THE
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL NEWSOURCE
The Q Source is published weekly
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community are included. All submissions
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members of the YDS community; these must be kept as short as possible. The Q Source is now available online at
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Academic
Information
From the Registrar:
Entering students. Once you have
checked in you may register on line. There
is open registration between August 30 beginning at
All
returning students..
There is open registration between August 30 beginning at
After
Library Survival Training: Come and learn how to find what
you need at the Divinity Library! This
45-minute session is a basic orientation to the Library’s resources and
services. The emphasis will be on
electronic resources, including the ORBIS catalog, ATLA database, and other
theological resources. All students are
welcome to attend. Please sign up
near the Circulation Desk for the session you wish to attend. For more information
contact Suzanne.Estelle-Holmer@yale.edu or 432-6374. Sessions are scheduled to take place in the
Library Instruction Room (L-107):
Wednesday, Sept. 7:
Thursday, Sept. 8th:
Tuesday, Sept. 13th:
Thursday, Sept. 15th
On Campus
Marquand Chapel
Worship 10:30am All
are Welcome!!
BIBLE
BELTERS AUDITIONS: Attention YDS Men: Do you like to
sing? Do you like sharing your talents with the community? Have you been dying to
join a group with a Bible pun in its name?
Now's your chance! The
Bible Belters (YDS’ men’s a capella group) are holding open auditions on Thursday, Sept. 8
from
YALE-WIDE ORIENTATION DAY: Sept
10,
Home to Go Exhibition and video installation by
Adrian Paci, is on display at the Yale Institute of
Sacred Music (September 12-30) A
reception will be held on Friday, September 16 from
SENIOR RETREAT. Students that will graduate in May 2006 or
December 2005 are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Senior
Retreat. The retreat will be held at the
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS Hey first
years! Need a break? Need a listening ear? Want to come and
share what your life has been like lately with other first years?
Kristen Leslie will be hosting a gathering for you to come and talk about your
own personal transitions. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th at
WRITING CONSULTANT HOURS: First
off, greetings first-years! Second, no need to worry about papers
just yet. Writing at the
RESUME AND CV WRITING: If you would like help with writing a resume at YDS, here's the way that you can go about that. 1) attend a resume or CV workshop 2) THEN make an appointment or carry on e-consulting with me. While I realize that many of you have learned resume writing in another venue, this method has proven to be the most useful expenditure of all of our time. That being said, upcoming resume and CV workshops are:
Wednesday, September 7,
Wednesday, September 7,
PARACLEATS SOCCER: The fall soccer season will begin with a practice next
week and the YDS Paracleats are looking for new recruits. We are a co-ed
team that competes
in the graduate intramural league at Yale. If you did not play last year, or have not put
your name on one of our sign-up sheets this fall, please email me (adam.rutledge@yale.edu)
and I will add you to our
list. All are welcome (faculty, staff, spouses, fans, etc.) Those interested in other sports please feel free to
email me for more information.
The fall intramural season includes volleyball and softball as well as soccer, and
if there is enough interest I will sign up a YDS team for those sports as well. Hope to hear from you soon,
Adam Rutledge
(864)270-7298
or adam.rutledge@yale.edu.
ROOM SCHEDULING SOFTWARE, which
allows you to determine room availability and confirm your reservation requests,
can be viewed by all of the YDS community. You can access this
information by doing the following: Go to the Yale Divinity School
website homepage (<http://www.yale.edu/divinity>www.yale.edu/divinity)
* Click on "Faculty
& Administration" * Click on "Room Resources" * Browse by Room, Date,
event, etc. on the calendar or click on the link below: http://www.divinity.yale.edu/VirtualEMSLite/BrowseEvents.aspx>http://www.divinity.yale.edu/VirtualEMSLite/BrowseEvents.aspx To make a Room Reservation request, see link in upper
left hand corner that says: "Click on link to make Room Reservation
Request" Should
you encounter any problems accessing the site, please contact Bob Piscatelli at 432-5273.
Lectures and Events
(Yale and
The Yale Russian Chorus
is now auditioning singers for the 2005-2006 school year
and beyond! A tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble open to all members of the
Yale and
The Overseas Ministries Study Center will hold its Fall Reception on
Fullbright
Information Sessions: (This
was received from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) Dean Burns will be
giving an informational session on Fulbright Hays Fellowship on September 8, at
2:00pm
in HGS, 119a.
