Pittsburgh Theological PANORAMASeminary Vol. XLVI No. 3 Spring 2007

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A Seminary of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ■ Founded 1794

All in the Family Lenten Journey to Russia College Chaplains’ Association Peace and Justice Fellowship PANORAMA CONTENTS All in the Family 3 is published in the spring, late summer, and winter seasons by Pittsburgh Theological Lilly Award to Dr. Creach 6 Seminary. It is intended to address timely issues related to the Seminary and to inform alumnae/i and other friends of the activities and programs of the school. It also commu- Peace and Justice Group 7 nicates information about alumnae/i news and recent location changes. Cunningham New Vice President 8 Zeitah Excavations 9 Editor: Lisa Dormire ’86 Meetings with Supreme Court Justices 11 Assistant Editor: Melissa Logan A Dinosaur for Mr. Rogers 12 Designer: Kathy Boykowycz Lecturer Links Evolution and Religion 15 Lenten Journey to Russia 16 Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Offi ce of Seminary Relations Chaplains’ Association Meets at PTS 20 616 North Highland Avenue Pittsburgh Faculty-Staff News 22 Pittsburgh, PA 15206-2596 Theological Alumnae/i News 23 412-362-5610 fax 412-363-3260 Seminary Driving Lessons 26 www.pts.edu

Mourning, Past all tears now, But today, Mary sits very still In these dark woods Holy Like a rabbit Where preying wolves howl, Saturday Frozen Hope lies, In underbrush of cover, Like a faraway angelic dream Waiting for time, like danger, to pass Of Messianic ideals, Teresa L. Stricklen Over and around and through her Among shattered limbs In the hope Cut down by high and mighty winds, Th at by marking its fl ow, So that, frozen in time’s unnatural stream She can bathe in its mourning Babbling the obdurate eternity of love, Until all will somehow be safe Mary sits still, And cleansed into deliberate motion again. Very, very still.

Perhaps then, Refreshed and renewed Th rough grief’s undying vigil, Th e promise that was hers Will rise reborn someday, And she will revel once more In Love’s eternal entangled forest Th at holds both her and time secure.

The Rev. Dr. Teresa Lockhart Stricklen is assistant professor of homiletics and teaches courses in homiletics and liturgics. Her research interests are in the areas of homiletic theology, revelation, hermeneutics, phenomenology, ritual-symbolic thought and action, and arts and culture. She has had several sermons published, including some in the Abingdon Women’s Preaching Annual. She has also recently contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book by Chalice Press on the future of preaching and is currently revising her dissertation, “Preaching and Theology in Light of Theological Education: The Early History of a Troubled Marriage or What Went Wrong How” for publication.

2 Th e Hebrew term Nahalah describes the core While he considered still trying to do his family unit, which was essential to ancient own thing, he knew that he’d be miserable if All in the Israel’s understanding of herself. But as the he did. “I’m not stupid,” he said. “I know how understanding of YHWH got further and things turn out. I’m not going to pull a Jonah.” Family further enmeshed in western ideals, a new At the same time that Sean was starting form of relationship with God was founded, college, Tom was nearing the end of his this one upon more individual experiences. career. An Air Force offi cer for 30 years, Tom Jeff Schooley Currently, the family unit—while still glorifi ed, earned the rank of colonel before retiring in Junior, M.Div. Student especially socio-politically in America—no 2004. As he considered what to do with his longer carries the same sort of religious future, Tom grew more involved in church; meaning and necessity as with our Israel this was the beginning of his own stirrings. ancestors. Yet, there are still some examples of “Th e more I got involved, the more I felt that Nahalah fl oating about, especially in the called to ministry,” Tom said. halls of Pittsburgh Th eological Seminary. In March 2005, Sean met with Director of the Summer Youth Institute and Admissions Tom and Sean Hall Associate the Rev. Ellie Johns ’00 during her visit to his college. She arranged for him to Sons following in their fathers’ footsteps are explore the PTS campus, and Sean convinced nothing new. But, when a father and son walk his father to come along. For Sean, who was in step into the same experience, though fi nishing his junior year, PTS was the objec- separated by many years, something special is tive. Tom, however, was still weighing other afoot. Th is is the case for Tom Hall, middler, options, including a post as the commandant and Sean Hall, junior, a father-son combina- of the Citadel, an extremely prestigious posi- tion who are both currently attending PTS. tion. Th e trip, however, did prove fruitful During Sean’s sophomore year at Presbyte- for Tom, as he began to feel further inclined rian College, he began to feel that the path toward Pittsburgh rather than other schools. he was on—to be a lawyer— was not what he With a new-found interest in Pittsburgh, Tom was meant to do. “One day I felt cut off from made plans to visit the Seminary again in July, God. In worship and in prayer, there was just this time with his wife Jana. It was during this no connection with the Spirit,” he said. “I trip that Tom was told that he did not get the spent more time praying and couldn’t focus commandant job. With that door closed and on anything.” a recent acceptance to PTS, the decision was He was beginning to understand a comment made. made by a former professor, a self-professed Tom entered PTS in fall 2005, while Sean was Christian Wiccan, whom Sean had discred- still a senior at Presbyterian College, but the ited when she told him he was to be a pastor. real fun would begin the following summer, “She was my social dance instructor and the bound when both signed up for Greek, an eight- only real assignment we had was to write week immersion in the language. “We had a by an essay on what we wanted to do with our good time,” Sean said. lives,” Sean explained. “When I turned mine family in, she said, ‘Oh, I know what you’re going to do, you’re going to be a pastor.’” Th inking she must have waltzed her way into a wall by accident, Sean didn’t give her words a second thought. But, then the uncom- fortable distraction and disconnect set in and forced him to focus more than in the previous years. “Out of the clear blue I heard Sean and Tom Hall God say, ‘I’m calling you to ministry.’” 3 “Yeah,” Tom responded. “Except he’d always left behind a good salary and took a leap of bound want to take a break on the car ride home. I’d faith because “I just knew I had to quit,” she by want to keep studying.” said. “It was just a matter of Him having to convince me to do something else.” family “I’d always sensed Dad worked too hard and was a bit of a perfectionist, but now I know,” In March 2006, she came to PTS for a Sean retorted. “In class, he’d tell me ‘quit fi dg- continuing education class and to see Eliza- eting,’ ‘sit up straight.’” beth. Th e experience moved her to more seriously consider seminary and, since “It’s a real advantage to have someone else in leaving her job, she had the time to commit the house going through the transforming to education. Still, she waffl ed, until just a experience,” Tom said. “It’s helpful for me few weeks before the beginning of the 06–07 to be able to run ideas by someone else. I school year. She got her paperwork in three can’t always do that with my wife—you can’t days before orientation and became the do that with people who haven’t had that eldest and newest Glaser to join PTS. experience.” Benjamin, who had started his seminary education during Term III of the 05–06 Th e Glaser Family school year, has a much diff erent path to seminary, including a four-year stint in the If two can be fun, then three is an outright United States Marine Corps. His time in the party. military was not fraught with holiness, but Joanne Glaser and her two children, did prove formative in his call to ministry. Benjamin Glaser and Elizabeth Troyer, are “While I was in Japan, I didn’t go to church,” students at PTS. Add to this crew Benjamin’s he said, “but I did spend a lot of time bored eight-month-old daughter, Lily—who spends and reading.” time in the Seminary’s day care while dad, aunt, and grandma take classes—and at any What he read was a return to theological given moment during the school day, up to material that had deeply interested him as four Glasers and three generations can be an adolescent. He says he was soon spending found on campus. $100 per week on new books and gobbling them up. But he still needed a bachelor’s Benjamin claims to have been the fi rst to degree before seminary was even an option. consider ministry, though he did start two Having been a good soccer player in high terms behind his sister, Elizabeth, but the real school and being in the best shape of his origins probably lie in a family unit that has life from the Marines, Benjamin found the been steeped in church. prospect of a soccer scholarship at Shawnee Since 1993, Joanne has been in one leader- State University more appealing than a few of ship role or another within a church. She the Christian undergraduate schools he had started as a director of Christian educa- considered. tion and soon became a supply pastor. At During this time Benjamin’s hunger for that one point, she was a supply pastor to three theological study waned, though he did churches and the whole family would go recommit to church attendance. Th ough he from church to church all day Sunday. As was still considering ministry, he enrolled in Joanne put it, “It’s always been a family aff air. Shawnee’s education program with the idea Th ey [the kids] grew up in the church; there that he would be a history teacher and soccer was no choice about going.” coach. Th is plan “looked like more fun.” Her call to full-time ministry, however, came Yet, this man who wanted to teach and coach much more recently, aft er she left her posi- was once the teenager who a youth director tion as head of a medical department for told, “You actually care about this stuff a junior college in Clarksburg, W.Va. She

4 [theological education], maybe you should Benjamin, Lily, and do this professionally,” and he was not about Joanne Glaser, Elizabeth Troyer to escape his past so easily. Th e turn back to ministry, one last time, came at Shawnee State. “I took one education class and realized I was really going to seminary,” he said. And off he went, just a few months aft er his sister. Elizabeth Troyer came to PTS aft er fi nishing her degree at Davis and Elkins College. She Whether the Nahalah has any meaning for today’s culture had always had an interest in worship and (or whether it should), there is certainly something unique ministry and had played piano at many of the churches where her mom preached. Aft er and good about attending seminary, especially when one graduation, she didn’t know exactly what she gets to keep it all in the family. should do, and applied to various graduate programs ranging from theater to theology. When the Rev. David Joachim ’77 was attending PTS, there were 29 women enrolled, She placed the matter in the hands of provi- not all necessarily seeking master’s of divinity. Th e time was ripe culturally and at the dence and merely committed to go to the Seminary for women’s integration; it was a “hot issue.” fi rst school that responded to her. Th anks to Today women make up 40 percent of the student population. One of those women is PTS’s quick turnaround on all things admin- Joachim’s daughter, Lexi Joachim, a junior dual-major. If going to school with family istrative, Elizabeth became the fi rst Glaser can be reassuring and edifying, being a legacy has many of the same benefi ts. to attend seminary or, as she puts it, “the youngest in age and the oldest in school.” “It’s been reassuring having someone in my family who has gone through the same studies I’m going through,” Joachim said. “My dad can relate and understand the Like the Halls, the Glasers have found importance of my triumphs.” pursuing their education as a family unit to While Rev. Joachim is happy to be there for his daughter, he says he never had any set have benefi ts and losses. Maybe the most ambitions for any of his four kids. “I think the ministry is really hard,” he said. “I’ve unique benefi t is for Joanne, who stays with been doing it for 30 years and I’ve never really encouraged my kids for ministry— Benjamin and his family weekdays. On the I haven’t actively dissuaded them—but it’s a really tough life.” weekends she travels home to Clarksburg, Lexi wasn’t necessarily seeking a career in professional ministry either. “I didn’t where her husband and her position as a consider seminary for a long time; I was thinking about grad school in counseling,” commissioned lay pastor to two churches she said. But at the New Wilmington Mission Conference (an event that Rev. Joachim awaits. said can’t be “understated” for its impact on his whole family’s life), she met the Rev. Dr. Don Dawson, director of the World Mission Initiative, and began to consider seminary.

