THE
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL NEWSOURCE
October 7, 2006
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Academic Information
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APPLICATION FOR
EXTENDED CONCENTRATED M.A.R.
PROGRAM
An
application for admission to the extended degree program must include:
1. Your name.
2. Address and e-mail address.
3. Area of concentration.
4. A statement of the reasons you want to extend your MAR for a
third year (up to eighteen hours of work).
5. Names of two faculty members who know
your work and are in the field in which the degree program is concentrated.
PLEASE
SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TO GRACE CHAO, ROOM N122, SEABURY 1st floor,
BY October 20, 2006.
Robert
Wilson, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Important Information form
the Bookstore: Textbooks
will be returned to Publishers beginning the week of October23rd. If you do not yet have all that you'll need
to read for class, better buy them now before they're gone! If you need to make special arrangements to
have something held for you, please contact Lisa in the Student Book Supply,
432 -6101.
From
the Ministry Resource Center: There will be a workshop on Friday, Oct. 13, 10:30-11:30 entitled “Not Just Announcing: Selecting and
Inviting Leaders and Participants in the Life of Congregations with Guaranteed
Results.” Also, don’t forget to use DVDs
and videos related to your courses for reviews, overviews, and entertainment! And remember that we have material on children
and worship, African American concerns, All Saints Day, Reformation Day, and
more.
CPE Day at YDS:
An information day for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) will be held
Wednesday, November 1st.
There will be an informational meeting held in Niebuhr Hall at 12:30 and
individual conferences with CPE supervisors from Connecticut, New York City,
and western Massachusetts at 1 pm in the Sarah Smith Gallery. CPE centers are now receiving applications
for summer 2006. If you are considering
CPE for this summer, or any time during your YDS career, you should attend this
meeting. It’s only offered once a
year! -Barbara Blodgett, Office of
Supervised Ministries.
Lectures and Events
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Breakfast with Rev. Setri
Nyomi, the General Secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (and a YDS grad):
Tuesday, October 10th at 8AM in Bushnell S104. We are privileged to have Rev. Setri Nyomi,
General Secretary of WARC as the preacher for the opening convocation worship
on Mondy, October 9th at 2PM in Marquand Chapel. Rev. Nyomi, a dynamic preacher, is a world
leader not only in the Reformed family of churches, he is active in the
international ecumenical and interfaith leadership as well. On Tuesday morning, October 10th students,
faculty and friends will have the opportunity to share in a breakfast
conversation with Rev. Nyomi.
Be an extra in a movie…if
you’re male: Boston
Casting is still seeking football fans Age 18+ EXTRAS at Gillette Stadium and
the College of Holy Cross for the feature film "The Game Plan"
starring "The Rock.” We are
welcoming drop offs at the Boston Casting Office, 129 Braintree St in Allston between 10am and 7pm. Or email to: moviethegameplan@hotmail.com. Shoot Dates: October 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21,
23, 24 & Nov 1 (You don't need to work all these dates, but it's helpful!) Pay: $75 for a 10-hr day, plus overtime. Union Scale for SAG Members
Over
the past ten years, Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) has established
itself as an inspiring platform for theological reflection and exchange.
Following this series of theological encounters, the Department of Systematic
Theology (Faculty of Theology, K.U. Leuven) is happy to announce a sixth Leuven
Encounters in Systematic Theology from 7-10 November 2007 under the theme: Believing
in Community: Ecumenical Reflections on the Church. We are happy to welcome you to Leuven and kindly ask you to
extend this invitation to your interested students and colleagues. Please do not
hesitate to contact us for any further information. For more information, contact
minna.hietamaki@theo.kuleuven.be.
The
Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) invites
you to a Special Discussion with David Hirsh, YIISA Visiting Fellow Lecturer,
Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London Editor of
Engage Magazine “The Summer of '06: When
Antisemitism Went Mainstream.” Friday October 13, 2006, 11:00-12:30, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Room A001 (Basement).
Is
there a better way than The Da Vinci Code
to bring the historical Jesus to the people? Join us in the Student Book Supply on the
Thursday after Reading Week for a reading and discussion with Puck Purnell, author of the newly
published book Through Mark's Eyes: A
Portrait of Jesus Based on the Gospel of Mark. Purnell is a YDS and Berkeley Grad ('93) and
currently serves as Rector at Old St Andrew's Episcopal Church in Bloomfield, CT. Purnell's new book is a unique recapitulation
of the Gospel of Mark, in all its "blunt physicality". He sticks closely to Mark's text, but applies
recent historical scholarship seemlessly into the story. The book has received favorable attention
from audiences ranging from clergy, to scholars, to youth group members. Come and listen to readings from the book and
join in the discussion! Find ways to
make scholarship accessible to a lay audience!
