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PAUL AND THE MISSION TO AMERICA THE MISSIONAL By Douglas Campbell MISSIONAL CHURCHES: MINISTRY ISSUE FRIENDSHIP, COMMUNITY, ANDFALL LOVE 2017 | A By Yonat Shimron Divinity Annual Fund— ANSWER THE CALL! A: Yes! Your gift to the DIVINITY ANNUAL FUND Q: goes directly to supporting students through financial aid, CAN I SUPPORT field education placements, and STUDENTS AT DUKE instructional opportunities. DIVINITY SCHOOL? Q: A: Give to DIVINITY ANNUAL FUND! HOW CAN I SUPPORT Every student at Duke Divinity AS MANY STUDENTS School benefits from the annual AS POSSIBLE? fund, from financial aid to academic program support to opportunities for spiritual formation. Q: I CAN’T AFFORD TO A: GIVE MUCH. DOES MY Yes! Every gift to GIFT STILL MATTER? DIVINITY ANNUAL FUND helps students answer the call to prepare for ministry. Every gift helps transform possibility into opportunity. A: You can give us a call at Q: 919-660-3456. Or visit THANK YOU for helping gifts.duke.edu/divinity our students answer the call to HOW CAN I GIVE? for an easy, secure way ministry through your support to give online. of Divinity Annual Fund! contributors

DOUGLAS CAMPBELL is a professor MANDY RODGERS-GATES is a Th.D. LACEYE WARNER is the Royce and of New Testament at candidate in theology Jane Reynolds Associate Duke Divinity School. at Duke Divinity School. Professor of the Practice His main research Her research interests of Evangelism and interest is the life include Latin American Methodist Studies at and theology of the theology and the Duke Divinity School. apostle Paul, with particular reference to ministry of Oscar Romero, and she has Her research interests include the an understanding of salvation informed taught biblical studies and theology historical theology of evangelism and by apocalyptic as against justification or in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. contemporary church practices, and salvation-history. His most recent book She earned her bachelor’s degree from her most recent book is From Relief to is Paul: An Apostle’s Journey (Eerdmans). Wheaton College. Empowerment: How Your Church Can He also serves as co-director for the “Teaching in Latin America Participate in Sustainable Mission. Certificate in Missional Innovation. reminded me why I was pursuing She is an ordained elder in the Texas Annual Conference of the United “If they are to survive and, a theological degree: not to Methodist Church. more importantly, fulfill their impress world-class scholars or “Here is a curated list of mandate, churches will my brilliant colleagues but to be resources, including books, need to learn how to equipped so God could use me to organizations, and programs, re-evangelize America.” p. 6 build up the witness and mission that can encourage you in your of the global church.” p. 19 ministry journey.”p. 26

YONAT SHIMRON is a national BRIDGETTE A. LACY is an award- ELAINE A. HEATH is the dean and reporter and editor at winning journalist who professor of missional Religion News Service. writes about faith, food, and pastoral theology She was the religion and family. She was a at Duke Divinity School. reporter for The News staff writer for The News Her research focuses & Observer (Raleigh, & Observer (Raleigh, on evangelism and N.C.) more than a decade, and her work N.C.) for 16 years, and her work has spirituality, evangelism and gender, new has appeared in many publications, appeared in Newsweek, The Washington monasticism, and emergence in church including The Washington Post, USA Post and Faith & Leadership. She also and theological education. She is an Today, The Christian Century, and Faith & published Sunday Dinner, a Savor the ordained elder in the United Methodist Leadership. She lives in Durham, N.C. South cookbook from UNC Press. Church and the co-founder of Missional “In each church the missional “Throughout his career, he has Wisdom Foundation, which provides strategy might look different. explored ways that academic opportunities for clergy and laity to learn how to live in intentional, missional But at its core it’s an effort to scholarship and service to the communities in diverse social contexts. build bridges and span divides.” church can inform and enrich “We have the capacity to p. 10 each other.” p. 23 companion the church in all its iterations in order to see and welcome Christ in the neighborhood.” p. 40

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FEATURES 4 10

PAUL AND THE MISSION TO AMERICA FRIENDSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND LOVE The United States is becoming less religious Four different churches, located in different every year. The apostle Paul shows us how to geographic and cultural areas across the country, share the love of Christ without manipulation help illustrate a missional approach to ministry or colonialism as they find new ways to share God’s love By Douglas Campbell By Yonat Shimron

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CONFIDENCE AND GOD’S CALL A doctoral student at Duke Divinity School shares what she has learned about a passion for the church from teaching ministry leaders in Guatemala By Mandy Rodgers-Gates 22

TEACH THE PEOPLE Patristics scholar Warren Smith brings his passion for teaching and the church to Neighborhood Seminary, a new program for laypeople in central North Carolina ON THE COVER: By Bridgette A. Lacy

Damascus Road By Tom Chappell Lewis D’12 26 Post-It ® Note, 25” x 20”, 2018. Tom Lewis is a PRN chaplain in Jacksonville, Fla., and writer for The Bar Chaplain PARTNERS ON THE MISSIONAL JOURNEY (www.barchaplain.com). An exhibition of his A curated list of articles, books, organizations, art was held at Duke Divinity School in 2011. and programs to help inform and support people interested in missional approaches to ministry By Laceye Warner

2 | DIVINITY DEPARTMENTS 28 34

PROGRAMS & EVENTS: FACULTY & STAFF NOTES A Missional Focus 38

CLASS NOTES 39 32 DEATHS

NEW BOOKS FROM 40 DUKE DIVINITY FACULTY THE DEAN’S REFLECTIONS 41

MEDITATION

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SPRING 2018 | 3 PAUL a n d t h e Mission t o America

BY DOUGLAS CAMPBELL ART BY TOM CHAPPELL LEWIS

he U.S. church today is gripped by a glacier-like crisis. Many explanations are given for this grinding flow downhill, T including inexorable secularization under the pressure of post-industrial society, a culture diversifying into alternative spiritual ecologies, some complex combination of the two, and more. Irrespective of the underlying causes, the fact is that many churches and denominations today are slowly sliding toward extinction. Most pointedly for Duke Divinity School, what will happen if the American church literally ages out of existence, presumably along with the schools that train its leaders?

4 | DIVINITY SPRING 2018 | 5 If they are to survive and, more importantly, fulfill their divine mandate, churches will need to learn how to re-evangelize America.

As the U.S. steadily becomes a post- planting about a dozen small Christian in that love. “May God give to you … Christian society, maintaining churches communities around the northeastern the capacity to be strengthened by his will not be enough. (It has never really coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, Spirit in your inner person so that … been enough.) If they are to survive which was no small feat when we you might be rooted and founded in and, more importantly, fulfill their consider that he was a Jew converting love, and that you might be empowered divine mandate, churches will need to people from the profoundly racist to grasp … the width and length and learn how to re-evangelize America. culture of ancient paganism to follow height and depth of—to know what And this means that a new generation Jesus. As the church considers its new surpasses all knowing!—the love of of missionaries to America will need to task of re-evangelizing America, we Christ” (Ephesians 3:16–18). Mission be raised up and trained alongside the have much to learn from Paul. begins with the deepest insights of pastors and teachers that seminaries are theology. Paul emphasizes that mission used to shaping. These missionaries will 1.GOD begins with God and is rooted in need to be simple enough to proclaim The first thing we learn from Paul God’s love. This burning reality the good news about a living God, about evangelism and mission is lies at the very heart of the cosmos perhaps sometimes even without being that they begin in the heart of God. and prompts us to follow the Spirit paid to do so, and yet sophisticated God “chose us in [Christ] before the outward from the church to those enough to navigate the seductions and foundation of the cosmos to be holy who do not yet know God, an insight challenges of modern American culture, and blameless before him; he appointed that segues into a second great which has in many places been hard- us beforehand in love for adoption foundational truth concerning mission ened against the church, and sometimes through Jesus Christ and for him.” that we gain from Paul. even by the church. Now more than (Ephesians 1:3b–4a; all translations are ever, the American church will need the my own). God exists and acts in such 2. CHURCH apostle Paul. a way that God reaches out to others, Just as a God of love is missional, To study Paul and to grasp in detail and ultimately to all of creation, to the church at its heart is missional as what he thought and did is to find the gather humanity along with a renewed well—and if the forms of church that template that lies at the very heart of creation into eternal communion. The we are involved with are not, then the church. Paul is the model Christian, same impulse of overflowing love and something is seriously wrong. Like the Christian thinker, and Christian generosity that led to creation also God it mediates, the church reaches leader, in part because he is the only leads to salvation and to mission. In out to those who do not yet know person in the New Testament whose essence, then, our God is a giving God, God. Paul articulates this insight in a actual words we possess. But while a loving God, a God who creates and number of different ways. many teachers and students of Paul sustains community, and therefore Most obviously, Paul calls himself have long appreciated the qualities of also a reaching and missional God an apostle. He has been called, gifted, his life, thought, and leadership, they when those destined for communion and equipped by God “to announce have less often appreciated that Paul go astray. Mission is not an add-on to the good news about [God’s son] to also models how churches are set up God’s intentions. God is missional in the pagan nations” (Galatians 1:16). in the first place. Above all, Paul was nature. God flows outward and gathers This is a missionary calling. Paul states a missionary, although his word for us all in, whether we are responding or elsewhere that the apostles as a group this task was apostle. His Christian not, because God loves with limits that are those whom Jesus has personally career was in many respects just a cannot be fathomed by human under- commissioned to proclaim him to 20-year journey that succeeded in standing and desires everyone to share those who do not yet know him

6 | DIVINITY (1 Corinthians 9:1; 15:1–11). Regardless of the ways we nuance the meaning of this ministry, we can say with confidence that all apostles are missionaries, just like Paul. We badly need to regain today the Pauline insight that apostles are missionaries, and we need to keep recruiting into church would literally lie outside of arrival of Europeans who deemed this office. And we must regain the itself. And yet this shockingly extrinsic themselves superior. They erased too equally important insight that mission- community is the church that Paul many local customs and cultures and aries must also be apostles. They calls us to be. embraced too many foreign political must be commissioned by the risen If we agree with Paul that the nature and commercial interests. Missionaries Jesus, and they must be trained to be of the church is to reach constantly too often built churches in their own attuned to the workings and wonders outside itself, following its most image, and the Bible was frequently of the Holy Spirit (Romans 15:18–19; important leaders, we might well ask wrapped in a foreign flag. If we are 1 Corinthians 2:1–5), because we will how exactly we should go about doing to do mission today, we must learn need the demonstrations of the Spirit this. And Paul has a sophisticated set from these mistakes and reject any seen in this apostolic missionary if we of answers to this important practical colonial methods. are to touch the hardhearted parts of question as well. Paul preceded these errors and America that resist God. shows us how to avoid them. He Paul goes on to state that the 3. MISSION presents us with a set of missionary apostles are the key layer in the lead- Most understandings of mission today methods that possess that joyful ership of the church, an insight that are influenced by the great Protestant combination of both complete the church has subsequently upheld missionary movements that exploded relational integrity and considerable vigilantly. Along with the prophets, the throughout the 19th century. A combi- practical effectiveness. apostles reveal the great secret that nation of technologies and revivals at is Jesus Christ, along with his love for this time led to an unparalleled period Framing the Other Israel and for the nations (Ephesians of missionary work. Missionary work begins well 3:5). Paul states repeatedly that the We should not overlook the church’s before we actually meet non- church is led by these figures, but we costly investment in missionary work Christians with the assumptions tend to overlook that this means that prior to this period, nor the sad oversim- we have already formed about the church is led by missionaries. plification that accuses this astonishing them. Sadly, many Christians view Are our churches led like this missionary expansion of sheer colo- non-Christians, as intrinsically and today? Imagine for a moment a nialism. Millions of lives and hundreds self-evidently inferior in moral and congregation led by missionaries. Such of communities were improved even rational terms. Non-Christians a church’s principal vision would be through missionary workers and their know and yet deny that they have directed outward, to those outside medical research and skill. But we broken God’s laws and fallen short of it. Think of how communities must also acknowledge the element of divine expectations. Christians of Christians who are led in this of truth in the charge of colonialism. have grasped these truths and are way would structure their activities Missionary work in the Victorian era thus in a superior position. together and act. The center of the was frequently intertwined with the Clearly this superiority is best

