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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 Patrick Delahunt. Thank you, as always, for your support of CDSP. |
Dr. Jenny Te Paa-Daniel Gives Commencement Address
Maori scholar to return to CDSP in fall to teach, attend conferences
 | | Board Chair Carol Anne Brown awards the Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa to Te Paa-Daniel as board member Bishop Mary Gray Reeves, students Reed Loy and Spencer Hatcher and President Richardson look on. |
On May 23, Dr. Jenny Te Paa-Daniel gave the address at CDSP's 120th commencement:
"Here in this country you have the neo-tribal struggles between the liberal progressive Democrats and the conservative, tea party, gun toting Republicans? And what indeed of the now quite deeply embedded neo-tribalism within our own beloved denominational household between the completely misnamed so-called conservative global south and the liberal global north?
"For now in the interests of time and potentially of interest, I rest my identity politics case and turn longingly back to Paul. For while the complexities and extant challenges of all I have outlined are very real and while the pastoral and political demands they continue to present appear as truly daunting there is, as always, a way forward--a way dependent upon not only deep intellectual engagement with the theoretical claims and the practical outworking's of identity politics, but also a way utterly dependent upon what is and always has been freely available to us all and that is a faith filled abundance of personal grace and of civility; an abundance of generosity and gentleness of spirit.
"Paul provides the perfect functional and attitudinal template for identity politics activism - activism whose goal is to transcend human particularity with all its prescriptive limitations, in favour of celebrating an open ended cultural spectrum. In this model the almost endless options of cultural expression present within the magnificent breadth of human diversity may be entitled to their own sense of legitimacy and fulfillment."
Read the entire address online. Te Paa-Daniel returns to CDSP in the fall as a visiting scholar; read more in the Spring 2014 issue of Crossings.
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Smith to Retire, Hybl to Join Staff
Recruitment, admissions office transition
 After a distinguished career in industry, education and the Episcopal Church, Dianne Audrick Smith, Church Divinity School of the Pacific's director of enrollment services, has announced that she will retire effective July 3.
"Dianne's professionalism, commitment to diversity and extensive network in the church have been a great benefit to CDSP," said the Very Rev. W. Mark Richardson, dean and president of CDSP. "We are grateful to her for her loyal service and for the bright, committed students she has helped bring to CDSP."
Learn more about Dianne and her retirement plans.
 On June 6, President Richardson announced that the Rev. Andrew Hybl (CAS '12) will join Church Divinity School of the Pacific on June 23 as director of recruitment and admissions. "We are delighted to welcome Andrew back to Holy Hill," said Richardson. "As a recent graduate of both CDSP and Pacific School of Religion, he will offer prospective students a fresh and vital perspective on the value of preparing for ministry in the ecumenical and interfaith environment of the Graduate Theological Union." Hybl, who holds a BA from the University of Arkansas, an MDiv from Pacific School of Religion and a certificate of Anglican Studies from CDSP, is a Navy veteran who served in the Iraq War before enrolling in seminary. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Julie, and their young son, Oliver. Learn more about Andrew.
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Why Serve 2014
CDSP hosts discernment event for young adults of color
 | | Why Serve participants at CDSP's All Saints Chapel |
From June 5-8, CDSP hosted Why Serve 2014, a discernment conference for young adults from the Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latino communities of the Episcopal Church, Lutheran Church (ELCA), and other churches in communion with the Episcopal Church.
"Why Serve was a rousing success," said Dianne Smith, CDSP's director of enrollment services who helped organize the event. "More than 60 Episcopal and Lutheran young adults, many of them college students or very recent graduates participated in this four-day event."
The conference included workshops on discerning God's call, prayer and time for reflection as well as experiential learning sessions that included presentations on homelessness, the illiteracy pipeline to prison, immigration services and a rally at the local ICE Detention Center. Local ethnic parishes and bishops from the surrounding four Episcopal dioceses hosted meals for the attendees, and the conference's liturgy was developed by Episcopalians and Lutherans together. Services were held at both the CDSP and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary chapels.
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Summer Intensive for Low-Residence Students Underway
Two weeks of studies for MDiv, Certificate in Anglican Studies students
 | | Summer Intensive students Alexis Chase and Joshua Kingsley with the Rev. Dr. Linda Clader, retired academic dean and professor of homiletics at CDSP |
On Sunday, students began arriving on campus for Summer Intensive, a two-week session of coursework and community formation that includes students in our new low-residence MDiv program and in our low-residence Certificate of Anglican Studies program.
"We're delighted to welcome our summer students to campus," said the Very Rev. Mark Richardson, dean and president. "Here at CDSP, we are committed to developing new ways to train ordained leaders for the 21st century church. To stand the test of time, those new ways need to be grounded in sustaining spiritual practices and Christian community. Our low-residence programs strike just the right balance."
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Gibbs Society Luncheon Honors CDSP Supporters
In May, the George & Augusta Gibbs Society for Planned Giving welcomed nine new members at a luncheon at the deanery. The group first gathered at the Chapel for Eucharist, at which they heard new Gibbs Society member Michael Corrigan give his senior sermon.
They join more than 300 existing members who have made planned gifts to support the ministry of CDSP. To learn more about joining the Gibbs Society by making a planned gift, please talk with Director of Development Patrick Delahunt at 510-204-0707 via email.
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Doctrine of Discovery Gathering
Event examines Christian response to legacy of occupation, domination
 | (l-r) Monica Whitaker, the Rev. Catherine Plummer and the Rev. Cathlena Plummer at Cathelena's ordination at the Navajoland Convocation
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In May, CDSP hosted a workshop and panel discussion to explore how Christians can stand in solidarity with indigenous people to acknowledge and address the legacy of colonial occupation and policies of domination. The event was hosted by CDSP students Cathlena Plummer and Monica Whitaker, both members of the graduating Class of 2014.
The panel included reflections by Native American Episcopal clergy, including a special video message from Bishop Steven Charleston. Panelists included the Rev. Lewis Sitting Panther Powell, who is Native American Missioner in the Diocese of Northern California, and the Revs. Jerry Drino of Trinity Cathedral San Jose and Hank LeBeau from St. Phillip's Episcopal Church in San Jose.
Watch a video of the event.
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National Worship Conference 2014
Professor Meyers keynotes July 20-23 event in Alberta
Academic Dean Ruth Meyers will be a keynote speaker at the National Worship Conference, July 20-23 in Edmonton, Alberta. Her two lectures are titled " For the Common Good: Weaving Together Liturgy and Mission" and "Liturgy That Matters: Celebrating for the Sake of the World."
Discounts for congregational teams are available. Learn more. |
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Community News
Faculty
Professor Marion Grau will give a workshop titled "On the Way Throughout Europe: Pilgrimage as Earthbound Ritual Retraditioning" at this summer's Conference of European University Chaplains.
Academic Dean Ruth Meyers gave a workshop titled "Worship for the Common Good" at the Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission gathering "Shaped by a Living Hope: Liturgical Formation for a Missional Church" on June 14.
Students
Karen Cuffie, the Rev. Barbara Miller, and Deborah White represented CDSP at the recent Preaching Excellence Program (PEP) entitled "The Language of Preaching," which took place at the Roslyn Center in Richmond, Virginia between May 24-30. Learn more.
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