Summer 2001

• Mission & Worship
• Anglican Liturgical Consultation
• What Makes a Sermon “Good”?
• Preaching Fire
• Epiphany West
• Faculty News
• CALL News
• Constancy & Change: Field Education at CDSP
• The Joys of Mutual Ministry
• Apply Online!
• Alum Profile
• Alumni/ae Happenings
• “Encuentro” at CDSP
• New Alum Council Members
• Upcoming Events

Mission & Worship
BY DONN MORGAN
President and Dean

WORSHIP HAS a central place for most Christians. While there are many special activities that our faith calls us to consider, worship of the God as known in Jesus Christ is one of the most distinctive aspects of our common life together. Put another way, seeking justice and a wide variety of actions done because of a Christian motivation are not particularly distinctive when viewed by an outsider who has no understanding of the rationale behind them. But getting together on Sunday or other days to worship God in a special place, remembering a special story of salvation, with special music and ritual actions, this is different, this is particular. To be sure, this time of praise, petition, singing, and so much more must never be separated from the larger life of Christian service. But the worship of God, for Christians the God manifest in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, this is at the heart of our particularity.

For Episcopalians, according to the recent Zacchaeus Report published by the Episcopal Church Foundation, worship is at the center of our identity. When we think of that which is most distinctive, most central, most important to our church experience—it is worship which more Episcopalians name than anything else. So perhaps my observations about the centrality of worship and its distinctiveness have as much to do with being a member of this church as anything else.

In light of all this, it is natural and not surprising to affirm that worship and all that it includes (the disciplines of liturgics, homiletics, music, as well as a 16- services-a-week schedule of morning and evening prayer and eucharist) are a very important part of CDSP’s educational mission. Worship and instruction are never entirely separated from one another at the school, though few attend worship services for primarily pedagogical reasons. Overall, in light of the place of worship in our church, we hope to enhance the liturgical leadership necessary for growth and strength in the future. This is accomplished through classroom study, field education experience, and participation in the chapel life of the seminary. The mix of hands-on practical training and experience, combined with a knowledge of the historical and theological dimensions of liturgical leadership and preaching, provides a strong basis for the achievement of our goals. And through all of this and a discipline of regular worship and prayer, we are formed for ministry and service.

None of this is new for the Church Divinity School. From very early in its history the study and teaching of worship has been a central concern. In the 1930’s Edward Lambe Parsons, then the bishop of California and a sometime lecturer at CDSP, joined Bayard Hale Jones, liturgics teacher at CDSP, to write The American Prayer Book, Its Origins and Principles. At the time this was a standard reference work for studying the Book of Common Prayer. The next major resource for studying this central text of the church’s worship was The Oxford American Prayer Commentary, written by Massey H. Shepherd shortly before he became CDSP’s new Hodges Professor of Liturgics. “Shep” was a pivotal figure in the studies and reforms that led to the “new” prayer book of 1979, as was his successor in the Hodges Chair at CDSP, Louis Weil. In addition to liturgics, CDSP has had a significant instructional presence in church music with Norman Mealy from the 1950- 80’s, followed by David Higgs, Alan Lewis, and George Emblom. And, from the 1980’s to the present day we have had a full-time position in homiletics, first with James Jones and now with Linda Clader. It is clear that worship has had a central place in the mission of the school. But in the mid-1990’s the CDSP faculty began to dream bigger dreams, to envision an even greater place for this important subject and its related disciplines. The faculty believed that good leadership in worship was one critical component for strengthening congregational life and ministry in the Episcopal Church. With the help of the Lilly Endowment, the faculty created a new, and second, position in liturgics focused on increased instruction in this area and the incorporation of chapel life even more fully into the realization of such a goal. Lizette Larson-Miller has joined the faculty to develop this program. Its future has been assured by the establishment and soon to be funded Nancy and Michael Kaehr Chair in Liturgical Leadership and Dean of the Chapel. In the near future we hope to have fully endowed chairs in Church Music as well as in Homiletics. Such developments will both continue the long-standing commitment of CDSP to excellence in worship and its role in strengthening congregational life in the Episcopal Church. With a renewed emphasis on worship instruction throughout the Graduate Theological Union and the great strength in music at the University of California, Berkeley, our school is poised to provide a special resource for the study of worship. These exciting developments promise much for the whole church and witness to the integral connection of worship and mission here at CDSP.