SPRING 2018 | 7 avoided. A gospel based on a ongoing relationship with radical notion of grace will do non-Christians because of this, and Paul was personally who they are, not because committed to a belief in and they are a potential convert practice of grace. In the idiom for our missionary program, of Jesus, Paul had been forgiven which means we must want a much and so loved much. If friendship. Conversion might Christians know that they are grow out of this relationship themselves sinful and have (and we probably hope it will). been saved by a gracious God, But if we have approached then they are likely to place non-Christians in a genuine themselves on a level playing spirit of friendship, we will field with the rest of humanity. to our bones,” as Proverbs 16:14 still stay friends even if they Christians in and of themselves are says. To fail to do these practices never convert. We can certainly pray not superior to non-Christians. We is to harm ourselves, and to fail to for conversions and desire them, are all sinners. adopt these practices when invited but we must locate those prayers Furthermore, as Paul emphasizes to follow Christ by a missionary is and desires within our more basic in passages like Romans 5:15–17, to insist foolishly on continuing to commitment to genuine friendship. Jesus Christ is superior to Adam, harm ourselves and those around I suspect Paul was an expert at and the superiority of Jesus wraps us. (We are like substance abusers befriending people. His tender all of humanity into a significantly whose lives are falling apart but relationship with the troubled slave more powerful embrace of grace. who nevertheless resist helpful Onesimus, visible in the short letter So we can view non-Christians in medication and a commitment to the Paul wrote to his master Philemon, double solidarity; we are all sinners restorative program and community attests to a gift for friendship. Paul who have fallen short of the glory of Alcoholics Anonymous.) writes on behalf of this AWOL of God, and we are all under the slave, with affection for the despised lordship of Jesus and the grace of A Motive of Befriending figure of Onesimus evident in almost God. Paul gives us both these points Viewing non-Christians appro- every line, as he intercedes for him of view. All appropriate missionary priately means that we must also in the troubled relationship with work needs to start from this approach them with the right his master. Admittedly, the letter “framing” of the non-Christian. They motives. Paradoxically, if our suggests that Onesimus converted to are sinners—and so are we; and the primary goal is to convert them, we Christ during his desperate visit with Lord Jesus Christ is working in our risk viewing them inappropriately Paul in prison (vv. 10, 16). But—and lives—and in theirs. as mere instruments within our own this is the crucial point—I find it But someone might ask, if Jesus agenda rather than as people in their impossible to imagine Paul not is already Lord over non-Christians, own right who must be loved and writing on Onesimus’s behalf and why approach them at all? Because respected for who they are. not loving him even if he had not the basis of good missionary work The key to avoiding a manipula- converted. Paul was no mere scalper is actually ethical: we summon tive missional agenda is to approach of converts, playing a numbers game. people to the practices that God non-Christians with the motive He genuinely cared about people, has made us for that “give health of befriending them. We want an even those like Onesimus, the lowest

8 | DIVINITY Just as a God of love is missional, the church at its heart is missional as well—and if forms of church that we are involved with are not, then something is seriously wrong.

of the low, who was a despised, 2 Thessalonians.) The Thessalonian time in the local brothel. But insofar pilfering, foreign slave. It is converts were almost certainly as he could, he clearly did adopt unsurprising that conversions often business associates of Lydia’s, many of the customs of his potential followed, but they followed from who was a handworker herself friends and converts. He adopted this first period of befriending. And in the purple cloth industry. She the calendar of the Galatians. He this is where any conversions we connected Paul with these workers adopted the dining habits of the facilitate must spring from as well. in another foreign city. In the Corinthians. He worked like a meantime, Paul had converted his handworker in the small shops of The Means of Networking jailer, and then the jailer’s family! the Thessalonian handworkers. Even if we view non-Christians It seems that Paul was an expert at As he put it once, “I became as a without a sense of superiority and accessing networks, a key to almost Jew to the Jews … to those under we desire to befriend them rather all conversions. Torah as under Torah (in spite of than simply to convert them, we still How many American Christians not being myself under Torah) … to need to know where to meet them, are embedded in non-Christian those outside of the Torah, outside and once again Paul leads the way. networks, with close and enduring of the Torah (in spite of not being Sociologists studying new friendships with non-Christians? outside of the instruction of Christ) religious movements in the 1960s Yet without these connections … to the weak I became weak … concluded that conversions to new we will not convert many people; to everyone I became everything” religious movements at that time and without the skill and the (1 Corinthians 9:20–21). In this way, happened through networks. But determination to befriend non- Paul respected his potential friends Paul knew this two thousand years Christians, we will not have access and converts, immersing himself in ago. If we study his conversions to non-Christian networks in the their customs insofar as he could, recorded in the book of Acts and first place. Once again we must and we must learn to do the same. his letters, we see him working follow the footsteps of Paul as they through various networks of people lead outside the walls of the church CONCLUSION who were connected by race, family, into pagan territory. We have only scratched the surface patronage, occupation, and even of the story of Paul the missionary location, including jail. As just An Immersive Manner here. But I hope enough has been one example, the story of Lydia We should note finally that Paul sketched to show how Paul was a shows this process at work (Acts was able to access these networks consummate missionary from whom 16:13–16). effectively in large measure because we still have a great deal to learn. Paul met Lydia because of a he lived like the people who were As churches pivot to re-evangelize Jewish network, at the Jewish place already in them. He immersed throughout their communities, and of prayer outside the city gate of himself in the customs and lifestyles as the Divinity School begins to Philippi, near a stream where ritual of the people he was reaching out identify and to raise up a generation cleansing could take place. After to. He got alongside them. of apostles to America, few things befriending and converting her and I doubt he adopted everything will be wiser or more effective than her household, Paul then converted that the pagans were doing. For to revisit the first great missionary as some handworkers down the road instance, he didn’t visit prostitutes in shown to us in the pages of the New from Philippi in Thessalonica. (We order to get to know the Corinthian Testament. We must learn to walk learn this from Acts and from 1 and men who were spending a lot of again in the footsteps of Paul.

SPRING 2018 | 9 friendship, community, and love MISSIONAL CHURCHES ACROSS THE COUNTRY FIND NEW WAYS TO SHARE GOD’S LOVE

BY YONAT SHIMRON

What does it mean to be a missional church? It means moving outside the church walls to reach other people. Sometimes that may mean sending out church members to plant new churches. Other times, it may mean embracing a larger swath of the community. Just as the apostle Paul was not content with starting one church, congregations shouldn’t rest on their laurels but rather seek to embed themselves more deeply in expanding circles of people groups. “When you’re establishing a community, you tend to think of that community as being about itself,” said Douglas Campbell, professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. “You think about the community as people who are the same. But these sorts of communities are supposed to be concerned above all with reaching outside themselves and toward people who are different.” In each church the missional strategy might look different. But at its core it’s an effort to build bridges and span divides. Missional work should be inclusive. Having a missional mindset means traveling across social, racial, and economic boundaries to form friendships in unexpected places. As Campbell notes, this kind of work is not easy. It requires initiative and an entrepreneurial

spirit. But he also added that it’s a necessary part of being church. PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANKLIN GOLDEN “Mission is what you get when the Triune God’s desire for constant communion becomes insatiable, overwhelming,” says Jacob Breeze, whose story of planting a church in Houston, Texas, is among four examples of missional churches at work.

Cleve May and Gloria Winston-Harris, co-pastors of CityWell Church in Durham, N.C. 10 | DIVINITY friendship, community, and love

SPRING 2018 | 11 Taking a Cue from the Apostle Paul

WHEN THE REV. Jacob Breeze set about Houston for a pop-up exhibition of into the church at the Easter vigil starting a new church in the heart of ceramic art by one of the group’s last month. Houston, he kept returning to the members. Later, the group began As he reflects on the past two apostle Paul. throwing parties and inviting a broader years building the church, Breeze Paul’s missionary strategy—traveling group of participants. Eventually, it identified three strategies inspired to urban centers, securing a space started twice-monthly home group by Christianity’s first and greatest for his workshop, seeking out fellow gatherings with Scripture readings, missionary: be open and inclusive; stop craftspeople, and eventually starting a food, and prayer. to learn and appreciate people’s work worshipping community—was Breeze’s Six months ago, the community and handicrafts; find ways to lift people touchstone as he built his own congre- held its first Sunday morning service up rather than get them on board with gation, Holy Family Church. in a 5,000-square-foot rented event an agenda. In 2015, the 32-year-old Duke space. In keeping with its focus on the The rest, Breeze believes, will be up Divinity School graduate was sent out arts, it also commissioned artist-in- to God. by the Texas Annual Conference of the residence Lanecia Rouse Tinsley to “Paul ends up saying, ‘I’m seeing United Methodist Church to start a paint nine abstract paintings reflecting God working with people we all new congregation. Like Paul, he chose on a different liturgical season. thought God wasn’t interested in,’” to befriend craftspeople—in his case, Average attendance on Sundays Breeze said. “If God is doing this, we baristas, chefs, artists, and barbers, is about 70. About 40 people were need to get on board with what God is people who work with their hands. His baptized, confirmed, or received doing. Let’s get out there and join in.” goal was not to find a building and start a Sunday service (though that came later) but to embed himself in a community and form friendships. From June 2015 to October 2017, Breeze, an artist whose left arm is tattooed with images of resurrection, did just that. His mission, as he saw, it was simply to walk alongside people. “I don’t feel a lot pressure to take a sales approach or even manufacture excitement,” Breeze said. “I’m suspi- cious of people who are super excited.” Instead, he said his strategy was this: “I’m just going to be friends and hang out in the same places as you and trust that if you think it’s interesting, you too will begin responding to the Trinity.” Breeze never hid that he was an ordained minister. He wore a clerical collar (alongside a long beard).

His purpose, though, PHOTO COURTESY OF AUDREY WARREN was not to convert Jacob Breeze PHOTO COURTESY OF JACOB BREEZE but to befriend. during a Christmas The community’s Eve service with the congregation of first move was to rent Holy Family Church a studio in downtown in Houston, Texas

12 | DIVINITY Stepping Outside the Church’s Doors

SOMETIMES TO BUILD a church you have to lose it. That was the conclusion that members of First United Methodist Church in Miami arrived at this year. In February, the 122-year-old church sold its building, which sits on an acre of prime real estate on Miami’s famed Biscayne Boulevard, to make way for two residential towers overlooking the bay. (For the next three years, Sunday services are taking place at a nearby AME church.) The Rev. Audrey Warren, the senior pastor, said the idea was to invest more in people and less in property and to invite those people into a new way of being church. Two and a half years ago, when she was first called to the church, the Duke Divinity School graduate found a congregation that was maintaining itself but also graying. With the church building needing substantial repairs coffee three mornings a week.) with Canadian Audrey Warren The church recently started “yoga sculptor Timothy and members in their twilight years, she with participants calculated the church had five years chapel,” a Wednesday noonday class Schmalz, who in the foot-washing of solvency left. She began nudging near Miami Dade College that attracts created Homeless event sponsored members to look outside themselves students. The hour-long session blends Jesus, a sculpture by First UMC in Miami. and find ways to embrace the changing prayer, Scripture, and a Hatha yoga depicting Jesus city at their doorstep. class. Soon it plans to start “The Story,” huddled beneath a blanket on an “So long as the congregation a service of storytelling and sharing that actual-size park bench. The church continues to have a mission, particu- will take place at a downtown Miami plans to install their Schmalz sculpture larly a mission beyond themselves, co-working space where the church is outside its new quarters. When the they continue to be motivated to be renting two offices. first residential tower is completed, together,” she said. “People aren’t coming to ‘the mother the church will have a sanctuary and Long before she arrived, the church church,’” Warren said. “So how do indoor and outdoor fellowship space had been committed to providing meals, we enter into third spaces or create on the ground floor and offices on shoes, and an annual foot-washing third spaces that don’t look like a some of the upper stories. It will also ritual to the area’s homeless people. traditional church?” participate in the apartment tower’s Now, instead of preparing those meals After the church sold its building Vibe Committee.

