Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in Easter. The Church calendar remembers Rogation Day.
* Today in Scripture:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1686, Robert Ratcliffe arrived in Boston with orders from England's King Charles II to found the Anglican Church in Massachusetts.
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TEACHING
Episcopal seminaries prepare for graduation ceremonies
[Episcopal News Service] The 11 accredited seminaries of the Episcopal Church are set to confer graduate and honorary degrees at commencement services during May and June.
They are:
* Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut * Bexley Hall Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and Rochester, New York * Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California * Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts * Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas * General Theological Seminary in New York City * Nashotah House in Nashotah, Wisconsin * Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois * Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania * University of the South, School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee * Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia
A compilation of upcoming graduation services with commencement speakers is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85957_ENG_HTM.htm.
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EDUCATION
Greg Garrett to teach Celtic spirituality and writing courses at Ghost Ranch http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_85956_ENG_HTM.htm
Episcopal Divinity School announces summer courses http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_85950_ENG_HTM.htm
Evanston Campus forum to explore Church's stance on sexuality http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_85955_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World" from Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., by Miroslav Volf, 244 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $22
[Source: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.] Can one forget atrocities? Should one forgive abusers? Ought we not hope for the final reconciliation of all the wronged and all wrongdoers alike, even if it means spending eternity with perpetrators of evil? We live in an age when it is generally accepted that past wrongs -- genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices -- should be constantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that letting go of such memories -- after a certain point and under certain conditions -- may actually be the appropriate course of action. While agreeing with the claim that to remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it, Volf notes that there are too many ways to remember wrongly, perpetuating the evil committed rather than guarding against it. In this way, "the just sword of memory often severs the very good it seeks to defend." He argues that remembering rightly has implications not only for the individual but also for the wrongdoer and for the larger community.
Volf's personal stories of persecution offer a compelling backdrop for his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. Controversial, thoughtful, and incisively reasoned, The End of Memory begins a conversation hard to ignore.
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