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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 Fencsik. Thank you, as always, for your support of CDSP. |
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Let the Conversation Continue
The State of Racism forum at CDSP
After the 90-minute presentation, members of the CDSP community and clergy and lay members of local congregations discussed the forum and its importance for the seminary and the diocese.
After the event, Dean of Students Ann Hallisey reflected on the experience:
News alerts from the New York Times arrive in my email, sometimes several times a day, depending on what is going on in the world. Last Friday, November 15, during the Episcopal Church's State of Racism webinar, one of these alerts was about charges being filed against Theodore Paul Wafer in Detroit for shooting Renisha McBride in the face as she knocked on his door, looking for help. McBride, the victim, is Black. Wafer, the accused, is White. This is the quote that caught my attention: "Asked if race was an issue, the Wayne County prosecutor, Kym L. Worthy, at a news conference Friday morning, said, 'Race is not relevant.'"
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Continuing Education and Formation Online
Registration for Winter 2014 courses now open
The sacrament of Eucharist engages our bodies, our minds and our emotions in a holy opening to God's grace. But what does the Eucharist mean for us the rest of the week? How does this sacrament change us and draw us into new action in the world?
Financial Management for Parishes with James Jordan, CPA
This lively, informative and practical course helps clergy, staff, vestries, and volunteers acquire skills to ensure sound financial management of parishes and protection of church assets.
Remembering and Revisioning: Ministry Development in a Changing ChurchÂ
with the Rev. Dcn. Susanne Watson Epting
Thirty-five years after the Book of Common Prayer made Baptism a more central part of our identity and ministry, how has it changed our leadership, ministry and mission?
Practicing Theology with the Rev. Dr. Josephine Borgeson
How do we give an account of why we are engaged in mission and what we are learning from community ministry? "Practicing Theology," which will be particularly valuable to deacons and those involved in hands-on ministry, will help students explore methods for theological reflection that makes connections between the church's traditions and current ministry.
Questions? Talk with Alissa Fencsik via email or at 510-204-0727.
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An Agenda for Prayer Book Revision
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Celtic Cross Grant Supports Appalachian Ministry
Day camp in Kentucky provides children with meals and enrichment
 Recently the Rev. Dina van Klaveren, '06, who is rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Glenwood, Maryland, wrote to tell us about the good use her parish had made of the Celtic Cross grant it received last spring:
"Last spring, our parish was overjoyed to receive a Celtic Cross grant for $1000 to begin a feeding/day camp program during our annual mission week of construction in Appalachia. St Andrew's partnered with St. Timothy's Outreach Center in the Diocese of Lexington for the first time in August 2012, and in 2013 initiated a day camp as well...
"Each summer, food insecurity hits the Barnes Mountain community near Irvine, Kentucky, as many children depend on school meals for their daily nutrition. For our return mission trip in August 2013...thanks to a generous grant from Celtic Cross, we also offered a day camp with trained leadership, ample supplies and healthy meals. We pray that the nutrition and enrichment activities, offered in a faith formation setting, gave these children a better transition to the school year that begins the following week. We are deeply grateful for the faithfulness of CDSP to this group of children and thank God for your generous grant."
The Celtic Cross Society exists to involve the CDSP community in the mission of the wider church. Learn more.
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Principles of Positive Aging: Dr. Bill Sadler
December 5 forum explores 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. |
Winter Interfaith Shelter Evening for CDSP
December 11 at St. Boniface in the Tenderloin  The CDSP community will gather on the afternoon and evening of December 11 to cook and serve the evening meal at the San Francisco Winter Interfaith Shelter, which will be located that night at St. Boniface, a Franciscan parish in the Tenderloin.
Since 1990, Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco and the San Francisco Interfaith Council have partnered to operate the Winter Interfaith Shelter, which augments existing shelters during the coldest months of the year. The Interfaith Shelter provides dinner, breakfast and a safe and warm overnight rest for up to 100 homeless men each night. Through the Celtic Cross Society, CDSP students participate in the Winter Interfaith Shelter and learn hands-on mission alongside clergy and members of Trinity Episcopal, St. Mary's Cathedral, First Unitarian, Temple Emmanu-El, St. Mark's Lutheran, The Islamic Society, St. Boniface, and Grace Cathedral. To learn more, talk with Dean of Students Ann Hallisey. |
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See CDSP
Prospective students invited to campus on 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. |
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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 Cortés, the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) co-chair and executive director of the West/Southwest IAF regional network.
Learn more and register online.
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Community News
Faculty
At the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, Professor Marion Grau presented a paper at a panel titled "Why Theology?" of the Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group, and gave a short summary of an essay she wrote titled "Circumambulating Exodus-Migration-Conquest: A Theological Hermeneutics of Migratory Narrativity," at a meeting of the World Christianity Group on the topic Contemporary Issues of Migration and Theology.
Academic Dean Ruth Meyers, on sabbatical at Ripon College Cuddesdon this semester, presented a paper introducing the Episcopal Church resources for blessing same-sex relationships, titled "I Will Bless You, and You Will Be a Blessing," at a meeting of Oxford Liturgists at Merton College, Oxford on October 22. Meyers was also elected an alternate deputy to General Convention at the recent convention of the Diocese of California.
Alums
The Rev. Caroline J.A. Hall ('03) has written a book, A Thorn in the Flesh,that has been published by Rowman and Littlefield.
The Rev. Robert E. Walden ('77) will be re-retiring the end of November. For the past year he has been the interim vicar of Grace Church on the Island of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands. Molokai is the home of the Hansen's Disease Colony which has had two saints recently recognized by the Roman Catholic Church: Father Damien and Mother Maryann Cope. He will be returning to Kaneohe, Hawaii, and will continue his ministry there.
The Rev. Joanna Hollis '(09) been called as the rector of Christ Church in New Brunswick, NJ.
Thanks to a gift of former dean and president Donn Morgan and his wife, Alda, the Rev. John Rawlinson ('71), the former archivist for the Diocese of California, has recently begun cataloguing and organizing the papers of Massey Shepherd. Shepherd is a former CDSP professor and one of the architects of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
The Rev. Dr. Norman F. Somes ('88) has published "Seeds for Church Growth---A Practical Handbook for Episcopal Rectors" which is now available at Amazon.com and Createspace.com. Based upon successful parish experience, it describes eighty congregation-growing initiatives from which church leaders may select their path to evangelism.
The Rev. Victoria Warren (CTS '05) has been called as priest in charge to St. John's in the Wilderness, Glenbrook, Nevada.
In Memoriam
The Rev. Margaret Joan Jackson '90 died on September 3, 2013.
News to share? Please email us.
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