PHOTO COURTESY OF AUDREY WARREN at the church, they host weekly peanut and land for $55 million, it immediately “We want it there now to remind us butter and jelly parties at a local busi- spent $40,000 on a mobile, six-stall that our mission is beyond ourselves ness office or at a person’s home. (The showering unit. The church plans to and what we want,” Warren said. “It’s 300 sandwiches that are assembled get offer two other downtown churches to reach the larger community, both the placed in a bag with applesauce and the option of using the mobile unit in homeless and those within the financial granola to be handed out alongside hot their parking lots. It also partnered buildings and condos.”

SPRING 2018 | 13 Disrupting Traditional Models of Church

That took some time and some Even the church’s configuration wrong turns and a lot of racial equity departs from the usual pattern. When training. It’s still a work in progress, but CityWell moved into an older church the congregation, which draws more building, its leaders ditched the than 230 people on Sunday mornings— traditional format of pews facing the most of them in their 20s and 30s with apse and choir and instead created a babies in tow—now resembles that less formal and more intimate semi- diversity. Three years in, it rebalanced circular seating arrangement in the the power dynamic by adding a black middle of the rectangular nave. woman as co-pastor. Its 12-member For this congregation, church is not leadership team includes only two simply a place to gather on Sunday. white males. “Covenant partners,” as they are called, But even this was not enough to are continually urged to get involved sustain the kind of deep engagement in community efforts to help the poor, the congregation wanted in the life the incarcerated, and the marginal- of the community. This congregation ized. It recently became a sanctuary presumes the people of God are filled congregation, offering its basement to with the Spirit of an undocumented immigrant at risk of God and that the deportation. But this is not a program- Cleve May and Gloria Winston- vision for ministry driven church. CityWell leaders believe Harris, co-pastors therefore should God is already at work in the commu- of CityWell Church stem from them. nity, and its covenant members need in Durham, N.C. Accordingly, to be part of ongoing efforts wherever A VISITOR TO CityWell Church might they decentralized the role of the they may be. not easily guess who the pastor is. clergy in the Sunday service. Today, The congregation may soon be too On a typical Sunday morning, any the two co-pastors, May and Gloria big to sustain a familial or communal one of the members in this seven-year- Winston-Harris, each preach once a environment. Next year, it hopes to old church start-up might be offering month, while other members take turns begin thinking about sending out a sermon. It’s just one of the ways the offering sermons on other Sundays. some members to a start a new church. church is disrupting the way church has “We planned it to make sure you Winston-Harris will be leaving this always been done. hear from voices you may not normally summer to devote her time to the Located in a mixed-race neighbor- hear from, or you get to have an expe- campus ministry she started at North hood in Durham, N.C., this congrega- rience that shows that Christ is here in Carolina Central University, a histori- tion intentionally sought to be a true this situation,” said Winston-Harris. cally black school in Durham. reflection of the city, which is 49 The band has a rotating cast that This too is part of what a missional percent white, 38 percent black, and typically includes drums, bass, synthe- church strives to do: plant new 13 percent Hispanic. sizer, and lead guitar. But the music is churches. “We started with five households: a mix of standard praise music—“Here “One of our core beliefs is that the an Asian couple, a Latino couple, and I Am” and “I Am Yours”—and songs Spirit is always drawing people in, so three white couples,” said the Rev. in Spanish with translations on the therefore a healthy church ought to Cleve May, the founding pastor and overhead flat screens. On a recent be a growing church,” May said. “But Duke Divinity alumnus. “We said we Sunday, band members included a can a growing church remain a family would never have a meeting that’s young black worship leader, an Asian church? Our sense of that is, only if PHOTO BY FRANKLIN GOLDEN PHOTO BY FRANKLIN GOLDEN called ‘CityWell’ until we look like vocalist, and a former Divinity School the way you’re growing is by starting what we want to become.” dean on electric guitar. new things.”

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Expressing God’s Love to the Community

AS A YOUNG minister not yet graduated partner with Wake County government, the home of a family of a different race. from Duke Divinity School, the Rev. two nearby churches, and a mosque to Recently, it also began a ministry to Mycal Brickhouse was anxious about provide meals during the summer for homeless people by giving members accepting the position as pastor of a a townhouse rental community nearby. care packages that they can give out small, historic church in the heart of Setting up a tent in the park, volunteers to people in need. Church members Cary, N.C. provided 200 children from low-income are encouraged to use the packages, The nearly 150-year-old congregation families nutritious meals—and later which include water, personal hygiene had been without a pastor for a year. book bags and school supplies. items, food, and socks, to engage And while its mostly older members During Lent, this mostly African homeless people in conversations and were warm and friendly and eager for American congregation partnered get to know them one-on-one. Already new leadership, their days of service to with two churches for a series on racial one such person has dropped in on a others seemed in the past. reconciliation. They brought in speakers Sunday service. Brickhouse saw an opportunity to from across the country, including an “The question I ask my members move the small congregation beyond activist from Ferguson, Mo., to help is not, How do we get more people in talk of making a difference to actually people examine their own prejudices our doors?” said Brickhouse, 26, and a becoming a tangible expression of and commit to working toward a more North Carolina native “The question I God’s love in the community. just society. On Maundy Thursday, they ask is, Where is the need, and how do One of the first projects was to asked participants to share a meal at we meet it?” Brickhouse anchored the new missional strategy with a passage from the book of Acts that describes how the early Christians gathered together to eat and pray and give away their possessions to people in need. The passage concludes: “And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:47). That outward embrace has so far more than doubled the Sunday morning attendance to about 70. The church has added several younger families with children. The one demographic it still lacks is people in their 30s and 40s. “When I first got here I was very stressed about how we increase our numbers,” Brickhouse said. “Now I’m not stressed about that. I see that the increase is a manifestation of the work. As long as we’re doing the work, God will bring about the increase.” PHOTO BY FRANKLIN GOLDEN Mycal Brickhouse, pastor of Cary First Christian Church in Cary, N.C.

SPRING 2018 | 15 CONFIDENCE and GOD’S CALL a doctoral student learns about faith and teaching

BY MANDY RODGERS-GATES

was packing my suitcase the night before I was to leave for El Salvador for my first teaching experience in Latin America, with THIS PAGE: PHOTO BY EMMA CONKLIN-MILLER; OPPOSITE ALAINA KLEINBECK two thoughts that had been going through I my head all week. First, a question: “Why did I tell Edgardo that I would do this?” Second, a prayer: “Please, God, let me get sick so that I can’t go!” I wasn’t suffering from a lack of willingness, but my anxiety and insecurity had reached their peak. Edgardo Colón-Emeric, assis- tant professor of Christian theology and director for the Duke Divinity School UMC Course of Study in Central America, had reassured me that I could do this, but I was convinced that I was absolutely unprepared and incompetent to carry out the task of teaching biblical studies and theology.

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Opposite page: A Methodist pastor in Guatemala reviews course materials. This page: Graduate José Riquiac Aguilar prepares to process in the graduation service. SPRING 2018 | 17 Alejandro Perez Tiño, age 80, (far left). He had little formal education and Spanish as a second language, and worked with his study group to successfully complete the certificate program in Methodist Pastoral Ministry.

GROWING IN FAITH that academia can challenge one’s and teachers from all over Central God didn’t grant my request—or faith and cause God to feel distant. America and the U.S. singing at the at least not before we left for Central In my master’s degree program at top of their lungs on a crowded old America. But about three days after Duke Divinity School, the opposite bus bouncing up the mountain. I heard we arrived, my stomach rebelled. happened: I found theological study it in the hope expressed in these words After a day of resting and obtaining invigorating for my faith, and the from the song “The Americas Will Be

some medicine from the little Scriptures opened up for me in new for Christ”: And God will bless Costa LEFT: PHOTO BY EMMA CONKLIN-MILLER; RIGHT: ALAINA KLEINBECK Methodist clinic, two of my fellow ways. When I was accepted into the Rica, and God will bless El Salvador, teachers wanted to pray for me. Th.D. program, I was thrilled to nations that even though they may be I had formed a quick bond over continue my studies in such a life- so small, are great before the face of the previous days with these two giving place. the Lord. Mexican Methodist pastors. They But that spring in El Salvador, I While theological study can (and prayed powerful prayers of healing, realized I had been missing something ideally should) be life-giving, the like few I have experienced in my without even being aware of it. I can culture of the academy often infects life. The Spirit’s presence became best describe it as awareness of the theology. A desire to be the smartest palpable in that modest hotel room constant nearness of God. In Spanish, person in the room creates an atmo- as my Mexican brothers prayed. I people with this awareness preface sphere that can dry out the souls even was brought back to my evangelical their plans with the phrase primero of those who resist such posturing.

BY J. KAMERON CARTER PHOTO BY ALAINA KLEINBECK roots: being prayed for by those who Dios—“Lord willing”—and live their During my time as a theological believed God could work miracles. lives dependent in every moment on student, the environment of constant It’s become almost cliché to say God. I sensed it in a group of students analysis had stifled me, paralyzing

18 | DIVINITY me with self-doubt and fear. With my LEARNING TO ADAPT THE CLASSROOM though they have the Scriptures in small-town, Midwestern background, Expanding access and opportunity Quiché, their native language, they are conservative evangelical heritage, and requires perseverance, creativity, not taught to read and write Quiché years as a stay-at-home mom, I felt and a decentering of Western ways in the schools, so most of the churches like constant vigilance was required of learning. The Methodist Church read the Scriptures in Spanish, even lest I say or write something deemed in Guatemala wanted to launch a when they preach in Quiché. unworthy of a Duke doctoral student. program for Guatemalan ministers One class on the Old Testament Teaching in Latin America and lay leaders. The El Salvador included a survey of the different reminded me why I was pursuing a Course of Study program was open to historical periods of Israel. After theological degree: not to impress people throughout Central America, half an hour of teaching, one of the world-class scholars or my brilliant but it required some previous educa- students had a question: “What does colleagues but to be equipped so God tion that many Guatemalan ministers monarchy mean?” He pointed to the could use me to build up the witness had not attained. Furthermore, most word written on the chalkboard. We and mission of the global church. of the Guatemalan pastors were not had said monarchy multiple times to I wanted to gain skills in critical paid by the church and so had to hold discuss the kings of Israel, not knowing thinking, interpretation of texts, and other jobs, which made it difficult for that most of the room had no idea historiography not so that I could them to leave for a week to travel to what we were talking about. hoard them for myself or use them El Salvador. I learned two valuable lessons. First, to show how smart I am but to be a Edgardo and I arrived to when you don’t know what you don’t conduit to people immersed in God’s teach in the rural highlands near know, especially about your students’ kingdom work. Chichicastenango and began with an context and experience, your effective- Most of my friends and colleagues introductory workshop on the Bible. ness as a teacher is seriously limited. in Central America do not have the That initial class demonstrated both And second, relationships must be time, situation of life, or financial the encouraging possibilities and the primary and in certain ways precede resources to embark on a traditional significant challenges. The majority of teaching when working with those seminary education. Those of us who students were indigenous, as is much whose background differs from ours. do have that access are responsible to of the Methodist church in Guatemala. When formal classes began a year spread the opportunities we’ve been Spanish is a second language for many, later, we had to think about grading given as widely as possible. especially the older students. Even and evaluation. Many students had LEFT: PHOTO BY EMMA CONKLIN-MILLER; RIGHT: ALAINA KLEINBECK

BY J. KAMERON CARTER

Left: Course materials for “Principles of Christian Leadership.” Right: Zoila Mercedes Mendez leads her small group in conversation about Christian leadership. SPRING 2018 | 19 OPPOSITE PAGE: PHOTO BY ALAINA KLEINBECK

This January, 39 students in Guatemala received a Certificate in Methodist Pastoral Ministry through a DIVINITY 20 | Duke Divinity School program. THOSE OF US WHO DO HAVE ACCESS TO THE TIME, SITUATION OF LIFE, AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO EMBARK ON A TRADITIONAL SEMINARY EDUCATION ARE RESPONSIBLE TO SPREAD THE OPPORTUNITIES WE’VE BEEN GIVEN AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.Join other high school students in an intensive encounter with Christian life and a year of engagement and practice.

