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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. |
Alumni Convocation
Prior, Wauthers, Walrath, Thom honored at All Saints Chapel
On October 9, CDSP held its annual alumni convocation in All Saints Chapel. The Rt. Rev. Fred Borsch '81 preached at the service, and the Rt. Rev. Brian N. Prior '87, the Rev. John William Wauters '80, Dorothy Walrath '61 and the Rt. Rev. Brian Thom '87 were awarded honorary degrees.
Bishop Prior, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota, was founding rector of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Spokane. He has also served as executive director of Camp Cross, the director of education and development for the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane and as a member of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council.
The Rev. Wauters TSSF, who served urban congregations in East Los Angeles, Jersey City, San Francisco and San Antonio, is a life professed member of the Third Order of St. Francis. He was a founding member of Synagogy, a gathering of small church leaders, and was active in community organizing through an Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) affiliate in San Antonio.
Dorothy Walrath is a 1961 graduate of St. Margaret's House, a Berkeley-based institution that trained deaconesses and lay women for ministry in the Episcopal Church from 1909-66. In the Diocese of Nevada, Walrath has been involved in Christian education and diocesan governance, including serving on diocesan council and as a deputy to General Convention.
Bishop Thom is the thirteenth bishop of Idaho. He is a graduate of Oregon State University in forest management and assisted at congregations in the Dioceses of Oregon and San Diego before being called as rector of Church of the Ascension in Twin Falls, Idaho. He served there for seventeen years before being elected bishop in 2008.
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Women in Ministry Celebration
November 6 at CDSP; RSVP now
CDSP is celebrating the establishment of the St. Margaret's Visiting Professorship of Women in Ministry with speakers, a book talk, Eucharist and a festive dinner on November 6, 2:30 to 9 p.m. at the seminary in Berkeley.
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Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves of the Diocese of El Camino Real will preach at the Eucharist and Jenny Te Paa Daniel, one of the editors of "Anglican Women on Church and Mission" will lead a discussion of the book with co-editors Kwok Pui-lan and Judith Berling.
Te Paa Daniel, the New Zealand-born educator and advocate who was the first indigenous laywoman to be appointed to lead an Anglican theological college, is the inaugural St. Margaret's visiting professor.
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Admission to the event is $50 and dinner is included. The program will begin with presentations on the progress made and obstacles faced by women who minister in the Episcopal Church by the Rev. Paula Nesbitt, a sociologist and visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union and Matthew Price, vice president for research and data for Church Pension Group.
A panel featuring Te Paa Daniel and CDSP students and graduates will discuss the presentation.
The Rev. Dr. Fran Toy, the first Asian American woman priest in the Episcopal Church, will preside at an evening Eucharist and Bishop Gray-Reeves will preach. Following a dinner, Te Paa Daniel and her co-editors will discuss their 12-essay collection on the role and status of women in the Anglican Communion with special attention to the colonial legacy of Anglicanism and the shift of Christian demographics to the Global South.
To learn more or RSVP, please call 510-204-0727 or email communications@cdsp.edu.
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New Partnership with Bloy House Announced
Bloy House students can earn MDiv from CDSP
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Dr. Nadim Nassar to Speak at CDSP on November 3
Awareness Foundation leader to speak on plight of Middle East Christians
 The Rev. Nadim Nassar, executive director of the Awareness Foundation and the only Syrian priest in the Church of England, will speak at CDSP on November 3 at 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Nassar is traveling to the Bay Area directly from Syria, where the Awareness Foundation is establishing a program to help Syrian Christians be ambassadors for peace in communities in partnership with their Muslim neighbors.
"Christians in the West should remember that the road that Paul took to Damascus is travelled by Christians every day even today. The Arab Spring has allowed sectarianism and fanaticism to divide our communities, and Christians must to all in their power to become ambassadors of peace."
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Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission Colloquium
The Rev. Dr. Carl Daw to speak on "Audible Grace"
 On November 13 at 7:30 pm in Tucson Common Room, CDSP will host the annual colloquium of the Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission. The Rev. Dr. Carl Daw will speak on "Audible Grace: Sacramental Dimensions of Congregational Song," and George Emblom, assistant professor of church music and director of chapel music, will give the response and members of the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Daw is adjunct professor of hymnology and curator of the hymnological collections at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of four collections of hymns and numerous essays, and co-author of "Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary." The event, which is free and open to the public, will be streamed live over the internet: watch online. Daw will also preach at Eucharist at 5:45 pm. A community dinner for $12 follows.
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Director of Extended Learning Position Now Open
Old Testament, ethics searches continue
CDSP has announced a search for a director of extended learning who will also have a half-time faculty appointment in practical theology. "The Director of Extended Learning will build upon the strengths of the established Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership (CALL) and expand its offerings in exciting ways, such as creating new programs of rigorous theological education for those serving in lay or ordained ministry and working with dioceses that are developing alternative paths for preparing congregational leaders," reads the job description. Applications should be submitted by December 1.
At the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature meeting in San Diego in November, CDSP will interview candidates for two open faculty positions.
A position in Old Testament will be housed at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and shared by Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. "We seek a scholar in early career who bridges the line between the academy and the church, and an engaging, dynamic teacher who can draw students into the task of relating biblical texts to Christian life and ministry in the world," reads the job description.
A position in ethics will be housed at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and shared by CDSP. "We seek an engaging and dynamic teacher who bridges the line between the academy and the church, and is eager to engage in the extensive processes involved in forming students for ordained and lay ministries," reads the job description.
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#Giving Tuesday on December 2
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Bequests To Provide Scholarships
Four members of Greatest Generation support CDSP
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Community News
In August, the Episcopal Preaching Foundation published a volume of sermons from its Preaching Excellence Program Conferences. Both Deb White, a CDSP MDiv student, and the Rev. Ben R. Wells '11, rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Macon, Georgia, had sermons included in the collection.
The Rev. Christine Leigh-Taylor '00 retired as rector of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, Rancho Cordova, California on August 31. She continues as a doctoral student at CDSP, and hopes to receive her D. Min. in Congregational Development in May 2015.
Faculty Notes
George Emblom, director of chapel music and lecturer in church music, will become the assistant professor of church music and director of chapel music effective November 1. Academic Dean Ruth Meyers noted that the change in George's title "recognizes his 18 years of service to CDSP, and was approved by the Board after a faculty review of his teaching, his compositions of hymns and service music, and his contributions to the wider church, all of which showed the quality and effectiveness of his work."
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