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Anglican Liturgical Consultation to Meet at CDSP
BY LOUIS WEIL
James F. Hodges Professor of Liturgics

FROM AUGUST 6-11, a conference will take place at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) which will draw together Anglican liturgical leaders from all over the world. The International Anglican Liturgical Consultation (IALC) will spend a week gathered in Berkeley working to bring into final form a document on the understanding of Holy Orders in the Anglican tradition.

The IALC began working on this document in Finland in 1997, and continued at its next meeting in India in 1999. The goal of the IALC is to produce a document which reflects a fundamental consensus among Anglicans on the content of the formation and ordination of candidates for Holy Orders in Anglicanism. The IALC was formed upon the initial work undertaken by a group of Anglican liturgical scholars in 1985, when they met in Boston to develop a document on the issue of the giving of Communion to baptized infants and children. That document was distributed to the bishops at the Lambeth Conference in 1988.

By that time the group had come into a kind of semi-official status for the worldwide Anglican Communion with regard to the task of offering to the whole Church a way in which major issues in sacramental and liturgical theology which affect our common life might be debated by representatives from all parts of the Communion.

After the initial work on children and the Eucharist, the IALC went on to produce documents on Christian Initiation and the Eucharist. These were published as were also a substantial body of the preparatory essays which the members of the IALC prepared for the meetings. The current work on Holy Orders has proved somewhat more problematic than the earlier work because of diverse understandings shaped by divergent cultural contexts and local developments. The work to be done here in Berkeley is thus of great potential significance for the whole Anglican Communion.

Toward the end of the meeting, on Friday, August 10, CDSP will host a panel discussion to which alumni and other friends of the seminary, both laity and clergy, are cordially invited. It will be held in the Tucson Common Room at 4:00 PM. At this session, members of the IALC will present the major perspectives of the new document with the hope of receiving responses from those gathered. This will be a first opportunity to hear the fruit of a six-year process. After the panel discussion, guests are invited to remain for a reception.

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What Makes a Sermon “Good”?
BY LINDA CLADER ’88
Professor of Homiletics

IT’S A QUESTION all of us preachers ask ourselves. We spend hours in prayer and study, trying our best to hear the Word in the words of the text from which we will be preaching. Something happens, someone says something, something jumps from a page, and suddenly we know what our focus or our direction will be. We check, in a variety of ways, to be as sure as we can that the message we intend to proclaim is God’s message, and not just our invention. And then the wrestling begins. How to package that Word we have been given? How to sing it to the best tune we can come up with, so that our listeners will WANT to listen, and having listened, to respond? In our desire to create something “good” for community worship, we ask God to “break” us to the gospel, to speak through us, to allow the Holy Spirit to move hearts and wills in spite of our failings as preachers. Until the homily has been preached, the most we can know is that we have done our best to be faithful.

But those of us who listen to sermons know in our hearts and in our very bones when we’ve heard a “good” one. Chances are, we haven’t paid much attention to how closely the preacher has stuck to the given text, or what kind of structure or rhetoric the preacher has used to proclaim the Word. Instead, we are aware of thinking a new thought, or remembering something that has dimmed over time, or feeling an urge to act, or becoming newly attuned to God’s presence in the worship space. But what has prompted this new awareness, this openness to the Spirit? It could be the power of a particular story, that for one reason or another resonated with our experience or our secret longings. It could be the way something the preacher said seemed to echo a verse in that favorite hymn we sang earlier in the service. It could be the way we were reminded of a news item we saw just that morning. It could be a connection we made, regardless of what the preacher actually said, between something we care about deeply and what we understand to be God’s Word. Something mysterious has happened, the Spirit has taken up residence within us all over again, and we feel moved to respond — in our families, in our community, in our prayer.

A “good” sermon is enacted by preacher and listeners together, dancing to the music created by the worship of God in a gathered community. It is often the product of careful study and skillful writing — but not always. It is often the product of a loving relationship between a pastor and parishioners — but not always. It is often the product of a rich and authentic service of worship—but not always. Underneath the planning and the listening and even the relationships, there is still a great mystery.

