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23-July-1997 
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    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
PRINCETON, N.J.--Eileen Flower Moffett, a 1955 master of religious 
education graduate ofPrinceton Theological Seminary, was named the 
seminary's 1997 Distinguished Alumna for her work as a missionary and 
Christian educator in Korea with the United Presbyterian Church in the 
U.S.A.'s Board of Foreign Missions.  She received the award at the 
Alumni/ae Reunion Gathering that honored Princeton's first class of master 
of religious education graduates, who were the first women to graduate from 
the seminary, in 1947.  Moffett's husband, Samuel, received the 
Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1977; they are the first couple in the 
seminary's history both to be awarded the prize. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The Rev. James E. Andrews, former stated clerk of the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is serving as interim director of graduate 
studies at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.  The Rev. 
Charles Brockwell recently left the position to accept a call as pastor of 
Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church in downtown Louisville. 
 
DECATUR, Ga.--Columbia Theological Seminary will offer a course on "Sin and 
Evil in Modern Fiction and Film" during its annual Summer Lay Scholars 
Week, Aug. 4-8.  Participants will read and review movie versions of the 
works of Flannery O'Connor, Nathanael West and Jay McInerney.  Course 
leader is the Rev. Richard Dietrich, director of Columbia's Lay Institute 
of Faith and Life.  Tuition is $175. 
 
DUBUQUE, Iowa--"Preaching for Advent," a two-day workshop for pastors 
sponsored by the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, will be held 
Oct. 21-22 in Spokane, Wash.,  Jeffrey Bullock, Dubuque's professor of 
hermeneutics and homiletics, and Mark Achtemeier, assistant professor of 
systematic theology, will lead the 24-hour intensive study of the 
lectionary.  The cost is $85.  Opportunity Presbyterian Church in Spokane 
will host the event. 
 
PITTSBURGH--Martha Robbins, Joan Marshall associate professor of pastoral 
care and psychology, and Ronald Cole-Turner, H. Parker Sharp associate 
professor of theology and ethics, have received a grant from the 
Association of Theological Schools to develop a course at Pittsburgh 
Theological Seminary focusing on the relationship between health and 
salvation.  It is also to focus on the health of members of the seminary 
community.  The course will be offered in the spring of 1998. 
 
SAN ANSELMO, Calif.--San Francisco Theological Seminary has received a 
$691,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis to launch a program 
to train youth ministry professionals and to support adolescent spiritual 
development.  Co-directors of this project are Andrew Dreitcer, director of 
the seminary's graduate program in spirituality, and Mark Yaconelli, 
director of the seminary's Youth Minstry Project. The project will work in 
cooperation with 15 handpicked interdenominational congregations from 
across the country. 

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