THE
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL NEWSOURCE
January 26, 2007
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Academic Information
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Orientation
for Part-time Internship Program: Wednesday
January 31st or Thursday, February 1st (same session, two
alternative times), 12:30 – 1:20pm
in Latourette Hall.
The placement process begins with this orientation, so make every
effort to attend one of these sessions if you’re going to do an internship next
year.
From the Ministry Resource Center: Iona music, Taize
music, study group resources on spirituals, Lent study and worship resources
available along with videos/DVDs on all the subjects you are studying. And you are invited to participate in the
following workshops:
Friday, February 2, 11-12 noon: Inviting individuals
to explore in Lenten small groups: Consider the huge variety of topics you
might want to use, check them out, and consider how to
get the right participants involved.
Monday, February 5, 12-1 p.m.: Inviting the congregation into meaningful
generosity: A First Fruits Perspective on Automatic Recurring Bank
Payments: Curious? Consider some biblical images and 2007
possibilities for year round generous stewards.
Friday, February 9, 1-2 p.m.: Inviting into Bible Study using Bible
dictionaries, various translations, study bibles
Employment Opportunity: Resource Assistant in the Ministry Resource Center, 10-3, latter part of May
to September 2007 for a student and during academic year 2007-2008. You are invited to apply in the Ministry Resource Center. This is an opportunity to deal with the real,
live questions/concerns in the practice of ministry as students and leaders in
congregations use the Center and as you become familiar with the resources
produced by all publishers. Get an
application and talk with Carolyn Hardin Engelhardt, Director, about this
position.
From the Writing Tutor: Spring 2007, office hours:
Monday: 9 AM - 5 PM
Tuesday: 12 - 5 PM
Wednesday: 9
AM - 3 PM
Contact
me at least three days before your paper is due if you'd like writing
consultation. Send all requests via email. Attach your paper to an email,
briefly explaining your writing assignment, specific task, requirements, page
length, and your own particular writing issues or concerns. Peace, Timothy Ree
(timothy.ree@yale.edu).
Lectures and Events
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2007 Parks-King Lecture: Dwight Hopkins, professor
of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity
School, is the featured speaker at the 2007 Parks-King Lecture. His lecture is titled “The Black Church and
Its Mission for the 21st Century.”
Hopkins is a constructive
theologian working in the areas of contemporary models of theology, black
theology, and liberation theologies. The
Parks-King lecture, hosted by Yale Divinity School (YDS) since 1983,
commemorates Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Its goal is to bring the contributions of
African American scholars, social theorists, pastors and social activists, to
YDS and to the wider New Haven
community. The lecture will begin at 5:15 p.m. in Marquand Chapel. A reception will follow in the YDS
Common Room. This event will be held
on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
A panel of black
alumni and faculty (past and present) will discuss the dynamics of black
theological education as it relates to YDS, the church, the academy, and the
wider community. The panelists will
include: Reverend Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges, YDS ‘86, Associate Professor of
Pastoral Theology at the School of Theology and Ministry, Seattle University;
The Reverend Canon Enrique R. Brown, YDS ‘74, Priest-in-Charge at St. Mark’s
Episcopal Church, Jackson Heights, New York; Dr. William “Bill” Jones, former
YDS faculty, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religion and first
Director of African American Studies at Florida State University; Reverend Dr.
A. Knighton Stanley, YDS ‘62, Pastor Emeritus of Peoples
Congregational Church, Washington, D. C. and adjunct professor at Howard
Divinity School; and Dr. Emilie Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African
American Religion & Theology at YDS.
The Reverend Dr. Frederick “Jerry” Streets, YDS ‘75, Yale University
Chaplain and Associate Professor (adjunct) of Pastoral Theology at YDS will
moderate the panel. The forum will
take place from 3:30-5:00 p.m. (prior to the Parks-King Lecture) in
Marquand Chapel. A book signing featuring the works
of our panelists and Dr. Hopkins will
be held prior to the forum from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the YDS Student Book
Supply. This event will take place
on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
From Pink: The
Pink Party to raise money for New Haven HIV/AIDS testing programs will be held
Friday, February 2 in the ISM Great Hall from 8:30-11 pm. THere
will be food, drinks, and dancing. $10 suggested donation. Black and white
attire requested, not required. For more information, contact anne.blackfield@yale.edu
or luke.bassett@yale.edu.
"New
Ideas in African-American Studies" welcomes Sharon Patricia Holland, Associate Professor of African American
Studies, American Studies, & Gender Studies, Northwestern University, author
of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke
University Press, 2000) and Co-Editor, with Tiya
Miles, of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian
Country (Duke University Press, 2006).