Thursday, October 19th, 3:30 p.m. Bookstore Rotunda. Booksigning will follow. Questions? call 432-6101. All are welcome!
Yale
Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism/Institution for
Social and Policy Studies Seminar Series welcomes the Hon. Irwin Cotler, Member
of Canadian Parliament; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of
Canada; Professor of Law (Human Rights) on leave, McGill University; former
Council for Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky and Nelson Mandela. "Human Rights and the New
Anti-Jewishness." There is no paper
available for advance reading. Thursday, October 12, 2006, 4:15 -
5:45,
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102, 63 High Street. A reception will follow the seminar
Dear Friends, By now you have likely seen the photos on the first floor hallway from
“Unembedded," featuring the work of four independent photojournalists
unembedded in Iraq during the first two years
of the war. YDS, ISM, and the Initiative on Religion and Politics at Yale have the privilege of hosting one of
those photographers, Thorne Anderson, on campus during the week of October 16-20, 2006. Raised in a family of Presbyterian ministers,
Thorne Anderson is an award-winning international photojournalist who spent
time unembedded in Iraq during 2003-04. His work
there has contributed to the book, Unembedded, which together with the gallery
display sponsored by ISM, depicts visually the realities of war in Iraq. On October 17th, Thorne will be
signing copies of Unembedded at the YDS Bookstore (3:45-4:15) followed by a public talk
with open discussion entitled, "The Spirit of War: A Discussion with
Thorne Anderson," (4:30-6:00) in Marquand Chapel. Please join us, Kat Banakis
(kathryn.banakis@yale.edu)
You
are cordially invited to The Howard
Spiro Lecture to be delivered by David Watts, MD, Poet and Essayist from California on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 5:00
p.m.
in the Beaumont Room on 333 Cedar Street. David Watts is a graduate of Baylor Medical School and a gastroenterologist on
faculty at UCSF. His recent book of stories, Bedside Manners, was published by Random House. He has published
three books of poetry, Taking, The
History, Making and Blessing. He is founder/director of Writing the Medical
Experience, a summer writing conference at Sarah Lawrence College, and founder of the
Foundation for Humanities in Medicine. The
presentation is entitled: “Bedside Manners: Humanism in Medical Practice.” The accusation that modern physicians are
cold and distant is commonly heard and increasing pressures are being placed
upon physicians to economize even further in their practices. The brief time
available to spend with patients must count as if it were a lengthy period of
time. Medical schools may not intend to produce physicians with
"protective distance" but they often do. The seasoned physician,
practiced in the art of patient engagement and attentiveness is the doctor we'd
all like to have, but this maturational process of wisdom and depth takes many
years to achieve. This talk will focus on ways to use literature and the
process of writing to disengage fear and garner such wisdom and depth. We hope you are able to attend and please
bring your friends and colleagues. Please
post this announcement. Thank you ever
so much. Thomas P. Duffy, MD
The
Lex Hixon Visiting Speakers Fund and the Department of Religious Studies are
sponsoring an interdisciplinary
conference to explore the role of sensory experience in various religious
traditions, ancient and contemporary. The conference, The Senses of Religion: Knowledge, Miracles, Worship & Sensory
Experience in the World's Religions, will take place October 27-29th at Yale University. As we proceed we will identify more precisely
defined areas of common interest in which comparative discussion can be most
fruitful. For this first conference we will cast our net widely. Some of the
topics we will include are discussions on music and religion, religious art,
ritual drama, and more generally the role of sensory perception as a means
either to experience God or prove/deny the existence of God. The over-arching questions that we would like
to ask include these: how was sensory experience viewed; was it considered a
means
to know God or an impediment to religious realization? What role does sensory
experience play in worship? Registration
is available on-line on the conference website at http://yale.theridedesign.com. The conference will be held in Rooms 405 and
410 Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS), 1 Prospect Street and is organized by
Professors Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. The program is available on the website. All are welcome.
Susan
Burnhans of Yale Security Awareness
will hold a presentation on October 17 in Niebuhr Hall from 12:30
- 1:20pm. Thank you, Eileen Kopjanski Facilities Manager, YDS.
Where’s your money? Christian Community Action
presents, “What’s Happening to My Money…Is There a Hole in My Pocket?” Featuring P.J O'Rourke, Dr. Julianne Malveaux
and Omar Wasow on October 26, 2006 at 7:30
pm
at the Shubert Theater Tickets are $32, $27 and $22 On Sale Now!
