October 2015
In This Issue
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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.
Meet Devin Rodgers
New Norman Mealy Music Scholar arrives at CDSP

Even if you haven't yet met Devin Rodgers on the CDSP campus, there's a chance you may have heard him.

When Bishop Marc Andrus joined the CDSP community October 1 to bless the campus buildings and the ministries they support, Rodgers helped lead the parade.

"I played trumpet and we had a drummer," he said. "We walked around campus singing and playing music between the places we were blessing. It was kind of cool."

Rodgers is this year's recipient of the Norman Mealy Music Scholarship, given to encourage skilled musicians with an interest in church music to attend and enrich the musical life of CDSP and the church at large. Rodgers is thrilled with the seminary and is grateful for the scholarship.

"I love it here," he said. "It's a great fit."

In Memoriam: The Rev. Canon Winifred "Winnie" Gaines
First woman ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Northern California

The Rev. Canon Winifred B. "Winnie" Gaines '78 died on September 30. The Sacramento Bee published her obituary. Her memorial service took place October 8 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento.

Her husband, Bob Gaines, recently established the Winifred B. Gaines Scholarship Endowment with $100,000 gift to support seminarians from the Diocese of Northern California.

May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers: Imagining a New Prayer Book
Video of the 2015 Alumni Convocation Presentation
Alumni Convocation
Brooks, Johnson, Linley honored at All Saints Chapel
Photo: Tom Minczeski

On October 8, CDSP held its annual alumni convocation in All Saints Chapel. The Rev. Dennis Tierney '02 preached at the service, and the Rev. Canon Robert J. Brooks '73, Dr. Ronald C. Johnson and the Rev. Eliza Linley '90 were awarded honorary degrees.

Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission Colloquium
A conversation with Donald Schell on November 19

Join us at CDSP on November 19 at 7:45 pm for the 2015 APLM Colloquium, "Treasures Old and New: Shared Vision for Worship from Tradition, Purposeful Innovation, and a Congregation's Own Culture and History." 

This year's presenter is the Rev. Donald Schell, co-founder of Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. The parish is known and studied for its innovative approaches to tradition, its highly participatory liturgy, its rich musical and movement practices, and its liturgy-driven evangelism, formation and mission. The Rev. Jane McDougle, vicar of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in San Francisco, will respond to the presentation.

The event is free and open to the public, and participants are invited to Eucharist at 5:45 in All Saints Chapel and dinner following for $12. RSVP for dinner via email.
Online Learning with CALL
Winter courses begin January 25

Join CDSP online this winter for new courses from the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership (CALL):

Biblical Heroines with Dr. Sandra Collins
Focusing on women from both the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) as well as the Christian Bible (New Testament), this course will explore how women are represented as complex characters in this ancient literature, with some reflection on the theological and ethical significance of that representation. Learn more and register online.


Church History: Wisdom for Mission Today with Dr. Bradley Peterson
This course will explore the history of Christianity by focusing on snapshots of it in different times and places, by attending to its diversity over time, by encountering contrasting historical figures in its history, and by pondering how these historical forms of Christianity may inform our faith and practice today. Learn more and register online.

Facing Choices: Ethics in the Anglican Tradition
 with the Rev. Dr. Austin Leininger
Ethical dilemmas continue to challenge lay and ordained leaders across the wide diversity of our church. In this course, students will explore how thinkers as diverse as Plato and Marcella Althaus Reid, a contemporary social justice and post-colonial liberation theorist, have helped people of faith make hard choices and live faithfully with the results. Learn more and register online. 

This course explores the theological roots in the Anglican tradition and some of the major figures in Anglican theology including Richard Hooker, F.D. Maurice and William Temple. We will wrestle together with how we approach creation, incarnation, the Church's sacraments and some of the contemporary issues that have concerned Anglicans, both in our own setting and around the world. Learn more and register online.

Born of Water, Born of Spirit with the Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook
This course will focus on the evolution of our understanding of baptismal living and ministry from the time of the earliest Christians until the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Students will examine ways to support the ministry of the baptized in daily life and in churches and investigate resources for local ministry development. Learn more and register online.

Organizing for Public Ministry
Industrial Areas Foundation training January 17-22 in Berkeley

Organizing for Public Ministry is a weeklong intensive class, taught by a team of experienced Industrial Areas Foundation community organizers, about how to engage the public mission of the church in the world.

Students will participate in presentations, discussions, role-play, and readings that foster practices for:
  • Mission
  • Sustainable leadership
  • Strategic thinking and acting
  • Forming collaborative relationships for missional action.
Organizing for Public Ministry is open to clergy and laypeople for continuing education credits and to Graduate Theological Union students for academic credit. Learn more.
SeeCDSP in 2016
Plan now for prospective student visits in February and March

Trinity Institute at CDSP
Save the date:  Saturday, January 23



CDSP will host a webcast of the entire 2016 Trinity Institute, "Listen for a Change:  Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice," on Saturday, January 23 from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm. The cost, which includes lunch, is $50 ($40 for GTU students and $25 for CDSP students). Save the date, learn more on the website, and watch upcoming newsletters for more details about the Trinity Institute experience at CDSP.
Refectory Refresh Campaign Update
Halfway to $55,000 goal

Community News

Faculty News
Visiting Assistant Professor Scott MacDougall was recently interviewed on the Homebrewed Christianity podcast.

Academic Dean Ruth Meyers contributed to "Inclusive Marriage Services: A Wedding Sourcebook," just published by Westminster John Knox.

Meyers has been appointed to the Task Force on the Study of Marriage and Professor Susanna Singer has been appointed to the General Convention Task Force on Clergy Leadership in Small Churches.

At the October 2015  PNEUMA conference at Bishop's Ranch, Singer presented a workshop called "Lifelong Christian Formation:  Becoming a Helicopter Pilot;" Professor Jennifer Snow served on the leadership team as the workshop coordinator, recruiting and supporting leaders for 17 workshops and leading the closing Open Space workshop; and MDiv student Br. Brendan Williams, OSB presented a workshop called "Preferring Nothing to the Love of Christ: Prayer, Quietude, and the Balanced Life-a Benedictine Perspective." Snow will co-chair the planning team for the 2016 conference.
 
Professor Snow's essay, "Immigration and Asian American Religion," recently appeared in "Asian American Religious Cultures," published by ABC-CLIO.

Alum News
The Rev. Peter Fones '05 has been called to serve as the interim vicar at St. Luke's (Waldport) and St. Stephen's (Newport) Episcopal churches. Read more.

Earlier this month, the Alumni Council visited campus during Convocation. (pictured from left to right):

The Rev. Dr. Brian Grieves '72
The Rev. Laurel Johnston '06
The Rev. Dr. Dennis Tierney '02
The Rev. Dr. Dina Ferguson '08
The Rev. Kate Lewis '02
The Rev. Canon Lynell Walker '96
Lauren Lukason '14 
 
Other members not pictured:
The Rev. Sherman Hesselgrave '85
Rhian Alice Jeong '13
The Rev. Anne Smith '10
The Rev. Sarah Quinney '15













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