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Staff Photographers 12 • Mission Possible! Elizabeth Clark After nearly two years of care¬ Keith Kerber ful labor and input from every Chris Moody part of the Seminary communi¬ ty, PTS has a new mission InSpire is a magazine for alumni/ae and friends statement—one designed to of Princeton Theological last a long, long time. Seminary. It is published by Ingrid Meyer four times a year by the Princeton Theological Seminary Office of Communications/ Publications, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542-0803. 14 • Clear to Zaire Telephone: 609-497-7760 Facsimile: 609-497-7870 PTS professor Elsie McKee Internet: returned to the land of her [email protected] birth for a fall 1995 sabbatical, where she taught students The magazine has a circulation in a seminary where her father of approximately 23,000 and taught. is printed by George H. Buchanan Co. in Philadelphia, by Elsie McKee PA. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA.

On the Cover A mosaic of loaves and fishes from the Byzantine basilica of Departments the Multiplying of the Loaves in the Arabic village of Tabgha 2 • Letters 26 • Outstanding in the Field provides the background for photographs of the Dome of 3 • On & Off Campus 28 • Obituaries the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, and PTS alum¬ 8 • Student Life 31 • Investing in Ministry ni/ae at the entrance to one of • 32 • the Qumran caves. The photos 17 Class Notes End Things are by Andy Vaughn ('91 25 • On the Shelves 33 • Con Ed Calendar M.Div., '96 Ph.D.).

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have gone by since the photo was Please write — we love to hear from you! i taken in 1962. Letters should be addressed to: The “Calvin-Warfield Club” sign Editors, inSpire Stick Ball Memories was simply on the wall when the photo Office of Communications/Publications You can imagine my surprise at Princeton Theological Seminary was taken and has nothing to do with seeing the Princeton Seminary stick- P.O. Box 821 the team itself. The stickball team was ball team photo pop out of inSpire in Princeton, NJ 08542-0803 an ad hoc group of students who email: [email protected] the Winter 1996 issue. So many years thought of the idea and had sweat¬ Letters may be edited for length or clarity, and should include the writer's name and shirts made. Lloyd Evans, holding the from the telephone numbers, so that we may verify papers lor the presentation we made authorship. president's desk to Karl Barth, started the team. There was no small amount of disapproval with your students. Our prayer is that ear Friends and Colleagues: D at this presentation from other stu¬ the experience has been as wonderful Realtors claim that there are three dents and the administration. Quite for them as it has been for us. criteria lor buying real estate—location, a few felt that it was beneath the digni¬ Barb Ault, secretary location, and location. Accrediting asso¬ ty of one of the great theologians of Pembina County Larger Parish ciations for institutions engaged in the twentieth century. Cavalier, ND higher education make a similar claim. My memory of the time is that Dr. Alley Adoption Brings Memories The three major criteria in the accredi¬ Barth was delighted to receive this gift, The article about Jim and Joan tation process are as we made him our honorary third Alley brought back fond memories for mission statement, baseman. He told us that he would me. Twelve years ago I adopted a mission statement, continue to write the final volumes of Korean orphan and brought him to and mission state¬ his dogmatics in Switzerland, proudly this country in much the same way. ment. wearing our sweatshirt. Whether or I have never married, but wanted to In preparation not that actually happened, I have no share my home and love with a needy for its ten-year on¬ way of knowing. child. It’s been a challenge to be a sin¬ site accreditation vis¬ William L. Flanagan (’64B) gle parent by choice, but the rewards itation, Princeton Newport Beach, CA have been beyond measure. Thank you Seminary has reviewed and revised PTS Internship Program Serves for sharing Jim and Joan’s story with its mission statement. That story is fea¬ the Church us. tured in this edition of inSpire, and I I have never been a student of John D. Gibbs (’77B) commend it to you. PTS, but I read every issue of inSpire Westfield, WI Here let me emphasize the missional hoping to hear some news about some Eating Clubs Still A Hit character ot this school. The Plan of the people who are very dear to me...our In the fall of 1940, the members Seminary that created it when adopted former summer seminary student of Calvin Club took a lively interest by the General Assembly of the interns. Our parish has had an intern in the presidential election. Three ol us Presbyterian Church in 1812 mandated program since 1985 and for seven of were FDR supporters, and the remain¬ the new institution to prepare leader¬ those years, the interns have been from der favored Wilkie. As a consequence ship for the church. This leadership was PTS. God has blessed us with each and of the Democratic victory, the New to be educated in a manner that com¬ every one. Dealers were honored by having to bined “sound learning" with genuine In 1985, H. Bert More was with stand the club to an ice cream dessert. “piety of the heart.” us. In 1986, David Florence spent his For the benefit of James C. Leeper Our mission today continues this summer with us. In 1987, Robert (’38B) and to the best ol my octoge¬ visionary tradition. We seek to provide McGaha was here. 1988 brought Mark narian recollection, here are the words a theological education that will enable Koontz. 1990 saw Christopher Berg of the second verse of the club’s believers to be scholars and encourage with our parish. In 1991 John V. anthem: scholars to be believers in Jesus Christ Callahan Jr. was with us. This past I can see her tonight by the old candlelight and servants of his church. The girl that left me flat. summer (1995) we had Terry Kukuk Your partnership with us in this I can see her once more by the old cabin door with us. Now, I am anxiously awaiting As she tossed me my derby hat. mission is a great blessing. And she kept all the rings and the presents the arrival of Ken Locke and his wife, and things Elizabeth; another wonderful student That I haven't made a payment on as yet. Faithfully yours, from PTS! So I’m sad and I’m broke and I’m just a cheap joke We want to thank Princeton To the girl I left behind. Theological Seminary lor the opportu¬ Thomas W. Gillespie Charles P Robshaw (’42B) nity to work and study side by side Pittsburgh, PA

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Dead Sea Scrolls Project Wins President Gillespie Receives Accompanying Gillespie to Scotland for Awards Honorary Degree the ceremony were his wife, Barbara; his Princeton Seminary's Dead Sea Scrolls The oldest university in Scotland hon¬ son, William; and Fred W. Cassell, the Project's translation of the Dead Sea ored Princeton Seminary President Seminary's vice president for Seminary Scrolls was selected as a co-winner of the Thomas W. Gillespie in June. St. Andrews relations and fellow PTS Class of 1954 Biblical Archaeology Society's award for University, founded in 1410, granted graduate, with his wife, Jo Anne. the best scholarly book on archaeology Gillespie the honorary Doctor of Divinity PTS alumnus Nigel Robb ('79M, '89M), published in 1995. degree at its June 21 graduation ceremo¬ who teaches on the faculty of St. Mary's The project is directed by James H. ny. College, hosted a PTS alumni/ae dinner Charlesworth, Princeton's George L. In the Middle Ages St. Andrews devel¬ while the president was at St. Andrews. Collord Professor of New Testament oped three colleges; St. Salvator's and St. About fifty graduates and friends of Language and Literature. He has also Leonard's were later amalgamated into Princeton Seminary gathered at the Scores received a Distinguished Achievement United College, specializing in arts and sci¬ Hotel, overlooking the beach and the "Old Citation for his work from his alma mater, ences. The third college, St. Mary's, has Course" of the Royal and Ancient Golf Ohio Wesleyan University. maintained its identity as the college of Club, St. Andrews, to hear Gillespie speak divinity. and to share memories of Princeton.

The Incoming Class! Of the fifty-one students admitted from .A 300 The Seminary admitted 233 students to overseas, most of whom are in the Th. M. I the fall 1996 incoming class. According to degree program, 38 percent come from r PTS Director of Vocations and Admissions Korea, India, Ghana, or Taiwan. : • -v V ,\^j S Jeffrey O'Grady, competition was heavy Fifty-three percent of fall M. Div. for places at Princeton. "admits" are Presbyterian. The next high¬ "We had a total of 367 applicants for est percentage is from the United MOKAAYVIC isvm\ this fall's entering M.Div. class," he said, Methodist Church (8 percent). "and of those, we admitted 233. That's a Princeton seminarians graduate from Revelation Art is Gift to Seminary 63 percent admission rate, which is lower many colleges and universities. Some retirees spend their time fishing or than many other institutions. You want a Eight institutions, however, playing with their grandchildren. Harold M. low rate in this category, because account for the largest num¬ Neufeld C50B) has spent his in building an that assures you can keep ber of next year's students. album of photographs of every piece of art the quality high." These include private institu¬ connected with John of Patmos, author of Of the candidates tions (Westmont College, the Book of Revelation. This winter, Neufeld admitted for the fall M. Princeton University, presented the Seminary with a copy of his Div. class, 154 are men Davidson College, Wake photo album, making Princeton one of only and 79 are women. Forest University, Duke three institutions in the world to receive Their average age is University, and Eastern one. twenty-nine years. One College) and public Neufeld, who retired in 1987 after seven¬ hundred and fifty-seven institutions (the teen years as pastor of the First Presbyter¬ the M.Div. "admits" are sin¬ University of Texas ian Church, Leadville, CO, spends much of gle; seventy-six are married. and the University of his time traveling to view works of art con¬ While PTS's students come Washington). nected with the author of Revelation. His from nearly every state in the Admission to the journey has often taken him to Patmos, country, the top seven states Seminary's Ph.D. program is even more the island in Greece where John wrote represented in the new class are competitive than admission to the M.Div. Revelation; appropriately enough, he has New Jersey, California, New York, Texas, program. Nineteen new Ph.D. candidates given a copy of the album to the Monastery Washington, Pennsylvania, and North will enter in the fall; they were chosen of St. John at Patmos. The third copy was Carolina. from an applicant pool of 211 people. given to England's Oxford University. Neufeld is also working on a book to be titled Pilgrimage to Patmos: A New Approach to the Book of Revelation. summer 1996

on&off Campus

Wedding Bells Ring at Miller Chapel It's summertime in Princeton, and that means a busy season for weddings in Miller Chapel. For alumni/ae and other Seminary community members, PTS's historic chapel is a popular spot for marriage ceremonies. "We have about twelve weddings every year," said chapel secretary Carol Belles. Miller Chapel is available for the weddings of Seminary community members—stu¬ dents, alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and administrators—as well as their children. Occasionally a person not con¬ nected with the Seminary gets married in Miller, Belles said, but that is rare, and requires special permission from the Seminary president. So far this year, eighteen couples have been married in Miller Chapel, including President Thomas Gillespie's daughter, Dayle Gillespie ('89B), who was married there over the Labor Day weekend. The elder Gillespie and Nancy Lammers Gross ('81B, '92D) performed the cere¬ mony. Of course, seminarians have been holding weddings in Miller Chapel for a long time. Carl ('36B, '42M) and Alice Bogard, for instance, were married there on July 3, tneir iy4^ weaaing as 1942. "Dr. Andrew Blackwood was one of Carl's favorite pro¬ fessors," Alice Bogard remembered, "and he performed the ceremony at 10 a.m. on a beautiful day. Since none of my family was present, Mrs. Blackwood invited me to stay with them for two days on Mercer Street and brought me breakfast in bed on the wedding day. After the wedding she served a delightful lunch for us and the professor. What a lady she was!"

Director of Housing Stephen Cardone said, "and up until now British Professor Gives Warfield we've had to put them into dormi¬ Lectures tory rooms. At any other institu¬ Christina A. Baxter, dean of St. John's College tion, single graduate students can in Nottingham, England, gave the Seminary's move into apartments. This build¬ annual Warfield Lectures from March 18 to 21, ing will meet that need here." 1996. The brick building will have two The six lectures were PTS Breaks Ground stories, parking, limited storage, on the theme of "Models for Ministry: Christian for New Housing and a lounge, "since we want the building to have a community feel Ministry Reconsidered in Second-career students and con¬ to it," Cardone said. It will also the Light of the tinuing education participants will include security, cable access, and Johannine Narratives both gain new places to live and computer access. Cardone hopes about Women." work when Princeton Theological the building will be completed by The lectures, Baxter Seminary begins work on two new summer 1997. As students move said, grew out of her campus building projects. into the new housing, the Center of experience of leading The first project will be to build Continuing Education will begin to retreats for and preach¬ new apartments for single students ing at the ordinations of remodel Erdman Hall, which cur¬ photo: Keith Kerber at the Charlotte Rachel Wilson rently houses students. The "new the Church of England's Christina Baxter gave the apartment complex, which current¬ and improved" Erdman Hall will first women clergy. Warfield Lectures last spring. ly contains apartments for married contain new office space for center "I thought, what mod¬ students and families. The new staff and new rooms for continuing els of womanly ministry would be appropriate apartment building, which will be education participants. for these women? And I realized that the located directly across from the "There will be more single rooms women of John's ministry offer us models Charlotte Newcombe Center, will with private baths, some rooms which are positive and creative," she said. contain thirty one-bedroom apart¬ with double beds, and telephone Baxter, who was a guest professor of theolo¬ ments and ten two-bedroom apart¬ and computer hookups," said gy at Princeton Seminary in 1990, is the author ments. A total of fifty students, David Wall, program coordinator of Ready for the Party? She has also written most of them older or in their sec¬ for continuing education. If all goes several articles, including "Jesus the Man and ond careers, will eventually live according to plan, Wall added, the Women's Salvation," "The Cursed Beloved: A there. Erdman renovation will begin in Reconsideration of Penal Substitution," and "We have people coming from summer 1997 and be completed in "Barth: A Truly Biblical Theologian?" homes and apartments who are early 1998. used to living on their own,"