We can choose, of course, to participate more fully in that mystery. As she is preparing to preach, a pastor can be intentional about praying for those who will be her listeners. As the preacher takes his place before them, a congregation can pray for the presence of the Word in the preacher and in the assembly. A preacher and members of the congregation can gather regularly to read the texts, pray them, and discuss their meaning for that particular community. All these are small disciplines, intentional acts that “tune” the listeners and the preacher to one another and to the action of the Spirit in their midst. They cannot, in themselves, guarantee that one particular sermon will be “good.” But faithful listening and authentic conversation among preacher and congregation can foster a creative environment, a community that is on the lookout for surprises. And when a community is open to surprise, all kinds of preaching can be “good!”

Preaching Fire
BY MARY FRANCES SCHJONBERG
The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg ’00 is the curate of Christ Church in Short Hills, NJ.

THE WILDFIRE SEASON during the summer of 2000 was my first post-graduation challenge as a preacher and theologian. I recognized that this was happening in true incarnational Anglican fashion. I was forced to do theology on the ground, in the middle of my life. Two churches back home in Missoula, Montana, invited me to preach during the darkest, smokiest weeks of the summer.

Some days a south wind would fill the Missoula valley with smoke from fires in southwestern Montana and Idaho, so that you couldn’t see across the street and had to stay inside to avoid breathing the smoke. It was hot and airless inside. No one slept well. I knew that if we had a fire up the Rattlesnake Valley were I was staying, we had 30 minutes to get out. I packed my valuables and put them in the car.

By the time the rains came on Labor Day weekend, nearly 10,000 firefighters were in Montana battling fires on 645,289 acres, while 19 fires were burning 696,866 acres in Idaho. Mid-August was the worst. Many people, even those who didn’t always think about God, began trying to discern the divine hand in all this. Over and over I heard people say, “God is testing us.” A minister at an ecumenical prayer service in the Bitterroot Valley, ground zero for the Montana fires, reportedly proclaimed that “God lit the match” that started these fires. My friends were sure that since I now had a degree in divinity, I must know why God would cause all this devastation to happen.

This was quite a set-up for a newly ordained preacher. I preached at the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) on August 13 and at my home church Holy Spirit Parish on August 20. I recalled for both congregations the wonderful story John Kater tells about preaching on St. Francis Day. As I remember the story, John preached in the CDSP courtyard about the circle of life; its beauty and abundance, and our interdependence. He says he thought he sounded so much the expert, so much the learned theologian. Then something caught his eye and he saw through the refectory windows a heron swoop into the garden pond. The bird began to methodically eat all the goldfish. When I heard the story, its moral was that it is all well and good to hear about the circle of life, unless you are the goldfish.

Remembering that we are all goldfish at one time or another, I plunged in and reminded people of the stories of courage, stamina, resilience and community togetherness they’d been hearing and reading about. To the question “Why is God testing us?” I posed other questions: “Why would we believe that God would test us like this?” and “Why would this God, who we believe is all-loving, act like a firebug, setting fires and then sending rain to put them out; just so that we would know we are not God?” I said that scenario sounded weird and sick. “Concocting a God-is-testing-us scenario speaks more about our frail human anxiety than about God’s deep and abiding love,” I told the Disciples congregation with smoke sticking in my throat. There was a south wind that morning.

We want to understand the world in terms of cause and effect, but we also crave something beyond the mere mechanics of creation. We know there is mystery in our lives; and when we can’t explain the scope of that mystery, we’re tempted to say that God is testing us.

“We aren’t going to find God in the why or the how. God is not in the catastrophe or the horror. God did not send these fires. We find God in our response to these things. When we turn to God for peace, for courage, for stamina, that’s when we find God,” I preached.

I challenged the congregations to not let the good things that happened during these fires die out when the flames did. We were seeing love and courage now, but why weren’t we so bravely compassionate the rest of the year? I suggested that it is hard work to fight against the violent forces in our world, but that coming to the table on Sunday morning can give us peace, courage, stamina and sustenance to share with everyone we meet.

