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The Lord's Angels Leading WYCLIFFE COLLEGE • SUMMER 2013 Reflections from the Class of 2013 Graduates IN THIS ISSUE • Convocation 4 The Lord’s Angels Leading • R.A. Dickey’s Convocation Address 6 BY SIMON OKURUT, W2013 MTSD • Student Focus 8 THINK GOD SENT AN ARMY OF perfect choice as it • In Memoriam: ANGELS to lead me to Wycliffe College. would complement Archdeacon Robert P. Dann It started with one who dropped a leaflet what I had studied 11 Iat my door advertising the Chinese church that before and I • Alumni/ae News 18 uses the College on Sundays. When I followed wanted to acquire it up, I became a regular attendee, though the more skills for social justice and development. INSIGHT only black member. Later, a guest speaker from My faith journey is shaped by African tradition, The Wycliffe College Newsletter Tyndale University told us about graduate for Alumni/ae and Friends Catholicism, and Protestantism because in my study opportunities there; that single leaflet June 2013 No. 75 extended family relations there was at least one ISSN 1192-2761 led from one thing to another and I joined member that identified with one tradition or the Tyndale seminary. EDITORIAL BOARD the other. My family and I are Anglicans from a Karen Baker-Bigauskas Angela Mazza More angels in the persons of Bishop Patrick Yu, fairly long line. My grandparents were baptized Rob Henderson Thomas Power Dean Mercer, Annette Brownlee, Theodore Hunt, because of Mammy: she passed the Vernacular Barbara Jenkins Marion Taylor Bonnie Kung and the Wycliffe staff and faculty who gave a Bible reading test while others failed it, but all presentation at Tyndale Seminary, completed were baptized nevertheless because of her success. CONTRIBUTORS the route. The Wycliffe MTSD program was a Continued on page 2... John Bowen Rob Mitchell R.A. Dickey Simon Okurut Julie Golding-Page Paul Patterson Alicia Good Jeff Potter Eileen Harbottle Thomas Power Rob Henderson Reg Stackhouse Bonnie Kung George Sumner Peter Mason Marion Taylor Angela Mazza Matthew Thollander DESIGN wishart.net INSIGHT is published twice a year by the Development Office Contact: INSIGHT [email protected] Development Office, Wycliffe College 5 Hoskin Avenue Toronto, ON M5S 1H7 Simon on the left-hand side, Vice-Principal of St. Mary’s Girls’ Secondary School Madera Soroti www.wycliffecollege.ca (Uganda, 1998-2003) 1 ‘Lord's Angels Leading’ continued from page 1... In Uganda, I trained as a high school teacher and served as a and hymn, “He leadeth me! O blessed tho't! O words with heav'nly vice-principal for several years, and then as a project planner and comfort fraught! What-e'er I do, wher-e'er I be, Still 'tis God's hand manager of a community based project. My other studies include that leadeth me!” I thank the Lord for the tangible and intangible diplomacy, peacekeeping, financial planning and social work. gifts he has given me. I offer to go wherever he leads or sends me. So, all I can say is “Here I am, Lord, send me” (Isaiah 6:8). I love the Wycliffe community! I have yet to find another school seminary that has such friendly, committed and supportive staff Simon Okurut convocated this past May from Wycliffe College and holds a and faculty as Wycliffe. From financial support, counseling, Master of Theological Studies in Urban and International Development. church services to sharing lunch, one sees a neat and united community. The students, staff and faculty have all been helpful to me. The support staff is an amazing lot: smiling, cheerful, singing, laughing and cracking jokes as they go about their daily routine work. If you are bored, annoyed or worried over something, just go to the Day Students’ Lounge and you will be challenged by happy people who might inspire you to be positive. It is free therapeutic treatment! I leave Wycliffe fully aware that the Lord’s angels are ready to lead Simon, second from the left, leading Wildlife and Environmental Protection Education (Uganda, 1996) me somewhere again. I like Joseph Henry Gilmore’s (1862) prayer Principal’s Message Dear Friends, In this issue you will read powerful examples of these narratives in obedience to the Great Greetings in Christ! Narrative from our student body. Such stories One of the most popular recent ideas in of conversion and calling lie at the heart of many areas of intellectual life has been evangelical spirituality. Likewise our honorary that of ‘narrative.’ Philosophers have seen graduates offer narratives of service and that the telling of a story is how humans obedience which inspire. maintain an identity, both individually Recently, I visited an elderly grad who had and collectively. We at Wycliffe minister been a pastor for many years. In his 90s he near Emmanuel College, where the famous talked about how he is able to see more and literary critic and theorist, Northrop Frye, wrote about the more the providential hand of God in his own life, especially ‘Great Code,’ the grand narrative that is behind Western the parts that seemed more inexplicable at the time. We literature. And for him, the source of that Great Code was the tell our Christian stories forward, and yet we are given, in storyline which is the backbone of Holy Scripture. Behind this retrospect, intimations of God’s much greater narrative of trend in our culture is the salvation story, though this may drawing us, and His world, to Himself. often not be recognized. While the narrative of God’s Word is one, a great diversity Peace, of smaller narratives tell the tales of human beings being led back to God. These stories of ours mirror the great story, especially in its stages of creation, lostness, redemption, and The Rev. Canon Dr. George Sumner hope. At the heart of the conversion of peoples is this same Principal and Helliwell Professor of World Mission 2 pattern of coming to Christ who is the First and the Last. A Return to Wycliffe: Prof. Oliver O’Donovan Save the Date TST students recently attended a Wycliffe summer class with 50th Anniversary of the Toronto Christian ethicist, Oliver O’Donovan. Professor O’Donovan has taught at Edinburgh, Anglican Congress Oxford, and Wycliffe, and his publications, including Desire of the Nations and The September 18, 2013 Ways of Judgment, constructively engage biblical interpretation and contemporary Fifty years ago, the Toronto Anglican Congress marked ethical and political thought. In line with this integrative approach, the summer course the coming of age of Anglicanism as a global communion. The years that followed, including the recent period of turmoil, have on Ethics as Theology drew from Scripture, traditional voices such as Augustine, posed the challenge of working out of the meaning of "mutual Luther, and John Paul II, and O’Donovan’s forthcoming book Self, World, and Time. responsibility and interdependence in the Body of Christ." Countering mono-thematic ethics and value-neutral politics, O’Donovan argues for a This one day conference will gather global Anglican leaders to discerning growth of moral reasoning within the multi-polar dimensions of communal think through this theme in light of contemporary questions; life. Throughout O’Donovan’s continual dialogue between ethics, Scripture, and the covenant, the status of the instruments of unity, the role of provinces and dioceses, and the nature of reconciliation. doctrine, he suggests that moral reasoning is realized through the dynamic interplay Participants confirmed: between the Christ-centered virtues of faith, love, and hope. Principal George Sumner, Prof. Ephraim Radner Matthew Thollander The Most Rev. Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya ThD student, Wycliffe College The Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, Primate of Jerusalem and the Middle East The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, Archbishop of Burundi The Most Rev. Ian Ernest, Primate of the Indian Ocean The Rt. Rev. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Bishop of Kaduna, Nigeria Principal’s Dinner EARLY FALL September 19, 2013 Frontlines of Faith: Encountering Islam in the Majority World Christian Church Guest speakers: NEW FACULTY AT WYCLIFFE The Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, Primate of Jerusalem and the Middle East DR. DAVid KUPP APPointed ProFessor OF Pastoral The Rt. Rev. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Bishop of Kaduna, Nigeria TheologY in Urban and International DEVeloPMent Prof. Kupp has joined Wycliffe faculty half-time to teach We hope you can join us at this very special evening. and develop the Masters of Theological Studies in Urban & International Development (MTSD) program. David has an M.A. Preaching Day from Fuller Seminary and a Ph.D. from Durham University, UK. October 16, 2013 He brings many years of international development experience, “Life in a Figure” with the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner including more than two decades at World Vision in virtually every Hebrews 11:19: Preaching the figural meaning of Scripture, sphere of their programming and strategy, including extensive work with special reference to Matthew’s Gospel. in east Africa. He also consults with a range of NGOs and church agencies in Canada and abroad. We welcome David as the MTSD Morning Star Seminar continues to grow at Wycliffe. October 21-23, 2013 The REV. DR. JudY Paulsen APPointed ProFessor OF Calvin’s Commentary of St. John’s Gospel with Prof. Peter Robinson EVangelisM Prof. Paulsen has been appointed as Professor of Evangelism Saint John, NB effective June 1st, 2013. Judy grew up as a child of missionaries in India. Before ordination, she worked as a speech and language “Student for a Day” pathologist in northern Ontario. A Wycliffe M.Div. graduate, Judy November 6, 2013 holds a D.Min. in Missional Leadership from Fuller Seminary. Judy Attend lectures, meet students and faculty and worship has served with distinction in the Diocese of Toronto, at Trinity, together.
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