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on&off Campus

Sun Hee Kwak ('65B), a Korean New PTS Videos Available pastor and educator, received the photo: The Leigh Photographic Group Settle into your armchair for some delight¬ 1996 Distinguished Alumnus Award ful new fall videos from Princeton at the Alumni/ae Reunion banquet Theological Seminary! The selection, avail¬ this spring. He was honored for able from Princeton's Media Services, The Seminary's annual Hunger Run (above) founding and pastoring So-Mang includes: was just one of the Stewardship Committee's Presbyterian Church in Seoul, South * Building Church and Community spring fund-raising projects, which together Korea, which is one of the three Ministries, with Carl Geores, assistant for raised nearly $19,000. The Hunger Run itself largest Presbyterian churches in student advisement in the Office of Field raised around $3,500, which was given to Korea, as well as for establishing and Education; Bread for the World and the Crisis Ministry supporting schools in China, North * Temptation, with Stuart Professor of of Trenton, NJ. The Stuff Auction, where semi¬ Korea, Brazil, and the former Soviet Philosophy Diogenes Allen; narians bought goods and services donated Union. He has also supported * Teaching for Faith: A Guide for Teachers by other community members, raised approxi¬ churches in China, and is currently of Adult Classes, with Richard R. Osmer, the mately $2,000; the money was given to the chairperson of the boards of trustees Thomas W. Synnott Associate Professor of PC(USA) Peacemaking Project and to the Heifer of Presbyterian Theological Seminary Christian Education and director of Project, which gives livestock to poor people and Soong Sil University, both in Princeton's School of Christian Education; around the world. The book sale raised approx¬ Seoul, and Yanbian University in and imately $12,000 for eight international theologi¬ Yanbian, China. Kwak is pictured * Human Sexuality and Christian cal colleges, and Theologiggle, an evening above shaking hands with PTS Community, with Max L. Stackhouse, of skits and silliness, raised $1,200 for President Thomas W. Gillespie; at left Princeton's Stephen Colwell Professor of WomanSpace, a shelter for battered women. is Kwak's son Joseph, who graduated Christian Ethics. this spring with a Th.M.

At its May meeting, David B. Watermulder, former pastor to trustee emeritus status at the May the Seminary's Board of of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church in Bryn board meeting. He chaired the board Trustees elected Robert Mawr, PA, and a trustee since 1958, retired from 1985 to 1991. M. Adams, former vice chairperson of the board, as its new chairperson, and Ralph M. New Trustee Champions Rights many confer¬ Wyman as vice chairperson. Adams suc¬ ences on wel¬ ceeds Johannes R. Krahmer, who retired of People with Disabilities coming people after a five-year term as chairperson and One summer night in 1960, four- with disabilities will remain on the board as an active month-old Peter Thornburgh, son into faith com¬ member. of former Pennsylvania governor munities. A graduate of Princeton Seminary, and former U.S. attorney general Dick Her current Princeton University, and Cornell Thornburgh, suffered a car accident job is as director University, Adams is a professor of philos¬ that killed his mother and left him with of the Religion ophy at Yale University, a position he a severely injured brain. The problems and Disability began in 1993 after twenty years on the of Peter's condition have inspired the program at the Ginny Thornburgh faculty of the University of California— life work of his adoptive mother, new National Organization on Disability in Los Angeles. PTS trustee Ginny Thornburgh, who Washington, D.C., where she has served Louise Upchurch Lawson, associate pas¬ is a passionate and energetic advocate for eight years. She works to make con¬ tor of Germantown Presbyterian Church for the rights of people with disabilities. gregations of every faith and denomina¬ in Germantown, TN, was re-elected as the Thornburgh, who is a Presbyterian tion more welcoming and accessible board's secretary, a position for which layperson, began her advocacy career to children and adults with disabilities, there is no term limit. by working to see Peter included as a showing how faith communities can Two new trustees—Ginny Thornburgh full, welcome member of his communi¬ overcome architectural and attitudinal and Julie E. Neraas—will join the board ty and congregation. Throughout thirty barriers. at its October meeting. Thornburgh is years of work, she has helped reform At PTS, she said, she hopes to extend director of the Religion and Disability Pennsylvania's institutional care, been that mission. Program of the National Organization on coordinator of programs for persons "If I had a theme song," Thornburgh Disability in Washington, D.C. (see right). with disabilities at Harvard University, said, "it would be this: People with Neraas, a 1979 M.Div. graduate of PTS, and has co-written two books: the disabilities have gifts to bring to their is an assistant professor at Hamline award-winning That All May Worship, congregations and faith communities. University in St. Paul, MN, and a spiritual now in its fourth printing, and From Welcoming people with disabilities is Barriers to Bridges, a guide to commu¬ director in the Twin Cities area. She more than an obligation—it's an oppor¬ served on PTS's Alumni/ae Association nity action. She also edited Loving tunity. I want Princeton Theological Justice: The ADA and the Religious Executive Council for four years, and was Seminary to be the best in the country elected by the alumni/ae association as an Community, and has helped organize at welcome." alumni/ae trustee. summer 1996

on&off Campus

Faculty Changes Alan Neely Retires a Presbyterian Church, a Methodist church, Cleophus J. LaRue Jr. has been appoint¬ Alan Neely, an ordained Baptist minister or a Roman Catholic church. I consider this ed assistant professor of homiletics, effec¬ who has spent the past eight years as a manifestation of God's friendship and tive July 1, 1996. LaRue, a minister in the Princeton's Henry Winters Luce Professor grace." National Baptist Convention (U.S.A.) and of Ecumenics and Mission, retired in May. He told his Princeton colleagues that he former senior pastor of Toliver Chapel Neely joined the Princeton faculty in was happy to have come to a Presbyterian Missionary Baptist Church in Waco, TX, 1988 after a career that took him to Cali, school in the will not be a new face on the Seminary Colombia, where he taught at International Northeast. campus; he received his Ph.D. from PTS Baptist Theological Seminary, and to Wake "I could have in May. While completing his dissertation, Forest, NC, where he spent thirteen years lived and he was assistant professor of preaching on the faculty of Southeastern Baptist died with a and worship from 1993 to 1996 at New Theological Seminary. limited and Brunswick Theological Seminary In his retire¬ insular per¬ in New Brunswick, NJ. ment remarks, spective The Board of Trustees has also he reflected on were it not announced three faculty promo¬ the fact that he for people tions, all effective July 1. Leonora had been born like you who Tubbs Tisdale was promoted and grown up in have graced to associate professor of preach¬ a "very provincial our lives, ing and worship, with tenure. environment," accepted us Geddes W. Hanson was named but through his despite our the Charlotte W. Newcombe life had lived denomina¬ Professor of Congregational in Arkansas, tional histo¬ Ministries. Richard R. Osmer Texas, Virginia, ry, our way Alan Neely retired in May. of pronounc. was promoted to full professor, Colorado, Costa and continues to hold the Rica, Colombia, ing words, and even our age. And for this Thomas W. Synnott Chair of Argentina, North we will be always grateful and in your Christian Education. Carolina, and debt." Julie A. Duncan has resigned New Jersey. Neely and his wife, Virginia, are moving her position as assistant profes¬ "I feel equally to Raleigh, NC, where they have a home. sor of Old Testament to accept comfortable in In retirement, he plans to write and to a teaching position at Garrett- Princeton and in teach in local congregations throughout Evangelical Theological Seminary the Philippines," the country. in Evanston, IL. he said, "and in Cleophus LaRue Jr.

PTS Plans Ecumenical Conference Alliance of Reformed Churches; Beverly Looking Ahead: Catholic and Protestant Christians will join Roberts Gaventa, the Seminary's Helen H. P. Fall Events at PTS forces at Princeton Theological Seminary Manson Professor of New Testament this fall for an ecumenical conference, to be Literature and Exegesis; and Seminary held September 29 and 30. President Thomas W. Gillespie. Black Alumni/ae Conference The convocation is co-sponsored by For more information, call Princeton's Set for Fall Princeton and the Commission of Center of Continuing Education at 609-497-7990. A conference for black alumni/ae, titled Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the "The Black Church: A Sign of Hope?," will Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton, NJ. It is be held from October 3 through 5 at the designed to allow all participants to consid¬ Atlanta Professor to Give Macleod Seminary. While the conference is planned er, through theological and biblical reflec¬ Lectures tion, the state of for black alumni/ae, everyone is welcome Fred B. Craddock, who is the Bandy Christian unity as to attend. Professor of Preaching and New Testament the church pre¬ Gardner Taylor, pastor emeritus of Emeritus at Emory University's Candler pares for the Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY, School of Theology in Atlanta, GA, will beginning of the will be the conference's keynote speaker. deliver this year's Donald Macleod/Short third Christian mil¬ Prathia Hall Wynn ('82B, '84M), who is Hills Community Congregational Church lennium. dean of African American ministries at Preaching Lecture Series. The lectures will Speakers at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, be given in the Main Lounge of Mackay conference will OH, will be the preacher. The closing ban¬ Campus Center on October 14 and 15. include Raymond quet speaker will be M. William Howard Craddock's subject will be "A Sermon E. Brown, S.S., the Auburn Distinguished ('72B), president of New York Theological For Those Who Are Leaving." Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Seminary. Bible study will be led by PTS's The event was established by Community Union Theological Seminary in New York; own Brian Blount, assistant professor Congregational Church in Short Hills, NJ, Edward Cardinal Cassidy, who is president of New Testament, and Raquel St. Clair, to honor Donald Macleod, the Seminary's of the Pontifical Council for Promoting a Seminary Ph.D. student. Francis Landey Patton Professor of Christian Unity at the Vatican in Rome, Italy; For more information about this confer¬ Preaching and Worship Emeritus. Every Jane Dempsey Douglass, Princeton's Hazel ence, please call the Chapel Office at two or three years, the lecture series brings Thompson McCord Professor of Historical 609-497-7890. an outstanding preacher or preaching Theology and president of the World instructor to the Seminary campus. photo: Elizabeth Clark the CenterforChristianSocial fall of1995,incooperationwith the StephenColwellProfessor the insightsofChristiantheolo¬ with seminaryfacultyandother will showhowbiblicalandtheo¬ Theology, aprogramthathelps on&off Campus questions ineconomiclife. education programonethical Church ofBethlehem,PA,where shape thefabricofcommonlife. of ChristianEthics,theproject gy andethics.DirectedbyPTS Christians addressissuesposed of extensionseminaryforthe Stackhouse organizedanadult Ethics oftheFirstPresbyterian professor MaxL.Stackhouse, by Americanculture,through lished theProjectonPublic bring togetherchurchmembers laity," Stackhousesaid."We logical resourcesdoandshould The projectwasbeguninthe Princeton Seminaryhasestab¬ "Our goalistodevelopakind Formed atPTS Project onPublicTheology Theology offeredaseminaron We wanttofomentinthesemi¬ from atheologicalpointofview. the factthattheyarespeaking world, notjustfortheindividual and issuesinpubliclife. stand moreseculardisciplines and theologycanhelpusunder¬ oriented disciplineslikeethics experts totalkabouthowfaith- church lastspring,andplansare community attheBethlehem said. "Christiansshouldnothide are publictruths,truthsforthe Christian convictions." discourse anawarenessof law. professions ofmedicineand nar onChristianethicsandthe underway forafall1996semi¬ human sexualityandChristian nary, thechurch,andpublic in hisorherinteriorlife,"he The ProjectonPublic "The truthsoftheGospel called asassociatepastorsand churches intheUnitedStates, country. Manymorewillcom¬ degrees, includingKirkNolan and forty-sevenreceivedM.Div. students inMay.Onehundred ed twohundredandthirty-six again! TheSeminarygraduat¬ (left). Ofthese,fifty-twowere Princeton graduates. ing pastorates.InPresbyterian plete furtherstudybeforeseek¬ pastors inchurchesacrossthe 18 percentofallpastors are Graduation daywashere for itsmembers,whoholdanationalconventioneveryyear, time tonurturetheirrelationshipswithfriendsandfamily, that they'reundertoomuchstress;bymaintaininggood can beagoodthing—theideaistofindtheoptimallevel, Atlantic andNorthRegionsoftheICPC,by attitudes; bygettingenoughnutrition,rest,andexercise; she said,throughnotingtheir"stormwarnings,"orsigns and nottogooverthat."Churchprofessionalscandothat, gram. "WehadfivesuicidesintheFBIlastyear.Now,stress a speakerwhoworksintheFBI'semployeeassistancepro¬ stress inordertotakecareoftheirownhealth. emphasized thatit'simportantforeveryone,butparticularly debriefing procedurefollowingacriticalincident.Theyalso officers dealwithshootings,deaths,seriousinjuries,and as wellmanylocalareatrainingprograms.ThePrinceton Seminary HostsPoliceChaplains'Conference of God." and todonicethingsforthemselves. police chaplains,tocarefullymonitortheirownlevelsof mass disasters,aswellmoreeverydayjobstresses. incident stressdebriefing,orhowpolicechaplainscanhelp program includedafull-dayseminarforICPCcreditoncritical Princeton TownshipPoliceDepartment. May ataconferencethatwasjointlysponsoredbytheMid- police chaplainsmettodiscussandlearnabouttheirfieldlast International ConferenceofPoliceChaplains(ICPC).Area unless thepolicearefortychaplainsfrom by notabusingalcohol,tobacco,ordrugs;andtakingthe "It's importantforustostaygroundedasmenandwomen The ICPCemphasizeseducation,training,andcredentials When thepolicearecalledtocampus,it'snotgoodnews— Speakers stressedthenecessityoffollowingacareful "People dietoavoidstress,"saidJackieDalrymple, "A littlehealthyhedonismisagoodthing,"Dalrymplesaid. Testament, andM.Div.middler Adam, assistantprofessor ofNew Weadon, theSeminary'slateC.F. created thispaneloftheAIDS Sara McCullohledtheproject. died inDecember.Andrew K.M. quilt inmemoryofDavidA. Seabrook DirectorofMusic, who Princeton facultyandstudents inSpire •7

