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Perspectives Duke Divin Ity School 2007 AnglicAn EpiscopAl HousE of studiEs Perspectives Duke Divinity School 2007 insidE 2 Director’s Message 3 Program in Context 4 Field Education 6 Student Reflection From the Anglican EPiSCopal houSE oF StuDiES Director Phone: 919 660 3588 Fax: 919 660 3473 Email: [email protected] Web: www.divinity.duke.edu/programs/aehs thE Anglican EPiSCopal houSE of As nine M.Div. graduates now Studies was launched just one year disperse around the country, it is a ago. Yet there have been Anglicans at delight to reflect upon their various Duke Divinity School—among both callings and ministries. The interests faculty and students—for decades. of this first class illustrate well our This year’s first graduating class of goals at the Anglican Episcopal House nine Episcopalians proves the point: of Studies. Out of this group, three the students all started at Duke are heading directly for ordination before an Anglican program was and parochial ministry, and another much more than a whisper. They two are in discernment to that end have witnessed (and helped to shape) while occupying lay positions in some rapid growth. These have been ministry. The rest remain within the exciting times. field of education, ready to embark “My bishop was happy for me to on their academic and/or teaching Members of the first AEHs graduating class of ’07 present their gift of a processional gospel. from left do my seminary education at Duke career or to begin the doctoral re- to right, back row: daniel Miller, Jonathan Melton, Divinity,” remarked Jonathan Melton, search towards that end. Meredith stewart, Jim dahlin, Jo Bailey Wells (direc- tor); front row: Roxane gwyn, lauren Winner, lauren sponsored for ordination by the bishop What are our aims? To serve the Kilbourn. not present: chad Mccall, sarah Yeates. of Northern Indiana, Rt. Revd. Ed Lit- church, to form future leaders and to tle. “He was just thrilled when Duke help raise the next generation of theo- We share the same resources and developed the Anglican Certificate and logians so they may do the same. Time we work to the same end. Neither began a program of Anglican Spiritual and again I am asked “which church?” of these are limited except by our Formation. The Formation was the or “what sort of leaders?” The answers commitment and imagination. In our missing piece (Duke has seen enough are many: lay and ordained, conser- current ecclesial climate, it seems to students through General Ordination vative and liberal, “high” and “low.” me that theological education is the Exams that academics were never a That diversity serves us well so long as ideal process by which we may find concern) and through a combination there is a commitment to name Christ ourselves formed at the same table, of the AEHS program and my local in one another and to drink deeply whether in the library, the classroom church I have been very well served.” and honestly at the same well. or the chapel. I don’t presume to tell the story of this work alone. Following are reflec- tions and essays by Duke Divinity School students involved with the program—expressing in various forms how they have interacted with AEHS and, I trust, grown from the experi- ence. As they are the reason for the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies, their voices will lift up its progress and possibilities. Jo Bailey Wells, director, Anglican Episcopal House of Studies 2 A n g l i c A n E p i s c o p A l H o u s E o f s t u d i E s Anglican EPiSCopal houSE oF StuDiES Phone: 919 660 3588 Fax: 919 660 3473 September 14, 2006 Email: [email protected] Seminar: Cardinal Sheep? Leadership of an Historic Parish Web: www.divinity.duke.edu/programs/aehs Rev. Canon Pierce Klemmt Anglican EPiscopal House of S tuDies: A program in context thE PRiStinE, gothic spires of Duke Last SPRing, I gathered weekly with University were a far cry from the eight students to read and discuss dusty streets of Africa where I spent some of our tradition’s great writ- nearly three years before coming to ers, including George Herbert and divinity school. When I entered Jeremy Taylor. Some of the students Duke Divinity School I had to complained that Richard Hooker was wonder—would the questions of a not especially “spiritual,” and I’m not missionary working in Sudan be sure I persuaded them. I must confess February 1, 2007 the same ones asked in an academic a deep fondness for Hooker: how can setting like Duke? you find boring a writer who claims Seminar: Teaching Eucharist More than anywhere else at Duke, that giving an unbaptized person Rev. Dr. Sam Wells the