RESIDENCY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY: JUNE 24-30, 2018 limited writing skills, so we decided to of Study. Third, student groups would working with students who have little use what we thoughtYEAR would beOF a real MENTORSHIP:- take a simple quiz togetherJUNE as a2018 group –exposure JUNE to a2019 new topic or text and istic method of assessment: objective after each section of lecture/discussion. seeing it come alive for them. I have tests, with multiple choice, true-false,“DYA showedFinally, students me with that less SpanishI am not alonegained skills in working with students fill-in-the-blank, etc. But we discov- would be placed in their own group from different educational, literacy, ered that not only had students never asto be a led teenage or assisted by Christian.” a Guatemalan and cultural backgrounds. taken this kind of test before, they did Quiché-speaking- Mayra Rangel, graduate2014 DYA ofparticipant our El Most importantly, I have gained not have a category for these kinds of Salvador program. This group would friends and colleagues who model questions. Why would you give me a include an even higher level of collab- Christ to me. My friend Sebastián lived statement that you know is false? Why orative learning and assessment. through the civil war in Guatemala would you give me answer options that This format was a huge success. and saw most people his age in his aren’t true? Even with significant help We saw significant gains in the under- village murdered. He works hard to and grading on a curve, only a handful standing and confidence level of learn the material we teach in Spanish, of students were even close to passing students who had struggled the most and then goes back to his congregation the class. Some had been completely in the earlier teaching session. This to translate his learning into Quiché. left behind, particularly the older past January, 39 students graduated My friend Mercedes in Guatemala has folks with minimal Spanish. Many had from the program. faced obstacles as a non-indigenous identical wrong answers, a sign they woman with leadership skills in a had collaborated—or “cheated,” by CONFIDENT TO TEACH primarily indigenous, male-dominated Western educational standards. They Through the opportunity to teach denomination. She came to the El had no familiarity with taking an in these programs, I overcame my Salvador courses on a fluke and has individualized test or why it might be lack of self-confidence and somehow become a beloved and articulate unacceptable to work with their peers. managed to teach New Testament in alumna. She recently helped teach a We had two choices: either train the Spanish for two hours a day, five days class for a group of her countrymen— students in the ways of Western educa- in a row to 20 students from all over all older and indigenous males—who tion, or reinvent the program to fit the Central America. My rusty Spanish needed to do make-up work for Guatemalan context. We chose the improved over the course of the week, courses. I am continually astounded by second option. First, we would offer helped by my unfailingly patient her humility, faith, and loving presence. just one course at a time instead of two. students—even when I stumbled over I’m grateful that Edgardo encour-

OPPOSITE PAGE: PHOTO BY ALAINA KLEINBECK The Guatemalan students could only biblical terms and names in Spanish aged me to teach in Central America. come for two or three days at a time, like Deuteronomio. I’m thankful for the people I’ve met and we LEARNhad been trying to MOREsqueeze in NOW:From the teaching www.duyouth.duke.edu I have done and the gifts of confidence and call two classes with an intensive schedule. in El Salvador and Guatemala, I that I’ve received. And I’m so glad Second, we wouldPriority place the Applicationstudents in have gained Deadline: encouragement forNovember my God didn’t 30, grant 2017my desperate prayer small groups and assign each group a faith, reminders of the purpose of when I packed my suitcase. teaching assistant, usually a Salvadoran my @dukeyouthacademy training, and a clearer sense of minister who had completed Course my vocation. I am a teacher. I love

SPRING 2018 | 21 Teach the People Warren Smith has a passion for training laypeople

BY BRIDGETTE A. LACY

22 | DIVINITY ry this experiment next years in the pulpit and is an ordained and alumni, community practitioners, Sunday at church: after minister in the North Carolina and trained spiritual directors. you shake hands and Conference of the United Methodist Smith has published on Gregory of T say hello, ask people Church. Throughout his career, he has Nyssa’s view of the sublimation and what they think of Ambrose, Gregory explored ways that academic scholar- transformation of human emotions of Nyssa, or John Chrysostom. ship and service to the church can and their role in his theory of Chances are you’ll be met with a inform and enrich each other. epectasy—the soul’s eternal movement the quizzical look, a shoulder shrug, and That background makes him well- into God’s infinite and eternal being. Teach the response, “Who?” Most laypeople suited to serve as a member of the His current research explores how don’t keep up with the latest debates teaching team for the Neighborhood Ambrose’s and Augustine’s theo- within patristics, the study of the Seminary program, which tries to bring logical commitments influenced their theologians and leaders of the earliest the classroom to laypeople who want different critiques, appropriations, centuries of the Christian church. a deeper knowledge of Christianity and modifications of the Classical and And most people assume that or may want to explore a calling to Hellenistic language of magnanimity. patristics scholars don’t care too full-time ministry themselves. This is Why would someone with these much about teaching laypeople. an innovative program funded by the scholarly interests want to teach in People J. Warren Smith is an exception. Parish Ministry Fund, and it provides Neighborhood Seminary? Smith has Smith, associate professor of historical robust missional, spiritual, theological, always cared about the ways that this theology at Duke Divinity School, is and practical formation to equip scholarship matters for people in the BY BRIDGETTE A. LACY a patristics scholar who has published laypeople to minister in their home, church today. His Nyssen research asks books and articles on Gregory of neighborhood, workplace, and commu- how Christ’s resurrection affects the Nyssa, Ambrose, the Cappadocian nity. The pilot program is led by an way we live today. His current work Fathers, and more. He’s also spent integrated team of Duke faculty, staff, asks how Christian theology and ethics

SPRING 2018 | 23 People are hungry for serious theological education and reflection. They want to grow deeper and richer in their spiritual life.

—REV. JEFF PATTERSON, senior pastor of Wesley Memorial UMC in High Point, N.C.

answer the question of what it means commitment to the community is with people. He has a sincere caring to be a good person. stepping forward and contributing to for people’s spiritual lives.” “One of the things that I think is the church community. That gift is welcomed as part of important for any divinity school is the faculty for the Neighborhood that it be tied closely with the church,” SCHOLARS AND PASTORS: Seminary. “People are hungry for Smith says. “If its main mission is TEACHING SIDE BY SIDE serious theological education and to prepare ministers for the church, Smith also appreciates the teaching reflection,” Patterson explains. “They whether they are people preparing model of Neighborhood Seminary. want to grow deeper and richer in for ordination or people serving as “I like the way it brings together their spiritual life.” lay ministers, a divinity school should scholars and practitioners to teach Patterson says many Christians want provide a firm theological grounding in together,” he said. “For instance, in more than an hour on Sunday morning. the catholic tradition.” For Smith, that the March and April sessions, I will be “We don’t acknowledge the deep doesn’t mean simply teaching his area co-teaching with Rev. Jeff Patterson, theological hunger among the laity. of expertise but connecting students who is a United Methodist minister People really want to know and grow.” with knowledge that applies to the in the Western North Carolina Sometimes bringing in a scholar church of the present day. Conference and who has been a sparks something in the congregation. Elaine A. Heath, dean and professor district superintendent.” Patterson has seen that from Smith’s of missional and pastoral theology This teaching model ensures there is preaching in his own church, “I will at Duke Divinity School, says Smith a connection between the history and never forget an Advent sermon he was one of the first to volunteer for theology he’s teaching and the experi- preached on Mary.” the Neighborhood Seminary. She was ence of a United Methodist Church in Smith recalls he spoke about Mary happy to have him as part of the team. the second decade of the 21st century. as the image for the church. “She’s the “Warren enjoys bringing the wisdom “While I’m an ordained Methodist one who bore Jesus in the world. She of the early Christian era to the local minister and served in at least three is the only person who awaited both church, the joyful insights of the early churches as pastor for various lengths his first coming as her infant son and Christians. Warren is an outstanding of times, my work is principally as his second coming in glory after the teacher. He brings a lot of energy and a teacher. Therefore, it’s interesting resurrection and ascension. So too the skill to the work.” for me to hear how somebody who church in Advent awaits the celebra- Heath continues: “Warren has a has spent over 20 years as a pastor tion of the Word’s becoming flesh and deep love for the church. He’s very hears the voices of ancient Christian proclaims the hope of Christ’s return committed to robust theological writers and imagines how they can be and the establishment of his kingdom.” education for laity. This program gives relevant to the people and situations him the ability to teach alongside one in today’s church.” AT HOME IN CLASSROOM AND CHURCH of our pastors and to interact with Patterson, the senior pastor at Smith followed in his father’s footsteps laypeople meeting with practitioners. Wesley Memorial UMC in High Point, as a teacher and preacher. This program fits Warren’s own vision describes Smith as one of the people “For for the first 10 years of my for theological education.” who serves as a bridge between the life, I was a pastor’s son,” Smith says. “The more we as faculty are academy and the church. “Warren His father, the late Warren Thomas involved in local churches, the more has a foot in both worlds. He has a Smith, shifted from ministry in the that keeps us connected to the ones warm pastoral presence. That’s not pulpit to become a professor of church were are trying to serve,” says Smith, normally what you expect from a history at the Interdenominational who believes a part of the Duke patristic scholar. He really connects Theological Center, a consortium of

24 | DIVINITY broke down the Lord’s Prayer, and it was very meaningful to people. He brings to light things we didn’t know.”

A NEW MODEL FOR TEACHING Neighborhood Seminary offers a new way to train laypeople. “Creating a nondegree program provides inter- ested adults with deeper theological knowledge for their own personal edification or for those making a transition to the ministry,” Smith says. “We find a significant percentage of people going into the ministry as their second career. They may have five predominantly African-American graduate school he knew his ministry spent a good portion of their life in denominational seminaries, including would take the form of teaching. While the business world. As they get older, the famed Morehouse College. Located studying for his master’s degree at their faith becomes more important. in Atlanta, Ga., the seminaries operate Yale Divinity School, he took a year They get involved in the church on a together as a professional graduate off to teach at a United Methodist deeper level. Neighborhood Seminary school of theology. mission school in Zimbabwe. is a way of tapping into laypeople who Smith says the experience of “That really solidified my sense of want to deepen their knowledge of the observing his father serve at various my calling to be a teacher,” Smith says. Christian faith and provide for United Methodist churches in Atlanta “I love teaching.” the subset of that group that would was rewarding. His family continued to For the past five years, Ellen Allen, be interested in going to seminary. be involved in the last church his father director of adult ministries at Genesis The program is a sampling of a served as pastor. Smith recalls that their UMC in Cary, N.C., has called on theological education.” church family sustained them during Smith to do what he loves at her Heidi A. Miller, director of the his mother’s cancer and nurtured him church. “I give my facilitators a break Neighborhood Seminary at Duke through his young adulthood. in January,” she said. “I bring in a Divinity School, says the first class of “But through my father’s experi- speaker during our Christian educa- 17 participants range in age from the ence as a teacher, I was able to hear tion hour. Warren is the best!” early 20s to the 70s and are of various him lecture to laypeople at various Smith will teach for three or four racial and ethnic backgrounds. The class churches around Atlanta about Sundays in a row on various topics. “He includes a physician with a rural family Methodist history, the Protestant will take a topic that is rather tough for practice, a car sales manager, a mother Reformation and Saint Augustine,” us laypeople and make it understand- and daughter, as well as three people Smith says. “This stimulated a theo- able,” Allen says. “He’ll explain what it considering further theological training. logical interest in me.” is and provide a whole new meaning to Smith described his first class Smith discerned a call to ministry what he’s talking about. He’s engaging. meeting as a “delightful time. The while he was in high school. He And he’s funny. He’s real.” participants were attentive and asked earned a bachelor’s degree in history “One year he came and talked about some good questions. There was a at Emory University, and during the Lord’s Prayer,” Allen says. “He good spirit.”

