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Fall 2018 (Pdf) FALL 2018 DUKE VOL. 18 • NO. 1 DIVINITY / A VISION FOR VITALITY / KNOWING YOUR LIMITS / RE-IGNITING MINISTRY LEADERS / Justice and transformation Crossing ethnic and denominational boundaries. Challenging poverty and inequity. Creating vibrant communities. Gifts to Duke Divinity School support the people, places, and programs that enable us to follow Christ’s calling to serve others with wisdom and faithfulness. Made possible by you. Edgardo Colón-Emeric M.Div’97, Ph.D.’07 is the Irene and William McCutchen Associate Professor of Christian Theology. Here, he teaches lessons of healing and harmony to Duke Divinity students and graduate students visiting from Central America. Whether you leave a legacy with a planned gift or make an immediate impact with an Annual Fund donation, every dollar makes a difference. Together, we are generating the means for the next generation of Duke Divinity School students and faculty to inspire thriving communities, lead transformational institutions, and serve the church and the world. gifts.duke.edu/divinity | 919-660-3456 Divinity Version_Edgardo_F.indd 1 9/19/18 9:10 AM CONTRIBUTORS DUKE DIVINITY / CONTRIBUTORS / YONAT SHIMRON is a national BRIDGETTE A. LACY is an award- reporter and editor at winning journalist who Religion News Service. writes about faith, food, She was the religion and family. She was a reporter for The News staff writer for The News & Observer (Raleigh, & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) for more than a decade, and her N.C.) for 16 years, and her work has work has appeared in many publications, appeared in Newsweek, The Washington including The Washington Post, USA Post, and Faith & Leadership. She also Today, The Christian Century, and Faith published Sunday Dinner, a Savor the & Leadership. She lives in Durham, N.C. South cookbook from UNC Press. MILTON GILDER is the director PHILIP PORTER is a doctoral of the Duke Youth student in theology at Academy. He earned Duke Divinity School, a bachelor’s degree having previously in public policy and completed an M.T.S. international studies at Loyola University and completed studies in secondary Maryland. His primary research areas education at Duke University. He are philosophical theology, contemporary previously served at Urban Hope, a Catholic thought, Latin patristics, and neighborhood-based youth ministry in the theology of death and martyrdom. Durham, N.C., where he re-launched a Before beginning his theological studies, high school youth leadership program. he served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps for six years. / PUBLISHER / Office of the Dean L. GREGORY JONES, Dean and Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Distinguished Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry / EDITOR / HEATHER MOFFITT, Associate Director of Communications Produced by the OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS, DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL AUDREY WARD, Associate Dean for Communications Proofreading by DEREK KEEFE Design by B DESIGN STUDIO, LLC, www.bdesign-studio.com DIVINITY magazine publishes a Fall and Spring issue each year. The magazine represents the engagement of Duke Divinity School with important topics and invites friends, supporters, alumni, and others in our community to participate in the story of what is happening here. WE’D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU! For comments or feedback on DIVINITY magazine, please write: Editor, DIVINITY magazine, Duke Divinity School, Box 90970, Durham, NC 27708-0970. Or email: [email protected]. Please include a daytime phone number and an email address. Letters to the editor may be edited for clarity or length. Copyright © 2018 Duke Divinity School. All rights reserved. FALL 2018 | 1 FALL 2018 / CONTENTS/ VOL. 18 • NO. 1 6 14 20 A VISION FOR BE EVER KNOWING VITALITY THANKFUL YOUR LIMITS In his return to service Each summer, Duke Youth A doctoral student who as dean, Greg Jones Academy welcomes dozens serves as a tutor in the discusses the context of of high school students for Center for Theological and opportunities for an immersive experience in Writing shares thoughts on theological education exploring Christian identity writing as a Christian By Yonat Shimron and theology By Philip Porter LEFT: PHOTO BY CHRIS HILDRETH PHOTOGRAPHY; RIGHT: LES TODD PHOTOGRAPHY By Milton Gilder ABOVE: PHOTO BY MEGAN HOFFMAN; BELOW: COURTESY OF MYERS PARK UMC 2 | DIVINITY 36 FALL 2018 VOL. 18 • NO. 1 NEWS & EVENTS 39 FACULTY & STAFF NOTES 26 30 42 THE M.DIV. IN THE RE-IGNITING FACULTY BOOKS 21ST CENTURY MINISTRY LEADERS Duke Divinity examines Experienced ministry the landscape of theological leaders sharpen their education to see what skills and enhance their 44 is changing for the M.Div.