January 2016
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 Delahunt. Thank you, as always, for your support of CDSP.
When Scientists Reflect on their Walk with Jesus
Society of Ordained Scientists meets at CDSP

When members of the Society of Ordained Scientists gathered at CDSP earlier this month, it was to share how they traverse the worlds of faith and science, how those journeys shape their ministries, and how their ministries can influence their communities.

"Everyone in the Society, in some way, has had two careers, has held authority in science and the church," said the Rev. Lucas Mix, PhD, who is warden for the Society's North American Province. Mix, an adjunct faculty member at CDSP, received his MDiv from the seminary in 2007 and his PhD in organismic and evolutionary biology from Harvard in 2004. This year he is a research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is investigating astrobiology and society.

"All of us have this language that we have learned from being church geeks and science geeks," Mix said, "and there is something wonderful about being with people who speak your language. Being able to talk to each other allows us to put things in new ways."
A Pilgrimage of Perspective 
President Richardson gives paper on theology, natural sciences

At the Society of Ordained Scientists meeting, CDSP Dean and President Mark Richardson gave a paper titled "A Pilgrimage of Perspective from theology toward natural sciences: the expanded imagination."

"[T]he first move in my pilgrimage was the transition from seeing scientific method as extraneous, to seeing it as liberation of theology itself," said Richardson. "It was an invitation to sit more loosely with constructive thought and to enter more hypothetically into the theological task itself."
Integrating Theology and Practice
Professor Singer's summer reading picks

Students enrolling at CDSP in 2016 will receive a hefty new summer reading list designed by faculty to prepare them for their studies. Each month between now and the official start of the summer reading season, we'll highlight some titles chosen by our faculty members. 

Professor Susanna Singer chose three books to provide new students "a model right up front of how you integrate theology and practice:"

"This book is ten years old, but I haven't found anything that is as good," says Singer. "Stephanie really does a good job laying out a theology of welcome in a diverse culture, and also covering the practical stuff so that congregations can actually think through what making solid theology real in practices looks like."

"When this book was first published in 1997, it was an amazing and groundbreaking book in the thinking on forming Christian leaders and communities. It was updated in 2010 and includes a diversity of voices and practices that will help students get exposed to a variety of theologians, not all of whom are Episcopalians."

"This is a good bridge read for someone who has been an intelligent lay person and is now entering into deeper study. It's a solid introduction to the baptismal covenant for relatively new Episcopalians, and he does quite a good job of articulating Anglican identity--our particular history, ethos, theology and relationship with the surrounding culture--without being rigid. It's a good model of theological writing."
January Intersession Fills Campus
More than 50 students in Berkeley for community organizing and more

"Awesome conversation about preaching and justice."
@aaronklinefelter on Instagram 

From January 11-22, students from across the church and the community filled the CDSP campus to take intensive courses on community organizing, pastoral theology, biology and theology, and more.

In addition to 18 low-residence master of divinity and certificate of Anglican studies students, more than 45 people enrolled in January intensive courses for continuing education and 25 more visited campus for a day-long webcast from New York of the Trinity Institute on race and justice.
Online Survey:  Enrichment and Continuing Education
Please participate by February 7

CDSP is planning future programs and online courses for its enrichment and continuing education division known as CALL (the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership). To gather ideas and feedback, the CALL team has prepared a short (5-8 minute) online survey  about enrichment and continuing education options in the church, including CALL, and about what kind of future programs, courses, and resources CDSP might offer.

The survey is available online using this link until February 7, and anyone who is who interested is invited to participate.
SeeCDSP in February and March
Just a few spaces left for prospective student weekends

Our annual SeeCDSP events scheduled for February 3-5 and March 2-4 are nearing capacity. Visit the website now to indicate your interest in attending.
 
SeeCDSP is 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 encouraged to attend. 
 
Questions? Email Director of Admissions Andrew Hybl.
Homebrewed Christianity Visit Sold Out
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 is sold out, but will be streamed live over the Internet. Watch online.
Community News


Canon Robert J. Brooks ('73 '15) with Professor Ruth Meyers at the North American Academy of Liturgy meeting in Houston earlier this month.


Faculty News
Academic Dean Ruth Meyers attended the annual meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy in Houston in early January.

Visiting Assistant Professor Scott MacDougall's interview with Tripp Fuller, host of the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, was #3 on the program's Top Ten Episodes of 2015. Listen to the podcast, titled "More than Communion."

Alumni News
The Rev. Fred Heard '03 is the new vicar of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Dallas, Oregon. Read more in the Statesman Journal.

Job Postings
St. Peter's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Florida seeks a canon for community formation. Find the job posting for this new position online.

Mills College in Oakland, California seeks a director of spiritual and religious life. Find the posting online.

In Memoriam
The Rev. Charles Tarleton Crane '57 died in December. He served for more than 30 years in the Diocese of Hawai'i. Read the announcement from Bishop Robert Fitzpatrick.

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