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DUKEDDIVINITYIVINITY UNIVERSITY A Road Less Traveled Leading the Least the Last & the Lost Richard Hays’ Moral Vision East Meets West Wesleyan Balance Japanese Style New Direction in Ministry The Movement to Improve Clergy Health F ALL 2002 Duke University Archives Archives University Duke Dean Elbert Russell at work in his office. From the Archives Elbert Russell was a New Testament scholar recruited from Swarthmore by Dean Emund D. Soper to teach biblical interpretation at Duke’s new School of Religion. Russell arrived in the spring of 1926, just months before the first class of 18 students began classes that September. A Quaker and steadfast pacifist, Russell followed Soper as dean and served from 1928 until 1940. Russell was the first of several faculty who taught a graduate-level class for ministers at N.C. College for Negroes (now N.C. Central University). In 1929, Russell had advocated adding a Jewish faculty member: The Divinity School hired Rabbi Judah Goldin during World War II. — Robert F. Durden’s The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949 CONTENTS F ALL 2002 • VOLUME T WO • NUMBER O NE 4 Features Which Way To Clergy Health 4 A Road Less Traveled: 10 Frank Dew’s New Creation Interpreting A Scholar 14 4 Richard Hays’ Moral Vision Back to the Future: Inside the Duke Youth Academy 17 Ichiro Yamauchi D’65 20 23 Departments Letters 2 20 News Makers 3 Bookmark With God in the Crucible: Preaching Costly Discipleship 23 Shelf Life 24 Faculty & Staff Notes 26 Gifts 29 Deaths 30 23 Class Notes 31 Comings & Goings 33 Calendar, 2002-2003 34 EDITOR Elisabeth Stagg Ministry At Large 35 Associate Director of Communications End Quotes 37 CONSULTING EDITORS Wesley F. Brown D’76 Associate Dean of External Relations David W. Reid Cover Photo: Francesco Bittichesu Director of Communications CONTRIBUTORS Julie Anderson D’98 Director of the Annual Fund NATIONAL COUNCIL DIVINITY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DUKE UNIVERSITY 2001-2002 Reed Criswell D’87 Dave Kirkland D’90 Falls Church, Va. President Publications Coordinator Frank Stith T’63, D’66 Greensboro, N.C. President-Elect Sally Potts Lewis Eric Porterfield D’94, D’96 Sanford, N.C. Secretary Kevin Armstrong D’85 Indianapolis, Ind. Director of Development Wes Brown D’76 Durham, N.C. Bob Wells Sheila Cumbest D’90 Jackson, Miss. Associate Director of Communications Ralph Eanes D’65 Greensboro, N.C. Regina Henderson D’97 Chapel Hill, N.C. PUBLISHER Bob Howell D’82 Summerville, S.C. L. Gregory Jones D’85, G’88 M. J. Kim D’65 Alexandria, Va. Dean & Professor of Theology Angela Pleasants D’99 Wingate, N.C. Bill Lamar D’99 Orlando, Fla. Copyright © 2002 Duke Divinity School. All rights reserved. David McEntire D’81 West Palm Beach, Fla. Leslie M. Marsicano T’78, D’81 Charlotte, N.C. Production: Duke University Publications Group Joe Mitchell D’53, G’62 Durham, N.C. Design: Paul Figuerado Scott Rimer D’93 Portsmouth, Va. Ashley C. Stanley T’77, D’80 Fletcher, N.C. Javier Viera D’96 Mamaroneck, N.Y. Divinity magazine is published three times yearly–May, September and January–for alumni and friends of Duke Divinity School. LETTERS Thanks to all of you who responded to our invitation Colleagues at Duke may like to know that after nine for feedback about the new Divinity magazine. Here’s a years here in Oxford as director of the Wesley and sampling of some of the written comments, which came Methodist Studies Centre, I am moving on to Salisbury from faculty, alumni and friends. in October to be the principal of Sarum College, an Faculty: “I like the look, and the contents, very much.” ecumenical theological college in the Cathedral Close. • “It is much more reader-friendly and capable of a wider Any who are passing by in England are welcome to distribution than its predecessor. It also has some fun in it. come and visit us. I loved your ‘future ministry’ page.” • “The articles were Tim Macquiban, Director of Wesley well done ... and the pieces on Duke Divinity and the & Methodist Studies Westminster Institute military were quite timely.” of Education, Harcourt Hill, Oxford OX2 9AT Alumni: “I got the new edition of Divinity and I think it is topnotch. The design work is outstanding, and the contents were informative.” • “Congratulations on the Love at First Sight first issue of Divinity. It looks great.” • “It’s a superb Love the magazine, Divinity! publication and fun to read.” • “We received the new Will there be a Golden Anniversary celebration for my Divinity magazine and really like it. One suggestion: class? I liked having the postcard inside each issue of N & N where you could send in address change and life-change G. Howard Allred D’52 info. Could that also be included in the new magazine?” High