Beyond the domestic benefi ts, there are Rev. Joachim wasn’t surprised. He had watched her for two years co-lead the youth educational ones as well. “Going to school group at their church. “I knew that seminary was the place where she would fi t,” he said. with my family gives me someone to talk to “I knew what she was going into and I knew it was going to be great for her.” in a more candid manner,” Elizabeth said. Lexi also recalls her time as youth director as infl uential in her coming to PTS. “Being “Because they know me, there’s less chance of the youth leader taught me that it was an uphill battle for women in ministry as my a misunderstanding.” authority was challenged [because of my gender],” she said. “I can see that happening in a parish.” “I really do my homework and study,” Benjamin said. “Th ere’s an added push when But, the realities of the “hot issue” from Rev. Joachim’s days at seminary don’t concern your mom’s in seminary. I don’t want to look him when it pertains to his daughter. “I know that there are special challenges for women in ministry and that women don’t always get credit for their strengths and abili- like a fool in front of my momma.” ties, but I think she’s got the right stuff to do what any male pastor can do,” he said. “It’s Ultimately the biggest disadvantage might not really a gender issue, it’s a talent issue—and she has the talent.” belong to Joanne, who isn’t complaining about her nomadic life for 33 weeks a year, but about something more personal. “Th e only disadvantage is,” she said, “I have to keep Lexi and the Rev. David Joachim myself from being a mother in front of other people.” 5 Dr. Creach Th e Rev. Dr. Jerome Creach, Robert C. Before joining the PTS faculty in 2000, Holland professor of Old Testament, has Creach taught at Barton College (1994– Awarded Lilly been awarded one of ten $12,000 Lilly Th eo- 2000), the College of William & Mary Scholar Grant logical Scholars Grants. Creach will use this (1993–94), Randolph-Macon College award for research and writing. (1993), and the Baptist Th eological Semi- nary at Richmond (1992–93). He earned his If the Christian faith is to be relevant, pastoral doctorate at Union Th eological Seminary leaders particularly must wrestle with ques- in Virginia (now Union-PSCE) where he tions about the nature of God and the shape studied with James Luther Mays. Prior to of Christian life in light of the violence that that, he earned his M.Div. and Th .M. (in is part of our world and of the scripture. systematic theology) at the Southern Baptist Creach’s work will off er the position that the Th eological Seminary. Bible—both Testaments—contains a portrait of a God who is opposed to violence and who Creach’s other published works include wills nonviolence for the creation. Joshua: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (WJK 2003), Th e resulting manuscript will be published Psalms: Interpretation Bible Studies (Geneva by Westminster John Knox Press in a new 1999), and Yahweh as Refuge and the Editing series, Interpretation: Resources for the Use of of the Hebrew Psalter (Sheffi eld Academic Scripture in the Church. Press 1996) along with numerous articles and reviews in journals for biblical studies. A minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Creach has served congregations in Virginia and North Carolina and preaches and teaches regularly in churches in the Pittsburgh area. Th e Lilly Th eological Research Grants Be inspired program, inaugurated in 1996 and revised in 2001, is designed to enhance the skill and capacity of faculty in the Associa- Summer Discovery tion of Th eological Schools as theological An event for prospective students to visit researchers and scholars. It supports research Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, meet eff orts of faculty, particularly at junior and with faculty, students, and admissions staff, non-tenured levels; seeks to enlarge the pool and participate in the Seminary’s Summer of faculty actively engaged as theological Leadership Conference. Join Diana Butler researchers; works to increase knowledge about grant seeking and the craft of theo- Bass and William J. Carl III to learn logical research; and nurtures the habit of more about transforming faith. research as an ongoing aspect of scholarly life. Tuesday, June 12 from 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

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6 Social justice can be a very bewildering “I really appreciate the times when we get peace and issue within most Christian circles. Th ere together, watch a movie, and discuss social is, of course, no denying that Jesus’ message issues and theological issues and how they justice: is radical and controversial. Th ere can also communicate with each other,” Hanson said. be no denying that some of the Old Testa- Th ese movies and weekly lunches, which on campus ment prophets just make us feel a little weird, Hanson calls “sacramental in nature,” have and in the particularly when we spend so much time inspired her to begin to take classes about planning a wonderful worship service, just to social issues and ethical Christian witness in world read, “I hate, I despise your religious feasts” those issues. (Amos 5:21). Yet, at PTS there are currently Peace and Justice has proven some students who are working to bridge to be theologically enriching that gap and to integrate faith and justice. for those who participate. Th ese students are part of Peace and Justice “We talk about our identity Fellowship. in Christ and then ask how Around for many years now, Peace and that impacts our views on Justice Fellowship “works toward realizing peace and justice,” explained God’s love in local, national, and global Hanson. contexts through proclamation, educations, But, what is really important and social action. [Th ey] strive for a world of is the work in the commu- uncompromising nonviolence, social egali- nity that Peace and Justice tarianism, radical inclusivity, and economic does. Th rough their eff orts, justice,” according to their mission statement. hundreds of dollars have Current President of Peace and Justice been raised for local chari- April Leese, a senior M.Div. student, sees ties and students have found the organization as doing “multiple things, viable ways to connect with some more educational and others more the needs of the area surrounding the PTS PTS students participated in the End hands-on.” campus. More so, there is the opportunity to the War march last year, organized by the Thomas Merton Center for bring about a restorative vision, even while Included in those “hands-on” activities are Peace and Justice, in Pittsburgh. still in the process of formally learning how to The march began at East Liberty the Mistletoe Mambo, a Christmastime do that. Th e students who opt to participate Presbyterian Church and ended in dance that benefi ts a diff erent charity each in Peace and Justice activities aren’t afraid Oakland. Pictured are April Leese, year, on-campus awareness events, and Chris Davis, and Don Polito. to get their hands dirty through community occasional trips to Washington D.C. to take involvement. Jeff Schooley their plea for justice to those who can imple- Junior, M.Div. Student ment the quickest and broadest-reaching Of course, the hours are few and the pages transformations. to be read, papers to be written, and work to be done is much, but involvement for these In terms of their educational impact, they students is still worth it. maintain a fairly exhaustive list of local places to volunteer for PTS students who are “Being involved makes me realize how bound seeking an area of service. Th e group also important it is to keep going,” Leese said, has a successful Pizza and Movie night every “even if it’s not always easy.” by month where they view fi lms that deal with issues of justice (past fi lms have included action Hotel Rwanda, Crash, and Romero). It was through these Pizza and Movie nights that Carrie Hanson, middler M.Div. student, became more involved in Peace and Justice.

7 Seminary Patrick J. Cunningham, CPA, began as vice there, Cunningham was a performance president for fi nance and administration in analyst for the City of Pittsburgh Controller’s Names New March. “Pat’s warm, engaging style and his Offi ce. For nearly fi ve years he conducted attention to detail makes him an outstanding evaluations to measure the performance, Vice President person to take on this role,” said Dr. Carl. economy, and effi ciency of the various city “His fi nancial and administrative leadership operations. of the Carnegie Library System was stellar.” Cunningham attends St. Valentine Church Cunningham is a Shadyside native and in Bethel Park with his wife Lori and their Bethel Park resident. He graduated from three children: Brent, 16; Tyler, 13; and Kara, Central Catholic High School (with football 10. Active in the community, he is a former great Dan Marino), received his bachelor’s member of the Bethel Park School District from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984, Budget Committee. He participates in the and accounting certifi cate from Robert annual United Way Day of Caring, various Patrick J. Cunningham Morris University in 1988. Most recently he booster clubs related to children’s sports served as the chief fi nancial offi cer/director activities, and was the former coach of youth of administration for the Carnegie Library of baseball and soccer teams. In his leisure Pittsburgh. Cunningham worked there since time, Cunningham can be found fl y fi shing, 1998. At the Library, he oversaw all activities playing basketball, and enjoying his Golden related to the budget, fi nances, facilities, and Retriever. “I am a horrible golfer and have capital operations. not touched a club in more than 10 years,” he said. “In fact golfi ng led to fi shing because I “I worked on a number of capital campaigns was spending so much time in the water that to raise funds for branch renovations,” said I fi gured I might as well start fi shing.” Cunningham. “It was a great experience for me and it’s easy to conceptualize how this is He grew up in a family of 10—eight boys applicable to the Seminary.” and two girls. Th eir father, Dr. James V. Cunningham, is professor emeritus at Pitt. While working at the Library, Cunningham Th e family has been longtime friends with read 1776, by Pittsburgh native and Library PTS Board member Dave Epperson. “Being supporter David McCullough. “Th is book number nine of 10, and having older siblings, tells the story of George Washington, his gave me the chance to sit back and learn. troops, and their position backed against the I became a good listener.” wall. Th ose people showed great persever- ance, a trait we can all admire.” Cunningham will fi ll the position following Doug Clasper’s retirement. “Th ere is no Before beginning at the Library, Cunning- question that Doug will be missed,” Carl said. ham was an audit manager with Hosack, “I have enjoyed working with him during Specht, Muetzel and Woods, CPAs. Th ere this transition period. His leadership during he managed and performed a wide variety the last 25 years has helped bring Pittsburgh of accounting and consulting services Seminary to its present status as one of the for nonprofi t, school district, municipal, top theological schools in the nation. I be- corporate, and individual clients. He also lieve Pat will build on the fi ne foundation served as audit senior/consultant at Deloitte that Doug has laid.” and Touche LLP, providing guidance and support on auditing and accounting related consulting engagements. Prior to his work