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Epiphany West 2001

EPIPHANY WEST, the international conference sponsored annually by CDSP’s Center for Anglican Learning and Life (CALL) was held from January 30 - February 3, 2001. Aspects of the conference theme, “Beyond Orthodoxy: Embracing Christian Pluralism Past and Present,” were explored from a variety of perspectives in a number of presentations, classes and workshops. J. Rebecca Lyman, CDSP’s Samuel Garrett Professor of Church History, delivered the closing address. Other presenters included Penelope Jamieson, Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand, Robert Gregg, Stanford University, and Virginia Burrus, Drew University. A paper on “The Future Is Mestizo” by Virgilio Elizondo, who was prevented by a death in his family from attending the conference, was read by Professor Eduardo Fernandez of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Other participants from CDSP and other seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union included Don Compier (CDSP), Gina Hens-Piazza (Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley) and Philip Wickeri (San Francisco Theological Seminary). The conference Eucharist featured CDSP's L. William Countryman, Sherman A. Johnson Professor in Biblical Studies, as its preacher, shown here sharing a lighthearted moment with Prof. Rebecca Lyman. Bishop Penny Jamieson, the first woman to serve as a diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion, spoke on “Authority and Orthodoxy: Leadership for a Church of Many Voices.”

AT THE HEIGHT of Epiphany West, members of the George and Augusta Gibbs Society joined with faculty members to honor Professor Rebecca Lyman and all of the conference speakers. Held in the seminary’s Tucson Common Room, guests were treated to dinner, conversation and remarks by Lyman. Professor Lyman’s remarks set the stage for the conference’s focus on pluralism in the church historically and in current teachings. President and Dean Donn Morgan thanked all in attendance for their ongoing commitment to theological education in general and to the Church Divinity School of the Pacific specifically. Gibbs Society members are invited to special events throughout the year. In addition to the dinner at the Epiphany West Conference, they will be invited to a new event this fall—a special dinner to meet the seminary’s entering students. Titled “Bright Futures,” the September dinner will bring together the future leaders of the church with people who by their foresight and generosity will secure a bright future for the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Members of the Gibbs Society have included the seminary in their estate plans. For more information on how you can become a member of the Gibbs Society, please contact Richard W. Felton, Vice President for Development, at 510/204-0707 or rfelton@cdsp.edu.

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Faculty News
BY ARTHUR HOLDER
Dean of Academic Affairs

THROUGHOUT EDUCATION in America, from preschools right up through graduate professional schools like CDSP, the shift is on. Encouraged by accrediting agencies and pedagogical researchers alike, we are shifting the focus from teaching to learning. It is no longer enough for us to take pride in our faculty, our library, our splendid array of courses. These resources are important and potentially useful, but the whole point of a school is to help students learn. Thus, we are learning to ask questions like: “Who are our students? What do they need to learn in order to serve God in the various ministries to which they are called? How will we know when they have learned it?” Only then are we ready to ask: “What are the best teaching strategies to help these students learn what they need to know?”

How can we improve the quality of student learning at CDSP? For the last two years, part of every faculty meeting has been devoted to a curriculum review process begun by Bill Countryman during his term as Acting Dean of Academic Affairs, and now led by Jane Maynard. Faculty in each field of study have presented “white papers” assessing the ways in which the present curriculum (adopted in 1993) is working (or not) for the benefit of students in our various degree and certificate programs. Data have been gathered from graduating student questionnaires, an October feedback session with alums, and open meetings with current students. It is already clear that a new curriculum must address several evident needs: more practical ministry skills for M.Div. students, more emphasis on formation and spiritual growth, more interdisciplinary integration, and a strengthening of the awareness and skills necessary for multi-cultural ministry.

Another insight for the faculty has been that there is no such thing as a “perfect” curriculum for all time. Curricula will always need revision, because the nature of the student body changes over time, just as the church and the world continue to change. After more input from students, alums, and the institutions that employ our graduates, the next phases of this particular curriculum revision will involve discussion of the goals and purposes of each academic program. Eventually, there will be a new curriculum that will hopefully do an even better job of preparing CDSP students in the future.