The
AIDS Interfaith Network will be
hosting the following community event. Red
Ribbon Prayer Breakfast: Heightening the Awareness of HIV/AIDS. Saturday,
October 14, 2006. Community Outreach Center. 654 Orchard Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Keynote Speaker: Ms. Helen R. Caulton-Harris,
Director Health & Human Services of Springfield, MA. Guest Entertainment: St. Matthews Unison Freewill Baptist Church
Praise Team, Ms. LaShawna Sayles, and Blessing Offering. Tickets: $35.00. For tickets, please contact Professor Yolanda
Y. Smith (436-4818 or yolanda.smith@yale.edu).
All are invited to attend!
Paper proposals on American
women writers welcome and encouraged! Call for
Papers, 2007, American Religion and Literature Society, at the 18th Annual
American Literature Association Conference Boston, MA, May
24-27, 2007. ARLS General Topic:
Americanizing Faith, Scripture, and Iconography. ARLS will sponsor two sessions at ALA: 1. Catholicism and the American Imagination; 2. Reconfigurations of the Supernatural. Please send a 500-word abstract and contact
information to:srushingadams@verizon.net by December 15. Notification of acceptance will be sent by
January 15. Address questions to Catherine Rogers at rogersc@savstate.edu or
Susan Rushing Adams at srushingadams@verizon.net. Those presenting papers are required to be
current members of ARLS. Membership: Kathleen Smith, ksmith@lsus.edu ARLS Website:
www.arlshome.org. Conference details: www.americanliterature.org. ARLS also accepts short articles, book
reviews, and poetry for its scholarly newsletter. Submit materials to Deshae Lott at
Deshae.Lott@lsus.edu.
Dr. Jody E. Noé, M.S., N.D. Natural Family Health & Integrative
Medicine, Westerly, RI will be speaking Saturday
October 21, 2006. Topic: Integrative Therapies and Cancer. She
will be speaking at South Windham Congregational Church, 351 South Windham Road, South Windham CT. Hours: 1-4 PM . Modalities: Naturopathic Medicine, Traditional
Cherokee Medicine, Homeopathy, Ethnobotonist, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nutritional
Medicine. Cost: CHAI members: $22 at the door. General Public: $24 at the door. Students:
$12 with valid ID Light snacks
and tea provided. Contact Sue Coombs: herbalheaven@sbcglobal.net
or call 860 546-2076 to reserve your spot today!
Classifieds
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Needed/Lost and Found:
Matt Haugen needs a
ride! Hi all! I'm
going home to Minnesota for my sister's wedding
during convocation week. I will be coming into Bradley 10:15 on October
15. If you will be headed in that
general direction and can drive me and my equipage between my home in New Haven and the airport on those
dates, I will offer in exchange: monetary compensation for time/fossil fuels
(as agreed), the pleasure of my company, and my unswerving gratitude. I don't
mind camping out at the airport, if you'd need to pick me up later. Reply to matthew.haugen@yale.edu. Thanks, Matt Haugen
Lost book: Following class on Friday in
the Wood Seminar room, I failed to retrieve a SML library book that I had used
in a presentation. Did someone pick up this book? Has someone seen it? Thanks, Chris R.
Micah found a mailbox key: I found a mailbox key to
school box 381. I have
returned the key to your mailbox, so you may retrieve it. Right.
So maybe you should go see Patricia Ojeda about it. Sincerely awesome, Micah. (Additionally, if you could lend Micah a goat
or elephant, opportunity has passed for this year’s animal blessing, but the
Q-Source editor assures you he’d be grateful next year circa St. Francis Day. P.S. Just a hunch, but a centaur or phoenix
might really make his day too, if you run across any of those in your travels!)
Sarah Koenig Lost a Coat,
Mary Alex Dill Found It…So where is Mary Alex’s Coat? I accidentally picked up Sarah Koenig's coat after
chapel today, which means that I accidentally left my own coat out on the
quad. It is a khaki denim Gap
jacket. If you know anything about where
it might be, please email me at maryalexdill@sbcglobal.net. Thanks, Mary Alex Dill
Lost Animal Earring: I found a silver earring in the shape of a turtle in
the Common Room during coffee hour today.
It was on the table with all the food.
Let me know if it is yours. Thanks,
Emily Kuhn (emily.kuhn@yale.edu)
Micah Needs Protection From
the Elephant: To
my beloved community: I would be most grateful if anyone who had some catcher's equipment (shin guards, face
mask, chest protector) would be willing to lend it to me....you know...just for
fun! It needs to be size AWESOME in
order to fit me. Thanks, Micah
Disappearing Sweater: I'm missing two white
sweaters, last seen on the bench by the door at the White Party last
night. I'm guessing someone grabbed them
by mistake, or maybe they just got reshuffled in the coat heap. If you know of
their whereabouts I'd be grateful. One
is a white mock-turtle neck knit sweater, and the other is a white, ribbed,
button-up cardigan. Thanks! Mary Emily Wells
Lost Watch: If anyone finds a Kenneth
Cole watch (it's silver, analog, and the wristband is links) around YDS campus,
please send me an e-mail. I just got it
fixed and then lost it! Thanks. william.revere@yale.edu.
