THE
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL NEWSOURCE
October 7, 2007
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Academic Information
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Reading Week Writing Help: This is a reminder that the writing tutor will hold
office hours during the reading week at the normal times (Sun 5-10 and Wed 1-6)
and an announcement that he will also be available Thurs from 12-5.
Additionally, he will be happy to try and meet with students at additional
times if those prove inconvenient. He is located in the basement of Bellamy
Hall, so you may need to inform him if you can't get into this building. Best, Brad Holden (robert.holden@yale.edu)
From the Ministry Resource Center: By request, we have scheduled these
workshops just for you!
Oct. 19, 12-1: Creating a Narrative from which to tell our Ministry
Story
Oct. 24, 12:30-1:30: Bible Study for Everyone: Using Bible
dictionaries, various translations, and study Bibles
Parking During
Convocation: As you know, each Fall
during Convocation week we open our doors and welcome many visitors and alums
to the Quad as our guests. As of today
we are expecting upwards of 300+ people beginning Monday and anticipate that it
will be a challenge to provide ample parking for everyone. Since many of our friends tend to be of
retirement age, Dean Attridge and I respectfully request that folks who normally
pay to park in Lot 11 or 12 please voluntarily consider parking in another
location. We have made arrangements with
the Yale Parking and Transit office to be allowed to legally park in Lot 14 (Betts House driveway
closest to YDS) or in Lot 15 (entrance to the right of Betts House as you come up Prospect Street). For those who are able this is a very short
walk to YDS and would be much appreciated by our guests if you would relinquish
your parking space in Lot 11 or 12 next week. If you are willing to relocate elsewhere
next week, please stop by the Business Office after noon tomorrow to obtain a pass
to place on your dash next week which will identify you as a valid parker. Parking will be monitored in all locations so
it is important that your vehicle displays a pass at all times. Again, this is purely voluntary but would
certainly be appreciated as we try to be as accommodating as possible to our
guests.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Sandy
Lectures and Events
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Art and Soul Workshop: Process Painting as a Path to the Holy, facilitated by
Harriet Carew, M.Div. Saturday,
October 27 1 - 4:30pm. The
Art and Soul Workshop is an intensive, heart-opening experience for those who
want to explore their creativity as a pathway on their spiritual journey.
Process painting is a way to make soul art, creating from the divine spirit
within. Through movement, breathing, music, meditation and the use of
basic art materials, participants find the freedom and openness for their
souls. Participants create a unique piece of art that they may bring
home with them at the end. Come,
exercise your right brain and enjoy an afternoon retreat of meditation and
painting. All materials provided and no prior art experience necessary
whatsoever! Please email jennifer.zogg@yale.edu
if you are interested in attending. Sponsored by the Annand
Program for Spiritual Formation
October is Theological Libraries Month! In honor
of Theological Libraries Month, the Divinity Library invites you to participate
in the following events:
Forum on Theological Librarianship: Come
and hear from members of the library staff about how they ended up in this
field, and why they find it a satisfying career. The library will be hosting a
career forum on theological librarianship on Tuesday, October 16 from 12:30-1:30 pm, in S-101. It will be a brownbag (i.e., bring your own)
lunch, with beverages and dessert (brownies!) supplied by the Divinity Library.
Library School
Reception: On Thursday,
October 18 from 1:30-3:30 pm in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture
Hall, interested students and staff will have the opportunity to meet with
representatives from local area library school programs (including Simmons College and Southern Connecticut State University)
as well as from other programs throughout the United States and Canada. Light refreshments will be
served.
Cartoon Caption Contest: Create a winning caption and score a prize in
the American Theological Library Association (ATLA)'s Theological Libraries
Month Cartoon Contest! Authors of the two winning captions will receive $100
each.
To view the
cartoons, go to http://www.atla.com/member/librarians_tools/TLM/TLM_07/tlm_cartoons.html
. Send your captions to Sara Corkery, scorkery@atla.com,
by Monday, October 22, 2007. (You may submit an unlimited number of entries. Be sure to specify
the cartoon number on each entry.) Once the top three captions for
each cartoon are unveiled, ATLA members will be able to vote for their
favorites; the two contest winners and their captions will be announced in
November.
Tours of
the Divinity Library Throughout the Month: Tours will take place at the following times:
Mon. Oct. 8: 10:30 am
Wed. Oct. 10: 3 pm
Thurs. Oct. 11: 2 pm
Wed., Oct. 17: 10 am
Thurs. Oct. 18: 10 am
Thurs. Oct. 18: 4 pm
Wed., Oct. 24: 10 am
Thurs. Oct. 25: 10 am
Thurs. Oct. 25: 4 pm
Mon. Oct. 29: 10:30 am
Wed., Oct.31: 10 am
All tours leave
from the Circulation Desk at the Divinity Library and last around 30 minutes.
