Chaplain's Teas 2009-2010
Similar to the popular Yale "Master's Teas," Chaplain's Teas bring noted speakers to the chapel for a brief talk and discussion in a homey setting.
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Lunch with Prof. Eamon Duffy
September 16, 2009 at 12:15pm
While Prof. Duffy visits campus to give the Bainton Lecture at Yale Divinity School, he sat down for lunch with a group of students to talk about his work, especially his research into St. Thomas More. Prof. Duffy included an analysis of More's marginal notes found in the prayerbook he used while imprisoned in the Tower of London in his book Marking the Hours. His current research looks at More and William Tyndale during the controversial effort to translate the Bible during the English Reformation. Prof. Duffy is well known for his study of the English Reformation The Stripping of the Altars.
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Robert Sackel of L'Arche
September 24, 2009 at 4pm
Chaplain's Residence (enter through the Golden Center)
Gather in the Chaplain's Residence for tea, snacks and an inspiring discussion with Robert Sackel from L'Arche USA. Bob is the assistant director of L'Arche Syracuse and has given twenty years of membership and service in the L'Arche community.
The L'Arche movement, founded by Jean Vanier, builds communities of faith and friendship between members with and without disabilities. Long-time members of the Yale Community are familiar with Fr. Henri Nouwen's membership in L'Arche and his book based on the experience: Adam, God's Beloved.
The secret of L'Arche is relationship: meeting people, not through the filters of certitudes, ideologies, idealism or judgments, but heart to heart; listening to people with their pain, their joy, their hope, their history, listening to their heart beats.
- Jean Vanier, L'Arche founder
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Margaret Ajemian Anhert
author of The Knock at the Door: A Journey through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Our Chaplain's Tea will be a discussion with author Margaret Ajemian Ahnert.
"This personal, homespun account of an American of Armenian descent interweaves two narratives in alternating chapters: Anhert's mother Ester's firsthand description of coming of age during, and miraculously surviving, the Turkish-sponsored Armenian genocide of 1915, and the middle-aged author's own tender yet urgent reflections on her connection to the distant world of her 98 year old mother. Ester's formidable personality, humor and abiding religious faith pervade Ahner'ts debut, while the latter's fluid transcription of Ester's story provdes a frank and seering testimony, as well as a vivid depiction of Armenian village life. While Ahnert's oral history doesn't offer a rigorous historical account or analysis of the systematic slaughter...its force lies in the interplay between the narratives of mother and daughter."
-editor's review, Publisher's Weekly
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