photo: Elizabeth Clark summer 1996

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of our friends were single and still are. ing a baby shower for another spouse and Career Times Two We sort of lived between two worlds. feeling “like I was on a different planet Our apartment at Charlotte Rachel Wilson in the discussion,” she said. “Dual-career by Barbara Chaapel was nice, but I felt isolated from both mar¬ couples, when one of the careers is not ried and single students. Our real communi¬ in the church, are unusual at PTS. Many For Princeton’s growing number of dual¬ ty was the touring choir.” wives work, but they are not on a profession¬ career couples, coming to seminary is a bit Community is a key issue for dual-career al career track. I didn't meet any other like following the biblical Abraham and couples. Laurena Kerber followed her hus¬ wives who wanted to work in the corporate Sarah into an unknown country. These stu¬ band, Keith, to Princeton. With an under¬ world.” dents uproot careers, families, and house¬ graduate degree in international trade, Reinald Yoder knows what she means. holds so that one or both of them can follow she plans a career in international business. He is married to Christine Yoder, a 1994 God’s call to ministry. But coming to Princeton postponed her M.Div. graduate who is now a student in 1996 M. Div. graduates Duncan and plans temporarily. During her husband’s first the Seminary’s Ph.D. program. During ori¬ Emily McColl left their home in San Diego year at PTS, she commuted two hours a day entation for new students, he was one of to come to seminary after the death of their to a job in Newark, NJ, instead of beginning only two men at a reception for spouses fifteen-month-old son. “I had always wanted her M.B.A. at the president’s home. to be a minister,’’ said Duncan, a Stanford “I knew Laurena was not fulfilled that “I felt strange, to say the least,” he graduate and former professional football year,” said Keith, who laughed. “It was an player for the Washington Redskins. “I took received his M. Div. open invitation, but some courses part time at Fuller Theological in 1996. “We were at the focus of the dis¬ Seminary, but was working full time in real Princeton for me, and cussion was on estate. Then when Evan died, I knew that she did what it took women’s Bible stud¬ what was really important to me in my life to get by.” ies and womens was serving God.’ “That first year was ® support groups. The Emily, on the other hand, had never con¬ really hard,” Laurena a. experience felt exclu- sidered ministry. A physical therapy major agreed. “I hadn't been §* sionary. at Stanford, she | Couples like the was a full-time o> Yoders have found mother and led „ that good friends, the children’s pro¬ both inside and out- gram at her O jj side the Seminary church as a vol¬ community, help unteer. “After accepted into an abate the feeling of being different that dual¬ Evan’s death, M.B.A. program career couples face. “We had a ‘blind dinner I wanted to help jj yet, so it felt like date’ recently with a Russian couple at other bereaved k. * my career was on Princeton University, and I know they will families, and f hold; and I had become good friends,” Christine said. “The I found my own o to drive every day wife, a native of Germany, is a full-time stu¬ call to ministry,” throughout that dent in Russian literature, and the husband she said. icy winter to is studying English and looking for work.” So the McColls visited Princeton using work, getting home late and having little Support comes from farther away, too. The frequent flyer airline tickets from a friend, time with Keith. Neighbors at CRW got me Kerbers belong to a support group of friends rented their house, and headed three thou¬ through that year. On the day I found out from their church in California. “We are six sand miles east as “late admits” in the sum¬ I hadn’t been accepted at Wharton, a neigh¬ or seven couples from all over the country mer of 1993. bor brought by a ‘care basket’ of tea and pot¬ who meet every summer,” Keith explained. Angela Dienhart Hancock and Trent pourri. Another day some friends hung “We have committed ourselves to be an Hancock, also members of the Class of a ‘support’ poster on our door. intentional community that supports and 1996, entered seminary as single people. A participant in the Seminary choir, challenges each other. We talk and pray with They met in the touring choir during their Laurena also credits the late director of each other whenever one of us has an impor¬ first semester, and married the summer music, David Weadon, with “reaching out to tant decision to make.” after their middler year. me and helping me feel connected to PTS.” And for Emily McColl, long-distance sup¬ “ The biggest transition at seminary for Laurena describes herself as a non-tradi- port was as tangible and as tiny as a recipe us was marriage itself,” Angela said. “Most tional seminary spouse. She recalled attend¬ arriving in the mail. “Friends sent me a bak-

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ing recipe each day during that awful snowy But Trent was resolute about who preached Princeton, and through Princeton, so I had winter our first year,” she said. “When you’re first. “Angela preached our candidating ser¬ no doubt he would provide for us in the used to California sun, having fifty-three mon,” he said. “We wanted to send the mes¬ future,” Keith said. “The pastor there is days that year without seeing the sun or sage from the start that she was one of the Brian Paulson (PTS Class of 1987) and moon was tough.” pastors, not the pastor’s wife.” he is also half of a dual-career couple!” Managing daily schedules poses a particu¬ Who looks for the first job is a key deci¬ Winter-weary, the McColls left Princeton lar challenge for these couples. With four sion for couples where one partner is not after graduation, California-bound. “The schoolchildren and two graduate students a minister. With Christine at least two years beaches, surfboards, and Grandma were doing homework and writing papers every away from her Ph.D. and Reinald happily calling the kids home,” Duncan laughed. night after dinner, both study space and teaching math and computer science at He and Emily wanted to work at the same computer time were at a premium in the a local private school, the Yoders have some church so that their family could worship McColls’ small apartment at the Seminary’s time to think about it. “We made the deci¬ together, but there were few churches open Whiteley Gymnasium. sion to come to Princeton six years ago for to a clergy couple who needed two positions. “We knew it was time to get two comput¬ me,” Christine said, “so the next move “When we interviewed with Point Loma ers when both Emily and I were writing should be his!” Community Presbyterian Church in San papers on Jeremiah for ‘Orientation to Old But the couple is realistic. “I’m more Diego, that congregation didn’t know Testament Studies,”' Duncan recalled wryly. marketable teaching high school math than it wanted two associates," Emily said with “We had borh labeled Christine will a twinkle. But the McColls looked at the our files 'Jeremiah' and be teaching Old “huge job description” and proposed one and I mistakenly deleted Testament,” a half positions; the church agreed. Duncan Emily’s paper while Reinald acknowl¬ is now the full-time associate pastor for out¬ working on mine.” edged. “She’ll have reach, evangelism, and mission; Emily minis¬ Perhaps the biggest fewer job possibili¬ ters half time in pastoral care and women’s challenge for dual¬ ties, so I’m com¬ ministries. career couples comes mitted to going Such creativity and flexibility are musts with graduations and where she gets for dual-career couples, whose lives and deci¬ job searches. a position.” sions change perceptions of ministry and Angela and Trent ministers. Hancock knew they Christine Yoder wanted to pastor believes the church together. “We wanted is slowly figuring out to worship together, what to expect from hear each other preach; that meant being The next phase began two-career couples. co-pastors,” Angela said. Not knowing any for the Kerbers when She recounted a com¬ co-pastors or how hard it would be to find Laurena accepted a mittee meeting she a call, they approached the call process position as an interna- led in a church where aggressively, sending out 178 copies of their tional procurement | she was doing field

inSpire • 9 summer 1996 Living History PTS Pilgrims Explore the Holy Land

by R. Elizabeth Boone

All photos by David Carpenter Jerusalem—fabled city, ancient and planner, who is Class of 1991 (M.Div.) stronghold, birthplace of Christian¬ and Class of 1996 (Ph.D.). Richard ity. In March 1996, twenty-seven Whitaker, information specialist and lecturer Princeton Theological Seminary in Old Testament, also helped plan and lead alumni/te from the Class ol 1991 the trip, as did Dean of Continuing travelled to the Holy Land together Education Joyce C. Tucker. PTS President for a two-week trip that enriched Thomas W. Gillespie and his wile, Barbara, their fellowship, their historical and daughter, Dayle, also went on the trip. understandings, and ultimately their ministries. WORSHIP IN A HOLY LAND The trip was made possible Each day, trip participants worshipped by Ann and Tom Cousins, together, with devotions led by group mem¬ Seminary benefactors who are bers. The sanctuary was often a significant members and elders of North biblical site. On the group’s first Sunday Avenue Presbyterian Church in Israel, George Wirth preached from the in Atlanta, GA. They have spon¬ Mount of Olives. Behind the tiny "congrega¬ sored similar trips for Columbia Theological tion” was the noise and confusion of street Seminary, and through their friendships vendors and cars; in front of them was with PTS trustee George Wirth (’73B), who a panoramic view of the Old City of is also pastor of Atlanta’s Lirst Presbyterian Jerusalem. Wirth opened his Bible to Psalm Church, they decided to extend their gen¬ 122 and began to read, “Pray for the peace erosity to Princeton. of Jerusalem. ” At top is the Dome of the Rock on Only members of the Class of 1991 who The peace of Jerusalem, unfortunately, the Temple Mount. are Presbyterian pastors or associate pastors is surrounded by bullet holes in buildings, In the middle are elements for a in local congregations were eligible to go armed soldiers at bus stops and in clumps communion service on the trip. (Luture trips are in the planning around the country, and tight airport securi¬ on the Mount of stages.) Their idea, the Cousins said, was to ty. Peace is not a word generally associated Olives, overlooking the old Jewish help ministers who were still at the beginning with the Middle East. The day the group cemetery. At bot¬ of their pastoral careers get a better sense reported to the PTS campus before depart¬ tom, trip partici¬ of the land where Jesus lived. ing, the second terrorist bombing of pant Greg Eubanks leads a devotional “Positive changes in the church need to a Jerusalem commuter bus occurred. The inside the ruins happen from the top down. We need strong day participants arrived in Tel Aviv, their bus of the synagogue pastoral leadership in our churches,” Ann was late because ol a bombing in the shop¬ on top of Masada, overlooking the Cousins said. “Every pastor needs the chance ping district. People were killed. However, Dead Sea. to go to the Holy Land. We decided that as guest expert (and Tel Aviv University such a trip would have a bigger impact on Professor of Archaeology) Gabriel Barkay a pastor’s ministry and on the whole church noted, “Jerusalem is usually peaceful. You if it happened early in the pastor’s career.” can’t believe everything the media says.” Many pastors cannot afford such a trip until they are close to or in retirement, she added, STUDY IN A HOLY LAND and while a trip then can be personally sig¬ The group’s extensive and intensive itin¬ nificant, it often comes too late to affect erary covered every part ol Israel except the a career. far southern wilderness region, and filled The twenty-seven alumni/te were joined their days from before breakfast until well by various Princeton Seminary administra¬ into the evening. tors, friends, and group leaders. These in¬ True to the invitation, the trip provided cluded Andrew Vaughn, the trip co-leader a regional understanding of biblical history