This process of curricular revision will be enhanced by the participation of six CDSP faculty members in this summer’s Lexington Seminar, titled “Theological Teaching for the Church’s Ministries.” Linda Clader, Arthur Holder, Lizette Larson-Miller, Donn Morgan, Russell Moy, and Louis Weil will join faculty colleagues from four other seminaries (including our Lutheran partner in the GTU) for six days of reflection and inquiry on the coast of Maine. Each of the schools represented in this seminar has identified a set of concerns about what it means to do “formation” in its own ecclesial and cultural context. Together, we have chosen to focus on issues of formation and identity, authority and responsibility, hospitality and accountability, diversity and flexibility. We have been talking about these things here for some time, so it has been heartening to discover how much we share with our counterparts in the Lutheran, evangelical, and liberal Protestant traditions. We look forward to working with them as all of our seminaries make the shift toward student learning.

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CALL News
NEWS Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership
BY JOHN KATER
Director

Partnerships Work!

WHEN NORMAN HULL, rector of St. Mark’s Church in Van Nuys, California, chatted with me several years ago about what it means to be a truly multicultural congregation, probably neither of us knew how wide-reaching the results of that conversation might be. Unlike some churches in which members of two or even three different cultural backgrounds are brought together, St. Mark’s membership includes dozens of nationalities! We suspected there were other congregations that might be wondering about the implications of highly diverse membership for how we do ministry together. We wondered what kind of decisions are called for when congregations decide to see diversity not as a problem, but as a blessing, not an accident, but a choice to be celebrated. And we decided to broaden the conversation.

Those conversations bore fruit! “Multicultural by Design,” an all-day consultation held on March 3, brought together 65 people, including missioners and clergy-laity teams from six dioceses, to tell their stories—how they became multicultural, at what point this became an intentional design for mission, and how their ministries evolved.

“Multicultural by Design” was held at the Cathedral Center in Los Angeles and was co-sponsored by a partnership team made up of Province VIII, the provincial office of Intercultural Ministry Development, the Diocese of Los Angeles Office of Multicultural Ministry, and CALL. Plans are being made for a followup event as part of Province VIII’s Convocation this spring, and conversations are going on about holding a similar event in the Pacific Northwest. Partnerships work!

“Adult Christian Education in a Post-Christian World”

WHAT DOES adult Christian education look like in the real world we all live in, when denominational loyalty has faded, fewer people are the product of traditional Sunday School and youth groups, and new technologies challenge us to learn in new ways? These were some of the challenging questions tackled by a curious and enthusiastic group that filled CDSP’s Common Room on March 17 for an all-day conference. The gathering was part of “Equipping the Saints,” a collaborative program sponsored jointly by CALL, the Diocese of California, and The School for Deacons. Following a stirring address by Dr. Rod Dugliss, dean of The School for Deacons, participants attended workshops designed to explore how to shape their adult education to the unique needs of their congregation (“One Size Doesn’t Fit All,” offered by Sue Singer, Education Coordinator for the Diocese of California) using computers to enhance adult education (“Putting New Technologies to Work,” with the GTU’s Robert Kramish), and taking into account the interests of a new generation of adult Christians (“Generation X Christianity,” with CDSP student Kelly West).

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Constancy and Change:
Field Education at CDSP
Conversations with Jane Maynard and Ardith Hayes
BY JOSEPH WAKELEE-LYNCH

THE REV. ARDITH HAYES, Associate Director of Field Education, has worked in field education since 1976, and at several institutions, including Union Theological Seminary and the Pacific School of Religion, as well as CDSP. As for field education’s mission and purpose, she says, she’s seen little change.

“The goals of field education,” Hayes says, “have stayed pretty much the same: first, to give the student supervised experience in ministry; and, second, to give the student tools to reflect on that experience theologically and personally. Those goals are pretty consistent.”

But in terms of the changing social context of church ministry, change has been abundant. For instance, a dramatic change in the church has to do with the availability of curacies, says the Rev. Dr. Jane Maynard, CDSP Director of Field Education. More and more often, she says, ministry takes place in different places in different ways than it did 20 years ago. A significant change facing the church is the lack of curacies, compared to two decades ago.