Reverend Edward Dobihal
Lecture: You are cordially invited to
the 2005 Reverend Edward Dobihal Lecture, sponsored
by the Religious Ministry Department of the Yale New Haven Hospital and the
Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine, honoring the ongoing work of Reverend Dobihal who established the chaplaincy program at the
YNHH, was a founding member of Connecticut Hospice and continues his interfaith
work in the community. The lecture will be delivered by Colin Murray Parkes,
Hot Coffee, Hot Issues: The Yale World Fellows Program is pleased to
announce...
The 2005 Hot Coffee, Hot
Issues International Affairs Discussion Series will begin on Friday, September 9 at 8:30am at Betts House, 393 Prospect
Street in the
3rd Floor Conference Room. We hope to see you there! Hot
Coffee, Hot Issues is a weekly discussion series on current developments in
international affairs led by experts from both inside and outside the Yale community. Each week, a new
topic will be selected from the headlines for Friday's discussion.
Coffee, tea and morning
pastries are served at 8:15am. If you would like
to receive the weekly discussion topic by email, or know someone else who would, please send an email to sarah.baldys@yale.edu
Art of Living Course - Yoga of Breath: September
9th – 14th. The purpose of
the Art of Living Course is to strengthen your potential. The program decreases
stress and increases your learning ability, focus, and concentration through
innovative breathing techniques that increase energy and deeply relax and
recharge the body and mind. The course
also includes natural principles of effective living. You learn tools that
eliminate counter-productive activity and enhance leadership qualities.
IMPORTANT: Registration required by 6th September www.aoluniversity.org This course meets weekdays:
Women's Leadership in
Afghanistan's Reconstruction with
Keynote Speaker: H.E. Masouda Jalal, Afghanistan
Minister of Women's Affairs and Katrin Fakiri,
Managing Director, PARWAZ Microfinance Institution;
Connie Duckworth, Founder, President and Chair, Arzu, Inc.; Marieke Wierda, Senior Associate, International Center for
Transitional Justice (Moderator). In spite
of on-going conflict in
Grad Dessert with the Chaplains: Wednesday, September 14th,
Religiously Incorrect?
Public Faith in a Pluralistic World.” September 15 - 16, 2005 . The 2005 Sarah Smith
Memorial Conference on Moral Leadership, entitled
“Religiously Incorrect? Public Faith in a Pluralistic World,” takes up a
question of great national and international importance.
·
In an era when
religious faith features prominently in public life, can we imagine a public
role for religion that falls victim neither to the violent assertion of faith
nor the liberal restraint of religious reasons in public debate?
·
How can we envision
modes of professional leadership in which the practice of faith is integral to
vocation and broader participation in public life? Can such a vibrant practice of faith take
seriously both the reality of pluralism and its consequent fact of multiple
incommensurable world-views, while nonetheless envisioning a distinctive role
for faith in fostering life’s flourishing?
The conference, interdisciplinary by design, seeks
answers to these pressing questions for those working in the fields of law,
business, ministry, medicine, in the academy, and in other spheres of life.
Speakers and presenters include: Nancy
T. Ammerman, Professor
of Sociology of Religion, Boston University; Floyd Flake, Senior Pastor,
Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral, Jamaica, New York; Mike Volkema, Chairman, Herman Miller, Inc.; Stephen
L. Carter, Professor of Law, Yale
University; Wendell L. Griffen, Judge, Arksansas Court of Appeals; Robert H. Henry, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; William H. Pryor, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; Joan Gottschall,
Judge, U.S. District
Court, Northern District of Illinois; Miroslav Volf, Director,
Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Please
register (Yale community no charge) by picking up a registration form
outside S116 or by going to http://www.yale.edu/faith/initiatives/smc_2005.html
or email christian.scharen@yale.edu
Sex and Religion in
Migration:
A Conference Presented by: The Yale Institute of Sacred Music with support from
The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund; The
Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian & Gay Studies; The Program in Judaic
Studies; The Department of Religious Studies. This international,
interdisciplinary conference is set to examine how religious and gender
identities arise and develop in relation to one another in the context of
globalization. Thirteen internationally-recognized scholars, authors, artists
and film-makers have been invited to address the conference's theme by
reflecting on the bodily practices of migrants in both refugee situations and
immigrant populations in
Robert Parkins, Duke University Organist,
performs as part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series. Sunday,
September 18th at
Finding God in Seminary: a
one-day workshop for seminarians/September 24,
2005 (Saturday, 10 am - 3 pm) One of the ironies of
theological education - engaging in study of and about God - is that God often seems to disappear in
the process. This
Workshop will offer practical guidance for those who wish to deepen their relationship with
God in prayer in the context of their seminary education. Led by Brs.