10 • inSpire summer 1996 and geography. Participants spent four days Oded Borowski, a professor of archaeolo¬ is the newlound ability to picture the visiting the Galilee and Golan areas of Israel. gy and near-eastern studies at Atlanta’s places the Bible talks about. They visited the New Testament sites of Emory University, took the group through “I now read the Bible with different Caesarea, Nazareth, Bethsaida, Capernaum, the Negeb region, where they encountered eyes,” said Ann Deibert, associate pastor Tiberius, Sephorris, and Beth Shean. The their first camel caravan near Beersheba and of Central Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Old Testament highlights included Hazor, saw many Bedouin encampments. They also KY. “When I read about Jesus going to Dan, and Megiddo. spent a day at Neot Kedumin, a nature Capernaum to preach, I’ve been there. The group employed several guest lectur¬ reserve where all biblical agricultural tradi¬ I know a lot more about physical geography. ers, including Ann Killebrew, a professor at tions are preserved in one place. And in the Images in the Bible relate to that geography the Rothberg School for Overseas Students Shephelah region, Zvi Lederman, a professor and landscape. Lor instance, Psalm 125 says at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, as the mountains surround Jerusalem, so an expert on synagogues and villages during showed participants the battlefield of David the Lord surrounds the people. When I went the time of Jesus. She introduced partici¬ and Goliath. there, I realized that the mountains wrap pants to a reconstructed village in the Golan around Jerusalem like an arm. That went that was similar to those during the time of COMMUNITY IN A HOLY LAND from being words on the page to being Jesus. By the end of their time at the archae¬ Trip participants greatly enjoyed the a physical metaphor for me.” ological digs, travellers knew the difference sense of community and reunion they felt Beddingfield agreed with his classmate, between storehouses and stables, could iden¬ while traveling with their classmates after adding that “when I talk about a temple tify the six chambered gates of Solomonic the commencement diaspora. or some of the small towns where Jesus architecture, and had walked through huge “Because ministry can be a lonely profes¬ preached, I have a new depth ol understand¬ water cisterns and down well shafts to the sion, the chance to share and talk with ing because I’ve been there and I know how source of water. those who already know you and know the it looks today, which in some cases isn’t very Gabriel Barkay, one of the world’s lead¬ language of ministry made the trip all different than how it probably looked in ing authorities on the archaeology and histo¬ the better,” said Millie Snyder, pastor of Jesus’ time.” Beddingfield also said that the ry of Jerusalem, was Morningstar trip helped him recognize more biblical the group’s guide in Presbyterian Church in metaphors—“I now pay attention to whether Jerusalem. He led an Matthews, NC. the author is trying to tell us something with exploration of the Other alumni/se also that choice of tree, or making a point that ancient Jerusalem appreciated the theolog¬ would have been obvious to the audience but that exists under¬ ical diversity within the isn’t to us because we don’t know the geogra¬ neath the modern group. phy,” he said—-and gave him a new apprecia¬ Jewish Quarter of “Our group repre¬ tion ol holy places. the Old City. The sented the entire theo¬ “The question of whether this was the adventure included logical spectrum, ends exact place where Jesus was crucified or walks through what of the spectrum which buried didn’t matter so much as I thought is believed to be are often at odds with it might,” Beddingfield said, “knowing that Caiaphas’ palace, and each other, even and wherever that place was, it wasn’t far away. through a tunnel especially at seminary,” I found the holy places very holy. One night under the Old City said John Beddingfield, I worshipped in a fourth-century church that runs alongside pastor of the Presbyter¬ called Abu Gosh, a church rebuilt by the the Western Wall ian Church of Havre crusaders and now occupied by Lrench where the walls and de Grace, Havre de Benedictines. To be in that space and to hear some of the pavers Grace, MD. “And yet those words of worship—it really did tran¬ date back to the time we were one cohesive scend history. of Jesus. group because we had “When we worshipped in St. George’s The final leg of one common reason for Anglican Church in Jerusalem, the Great the journey involved our existence: to experi¬ Prayer of Thanksgiving gave thanks for Jesus, several day-long ence Israel and enrich ‘who here in Jerusalem gave his life.’ It was Children play in the streets of Jerusalem's study trips. A day Old City. our ministry in the amazing to realize that I was in a place that in the Judean desert name of Jesus Christ. ” was the center of all that has been so impor¬ was led by Dr. Joseph Zias, curator of the tant in my life.” I Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, where MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: most of the Dead Sea Scrolls are kept. MINISTRY BEYOND THE HOLY LAND Indiana Jones-style, the group hiked up into Just as Ann and Tom Cousins had R. Elizabeth Boone is a member of the the hills in search of Qumran caves, finding hoped, the trip to Israel had a profound Class of 1991 and was a trip participant. and entering Cave 11. The exhausting day effect on participants. One of the most She is associate pastor of mission and evange¬ ended with the group floating happily in the important gains, group members said, lism at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dead Sea. Dallas, TX.

inSpire • 11 by Ingrid Meyer

What is a seminary. pastors, and a growing nation was outdis¬ What role should it play in th tancing the source of pastors.” The original church? What should its graduate mission statement notes that “so rapid has know and be trained to do? been the extension of this church, and so Princeton Theological Seminary disproportionate, of late, has been the num¬ just finished two years of hard ber of ministers educated, to the call which thinking about exactly those ques¬ has been made for ministerial service, that tions. The result is a new mission some additional and vigorous efforts to statement, one that is shorter, increase the supply are loudly and affecting- melodic, and more focused. ly demanded.” The first mission statement The new statement also comes is also concerned with the conversion of just in time for Princeton's ten-ye unevangelized parts of the globe, noting review by both the Middle States that part of the Seminary’s job is “to found Accrediting Association and the a nursery for missionaries to the heathen, Association of Theological Schools j and to such as are destitute of the stated (ATS). As of fall 1997, the ATS has a preaching of the Gospel; in which youth new standard—it will judge theolog¬ may receive that appropriate training which ical institutions by whether or not may lay a foundation for their ultimately the schools fulfill their own mission becoming eminently qualified for mission¬ 'statements. The Seminary's need for ary work.” a fresh look at its direction, in addi¬ The Seminary waited until its 1987 tion to this new ATS requirement, accreditation to write another mission state¬ made it "a good time to take a long ment. By that time, both the country’s hard look at our mission state¬ problems and Princeton’s concerns were ment," PTS President Thom very different. The 1987 mission statement Gillespie said. sought to catch up with 150 years of histo¬ The Seminary has had two other mis¬ ry, dealing with making facilities available sion statements. One was written as part of to people from former missionary lands, the original institutional charter in 1811. addressing the ecumenical movement, and Although it did an excellent job of summa¬ noting changes in the world. It was written rizing the Seminary’s purpose and design, by members of the faculty, and covered its and was published in catalogs from its writ¬ various points at much greater length than ing until 1986, its language is unsurprising¬ the new mission statement. ly antiquated. It is, as Dean of Academic The new mission statement attempts Affairs James Armstrong noted, more suited to blend the good qualities of its predeces¬ to a new, frontier-oriented country than to sors. In order to get the best ideas from an established, post-Cold War democracy. every segment of the campus community— “The concerns in 1811 were the open¬ students, alumni/as, trustees, faculty, ing of the West and the need to train people and administrators—Gillespie appointed for ministry who couldn’t go to Europe,” a committee of representatives from all of Armstrong said. “There were not very many these groups, with instructions to write a summer 1996 mission statement that would be “visionary, The committee also solicited input from maturity, to name a few—were incorporated confessional, descriptive, cogent, durable, the entire campus community. They asked into the first of many, many drafts. After the melodic, and short!” the Board of Trustees what five qualities they writing committee and the committee as a And that, from their summer 1994 would most like Princeton graduates to pos¬ whole had worked through voluminous ideas appointment through the next two years, is sess. The answers—integrity, theological and obstacles, committee members showed exactly what the committee wrote. The com¬ competence, good preaching, good pastoral the work in progress to every segment of the mittee as a whole was composed of trustees skills, vision, business and administrative Seminary community, and asked for their Fred R. Anderson, Thomas K. Tewell, Louise skills, leadership, good judgment, determina¬ responses. Upchurch Lawson, Francisco O. Garcia- tion, personal faith in Christ, and spiritual Eric Laverentz was responsible for get¬ Treto, and Young Pai. Faculty members ting student feedback; Jane Dempsey included Jane Dempsey Douglass, Patrick Douglass for faculty response; and Otha D. Miller, Sang H. Lee, and Charles L. Gilyard for thoughts from alumni/re. All Princeton Theological Seminary pre¬ Bartow. Committee administrators were pares men and women to serve Jesus came back with a wide variety of responses, Armstrong, Gillespie, and Joyce C. Tucker, Christ in ministries marked by faith, from “looks good to me” to “incredibly long, dean of continuing education. The commit¬ integrity, scholarship, competence, com¬ well-thought-out letters from all kinds of tee was completed by Otha Gilyard, then passion, and joy, equipping them for people,” Tewell said. “The committee really the president-elect of the Alumni/se leadership worldwide in congregations chewed all these ideas over. Everyone who Association Executive Council, and Eric J. and the larger church, in classrooms and wrote in should know that we took them Laverentz, a 1996 M.Div. graduate who was the academy, and in the public arena. very, very seriously. This wasn’t just a token co-moderator of the Student Government A professional and graduate school effort. In that way, this document’s a lot big¬ of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Association during his middler year. ger than the fifteen people of the commit-

Seminary stands within the Reformed 5> Anderson chaired the committee, with tee. tradition, affirming the sovereignty of Anderson, Tewell, Douglass, and Armstrong The statement, everyone eventually the triune God over all creation, the forming the subcommittee that actually Gospel of Jesus Christ as God's saving agreed, needed to express the idea that learn¬ wrote the drafts of the new mission state¬ Word for all people, the renewing power ing and piety belong together. It should ment. of the Word and Spirit in all of life, and emphasize the fact that PTS is an institution In the early meetings, Anderson said, the unity of Christ's servant church with global presence, express PTS’s status as people didn’t know each other, and so they throughout the world. This tradition a residential campus, and underline how worked to build trust and recognition of shapes the instruction, research, practi¬ Princeton prepares students for Christian each member’s point of view. It was crucial, cal training, and continuing education leadership in the church, the larger church, in both the committee and the finished doc¬ provided by the Seminary, as well as the the public arena, and the academy. theological scholarship it promotes. ument, to be as inclusive as possible “with¬ “How do you find theological language In response to Christ's call for the out falling into writing laundry lists.” that’s true to our confessional heritage and unity of the church, the Seminary “It was important to hear professor Sang addresses the world we live in without falling embraces in its life and work a rich racial Lee talk about what it felt like to be in this and ethnic diversity and the breadth of into theological jargon or sounding dated country and not be a member of the coun¬ communions represented in the world¬ very quickly?” asked Anderson. “We also try, what it felt like to be an alien,” wide church. In response to the trans¬ worried a lot about cadence and poetics.” Anderson said. “And Francisco Garcia-Treto, forming work of the Holy Spirit, the Toward the end of the process, Anderson who is Hispanic, could say to us, ‘You think Seminary offers its theological scholar¬ said, “the document was really good, but it you’re being inclusive, but you’re not.’ Each ship in service to God's renewal of the lacked passion. It didn’t sing.” One last of the women on the committee brought church's life and mission. In response to meeting fixed that, and then the document their unique as well as common concerns, God's sovereign claim over all creation, was ready to go to the Board of Trustees for the Seminary seeks to engage Christian making major contributions to the breadth its approval. faith with intellectual, political, and eco¬ and strength of the final text.” At the spring 1996 Princeton Seminary nomic life in pursuit of truth, justice, In the end, Tewell added, the committee Board of Trustees meeting, the board unani¬ compassion, and peace. became a remarkably harmonious and cohe¬ To these ends, the Seminary pro¬ mously approved the new mission statement. sive unit. While there were times of dis¬ vides a residential community of wor¬ Committee members were pleased, unsur¬ agreement, he said, the committee took ship and learning where a sense of call¬ prised, relieved, and ready to relax. The two- tremendous care to incorporate every con¬ ing is tested and defined, where year process was done. cern. Scripture and the Christian tradition are “The fact that everyone at the end was “We built trust and became a communi¬ appropriated critically, where faith and unanimous and enthusiastic is a miracle,” ty,” Tewell said. “We were able to really be intellect mature and lifelong friendships Tewell said. begin, and where habits of discipleship honest with each other. Everybody said, “This was fun, challenging, and daunt¬ are so nourished that members of the ‘Let’s keep working until we get it right.’ No ing,” Anderson agreed. “We weren’t develop¬ community may learn to proclaim with one pressed for agreement for agreement’s ing a document for the next ten years. We conviction, courage, wisdom, and love sake. Everybody sat at the table as peers and were setting a future course for the the good news that Jesus Christ is Lord. was listened to.” Seminary.” I

inSpire *13 fST summer 1996 14 •inSpire “1*3 father, GeorgeMcKee. from thecollectionofher grand¬ Sthreshley, anddepictZairean art by McKee'sbrother-in-law, Charles accompanying thisarticle were taken of Worship,returnedtoZairefora Alexander ProfessoroftheHistory Elsie McKee,Princeton'sArchibald 1995 fallsabbatical.Thephotographs A VisitwithSistersandBrothersin Zaire, Autumn1995 year students,teachingstaff,andthechaplain sung inthelocallanguage,Tshiluba.Third- Zaire. Thetropicalsunisrisingswiftlyand practicing hymns,toprepareministers lead worship:prayers,hymns,Scripture,and first bellforchapelisringing.Chapelatthe the KasaiprovinceofRepublique are expensiveandrarelyincludeprinted correct tunes,inchurcheswherehymnbooks teach congregationalsinging,especiallythe meditation. Fridaychapelsaredevotedto Faculte deTheologieReformeeauKasai community life.Current eventsjostlefor from thewiderworldto thedailydetailsof are announcements,touching oneverything newsline; justbeforethebenedictionthere music. (FTRK) isconductedinFrench,withhymns illness ordeath inthecommunity,meetings place withpastoraland practical concerns: It is6:00a.m.onaweekdaymorningin Chapel timealsoservesasthecampus A ProfessorRevisitstheLandofHerBirth lear toZaire by ElsieMcKee with theMorrisonBibleSchoolatLueboin evening thedieselgeneratorprovidesthree of prayercellsorsoccergames,andacademic capital ofKananga.Thereisalonghistory Zaire, fivekilometersfromtheprovincial ator. Thenstudentsusekerosenelampsand only eveningstormsinterferewiththegener¬ liant electricalstormshappendaily,though cuit themotor.Duringrainyseason,bril¬ rooms forstudy...unlessitisbrokenorthere hours ofelectricityinthelibraryandclass¬ 6:15 p.m.,withabreakforlunch.Inthe notices. degree called licence,whichpresupposes both as auniversity-levelcenter oleducationin hope theycanseetofinishtheirhomework! is anelectricalstormwhichmightshort-cir¬ theological training,and atwo-yearsecond first degreecalledgraduat, whichisthebasic ministerial educationintheKasai,beginning Reformed theologicalseminaryinNdesha, 1912. Thepresentinstitutionwasrecognized 1986. Therearetwoprograms: athree-year This isatypicaldayatthismajor Classes beginat8:00,andcontinueuntil summer 1996

