Valuing All Voices Lauren Winner, Douglas Campbell, Telling the Story of Engagement with People God Loves Warren Kinghorn, and More LEADERS
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DUKEDIVINITY UNIVERSITY FALL 2014 Featuring Valuing All Voices Lauren Winner, Douglas Campbell, Telling the story of engagement with people God loves Warren Kinghorn, and more LEADERS Make a Difference The Divinity Annual Fund is in the middle of a LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE, and you can join us! Your gift can go even further—the Divinity Annual Fund has a challenge grant based on how many STUDENT people will partner with us with a gift of $1,000 or more. These leadership gifts will ensure that S we receive funding from the challenge grant, and every gift supports the work of Duke Divinity AT THE SENIOR CRO School to train the next generation of Christian leaders. Alumni from Duke Divinity School are serving in leadership positions of churches, denominations, seminaries, global aid organizations, youth ministries, and so much more. To continue training leaders, we need your support! 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Hays Dean and George Washington By Douglas Campbell theological reflection Ivey Professor of New Testament By Lauren Winner EDITOR Heather Moffitt 10 Associate Director of Communications BEYOND INCLUSION 28 The response of the church WELCOMING THE Produced by the Office of Communications, RURAL VOICE Duke Divinity School to people with mental illness Audrey Ward, Executive Director must go beyond welcome, Agrarian communities have which is only possible through become diverse communities Proofreading by Derek Keefe developing a scriptural and where God is working Design by B Design Studio, LLC theological imagination through the church to www.bdesign-studio.com By Warren Kinghorn minister in practical ways Copyright © 2014 Duke Divinity School By Brad Thie All rights reserved. 14 DIVINITY magazine publishes a Fall and LOVE, DIFFERENCES, DEPARTMENTS Spring issue each year. The magazine AND VALUING OTHERS represents the engagement of Duke Divinity 3 The Dean’s Perspective School with important topics and invites A Latina pastor describes her friends, supporters, alumni, and others in experience in ministry and the Programs & Events our community to participate in the story ways that love and diversity must 32 of what is happening here. Demonstrating a shape the character of the church Commitment to We’d like to hear from you! By Alma Ruiz Value All Voices For comments or feedback on New Books from DIVINITY magazine, please write: 36 Duke Divinity Faculty Editor, DIVINITY magazine 18 Faculty & Staff Notes Duke Divinity School LIFE TOGETHER AT 38 Box 90970 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE 41 Deaths Durham, NC 27708-0970 A photo essay of life at Or email: [email protected] Friendship House, an 42 Class Notes Please include a daytime phone number and intentional community of an email address. Letters to the editor may Duke Divinity School students 44 Faculty Reflections be edited for clarity or length. and friends with intellectual or 45 Meditation developmental disabilities ON THE COVER Photography by Donn Young Portraits from the series The Parish By Rachel Campbell Oil, 14” x 11” For more information on this image and the artist, see page 6. WWW.DIVINITY.DUKE.EDU/MAGAZINE FALL 2014 | 1 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE DOUGLAS CAMPBELL is a WARREN KINGHORN is ALMA RUIZ earned her DONN YOUNG is an award- professor of New Testament at assistant professor of psychiatry M.Div. degree from Duke winning photographer in Chapel Duke Divinity School. His primary and pastoral and moral theology, Divinity School in 2013. She Hill, N.C. He has over 35 years research interests include the with a joint appointment at is one of the pastors of Fiesta of experience documenting the theological development of Duke University Medical Center Christiana, one of the congrega- lives of people and places from Paul, with particular focus on and Duke Divinity School. His tions affiliated with Apex UMC Morocco to New Orleans to soteriological models rooted scholarly interests include in Apex, N.C. She is seeking New England. After his studio in apocalyptic rather than the moral and theological ordination as an elder with the was flooded during Hurricane salvation-history. He is also dimensions of combat-related North Carolina Conference of Katrina, the Archive Records the director of the certificate in post-traumatic stress disorder, the United Methodist Church. Management Association of prison studies. His most recent the role of religious communities America and Louisiana State book is The Deliverance of God: in caring for persons with mental University deemed his archive An Apocalyptic Rereading of health problems, the ways that of 1.5 million images to be of