8 It’s been quite an exciting time around PTS century BCE—a century about which there Upcoming since the last fi eld season of Th e Zeitah Exca- is currently hot debate among archaeologists vations, the archaeological dig I direct in the of Israel, in large part due to the paucity of Zeitah lowlands of Israel. As you may have heard, epigraphic data. Th e Israelites adapted their Excavations we made a dramatic discovery at Tel Zayit: alphabet (Hebrew, written from right to left ) an inscription that bears the oldest known from that of the Phoenicians, and although securely datable example of an abecedary, several 10th-century Phoenician inscrip- that is, the letters of the alphabet written out tions are known, very few examples from this from beginning to end in their traditional early period have been found inland, where sequence. Th e public announcement of this the alphabet was evolving in the direction of discovery in November 2005 made world- Hebrew and (farther north) toward Aramaic. wide news and raised the profi le of PTS as Th e Tel Zayit Abecedary, therefore, repre- a prime place to study the archaeology and sents an extremely important landmark in the history of Syria-Palestine. history of alphabetic writing. All successive alphabets in the ancient world (including What you might not realize is that a fi rst-year non-Semitic ones, such as Greek) derived volunteer Dan Rypma, of Colorado State from the alphabet seen in the Tel Zayit University, fi rst noticed the thinly incised Inscription. letters and brought the inscription to my attention—on the last day of the season, of I plan to continue the exploration of Tel Zayit RON E. TAPPY course! Th e real importance of this discovery this summer, and I extend a personal invita- G. Albert Shoemaker Professor derives not only from the archaic alpha- tion for as many of you as possible to join of Bible and Archaeology; betic text itself, but also from the stone’s me as I return to Israel and this terrifi cally Director, The Zeitah Excavations fi rmly datable archaeological context—an exciting biblical site. Even if you’re a fi rst-year extremely rare occurrence among the few volunteer with no previous excavation expe- extant inscriptions of this nature. rience, who knows what you might fi nd?! Th e wall in which the stone was found Our 2007 excavation season runs from June belongs to a structure that dates to the late 8 through July 15, and I am still accepting Below: The Zayit Stone, with the 10th century BCE (the time of Solomon) and volunteers. For more information about our incised area highlighted. The stone suff ered heavy destruction by fi re sometime program (for which students can receive is about 16” wide, and the letters in that period. up to six units of academic credit), log onto are about 1–1½ cm tall. www.zeitah.net . Located in the ancient Judean lowlands district, the site of Tel Zayit served as a borderland settlement that guarded one of the main approaches into the hill country around and south of Jerusalem. I currently believe that this site may represent ancient Libnah, an important biblical city in this region known especially from the Book of Joshua. Preliminary studies suggest that in the 10th century BCE Tel Zayit was associ- ated with the highland culture of southern Canaan, not the coastal culture of the Philis- tine plain, and therefore it very well may have functioned as part of the new state being formed by Kings David and Solomon, with its capital at Jerusalem. Th e early appearance of literacy at Tel Zayit will play a pivotal role in the current discussion of the archaeology and history of Israel and Judah in the 10th

9 Some Th e Summer Leadership Conference Upcoming Diana Butler Bass, author of Christianity for Events in the Rest of Us William Carl III, president and professor of Small gift s make Continuing homiletics, PTS big diff erences. Education June 10-13 Th anks to the World Mission Initiative “Russian and Eastern Christian special off ertory during a December Spirituality” chapel service, the Presbyterian (Spiritual Formation Certifi cate Course) Church of Vietnam purchased food John Burgess, James Henry Snowden and tarps. Th e donation of nearly $600 professor of systematic theology, PTS went toward relief from the damage June 17, 7:00 p.m. – June 22, noon of Typhoon Durian in a Vietnamese village. May God’s hand continue to “Introduction to and Experience of Directed work in that region as they recover and Retreats” rebuild. (Spiritual Formation Certifi cate Course) Martha Robbins, associate professor of pastoral care, PTS August 12, 7:00 p.m. – August 17, noon

DIANA BUTLER BASS Author of Christianity for the Rest of Us WILLIAM J. CARL III President of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

“TRANSFORMING FAITH:HELP FOR YOU, YOUR CONGREGATION, AND YOUR COMMUNITY”

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10 I have always been thankful for the checks Alito Jr. as the second recipient of the Carol Meetings with and balances in our American system of Los Mansmann Award for Distinguished government. It’s good to know that the three Public Service. Th e fi rst recipient was Justice Supreme Court branches—the legislative, the executive and Sandra Day O’Connor in 2001. Much of the judicial—keep an eye on each other, this event involved remembering Carol Los Justices providing for the fair and just creation of Mansmann, the fi rst woman to be appointed our laws, which have far-reaching implica- to the federal bench in Pennsylvania. Like tions for our way of life and ultimately for the Justice O’Connor, Mansmann paved the way The Rev. Dr. common good of humanity. Th is system is far for women in the legal profession in the U.S. William J. Carl, from perfect, but we believe in our hearts and She also served with Samuel Alito on the U.S. President and Professor minds that it is better than any other. Court of Appeals for the Th ird Circuit. of Homiletics Occasionally, one has an opportunity to meet Like the event in Dallas, the one in Pittsburgh and visit with those responsible for these honoring Justice Alito was fi lled with legal three branches of government. I had met dignitaries, beautifully organized, educa- and spent time with many U.S. senators and tional, entertaining, and inspirational. Again, bound representatives as well as at least two U.S. I had the privilege of visiting with Justice presidents, but I had never met or talked with Alito and learning more about him. Like by any of our Supreme Court justices. Well, that Justice Roberts, his mind is razor-sharp and changed recently. his humility is evident. In his remarks before service the large crowd, he focused less on himself Early in March, Chief Justice John Roberts and more on the life and work of Judge Mans- spoke in Dallas at an event sponsored by the mann, who clearly was a remarkable leader. University of Texas School of Law, honoring Th e dinner following all the speeches and the former White House aide and Justice Depart- presentation of the award was festive and fun. ment offi cial, Tex Lezar, who had been a Someone gave Justice Alito a bright yellow member of my congregation before his Steelers’ “Terrible Towel”, which he graciously untimely death. His widow, Merrie Spaeth, received, noting that, although he is a huge helped host the event. John Roberts, a friend Phillies fan, he has had no particular alle- of Merrie and Tex’s in Washington, DC, actu- giance to a specifi c NFL team, until now! ally signed the papers for their marriage years ago. Th eir friendship and spiritual journey What is my take-away from these meetings together has been long and deep. I shared in with two of our Supreme Court justices? It’s that spiritual journey by baptizing Merrie very simple. Our country is in good hands. when she became a Christian and joined It’s an honor and a privilege to meet any of the the Church, then buried Tex when he died nine Supreme Court justices. Chief Justice suddenly a few years ago. Roberts and Justice Alito, who happen to be the two I have met, are impressive but I’m Before off ering the invocation at the dinner sure the other seven are too from everything I aft er Justice Roberts’ speech, I had an oppor- have read and heard. tunity to meet and visit with him. What an amazing mind he has. Justice Roberts is We at Pittsburgh Seminary do our best to intelligent, thoughtful, knowledgeable, witty, prepare theologically articulate servant and quite gregarious. Working the crowd, his leaders who bear witness to the truth that ready smile and kind demeanor put everyone God wants us to live upright and moral lives at ease. His eloquent speech was a reasoned as good citizens in response to the grace explanation of his take on the Dred Scott we know and experience in Jesus Christ. It decision. It was cogent, inspiring, and beauti- is helpful to know that those at the highest fully delivered. levels of our government also have a deep concern to uphold the truth with “liberty and Th en early in April, Duquesne University justice for all.” School of Law honored Justice Samuel A.

11 Fred Fredosaurus Rex Friday XIII, artist Karen Featuring the famous sweater and a pair Howell’s whimsical view of a Tyrannosaurus of grandiose tennis shoes, Mister Rogers’ Rogers Rex, celebrates America’s favorite neighbor Jurassic persona is highlighted with Henri- and one of the Seminary’s favorite alums, the etta Pussycat and King Friday XIII. A Now Has Rev. Dr. Fred Rogers ’62. As part of the Carn- Neighborhood Trolley enhances the carica- His Very egie Museum of Natural History’s Dinomite ture by adorning the dinosaur’s tail. Days a few years ago, Howell created the WQED has been the home of Mister Rogers’ enchanting eight-foot-tall dinosaur. Th e Own Neighborhood for more than 40 years. “As statue resided fi rst at the Stanwix Street a symbol of Fred Rogers’ spirit, this gift will Dinosaur entrance to Fift h Avenue Place in downtown serve the community as a reminder of the Pittsburgh and then at St. Vincent College in Neighborhood values—generous giving Latrobe, Fred Rogers’ childhood hometown, and gracious receiving—a timeless message before coming to WQED in December. for everyone,” said Bill Isler, CEO of Family Communications Inc., a nonprofi t organi- zation founded in 1971 by Fred Rogers as the production company for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and related projects. Mr. McFeely, the “Speedy Delivery” man from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, kicked off the event and welcomed the crowd as he arrived at WQED aboard a trolley. He was joined by students from Turner Elemen- tary in the Wilkinsburg School District. Th e students were part of the fi rst class of WQED’s award-winning program, Stories Start Action, emphasizing character educa- tion and the importance of literacy through storytelling. Turner was the fi rst school in Right: PTS’s Lisa Dormire ’86, Mr. McFeely, and a young guest meet western Pennsylvania to participate in this the Fredosaurus Rex, Henrietta program four years ago. Pussycat, and King Friday XIII. Th e Rev. Lisa Dormire ’86, vice president for seminary relations and development at PTS, spent her summers interning with Rogers’ production company, Family Communica- tions, while studying communications at Grove City College. “It was an amazing privi- lege to be able to work with Fred Rogers and his company. He was one of the most genuine people I have ever met in my life and he was very supportive, including encouraging me to consider theological education and Pitts- burgh Seminary. Like many PTS alums, it makes me very proud to have graduated from the same seminary that shaped the life and ministry of one of my heroes, Fred Rogers.”

12 Fellow CLP 2006 grad Larry Tanis also Commissioned remembers Laird fondly. “His sharing, with a deliberate and distinctive articulate style, Lay Pastor made me always listen carefully and learn each time he spoke. We celebrated a ‘new life’ Graduates with Gary aft er his transplant surgery and Commemorate were deeply moved when he went to be with the Lord. We lost a member of the body.” a Colleague Upon graduation, the CLP grads dedicated a cross and plaque in Gary’s honor. Th e memo- rial reads “part of our family forever” and In addition to their broadened theological hangs in Long Hall Room 6. perspective and appreciation of the faculty, students time and again talk about the value Yeck explains: “Our class became very close bound of friendships developed while at Seminary. very quickly—true brothers and sisters in by Th ese relationships are not bound by age, Christ. We supported one another and had degree, denomination, or other physically great interactions in class, in the dorm and friendship limiting factor. Instead, they cross the lines. around the table. Being with this group of classmates each month, we each looked at Under the past format, students in the things with a diff erent perspective and thus, Commissioned Lay Pastor program came to our learning was greater because of what we campus once each month for weekend study, learned from each other, in addition to what spending two years learning about serving we were taught by the instructor.” churches, exploring their own strengths, and forming bonds with their classmates. Th ough Tanis likewise acknowledged the group’s not like traditional seminary students in bond. “We laughed a lot and cried a lot when terms of being on campus every week, CLP one of our classmates experienced trials. students do nurture these same types of rela- Several had employment and health issues tionships with classmates. occur during the two-year period together, and we hurt and prayed together for each Fourteen CLP students graduated from the other. Th e laughter, tears, worship, and study program in 2006—one believer short of their provided the ingredients necessary to form a 15-person cohort group. Following a long close body.” battle with illness, James Gary Laird died just a few weeks shy of completing his training. Th e CLP training is off ered in a cohort format to lay persons who wish to serve in various “Our group’s closeness was our oneness in forms of ministry in local congregations. Christ,” said Judy Yeck, a CLP 2006 grad. Th e program is off ered in cooperation with “It brought us together from so many diff er- the presbyteries of western Pennsylvania. ent places with such varied backgrounds and Coursework fulfi lls the course requirements varied ages but we were immediately united of the Book of Order in the PC (USA). Begin- in our desire to serve and our joy in Christ.” ning this year, the program made a shift to “During our fi rst 10-minute sermon for include both face-to-face and online courses. Professor Chapple, Gary used John 21,” Further information about the program can recalls Yeck. “He gave such a good explana- be found on the Seminary’s website at www. tion of boating that we really understood pts.edu or from home presbyteries. Th e next so much more about what it meant for the group begins in fall 2008. disciples to cast their nets out of the right side of the boat. His theme was to ‘think out of the box.’ Th at was Gary, always thinking and doing ‘out of the box.’”