SPRING 2018 | 25 Ecumenical Organizations FRESH EXPRESSIONS MISSIO ALLIANCE partners A fresh expression of church is a new A fellowship of institutions, leaders, gathering or network that engages mainly and churches, Missio Alliance supports with people who have never been to church. partnerships and projects that seek to on the There is no single model; the emphasis is further healthy Christian ministries in on starting something that is appropriate North America. Resources include for a particular context rather than cloning gatherings, podcasts, and a range of missional something that works somewhere else. books and articles. Fresh Expressions US offers a number of www.missioalliance.org projects and training opportunities. www.freshexpressionsus.org ZOE journey ZOE is committed to seeing children in MISSIONAL WISDOM FOUNDATION extreme poverty around the world live into Founded by Elaine A. Heath, now dean and their God-given potential. Building on a professor of missional and pastoral ministry foundation of indigenous staff, community at Duke Divinity School, Missional Wisdom leaders, and local resources, ZOE empowers Resources to Inform and Foundation experiments with and teaches orphans and vulnerable children to become Enrich Missional Ministries about different forms of Christian community. entrepreneurs who are socially, economi- It provides space, resources, and support cally, and spiritually strong. This approach for those seeking new ways to explore new transforms entire communities and breaks BY LACEYE WARNER paradigms for the deep work of developing cycles of aid dependency. spiritual community. www.wearezoe.org www.missionalwisdom.org Perhaps you’ve been serving in a missional ministry for years, or United Methodist Organizations perhaps you’re intrigued and want PATH 1 FOUNDATION FOR EVANGELISM to learn more. Here is a curated Part of the Discipleship Ministries of the Another part of Discipleship Ministries, list of resources, including books, United Methodist Church, Path 1 is a Foundation for Evangelism supports local organizations, and programs, program to help provide a range of resources church outreach, campus ministries, and for new church-planting efforts, including that can encourage you in your professors of evangelism. As part of effective, coaching. Different models are used for missional, growing churches, there must be ministry journey. church plants depending on their location, opportunities for both clergy and laypeople to including intentional partnerships between be trained and supported in ministry. clergy and laypeople. www.foundationforevangelism.org www.umcdiscipleship.org UMCOR GLOBAL MINISTRIES The United Methodist Commission on Global Ministries is a general board Relief is a division of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church that that is often the first relief organization provides a range of resources and in and the last out of natural and other mission opportunities. disaster-response efforts. This highly www.umcmission.org respected group has demonstrated sensitivity and skill in meeting the needs of individuals and communities in the wake of tragedy. www.umcor.org

26 | DIVINITY Missional Resource Books CULTURE MAKING FRESH EXPRESSIONS: LIVE TO TELL: by Andy Crouch A NEW KIND OF METHODIST CHURCH EVANGELISM FOR A POSTMODERN AGE This discussion of the complexities of FOR PEOPLE NOT IN CHURCH by Brad J. Kallenberg how culture works also provides tools for by Kenneth H. Carter Jr. and Audrey Warren In light of postmodernity, evangelism should cultivating and creating culture and points This book can be used as a group study for shift to a focus on community and invite people to hopeful examples from church history and church leaders and congregations who are to a new way of life. This book offers both contemporary society of how culture is made in the grip of Holy Spirit motivation to renew theoretical training and practical strategies. and shaped. It includes a call to partner with their tradition by reaching people who are God’s own work of transforming culture. de-churched or not yet in a discipleship A MILE IN MY SHOES: relationship with Jesus. CULTIVATING COMPASSION MISSIONAL. MONASTIC. MAINLINE by Trevor Hudson by Elaine A. Heath FROM RELIEF TO EMPOWERMENT: This book issues a challenging charge to This book provides both the theoretical HOW YOUR CHURCH CAN CULTIVATE pay attention and to engage in the spiritual foundations and practical guidance for SUSTAINABLE MISSION disciplines that enable us to see, hear, and developing new monastic and missional by Laceye C. Warner and Gaston Warner respond to the living Christ in our midst. It communities in contexts that are theologically While there are times for the relief efforts and includes an invitation to participate in the progressive, racially and economically diverse, traditional charity when disasters strike, if process of pilgrimage of pain and hope. and multicultural. This book contains the years later the same people are receiving the wisdom and perspectives of people who same aid, an opportunity is lost. Mission that EMPOWERMENT: live and serve in missional, new monastic moves beyond relief to empowerment opens up A KEY COMPONENT OF CHRISTIAN communities in United Methodist and other ways to address systemic forms of oppression COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT mainline traditions, and it describes new forms and poverty. This book is ideal for groups who by Mary Nelson of theological education that are emerging to want to engage or re-engage in mission. We need to move toward more effective resource a new generation of Christian leaders. involvement and empowerment with the CHRISTIAN SOCIAL INNOVATION: poor. Leaders must focus more on developing THE MYSTIC WAY OF EVANGELISM: RENEWING WESLEYAN WITNESS people’s skills and capacities rather than A CONTEMPLATIVE VISION FOR by L. Gregory Jones simply helping the poor live better lives. CHRISTIAN OUTREACH Christian social innovation, at its best, by Elaine A. Heath depends on a conception of hope different THE MISSION OF GOD’S PEOPLE This fresh perspective on the theory and from the optimism that often characterizes by Christopher J.H. Wright practice of evangelism approaches it through secular endeavors, a hope that acknowledges This book focuses on what the Old Testament contemplative spirituality, offering a corrective personal and social brokenness. Faith teaches Christians about being the people to the contemporary American trend of program- communities, at their best, bring people of God, addressing themes such as “called to matic and consumeristic forms of evangelism. together across generations and diverse care for creation,” “called to bless the nations,” By looking to mystics, saints, and martyrs of sectors to imagine how common effort and “sending and being sent,” and “rejecting church history, we can discover ways of thinking faith might overcome obstacles. false gods.” about God that result in a life of outreach.

Books to Inform a Missional Perspective

TOXIC CHARITY: HOW CHURCHES THE NEW JIM CROW: THE BEST OF ENEMIES: RACE AND AND CHARITIES HURT THOSE THEY MASS INCARCERATION IN THE REDEMPTION IN THE NEW SOUTH HELP, AND HOW TO REVERSE IT AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS by Osha Gray Davidson by Robert D. Lupton by Michelle Alexander GETTING BEYOND BETTER: WHEN HELPING HURTS: HOW TO SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP HOW SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ALLEVIATE POVERTY WITHOUT HURTING by David Bornstein and Susan Davis WORKS THE POOR … AND YOURSELF by Roger Martin and Sally Osberg by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert DEAD AID: WHY AID IS NOT WORKING AND HOW THERE IS A BETTER WAY WOMEN DON’T ASK: THE HIGH COST FOR AFRICA OF AVOIDING NEGOTIATION— by Dambisa Moyo AND STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever BOTTOM BILLION: WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT HALF THE SKY: TURNING CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT OPPRESSION INTO OPPORTUNITY by Paul Collier FOR WOMEN WORLDWIDE by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

SPRING 2018 | 27 PROGRAMS & EVENTS A Missional Focus

Neighborhood Seminary Enrolls First Cohort

The Neighborhood Seminary aims to help participants open their minds and senses anew to the movement of God’s Spirit, empowering them to engage the people of God in their communities. The learning and formation that takes place in the Neighborhood Seminary is built upon the premise that God comes among us and dwells in our neigh- borhoods. The pilot program for the Neighborhood Seminary began in the Greensboro, N.C., area in September 2017. This two-year non-credit program provides four team-taught courses per year with Duke faculty, staff, and graduates partnering with gifted local practitioners; spiritual formation throughout the two years with trained spiritual directors in large- and small-group gatherings; and community engagement with innovative local practitioners and neighborhood ministries.

TEACHING TEAM Elaine Heath, Ph.D. J. Warren Smith Pamela Blackstock Dean of the Divinity School and Associate professor of historical Ordained elder in the Western North professor of missional and pastoral theology; published The Lord’s Prayer: Carolina Conference serving Union theology; co-founder of the Missional Confessing the New Covenant; a Memorial UMC in Greensboro, N.C. Wisdom Foundation United Methodist minister in the North Carolina Conference Joseph Kim Brandon Wrencher Trained in pastoral counseling Pastor and pioneer of a new inclusive Jeff Patterson and clinical pastoral education; and neighborhood-rooted faith Elder in the Western North Carolina provisional elder in the Western community in downtown Greensboro, Conference and senior pastor at North Carolina Conference N.C.; provisional elder in the Western North Wesley Memorial UMC in High Point, Carolina Conference N.C.; served as the district superintendent of Cheryl Skinner the Yadkin Valley District and as a delegate to Pastor of Mt. Olivet UMC in Concord, Irving Allen the 2016 General Conference and the 2019 N.C.; ordained elder in the Western Fellowship coordinator for Ignite NC General Conference North Carolina Conference and a national trainer for Beautiful Trouble Network; human relations SPIRITUAL FORMATION DIRECTORS DIRECTOR commissioner and member of the Youth Advisory Alice Kunka, Ph.D. Heidi Miller, Ph.D. Board for the City of Greensboro; member Associate pastor of spiritual formation Licensed minister in the of Shiloh Baptist Church, the Fellowship of at Christ UMC in Greensboro, N.C.; Virginia Mennonite Conference

Reconciliation, Youth and Student Coalition for ordained deacon in the United JARED LAZARUS/DUKE PHOTOGRAPHY Police Accountability, and Guilford Votes Methodist Church PHOTO BY FRITH GOWAN

28 | DIVINITY Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet in Goodson Chapel

The Center for Reconciliation and Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts co-hosted the Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet at the invitation of Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, March 8. The ballet company performed at a Goodson Chapel service and shared insights on the intersec- The lunch panel explored how dance can lead to a better tion of dance and reconciliation during a lunch discussion. understanding of the body and how it can inspire reconcilia- The performance, titled “Roar of Nations,” was based on rendi- tion. Artistic director Elisa Schroth said their performances are tions of various psalms focused on God’s comfort and God’s intended to inspire a call to action, whether it’s reconciliation with majesty over the nations. The dances were accompanied by read- one another or in the world. Ekklesia is based in Connecticut, ings in Hebrew by Davis and Laura Lieber, professor of religious and their repertory addresses issues such as poverty, inequality, studies at Duke University. and human suffering through transformative dance.

Certificate in Missional Innovation Accepting Applications

The Certificate in Certificate requirements include three courses, a field education Missional Innovation placement under the close supervision of a recognized church (CMI) will equip planter or pioneer, participation in a yearlong advanced spiritual students in the theory formation group, and attendance at an annual event where prac- and practices of titioners discuss mission and evangelism. hospitality, community formation, Christian FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact one of the faculty directors spiritual formation, and neighboring so Douglas Campbell that they are ready Professor of New Testament to start and lead [email protected] deeply contextualized new faith communi- Laceye Warner ties. Students will Royce and Jane Reynolds Associate Professor of the be exposed to a wide array of new church starts, including Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies missional networks, new monastic communities, social [email protected] enterprises, and traditional church starts. Field education placements connect students with missional practitioners Jeff Conklin-Miller who are engaged in new faith community development. E. Stanley Jones Assistant Professor of the Practice of The CMI can be earned within the M.Div. degree and is Evangelism and Christian Formation and the Royce JARED LAZARUS/DUKE PHOTOGRAPHY intended to provide training in contextual evangelism and church and Jane Reynolds Teaching Fellow planting for students interested in innovative forms of ministry. [email protected] PHOTO BY FRITH GOWAN

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Dean Heath Delivers Prescribing Wisely: Psychiatric State of the School Address Medications and the Whole Person

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, with the generous support of the McDonald Agape Foundation, is sponsoring the conference “Prescribing Wisely: Psychiatric Medications and the Whole Person,” June 8–9. The conference will produce practical resources for both prescribers and consumers of psychiatric medication, including consider- ations about how these medications might be used wisely and in a way that is attentive to the best medical research, to moral and ethical questions, and to social, political, and historical context. This will be the first of four annual conferences in the series “Out of Our Meds.” Each year, participants will engage with moral and theological approaches to the use of prescription medications. Questions for future conferences will include the following: “Theological Approaches to Pain and Its Management” (2019); “Do Not Be Anxious about Your Body: How Is Medical Dean Elaine A. Heath delivered the annual state of the Management of Risks to Future Health Compatible with Christian school address at Duke Divinity School on Feb. 28. The Discipleship” (2020); and “Is Pharmacological Risk Management address focused on the theme of moving from a house of Good Medicine?” (2021). fear to a house of love. Video is available: https://youtu.be/ For more information and to register, see http://divinity.duke. e0Vnlb3EwPA. edu/prescribing-wisely or email Duke [email protected].

