January 2015
In This Issue
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 DelahuntThank you, as always, for your support of CDSP.
New Scholarships Available
Apply in March for priority consideration

Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of alumni and donors who have contributed to funds through estate plans and endowed gifts, CDSP is pleased to expand its range of scholarships and financial aid for the 2015-2016 academic year.

 

Presidential Scholarship: This competitive scholarship that includes full tuition, room and board, meal plan and books will be awarded to one entering residential MDiv student who is 35 or under and has demonstrated exceptional leadership prior to entering seminary.

 

Excellence in Ministry: Each year, two Excellence in Ministry scholarships are awarded to incoming residential MDiv students based on merit. The scholarship includes full tuition and a $1000 stipend per year. 

 

Diversity Scholarships: Each year, several full-tuition scholarships are available for racial and ethnic minority students.

 

International Students: International student applicants meeting requirements for admission are eligible for full tuition grants and possibly for room and board. 

 

Bishop's Scholarships: CDSP awards up to ten bishop's scholarships each year to residential MDiv students who are recommended by their diocesan bishops and are guaranteed employment in their home diocese for two years upon graduation.

 

Joint Degree Program MDiv/MA: Scholarships are available for residential MDiv students who are admitted to the joint degree program with the Graduate Theological Union.

 

Special interest scholarships:  Additional scholarships are available for federal chaplaincy, music, Women in Ministry, leadership, and many more.

 

CDSP also awards need-based financial aid to students in degree and certificate programs and offers federal work study programs to reduce debt.

 

To learn more about CDSP's wide range of financial aid and scholarships, please talk with the Rev. Andrew Hybl, director of admissions, at 510-204-0715 or via email. Priority deadline for applications by new students is March 15; for returning students, the deadline is March 1.

 

Youth Ministry Day on March 14
"Walking Among Stones of Fire:  Crisis, Inclusion and Healing"
Serving Millennials This Spring
Intensive course meetings with weekly online work

 

See CDSP

Visit campus on February 4-6 and March 11-13, 2015

 

Meet the Rev. Andrew Hybl
Meet the Rev. Andrew Hybl

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.

 

Visiting campus during 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 the Rev. Andrew Hybl, director of recruitment and admissions at 510.204.0715 or via email to arrange a visit.

Community Organizing at CDSP
Intersession course with Industrial Areas Foundation
A Call for Action on Social Justice
African American Presidents and Deans of Theological Schools open letter

 

On January 15, the African American Presidents and Deans of Theological Schools in the United States issued a "call for action in light of the current state of social justice in the United State of America."

 

One of our leaders, a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), noted that the socio-economic and political realities that led to the establishment of SNCC at Shaw University 54 years ago are actually eclipsed by the realities of this day. In 1960 there were lynchings and robe-wearing Klansmen. Today lynchings occur, but in different forms. Klansmen today bivouac without robes and hoods. Slavery still exists but under the auspices of a prison industrial complex. Discrimination thrives, with no intent or program for relief. As was true in the 1960's it is time for citizens of good conscience to once again rise up and rally to the cry for freedom and justice for all.

 

Read the entire statement.

 

At its meeting on January 28, the CDSP faculty agreed to gather an ad hoc group, led by Professors Bradley Burroughs and Marion Grau, to identify concrete proposals that respond to the statement. President Richardson will send an invitation to the entire CDSP community--students, faculty, staff and trustees--to invite their participation in the group. To begin this work, the faculty identified a number of places in the curriculum that address questions of race, racism and the church's response.

 

Watch upcoming issues of the newsletter to learn more.

Five Questions for Professor Meyers

 

Earlier this month, Eerdmans Publishing Company, publisher of Academic Dean Ruth Meyers' new book,"Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission," featured her in its "Five Questions" series:


 
What led you to write Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission? Put another way: What's the story behind the book?

 

I became a scholar and teacher of worship because I'm intrigued by the connection between the way people worship and what they believe. So I started studying congregations - worshiping with them and asking members about their worship. What did worship mean for them? How did worship affect their daily lives? What excited or inspired them?

 

Through my work with the innovative clergy I taught in a Doctor of Ministry program, I became interested in the missional movement in contemporary churches. Rather than viewing mission as a program of the church, a mission-shaped church understands mission as a way of life - the way Christians participate in God's outpouring of love for the whole world. The 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church says that the church participates in mission "as it prays and worships, proclaims the Gospel, and promotes justice, peace, and love." Mission, the prayer book says, includes both worship and Christian service in the world.

 

Read the rest.

Community News

 

The Rev. Dr. Lucas Mix '07, who also holds a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard University, preached at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver BC on January 13. He blogs at Science, Spirit, and Science.


Professor Marion Grau's new book, "Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics:  Hermes, Trickster, Fool," was published in December by Palgrave Macmillan.

 

The Rev. Jay Walton '14 was ordained to the priesthood on January 19 at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral.

 

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