

When students visit the only Episcopal seminary west of the Rockies, they can attend classes, join the community for common worship in All Saints Chapel, experience Thursday Community Nights with evening Eucharist, share meals and conversation and explore the richness of ecumenical life on Holy Hill. Learn more online or talk with Director of Enrollment Services Dianne Smith at 510-204-0715 or via email.
Fifty Years Later:  The State of Racism in America
Webcast of Mississippi event hosted by CDSP and Diocese of California

On November 15 from 11 am-1 pm, CDSP and the Diocese of California will host at CDSP Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America, a live webcast of a 90 minute forum on the state of racism in America. 
 
The event, which will originate at St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, Mississippi, is sponsored by the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mississippi. Former PBS correspondent Ray Suarez will moderate the event, which will include a keynote by Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (CDSP MDiv '94, DD '01) and two panel discussions.
 
After the webcast, participants are invited for lunch and a discussion. Learn more.
Organizing for Congregational Renewal
IAF's Sr. Judy Donovan teaches at CDSP in January

From January 19-24, seminarians, lay and ordained leaders, and interfaith partners will gather at CDSP for a week of Industrial Areas Foundation community organizing training. 

Taught by Sr. Judy Donovan, supervising organizer for the Bay Area Industrial Areas Foundation, this course has been developed especially for leaders of congregations that seek a voice in the public square. The week will include theological and spiritual reflection led by Professor Susanna Singer and training with Ernesto Cort�s, the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) co-chair and executive director of the West/Southwest IAF regional network.

 

Learn more and register online. 


Principals of Positive Aging: Dr. Bill Sadler
Forum explore 21st century opportunities in second half of life

Active seniors offer much to our congregations. How can our ministries best foster their gifts and skills? On December 5 at 7:30 pm, join Professor Bill Sadler at CDSP to discuss ministry with people in the "third age." Sadler is professor of sociology and business at Holy Names University in Oakland. The evening will include a panel with Sadler, CDSP Professor Emeritus John Kater, and faculty from the Pacific School of Religion including Dr. Horace Griffin, Dr. Boyung Lee and acting PSR President, the Rev. Dr. Stephen L. Sterner.

"A new life stage (third age) emerged in the 20th century as life expectancy increased with a 30-year life bonus," says Sadler. "We are challenged to tap our creative potential and redesign our lives to sustain second growth--to experience personal fulfillment and to make a difference in our world."

Sadler holds a Ph.D from Harvard University and during his career has been a professor, senior administrator, author, consultant, and community leader. To learn more, talk with Alissa Fencsik at 510-204-0727 or via email.

 

Convocation Honors Cosby, Rhodes, Talton

 

At this year's convocation on October 10, the Rev. Robert W. Rhodes '74 and the Rev. Deacon Arlinda Cosby '79 received honorary degrees. 

 

Rhodes was vicar and then rector of Good Shepherd Church in Vancouver, WA, which grew tremendously under his leadership from a mission church into one of the Diocese of Olympia's largest congregations. Cosby founded an Episcopal ministry to convalescent hospitals in the East Bay and exemplifies excellence in chaplaincy ministry.

 

Also at Convocation, Bishop Chester L. Talton '70, '91 was honored on the occasion of his retirement as provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin.
President and Dean Mark Richardson (center) with Rhodes and Cosby and their presenters, the Rev. Sabeth Fitzgibbons '06 and the Rev. Jim Richardson '00.
Photo credit: Richard Wheeler
Community News

Students

Tyler Sampson '14 has won the Anglican Theological Review (ATR) 2013 Hefling Essay Competition for his essay "Scripture, Tradition, and Ressourcement: Toward an Anglican Fundamental-Liturgical Theology." The prize, given each year to a master's-level student at an ATR supporting institution, is named for the journal's former editor-in-chief, Boston College Professor Charles Hefling. Sampson's essay will be published in the ATR's spring 2014 issue.

 
Faculty

In October, Professor Bradley Burroughs and Professor Steed Davidson served as members of the keynote panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Theological Education for Emerging Ministries (TEEM) program. They spoke on "New Ways of Doing Theology and Being Church."

 

Professor Lizette Larson-Miller recently visited Minnesota to prepare the sites and schedule for the 2015 congress of Societas Liturgica. The meeting will take place at Luther Seminary in St. Paul and at St. John's Abbey, Collegeville. She is also preparing to be part of a Christian Systematic Theology Session at the American Academy of Religion's upcoming meeting on "A New Way of Doing Theology: David Brown and the Practices of Art and Faith."

 

On October 30, Professor Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski will participate in a panel conversation for Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Reformation Day celebrations on a panel titled, "The Reformation, Reformations, and Reform in the Church Today." He will discuss changing views on the English Reformation and their meaning for the contemporary life of the Episcopal Church. He is also serving as section chair for the History of Christianity Group at the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting in Baltimore in November.

 

At the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting, Professor Marion Grau will be a panelist on a session sponsored by the Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group titled "Why Theology?" She will also give a paper for the World Christianity Group titled "Circumabulating Exodus-Migration-Conquest: A Theological Hermeneutics of Migratory Narrativity."

 

In September, Professor Susanna Singer led a retreat on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Parables of Jesus for Associates of the Sisters of the Transfiguration. In November, she will make a presentation at the annual meeting of the Religious Educators Association on effectively integrating community organizing training into the seminary curriculum.


Alums

The Rev. Gail Greenwell, '01, has been called as dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. She will begin her new ministry Nov. 1. 

 

The Rev. Coke McClure (CAS '10) became rector for two rural parishes in Western Nebraska: St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Alliance, NE and Calvary Episcopal Church, Hyannis, NE. This past summer, Coke completed his three year commitment serving the Diocese of Lexington with the Network of Healthy Congregations Ministry. 

 

In April, the Rev. Dr. Susan J. Armstrong was called as priest in charge of Christ Church in Eureka, Ca. She received a Certificate of Anglican Spirituality at CDSP in 2006

 

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