UMC Mission Leaders Participate in Study Leave

A group of mission leaders from the Western North Carolina Conference of the UMC visited Duke Divinity School in April to participate in study leave. The Missional Engagement Operations Team was chaired by Brian Mateer, director of missions at Providence UMC in Charlotte, and facilitated by Caroline Wood, director of missional engagement and connectional ministries for the Western North Carolina Conference. The group met with Dean Elaine A. Heath, professor of missional and pastoral theology, and others at Duke Divinity School working with cohort-based programs. Laceye Warner, Royce and Jane Reynolds Associate Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies, was invited to participate in the team’s work by facilitating and providing resources for the study leave week.

The mission leader team includes both clergy and laypeople, JARED LAZARUS/DUKE PHOTOGRAPHY including Divinity School alumni Laura Byrch M.Div.’11, Nathan Arledge M.Div.’11, and Susan Pennock M.A.C.P.’17. The focus of the study leave was to further the goal of developing plans to sustain and empower missional culture in the Western North Carolina Conference through cohort-based learning.

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From Relief to Empowerment: How Your Church Can Cultivate Sustainable Mission By Laceye K. Warner, Royce and Jane Reynolds Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies, and Gaston Warner Foundery Books, 2017 Paperback, $24.99

MISSION FLOURISHES when relationships are characterized by mutuality—a difficult Faithful and Fractured: Responding but important balance to sustain. Relief efforts and traditional charity to the Clergy Health Crisis are needed when disasters strike; but if years later the same people By Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, Associate are receiving the same aid, an opportunity has been lost to empower Research Professor at Duke Global Health individuals and communities. Mission that moves beyond relief to Institute Evidence Lab and Research empowerment opens up ways to address systemic forms of oppres- Director of Clergy Health Initiative; and sion and poverty. Jason Byassee, Research Scholar with Gaston Warner is chief executive officer of ZOE, a United Methodist Leadership Education at Duke Divinity nonprofit organization that empowers over 28,000 orphans and Baker Academic, 2018 children in seven countries across three continents, including Africa, 224 pages, Paperback, $19.99 India, and Guatemala. Laceye Warner is a scholar of evangelism and Methodist studies at Duke Divinity School, and both Warners are elders in the United Methodist Church. In CLERGY SUFFER from certain health this book, they examine ZOE as an exemplar of sustainable mission that can empower issues at a rate higher than the even the most vulnerable to help themselves. Suitable for group study, this book is ideal general population. Why are for those who want to engage or re-engage in mission, encouraging readers to move pastors in such poor health? mission beyond “us and them” to “all of us together.” Proceeds of book sales go to ZOE. And what can be done to help them step into the abundant life God desires for them? Everything Happens for a Reason: with the conviction that she can control Although anecdotal observations about And Other Lies I’ve Loved the shape of her life with “a surge of deter- poor clergy health abound, concrete data By Kate Bowler, Associate Professor of the mination.” Even as this type of Christianity from multiple sources supporting this History of Christianity in North America celebrates the American can-do spirit, it claim haven’t been made accessible until Random House, 2018 implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb now. Duke’s Clergy Health Initiative (CHI), 208 pages, Hardcover, $26.00 to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. a major, decade-long research project, E-book and Audiobook available What does it mean to die, she wonders, in provides a true picture of the clergy health a society that insists everything happens crisis over time and shows that improving KATE BOWLER specializes in the study for a reason? After being stripped of this the health of pastors is possible. of the prosperity gospel, in certainty, she discovers that without it life Combining the expertise of a health which fortune is a blessing is hard but beautiful in a way it never has psychology researcher and a leading from God and misfortune is been before. pastoral theologian, this book brings a mark of God’s disapproval. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate together the best in social science and Everything in her life seems Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her medical research, quantifying the poor to point toward “blessing.” life in an account she populates affection- health of clergy with theological engage- She is thriving in her job, married to her ately with a retinue of friends, megachurch ment about what can be done about it. high school sweetheart, and loves life with preachers, relatives, and doctors. Although the study focused on United her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed Everything Happens for a Reason tells her Methodist ministers, the authors interpret with stage IV colon cancer. story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won CHI’s groundbreaking data for a broad The prospect of her own mortality forces observations on dying and the ways it has ecumenical readership, explaining that Bowler to realize that she has been tacitly taught her to live. the findings are applicable to all North subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living American clergy. In addition to physical

32 | DIVINITY health, the book treads deep into the than toys or trinkets—the gift of hard- prisoners, Xi paints an indelible portrait territory of mental health and spiritual won wisdom on life and the process of of courage and faith in the face of unre- wellbeing and suggests that increasing the maturing. In each of the 14 letters—sent lenting evil. presence of positive mental health may on the occasion of Laurence’s baptism prevent future physical and mental health and every year thereafter—Hauerwas problems for clergy. The authors weave contemplates a specific virtue and its Redeeming Transcendence concrete suggestions tailored to clergy meaning for a child growing year by year in the Arts: Bearing Witness throughout the book. in the Christian faith. Writing on kind- to the Triune God ness, courage, humility, joy, and more, By Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Hauerwas distills centuries of religious Research Professor of Theology Paul: An Apostle’s Journey thinking and decades of self-reflection into Eerdmans, 2018 By Douglas Campbell, heartfelt personal epistles packed with 222 pages, Paperback, $18.00 Professor of New Testament wit and punch. An introduction by Samuel Eerdmans, 2018 Wells—Laurence’s father and Hauerwas’ HOW CAN THE ARTS witness to the tran- 219 pages, Paperback, $22.00 friend—tells the story behind these scendence of the Christian letters and offers sage insight into what God? Many people believe DOUGLAS CAMPBELL has been recog- a godparent is and can be. that there is something nized as one of the apostle transcendent about the arts: Paul’s most insightful and they can awaken a profound provocative interpreters. In Blood Letters: The Untold Story sense of awe, wonder, and this short and spirited book, of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao’s China mystery, of something “beyond” this Campbell introduces readers By Xi Lian, Professor of World Christianity world—even for those who may have no to the apostle he has studied Basic Books, 2018 use for conventional forms of Christianity. in depth over his scholarly career. Enter 352 pages, Hardcover, $19.99 In this book Jeremy Begbie, a leading into Paul’s world, relive the story of Paul’s voice on theology and the arts, employs action-packed ministry, and follow the BLOOD LETTERS tells the astonishing a biblical, Trinitarian imagination to show development of Paul’s thought throughout tale of Lin Zhao, the most how Christian involvement in the arts both his physical and his spiritual travels. important Chinese political can be shaped by the distinctive vision of Ideal for students, individual readers, and dissident of the Mao era and God’s transcendence opened up in and study groups, Paul: An Apostle’s Journey a devout Christian who was through Jesus Christ. dramatically recounts the life of one imprisoned, tortured, and of early Christianity’s most fascinating executed by the regime. Lin figures—and offers powerful insight into Zhao was a poet and journalist arrested Leaning on the Word: his mind and his influential message. by the authorities in 1960 and executed Worship with Argentine Baptists eight years later, at the height of the in the Mid-Twentieth Century Cultural Revolution. The only Chinese Lester Ruth, Research Professor of The Character of Virtue: citizen known to have openly and stead- Christian Worship, and Eric L. Mathis Letters to a Godson fastly opposed communism under Mao, Eerdmans, 2017 By Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe she rooted her dissent in her Christian 180 pages, Paperback, $29.00 Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law faith—and expressed it in long, prophetic Eerdmans, 2018 writings done in her own blood, and at THINK OF BAPTIST evangelism in the 205 pages, Hardcover, $21.99 times on her clothes and on cloth torn middle of the 20th century, from her bedsheets. and the figure that comes IN THE CHARACTER OF VIRTUE theo- Miraculously, Lin Zhao’s prison writings immediately to mind is logian and ethicist Stanley survived, though they have only recently likely Billy Graham. But far Hauerwas shares the letters he come to light. Drawing on these works and removed from the large, sent to his godson, Laurence others from the years before her arrest, televised crusades, what Wells. He offers his godson as well as interviews with her friends, her did typical Baptist mission-field evange- something far more precious classmates, and other former political lism and worship really look like? In this

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latest volume in the Church at Worship Will Willimon’s Lectionary Sermon fund, and fuel the preacher’s imagina- series, Lester Ruth and Eric L. Mathis Resource: Year B (Parts 1 and 2) tion while leaving plenty of room to insert draw from a rich selection of primary By Will Willimon, Professor of the Practice personalized illustrations, make connec- sources to immerse readers in the of Christian Ministry tions within a particular congregational worship life of Conservative Baptists in Abingdon Press, 2017 context, and speak the Word in a distinc- northwest Argentina from 1948 to 1964. Paperback and E-book, $24.99 tive voice. Guidance from Willimon is like Combining historical, theological, and sitting down with a trusted clergy friend practical perspectives, this book offers WILL WILLIMON is widely acclaimed as and asking, “What will you preach next a vital educational resource for Christian one of the top 10 preach- Sunday?” Each week of sermon resources ministers engaged in or preparing for ers in the world. For each includes readings, theme title, introduction cross-cultural ministry, introduces Sunday of the Christian to the readings, and sections on encoun- readers to a worshipping community year, his lectionary sermon tering the text, proclaiming the text, and that may be unfamiliar to them, and resource provides what is relating the text. The full series will include represents a significant contribution needed to begin the journey two volumes each for Years A, B, and C in to liturgical history. toward a sermon. This guide will stoke, the Revised Common Lectionary.

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JEREMY BEGBIE published Redeeming a colloquium at Duke for ongoing Personal Challenge, edited by Richard Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing research on the topic of theology, music, Carter and Samuel Wells (SPCK); Witness to the Triune God (Eerdmans). and modernity. He traveled to New “Taking a Knee Has Always Been a He led the research seminar “An Zealand in May to deliver the Thomas Sign of Reverence, Not Disrespect” Awkward Witness in a Worded World: Burns Memorial Lectures on the theme in the Washington Post (Sept. 29); and Reflections on Music and Language “What’s Transcendent about the Arts?” “Exorcising Democracy: The Theo- in Luther and Bach” at the Institute at the University of Otago. Political Challenge of Black Power” in for Theology, Imagination and the the Journal of the Society of Christian Arts at the University of St. Andrews MEGHAN BENSON was invited to be Ethics (38.1, 2018). He delivered the (Scotland), gave the multimedia part of an international interfaith Daniel B. McGee Endowed Lecture presentation “Why the Arts Matter to consortium on religious vocation in the Series on “Christianity and Democracy” Faith in a Culture That Flattens Our secular academy at Bar Ilan University at Baylor University, Oct. 8–9, and Vision” on behalf of the North Carolina in Israel in February. She was one of worked on “Christ and the Common Study Center (Chapel Hill), and a dozen clergy members who serve in Life: A Guide to Political Theology” presented “‘Hearing a Music That You universities who gathered for a week of at a manuscript workshop at the Never Would Have Known to Listen discussions on the gifts and challenges Center for the Study of Religion at the For’: Why the Church Needs the Arts in of living out one’s faith in an academic University of Virginia, Jan. 18–19. He a Culture of Reductionism” as part of context. Her presentation was titled participated in a Luce Scholars work- the King Institute for Faith and Culture “Sacred Architecture and Sacred Space shop, Nov. 3–4; preached at Rockharbor lecture series at King University on Campus.” Church in Costa Mesa, Calif., Feb. (Bristol, Tenn.). In February he 25; and served as a panelist for the delivered three plenary sessions for the LUKE BRETHERTON published “Politics Provost’s Forum at Duke University on Forum on Faith and Culture in Winston- as a Form of Neighbour Love” in Who “Assembly, Protest, and Shared Spaces,” Salem, N.C., and in March he hosted Is My Neighbor? The Global and March 1.