the first degree and at least two years in denominational distinction. This loosely needs of the FTRK history department and parish ministry. Students may also earn a structured union lasted until about 1970, my sabbatical coincided. My assignment was state-recognized teaching certificate, since when the country became the Republique to teach two short intensive courses, one, on many pastors must supplement their income of Zaire and the various Protestant denomi¬ the Reformation, at the licence level, the with tent-making options. nations, under government pressure, became other, on African church history, for second- Instruction is in French, the national lan¬ a more tightly structured unity through year graduat students. Communications guage of government and higher education the ECZ. Within this national Protestant between Zaire and the United States are in Zaire, although the great majority of the church, each denominational group func¬ always difficult; I arrived and was asked to students will minister in their own languages tions as a community with a strong degree of teach two courses on the Reformation. and must translate between class and con¬ internal autonomy, but the whole body From the students’ point of view, here text. Most students speak Tshiluba as their works together at the national level as one was a stranger, a different color, a woman, first language, but some come from other church. Communities may have different and not even ordained as a pastor. But with language groups. Most are men, with the denominational roots or simply different some persuasion, they gathered up their gradual addition of a few women—some of geographic locations; the four Presbyterian courage and were good sports. They grappled the brighter students, often!—and most are communities are based essentially on geogra¬ with new ideas, plunging into historical pri¬ married, although first-year students may not phy, not theological diversity. The ECZ is mary sources for the first time and trying to bring their families, since married housing is one of the legal religious options in Zaire, see how historical developments led to the very limited. Most of the church as they know it, sixty-six students at FTRK struggling with reform¬ are members or (in the 66 The ECZ ers’ faults and case of licence students) strengths. Their begin¬ pastors in a Presbyterian is one of ning was hesitant, but community within the the legal they quickly found the national Protestant religious printed voices exciting: Church (Eglise du Christ “Was Erasmus really a au Zaire, or ECZ), though options reformer?” “Wow! I other denominations of in Zaire, never imagined that the ECZ are also repre¬ which this is the way Luther sented. sounded.’’ And finding include women in history was Christianity in Zaire traditional a new experience, wel¬ religion, comed by the women Zaire is an enormous students and even central African nation, Islam, and some of the men, espe¬ once known as the Congo Christianity.” cially the amazing sto¬ Free State and then as the ries of women martyrs. Belgian Congo. It became independent as But life in a semi¬ the Republique of Congo in 1960. Its earli¬ which include traditional religion, Islam, and nary is always more than study, as anyone est Christians were converted to the faith by Christianity. who has been there knows. There were also Portuguese around 1500 A.D., but the mod¬ sad days and glad days. I remember the ern Christian history of Zaire, and the first Visiting at FTRK death of a student’s only child, a little girl of contact of the interior with Christianity, eighteen months, the mother wailing and the came through Roman Catholic and FTRK is a seminary in which my father women gathered to sit with her, and the Protestant missionaries in the late nineteenth had taught, and since I was born, baptized community gathered the next day to praise century. (with the name Tshimunyi), and reared in God for the life of the child, affirm the res¬ Protestants cooperated from the begin¬ the church in the Kasai, I had promised that urrection, and try to help the family make ning and recognized all their members as I would return to the seminary as an occa¬ some kind of peace with this aching loss. “bana ba Nzambi,” children of God, without sional visiting professor. In autumn 1995 the And I recall the day of student government

inSpire *15 summer 1996 elections, with lively expressions of opinion one of the shortest prayers on record in that the 1978 centennial celebration of the arrival and a babble of happy voices after chapel, church! of the first Protestants in Zaire. Protestants, pleased to have made their own choices. long feeling disadvantaged in the face of Kinshasa, the ECZ Seminary, and Roman Catholic cathedrals, are proud of Worship and the Parish Churches the Kasonga Family their beautiful central church. Spacious and attractive, the cathedral combines aesthetics, Surrounding FTRK and across Zaire are Though most of my time was spent at practicality, and ecumenism: a remarkable congregations, churches where Christians FTRK in the Kasai, I also visited the nation¬ airy lightness suited to the tropics, seating gather each Sunday for worship and in al church seminary, the Faculte de Theologie which makes large national church gather¬ homes for many weekday prayer meetings. Protestante of the ECZ in Kinshasa, the ings possible, and a striking mosaic of the The church buildings vary a great deal country’s capital. My hosts were Dr. Kasonga baptism of Jesus that includes images of both but most are simple, with walls of sun-dried wa Kasonga and his family. Kasonga, affec¬ immersion and sprinkling. brick, concrete block, or mud-and-stick, tionately known to many PTS people as open windows (glass is expensive and cold is “Kas,” completed his doctorate in Christian Zaire: Politics and Pain, Courage not a problem), and roofs of corrugated iron education at Princeton in 1987 and has been and Hope or thatch. Men traditionally sit on one side teaching in Kinshasa since then. He is acade¬ of the church, women on the other; some¬ mic dean of the seminary, which has been The economic and political world of times there is a third section for young peo¬ rebuilt after the pillaging and damage caused Zaire is a source of great suffering. Most ple, or a special place for chil¬ people live in poverty, dren. Usually there are bench¬ with President Sese Seko es, but sometimes small chil¬ Mobutu and his cohorts dren settle on mats on the as the glaring exceptions. floor. Often there are special This military dictator, in seats for each choir, some¬ control of Zaire since times marked with their November 1963, is one of names on the wall behind the wealthiest men in the them. The front wall may be world, and one of the decorated with a painted greediest. He has stripped Bible verse. a large and rich country Sunday morning worship that could be economical¬ lasts at least two hours, with ly self-sufficient, and an abundance of music. At opposes all democratic least two or three choirs, or change, even to the point even four, sometimes includ¬ of bloodshed. In one inci¬ ing a children’s choir, sing at dent, peaceful Christians any given service, with each marching for democratic choir giving several anthems. change were shot down in Singing is essentially a capella, although by rioting and rampaging soldiers in 1993. cold blood in February 1992. choirs sometimes have some kind of tam¬ The library collection will take much longer Every facet of public life has been bourine or perhaps a guitar, or more often to recover from the destruction, but the adversely affected by Mobutu’s exploitation big or little drums, hollowed from trees. community is at work rebuilding bit by bit of the people and resources of Zaire. There These are played especially for the offering with aid from other churches. are thousands of internal refugees. Some, just processions, at which everyone comes for¬ The Kasonga family welcomed me for down the road from FTRK, asked for food, ward to place his or her gift (men first, then lunch, and all four children—now in col¬ which I could not supply. I worried about women, or men, women, and then youth) in lege—asked eagerly about their friends at them as I heard the rain at night, since their the basket on the central table. These dance¬ Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, tent homes could not stand up to the driving like processions, accompanied by drums, sent messages and tapes of their singing tropical storms. clapping, and singing, are a marvelous sight group to their old youth group in Princeton, And yet Zaire has courage, Zaire has and sound. and asked for pictures and news of everyone! faith, and Zaire has men and women striving For me, singing in Tshiluba again was They have not forgotten the good times they to become pastors and teachers, doctors and sheer delight. I have missed my “birth” had here, and laughed as they recalled being nurses. The Tshiluba greeting is the same as speech, though I have also forgotten a good photographed playing in the snow for news¬ the word for life: “Muoyo wenu!” means bit. Being asked unexpectedly to offer a papers who wanted to show their readers “Life to you!” One of the greatest gifts of our prayer of thanksgiving in the Nsanga “the first snow days” of African visitors to life together as Christians is remembering Nyembue parish was a challenge; it was in New Jersey. and being remembered in prayer, in letters Tshiluba and it made sense, but it had to be Next to the seminary in Kinshasa is the and love across the miles, and in joining sis¬ large national Protestant cathedral, built for ters and brothers in the church universal. I

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Northport, NY, writes that he 1942 Donald B. Bailey that church celebrated its 142nd Key to Abbreviations: was “looking forward to our six¬ anniversary. (M) and his wife moved to a Upper-case letters designate tieth class reunion,” which was degrees earned at PTS: Presbyterian retirement village held at PTS in May 1996. Bob Kelley (B, '51M) has in Austell, GA, last January. M.Div. B retired from his teaching career M.R.E. E 1937 Allan R. Winn M.A. E (B) lives in Newtown, PA, and Th.M. M D.Min. P completed two years as pastor Th.D. D of visitation at Flemington Ph.D. D Presbyterian Church in

Special undergraduate student U Flemington, NJ, this spring. Special graduate student G “The best job on the staff,” he writes. “Greater joy hath When an alumnus/a did not no man after twenty-plus years receive a degree, a lower-case letter corresponding to those of retirement.” Winn also does above designates the course occasional pulpit supply preach¬ of study. ing, and conducts some wed¬ dings and funerals. 1933 Bruce D. Compton (B) is retired 1938 In June, Bryant and lives in Phoenix, AZ, M. Kirkland (B) completed The Class of 1946 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their gradua¬ where he is still an active speak¬ a term as interim pastor at Great tion at reunion this spring. The class convener was Bill Dupree. er, teacher, personal evangelist, Valley Presbyterian Church, and violinist. Malvern, PA. Fie is senior 1947 Gervase J. at Fullerton College, Fullerton, vice president of Templeton CA. He helped start Interfaith Zanotti (B) lives in DeForest, 1935 Richard M. Foundation, Radnor, PA. His Housing Corporation, which WI, and has been busily retired Hadden(B) and his wife, wife of fifty-nine years, Bernice, built twenty-seven apartments since 1984, serving interim pas¬ Frances, who have presented died on March 18, 1996. for low-income families in torates and acting as a certified duo piano recitals around the Fullerton. Last December, literacy tutor. He’s also been world, have recorded a new In April 1995, Kelley began his twelfth interim Bruce M. a mentor to four different disad¬ album, which Cambria Records Metzger (B, '39M) gave his ministry position, as pastor vantaged young people during released this spring. It joins their presidential address, titled of the Shepherd of the Valley the last five years through first album, Adventures in Music- “Some Curious Bibles,” at the Presbyterian Church in a mentor program at Christ Making, which was released in eighth international interdis¬ Hacienda Heights, CA. The Presbyterian Church in 1992. Richard has also written ciplinary conference of the church has active Taiwanese and Madison, WI, where he’s an a piece for Mackinac Island Society for Textual Scholarship, Caucasian congregations, plus a unofficial staff member and (MI) State Park’s centennial held at the graduate school of “nesting” Korean congregation. performs three to five weddings celebration. Called “Centennial the City University of New each summer. He’s active in Celebration March,” the piece York. The society is an organiza¬ Nathaniel C. John FCnox Presbytery, plays golf 1950 was written for the piano and tion devoted to interdisciplinary Roe (B, '55M) has retired, one to three times a week, land¬ will also be arranged for military discussion of textual theory and but writes that he preaches fre¬ scapes his large lawn, and says band, so that all bands coming practice. quently, is a parish visitor for that “at age seventy-seven, I find to the island can play it in the First Presbyterian Church that a forty-five-minute nap parades and at Fort Mackinac. W. Dayton in Washington, PA, and travels 1941 after lunch is a must—and oh, The Haddens lived on Roberts (B) has retired to to visit friends and family. As how enjoyable!” Mackinac Island for many years, Costa Rica, where he serves on a hobby, he carves exotic woods but now reside in St. Ignace, the boards of Latin American 1948 William H. and sells his creations. MI. Mission and Hospital Clinica Foster Jr. (M) has completed Biblica. He is also the chairper¬ Kenneth J. Dale sixteen years of ministry at 1951 1936 William T. P. son of the board of Christ for (M) retired on December 31, the First Presbyterian Church, Rambo (B), who lives in the City. 1995, after forty-five years as Whitewright, TX. Last October,

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a Lutheran missionary to Japan. now serves as chairperson of Dale was a professor at Japan the Committee on Ministry Lutheran Theological College in Coastal Carolina Presbytery. and Seminary in Tokyo, Japan, He and his wife, Lillian Taylor and served as the director of (’88B), are interim part-time co¬ their counseling center. pastors of the First Presbyterian Church, Whiteville, NC. “Still working full time at Northampton, MA, Veterans 1954 J. Houston Administration Medical Center, Hodges (B), the recently even through the government retired executive of North shutdown," writes Malcolm Alabama Presbytery, has been