— leadership through Duke’s CLASS NOTES and what remains the same D.Min. program By Yonat Shimron By Bridgette A. Lacy ABOVE: PHOTO BY MEGAN HOFFMAN; BELOW: COURTESY OF MYERS PARK UMC 45 SNAPSHOT ON THE COVER: A sunrise over Duke Chapel and the Gray Building of the Divinity School on Duke University’s West Campus. Photo by Bill Snead, Duke University Photography FALL 2018 | 3 Study Leave for Ministry Professionals Find the time to read, reflect, research, or just relax with Study Leave for Ministry PROGRAM DATES REGISTRATION DEADLINE Jan. 28–Feb. 1, 2019 Dec. 17, 2018 Professionals. Over the span of five to Feb. 11–15, 2019 Dec. 28, 2018 seven days, participants can immerse Feb. 25–March 1, 2019 Jan. 14, 2019 themselves in learning and renewal through March 18–22, 2019 Feb. 4, 2019 April 8–12, 2019 Feb. 25, 2019 self-directed study, worship, and prayer PHOTO BY LES TODD PHOTOGRAPHY on the Duke University campus. For more information, visit http://divinity.duke.edu/events/study-leave-ministry-professionals. 4 | DIVINITY / PEOPLE/ A community of faithful scholarship and passion for the reign of God PROGRAM DATES REGISTRATION DEADLINE Jan. 28–Feb. 1, 2019 Dec. 17, 2018 Feb. 11–15, 2019 Dec. 28, 2018 Feb. 25–March 1, 2019 Jan. 14, 2019 March 18–22, 2019 Feb. 4, 2019 April 8–12, 2019 Feb. 25, 2019 PHOTO BY LES TODD PHOTOGRAPHY FALL 2018 | 5 A VISION for VITALITY A conversation with Dean Greg Jones about the future of theological education BY YONAT SHIMRON L. GREGORY JONES is no stranger to Duke or Duke Divinity School. His connections to the school stretch back PHOTO BY CHRIS HILDRETH PHOTOGRAPHY more than 35 years; his father, Jameson Jones, was dean of Duke Divinity for a year until a heart attack took his life in the summer of 1982. The following semester, Greg, as he is commonly known, enrolled as a student, graduating with a master of divinity degree and later earning a Ph.D. from Duke’s graduate program in religion. 6 | DIVINITY FALL 2018 | 7 Dean Greg Jones, Chaplain Meghan Benson, and Vice Dean Sujin Pak participate in the blessing for new faculty member Professor Patrick Smith during Opening Convocation in August 2018. ith the exception time. If he’s got a gap between flights, Jones to discuss his vision and plans of a few years he he’s reading.” for the future direction of the school. spent teaching at Under Jones’ previous tenure as The interview was edited for length Loyola University dean, the school built the 53,000- and clarity. Maryland and a square-foot Hugh A. Westbrook year as provost at Building, including Goodson Chapel, DIVINITY: You wrote to students that WBaylor University in Waco, Texas, Greg for which he secured $24 million the request to step into the role of Jones’ entire career has been in service before construction began. dean came as a complete surprise. to Duke, including the 13 years he spent Jones also founded Leadership Was it a pleasant surprise? as dean of the Divinity School from Education at Duke Divinity, a non- 1997 to 2010. degree initiative funded by the Lilly JONES: Initially it was a bewildering Still, when Duke Provost Sally Endowment Inc., to shed light on chal- surprise. Now it feels like a very happy Kornbluth tapped him to once lenges, trends, and strategies pertaining and hopeful surprise. I hadn’t had any again steer the Divinity School for a to churches and church-related forewarning or anticipation. It was just transition period after the deanship of institutions. The initiative is part of one of those “Oh!” kind of surprises. Elaine Heath, he was stunned. his academic interest in leadership, But it quickly began to seem to be a “If you are surprised to be reading innovation, and entrepreneurship. calling and invitation to serve a school this message from me as your dean, rest Jones stepped down as dean in I love and to bring a lot of things I’ve assured you are no more surprised than 2010 to direct the university’s global been learning over the past eight years I am to be writing it,” he wrote in an engagement as Duke’s chief interna- to bear on the faculty, staff, students, email to the Duke Divinity community. tional strategist. For the past few years, alumni, and everybody I care deeply he’s been teaching and overseeing the about. So yes, it’s now quite happy PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Leadership Education initiative. and hopeful. FUTURE DIRECTION Duke Divinity School has changed Jones is known as a deep thinker, much since he left. Many of the school’s How long do you anticipate you’ll be strategist, collaborator, fundraiser, and headliners—professors such as Stanley in the role? compulsive workhorse. Hauerwas, Richard Hays, and Grant Probably two or three years. I told the “He is one of the most fecund Wacker—have retired. And fewer provost I wanted to be in the role long PHOTO BY LES TODD PHOTOGRAPHY intellects I know,” said J. Warren students are applying for the flagship enough to be sure we had a healthy Smith, associate professor of historical master of divinity degree, mirroring a trajectory going forward, but not any theology at Duke Divinity.
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