For Sale:
Desk for Sale: 65 "x 31" white
desk (modern, simple lines) in good condition, 3 drawer unit that can roll
under the desk with one drawer being a filing drawer. Desk chair available too. Contact Carolyn Hardin Engelhardt at carolynhardin.engelhardt@yale.edu.
Christy
Groves has many things for sale: I have a fantastic
3-disc CD changer with radio and tape deck complete with 2 speakers in
excellent condition for sale. It works
perfectly, I just never use it now that i have an ipod. The stereo was originally $200.00, but I'll
be willing to sell it for only $50.00 or best offer. Interested? Contact me at christina.groves@hotmail.com. Also for sale: 2 computer speakers and subwoofer for sale for only $25.00
(OBO). They work fantastically, I just
never use them! Please contact me if you
are interested! Thanks! Christy Groves
Employment:
Volunteer Opportunity in Refugee
Resettlement: Interfaith
Refugee Ministries (IRM), a refugee resettlement agency located in the East
Rock neighborhood of New Haven, is seeking volunteers from
the Divinity School community to help with
setting up and furnishing apartments for newly arrived refugees from many different
countries. Some of the activities would
include light cleaning, moving donated furniture, or installing blinds.
Transportation
would be provided. We hope to compile a
list of students that could be called upon to work one or two hours when apartments
need to be set up. The time commitment
would be minimal, and the schedule could be flexible. This would be a great way to get to know more
about the refugee resettlement process that is taking place in our
community! Please visit our website for more
information: www.inerfaithrefugee.org.
If interested, please contact Nick Meyers at nicholas.meyers@yale.edu or
Alex Wilson at alexander.r.wilson@yale.edu.
Volunteer at Ronald McDonald
House: One
of the local mission projects at the University Church is working with our local
Ronald McDonald House. Ronald McDonald
Houses all over the country collect the pull tabs off of pop/soda/coke cans (as
well as other canned beverages!). They are recycled for cash and create a
significant amount of revenue for the local houses. Pulling the tab off does not affect the can's
ability to be recycled in the machines for refund of the can deposit. Susan Olson and others from the University Church are collecting these pull
tabs as a small way of helping out the local house. If you ---or those you know---are folks that
drink beverages from cans, simply drop the tabs by Susan Olson’s office. If she’s
in, there's a cool little container in her office to deposit them into. If she’s not in, the basket outside her office
door has a jar in it, where tabs may be deposited. You can also bring tabs to
the University Chaplain's Office in Bingham Hall on Old Campus. Thanks for your help!
One-Day Companion: On Oct. 25, I need a companion for my
eighty-six-year-old aunt who will be staying at my home for the day while I
take other guests to New York. Conversation, games, play/listen to music,
take short walks, have meals together.
Please contact me if you'd like to consider this: Carolyn Hardin Engelhardt, 248-7247, carolynhardin.engelhardt@yale.edu
Worship Opportunities
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The University Church welcomes you to the following
worship opportunities:
Sunday, October 8
10:30 am - University Public Worship in Battell Chapel
with Rev. Prof. Peter Gomes (Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and
Pusey Minister at Havard) preaching as part of the Living Faith Preaching
Series. An ecumenical Christian service.
Free lunch and conversation with Peter Gomes after worship.
8:00-8:30 PM - Evening Prayer
in Dwight Chapel. An ecumenical, student-led candlelight service. All are
welcome.
Wednesday, October 11
8:00-8:15 am - Morning Prayer
in Battell Chapel. An ecumenical prayer service especially for Yale employees,
grad/professional students, and other early birds!
Ordination invitation: It is with great joy that
you are invited to the Ordination of
Kaji Rosa Spellman to the Holy Orders of Sacramental Ministry in the United
Church of Christ to be held at The Church of the Redeemer, United Church of
Christ, The Rev. Rochelle Stackhouse, Pastor.
185 Cold Spring Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on October 25, 2006, 5:30
pm with The Rev. Dr. Lillian Font Daniel, Senior Minister, First Congregational
Church of Glen Ellyn, preaching, Prof. Marguerite Brooks, conducting Prof.
Patrick Evans, cantor The Rev. Emilie M. Townes, offering the charge. Your prayers and presence are invited. There will be a reception at the church
following the service.