R. Evans (B), who lives in named editor of Monday photo: The Leigh Photographic Group Halifax Centre, VT. Morning magazine. He lives and works in Huntsville, AL. 1953 Howard W. McFall Jr. (B) was made Virgil Jones (B) retired from pastor emeritus of Red Clay thirty-five years as a university November 13, 1995. On June reth. From there she traveled in Creek Presbyterian Church in minister at Wayne State Univer¬ 30, 1995, he retired from his Scotland, on the island of Iona, Wilmington, DE, after retiring sity in Detroit, MI, in October job as chaplain and coordinator and in Wales before returning from that church on July 1, 1994. During his time there, of pastoral care services at Glen’s to the United States, where she 1992. He taught for three weeks Jones also helped found the uni¬ Falls Hospital in Glen’s Falls, lives in Walnut Creek, CA. in Xi’an, China, this April, versity’s Center for Academic NY, where he trained more than where he instructed high school Ethics and taught occasional forty local clergy as adjunct David Gill (M) and his wife, and college students. “They philosophy courses. “I’m still chaplains, and many laypeople Helen, spent nine weeks last wanted conversational English, asked to preach, teach, and lec¬ as volunteer hospital visitors. fall living in Southampton, but I also ended up teaching ture on campus and in the larger He is active in the life of the England. “We lived in the New them about human rights and community,’’ he writes. “I am First Presbyterian Church, Forest and acquainted ourselves the American form of govern¬ having a ball!” Glen’s Falls, NY, where he is with the local culture amidst ment,’’ said McFall, who lives a parish associate, church school Helen’s duties as proctor for in Cape May, NJ. teacher, and adult educator. student teachers from Central Michigan University,” Gill “I was elected to a third term writes. The Gills are now home as moderator of the town of in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Newport, VT,” writes James MacKellar (B). “I reached the Paul G. Palmer (B) retired thirteen-gallon blood donor on April 30, 1995, and is pastor level, something I started at emeritus of Community PTS. I retired in June 1996.” Presbyterian Church, Mt. Prospect, IL. 1956 Last November, Beverly Fox (E) rode in 1957 Charles T. a bicycle trip across Israel to Botkin (M) is pastor raise money for that country’s emeritus of Cambria Heights Nazareth Hospital, which she Community Church (Reformed has supported since 1990. The Church of America) in Cambria Howard W. McFall ('53B) spent three weeks teaching students in China last April. Biblical Charity Bike Ride is Heights, NY. the hospital’s biggest fundraiser. David W. A. Taylor (M), 1955 Frank Havens After the trip, Fox stayed on in Richard A. Hasler (B) is former executive secretary of the (B) celebrated the fortieth anni¬ Israel for six weeks to develop half-time co-pastor at Fairmount Consultation on Church Union, versary of his ordination on a volunteer program at Naza¬ Park Presbyterian Church in

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Canton, OH. He worked with the congregation in 1994 and Alumni/ae Update 1995 as an interim pastor, and is Princeton Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Association Executive Council members have all been now helping implement a rede¬ students at PTS, but beyond that, they often have very diverse points of view. Council members come velopment probe grant to see if from all over the United States and the world; they have different ethnicities, genders, ages, and the congregation can relate to its denominational affiliations. But their concern to work together as alumni/ae to enhance preparation for ministry in the church makes them a group of interested friends, using diversity toward a common immediate neighborhood. “The goal. congregation is mostly white and older people of retirement The composition of the council is constantly changing, which is good and bad. Council members are age,” he writes, “and the neigh¬ elected in classes to represent alumni/ae in twelve regions of the country, serving terms of four years each. The council also includes three alumni/ae trustees, one elected each year to serve on the borhood has changed, consisting Seminary's Board of Trustees for a three-year term. mostly of young adults and many African American fami¬ As new members are added, others disappear. This year we lose alumni/ae trustee and past council president Audrey Schindler ('86B). She's the "quiet tiger" who lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is lies. As you can imagine, we finishing her doctoral thesis for Emory University in Atlanta, GA. have quite a challenge.” His co¬ pastor is Allan Jackson (’83B), We're also losing Bo Scarborough ('7IB), who speaks my language, since his Memphis is not that far from my Atlanta. We'll have to find a new secretary to replace him, which is not easily done. We also who is African American. Hasler bid farewell to Joe Ravenell ('76B), the "good humor man," who can make you feel ten feet tall when has also completed a brief you think you're only four feet, one inch tall. And Gerry Mills C56B), the "Christian rabbi," who makes biography of Colonial mission¬ us all enjoy being kept on our toes, is leaving, too. ary David Brainerd for young But not all the news is sad. Julie Neraas ('79B) was elected alumni/ae trustee, to serve with Art Sueltz readers, and is working on C53B) and Barbara Sterling-Willson ('76B), so she'll be with us and for us for another three years. a longer biography for adults. And we have the pleasure of meeting the representatives from Region Three (southern New Jersey and Delaware), Region Six (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia), and Region Nine James Kesler (Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois), who make up the Class of 2000.

(B, '61M) Joanne Martindale ('88B), the new Region Three representative, is the chaplain at Trenton is pastor of Psychiatric Hospital and the only female Army National Guard chaplain in New Jersey. She also serves as parish associate at the First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, NJ. Peace United

Presbyterian Todd B. Jones ('79B) is the new Region Six representative. He served as pastor of Church in Clinton Westminster Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC, from 1984 to 1991, and from 1991 Township, MI. until now as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Spartanburg, SC. On January 7, Robert C. Reynolds ('70B) joins the council from Region Nine. He has pastored Presbyterian 1996, the church Church (USA) congregations in Wisconsin and Minnesota, has been associate executive of celebrated the the Synod of Lakes and Prairies, and currently serves as executive presbyter of Giddings- Lovejoy Presbytery, based in St. Louis, MO. opening of Peace

Presbyterian So, we have the facts. In October we get to meet the people and say, "Welcome aboard!" Village, a $13.8 million-dollar Jim Upshaw ('50B) is retired and is pastor emeritus of El Dorado County Federated Church housing project that stands next in Placerville, CA. He represents Region 12 (northern California, Oregon, Washington, and to the church and offers fifty- Alaska) on the Alumni/ae Association Executive Council. five apartments for independent Norma Jean Perkins (E), senior living. 1958 Thomas E. a tour host with Educational Fisher (B) is pastor of the First Opportunities, took a tour Robert Daniel Simmons Presbyterian Church, Athens, group to Israel in January 1996 (M) has written his sixth book, OH. He’s a contributor to to celebrate the 3000th anniver¬ called Prayers for Daily Need, a local newspaper, The Athens sary of King David's designation Adapted from Psalms. He is the Messenger, and serves as a mem¬ of Jerusalem as the capital city. stated supply pastor of Hughes ber of the General Assembly After the ten-day tour, she spent River Presbyterian Church in Council of the Presbyterian two extra days in Jerusalem Cairo, WV, and the founder Church (USA), its National and another three days at an of Simmons Theological Library Ministries Division Committee, archaeological dig and seminar in Williamstown, WV. and the Call System Advisory Group.

inSpire • 19 summer 1996 The New Biographical Catalog is Coming! Class notes The Seminary is creating a new edition of the Biographical Catalog, the book that contains biographical and career informa¬ tion on all Seminary alumni/ae. Seminary alumni/ae have received ^ take a bow a personal data form to fill out for the new edition. If you have not yet returned your personal data form, please do so! Alumni/ae John C. Shetler ('48M) received the 1996 Marvin J. Lewis who have already submitted their forms will receive proofs for Community Service Award from the board of directors of the their approval by early December. Perkiomen (PA) Valley Chamber of Commerce in April 1996. He is president emeritus and conference minister of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church to the nearly seven hundred p. w. of Christ. 1960 residents of Air Force Village II Hutchinson (B) is in his outside San Antonio, TX. Alumni/as at Korea's Taejon Presbyterian Seminary have estab¬ twenty-eighth year as a professor lished the Timothy Lee Memorial Scholarship in honor of “Living history, these fascinating ol theater at Rhode Island Timothy Lee ('61B), who served as president of that seminary folks, veterans, and patriots,” for sixteen years. Lee retired in November 1995 after twenty- College. nine years as a mission co-worker in Korea through the he writes, “most all of them Presbyterian Church (USA). During his time in Korea, he also older than Geri and I. Folks Dick (B) and Toshii (E) served as chaplain of the Choong Nam National University of tested faith, too.” retired in 1994 after Hospital chapel program, and as president of the Korea Hospital Moore Chaplains' Association. twenty-four years at a pastorate Roger L. in Riverton, NJ. They now live 1962 Abigail Rian Evans ('68B) was named a distinguished alumna Dunnavan (B) is the stated in Hampton, VA. Together with by her alma mater, Jamestown College. Evans is associate supply pastor for Christ professor of practical theology, director of the field education Toshii’s family in Japan, they are Presbyterian Church in program, and coordinator of the C.P.E. program at Princeton building two churches, one Theological Seminary. Gibbstown, NJ, and for the in Vietnam and one in India, First Presbyterian Church, Last February George Brown Jr. ('71M) was named Reformed in memory of Toshii’s parents. Swedesboro, NJ. Church in America Educator of the Year by the Christian The project is being done Educators of the Reformed Church in America. Brown is dean through International of the faculty and professor of Christian education at Western 1964 Dean E. Foose Theological Seminary, Holland, Ml. Cooperating Ministries, and (B, '65M, '94P), the both churches will be dedicated Seminary’s director of alumni/ae Steven S. Tuell ('81B) received a Thomas Branch Award for this year. Dick has also been Excellence in Teaching from Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, relations and senior placement, invited to present a solo exhibi¬ VA, in April 1996. He is an assistant professor of religious stud¬ wrote an article called “How ies at Randolph-Macon. tion of his marine paintings, Pastors Come and Go” for which will run at the U.S. Navy B. Keith Brewer ('87M) received a 1996 Young Leader of the the May/June 1996 issue of Memorial Visitors’ Center in Year Award from the Spring Arbor College alumni/ae board Congregations, an Alban Institute of directors, Spring Arbor, Ml. He was also selected as an Washington, D.C., during publication. outstanding campus leader by the editors of the 1996 edition September 1996. of Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. Brewer is a Ph.D. candidate in New Testament at Drew University, Richard L. Husfloen (M) chaplain of the Wesley Foundation at Princeton University, Robert M. Paterson (M) became the twelfth president of and an instructor at Zarephath Bible Institute. teaches at STT Intim, the theo¬ Augustana University College in logical college for eastern Camrose, Alberta, Canada, on at Bethsaida, north of the Heart, was recently published. Indonesia, and lives in Ujung July 1. He had been director of Sea of Galilee. Pandang, Sulawesi Selatan, resource development, recruit¬ John Staples (B) retired Indonesia. He travels frequently ment, graduate, and public rela¬ 1959 Haruo Saiki (M) from the Presbytery of North throughout other parts of tions at Waterloo Lutheran retired from his work at Miyagi Puget Sound on September 1, Indonesia, visiting congregations Seminary in Ontario, Canada. Gakuin Girls’ College in Sendai, 1995. He is director of Life and friends, acting as a guest Japan, in March 1995. As pro¬ Enrichment Center, Port Town¬ lecturer and preacher, and par¬ ‘In addition to my fessor emeritus, he teaches New send, WA. ticipating in the weddings of his 1965 psychotherapy practice,” writes Testament at the school for former students. In August 1996 two days each week, and is also Lawrence W. Thomas (B), he plans to begin a furlough Jerrold D. Paul (B, '68M), “I am working as a part-time, pastor of West Sendai United of Tiffin, OH, retired on year in his native New Zealand. Church of Christ. His thirty- February 28, 1995. interim minister at Island first book, The Words of the 1961 Christian H. Presbyterian Church, Grand Island, NY.” Paul lives in Bible—Sounding to Everyone’s Martin Jr. (B) serves as pastor Orchard Park, NY.

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a chaplaincy advisor to the Ukrainian army, sharing his twenty-three years of service as a chaplain in the United States Army, Air Force, and Navy.

Joseph L. Roberts Jr. (M), pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA, was the commencement speaker at Columbia Theological Seminary 1966 Garnett Foster on May 19, 1996. (E) was vice moderator of the photo: The Leigh Photographic Group Bills and Overtures Committee 1969 James Roghair has moved from Alaska of this summer’s General (B) and is writing a book on stew¬ Assembly of the Presbyterian Twenty-five years have come and gone for the Class of 1971, ardship. who celebrated at reunion this spring. The convener was Church (USA). Paige Maxwell McRight.