“I think the church is going to need to become more intentional about preparing people for ministry recognizing that those practical settings and forms of ministry training in parishes just aren’t as available as before, and I think that there’s a lot that can be done at seminary using field education tools to prepare people.”

And the changing social context of ministry has affected some of the ways that field education is taught. A new innovation is the Lilly Internships in Urban and Multicultural Ministry, which are internships supported with stipends, usually lasting eight months that provide opportunities to work in settings of great diversity. One seminarian, for instance, works with multicultural youth in the Canal Ministries in San Rafael, and another helped to establish a children’s Sunday school program at Oakland’s Allen Temple Baptist Church. To her knowledge, said Maynard, CDSP is the only Episcopal seminary with such a program.

But in addition to changes in the location of ministry, the teaching of ministry has undergone revision. Seminaries pay much more attention than before, said Hayes, to integrating the field education experience with course work in the student’s overall curriculum.

“The field of congregational studies has arisen in the last 20 years,” she explained, “so we have more tools for looking at congregational development and leadership. Students can go out better equipped for church life.”

But Hayes added that field education has also been improved by emphasizing the integration of site experience with the theological curriculum.

“I think that probably there is more conversation not just about the place of field education in the core curriculum but how it’s related to course work in other areas,” she explained.

The future of field education, said Maynard, may mean more partnership but in yet another guise. In some dioceses of the West, the Total Ministry model is wellrooted. In this model, the discernment of priestly and ministerial gifts is done in a local setting, and ordination takes place outside of institutional seminary training. Maynard said she could see field education expanding into the role of “teaching the teachers,” preparing seminarians or recent graduates to provide the formal theological education in those settings. The Lilly Grant provides resources to support this work.

“I think it will push seminaries to find ways to make their resources more widely available,” said Maynard. “The challenge for seminaries is to confront local realities. In the West, it’s impossible for us to ignore Total Ministry, because we know a lot of our graduates are going back into those settings.” In Maynard’s eyes, serving the needs of dioceses in new ways is an extension of a longstanding CDSP commitment. “We don’t do theological education alone but through partnership with others.”

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The Joys of Mutual Ministry

Mary Kimball has been involved in field education for almost 20 years, starting as a lay supervisor to a seminarian at St. John’s, Oakland. In February, she gave her reflections on field education at CDSP, from which the following excerpts are drawn.

“It is a great blessing that we are located close enough to a great teaching seminary that we can participate in this important work. We are not alone in Field Education. We have the support and interaction of highly diverse agencies, chaplaincies, missions, and parishes, as well as of the member schools of the GTU, and other seminaries in our tradition.

“I personally have been much changed through field education. I have learned how God offers us opportunities and how we can be God’s partners in the work. I’ve learned a lot about loving commitment from so many people. And I never dreamed that what I do in my daily life as a Christian could be offered to others and that this work would be helpful to the present and future of the church. It has been a grand experience.”
—MARY KIMBALL

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Apply Online!
BY STINA POPE
Director of Admissions and Recruitment

CDSP’S COME A LONG WAY. It is now possible to fill out an application online —and pay the application fee online as well! We spearheaded the effort to make this a GTU-wide option so next year’s applicants will be able to apply online all across the GTU.

The CDSP Admissions Office and Registrar’s Office, plus the GTU Registrar’s Office all stand to benefit. It is making the applicants happy, too. We began this move last year when we put a modified version of the catalog on the website. That version included application forms that could be downloaded. The response was very positive.

Now applicants can do more than download. They fill out the application, submit their fee by credit card or by check, and we receive it all via e-mail. It is quick, and, hopefully, helpful to all concerned.

Watch the web for all sorts of new developments throughout CDSP!

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Alum Profile

‘… may your guardians keep watch over your coming and going.’

THE REV. REGINALD RODRIGUEZ ’57 wrote to us from Los Lunas, New Mexico to ‘check in’ with an update on his many years of work and ministry. Originally from the Laguna Reservation, Reginald served in parishes in Arizona, Hawaii, and Los Angeles until 1967, when he returned to Albuquerque to work for the Education Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. After working with the Pueblo tribes, he transferred to Washington, D. C., as the national Chief Post Secondary Education Officer for the bureau. Reginald’s responsibilities in the capital included teaching seminars and attending the regional meetings of most of the 580 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. He also sang with several distinguished choral societies and performances at the Kennedy Center.

