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07811 December 12, 2007
Seminary news
AUSTIN, TX - Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary's MidWinters 2008 will feature William H. Willimon, Dorothy Bass, Philip Turner, Jon M. Walton and Lucas Hudgins & the First Cousins. MidWinters, scheduled for Feb. 4-6, is in its 59th year. It will offer seven lectures, two worship services, coffee fellowships, alumni reunions, live music entertainment and a banquet. For those unable to attend, audio CDs of all lectures will be available for sale, or people can download MP3 files of the lectures from the seminary's Web site following the event.
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DECATUR, GA - Two Columbia Theological Seminary professors have been named to key leadership positions in academic professional organizations. Charles L. Campbell, Peter Marshall Professor of Homiletics, is now president of the Academy of Homiletics. Kathleen M. O'Connor, the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, takes the position of vice president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America in 2008. Campbell, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has taught preaching at Columbia since 1991 and is the author of several books, most recently The Word Before the Powers: An Ethic of Preaching. O'Connor is the author of several books and received an award from the Catholic Press Association for her Lamentations and the Tears of the World. O'Connor has taught at Columbia since 1995.
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LOUISVILLE - Yale scholar Margaret Farley has won the 2008 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, an award given jointly by the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Farley, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity school, earned the prize for the ideas set forth in her 2006 book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. Her work was selected from among 52 nominations from the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. A Roman Catholic nun and the first woman to teach full time at Yale Divinity School, Farley has written or co-written seven books. She is past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America and co-directs All-Africa Conference: Sister to Sister, a project to fight AIDS in Africa. The Grawemeyer Foundation at the University of Louisville awards $1 million each year - $200,000 each for works in music composition, ideas improving world order, psychology, education and religion.
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PRINCETON, NJ - Rosemary C. Mitchell has
been named vice president for seminary relations at Princeton Theological Seminary. Mitchell previously served as the seminary's interim vice president and director of development. Before she joined the staff in June 2006, she was executive director of the Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley, a nonprofit agency that provides grants for economic self-sufficiency programs for women in a seven-county region in upstate New York. Mitchell is an ordained minister in the PC(U.S.A.), and from 1985 to 1995 she was co-pastor of Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, NY. She also was radio host and producer for the audio series Women and the Word, and co-author of the two-volume Birthings and Blessings.
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RICHMOND, VA - Project Burning Bush, the youth initiative of Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, has received a $100,000 grant from the Katherine and Thomas M. Belk Foundation. The gift, to be made over two years, will help high school students discern their calls to ministry. Now in its seventh year, Project Burning Bush gives students a taste of seminary life during summer sessions. Students use their talents in areas such as worship, drama, video, recreation, mission and music. Youth take classes in Bible, Christian education, spiritual practices, and contemporary ethics taught by seminary faculty. The grant will support the expanding work of Project Burning Bush. New efforts beginning this year include Kindling Weekend, a weekend for college students who have been active in campus, church or community ministries to explore seminary life; Course Credit, opportunities in youth ministry for Union-PSCE seminary students who may now earn course credit as leaders of Project Burning Bush; and The Blaze, a January 2008 conference co-sponsored by Project Burning Bush for adult leaders in youth ministry.
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