13 Schaff Lecturer Seeks Connections Between “OUT” Evolutionary Theory and

A Post-Easter Hymn by Vernon G. Elgin ’52 Theology Tune: Metered 8.7.8.7 D

Christ walked Out, His tomb abandoned; He was raised to God’s right hand. PHILIP CLAYTON, Ingraham professor Friends stood stunned; apostles pondered: at the Claremont School of Th eology and “Death and sin have gained command?” visiting professor of science and religion at Christian, hope in grief and dying, Harvard Divinity School, presented three Stand eternally secure; lectures and a chapel talk March 27-28 at the Seek the Spirit’s reinforcement; annual Schaff Lectures. God has fi xed our triumph sure. Th e biological sciences since Darwin have Resurrection power, claim us; linked Homo sapiens more and more closely Th eme our hymns in pious praise with other animal species and with the For our pardon from God’s judgment, evolutionary process. But recent work on For Christ’s Presence in sad days. emergence has also developed resources Help us follow Israel’s journey for understanding how humans are unique Leaving bondage for release; among the known life-forms. Exit Egypt, cross the Jordan Th is year’s Schaff Lectures questioned Climb to Calvary’s deathless peace. whether this “broad naturalism” can in the end comprehend the essence of human Resurrection power, stir us existence. Th e question of freedom—what With unrest with unbelief, it means to be a free, moral agent—calls With impatience with injustice, for a richer perspective than a natural- With compassionate relief. istic worldview can provide. Th e lectures Send the Church with food and funding, explored theology’s contribution to the Serum, counsel, cloak and bed; quest for freedom, as well as the ways that Till the world affi rms our dogma: theology may be aff ected by recent scientifi c “Christ is OUT, raised from the dead.” developments. In his lecture, “Biology, Culture, and the Elgin ’52 is an honorably retired member of the Seattle Presbytery. Emergence of Freedom,” Clayton attempted From July 2002 through February 2004, he served as interim pastor to off er an “incarnational theology of corre- of Second Union Church in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2005 he taught lation” in relation to biological factors in for one semester at the University of Livingstonia in the Synod of human development. Infl uenced by the Livingstonia of the Church Central Africa Presbyterian in Malawi, theology of Paul Tillich, Clayton asserted that Africa. Although recovering from recent surgeries and having been theology becomes richer through both the quarantined by his wife Marjorie ’53, he hopes to return to Malawi, encounter with and the questions raised by Costa Rica, or Brazil and teach. Since he is no longer traveling, Elgin culture. In this case the culture is represented stays busy writing a book, Obituary Th eology. by the scientifi c community. Clayton hoped to bridge the gap between theology and science. In doing so, he began with evolu- tionary theory.

14 In contrast to many within the scientifi c freedom on a spectrum. Th e emergence of community, Clayton sees a remarkable freedom is gradual and asymptotic. Related bound amount of correlation between evolutionary to human views of persons as both geneti- theory and theology. He holds the perspec- cally and culturally determined beings, this by tive that evolutionary history is really a way view of freedom is a bottom-up approach. study of understanding the human person as the To conceive a full vision of human freedom, Imago Dei. Th us theology must dive into one must live within the tension of a freedom the middle of the conversation concerning that is gradual and asymptotic. Developing a evolutionary theory. To explain why this is theology of freedom based on these assump- the case, Clayton outlines the current state of tions will assist in bridging the gap between evolutionary theory. the current trends in evolutionary theory and religious discussions. According to Clayton, “Th e age of reduc- tionist genetic evolutionary theory is dead.” Clayton completed his doctorate in philos- Th at is to say, supporters of evolutionary ophy of science and religious studies at Yale theory no longer rely upon theories based University. Before teaching at Claremont solely on genetic information. Rather there and Harvard, he held visiting posts at the is increasing recognition concerning the University of Munich, was a senior Fulbright interaction between genetics and the cultural Fellow also at Munich, and visiting fellow at environment. Too oft en there are attempts St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge Univer- made to separate cultural developments sity. He is a past winner of the Templeton from biological evolutionary theory. Clayton Book Prize for best monograph in the fi eld of asserts that this is not the case. Human beings science and religion and a winner of the fi rst are a cultural species. As such, both genetic annual Templeton Research Prize. Clayton and environmental factors play a key role in is the author or editor of 15 books and some human development. Religion must recog- 100 articles in the philosophy of science, nize and acknowledge evolutionary progress metaphysics, theology, and related fi elds. without resorting to biological reductionism. His upcoming work, In Quest of Freedom: For Clayton, reductionism does not deter- Th e Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World mine what it means to be human. Cultural (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), is due out and environmental factors must be determi- shortly. From 1999 to 2003, Clayton served native, as well. What then can we say about as principal investigator of the Science and freedom? the Spiritual Quest program at the Center for An intent audience listens to Dr. Th eology and the Natural Sciences. Philip Clayton during the Schaff Along with the presented view of evolu- Lectures tionary theory, Clayton rejects Cartesian dualism. Th ere is not a separation between The Schaff Lectures are named in honor of the the mind and the body. Rather, human beings late David S. Schaff. For 23 years, Schaff taught are an embodied mind—a view critical to church history at Western Theological Seminary theological thinking. As an embodied mind on Pittsburgh’s North Side, one of the anteced- is determined by genetic and cultural factors, ents of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Before there needs to be a view of human freedom becoming a professor in 1903, he held two that falls within these bounds. pastorates. Schaff wrote extensively in the area of church history and co-edited the well-known and While there are some who hold a libertarian often consulted Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia. He view of freedom, Clayton rejects this view. completed the unfi nished work of his father, Philip, Rather, he recognizes that human beings who had begun the History of the Christian Church have the vast capacity to imagine and project before his death. The younger Schaff also wrote anything, and yet not be free in a true sense two books on the life of John Hus. of the word. Nothing allows us unrestricted freedom. On the contrary, there is a range of

15 religious community is shaped by its social From Feb. 23 to March 10, nine seminary and historical context. Th ere is no pure A Lenten students, my wife Deb, and I traveled to Christianity that binds together believers of Russia. Our goal was fi rst of all to listen and every time and place. Some fi rst-time visitors Journey to learn. What has happened to Christi- from the Protestant West fi nd Russian Ortho- through anity in Russia in the 15 years since the fall doxy unwelcoming. “Even in the liturgy,” of communism? What challenges confront one student perceptively observed, “the royal Russia the church in a society that for 75 years was doors [the central doors of the iconostasis] offi cially atheistic? While we focused on the don’t remain open. Worshippers are cut off Orthodox Church, we also had signifi cant from the priest and the altar.” But we learned visits with Russian Baptists as well as Presby- that the Russian Orthodox have reasons for terian mission workers based in Moscow and what they do. St. Petersburg. By the trip’s end, each one of us had thought deeply about what unites and Some of these reasons are theological and The Rev. Dr. John P. separates Americans and Russians, Protes- liturgical: during Lent, services are simpler Burgess tants and Orthodox, and we knew that we and more somber. Th ere is less singing, and still had much to learn. the royal doors are more oft en closed than James Henry Snowden open (whereas Easter Week they will remain Professor of Our fi rst full day in Russia was a Sunday, the open the entire time). Th e specifi c experi- Systematic Theology beginning of the second week of what the ences of the Russian Orthodox Church also Orthodox call the Great Lent. Awakening too play a role: during years of communist perse- late from our jet lag to attend the liturgy, we cution, a faithful remnant had closed itself off ventured instead into the city, right to Red from society, guarded the church’s traditions, Square. We immediately confronted contem- and waited for redemption. In St. Petersburg, porary Russia in all its contradictions: relics we could still see the bullet holes where in of communism (Lenin’s tomb, red stars atop the 1930s dozens of monks had been lined Kremlin steeples); the global marketplace up and executed against a cemetery wall; (the refurbished GUM department store, elsewhere, we walked by churches and with a Nike shoe store and trendy European monasteries that had been destroyed, closed, boutiques); and an ancient Christian heritage or turned into warehouses and factories. (St. Basil’s, as well as the newly-rebuilt Cathe- dral of Our Lady of Kazan). Each day brought new questions. We met with students and Father Valentin of the A few blocks away, the contradictions only theology department of St. Tikhon’s Univer- deepened. Alexander I had commissioned sity, one of Russia’s fi rst and only Orthodox bound the construction of Christ the Savior Cathe- universities. We were deeply impressed by dral to commemorate God’s salvation of their eff orts to develop evangelistic outreach by Russia from Napoleon in 1812. Stalin had to a society whose religious foundations had the oversized church razed, intending to been shattered under communism. Th ey had mission replace it with an even larger Palace of the never hosted a group of American theolog- Soviets, topped by a huge statue of himself. ical students before, and were interested in Th e ground proved too unstable, and the future contact. site was turned into an immense outdoor swimming pool instead. State, church, and We also met with Father Dionysi and private benefactors fi nanced the cathedral’s representatives of the Moscow Th eological rebuilding aft er the fall of communism, and Academy, located behind the walls of the it is now as much a museum and an architec- Trinity-Sergius Monastery in Sergiev Posad. tural achievement as a place of worship. Here we needed special permission just to step on the grounds, as though we were Th ese complex interrelations between church tourists, not fellow Christians. A seemingly and state, Russian culture and Orthodox unchanging tradition surrounded us, far Christianity, taught us just how much every from the challenges posed by the new Russia.