After retiring in 1994, Reginald returned to Albuquerque to assist the American Indian Graduate program and his own Laguna Pueblo tribe in their education programs. He “filled in the empty spaces” with terms on the New Mexico Symphony Board and the Foundation Board for Northern Arizona University. As the head of his religious tribal clan and the larger social clan, he is passing on religious rites and culture to the tribe’s younger members. Reginald wrote, “The discipline and the honing of my work ethic at CDSP did prepare me for the path I had chosen to take. My thanks and prayers will always be for my tutor and spiritual guide, Sam Garrett.” Our thanks go to him for sharing his wonderful story with us.

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“Encuentro” at CDSP
BY CARLA E. ROLAND ’03, MA/MDIV

On March 8 - 11, CDSP hosted 17 Hispanic seminarians from nine different seminaries across the country—seven Episcopal seminaries and two others. The meeting was sponsored by the Hispanic component of Congregational Ministries of the Episcopal Church, and we had the pleasure of having the Rev. Daniel Caballero as the National Church representative.

The meeting offered an opportunity for Hispanic seminarians to get acquainted, to meet with local Hispanic clergy, and to attend several presentations, including one on VIA “Viviendo la Identidad Anglicana.” VIA’s aim is to raise lay leadership in the Church. Don Compier is very involved in this important program.

The feedback we’ve received from those attending has been very positive. They felt welcomed, and they enjoyed their time at CDSP. It is the hope of the Congregational Ministries that these gatherings continue. Next year the group will meet at Virginia Theological Seminary; last year the seminarians met at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.

The number of Episcopal Hispanic seminarians is very small. We are trying to identify all Hispanic seminarians in order that all can participate in the Encuentro in following years. If you know of any Hispanic seminarians please share this information with them. Encourage them to write to: EpiscopalHispanic Seminarians@yahoogroups.com.

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New Alum Council Members

The Alumni/ae Council is pleased to announce the election of three new members to the council and the nomination of a fourth to fill an unexpired term. The three members of the ’class of 2006‘ are the Revs. Johnson Loud ’97, Bob Reynolds ’66, and Janet Wheelock ’93. The Rev. Jennifer Baskerville ’97 has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of the Rev. Roy Tripp ’96, which ends in 2003.

Johnson Loud is vicar of the Church of the Messiah in Welch, Minnesota, and also serves on the board of the Indigenous Theological Training Institute, an international organization serving indigenous peoples both in the U.S. and other countries. Bob Reynolds, rector of St. Paul’s in Walnut Creek, California since 1989, has served in the Diocese of California as chair of the Clergy Compensation Task Force, member of the Personnel Practices Committee, and president of the Clergy Association. Janet Wheelock is chaplain of the University Episcopal Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and has a special interest in supporting and fostering young vocations in the church. Jennifer Baskerville is associate at St. Peter’s in Morristown, New Jersey, and also currently serves on the national boards of the Episcopal Women’s Caucus and Gathering the NeXt Generation.

These four talented individuals join continuing members Marion Canterbury ’79, Peter Chase ’80, Dorothy Curry ’82, Stacey Grossman ’96, Norman Hull ’95, Caryl Marsh ’77, Charles Ramsden ’74, and Katherine Ward ’94. Congratulations to the new council members!

CDSP CROSSINGS Editor/Art Director Mollyanne Brewer Maremaa Editorial Board Teresa Gilmore, Richard Felton, Katharine Flexer, Donn Morgan, Margo Webster Writers Katharine Flexer, Richard Felton, Arthur Holder, John Kater, Mollyanne Brewer Maremaa, Donn Morgan, Mary Frances Schjonberg, Joseph Wakelee-Lynch, Louis Weil Alumni/ae Happenings Katharine Flexer Design & Production Barbara Nishi Graphic Design Printer Bacchus Press, Emeryville, CA Crossings is published by the Communications Office at CDSP. To obtain additional copies please call: 510/204-0710.

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