Dale Schlafer (B) is vice 1970 Donald G. in Beaumont, TX, a post he performance network that pro¬ is director ol president of church relations Albert (B) has held since July 1, 1994. vides internet service to every employee relations in the corpo¬ for Promise Keepers, an organi¬ university, college, school, and rate human resources division zation lor Christian men head¬ Ralph W. Quere (D) writes government agency in North of Abbott Laboratories, a health quartered in Boulder, CO. that he is “still professor of Carolina. He also manages care products manufacturer in He served as chairperson of the church history at Wartburg research and development Abbott Park, IL. He began the recent Promise Keepers National Seminary in Dubuque, LA.” groups on information technol¬ new job in January 1996; he Clergy Conference for Men ogy applications, and has been had been a manager in the same in Atlanta, GA. 1971 On June 1, 1995, named to the Federal division. John G. "Jay" Seabrook Networking Council Advisory 1967 Bill Conrad (B) Jr. (B) accepted a call to Committee. He has also taught is a family therapist employed J. Paul Cameron (E) become pastor of St. Luke’s a Sunday school class called is director of pastoral care by Bucks County, PA. Although Presbyterian Church in Theological Forum for the past at Presbyterian Senior Care, he was elected to serve on Titusville, FL. seven years. “It is a little unusual Washington, PA. He dedicated the Ardmore, Lower Merion, in that there is required reading the new Hillsview Chapel and Montgomery County 1972 Alan Blatecky each week,” Blatecky writes. and multi-purpose building Democratic committees near (B, '73M) is responsible for “It’s been fascinating and useful, at the facility in spring 1996. his home of Ardmore, PA, his operating the Supercomputing as it gives adults the time to Cameron also serves as president civil service status requires him Center of North Carolina, challenge their intellects and of the western region of the to refrain from political activity, where he runs the regional high- grow in faith.” Pennsylvania State Society of so he has resigned his local Chaplains. offices. His unfinished terms The Godless Revival, a book would have ended in 1996. by William D. Spencer James S. Lawton (B) ('B, '75M) and Aida B. 1968 R. Glenn Brown lives in Syracuse, NY, and Spencer ('73B, '75M), is developing a practice as (M) retired in 1991 after four¬ et ah, was published in a liturgical design consultant. teen years as pastor of Faith 1995 by Baker Books. Chapel, an Assembly of God The Spencers live in South church in Pleasanton, CA. William A. McCleery III Hamilton, MA. is council executive of He lives in Sequim, WA, and (B) the Three Rivers Council makes frequent trips to western James M. Van Hecke Jr. of the Boy Scouts of America Ukraine in the former Soviet (b) is president of Vanford Union, where he serves as Communications, a market-

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Class notes ing and public relations business Theological Seminary. He gave Humanities degree from the in Greensboro, NC. He is an address titled “The Acts University of Tasmania. His also the chairperson of Salem of the Apostles and ‘the Paths thesis was on Christian-Jewish Presbytery’s Higher Education that Lead to Life’: A Theology relations in seventeenth- Committee, and is active for the Church Today.” century England. Faser lives in with campus ministry at the Claremont, Tasmania, Australia. University of North Carolina 1978 Robert L. at Greensboro. Brawley (D) is the author of George J. Kroupa III (B) Text to Text Pours Forth Speech: is assistant professor of Christ¬ Voices of Scripture in Luke-Acts, ian education at Virginia which was published in January Theological Seminary in 1996 by Indiana University Alexandria, VA, which is the Carol Ann Fleming (B) Press. Brawley also contributed largest seminary in the world¬ received her D.Min. in June to a book called Biblical Ethics wide Anglican communion and from Columbia Theological and Homosexuality; other con¬ is associated with the Episcopal Seminary. She and her husband, tributors to that book include Church. Kroupa, one of three Scott Loomer (B), are co-pastors PTS professors Elizabeth Presbyterians on the faculty, also of Park Central Presbyterian Gordon Edwards, Ulrich W. serves as co-editor and co-pub¬ Church in Syracuse, NY. Mauser, and Choon-Leong lisher of Episcopal Teacher, Seow. Brawley is professor of a national Episcopal Church Donald Lincoln (B) was New Testament at McCormick education newspaper. He is resource coordinator for 1974 Robert Sheeran Theological Seminary. assistant director of the Center the Pensions and Benefits (M) was named president of for the Ministry of Teaching. Committee of this summer’s Seton Hall University in South On March 1, 1996, Reford B. General Assembly of the Orange, NJ, on December 7, Nash (M) became pastor and 1980 Teresa M. Derr Presbyterian Church (USA). 1995. head of staff at the Presbyterian (B) is a clinical social worker Church of the Roses, Santa with the Christ Child Society’s 1982 Robert D. Curtis 1975 N. Dean Evans Rosa, CA. Prior to that move, school counseling program in (B) is the new president and (E) is serving as interim rector he spent eight years as pastor of Washington, D.C. She provides chief executive officer of the of the Episcopal Church of Federated Community Church, psychotherapy to children, par¬ board of directors of the the Advent, Kennett Square, PA. a Methodist Presbyterian con¬ ents, and families in two inner- Presbyterian Church (USA) This is his ninth interim posi¬ gregation in Flagstaff, AZ. city, Roman Catholic elemen¬ Investment and Loan Program. tion in the Diocese of Penn¬ tary schools, as well as furnish¬ Curtis had served since 1990 sylvania, where he serves as In its last issue, inSpire reported ing information on mental as chief executive officer of an interim specialist. that Catherine C. Snyder health issues and serving as the Church Development (B) was a campus minister at a consultant to teachers and Corporation, a $16 million loan “I was a commissioner to the Virginia Technical Institute. principals. Derr also received fund that serves the Synod of 1995 General Assembly of the Alas, this was a mistake! Snyder a half-tuition scholarship to Mid-America. Before getting Presbyterian Church (USA) is a Presbyterian campus minis¬ the Washington School of his new job, he was a pastor in in Cincinnati, OH, from New ter at Virginia Polytechnic Psychiatry’s Infant/Young Lexington, NE, and Oklahoma Hope Presbytery,” writes David Institute and State University. Child Mental Health Training City, OK. C. Huffman (B). He serves “Several years ago,” she writes, Program, where she began as pastor of Trinity Presbyterian “my undergraduate alma a two-year program in 1995. Mark I. Wallace (B) is associ¬ Church in Raleigh, NC. mater—Duke—tried to do She is developing a specialty in ate professor and co-chairperson a sex change on me by listing providing assessments and psy¬ of the Swarthmore College On April 16, 1996, David me as a clergyman. Now PTS is chotherapy for children (birth Department of Religion, P. Moessner (B) was inaugu¬ changing my call. Am I jinxed?” to four years old) and their fam¬ Swarthmore, PA. He recently rated as professor of New ilies. She received her license to published the book Fragments Testament language, literature, 1979 Robert J. Faser practice as an independent social of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and exegesis at Columbia (B) received a Master of worker in February. and the Renewal of Creation,

22 • inSpire summer 1996 Class notes which proposes a new, anti- terian Church in Taiwan. He Division of the Presbyterian The church has begun a twice- violent, earth-centered model will live with a family in Taipei, Church (USA), has left her posi¬ weekly television evangelism of the Holy Spirit in relation who will help him adjust to the tion to accept a call as pastor program. to recent work in theology, language. McCall received his of United University Church, philosophy, critical theory, and Doctor of Ministry degree from Los Angeles, CA, on the campus “Having just completed environmental studies. He is Columbia Theological Seminary of the University of Southern HIV/AIDS counseling training also the editor of Figuring the in 1995. California. with the State of New Jersey Sacred: Religion, Narrative, Division on AIDS,” writes and Imagination, which was 1987 Susan Halcomb Joseph P. Dunn (M) is Raynard Daniel Smith published in 1995; and the Craig (B)f former associate in his ninth year as pastor (B, '88M)f “I look forward editor (with Theophus Smith) director of women’s ministries of Ballston Spa Presbyterian to expanding my role as a staff of Curing Violence: Religion and in the National Ministries Church in Ballston Spa, NY. the Thought of Rene Girard, which was published in 1994. African-American Alums 1983 Stuart D. of Princeton Broberg (B), pastor of Freed slave, missionary, trailblazer, teacher, church leader, community matriarch. Betsey Stockton, Central Presbyterian Church, the first woman educated at Princeton Theological Seminary (albeit informally), accomplished much Des Moines, IA, has joined more with her life than anyone imagined when she was born a slave of uncertain parentage in 1798. the board of trustees of the Betsey's mother was a slave in the household of Robert Stockton, a prominent Princeton citizen. Presbyterian Church (USA) He gave Betsey to his daughter Elizabeth, first wife of Ashbel Green, who was later president of the Foundation. College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and who was president of the board of trustees that started Princeton Theological Seminary. Though Stockton served as a nurse, cook, and seam¬ Robert D. Cummings (B) stress in the Green household, Green's son James and PTS students Eliphalet Gilbert (1816b), Charles Stewart (1821b), and Michael Osborn (1822b) tutored her and taught her to read. She was was installed as the new pastor allowed free use of the elder Green's library. of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Ligonier, PA, on After the Green family freed Stockton at the age of twenty, she joined Stewart and his wife, Harriet, in 1822 as a missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. Stockton was the first never-married woman ever March 24, 1996. He had previ¬ to serve as a Presbyterian missionary. On the island of Maui, she established schools for both chil¬ ously spent ten years as pastor dren and adults. She also worked as a medical nurse, and was credited with saving the lives of at of Good Shepherd Presbyterian least two children. Church in Oakdale, PA. Stockton and the Stewarts returned to New York in 1826, where Stockton taught and cared for the Stewart children. She also organized schools for Native Americans in Canada during this period. Kenneth (B) and Susan (B) In 1830 she returned to live with the Stewarts full time, as Harriet Stewart had lost her health. Wonderland are on the staff Stockton became a full-time surrogate mother to the two Stewart children after Harriet Stewart died. of the Presbytery of Hudson When the Stewart children were grown, Stockton helped start several institutions that stabilized and River, where they work in enriched Princeton's free black community. Beginning in 1835 she helped start the First Presbyterian youth and Christian education. Church of Colour of Princeton, today called Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, and taught at its Morning Sabbath School. By 1837 she was teaching black children They co-pastor Webb-Horton at a public school in Princeton, and in 1847 was registered as the Memorial Presbyterian only teacher of the single public school for black children in Princeton Church in Middletown, NY. Township. Her wooden school housed an average of forty students, who learned spelling, reading, grammar, geography, and arithmetic. 2$ Her salary for one year was $36, while a Miss Lockwood, who taught 1984 After seven *1 at the school for white children in the same district, earned $42 for the years as pastor of Black same period.

Mountain Presbyterian n C t « Stockton also helped start a night school that taught young black adults Church in Black Mountain, &! <0 _C history, English literature, algebra, and Latin. She persuaded PTS facul¬ C «- NC, John McCall (B) S * ty to donate their time and skills as teachers in the school, which pre¬ E-c £ ♦- has departed for Taiwan, - c pared a number of students who later graduated from college. Stockton ra o n £ 0) c continued her personal study throughout her life; in her later years she where he will spend two ■o" read Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars in the original Latin. years studying Mandarin <0 .E c > o 0) and then be assigned a spe¬ O* Stockton died in 1865 and was buried in the Stewart family plot in o upstate New York, as she had requested. Her eulogist, Lewis Mudge, cific ministry by the Presby- xo a remembered that "among her own people she moved like a queen, and her word was law." Stockton's former students donated a stained glass window in her honor to the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church. summer 1996

Class notes

chaplain at St. Peter’s Medical Ruth E. Hawley-Lowry (B) where she is associate pastor at on January 1, 1996. She had Center in New Brunswick, NJ.” is studying for her Doctor Central Presbyterian Church. been associate pastor at the of Ministry degree at Western “I also had a great time in First Presbyterian Church of 1988 Thomas Poetter Theological Seminary, Holland, March with twenty-seven of my Victoria, TX. (B) will publish a book, Pro¬ ML classmates (and assorted PTS spective Teachers and their Voices, administrators) on a two-week Gary Sallquist (B) is a in fall 1996. He is an assistant 1990 Having just sub¬ regional development manager professor in a teacher education mitted his doctoral thesis, for Promise Keepers, an organi¬ program at Trinity University Thomas K. Carr (B) will zation for Christian men in San Antonio, TX. be leaving England’s Oxford headquartered in Boulder, CO. University, where he has been He works with businesses and Lillian Taylor (B) and her junior dean of Oriel College foundations that support husband, David Taylor (’53M), and a philosophy tutor, to take Promise Keepers, pastors busi¬ are interim part-time co-pastors a new job as assistant professor ness leaders, and preaches in of the First Presbyterian of philosophy and religion various churches, practicing Church, Whiteville, NC. at Mt. Union College, Alliance, what he calls “theolobizz.” His OH. His first book, Newman job “is a good fit with the thirty Steve Yamaguchi (B) and Knowing, will be published years I spent in business before was committee assistant for this fall by Scholars Press. coming to seminary,” he said. the Pensions and Benefits trip to Israel lead by classmate “I’m hilly challenged, greatly Committee of this summer’s In January 1993, Robert Andy Vaughn, (B, ’96D)” she blessed, and sprinting to keep General Assembly of the Rodriguez (M) transferred writes. up!” Presbyterian Church (USA). to the Naval Reserve and became pastor of Eltingville 1992 Yong H. Paik (B) 1994 “Now that I’m back 1989 After six and a half Lutheran Church and School is pastor of Young Nak Presby¬ in the Princeton area,” writes years as pastor of a small church in Staten Island, NY. terian Church in Tacoma, WA. Mary Austin (B), “I’m a in Burlington, NJ, Stephen little worried about what the P. Fritz (B) has been called 1991 Ann Deibert (B) 1993 Carmen S. Seminary expects from its to Keyser Presbyterian Church has moved from Bel Air, MD, Fowler (B) became interim graduates. I ran into David Wall in Keyser, WV. He began the where she was interim pastor pastor of Christian education (’80E) recently at a restaurant, call in January of this year. at Christ Our King Presbyterian at Memorial Drive Presbyterian and he immediately exclaimed, Church, to Louisville, KY, Church in Houston, TX, ‘Are you working here?’ Luckily, the answer is no! I’m working as a chaplain for a hospice in New Weddings Jersey’s Monmouth and Ocean &Births Counties, and am enjoying and being stretched by provid¬ Weddings ing pastoral care to people who Geraldine Adams to Virgil L. Jones ('54B), July 29, 1995 are dying and their families.” Sydni A. Craig to Michael C. R. Nabors ('85B, '86M), June 3, 1995. Austin was ordained to the min¬ Alicia Morton to Todd A. Collier ('86B), August 27, 1994 istry on June 22, 1996, by Brenda Rochelle Callahan to Thomas James Edwards ('94B), December 30, 1995 National Capital Presbytery. Births Krystin S. Granberg (B) Jessica Rae to Carol S. ('82B) and Mark Wedell, November 14, 1995 was ordained by New York City John Hartford to Marcia and George R. ('84B) Wilcox, April 8, 1996 Amy Elizabeth Suyeko to Gretchen and Edward Francis ('85B) Ezaki, October 29, 1995 Presbytery on April 28, 1996. Rachel Meghan to Jennifer and lain S. ('85M) Maclean, July 28, 1995 She is the coordinator of the Madeline Lee to Alicia and Todd A. ('86B) Collier, January 27, 1996 China program for the National Cooper Marshall to Ann Heil McAnelly ('91B) and Stanley M. McAnelly ('92B), December 11, 1995 Council of the Churches of Jonathan David to Julie and David R. ('92B) Brewer, May 14, 1995 Christ (USA), where she works Donald Stuart Lee to Lori and Albert L. ('92B) Gillin, June 21, 1995 in partnership with the China Henning August Daniel to Gertrud and Hans E. ('93M) Andreasson, October 25, 1995 Lindsay Geneil to Monica ('94B) and Tony ('94b) Elvig, February 21, 1996 summer 1996 Class notes