16 We paused in the church for which Andrei from the streets and alleys of St. Petersburg, Rublev had painted his renowned icon of the stood and looked at us. Th ey knew little Trinity. A priest and a group of women sang English, had never met Americans before, prayers for the dead. Simple people—some and wondered why we were there, intruders elderly, some ill—stood in line to venerate the into a holy world where they themselves were relics of St. Sergius, who in the 14th century guests. had founded this monastery in what were Snow continued to fall, and then it grew still wild, uninhabited forests. dark, as only it can far from the city. At the Th ese themes of openness and suspicion, end of the funeral, the monks had nailed the suff ering and redemption, haunted us wher- casket shut. Th e pounding still reverberated ever we went. A turning point came at St. in our ears as the pallbearers carried it to George’s Parish along the banks of the mighty the cemetery. We now gathered for evening Volga River, where four Orthodox monks prayer. It was the fi rst time that some of us run a drug rehabilitation center. Th ough would experience Orthodox worship. only 200 miles from Moscow, our pilgrimage through time and space was much longer: As we nine hours by overnight train to the sleepy disembarked, town of Kineshma, where Father Ioann met we paused in us, then another hour in a “Gazelle” minivan over snow-packed roads to the Volga. As we astonishment. disembarked, we paused in astonishment. The frozen river Th e frozen river was almost three kilometers was almost three wide. From here on, we would have to walk kilometers wide. and carry our baggage. Th ere was no other From here on, we way across. would have to walk and carry We were being pushed to the limits physically and emotionally. Somewhere in the middle of our baggage. the river, the bleak immensity of the Russian There was no other way across....We were being landscape began overwhelming us. Winter pushed to the limits physically and emotionally. bore down with bitter winds and driving Candles burned before icons of Mary and snows. We broke through two feet of crunchy Jesus. Th e monks began chanting prayers snow into thick, slushy water. Only with fear and Psalms in Church Slavonic. Two of the and trembling did we fi nally make it to the young men, Anastasi and Sergei, assisted; other side. But, thank God, we were safe and learning the prayers had become part of their sound. Another long, bumpy ride took us rehabilitation. Time slowed down, and then to an old church and a small settlement of at regular intervals, the monks and the young wooden huts, most of which had long since men crossed themselves and fell prostrate on been abandoned. the hard tile fl oor. Slowly but surely, some of Lent is not an easy time to be a guest or to us followed suit. We could not understand the host guests. For seven weeks, the Orthodox prayers, nor did we know the rituals. But Lent eat less; fast entirely from meat, milk, dairy had taken hold of us, and together we made products, eggs, and fi sh; and devote them- confession before almighty God. selves to morning and evening prayer. Th e Conversation and fellowship fi lled the monks were now caring for the 11 of us, in remaining day, and we were not ready to addition to the eight young men in the drug leave. Th e monks and young men embraced rehabilitation program. Father Ioann had us before we started back across the Volga. suddenly fallen ill with fever. Father Mefodi, “Come back in the summer,” Anastasi and head of the community, was busy preparing Sergei called, “when everything is green.” for a funeral. Th e young men, refugees

17 We still had demanding days ahead of us, but now everything seemed downhill. We visited Allen Thompson is a middler M.Div. student. monasteries and churches. We stayed in the He was one of 11 participants on the Russia trip. homes of Russian Baptists, who have their Leaders included Dr. John Burgess and his wife own distinctive history of persecution and Deb ’06. The other students were Brenda Barnes, marginalization. In St. Petersburg, we saw Randy Boyer, Bob Ruefl e, Jan Wachter, Vanessa the immense wealth of what had been czarist Syvertsen, Abraham Peterson, Colleen McFar- Russia, and in Moscow the skyscrapers that land, and Dave Koehler. new Russian oil and gas have bought. We also Submitting my refl ections on Russia to a saw the poverty of the countryside, where formal publication is an awkward charge. I only the elderly remain, tending their small am recently off of a two-week mission/study gardens in the summertime to raise enough trip to Russia, but if you have never been to food for the long, lonely winter. Russia, you are probably more qualifi ed to One of our last evenings in Russia turned speak about it than I. Th e complexity of the into a fi ve-hour discussion. Th e students country, especially today, is confounding. We had come to realize just how American and grew up with certain notions of Russia, and Protestant they were. Th ey weren’t sure only three members of the mission group what to do with these experiences. Feelings were younger than 36 years of age, and even ranged from disappointment and irrita- we younger ones had distinct memories of tion to gratitude and curiosity. Together we events near the end of the Cold War. Aside bound began to realize how powerful tradition is to from politics, you may remember some facts: by Russians and the Orthodox. Th e past speaks 1. Russia is the world’s largest country. to them in a way that it does not always in the mission United States. We would return home with 2. Moscow is its capital (again) and St. Peters- questions about the Orthodox, but also about burg its former capital. ourselves. Do we have a tradition that carries 3. Th e Russian winter has cost many a and sustains us? Can we learn to see ourselves foreigner on a mission his life (although as others see us? Our memories of Russia and those were diff erent types of mission). Orthodoxy would call us to continued prayer and self-examination. 4. Th e Volga River is wide.

Special thanks to the students; the Seminary and its World Aft er becoming immersed in these and other Mission Initiative; Deb, who did the groundwork for the aspects of Russia, some literally, I fi nd that trip; and Ellen Smith, Presbyterian mission co-worker, who the country and its current struggles are coordinated details in Russia. more elaborate than I could ever express. Th ere were 11 members of the PTS commu- nity on the trip, and we stayed in four Top: John and Deb Burgess present Yury Zubov, director diff erent places (fi ve if you count the sepa- of international studies at St. rate stints in Moscow). Th us, I estimate that Tikhon, with a PTS shirt. Left: the group experienced at least 44 diff erent The group in the St. Tikhon’s Russias. It probably sounds cliché, but the Orthodox University Church in Moscow. diff erence from setting to setting—from context to context as we were missiologically considering the trip—was quite drastic. Many on the journey had a particular interest or background in Orthodoxy and wanted to learn more about Orthodox traditions while in Russia. I went because it’s Russia. I can’t speak for anyone else’s personal encounters with ecclesiastical and theological tradi-

18 tions, but I can attest that the challenges and especially our friends at St. Tikhon’s facing these traditions are just as complex Orthodox University expected a group as the country itself. Th e extent to which of young students, and were surprised to church and state have interwoven identities learn that many American seminarians are is striking, as we were told numerous times following their call to a second career. Most that whether or not they actually went to Russians do not have that luxury, and it is a church or professed any faith in Jesus Christ, testimony to their faith that those who are 70 percent of Russians consider themselves currently studying to serve the church are Orthodox simply because “it is Russian to do doing so in volatile times. Of course, many so.” We also heard that Christianity is some- are called for that reason, and are curious thing that lies deep within Russians and was about the American church’s own struggles inherent in Russian life and tradition for a with secularism and Western culture. thousand years, but that Communism, and As they asked us questions, we began to now secularism, have rendered many people comprehend their hopes and anxieties as incognizant of it. Meanwhile, the whole Russian Christians looking forward. Our of Russian history and of the struggles of conversations also elucidated our own strug- Russia as a nation seemed to be salient with gles with many of the same issues. We were everyone we met. Not only are people trying the fi rst group of Americans to interact with to fi gure out how to be Christian, but they are some of the people we met, and in addition also trying to fi gure out how to be Russian. to the forming of friendships in Christ, the “Being Russian”, however, is diff erent in real mission work of the trip was the ecstasy every context. Th e Orthodox in Moscow (in the Greek sense, `εκστασις— standing speak in terms of church and state and the outside oneself) that arises from encounters broader struggles faced by each. At remote with those who are diff erent. St. George’s Parish, 200 miles east of Moscow, Of course, we each had our moments of priests and monks are helping to rehabilitate personal formation, too. I think most on young drug-addicted men, providing us the trip would cite the same single event with fi rsthand accounts of the darker side of when asked if they were ever pushed to their free-market Russia. In Kostroma, our hosts physical and mental limits. Personally, I were trying to be both Russian and Protes- was excited when I was told that we would tant in a smaller (pop. 275,000) city, while in be walking across the Volga (see #4 above) traditionally open-minded St. Petersburg, to get to St. George’s, but this news was met Orthodox and Protestant alike are looking with trepidation by the group at large. I for ways to move forward together. refer you to mission co-worker Ellen Smith’s Few things remained unchanged as we trav- March article on her pages of the PC(USA) eled through these varying contexts. Th e website (www.pcusa.org/missionconnec- most enduring characteristic was Russian tions/profi les/smitha.htm) for more details, hospitality. Whenever we were not walking but carrying our bags and suitcases two or riding, we were being off ered food—milk- kilometers through ice and snow was both shakes, cheese and homemade cakes, tea at exhilarating and exhausting. It might have every meal. Especially nice were the home- also been our most Russian experience— made preserves and honey from the monks carrying the weight of our clothing, our and rehabilitants at St. George’s. identity, unsure of where we were going and unsure of the ground below us, but moving We did make a few faux pas and had some forward in faith to build the body of Jesus awkward moments, myself included (word of Christ. advice: keep your hands out of your pockets when talking about God). We also surprised people with our group’s intergenerational representation. Our hosts in each setting

19 Presbyterian College Chaplains’ Association Working closely with the group, the Rev. Sherry Sparks ’95, director of admissions and Gathers on Campus vocations, organized a weekend of activities allowing the chaplains to explore campus and Of the 66 colleges and universities related to serve as a resource for students. to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), most are served by a college chaplain providing a “It was evident that the Seminary real- link between faith and learning, between the ized the impact chaplains have on students bound church and institutions of higher education, considering seminary, and it felt as if you and between people exploring the meaning recognized and appreciated that we were all by of life and the God who is the basis of that part of the seminary admissions team. Th e calling meaning. evaluations of the weekend unanimously gave the Seminary the highest marks,” said Th ese chaplains, along with a number of the Rev. Jerry Beavers, chaplain at Musk- Presbyterians serving in similar roles at other ingum College. private colleges, gather annually to reconnect as pastors, discuss common issues on their Th e Rev. Dr. Deirdre Hainsworth, assis- campuses, and develop their professional tant professor of Christian ethics, served as skills. Th is year, their meeting was held at keynote speaker, presenting three workshops PTS. and a worship service to discuss how chap- lains can relate with students by ethically “We look forward to being with other people using today’s technology, including commu- who have similar responsibilities on other nity sites like MySpace and Face Book. campuses, who understand the particulars of “Having refl ected on her work with us, I am our struggles, and who can serve as resources struck by the technological gulf between me and support for our work,” said the Rev. Anne and my students,” explained the Rev. Stephen McKee, chaplain at Maryville College. Nickle, chaplain at Trinity University. Oft en, in undergraduate school, a chaplain has great infl uence in a student’s call to semi- nary. Th is weekend provided these mentors the chance to reconnect, and provide guid- ance to many of these same students as they consider a future career in college chaplaincy. “Meeting the chaplains from the diff erent Left: The Rev. Sherry Sparks ’95 schools was great. Th ey were both eager and Junior M.Div. student Rachel to discuss the specifi c joys and challenges Dyke. Below: The Presbyterian of college ministry and also to fi nd out chaplains’ group. about me, what I was interested in, and my thoughts about my own vocation,” said Lynda “Doodle” Harris, middler M.Div. student. “I am especially aware at these types of events just how small the church is. I met several chaplains who were friends of friends and even one, Stephen Nickle, who served as a summer intern at the church I grew up in, when I was three years old.” Th e Seminary was honored to host this group as their work comes full circle.