Professor Holland Presents: "Finding
Elleanor: the African Diaspora in Indian
Country" on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 12:30pm (Lunch Available at 12:15pm), Hall of Graduate Studies,
Room 211. If you would like to read
Holland's essays "The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for A Critical
Race Theory" and "Death in Black and White: A Reading of Marc
Foster's Monster's Ball," you may retrieve both beginning on the afternoon
of January 26th from the African-American Studies office at 493 College Street
(2nd Floor), or the American Studies Office at the Hall of Graduate Studies
(2nd Floor).
The
YDS Methodist Society invites you to attend a workshop on the "censored" psalms. Next Friday, Feb. 2, Br. Tom Beveridge from the Order of Saint Luke will lead a workshop
on some of the darker Psalms that can give us guidance to pray in the face of
injustice or in times of extreme anger or depression. These Psalms, according to Beveridge, are often troubling for the church. As a result they are often downplayed,
ignored, or "censored." Beveridge states that in praying the complete Psalm cycle,
we often come to pray Psalms of praise when we are in turmoil and darker Psalms
when we are joyous. Those times make us
more conscious of the full range of emotions and the need to reach out to
others who may be feeling differently than we are. Schedule: 10:30 worship with YDS community
in Marquand -brown bag lunch following worship (location TBA) -approximately 12:30 begin 2-hour
presentation/workshop -end by 2:45. Another e-mail will follow with the lunch and
workshop location.
Last Chance for Graduating
Student Photographs: The photographer is adding
two more days next week for those who haven't yet signed up to sit for the
Class Composite photograph. In addition to the two days next week already
announced, the photographer will be in the Commuter Lounge: from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, and from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday,
February 1. So, please sign up on the bulletin board
outside Niebuhr Hall to have your picture taken.
Unfortunately, the photographer will not return to YDS after next week. Those
who would like their photo taken after that will be required to pay a $150
sitting fee - three times the usual cost. Please remember: Your portrait is for the official senior group composite
photograph that will be hung on a YDS corridor wall. Each student is provided
one 11x14" print of the group photo at Commencement. The $50.00 fee, paid in
cash or with a check made out to photographer "James Anderson",
should be given directly to the photographer at the time of the photo sitting.
Receipts are available. Students may
purchase individual enlargements directly from the photographer. Order forms
will be available at the time of the sitting. Selection of the individual
head shot to be used in the group photograph is made at the time of sitting.
Proofs of all photos taken at the sitting can be provided to the student at an
additional cost of $15.00. If you have any questions, please contact
Frank Brown at frank.brown@yale.edu or
203 432 5033.
Since
September ENUF, Empowering Neighborhoods United in Faith, has met every week to
pray for the end of violence, to raise awareness about violence in Greater New
Haven, and to take steps toward ending that violence. We invite you to join us to hear from leaders
of "CT Against
Gun Violence Education Fund" on Monday January 29th from 6pm
- 7:30pm
at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 155 Ivy Street in New Haven. The leaders of CT Against
Gun Violence Education Fund will bring us up to date on gun violence statistics
in Connecticut. They will also present the
Red Flag Campaign, a media campaign that will raise the red flag logo at the
site of gun crimes, on billboards, and other message platforms. The goal of the
campaign is to send a "constant reminder to the press, the community, law
enforcement, and elected leaders that the community is demanding to know how
these guns are getting into the hands of criminals and other prohibited users;
and why traffickers and 'straw purchasers' are not targets of prosecution. For
more information about CT Against Gun Violence
Education Fund and the Red Flag campaign, please visit www.cagved.org.
You
are invited to attend a lecture by: Kenneth
G. Appold,
Visiting Professor for Church History, Joh.-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany Candidate
for senior position in Reformation History at YDS. This lecture will occur on Monday, January
29, at 12:30 in Niebuhr. He will speak on the topic, “Academic Freedom
and the Reformation’s Troubled Legacy.” *Also, please welcome Kenneth Appold at the coffee hour in the Common Room at 11:00
am
(following Chapel service)
Are
you looking for a spiritual discipline in the New Year? Why not consider baking bread once a month, ringing the bell once or twice a week, or
setting up the welcome table once a week at Marquand Chapel? All three of these activities prepare the
heart and mind for worship, and benefit the entire community here at YDS! The time commitment is minimal but the reward
is great. If you are interested in
participating in one of these ways, please contact emilly.scott@yale.edu.
The
Red Cross is grateful for your support in our November blood drive (we
collected 256 pints of blood!), and we would like to ask your continued support
for the third annual Harvard-Yale Blood Drive. Red Cross Harvard-Yale Blood Drive, Mon, Feb
5 - Tue, Feb 8, 1:00pm-6:30pm, Payne Whitney Gym, Sign up online www.yale.edu/redcross. Photo ID required. Donors will have the chance to win free t-shirts
and an ipod nano, help,
Yale beat Harvard, and save three lives. If anyone is interested in
volunteering at the blood drive, please contact karen.zheng@yale.edu.