The First of Many Talks: On Wednesday, October 10,
2007 at 5:00 PM the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, China Colloquium
Series, will present the following talk: “Religion in Reform-Era China: A
Political Economic Approach.” This talk
will be offered by Yang Fenggang- Associate Professor
of Sociology, Purdue University. All kinds of religions have been reviving in
reform-era China despite restrictive
regulations. To describe and explain the paradoxical phenomena, I borrow some
notions of the "shortage economy" by Janos Kornai (1980, 1992) who made the most penetrating analysis
of the material economy in the classic Communist/Socialist System. Besides
describing demand-side dynamics of queuing up, searching, substituting, and
suppressing the demand for religion, I also hope to develop a conceptual
framework that would incorporate both conventional religions and their
competing alternatives into the model, including institutionalized religion,
folk or popular religion, alternative spiritualities, and secularism/Communism. Location: Room 110, Environmental Sciences Center, 21 Sachem Street
Free lunch. Good conversation. Represent YDS. The Admissions Office is looking for additional
current students who are interested in meeting prospective students during the
lunch hour. If you're interested in
meeting with prospective students during the lunch hour, please let the
Admissions office know by sending an e-mail to divinity.admissions@yale.edu.
This is your opportunity to answer questions, share your stories, and tell
prospective students what life at YDS is like. When you respond, please provide
the following information: 1. Days
of the week you are available for lunch (for the 12:30-1:30 lunch hour); 2. Your degree program and year; 3. Local or
Commuter Student; 4. Denomination; 5. Hometown; 6. Academic, pastoral, and other interests that
might help us pair you with a prospective student. Thank you for helping us welcome prospective students to our campus, Travis A. Weber (divinity.admissions@yale.edu)
Speech & Performance
Workshop for Public Reading of Scripture: This interactive workshop focuses on helping you discover
ways to use your voice and presence
to read scripture effectively in public.
A variety of techniques and learning activities are used to help you learn basic principles and techniques
of vocal production, posture, and body language and practice reading a passage from
scripture applying the above techniques. Choice of Following Dates: Tuesday,
October 23, 12:30-1:40 p.m. (Marquand Chapel) Tuesday, October
30, 12:30-1:40 p.m. (Marquand Chapel) Tuesday,
November 6, 12:30-1:40 p.m. (Marquand Chapel).
Attendance is voluntary. Sessions
can accommodate up to 8 participants. Sign-up
sheets are posted on the bulletin board outside of Marquand Chapel. Since
space is limited, please understand that by signing up you are making a
commitment to attend the session. For the sessions you must bring one of these NRSV biblical passages: Psalm 22, Psalm 46,
Colossians 1: 11-20, Luke 23: 33-43.
Instructor Adrienne Milics, Lecturer in Speech
and Homiletics. Contact Patrick Evans for more information at patrick.evans@yale.edu.
Trainings by the Cove: Dear friends, ENUF has
collaborated with the COVE to provide four training sessions in October for
people who would like to run groups for victims of violence and for people who
are already working with this population.
The trainings are free, and they are led by Kim Nagle from the Cove will
be leading the training sessions. You can check out the Cove at www.covect.org. If you are interested in attending the
sessions please email standrewsnewhaven@sbcglobal.net
with your name and brief description of your interest to register. We will send a confirmation and remind closer
to the training session dates. Sincerely, Jane C. Jeuland, Director of
Long-Range Planning, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Testimonial Event: An estimated 200,000 young
Asian women, euphemistically called "comfort women," were coerced or
deceived into sexually servicing the Japanese military between 1932 and
1945. Sixty years later, the Japanese
government has not fully acknowledged this history and refuses to offer an
official apology for state-sponsored military sexual slavery. Come
hear the testimony of Grandmother Mak Dal Lee, a survivor of the Japanese
Military Sexual Slavery System. Come hear her remarkable story of courage
and survival. Linsley-Chittenden
Hall, Room 101, 63 High Street, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:30 p.m.
Long Wharf Nature Preserve Benefit Tag Sale: Saturday, Oct. 13 (rain
date Sunday, Oct.14) at 204 Edwards Street from 95. All funds raised will be used to buy new
plants for the Preserve. Located near
the Vietnam War memorial at Long Wharf Park and open to the public, The
Preserve is a
wild and wonderful bit of our Natural Shoreline as it used to be. The Preserve
is non-profit, and part of the N.H. Land
Trust. A small, dedicated staff and
Volunteers maintain it and support it.
