November 2015
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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 Delahunt. Thank you, as always, for your support of CDSP.
The Future of Seminary Education
Episcopal Church Foundation interviews Dean Richardson 

Earlier this month, the Episcopal Church Foundation interviewed CDSP Dean and President Mark Richardson, who was an ECF Fellow in 1990.

"Today's leaders," he says, "need to encourage and equip those they lead to find ways to be intelligent players at the interface of our faith and public life." Richardson is convinced that in order to be heard and taken seriously, the classical markers of our faith-mission, discipleship and evangelism-need to be articulated in new ways that fit our context.

The challenge for the leaders of today's congregations, in his view, is to lead people to an understanding of the mission of the church that can be enacted in the community. "And it's not going to be the same top down model that we've all applied," he says. But he's convinced that the leaders coming out of our seminaries have a particular role to play, to teach the sacramental life by modeling it in their own lives and to draw the congregation toward the mission God has set before it.
Giving Tuesday is December 1
Iain Stanford, 2014 Giving Tuesday scholar, says thanks

Academic Dean Ruth Meyers, Stanford, and Kelly Aughenbaugh '15 with Flat Jesus at General Convention
Thank you from the bottom of my heart! The money from the GivingTuesday scholarship has made it possible for me to be at CDSP and to follow God's call in my life. My studies at CDSP are a wonderful foundation for a future serving the church as priest. 

--2014 Giving Tuesday Scholar Iain Stanford

Giving Tuesday, the day dedicated to giving back, takes place this year on December 1.

Last year, CDSP alums and friends raised $10,000 to create the Giving Tuesday scholarship, awarded earlier this year to Iain Stanford. Read more about Iain on our website and give online now to support this year's Giving Tuesday scholarship.
Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission Colloquium
A conversation with Donald Schell, co-founder of St. Gregory of Nyssa

On November 19, CDSP hosted the 2015 APLM Colloquium titled "Treasures Old and New: Shared Vision for Worship from Tradition, Purposeful Innovation, and a Congregation's Own Culture and History." 

This year's presenter was the Rev. Donald Schell, co-founder of Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. The Rev. Jane McDougle, vicar of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in San Francisco, responded to the presentation.


2015 APLM Colloquium: Treasures Old and New
2015 APLM Colloquium: Treasures Old and New
Organizing for Public Ministry
Industrial Areas Foundation training January 17-22 in Berkeley

The best indicator of course effectiveness, in my opinion, is what I am integrating in my work months later. By that measure, the IAF training I had at CDSP is a winner!

As I walk the streets of a new mission field, I carry with me a way of seeing possibilities and opportunities through the lens of this training -- especially ways to engage and connect people who may not yet see themselves as collaborative partners. 

The course gave me greater awareness of how we can strengthen the voices of God's mission, as planted in the hearts of the people we serve, and offered the practical knowledge to organize church and community, increasing our capacity to follow through with action.

--The Rev. Twila Smith '14

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.
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.
Trinity Institute at CDSP
Save the date:  Saturday, January 23, 7:30 am-7:30 pm



You're invited to Trinity Institute (TI2016), "Listen for a Change:  Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice," an annual conference that takes place in New York City, but that you can attend at CDSP via webcast! Explore the most pressing issues of our time, including structural racism, mass incarceration, and the church's response to these injustices. Come with open ears; leave with a greater capacity to go back into your community and create change.

The cost, which includes lunch, is $50 ($40 for GTU students and $25 for CDSP students). Learn more and register on the website and download a flyer.
SeeCDSP in 2016
Plan now for prospective student visits in February and March

Our annual SeeCDSP events are for aspirants to holy orders and seekers. Once prospective students arrive in Berkeley, we provide lodging, meals and hospitality. Participants can attend a class, meet with professors and talk with other students in discernment. Families are welcome and encouraged to attend. 

 

SeeCDSP takes place on February 3-5 and March 2-4, 2016. Prospective students can indicate their interest on our website. Questions? Talk with Director of Admissions Andrew Hybl at 510-204-0738 or via email.

 
Homebrewed Christianity Visits GTU in February
Popular podcast to record episode during SeeCDSP

On February 4 at 8 pm in Denniston Refectory, the Graduate Theological Union will host Tripp Fuller and his Homebrewed Christianity podcast. Fuller, who is pursuing a PhD in theology at Claremont Graduate University, says that his popular podcast brings listeners "the best nerdy audiological ingredients so you can brew your own faith."

The event will include an interview with Fuller by Tripp Hudgins of American Baptist Seminary of the West; a panel discussion on theology in action that will include CDSP Visiting Professor Scott MacDougall; a panel on theological education that will include CDSP President and Dean Mark Richardson; and a theological quiz show.

Space is limited; reserve your free ticket online now.
Winifred B. Gaines Scholarship Endowment
Generous donors contribute 75% of fund's goal

Bob Gaines, husband of the Rev. Canon Winifred B. Gaines '78, recently established the Winifred B. Gaines Scholarship Endowment with a $100,000 gift to support seminarians from the Diocese of Northern California. Since the Rev. Gaines' death on September 30, generous donors have contributed an additional $50,000, bringing the fund to 75% of its goal.

Learn more about the Gaines Scholarship Endowment and contribute online.
Refectory Refresh Campaign Update
$48,000 raised toward $55,000 goal

The Denniston Refectory is being refurbished to provide updated, flexible space for community meals, gatherings, and programs. Thanks to the generous support of alumni donors, we're just $7,000 shy of our fundraising goal.

To join this effort that benefits the entire CDSP community, please donate to the Denniston Refectory Refresh campaign online.
Community News

CDSP Dean and President Mark Richardson and his wife, Brenda, traveled to Washington D.C. on October 31 and November 1 for the installation of Bishop Michael Curry as the 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and a celebration hosted by the Union of Black Episcopalians.

Faculty News
Academic Dean Ruth Meyers is serving on the Episcopal Church's Task Force on the Study of Marriage, which met for the first time in Baltimore on November 19-21.

Professor Julián González gave a paper titled "The Mark of Cain: an Agambenian Reading" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

Professor Cynthia Moe-Lobeda gave a presentation titled "Global Perspectives on the Reformation: Interactions between Theology, Politics and Economics" at the Lutheran World Federation conference held from October 26-November 2 in Windhoek, Namibia. At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, she gave a presentation titled "Teaching and Public Engagement" and a paper titled "Teaching Climate Change and Climate Justice in Religion/Religious Studies Classrooms" for the Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Group and the Religion and Ecology Group. Her essay, "Climate Debt, White Privilege and Christian Ethics as Political Theology has been published in "Common Good(s): Economy, Ecology, Political Theology" from Fordham Press.

Professor Susanna Singer has been named as chair of the General Convention Task Force on Clergy Leadership in Small Churches, which met for the first time November 19-21. Earlier in November, Singer participated in the annual meeting of the Religious Education Association.

Job Listing
The Rev. Kelly Kirby '02, rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky, seeks a director of congregational life who will serve as an assisting priest. Find the job posting online.

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