34 | DIVINITY KATE BOWLER published Everything MARK CHAVES won the 2017 College of Georgia Department of Happens for a Reason (and Other Distinguished Article Award from Medicine, Jan. 9. Lies I’ve Loved) (Random House) the Society for the Scientific Study and launched the podcast Everything of Religion for his article, with SUSAN EASTMAN published Paul Happens. Links to her interviews David Voas, “Is the United States a and the Person: Reframing Paul’s and articles are available at Counterexample to the Secularization Anthropology (Eerdmans) and spoke www.katebowler.com. Thesis?” in the American Journal of in November at a panel review of the Sociology (121.5, 2016). He gave two book at the annual meeting of the CHRISTINE PARTON BURKETT spoke invited lectures: “Changing Realities Society of Biblical Literature. She on “Nostalgia vs. Homecoming: Story, for Clergy and Congregations: Seven has been honored by the publication Illustration, and Sense” for the Institute Trends” in New York, N.Y., on Oct. of a Festschrift, Practicing with Paul: of Preaching Session II, sponsored by 26 as part of the Insights & Ideas Reflections on Paul and the Practices of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, Centennial Conversations sponsored Ministry in Honor of Susan G. Eastman, at the Bethany Center in Lutz, Fla., in by the Church Pension Group of the edited by Presian Burroughs (Cascade). April; on “Audacious Proclamation: A Episcopal Church, and “Introduction Her article “Love’s Folly: Love and Practical Approach to Preaching” at the to the U.S. National Congregations Knowledge in 1 Corinthians” was Leadership Excellence Advancement Study” at Aarhus University, Aarhus, published in Interpretation (72.1, 2018). Program at the UMC Center for Denmark, on March 14 for the Clergy Excellence in Camp Allen, Consortium for International Surveys MATTHEW FLODING, with William Texas, in November; and, with NATHAN of Congregations, which brings H. Lamar IV and Cheryl D. Moore, KIRKPATRICK, on “The View from the together scholars from several coun- published “Report: Forum on Kingdom: Finding the Light Switch” tries to develop studies of congrega- Ministerial Formation in Black Church and “The View from the Pew: Preaching tions modeled after the U.S. National Traditions” in Reflective Practice. as Craft and Art” for the Episcopal Congregations Study (directed by He organized the Forum, a profes- Preaching Foundation, Diocese of Chaves since 1998). He received sional development experience for New Westminster, held in Vancouver, grants of $30,000 from the Louisville Presbyterian theological field educators Canada, in September. Institute and $20,000 from the Pew from seminaries and divinity schools, Research Forum to support data held Jan. 25 at Duke Divinity School, DOUGLAS CAMPBELL published Paul: collection for the fourth wave of the and led the Barnabas Retreat of the An Apostle’s Journey (Eerdmans). National Congregations Study, which is Wee Kirk Conference for Presbyterian primarily funded by a generous grant Pastors at the Montreat Conference STEPHEN CHAPMAN presented “Divine from the Lilly Endowment Inc. Center, Oct 15–17. Dispossession in Deuteronomy” and “Worthy to Be Praised: God as a FARR CURLIN received both the 2018 JENNIE GRILLO published “Seeing Character in Samuel” at the annual Paul Ramsey Award for Excellence Silence: Susanna’s Christological meeting of the Society of Biblical in Bioethics and the 2018 Steve Quiet” in Anglican Theological Review Literature in November. He also spoke Thorney Career Award for Spiritual (99.4, 2017) and “‘You Will Forget Your on “The How as Well as the What: Care from the MD Anderson Cancer Ancient Shame’: The Innocence of Canonical Formatting and Biblical Center in Houston, Texas. He gave Susanna and the Vindication of Israel” Theology” for the Institute for Biblical several lectures: the inaugural Robert in Women and Exilic Identity in the Research. His daily meditations for D. Orr, M.D., Lecture in Medical Hebrew Bible, edited by Katherine E. the first week in January appeared in Ethics at the University of Vermont, Southwood and Martien Halvorson- Disciplines 2018 (Upper Room Books). Oct. 27; the 2018 Provonsha Lecture Taylor (Bloomsbury). She gave a paper In February he lectured on “The Old at Loma Linda University, March 2; at the annual meeting of the Society of Testament as Christian Scripture” at and the Grand Rounds lectures for Biblical Literature titled “Out of Print: Virginia Theological Seminary. the University of Illinois Department The Disappearing Daniel Tradition in of Pediatrics, Jan. 5, and the Medical Early Modern Greek Bible Books.” For

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the 2017–18 academic year she received JERUSHA NEAL published “Exodus the Catholic University of America, the Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship of or Exile: Hermeneutic Shifts in a March 13. the Research Triangle Foundation at Shifting Fijian Methodist Church” in the National Humanities Center and International Journal of Homiletics RUSSELL RICHEY published “Today’s a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant (2.1, 2017). She presented the paper Untied Methodism: Living with/into for Researchers for her book project on “The Bible and Folklore: Global Its Two Centuries of Regular Division” the Additions to Daniel in the history Perspectives” for the Bible in Racial, in Finding a Way Forward: Resources of interpretation. Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities for Witness, Contextual Leadership, panel at the annual meeting of the and Unity: A Handbook for United ELAINE A. HEATH published “Wisdom American Academy of Religion Methodist Church Bishops on the Work from the Center: Spiritual Practices and was on the Emerging Scholars of the Commission on a Way Forward for Institutional Leaders during Panel discussing “Emerging Trends in (UMC Council of Bishops) and The Systems Change” in Perspectives in Homiletic Scholarship” at the Academy Unity of the Church and Human Religious Studies (44.4, 2017) and a of Homiletics meeting in Dallas, Texas. Sexuality: Toward a Faithful United second edition of The Mystic Way of She was a guest speaker for the North Methodist Witness (GBHEM). He also Evangelism: A Contemplative Vision for Carolina Conference of the UMC’s wrote several entries for the online Christian Outreach (Baker Academic). 2018 Freedom Ride pilgrimage, and Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in She spoke on “Missional Identity” her book Blessed: Monologues for America: “Denomination”; “Review for the Academy for Young Clergy of Mary (Cascade) was selected as the of the Literature”; “Primary Sources, the Rocky Mountain Conference of 2017 Advent study by Duke Memorial Further Reading, and Links to Digital the UMC in Denver, Colo.; was the UMC (Durham, N.C.), for whom she Materials on Denominations and Mayme Weaver Preaching Mission performed one of the monologues Denominationalism”; and “Summary.” speaker at First UMC (Lexington, during a Wednesday Advent service. He continues as co-editor of the N.C.), Oct. 22–24; served on a panel Methodist Review. discussing domestic violence at Wake THOMAS PFAU published “‘Not in Chapel Church (Raleigh, N.C.), Oct. 29; Time’s Covenant’: Questions of LESTER RUTH, with Eric L. Mathis, chaired the Innovation, Education, and Time and Eschatology in Heidegger published Leaning on the Word: Ministry task force for the GBHEM and T.S. Eliot” in Konteksty Kultury Worship with Argentine Baptists in the Ministry Study Commission (Dallas, (14.3, 2017), a journal published Mid-Twentieth Century (Eerdmans). He Texas), Feb. 4–7; delivered a lecture by the Jozef Tischner Institute in co-taught a workshop for contemporary series on the Means of Grace at the Krakow, Poland. He organized two worship songwriters considering “Equipping, Calling, Going” conference symposiums held at Duke University: new songs for Christmas and led an (Scarborough, U.K.); and gave the “Catholic Theology and the Modern evaluation of Charles Wesley’s Nativity keynote address on the mission of University,” sponsored by the Thomistic hymns as a source of new ideas at the the church at the UMC Large Church Institute in Washington, D.C., Feb. Calvin Institute of Christian Worship at Initiative (San Diego, Calif.). 23, and “Philosophy and Theology in Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., Germany, 1918–1933,” Nov. 2–3. He in March. RANDY L. MADDOX published delivered several lectures: the Annual The Journal Letters and Related Newman Memorial Lecture for the BETH SHEPPARD published the Biographical Items of the Rev. Charles Collegium Institute at the University of “Historiography, Ancient” and Wesley, M.A. (Kingswood Books). Pennsylvania, Feb. 8; “Metaphysics of “Pergamum” entries in The Dictionary In March he chaired a session of the Dying in Tolstoy and Julian of Norwich” of the Bible and Ancient Media Wesley Historical Society on new at a Symposium at the University of Culture, edited by Tom Thatcher, Ray directions in the scholarly study of John Virginia, organized by their Institute for Person, Chris Keith, and Elsie Storm and Charles Wesley, and in April he Advanced Studies in Culture, March 2; (Bloomsbury), and “Theological delivered a lecture at Saint Paul School and “Eschatology and Human Finitude Librarian vs. Machine: Taking on the of Theology in Kansas City, Mo. in Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot” at Amazon Alexa Show (with Some

36 | DIVINITY Reflections on the Future of the Christianity in the West, edited by (N.C.) UMC, First UMC (Montgomery, Profession)” and a review of Reading Paul S. Peterson, part of Routledge’s Ala.), Pulaski Heights UMC (Little for Faith and Learning: Essays on Studies in World Christianity and Rock, Ark.), Grace Church (New York, Scripture, Community, and Libraries in Interreligious Relations series. With N.Y.), Grace Cathedral (Charleston, Honor of M. Patrick Graham, edited by Bishop Kenneth Carder, she spoke on S.C.), and First Presbyterian Church John B. Weaver and Douglas L. Gragg “Grace to Lead” for the General Board (Monroe, N.C.). He is a signatory to (Abilene Christian University Press), in of Higher Education and Ministry the “Reclaiming Jesus: A Confession of Theological Librarianship (10.1, 2017). in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 13, and she Faith in a Time of Crisis” statement. presented on “Salvation and Social DANIEL STULAC was awarded the Carol Engagement: Evangelistic Ministries BRITTANY WILSON delivered the and Eric Meyers Research Fellowship of Select Southern Methodist Women” paper “Seeing Divine Speech: Sensory through the Albright Institute for at the Wesleyan Political Theology Intersections in Luke’s Birth Narrative” Archaeological Research in Jerusalem Conference held at Wesley Theological at the annual meeting of the Society of for the 2018–19 academic year. Seminary, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27. Biblical Literature. She was part of an invited panel that discussed the Jewish GRANT WACKER made numerous media WILL WILLIMON published the first Annotated New Testament, 2nd edition, appearances and published several two installments of the eight-volume edited by Marc Brettler and Amy-Jill articles reflecting on the life, death, Will Willimon’s Lectionary Sermon Levine (Oxford University Press), at and legacy of Billy Graham, including Resource (Abingdon) and a review of Duke University in October. “How an Aging Billy Graham Forbearance by James Calvin Davis in Approached His Own Death” in The The Christian Century (Feb. 14). He NORMAN WIRZBA published “Creation Washington Post (Feb. 21). For a full list gave the Black History Month lecture, through Christ” in Christ and the of links to his interviews and articles, on South Carolina’s last lynching, Created Order: Perspectives from see the “Faculty in the Media” page at at Clemson University and lectured Theology, Philosophy, and Science, divinity.duke.edu/news/faculty-media. at Appalachian State University in edited by Andrew B. Torrance and Boone, N.C. He gave four lectures on Thomas H. McCall (Zondervan). He ROSS WAGNER presented two papers “Christian Art in the Low Countries” delivered several lectures: the Christian at the annual meeting of the Society in Amsterdam and a lecture on Century Lecture on “The Spirituality of of Biblical Literature in November, “Nature and Faith in Art” at Duke’s Eating” in Chicago, Ill. (Oct. 26); “The “The Law and the Prophet: Nomos and Nasher Museum of Art. He spoke Gift of Food” at the annual meeting Jewish Identity in Old Greek Isaiah” to various church groups: as lead at of the Carolina Farm Stewardship and “Moral Formation in Old Greek a preaching conference for Church Association (Nov. 4); “Faithful Eating Isaiah,” as well as “God in Old Greek of Christ pastors, in Dallas, Texas; on in an Anthropocene World” at Isaiah 6” at the University of Helsinki sexual orientation and the UMC, at Yale’s Institute for Faith and Culture in January. He preached at First Hays Barton UMC in Raleigh, N.C.; (Nov. 10); “The Ethics of Food and Presbyterian Church in Evanston, Ill., on “Prophetic Preaching in the Age of Agriculture” at Georgetown College and taught an adult education series at Trump,” for Presbyterian and United (Feb. 1); “The Difference Agrarianism All Saints Anglican Church in Durham, Methodist pastors in Richmond, Va.; at Makes” at the University of North N.C., in January. a three-day conference for Nazarene Carolina-Greensboro (March 1); “Food: clergy at Olivet Nazarene University Gift or Commodity?” at Richmond’s LACEYE WARNER published From Relief in Illinois; on race and Methodism, at Real Local RVA event (April 7); and to Empowerment: How Your Church Epworth UMC in Durham, N.C.; and “Animals in Theological Perspective” at Can Cultivate Sustainable Mission as lead for the Epiphanies Conference Yale Divinity School (April 16). (Foundery Books) with Gaston Warner in Lansing, Mich. Preaching engage- and “Going Big: Mega-Churches in the ments included Mars Hill Church Midst of Declining Christianity in the (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Trenholm Road West” in The Decline of Established UMC (Columbia, S.C.), Hendersonville