20 Library Resources syi celebrates 10 years on Loan Th e Rev. Ellie Johns ’99 An exhibition celebrating the contribu- Director, Summer Youth Institute tions to church music by the Wesley family, It’s hard to believe that it was 10 years ago “Sacred Harmony: Th e Musical Wesley that the Summer Youth Institute took off Family,” premiered this February at Perkins at Pittsburgh Th eological Seminary. In School of Th eology’s Bridwell Library thanks commemoration of this milestone, we will be to contributions from the Barbour Library. hosting the ultimate SYI reunion, otherwise Th e exhibit begins a series of events known as SYI X: A Celebration of Ten Years commemorating the tercentenary of Charles of the Summer Youth Institute. All 315 of our Wesley’s birth and includes correspondence, SYI alums, along with previous staff , have hymn and tune collections, books, and scores been invited back to campus for three days, illustrating the formation and development June 29–July 1. Th e event will kick off with of 18th-century British Wesleyan-style dinner and a concert by David M. Bailey. He worship song, and the musical education and has been playing for SYI since 2000, sharing career of several generations of the Wesley his story of faith, hope, and life with the SYI family. Th is exhibition pays special attention community. Gathering alums from 10 years, to John, Charles, Charles Jr., Samuel, and Bailey will be one of the many ties that will Samuel Sebastian Wesley. draw them together. Aft er Perkins, the exhibition will travel to the Th e greatest appeal for young people to Duke Divinity School Library, June 15–Aug. SYI is the opportunity to be taken seriously 1, and then to the United Methodist Archives and really dig into theology. Drawing on Center at Drew University, Sept.15–Nov. 15. the faculty who have honored this desire to engage questions of faith, the reunion will On loan from Barbour’s collection are Divine off er a keynote address by Dr. Dale Allison, Musical Miscellany: Being a Collection of Errett M. Grable professor of New Testament bound Psalm, and Hymn Tunes (1754), A Collec- exegesis, and workshops with a variety of tion of Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), and other faculty members. Th e community will in Th e Psalm Singers Help: Being a Collection of worship together with the Rev. Dr. Ronald Tunes in Th ree Parts Th at Are Now Us’d in Th e Peters, Henry L. Hillman professor of urban hope Churches (1770) by Th omas Knibb. A Collec- ministry and director of the Metro-Urban tion of Hymns and Sacred Poems contains the Institute on Saturday, and then again on fi rst appearance of the tune “Irish” and is the Sunday with the Rev. only copy known to be in existence. Derek Davenport ’00 Th e James Warrington Collection of (SYI ’97) and the Rev. Hymnology at PTS contains several thou- Michelle Wahila ’00 sand valuable hymn and song books from the (SYI ’97). We look estate of James Warrington, Philadelphia. Th e forward to building Barbour Library houses more than 376,000 on the relationships resources; it off ers on-line public access created years ago and computers, 100 study carrels, 20 study rooms, the formation of new a comfortable reading room, and a lounge. friendships that will take place with alums from across the years.