KEVIN HACKETT and CHARLES LA FOND Suggested fee: $60 (half-price for full-time students)
Registration information
available at: www.ssje.org/register.html. The
Monastery (Society of Saint John the Evangelist)
O God, I Love Thee: Music of Praise
and Penitence
Freedom! Not Just Another
Word: Presented
by the Christian Community Action.
Professor Mark Jordan at UConn-Stanford: On
Classifieds
VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
Mentoring in
EMPLOYMENT
Important Notice about Student Employment: Employment regulations and guidelines
have changed at the University for all positions
beginning this past July 1st. Prior to beginning work, a request
for funding, including a specific job description, with beginning and end
dates, needs to be provided to our office by the hiring supervisor. All
positions need to be posted online by the Business Office with Student Employment
and then a student is hired and the position is listed as filled. Students
are not able to begin work or receive pay for any work completed before this
has been done. In addition, students must have completed all employment
forms with the Business Office prior to beginning work, even if they were
employed at YDS last year. If this procedure is not followed we will be
unable to process any timesheets submitted.
Seeking
Spiritual Life
University
Public Worship at Battell Chapel:
An ecumenical worship service of the historic
Rosary
Prayer Group: The Roman Catholic
Community of YDS is initiating a weekly rosary prayer group, beginning on
Monday, September 5. All interested are invited to meet at Nouwen
Chapel in the library at
The United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ Fellowship Group invites all students who are seeking a denominational home to join us this year for fellowship, worship and lunchtime discussions. If you would like to join us for a cookout this Wednesday, September 7th please contact kelly.stone@yale.edu for more information!
Berkeley Eucharist is reaching new heights: This
semester the Wednesday night Episcopal service will be up the hill
at MARQUAND CHAPEL.
The Berkeley Deans invite all YDS students, faculty and their
family and friends to
attend. Worship in Marquand will
accommodate more people (hope you'll come), encourage more liturgical innovation
(incense one
week, liturgical dance the next?), and increase sensitivity to issues of inclusive language.
The diversity of persons and beliefs within the Anglican tradition will be respected and
represented over the
course of the academic year. Please come and gather to celebrate
Christ's reconciling love.
PLEASE CONTACT EITHER PAUL
MCLAIN paul.mclain@yale.edu OR AMANDA KUCIK amanda.kucik@yale.edu WITH YOUR QUESTIONS (if you
don't know us, check out the face book, we're friendly people)
Women's Lectio
Divina Prayer Group: The miniature retreat experience
of the women's lectio divina
(contemplative prayer with
the Scriptures) resumes this Wednesday from
Discerning a Call? The Fund for Theological Education (FTE)
administers a program that offers resources to youth and young adults who
may be discerning a call to vocational ministry. The Pastoral Leadership
Search Effort (PLSE), pronounced "pulse" is
supported in part by four Christian denominations: UCC, United Methodist,
PCUSA, and Episcopal. Find PLSE online at www.theplse.org.
Online enrollment offers full access to articles, self and congregational
assessments, and online community discussion.
www.library.yale.edu/div/mrc 432-5319
ministry.resource.center@yale.edu
at the
Circulation Desk in the Library, take a right and a left
Staff available 10-3 weekdays
YOUTH MINISTRY SHAPED BY
CONGREGATIONAL ASSETS: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON EXEMPLARY YOUTH MINISTRY: A
workshop Wed., Sept. 7,
ON YOUR SCHEDULE
Tell
Youth
Ministry Shaped by Congregational Assets: Research Findings
on Exemplary Youth Ministry
¨Stewardship Year Round
¨Making and Using a Narrative
Budget
¨Characteristics of Mature Christian Youth: Research
On Exemplary Youth Ministry
¨Easy, High Quality,
Lay-led Adult Education
¨Implementing a
Comprehensive Mission/Social Witness Ministry in the Congregation
¨Leading
Bible Study Using Bible Dictionaries, Various Translations, Etc.
¨Assessment Tools for Congregations
and Youth Ministry
¨Selecting Leaders in Congregations with Guaranteed
Good Results
Study group resources for congregations--youth, adults, children: curriculum, DVDs, videos with leader
guides. You can adapt it to your
situation but it will save time and provide quality to adapt rather than
invent. Come ask in the
Starting new groups: take several examples of topics/resources and
lead from one of them to give the group an experience of a lively time on the
topic. Don’t just ask them “what do you
want to do?” They don’t know about all
the topics and resources that are available.
Start with a lively experience on a possible topic with one of our
resources. Come to the
Commuters: Listen to the Bible, lectures on Bible and
church history, music, Taize—check out the CDs and
audiocassettes in the