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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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Board Freezes Tuition, Approves Lease of Shires, Virginia St.
"An important step toward building a strong, sustainable future"
 At a two-day meeting that concluded Thursday, CDSP's Board of Trustees voted to lease Shires Hall, the office and classroom building on Ridge Road, and to rent two empty apartments in the student housing building on Virginia St., as the first step in renting all units in that building at market rates.
The board also decided to keep tuition at current rates for the 2014-15 academic year.
The Very Rev. Mark Richardon, president and dean of CDSP called the move, "an important step toward building a strong, sustainable future for CDSP."
"Today, as we seek to train leaders for the 21st century church, we are increasingly augmenting our core residential MDiv program with low-residence, online, and intensive courses," wrote Richardson in a letter to the CDSP community. "As a result, we need to use our assets in new ways.... Leasing some of our underused property to another educational institution-several are interested-will help us address the structural deficit we have in common with many seminaries and free up revenue for new, innovative forms of theological education."
Richardson stressed that residential programs, "will continue to be at the core of CDSP's mission, and will continue to enrich and be enriched by our newer programs and pedagogies."
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February 20 Absalom Jones commemoration forum with Karen Ward
 On February 20 at 7:30 pm at CDSP, the Rev. Karen Ward will speak about her work as a "domestic missionary" in Portland, Oregon, where she is planting a new, emerging community and redeveloping a 118-year-old church into a diverse, multi-cultural, open, affirming and radically welcoming urban Abbey.
This forum is a part of CDSP's weekly Community Night. Join us for Eucharist at 5:45 pm in All Saints Chapel followed by dinner ($12 per person). RSVP to the CDSP Front Office at 510.204.0700 and download a flyer for more details.
If you have any questions about forums, please contact the CALL office via email or at 510.204.0727.
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Drenched in Grace: Essays in Baptismal Ecclesiology
March 6 forum on Festschrift for Professor Louis Weil
The volume, edited by Larson-Miller and Walter Knowles, is an ecumenical and international collection of essays by sixteen scholars that continues the conversation about Weil's baptismal ecclesiology.
This forum is a part of CDSP's weekly Community Night. Join us for Eucharist at 5:45 pm in All Saints Chapel followed by dinner ($12 per person). RSVP to the CDSP Front Office at 510.204.0700.
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See CDSP: March 12-14
Visit Berkeley to explore residential, low-residence and online programs
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.
See CDSP is also a perfect opportunity to learn more about our newest programs, including a low-residence master of divinity option and the new online master of theological studies and certificate of theological studies.
Learn more online or talk with Director of Enrollment Services Dianne Smith at 510.204.0715 or via email to arrange a visit. |
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CALL Spring Registration Now Open
Register for April-June online classes before April 4
 From April 7-June 2, 2014, CDSP's Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership (CALL) offers five online courses for continuing education and formation. Learn more and register online for:
Ethics and Power and the Church with the Rev. Austin Leininger
While parish life, in its ideal, can be bliss, at its worst it can be fraught with power struggles, abuses of authority, political divisions, and characterized more by hurt than Christ's love. This course will equip participants to recognize and address issues of conflict, power abuse, and unethical behavior in their parishes.
The Deacon's Path with the Rev. Dcn. Susanne Watson EptingThis continuing education class will provide an opportunity to reflect on our vocation; what we've learned and where we're still headed in ministry. We'll consider vocational development in the form of personal assessment of our lives in ministry.Paul with the Rev. Dr. Scott Sinclair This course surveys Paul's Letters as pastoral responses to situations in congregations of his own time. Since many of these situations resemble situations today, the lectures will invite students to reflect on what is still relevant in Paul and what is no longer applicable two thousand years later. Early Church History with the Very Rev. Dr. Tom Ferguson The focus of this course is the early development of the Church in the East and West until about 800 CE. Participants will discuss the early theological debates that led to the first ecumenical councils and creeds. Introduction to Anglican Liturgy with the Rev. Dr. Walter Knowles Anglican worship is a broad and varied tradition of relationship to God. Using the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as our primary reference, we will be experiencing and exploring this way of prayer in our own worship life. Adventures in Lifelong Formation with Ruth-Ann Collins Course details will be available online soon and in next month's newsletter.
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Joslyn-Siemiatkoski to Join Seminary of the Southwest
"During his time at CDSP, Dan has taught hundreds of students to regard church history not only as the shared story of our faith and its traditions, but also as a way to understand the rich diversity of Christian experience in our world today. Both Academic Dean Ruth Meyers and I have been particularly blessed by his openness to new pedagogies and technologies and his willingness to take on new responsibilities, most recently as interim academic dean, for the good of the entire CDSP community. We will miss him." |
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Community News
Faculty
Academic Dean Ruth Meyers presented a workshop with Jay Johnson on "Marriage as Vocation" at the Diocese of California "Equipping the Beloved Community" event on February 1. In January, Meyers visited Ming Hua Theological College to continue building the relationship between CDSP and that seminary and gave several presentations:
"An American Experience of Developing the 1979 BCP and the Recent Development of the BCP in the Episcopal Church," Liturgical Commission, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, January 14, 2014
"Liturgy and Mission," provincial clergy meeting, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, January 16, 2014
"Baptism in Anglican Tradition," Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong, January 16, 2014 (lecture for laity and clergy in the province)
"Liturgical Customs: Fixity and Flexibility of Liturgical Performance," Servers Guild, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, January 18, 2014
"Mission and Liturgy," Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong, January 23, 2014 (lecture for laity and clergy in the province)
She also visited Shanghai, where she met with Elder Fu Xianwei, leader of the China Christian Council, toured the newly renovated Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai, and met with Guo Feng, one of the leaders of the church in Shanghai.
On February 7, Dr. Gareth Jones, principal of Ming Hua, was the guest speaker at a CDSP/GTU colloquy on Christianity in China.
News to share? Please email us.
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On March 6 at 7:30 pm at CDSP, 