21 Faculty/Staff News three-hour workshop on “Bible Study music and United Methodist studies, with Adults: Building Your Teachers’ served as guest organist at Memorial Effectiveness.” Park PC, Fox Chapel Episcopal, South Avenue United Methodist, and First NOTE: Churches mentioned in faculty/ munity PC of Ben Avon, Pa.; First PC, Anne Malone, registrar, was elected PC, and was organist for a compline staff/alum notes are Presbyterian and Warren, Pa.; and a Lake Erie Presbytery to the Vestry at Fox Chapel Episcopal service at Heinz Memorial Chapel, in the Pittsburgh area unless otherwise meeting. Carl also lectured on missions Church. In addition to singing in the University of Pittsburgh. He taught the identifi ed. in India, Russia, Korea, and South choir, she also serves as a lay reader adult forum at Westminster PC during Africa at Westminster PC. In February and Eucharistic minister. Malone sang Advent. Tutwiler participated in a he also met with alumnae/i at two alongside the Rev. Sherry Sparks colloquium of the National Association The Rev. Dr. John Burgess, James gatherings in Florida. ’95, director of admissions and voca- of Pastoral Musicians on Liturgy and Henry Snowden professor of system- tion, at the memorial service for Eva The Rev. Dr. Ronald Cole-Turner, Language in Washington DC. He also atic theology, recently hosted Wolf Anne Vogeley ’96 at Heinz Chapel. H. Parker Sharp professor of theol- preached at a PTS communion service Kroetke, a German theologian from ogy and ethics, spoke on a panel on The Rev. George E. Tutwiler, organ- in February. Berlin who is world-renowned for his “Societal Implications of Anti-Aging ist/choirmaster and lecturer in church work on Karl Barth. Burgess helped Research” at the 59th Annual Scientifi c translate for Kroetke at presenta- Meeting of the Gerontological Society tions he gave on campus and at the of America, held in Dallas, Texas. An Karl Barth Society of North America Nancy Lapp Retires as Chair of ACOR article, “The Budapest Meeting 2005: in Washington DC. He attended the Intensifi ed Networking on Ethics of Fellowship Committee annual meeting of the American Acad- Science—The Case of Reproduc- emy of Religion in Washington DC; the tive Cloning, Germline Gene Therapy Nancy Lapp, curator emerita annual meeting of the Society of Chris- and Human Dignity,” written with 21 of the Bible Lands Museum at tian Ethics, in Dallas, Texas, where he other co-authors and reporting on a is co-chair of the Scripture and Ethics PTS, retired from the American November 2005 meeting in Hungary, Interest Group; and the Re-forming Center of Oriental Research sponsored by the European Union, was Ministry Core Cluster, a program of published in Science and Engineering Fellowship Committee in the Offi ce of Theology and Worship, Ethics (vol. 12 no. 4, 2006). He spoke June. Under Lapp’s leader- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), in Hous- on the ethics of stem cell research in a ship, the ACOR exponentially ton, Texas. Burgess preached or taught workshop at the annual “Summit of the at the following: Pleasant Hills PC; grew its fellowship program, States,” held by the Center for Policy Eastminster PC; Bower Hill PC’s adult many endowed by private and Alternatives for state legislators, education class on “The Church in Rus- in Washington DC, in December. In government funds. Her tireless sia Today”; Good Samaritan service at January, he participated in a day-long eff orts and far-sighted leader- East Liberty PC; and chaired a meeting ACOR is dedicated to promot- meeting in London of the executive ship has nurtured generations of the self-study subcommittee of the ing research and publication committee of the International Society Presbyteries Cooperative Examinations of scholars. for Science and Religion, for which he in the fi elds of archaeology, Committee of the Presbyterian Church serves as one of the vice presidents. Lapp earned her bachelor’s anthropology, art history, earth (U.S.A.), in Louisville, Ky. He served as the Campbell Weekend from the University of Cin- sciences, history, languages, The Rev. Dr. William J. Carl III, speaker at Sewickley PC (where Board cinnati, her master’s from religious studies, sociology, and president and professor of homiletics, chairman Jack Isherwood, former other aspects of Near Eastern met with Dr. Judy Illes, neuroscientist chairman Ed Clarke, and other Board McCormick Th eological at Stanford University as part of his members worship) appearing each Seminary, and doctorate in studies. Since it was founded research for an article on the brain for Sunday morning during the month for a Near Eastern studies at Johns in 1968, ACOR has served as the journal Crosscurrents. He partici- class and also as a dinner speaker and Hopkins University. She served a liaison between Jordanian pated in the Association of Theological as preacher. on the board of ACOR from institutions, both academic and Schools’ presidential intensive semi- The Rev. Dr. James E. Davison 1988–2006 and as curator of governmental, and interna- nar held in Santa Fe, N.M; a retreat ’69, director of continuing education, for presidents and board chairs with the Bible Lands Museum from tional scholars working in the preached at United PC in Ingram, spouses of the Presbyterian seminaries 1970–2000. With her husband, Near East. where John Free ’68 is pastor. held in Santa Rosa, Calif., where he led Davison taught a training class for the late Paul Lapp, she con- a worship service; and met with the teachers at Calvin PC in Zelienople, ducted excavations at a number president, professors, and students at where Graham Standish ’88 is pas- of sites in the West Bank and Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash. tor; a three-week class on the period Carl attended the American Associa- participated with Walter Rast between the Testaments at Oakmont tion of the Advancement of Science and Th omas Schaub on the PC where Stephen Wilson ’00 and Consultation meeting in Washington Brad Walters ’05 are pastors; and Expedition to the Southeast DC. He led worship for the Indian Chris- four classes at Christ United Methodist Plain of the Dead Sea. Th is tian Fellowship of Pittsburgh Christmas Church on “What We Believe about the research resulted in an impres- event. His preaching engagements in- Bible.” At the annual Association of cluded Wallace Memorial PC; Bidwell sive list of publications and vast Presbyterian Educators (APCE) Confer- PC; Vanderbilt PC, Naples, Fla; Mercer knowledge of pottery. At the ence, held in Philadelphia, he taught a Island PC, Mercer Island, Wash.; Com- ACOR board meeting Lapp was elected a trustee emerita. 22 Ryegate VT, a social history of the alumnae/i News town which was founded in 1773 by the Scotch American Company of bound Inchinnon, Scotland. The early settlers were members of the Presbyterian eton Theological Seminary upon his Neeta Nichols ’73 is serving as stated in Church of Scotland. In the book, White retirement as the associate professor supply pastor for Westminster Church in traces the manner in which the of ministry and evangelism. Stewart’s Detroit, Mich. christ three sons and their families were down of that early thistle, planted on Leonard Graham ’73 retired from present for the occasion. American soil, continues to infl uence the U.S. Department of Energy and is civic and religious affairs of the town, 1960s serving as stated supply pastor at Sugar and how other cultures have modifi ed Grove Church in Morgantown, W.Va. and enriched. Richard S. Buterbaugh ’60 and his Jonathan Speck’s ’74 wife, Sandy, 1940s wife Clara have celebrated 65 years to- James Gillespie ’54 and his wife gether. They have now become “snow lost her courageous battle to cancer in Paul M. Musser ’47 and his wife Peg- Irene recently celebrated their 51st birds” spending November to April in May 2006. wedding anniversary. gy received a Distinguished Alumnae/i Pasadena, Texas. Donald G. Scandrol ‘75 was appointed Citation from Westminster College, Karl W. Bowman ’54 had open heart Pittsburgh District Superintendent for New Wilmington, Pa. during the 2006 Joseph J. Gasper ’62 is serving as surgery in February 2006 for a fourth stated supply pastor for Westminster The United Methodist Church in July Homecoming. They also celebrated bypass and a new heart valve. In Au- 2006. their 60th wedding anniversary the Church in Deland, Fla. He led his 19th gust he had a new joint put in his left tour to the Holy Land in May. following day. knee. Bowman, 79, continues to work Marwood (Woody) Meredith ’75 and at Greenfi eld PC. W. Terry Schoener ’63 retired from his wife Kathy are pleased to announce William D. Bonis ’49 gave an anni- the arrival of a new addition to their versary message to the First Hungarian the Presbytery of Baltimore in Decem- Don E. Keller ’57 and his wife Carol ber. He was serving as the pastor of family. They have their fi rst grandchild! Reformed Church in Hawthorne, Calif. (Ginny) are enjoying married life. They Emma Makenzee, born to parents Blair during the 80th anniversary celebra- Woods Memorial Church in Severna celebrated their fi rst anniversary in Park, Md. at the time of his retirement. and Glenn Patterson, Feb. 24 in Fort tion. Bonis served as the interim pastor November. He stays busy as the stated Worth, Texas. She was 7 lbs. 15 oz. at the church from 1990-2002. supply pastor for Chapel by the Sea in Carl Bogue ’65 retired in December as the pastor of Faith PC in Akron, Ohio. W. Hulitt Gloer ’75 has been the 1950s the state of Washington. Keller also enjoys his time volunteering with the He is a member of the Presbyterian professor of preaching and Christian L. Gordon Tait ’51 has recovered Agency on Aging. He will be honored Church of America. scriptures and director of the Truett Center for Effective Preaching at George well from a total knee replacement in July 2007 for his 50 years of active William M. Birdsall ’65 retired from and is now ready to join a chorus line ministry. On July 14 there will be a W. Truett Theological Seminary at the Presbytery of Central Florida in Baylor University in Waco, Texas since (if anyone would happen to call)! He picnic followed by a spaghetti dinner June 2006. keeps his carrel at the College Library in the evening. July 15 will bring a 2000. His wife, Sheila, is a lecturer in warm with his study of and writing special worship service, followed Donald G. Campbell ’67/’80 had the School of Education at Baylor. on the Rev. John W. Witherspoon by a reception at Chapel by the Sea. been serving as the director of Con- David L. Klingensmith ’76 completed (1723-94). His recent published works Anyone who would like to send photos gregational Ministries Division of the his 16th year as a chaplain at Saint include an article in a new four-volume or remembered vignettes to be placed GA Council in Louisville, Ky. In March, Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, Calif. Encyclopedia of British Philosophy; a in a scrapbook may mail them to Carol Campbell began serving in his new ca- He serves as chaplain in their Heart and Witherspoon chapter in a new book, Reeve-Keller, 1214 Sequalish St., pacity as interim executive presbyter of Vascular Center. Colonial Presbyterianism; and a July Steilacoom, WA, 98388. Photos will be Mission Presbytery for 18–24 months. Donald Aull ’78 is serving as the in- 4 op-ed piece in the Philadelphia, Pa. returned. His offi ce is in San Antonio, Texas. Inquirer on Witherspoon as a forgotten terim pastor of First PC of East Palestine, Don Steiner ’58 is married to Deila, Hetz Marsh ‘68 and his wife Barbara founder of our nation. Gordon’s son Ohio. director of federal programs for the were delighted to announce that their Paul and family are in Brecksville, Ohio Kenneth Jones ’79 was appointed to Lincoln Public School District. Steiner daughter, Liz Marsh, and her husband, and continue to be a blessing. the McKeesport: West Side/ Boston is the stated clerk for Homestead Bibhash Das, gave birth to a little girl, United Methodist Churches. Marie Allison ’51 recently had one Presbytery with the offi ce in Lincoln. Asha Elizabeth Das, Dec. 30, 2006. of her books, Seed Thoughts of Faith, Asha weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. Susan L. Nelson ’79 is enjoying her Dean Carzoo ’59 and his wife Mary published. She will be editing and work as vice president of academic Ann are enjoying retirement. They Peter Leathersich ’68 retired from rewriting a devotional book once she affairs and dean at Claremont School of stay active at First Presbyterian in the Presbytery of Geneva in November. fi nishes preparing for the publication Theology in Claremont, Calif. There are New Bern, N.C. by singing in the choir, of her book on her Pakistan ministry, Robert Brown ’69 is serving as in- many students there who are interested teaching church school on occasion, Jewels in the Desert. terim pastor of the First Congregational in studying feminist theology and Susan and participating in other aspects of Church in Port Huron, Mich., in addition has been asked to serve on many com- Robert (Bob) Kelley ’51 and his wife their faith community. to his chaplaincy work. Ruth celebrated their 55th wedding mittees. Susan and her husband Dave Jo Ann Griffi th ’59 continues to fi nd anniversary in December and enjoyed 1970s have been busy with some home remod- retirement in her small South Carolina family reunion time over the holidays. eling, but she still manages to fi nd some town both exhilarating and challeng- Dwight Tawney’s ’72 wife Ann died During Lent, Kelley taught a class on time to enjoy the sunshine by swimming ing. She is tutoring teenagers with in February. “Parables Jesus Told on the Way to and working in her garden. their English lessons at a close-by Jerusalem” (Lk 10–18 context) at Mt. Moses L. Stith ’72 retired from the alternative school. 1980s Lebanon Methodist Church. Presbytery of Tampa Bay in September. John (Jack) W. Stewart ’59 was He served as a US Navy chaplain. Agnes Brady ’81 accepted a call as the Dwight White ’53 has just published honored by faculty and staff of Princ- pastor of Norwood Church in Alexis, Ill. The Down of the Thistle - 20th Century 23 alumnae/i News of Priests in the Episcopal Church Pittsburgh at the Gladden Church by Bishop Robert Wm. Duncan in where she is serving as the designated December. The Rev. Dr. Andrew pastor. Several Pittsburgh alumnae/i Linda C. Vaughn’s ’87 mother, Erma 150 delegates on the Central Commit- Purves, Hugh Thomson Kerr professor participated in the service including: Vaughn, died in December. tee which met in Geneva, Switzerland of pastoral theology at PTS, presented Carol Divens Roth ’85, moderator in fall 2006. Angleberger received her him for Holy Orders. of Pittsburgh Presbytery; Tim Spring Nancy J. Bassett ’88 was honorably doctorate of ministry degree in preach- ’84 who delivered the sermon; Louise retired from the Presbytery of Cincin- James Kimmel ’04 was appointed ing through the Association of Chicago Rogers ’04; and Becky Cartus ’06. nati in October 2003. She is currently as the pastor of the West Middlesex Theological Seminaries. The degree Elizabeth and her husband Jerry, the serving an interim at Franklinville United Methodist Church in West was awarded by McCormick Theologi- pastor of the Dormont Church, who Church in Franklinville, N.Y. Middlesex, Pa. cal Seminary in May 2006. also participated in the ordination, are Stewart E. Bair ’88 is serving as the Louise Rogers ‘04 was ordained to living in the Gladden manse. Joseph Hedden ’97 and his wife Jen- minister of Word and Sacrament by interim pastor of Mt. Pisgah in Green- Jonathan J. Ellegood ’06 is serving nifer welcomed a new little addition to the Pittsburgh Presbytery at West- tree, Pa., while pastor Kay Day ’97 is as the director of youth ministries at the family in November 2006. Elizabeth minster PC in January. Participating on a one-year leave in Africa. Chelsea First United Methodist Church Jane made her debut at 8 lbs. 4 oz. in her service of ordination were Gail Carol Pitts ’89 and her eight-year-old of Chelsea, Mich. Mary Catherine (Kay) Day ’97 is Buchwalter King’66/’76 and Hetz daughter, Erin, spent the fi rst half of representing Pittsburgh Presbytery as Marsh ‘68/’87. Rogers was installed Maria Baugh Barontini ’06 was 2006 preparing for a visit to Erin’s a missionary to the Synod of Blantyre as the associate pastor of John McMil- married last summer. homeland of China. In June, Carol, her in Malawi, Africa. After several lan Church in Bethel Park in January. mother, and Erin traveled to China for Robert Holet ’06 announced that his trips to Malawi, she fell in love with James Davison ’69, director of con- two weeks. They had the opportunity parish, St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, the wonderful, warm people in this tinuing education at PTS, participated to visit Beijing, Chengdu, Guiyang, Li- moved into new church facilities in fall country that is the fourth poorest in the in the service of installation. Jiang, Guilin, and Yangshuo Mountain 2006. world. The Zomba Theological College Retreat. Pitts enjoys her counseling William (B.J.) Livingston ’04 is the requested that Day teach theology and Samuel Hunter Gray ‘06 was or- practice as well as supervision and assistant director of admissions at Old Testament to Malawi theological dained to minister of Word and Sacra- teaching. She will be leading an ethics Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, students to help prepare more pastors. ment in July. He accepted a call as the course this spring. Pa. His wife, Jen, is teaching part-time She will serve there from December associate pastor of the New Covenant at the college in the athletic training/ Church in Mandeville, La. 1990s 2006 to December 2007. sports medicine program. Roger D. Petersen ’91 is serving as Bobbi Neason ’98 accepted a new Barbara Hines ’04 married Ed Ken- a part-time interim pastor at Saltsburg call to First PC of Bandon, Oregon. She nedy in November. and her husband George began the PC. Our graduates are on the next chapter of their lives there begin- Brian Snyder ’05 accepted a call to move! We will no longer be Richard Paul Minnich ’92 is serving ning in March. the Presbyterian Church of Kane in on the board of directors for Salt Lake Kane, Pa. where he will serve as the publishing their addresses in Theological Seminary. Clark Kerr’s ’99 father, the Rev. C. pastor. He was ordained and installed this publication, but instead Russell Kerr, passed away in January. in March. The Presbytery of Lake Erie encourage you to access the Ralph C. Watkins ’93 recently Alumnae/i Database online at authored a book along with fellow David Perry ’99 accepted a call as the consecrated him as a minister of Word pastor of Flat Branch PC in Bunnlevel, and Sacrament in the Presbyterian www.ptsalums.org. This site contributors, entitled The Gospel is password protected to com- Remix: Reaching the Hip Hop Gene- N.C. He was installed in January. Church (U.S.A.). Dr. Teresa Stricklen, James C. Yearsley ’97 preached the assistant professor of homiletics at ply with federal regulations ration, about the challenges and and the Seminary’s desire opportunities facing the black church sermon and gave the charge. PTS, preached for the service. Brian’s wife, Michelle, a student at the to ensure proper handling of today. Watkins is the assistant dean of personal information. If you African American church studies and 2000s Seminary, is looking forward to being a full-time mom and completing her need assistance with the associate professor of society, religion Jeri-Lynne Bouterse ’00 accepted database, please contact the and Africana studies at Fuller Theo- a call as the pastor of Valley PC in graduate degrees (M. Div. and MSW). Their daughters, Chloe, 2, and Greta, 1, Rev. Carolyn Cranston ’99, logical Seminary. He is also director Imperial, Pa. director of alumnae/i and of Christian education for First African are doing well. Christine Ziem ’00 and her husband church relations at 412-441- Methodist Episcopal Church in Los An- Kurt welcomed a new granddaughter Kate Lockard Snyder ‘05 and her 3304 ext. 2109 or ccranston@ geles. He earned his doctor of ministry in November. Molly Elizabeth Ruthen- husband Josh Snyder, a senior at pts.edu. degree from PTS and a doctorate from berg weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. PTS, were married in August. The the University of Pittsburgh. groom’s father, the Rev. Donald R. Rebecca Innerst ’01 and her husband Judy Angleberger ’96 served last Snyder Jr. ’91 offi ciated at the cer- John welcomed a new granddaughter, year as chair of the World Wide emony. The Rev. Dr. Charles Partee, Galiena Rebecca, in June 2006. Gali- Ministries Division of the Presbyterian P.C. Rossin professor of church history ena joins her big sister, Adaline, who is Church (U.S.A.). She was a delegate to at PTS, gave the homily. now three years old. the World Council of Churches Assem- Twyla Boyer ’05 accepted a call bly held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. While Carmen Cox Harwell ’01 accepted a as the associate pastor of Kirkwood serving as a delegate, Angleberger call to serve as the designated pastor Church in Yorktown, Va. was elected to the Central Committee for Mt. Hope Community PC in Penn for the World Council of Churches. She Hills, Pa. Elizabeth Broschart ’06 was will serve a seven-year term as one of ordained to minister of Word and Norman “Chips” E. Koehler III ’02 Sacrament by the Presbytery of was ordained into the Sacred Order 24 Former PTS Faculty Member Dies at 92 IN MEMORIAM Former PTS faculty member tions; a lecturer in religious the Rev. Dr. J. Gordon education and psychology at Charles W. Blaker ’49 James B. Marshall ’57 Chamberlin died Nov. 30 Union Th eological Seminary Aug. 18, 2005 Dec. 13, 2006 at the age of 92. Survivors 1953–1960; and professor at Columbus, Ga. Pittsburgh, Pa. included his four children PTS 1960–1979. John Stephen, Judith, Philip Richard W. Braun ’51 Neil McClelland ’77 Chamberlin wrote many David, and Mark Andrew. Jan. 7, 2007 March 9, 2006 books during his long career Chamberlin’s wife Mildred Youngstown, Ohio Grand Prairie, Texas in the religion and education A. Eck passed away Jan. 10 at fi elds, including Th e Church Ralph M. Donaldson Emory R. Taylor ’47 the age of 93. and its Young Adults, Th e ’47/’53 Dec. 16, 2006 Chamberlin earned his Educating Act, A Phenom- Feb. 17, 2007 West Newton, Pa. degrees from Cornell enological View, “I Don’t Have Washington, Pa. Eva Anne Vogeley ’96 College in Mt. Vernon, No Education” and Other Roy Milton Hilliard ’57 Dec. 27, 2006 Iowa, Union Th eological Refl ections, and Churches Dec. 12, 2006 Pittsburgh, Pa. Seminary of New York City, vs. Education, A Battle Lost. Sebring, Ohio and Teachers College at In retirement, he taught Talmage Wilson ’53 Columbia University. He was occasionally at Greensboro Harry L. Holfelder ’62 Sept. 24, 2006 ordained a minister in the College, wrote books and Oct. 21, 2006 Shelton, Wash. Methodist church in 1938, articles, and participated in Baltimore, Md. serving in several congrega- numerous organizations.