Anglican Episcopal House of communion is like trying to feed a Studies immediately provided the corpse? Even if you don’t agree with space to engage questions related to the sentiment, you have to admit it’s what I saw in Africa both inside and a vivid image. outside the classroom. In a course on Not all of our authors were, strictly canon law and relationships within speaking, Anglican: Julian of Nor- the Anglican Communion, taught wich and Margery Kempe, for exam- jointly by Bishop Michael Curry ple, pre-date the Church of England. and Dr. Jo Wells, we discussed how We also read John Wesley. Despite African Anglicans are responding to Methodists’ funny habit of claim- February 8, 2007 issues such as HIV/AIDS and pov- ing him, our class decided Wesley fit Seminar: My Theological Journey erty. In conversations over lunch or right into a long tradition of what one coffee we talked about how the church might call Anglican’s practical piety. Lord Carey of Clifton working in peace and reconciliation in Indeed, that practical piety was a violent place such as Sudan relates at the heart of our class…the sense to our wider questions of ecclesiology. that one knows through doing, that The intentional international one knows who one is and who God focus emphasizing the relationship is and even who one’s neighbor is of the Episcopal Church to provinces through the enacting of the habits around the Anglican Communion of faithfulness. We discovered, inter has given me the opportunity to alia, that study itself is one of those relate my experience in Africa to habits of faithfulness, a practice that my broader theological education. helped us more fully know God and Ross Kane, M.Div. ’09, one another. aspirant in the Diocese of Virginia lauren F. Winner, M.Div. ’07, September 28, 2006 newly appointed Assistant Professor of Seminar: Spiritual Friendship, Spiritual Direction Christian Spirituality Rev. Liz Dowling-Sendor s t u d E n t p E R s p E c t i v E s 2 0 0 7 3 Field Education C AnterbuRy Tales in An essay on Old Testament community, Walter The 28 of us were welcomed members of the Can- Brueggemann says: “The trick of community is to hold terbury community as we worshipped with them three together real differences of interest in the midst of times a day. Robert Willis, the amazingly loving Dean treasuring a passionate commitment to belong faithfully of Canterbury Cathedral, gave this place the mission: to one another.” “To show people Jesus,” and that mission is reflected in That is exactly what I and 27 other Anglicans from every aspect of this community. around the world did last summer as we participated It guided the Canterbury Scholars Program and led in the Canterbury Scholars educational program at Can- us to understand that, regardless of how diverse our terbury Cathedral. The program is for senior seminarians social and political and theological views may be, if we and those who have been priests for less than five years, Anglicans continue to share in the same (or similar) and my group came from UK, USA, Brazil, Korea, India, worship patterns, if we remember and value our faith Canada, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, tradition and the saints who have gone before us, and if Tanzania and Jamaica. There were eight women and one we simply listen and respect and love one another, noth- openly gay man, and we represented both the liberal and ing can destroy the unity of the Anglican Communion. deeply conservative theological and political spectrums. This unity will hold in spite of power struggles and It could have gone terribly wrong—yet we learned to hidden agendas that fuel our current crisis. Archbishop see the face of Christ in one another. We followed what Rowan Williams is correct that continuing dialogue will Dr. Michael Battle calls “the theology of proximity” in enable us to see that we are far more alike than we are that we got to know one another as children of God different. We are all children of God who believe as before we dared to judge. By the end of our two weeks we worship, using similar prayer books designed in the together, we all agreed that we deeply care about the Anglican tradition Anglican Communion holding together because we are Miriam Saxon, M. Div. ’07, enriched by the differing views and diversity of a faith newly ordained deacon in the Diocese of North Carolina tradition that is found around our entire planet. go to MAl AySiA! ShE MovED My hAnDS to the failing knee I was to bless. here if desired. And I am learning what the church has the “Not there,” she said. “Here.” potential to be when it is a minority.
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