Point, N.C. Yes: It reappears in this issue and will continue. Yes, your class celebrates its 50th anniversary during Friends: “Cannot wait to see the next issue of the Convocation & Pastors’ School, Oct. 14-16, at Duke. Divinity magazine. You have set a very high standard.” More on Divinity • “The new Divinity magazine just came today. It is very good and I want you to know I sat right down and read The latest issue of Divinity magazine is great. The it ‘cover to cover’ before stopping.” • “Divinity has an layout, the photographs, the quality of the writing – excellent layout and content. It certainly gives me insight everything was first rate. I particularly liked the article to the Divinity School.” on Moody Smith, “Anatomy of a Scholar.” It had great subtle humor and captured the life of a gentle person Remembering Moody Smith and careful scholar whom we all love. David Reid’s article on “Soldiers” was done with bal- I was especially pleased to read the article on Dr. ance and sensitivity. He certainly let us know that Stanley Moody Smith’s retirement. What a great contribution he (Hauerwas’s) voice on the issues of the military is not the has made over the years to Johannine studies! I remember only one heard in the halls of the Divinity School. many conversations with him in my years as a graduate student and instructor in the Department of Religion. Finally, I appreciated the article about Warren Kinghorn, the Harvard medical student who studied at I look forward to the succeeding issues of the new Duke. All great folk. Duke should be proud to have had publication. Warren for a while. All in all, it was a fine issue. J. Raymond Lord, Th.M.’64, Ph.D.’68 Owensboro, Ky. T. Furman Hewitt Easley, S.C. Duke’s Contribution I was very pleased to receive the copy of Divinity Send letters to the editor via e-mail: [email protected], which I enjoyed reading. I was only sorry that my or mail them to: own contribution to Dick’s book on The Poor and the Elisabeth Stagg, Editor, Duke Divinity, Box 90970, People called Methodists was not acknowledged – not Durham, N.C. 27708-0970. for my own personal reasons but for the fact that much Please include your complete return address and, if of the work for that chapter and my forthcoming e-mailing, a phone number where you can be reached Abingdon book was started when I taught at Duke during business hours. in the Fall of 1994!! 2 Letters NEWS MAKERS A Class Act hospital chaplain, and associate minister at a 1,700- member urban congregation. The entering class this fall is big (187 students), London succeeds Dr. Keith G. Meador, who helped bright (median GPA of 3.51), young (median age is 25; launch the institute in January 2000 to enhance the under- 63 students are 22 or younger), and diverse (nearly 30 standing of care at the end of life through a university- denominations from 35 states). Gender breakdown is wide, interdisciplinary examination of care for the suffer- 45 percent female and 55 percent male, with notable ing and dying. Based at Duke Divinity School, it is sup- increases in Episcopalian, Presbyterian and non- ported by the Foundation for End-of-Life Care, VITAS denominational students. and other benefactors. According to Director of Admissions Donna Claycomb, both inquiries and applications for the fall Woodward Wins Ness Award class increased (27 percent and 14 percent respectively). Frank Woodward, M.Div.’03, continued a long-standing Faithful Caring tradition by winning the John H. Ness Award, given by the General Commission on Archives and History for the best Dr. Keith G. Meador, professor of the practice seminary paper(s) on Methodist History broadly conceived. of pastoral theology and medicine, will direct Caring Woodward won first prize of $200 for his paper, Communities: Health Ministries and the Practice of “Francis Asbury and James O’Kelly: The Language and Faithful Caring, a new program that will provide interdis- Development of American Methodist Episcopal Structure.” ciplinary training in health ministry. He wrote the paper as part of his requirements for Caring Communities will train health care providers, Richard Heitzenrater’s course in Early Methodism. Duke clergy, lay leaders, policy makers and community leaders Divinity students have won first, or first and second, or a through the Divinity School’s Theology and Medicine tie for first (as last year), every time they have submitted Program, which Meador also directs. papers to the contest. “Health ministry should be more than a service provided by a church,” he said. “With proper theological Divinity’s New Web Site grounding, health ministries embody the practices of The Divinity School’s new Web site was nearing its caring that have defined the life of the church as a debut as Divinity magazine went to press.