Lyle Byers With our gratitude Lyle W. Byers, husband of a Session representative to take so many courses at the Th is issue of Panorama PTS Board member Sandra Pittsburgh Presbytery. Seminary. His only reason is the last that will be McLaughlin Byers, died Feb. for enrolling in all of these designed under the careful 15. In addition to his wife, “He was a great believer courses was to grow in his and creative eye of Kathy other survivors include his in the importance of the Christian identity. Th us, he Boykowycz. Boykowycz, a daughter Cynthia B. Casto, partnership between our embodied the Reformed freelance designer, has been son Douglas S. Byers, and six congregation and the notion of the priesthood of providing design services to grandchildren. Seminary,” said the Rev. Dr. all believers.” the Seminary for 13 years. M. Craig Barnes, Robert She has moved Panorama Byers audited nearly 30 Having dinner together on Meneilly professor of from an eight-page format courses at PTS before his occasion, Barnes recalls, “It leadership and ministry, to the magazine that you see death. “He had a delightful, was always a delight to watch and pastor of Shadyside. today. Her eye for design has voracious mind, and an how he cared for his beloved “He helped to interpret the brought a cohesive look to unquenchable curiosity,” said wife Sandy through all of the benefi ts of having the senior many promotional pieces for the Rev. Dr. Steven Tuell, ordinary things.” pastor spend half of his time Seminary departments. Her associate professor of Old as a chaired professor at the gift s extend beyond layout Testament. Seminary and he constantly and design, and her keen eye encouraged the Christian Byers was an active elder for detail has caught many education committee to at Shadyside Presbyterian the spelling error, too! As she invite other seminary Church, recently sitting on moves to reduce her work- professors to teach courses at the Session. Over the years, load, enjoying a brand new the church.” he had served on most of the baby grandson and “sneaking committees of the church, Barnes went on to say: up on” retirement, we wish with a special devotion to “His thirst for theological her God’s every blessing. the building and grounds knowledge was insatiable, With our love and gratitude, committee. At the time of his and that is what led him to we say... thank you. death, he was also serving as 25 When you adopt two babies very close in Seminary. Th ose of you who have read driving age, there are some things that you just don’t Panorama for a few years might remember think about. Like the fact that they will both that my work at PTS used to focus primarily lessons turn 16 and want to learn to drive at the same on communications. In 2003, however, I was time. (Parents of twins who have survived asked to add the duties of the chief develop- this milestone now have my highest admira- ment offi cer to my work, too. It has been a tion and respect!) wild and sometimes scary adventure as we have worked hard to raise money for annual So far our driving adventures have gone support and special projects. I love Christ’s something like this: Sixteen-year-old climbs Church and theological education, so I’ve into driver’s seat and adjusts seat and mirrors never been ashamed to ask for money for to fi t a height signifi cantly shorter than our work. But I’ve learned that development Mom’s. Mom buckles into passenger seat and work is really hard. And it’s just going to get begins to pray. Teen turns key in ignition. harder. We need to raise more money for Mom takes a deep breath, looks over, and is student scholarships so they don’t go out certain that not only should this child not be into ministry with huge educational debts. driving, but Mom’s world would be a better We’ve got incredible special programs that place if he or she were still in a child safety need more money if they are to thrive. We’ve seat in the back. When did this happen? got a president and a faculty with hopes When did these babies turn16? Dear Lord, and dreams about new programs that will protect them (and me)! prepare strong leaders and help to revi- So far we’ve limited ourselves to the many talize churches, but none of this can happen back roads in our area. But I know that without increased fi nancial support. I look at eventually the driving will have to extend to the fundraising challenges ahead of us and it’s four-lane highways, city streets, and (gasp!) just as scary as teaching my kids to drive. parallel parking. Looking back, my parents A few months ago I began confessing my were brilliant. Th ey signed me up for driver’s fears to my boss, our Seminary president, education, which then was off ered through Bill Carl. I told him that I’ve loved working the school. Th e stranger with the extra brake at PTS for 14 years but that my worries were pedal in the passenger seat bore the brunt of keeping me up at night and maybe it was teaching me to drive. Ah, the good old days. time for me to move on. Dr. Carl had another Today in our school district driver’s ed is a suggestion: he has invited me to continue course that teaches about safe driving. But if serving here at the Seminary in a diff erent you want the stranger with the extra brake way. I will be focusing more specifi cally pedal to teach your teen to drive, you’ll have on seminary relations, including commu- to arrange and pay for it on your own. Until nications, foundation and major donor recently I thought, I’m tough, I can do it. But, relations, hospitality, esprit de corps within aft er just a few driving adventures, I’m having the employee community, and working second thoughts. Some things really are closely with Dr. Carl by providing adminis- better left to the experts. trative support for board activities, special Strangely, driving with my kids reminds me events, long range planning, evaluation, and of our development eff orts at Pittsburgh accreditation reports. I am very excited (and

26 relieved!) to be focusing my eff orts in these Introducing a New Talent areas, and grateful that God continues to call me to serve here. Pittsburgh Th eological Seminary students who are eligible for fi nancial aid receive a And while I am looking for an expert driver’s portion of that aid in exchange for partici- ed teacher, the Seminary has begun a targeted pating in a work assistance job on the search for a chief development offi cer. Some campus. Th ese jobs exist in all aspects of things really are better left to the experts! seminary life: playroom, library, dining hall, Hopefully in the next Panorama we will offi ces, and custodial duties. Th e Seminary be able to introduce you to this person. I Relations Offi ce is very pleased to introduce know that he or she will come to us with a Jeff Schooley, a fi rst-year student who will be successful track record in fundraising in an completing his work assistance assignment educational setting, because this is what it as a writer for campus publications. Schooley will take us to the next level. comes to us well qualifi ed for this assignment. Please keep us in your prayers during this He spent six years working for Th e Daily Kent time of search and transition. (And your Stater while receiving his degree and one year prayers for peace and patience for Mom as a part time staff er during the driving adventures would be most on the Mansfi eld News welcome, too!) May God continue to bless all Journal in Ohio. He of us as we seek to serve Jesus Christ in many will be writing feature ways. stories with a special emphasis on student Peace to you! groups, student life, and student views of Th e Rev. Lisa Dormire ’86 life here at PTS. Vice President for Seminary Relations

P.S. Th e end of our fi scal year will draw to a close very soon, May 31. If you have not Celebration of Giving yet made a gift of support, please use the In our recent “Celebration of Giving,” attached envelope to do so. It takes all of Pittsburgh Th eological Seminary said us working together to fund the transfor- thank you to our donors—friends, mational work of Pittsburgh Th eological alumni, churches, organizations, Seminary! and Seminary employees—for their generous donations from June 1, 2003– May 31, 2006. Th e following churches were missing from the Northumberland Presbytery Churches listing: First PC, Bloomsburg, Pa.; First PC, Wellsboro, Pa.; Lycoming PC, Williamsport, Pa.; Mahoning PC, Danville, Pa.; Montours- ville PC, Montoursville, Pa. Also not included with the other Seminary family was the Rev. Dr. Byron H. Jackson. We apologize for the oversight and thank you again for your generosity!

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