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s & s Ogilvie Professor of Preaching at Fuller JENNIFER ADAMS-MASSMANN D’03 50 60 Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. has been selected for an Episcopal Church RON L. HALL D’59 and KIRK MCNEIL Foundation Fellowship for her doctoral D’67 are premiering their new work, Jim JOHN FUTTERER D’84 has been called studies in American church history. She & Jesse, a stage play based on a true as pastor at Kimball Memorial Lutheran will study in the Faculty of Theology at story of a son’s search for his father. They Church in Kannapolis, N.C. He served this the University of Heidelberg in Germany. are both retired clergymen in the Western congregation as associate pastor from Her research is the first book-length North Carolina Conference of the United 1986 to 1989, and previously served study of Moravian women missionaries Methodist Church. seven years at Resurrection Lutheran in 18th-century colonial America. She is Church in Kings Mountain, N.C., and 21 married to ALEXANDER MASSMANN S T KIMBROUGH D’62 has recently years as pastor at First Lutheran Church D’01, who is a postdoctoral researcher published the book Alphabetical Index in Albemarle, N.C. in theological ethics at the University of to the First Lines of All Stanzas of Poetry Cambridge. They have one son. by John and Charles Wesley (Pickwick PAUL KEMENY D’88 has recently Publications). The book includes an published The New England Watch and RYON L. PRICE D’04 has recently been introduction written by Randy Maddox, Ward Society (Oxford University Press). confirmed as the senior pastor of Broadway William Kellon Quick Professor of The book is a historical examination of late Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. He is the Wesleyan and Methodist Studies. 19th- and early 20th-century Protestant church’s 22nd senior pastor. efforts to shape public morality. He is a ANN KAISER STEARNS D’67 professor of religion and assistant dean at CARI WILLIS D’09 has published recently published Redefining Aging: Grove City College in Grove City, Pa. her first book, Living into the Narrative A Caregiver’s Guide to Living Your Best of God. She has taught this workbook Life (Johns Hopkins University Press). s to small groups in a federal prison, She is a professor of behavioral science 90 a women’s prison, and in her home. at the Community College of Baltimore CHARLES WILEY D’93 is leaving the She resides in Benson, N.C. County, Md. Office of Theology and Worship of the PC(USA) after 20 years to become the s s major gifts officer at Columbia Theological 10 70 Seminary in Decatur, Ga. MICHAEL BOONE D’11 was installed JAMES W. TRENT JR. D’73 has as rector of St. Charles Anglican Church, co-edited a book entitled Phallacies: s Poulsbo, Wash. Historical Intersections of Disability and 00 Masculinity (Oxford University Press). ANNA KATHERINE SHURLEY D’01, D’06 CHRIS BRESLIN D’11 and Rachel Breslin He is currently visiting scholar at the has published a book titled Pastoral Care welcomed Simeon Holmes Breslin to their Heller School, Brandeis University. and Intellectual Disability: A Person- family via adoption. Simeon was born on Centered Approach (Baylor University Nov. 27, 2017, and joins sisters Noa and G. CORWIN STOPPEL D’76 has Press). She resides in Gulfport, Miss. Emett and brother, Titus. They are resi- published his second novel in the dents of Durham, N.C. Saugatuck Murder Mystery series, titled MARVIN THOMAS COOK D’02 is staying Death by Pallet Knife. He has served as active as a KY Heartland District Minister KYLE SIGMON D’14 is serving as the the rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in reserve as needed. He is a resident of associate pastor at FaithBridge UMC in in Saugatuck, Mich., since 1990. Brandenburg, Ky. Blowing Rock, N.C.

s KEN J. WALDEN D’02 has recently been GOT NEWS? STAY IN TOUCH! 80 elected to the position of president-dean You can email [email protected] MICHAEL PASQUARELLO III D’83 has of Gammon Theological Seminary in or visit www.divinity.duke.edu/update published Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Atlanta, Ga. Gammon is the largest free- to submit class notes or update Theology of a Preaching Life (Baylor standing African American theological your information. University Press). He is currently Lloyd J. school in the U.S.

38 | DIVINITY A sPirituAl calling. A theOlOgiCAl taSk.

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Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Master of arts in christian Practice (M.a.c.P.) The D.Min. offers church leaders and other Christian The M.A.C.P. degree introduces students to disciplined professionals a way to pursue intensive advanced study theological reflection as a means for enriching their while remaining employed full time in their vocational Christian service in both the church and the world. settings. The D.Min. at Duke Divinity School does not The degree is primarily for those seeking to enhance require full-time residency and is structured around lay vocations while remaining in a full-time ministry short-term(generally one-week) intensive residential context or other professional position, and like seminars in conjunction with ongoing group interaction the D.Min., is based on short, residential intensive facilitated by online tools. seminars with web-based distance learning.

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DEATHS

WILLIAM K. QUICK D’58 of Detroit, SASAMORI TAKEMI D’62 of Meguro, HAYWOOD ALLAN SMITH D’81 of Mich., died Sept. 17, 2017. He was a Tokyo, Japan, died Aug. 15, 2017. Kinston, N.C., died Oct. 18, 2017. retired United Methodist pastor and He was head of the Komaba Eden He was the pastor of Westminster UMC the long-time senior pastor of Church and the 17th Soke of Ono-ha in Kinston, N.C., and served throughout Metropolitan UMC in Detroit. He taught Itto-ryu School of Kenjutsu. He enriched the North Carolina Conference of the at Duke Divinity School for 15 years. the lives of many through his passion United Methodist Church for over 40 The William K. Quick Scholarship was for both Christianity and the martial years. He is survived by his wife, Meleah created at Duke Divinity School to arts, believing that each contributed to a Smith, a son and daughter, and support students entering the ministry. fuller understanding of the other. two grandsons. He is survived by his wife, Mary Quick, four children, and five grandchildren.

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A New Day for Theological Education BY ELAINE A. HEATH

I WALKED INTO the small, dimly lit apartment in Vickery the wider community. Then Christ came to us in refugees. Meadow, a densely populated neighborhood in Dallas, Soon we moved our meeting place into Vickery Texas. Three Congolese men welcomed me, gesturing Meadow. We invited some of the refugees to join our lead toward a folding chair and card table that appeared to be team. Sunday evenings found a motley crew of students, in imminent danger of collapse. Through the interpreter immigrants, elderly people, and children crowded into an who had come with me, they apologized for having nothing apartment in the United Nations of Dallas. We organized other than water to offer because their cupboards were afternoon soccer games for neighborhood boys. Our bare. When they opened the refrigerator, I saw that, other worship structure and community meal simplified so that than water, it was empty, too. The men hoped to find jobs we could incorporate the languages, songs, and food of the soon, they said, but it was difficult when they could not cultures among us. We learned the power and beauty of speak English. Other hurdles included having to apply for homilies in the round. We made many mistakes. ADAPTED FROM WITH GOD IN MIND: SERMONS ON THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL , PUBLISHED BY SCHOOL, 2008. jobs online when they did not have a computer, finding Over time we learned about landlords who do not fix transportation to get to a job when no jobs were within broken plumbing, car dealers who prey on immigrants, the walking distance, seeing unfamiliar products in American bullying that refugee children suffer, and the invisibility grocery stores, and a thousand other details of their new of refugees to much of the church. At the same time we life in Dallas. experienced from our new friends depths of hospitality Vickery Meadow has earned the nickname “the United and community that my middle-class and affluent students Nations of Dallas.” Hundreds of refugees from around the had never imagined. Again and again, Jesus met us at the world arrive every year through the International Rescue table with bowls of beans and simple songs accompanied by Committee and other resettlement programs, along with djembe and dance. many other immigrants and asylum-seekers. The nearly Because of their three-year immersion in the United three square miles of apartment complexes teem with Nations of Dallas, many students who came to seminary people “of every tongue, tribe, and nation,” to use language uncertain of vocation heard God’s call. Some of them were from the book of Revelation. appointed to traditional churches where they brought The three Congolese men were part of a larger cohort missional imagination to congregants who then awakened of newly arrived refugees. One of my seminary students, a to God’s call in new ways. Some found their vocation at the Methodist pastor from Zambia, had brought them to New margins, with children of undocumented workers. Day, the house church I founded with a few students and The three historic strengths of Duke Divinity School are friends. New Day was an experiment in missional ecclesi- intellectual rigor, generous orthodoxy, and spiritual wisdom. ology for students whose emerging sense of vocation was We have extraordinary resources in our world-class faculty, beyond the walls of the traditional church. They wanted to the university, the city of Durham, and the church to create know how to live in community, how to neighbor well, how new pathways for vocational discernment in partnership to organize life around practices of prayer, hospitality, and with our neighbors. We have the capacity to companion compassion. They wanted to practice what they learned in the church in all its iterations in order to see and welcome classes about addressing systemic injustice and serving in Christ in the neighborhood. Through our curricular and cross-cultural contexts. co-curricular programs and creative partnerships, Duke When we began New Day we focused on developing a Divinity School will increasingly discover new ways to lead team that followed a Wesleyan rule of life together. invest in and inhabit the neighborhood. With God’s help we Leadership was polycentric, with several of us sharing are well positioned to flourish into the future. Please join responsibility and ministry according to our gifts. We hoped us in this holy work through your prayers, presence, gifts, and prayed toward discernment as to how we might engage service, and witness.

40 | DIVINITY MEDITATION (REVELATION 22:2) blending her experience, and ours, with the imagination of the biblical writers. blending her experience, and ours, with the imagination of the biblical The quilted triptych represents a biblical image in a familiar medium associated with comfort The quilted triptych represents a biblical image in a familiar medium associated and tranquility. The image of the tree of life runs through the Bible, from the Garden of Eden to and tranquility. The image of the tree of life runs through the Bible, from [detail], quilted triptych, 2005, by Murray Johnston Murray by [detail], 2005, of Life triptych, quilted Tree The Here Murray Johnston has created a landscape that reflects her native region of Appalachia, thus Here Murray Johnston has created a landscape that reflects her native region St. John’s vision. A tree marks the lifesaving presence of shade, water, food, and even medicine. St. John’s vision. A tree marks the lifesaving presence of shade, water, its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.” of the nations.” its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing “On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing kinds of fruit, producing “On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve

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2018 Convocation & Pastors’ School

Neighboring in a Post-Christendom World What does it mean for Christians to be a neighbor in our rapidly changing culture? The 2018 Convocation & Pastors’ School will explore how we can practice and communicate Christian faith, spirituality and hospitality with missional imagination. Pastors and church leaders will gain insight and energy to build and strengthen Christian community with renewed integrity.

Monday & Tuesday, October 8 & 9, 2018 Featuring Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, Bishop Ian Douglas, Rev. Cynthia Hale, and Duke Divinity’s Dr. David Goatley and Dean Elaine Heath

https://divinity.duke.edu/events/convocation-pastors-school