Justification in Paul. Christians engage practices of historical significance. They have modern health care, and the been working to salvage and vocational formation of pastors restore his collection. and clinicians. LAUREN WINNER is assistant BRAD THIE is the director of MARY MCCLINTOCK professor of Christian spirituality Thriving Rural Communities at FULKERSON is a professor of at Duke Divinity School and Duke Divinity School. He earned theology at Duke Divinity School the author of Still: Notes on his M.Div. from Duke Divinity and director of the certificate in a Mid-Faith Crisis, Girl Meets School in 1998 and also has gender, theology, and ministry. God, and Mudhouse Sabbath, an M.B.A. from Jacksonville She is the faculty sponsor of the among other books. She University (Fla.). He is ordained Women’s Center and of Sacred writes and lectures widely on in the Western North Carolina Worth, a student organization Christian practice, the history Conference of the United focusing on LGBT concerns. of Christianity in America, and Methodist Church, and he She teaches and publishes Jewish-Christian relations. She is served as pastor of Friendship widely in the fields of practical a priest associate at St. Luke’s UMC in Newton, N.C., and has theology, feminist theology, Episcopal Church in Durham, ministry experience as a chaplain contemporary Protestant N.C., and a member of the and spiritual counselor in theology, and ecclesiology. She board of Episcopal Preaching prisons, hospitals, and retire- is ordained in the Presbyterian Foundation. ment communities. Church (U.S.A.). 2 | DIVINITY THE DEAn’S PERSPECTIVE A Permeable Life BY RICHARD B. HAYS A PERMEABLE LIFE—that is the title of Carrie Newcomer’s befriending a variety of communities, including those who most recent album. Carrie, a wonderful singer-songwriter are often not heard or valued. These new friendships will who performed here in the Divinity School this past spring, in turn make us better and more imaginative readers of explains the name of the album in a poem with the same Scripture. It’s a circle of grace: study of the Word leads us title: “I want to leave enough room in my heart / For the to engage diverse strangers, and engaging diverse strangers unexpected … / For wonder that makes everything porous / leads us to become more imaginative and faithful readers of Allowing in and out / All available light.” the Word. Where this healthy and healing cycle is spinning, Woven throughout Scripture is the theme that God’s light we will find the renewal of the church. often filters through our lives when we encounter others It is remarkable how often the Bible discloses the unex- who may seem unlikely messengers: “Do not neglect to pected grace that comes when we listen to the voices of show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have enter- those who are not valued in the world. The verse in Hebrews tained angels unawares” (Hebrews 13:2, rsv). The word immediately after the admonition to welcome strangers “hospitality” in Greek is philoxenia, literally “befriending adds this instruction: “Remember those who are in prison, those who are foreigners.” Such acts of kind- as though you were in prison with them; ness may open us to blessings far beyond those who are being tortured, as though you anything we could anticipate. The author The Bible discloses yourselves were being tortured” (Hebrews of Hebrews may be recalling the story of the unexpected 13:3, nrsv). If we then turn the page to the Abraham’s reception of three strangers at Letter of James, we find a warning not to the oaks of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–15)— grace that comes show favoritism toward the rich over “a poor mysterious travelers who turn out to be when we listen to person in dirty clothes.” Why? “Has not God somehow the embodiment of the presence chosen the poor in the world to be rich in of God. And before the encounter ends, it is the voices of those faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he the host, Abraham, who receives a promise who are not valued has promised to those who love him?” (2:1– 13). Indeed, it is often the sufferers and the of blessing. in the world. That remarkable story in Genesis prefig- marginalized who teach us deep lessons about ures Jesus’ account of the unexpected words the wideness of God’s grace: the woman who spoken in the final judgment to those who weeps and washes Jesus’ feet (Luke 7:36–50), are to inherit the kingdom: “I was hungry and you gave me blind Bartimaeus who cries out to Jesus for mercy (Mark food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I 10:46–52), the “unclean” Gentiles who receive the Holy was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you Spirit (Acts 10–11), the despised Samaritan who embodies gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was the meaning of neighbor love (Luke 10:25–37).