All
interested in conversations in German are invited to the German lunch table,
every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15
pm
in the refectory. German speakers of all
levels are welcome, as well as those who just wish to listen along. Topics are
freely chosen every week, though topics concerning American and German culture
often suggest themselves.
Classifieds
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Housing Needed:
Housing Request: I will be staying in New Haven from Feb. 1-12. from 1st Feb to 12th Feb.
My ordination service is held on 11th Feb (postponed due to Presbytery Meeting),
and I will have several meetings before ordination. While staying in New Haven, I also hope to use YDS
library for research, since I am a professor in Korea. I am desperately looking for a room or a
place to stay in New Haven. Thank you so much for your help and kindness. Sincerely, Shin Ahn,
PhD (Edinburgh, 2006) and MDiv (Yale, 2002) (shinahn2006@hanmail.net)
For Sale:
Coursepack for sale: I would like to sell this semester's Systematic Theology coursepack #1 at the substantially discounted cash price of
$25 (no checks please). I am on campus
Mondays and Thursdays. Thank you, Ellen Wittmann (ellen.wittmann@yale.edu)
Another Coursepack
for Sale: I've got a copy of vol. 2 of Fitzmyer's
commentary on the Gospel of Luke, if anyone wants it. I'll sell for $30, or a near offer. God bless, richard.smith@yale.edu
.
I'm looking for someone could help me learn the Nota Bene word
processor. I'd be happy to pay whatever
is appropriate for such work. If
interested, please e-mail jeremy.hultin@yale.edu.
Employment:
Seminarian Needed P/T for South Lyme Chapel (UCC): The South Lyme Chapel (UCC) is looking for a
seminarian to assist with worship services on Sunday mornings at 9am. This would involve being in
charge of the service on occasion, or offering a sermon or prayer on other
occasions. The honorarium is $125 per
Sunday. The South Lyme
Chapel is located in South Lyme, Connecticut. For more information, or to express interest
in helping this congregation, please contact the Rev. Cynthia Willauer (YDS MDiv 2000) at: ccwil@conncoll.edu.
Pastor Search: The Black Church at Yale (BCAY) is
seeking to hire a new pastor for its student-run ministry. Founded in 1972,
BCAY has maintained a strong tradition of being a multiracial
interdenominational church that worships in the African American tradition. Our
vision is to "nurture and empower students to walk, talk, and live the
Gospel of Jesus
Christ" which fulfilling our mission to
"reach students with the Gospel, make disciples and to help students to
grow in their understanding, personal relationship and commitment to God."
Under the administrative and spiritual guidance of the pastor, the business and
ministries of the church is conducted by a council of Yale undergraduates,
graduate students, and alumni. We hold service Sunday mornings in the Afro-American Cultural Center (211 Park
Street) as well as weekly Bible Study and
prayer. Additional BCAY ministries include Men and Women Fellowship, Praise and
Worship, Evangelism, Finance, Dance, etc.
The Black Church at Yale
traditionally hires from students and graduates of the Yale Divinity School. If you are
interested in the position or simply in learning more about the Black Church at Yale,
please contact Council Chair Offiong Bassey (offiong.bassey@yale.edu). The position will be open for inquiry from
now until Friday,
February 9th, 2007.
Worship
Opportunities
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From the Black Church at Yale: We also invite you to worship with us Sunday, January 28th at 11:00 AM in
Connecticut Hall (Old Campus) and/or our Anniversary service on Sunday,
February 4th at 11:00 AM when we will return home to the newly renovated
Afro-American Cultural Center.
Wednesday
Night at Whitney Avenue Church of Christ, 7:30-8:30 PM. We continue our new series of
classes on Wednesday nights from “NOOMA.”
This week is the second in the series entitled, “Flame.” We’ll watch the video together with discussion
to follow. Flame: what does it mean to
give yourself to another person? Love is vast and mysterious. Is
giving body, soul and spirit how God wants us to love? Join us.
You’ll be blessed. 2141 Whitney Avenue.
This Week in Marquand:
Monday, January 29:
Old Faith, New Song: A celebration of the new hymnal Evangelical Lutheran Worship, led by the Lutheran Student
Group.
Tuesday, January 30: Prayer around the
Cross, led by the Chapel Ministers, with the Marquand Gospel Choir.
Wednesday, January 31: Sung Morning
Prayer: Music from Gaelic Scotland, arranged by Robinson McClellan.
Thursday, February 1: Graduating student
Trish Cunningham, preaching.
Friday, February 2: Community
Eucharist, BDS Dean Joseph Britton, preaching and presiding in the Episcopal
Tradition.
Services begin at 10:30; all are welcome!