Religion and Politics
Symposium: “Voices
& Votes II: Shaping a New Moral Agenda.” Friday, October
12th Yale Divinity School. On behalf of the Yale Center for Faith and
Culture, Christianity Today, Sojourners/Call to Renewal, and The Christian
Century, you are invited to “Voices
& Votes II: Shaping a New Moral
Agenda,” a major symposium on religion and politics being held on Friday,
October 12. We would like to invite you
to join us for the public symposium during the afternoon from 2:00-6:30pm, which will be held in
Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School. YDS is located at 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT. There is no need to register for the
afternoon panels. For more information,
please contact Evan Baehr, Executive Director of the
Yale Forum on Faith and Politics (baehr@yffp.org). You may also visit www.yffp.org.
Tentative
schedule:
Public
Panels (Marquand
Chapel)
Panel I: Rethinking Theological Foundations for
Political Engagement (2pm)
Panelists:
Greg Boyd (Pastor, Woodland Hills Church), Stephen Carter (Yale University; author, God’s Name in Vain), Andy Crouch
(Editorial Director, the Christian Vision
Project, Christianity Today), Serene Jones (Yale University), Jim Wallis (Sojourners/Call
to Renewal; author, God’s Politics)
Panel II: Religious People,
Secular Nation: Toward a New Wall of Separation? (3:30pm)
Perspectives:
Rabbi David Saperstein (Religious Action Center), Ralph Reed (Founder,
Christian Coalition), Norman Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute)
Challenges:
Seamus Hasson (The Becket Fund; author, The Right to
be Wrong), Eric Sapp (Common Good Strategies), Flo McAfee (Fmr. White House
Staff), Richard Nathan (Pastor, Vineyard Church of Columbus), Amy Sullivan
(Political Editor, Time Magazine)
Panel III: Getting Down to
Business: Shaping the New Moral Agenda (5pm)
Bob
Abernethy (Host, Religion & Ethics
News Weekly), Randall Balmer (Barnard College;
author, Thy Kingdom Come), Jennifer
Butler (Faith in Public Life), Bonita Grubbs (Executive Director, Christian
Community Action), David Heim (Executive Editor, The Christian Century), David Kinnaman (Barna Research; author, un-Christian),
Richard Land (Southern Baptist Convention; author, The Divided States of America), D. Michael Lindsay (Author, Faith in the Halls of Power), Marvin Olasky (Editor, World
Magazine), Tom Roberts (Editor-at-Large, National Catholic Reporter), Tyler Wigg Stevenson (Coordinator,
Faithful Security; author, Brand Jesus),
Jim Wallis (Sojourners/Call to Renewal)
Career Forum on Theological
Librarianship:
Tuesday, October 16 from 12:30-1:15 In
Room S-101. Did you know that many of
the librarians working in theological librarianship started out in the
ministry? Others began with an interest in theology and religion which led to
an academic degree in the field. To be a librarian, you have to have a Masters
degree in library science, but librarians at institutions like Yale also need
to have another master's degree in their subject area. Some librarians even
have doctorates! Come and hear from members
of the library staff about how they ended up in this field, and why they find
it a satisfying career. The library will be hosting a career forum on
theological librarianship on Tuesday, October 16 in honor of Theological
Libraries Month. The forum will be held from 12:30-1:15 in S-101. It will be a
brown bag (bring your own) lunch, with beverages and dessert (special brownies!)
supplied by the Divinity Library. Come
if you are simply curious to know why someone would become a theological
librarian. Come if you want to learn
about an alternative to the ordained ministry or to academic teaching. Listen to our stories, and bring any
questions you may have. For questions about the Career Forum contact: Suzanne
Estelle-Holmer at suzanne.estelle-holmer@yale.edu.
Are you still reading? Look, it’s a second talk: There will be at talk given
on “The Zong,
Abolition and Public Sensibility” by James Walvin,
University of York. This event will take place on October 15, 2007 at 4:00pm at 63 High St, Linsly-Chittenden
Hall, Room 211.
James Walvin is Professor at the Center for
Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. For over thirty years
Professor Walvin's studies of modern social history
and his engagements with the history of black slavery and the Atlantic slave
trade have invigorated our understanding of the Atlantic world.
And here’s another talk: Come here a discussion
about, “The Trader, the Owner, the Slave” between Caryl
Phillips and James Walvin. Date: October
15, 2007. Time: 5:30pm. Location: Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven. In this event James Walvin
and Caryl Phillips will engage James Walvin's latest book, The
Trader, the Owner, the Slave. We
will also be celebrating Caryl Phllips'
new book, Foreigners. For any questions, contact elizabeth.son@yale.edu.
Another Talk…Well, this
one’s really a symposium… “Reconstructing Womanhood:A Future Beyond Empire.” Date:
Friday, November 2, 2007. Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Columbia University. Time Opening Remarks, 9:30am. The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary
of Hazel Carby's groundbreaking text, Reconstructing
Womanhood. Honoring the interdisciplinary significance of Professor Carby's scholarship in Literary and Cultural Studies,
feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and post-colonial criticism,
this one-day symposium revisits the import of this work in relation to an
extended set of issues that include re-writing the human, the production of
disposable life, refashioning masculinities and queer sexualities, and creating
a world beyond empire. The symposium has been made possible by the generous
funding of the following institutional partners: Yale University, the Office of
the Provost; Barnard Center for Research on Women; Institute for Research on
Women and Gender,Columbia University; Africana
Studies, Barnard College; Institute for Research on African American Studies,
Columbia University; Women's Studies Program, Duke University; and Columbia
University Libraries. For more details
about this event please visit our website: www.research.yale.edu/irgg
Israel Spring Break Tour for YDS Community. There is still space on the
Israel Spring Break Tour. It will close
this month. For more information, wee www.NewYearBaby.net/YaleIsrael. On this tour, we will:
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The light in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
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Night walk through ancient Jaffa
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Floating in the Dead Sea
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The fragrance of the Persian (Bahai) Gardens
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Fresh Middle Eastern tea in the morning
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Contemplation in the Basilica of the Annunciation
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The aroma of the Sea of Galilee
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A walk in Beth Shean
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Visit to the Church of the Multiplication
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A visit to Capernaum
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The view from Masada
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The perspective from Mount Scopus
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Dried figs in the market
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A new perspective on faith history
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8 nights of 3 star accommodations
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15 community meals
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Professional English speaking guide
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Air-conditioned ground transportation
Classifieds
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Needed/Lost and Found:
Babysitter Needed: Greetings! Two musicians performing in a concert on
Sunday afternoon (7 Oct) at Yale need a babysitter to look after their (really
cute) 2 1/2-year-old daughter. They need
someone from around 1:30-5:30 or 6pm, and are happy to pay the
going rate. Please e-mail me if you have
any questions at awet.andemicael@yale.edu. Thanks! Awet
Lost iPod:
Dear YDS
friends, On
Thursday I misplaced my iPod :( It has a black case and a recording
device. This iPod
was a gift and very special to me, so if anyone sees it could you please email
me asap! Thank you, Stephanie
Keys Found: A set of Volkswagon
keys, found over the weekend, was brought to the security base at 100 Church St. If you have lost keys for
a Volkswagon, they can be retrieved there.
More Keys Found: I found a set of keys under
a desk after New Testament on Monday morning.
They have a black leather tag and a brass-colored bottle opener. If they're yours, they're waiting for you at
Dale's office.
Employment:
Translators Needed in Really
Fascinating Languages: Yale Legal Services needs Thai and Fujianese
translators as soon as possible. LSO
also keeps a list of translators of other languages also so we can refer to the
list when we need someone with a particular language skill (which is quite
often). We pay $20.00 per hour for oral and $35.00 per hour for anything
written. Please email kathryn.jannke@yale.edu if you are
interested in translating for LSO.
Worship Opportunities
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University Church Birthday Party: Hello from the University Church. We would like to invite you to church this
Sunday to help us celebrate our 250th Anniversary, to hear the homiletical wizardry of Barbara Brown Taylor, to receive Holy Communion in the form of
tortillas or injera (it's
World Communion Sunday) and to eat church-shaped Birthday Cake! The fun begins at 10:30 AM (with a brief choir concert
beforehand). Hope to see you Sunday! --Sean Lanigan,
Liturgical Assistant
Reggie Bachus
Preaching: Friends,
I hope and pray this finds you well. In
obedience and submission to a few requests from friends, I’m writing to let you
know that I’ll be preaching this weekend and would love to worship with all who
come. The service will consist of praise and worship, offering, sermon on
communion, followed by communion and the benediction... and then out to
celebrate no classes in the morning!
Come on by this Sunday, October 7 at 6:00pm, First Calvary Baptist Church, 609 Dixwell
Ave.,
New
Haven,
CT 06511.
Celebration at Sheikinah Youth Church: The purpose of this communiqué is to invite you to celebrate
with The Shekinah Youth Church (the church I pastor
in Jamaica, Queens) as we praise the Lord for 15
years of Transformation and Training!
This Sunday, October 7, 2007, Youth Pastor Jason LaPlanche of The Kingdom Church in Boston, Massachusetts will serve as our
culminating preacher. Worship will be
held at The Youth Church (111-54 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11423.)and will begin promptly at 11:15 a.m. Immediately following worship, we will
celebrate with a scrumptious dinner, fellowship, and an “I remember when” segment.
This will afford persons an opportunity to share their most memorable Shekinah experience and add a picture for our archives.