The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Historical Gospels, by Luke Timothy On the Shelves Johnson. San Francisco: Harper, 1996. As indicated by the Have you ever wished that you could ask for a PTS professor's sub-title, the argument of this book is in two parts. In the first recommendation before buying a book? On the Shelves part, the author exposes the Jesus Seminar for what it is: self¬ features book recommendations from a variety of Princeton promotion resting on tendentious scholarship. In the second Seminary faculty, with the hope that these suggestions will part, Johnson argues that Christian faith is based not merely help alumni/ae choose books that will facilitate their professional on recovering a historical Jesus, but on the resurrected Jesus and personal growth. found in the converging lines of evidence preserved throughout the New Testament. From Paul Rorem, the Benjamin B. Warfield Associate Professor of Ecclesiastical History: The Year of the Bible: A Comprehensive, Congregation-wide The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, Program of Bible Reading, by James E. Davison. Available from by Bernard McGinn. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1992 the author, 2040 Washington Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15241. Davi¬ and 1994. This book is divided into two volumes: volume one, son's book supplies clear, step-by-step instructions and sample The Foundations of Mysticism, and volume two, The Growth materials for developing a unified and comprehensive program of Mysticism. With these two volumes, Bernard McGinn has for congregations who want to read through the entire Bible launched the definitive English overview of Western Christian in one year. The program provides basic biblical knowledge mysticism. Using the broader category of the presence of God, for beginners, as well as a broader picture for longtime Bible rather than the more limited notion of union with God, McGinn readers. This is a good book that will do good. offers a balanced analysis, copious quotations from the primary texts, and thorough engagement with the secondary literature. From Wayne Whitelock, director of educational commu¬ The first volume establishes his foundations regarding method¬ nications and technology, come two books on video ology, the biblical materials, and the early church. Volume two technology for the church: takes readers from Gregory the Great through the twelfth centu¬ Befriending the Cyclops, by Barry L. Johnson. Published by ry, with a special focus on Bernard of Clairvaux. He projects the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 700 Prospect three more volumes. Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115-1100. Johnson is a pioneer in local church television who addresses the political, program¬ A Morbid Taste for Bones, The Heretic's Apprentice, and The matic, practical, and spiritual realities of church television with Confession of Brother Cadfael, all part of the Cadfael series, by a wit and humor baptized in experience. Good advice, true Ellis Peters, and produced by a variety of publishers. As recently stories, cartoons, and practical data are all there for the reading. portrayed on public television by Derek Jacobi, Brother Cadfael You cannot find a better place to start. is the literary creation of Ellis Peters in a series of some twenty detective novels set in and around a twelfth-century Benedictine Media Handbook for Churches, by Charles Somervill and Kerry monastery in England. Unfailingly literate, humane, and histor¬ L. Townson. Westminster Press, 1988. This book presents the ically well grounded, these novels are delightful reading. One experiences of a local church media committee in a novel and of the most theologically interesting is The Heretic's Apprentice, compelling dialogue format, and takes the reader through the but they all give a glimpse of medieval England, an intriguing entire process of getting "on the air." Their learning about mystery, and a sub-plot involving pure, young love. scripts, editing, microphones, cameras, and a thousand other details provides an effective introduction to the how-to's and From Bruce M. Metzger, the George L. Collord Professor what-nots of local television production. of New Testament Language and Literature Emeritus: Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early These books are not for everyone. For the advanced, the Christian Texts, by Harry Y. Gamble. New Haven: Yale University shelves are full of textbooks and technical manuals. For those Press, 1995. This fascinating book provides the first com¬ who are still figuring out their VCRs and digital clocks and have prehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use just been asked to produce church television, however, these of books during the first five centuries of the church. The author books are just the thing. interweaves practical and technical dimensions of his subject with the social and institutional history of the period.

Christian Council and the study on China and Hong Archbishop of Melbourne Keith Amity Foundation to send Kong. Her email address is Rayner. We're not teachers to China and support [email protected], where ignoring you! Chinese theological students she would “love to hear from 1995 Thomas M. The editorial staff of inSpire studying in the United States. classmates!” Olson (B) is an intern in receives many class notes every She also does advocacy and directing at Theatre de la Jeune year, and tries to print them all. But because the magazine is education on issues related Mark Harding (D) was com¬ Lune in Minneapolis, MN. published quarterly, it some¬ to China, and leads study tours missioned as the seventh dean He was recently the assistant times doesn't include recently to China. Granberg recently of the Australian College of director of The Hunchback of submitted class notes. If you don't see your class note here, wrote the youth resource that Theology on March 19, 1996. Notre-Dame, which ran through please be patient. It will appear is part of Friendship Press’s The service was performed by February 11, 1996, and was in a future issue. Balancing Act, an ecumenical the Primate of Australia, profiled in Kamikaze magazine.

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Wildfire and Wilderness: Meeting God in the Forests of Idaho

Parachuting from a small plane to fight dwells in us, and we in nature, when we forest itself. He writes of encounters with forest fires in the Idaho wilderness is the become absorbed in wilderness. Not unlike a “moss-loving moose” he met on a trail, red¬ closest Stan Tate has come to knowing God. poet William Wordsworth, Eve felt a spiritu¬ tailed hawks soaring above giant cedars, and Although he is both a Presbyterian min¬ al presence in the wilderness which has tiny wildflowers on the forest floor. Each ister and an Episcopal priest, it is as a smoke elevated my being.” was a sort of parable or meditation for Tate, jumper that Tate found the spirituality that In a time when, for many people, spiri¬ pointing him to communion with his cre¬ sustains him. He learned in the remoteness tuality is synonymous with the New Age ator. of sky and forest that “spirituality cannot movement’s crystals and candles, Tate is clear “Wild things extended their hands to be manufactured, but it can be a gift of the that his wilderness spirituality is grounded me,” he said. “A few raindrops fell on a bed wilderness.” in a Christian understanding of God. of trilliums on the forest floor. Each leaf held A 1958 PTS M.Div. graduate and Idaho “I believe Christians ought to love God’s its raindrop momentarily, then relinquished native, Tate was accepted for smoke jumping natural world while simultaneously loving it to the next leaf. I concentrated on one tril- training by the U.S. Forest Service while he Christ, the Logos, who was present at that lium, relishing its triune petals. I learned that was still a student at Princeton. After gradua¬ world’s beginning,” he said. “While I admire all living things ought to be valued for their tion, he combined two careers for the next the many people who love nature, I find that intrinsic worth.” twelve years. While pastoring a Presbyterian their Christology is often very weak, or miss¬ He also found companionship with his church in Hysham, MT, and then an ing entirely. The word ‘ecology’ basically fellow smoke jumpers, the men of the Seven Episcopal church in McCall, ID, in the means ‘home.’ The book emphasizes our Squad. They left families and homes for 1960s, he spent summers and sabbaticals real home or spiritual dwelling as being in weeks at a time to live in camp, ready to jumping into the middle of forests far from Christ.” respond at a moment’s notice when lightning civilization as a member of the McCall Like Christ’s own experience of suffering struck the tinder-dry forests. For this com¬ Smoke Jumpers. and hardship in the wilderness, smoke munity of men, the mountains and timber- Tate made his last jump in 1970, but jumping can bring loss. Jumping Skyward lands became what Tate calls a “bioscathe- continued what he calls a “non-traditional chronicles the death of several jumpers dral,” a natural sanctuary not unlike the ministry of spirituality” that led him to hos¬ whose planes crash into mountainsides soaring Gothic marvels of Notre Dame pital chaplaincy and teaching. In 1989 he or who are overcome by raging fires when or Chartres. earned a D. Min. in medical bioethics from they reach the ground. “Many of these men had never been San Franscisco Theological Seminary; he is “Every Christian experiences suffering,” in church," Tate said. “But they knew God now a bioethicist and consultant at Gritman said Tate. “We all go through a dark night in the wilderness and through the communi¬ Medical Center and Latah Health Center of the soul; we all struggle to find meaning ty we forged with each other.” Tate still con¬ in Moscow, ID, and a part-time instructor in a hostile environment.” The book’s hero, siders himself a chaplain to the men with in ethics at the University of Idaho. Last year Ken Shuler, is based on Tate’s best friend, whom he jumped. He recently conducted Tate wrote Jumping Skyward, a work of fic¬ who died in a plane crash trying to save a memorial service for one jumper, and tion that combines passages of Scripture with other jumpers. Tate intends Shuler to be he stays in touch with most of the men and his memories of jumping into the Idaho a kind of Christ figure, an example of some¬ their families. wilderness. one on a spiritual journey toward God who Tate hopes his book will teach people “The book comes 100 percent from is willing to sacrifice himself for others. that the future of the earth depends on peo¬ experiences I recorded in my journal,” Tate In his years as a smoke jumper, Tate ple protecting God’s creation, and that it will said. “I wrote it to motivate Christians to found companions for his own spiritual jour¬ lead readers to a deeper spiritual life, whether enjoy and cherish God’s creation. Nature ney in the creatures of the forest, and in the

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or not they venture into a physical wilder¬ ness. That has, in fact, already happened. One reader, the pilot of a 747 for United Airlines, read the book after his son was killed when he crashed an acrobatic plane into a hillside while the father watched from another plane. Tate received a letter from the grateful lather. “He told me that the book’s down-to-earth Christian spirituali¬ ty had given him new hope and rejuvenated his faith,” Tate said. More information about the book is available by contacting Tate at The Centering Place, 1423 Alpowa Drive, Moscow, ID 83843-2401.1

Making Haste To Be Kind: Oregon Pastor Heads Ecumenical Organization

Growing up in Pittsburgh with a grand¬ Disappointed by his loss in the primary, Dennis’s work father who volunteered at the local hospital Dennis decided to follow through with his will include re¬ and a father who contributed many hours commitment to people with HIV and AIDS. structuring the to the Boy Scouts taught John Dennis (’62B, He called EMO, an organization he knew organization, serv¬ ’65M) the value of community service. As was committed to advocacy for people in ing as head of a search committee to find a the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church need. new executive director, and working toward in Corvallis, OR, since 1969, he has contin¬ “They were in the process of starting resolving disputes about housing conditions ued that tradition, involving himself and his what was the second or third HIV day-care and picking rates between Oregon growers congregation in projects ranging from HIV center in the country,” he said, “so the and migrant farm workers. day care to refugee resettlement. church signed on. We took a challenge offer¬ While providing leadership to EMO, Beginning in September, Dennis will ing and came up with the seed money for Dennis will also travel with church members serve a one-and-a-half year term as president the center.” to Cambodia next year to visit children and of the board of directors of the Ecumenical Today members of his church drive adults who have lost limbs from the thou¬ Ministries of Oregon (EMO). the ninety miles from Corvallis to Portland sands of active land mines that dot the coun¬ EMO, with one hundred and fifty-six monthly to prepare food at the day-care tryside. He made his first trip to the Asian full-time employees and a budget of almost center; the congregation also continues to nation in 1994 to visit a friend, and spent an six million dollars for mission, works on raise funds for the project through special afternoon in a children’s hospital full of tiny behalf of more than seventeen denomina¬ offerings. And two members serve on the amputees. tions and three thousand congregations in EMO board with their pastor. “I didn’t realize until I was in that hospi¬ ministries of justice and advocacy through¬ Dennis’s work with EMO will also tal that I was capable of rage,” Dennis said. out Oregon. (Two other PTS alumni— involve him in refugee resettlement (the “I came back with a challenge for myself and Don Purkey (’61B) and Bill Creevey organization is the largest resettler of refugees the church. We’ve now raised money for 116 (’56B)—have also chaired the EMO board.) in the state), migrant farm workers’ rights, artificial arms and legs for kids, and for edu¬ Dennis’s relationship with EMO began interracial summer camp programs, a hos¬ cational programs in mine awareness and when he ran for Congress in 1988 and lost pice center, and several addiction and reha¬ emergency first aid in five Cambodian vil¬ in the primary. “I remember a journalist bilitation centers. He believes it is one of lages.” from a Portland newspaper sitting me down the most effective ecumenical organizations For Dennis, it comes down to being in a Sizzler steak house and asking me to run in the country. kind. “I try to follow the words of a Swiss as an alternative to a candidate who opposed “EMO is a thriving ecumenical organiza¬ writer, Henri' Amiel, that we use to close our AIDS education,” Dennis said. “I had buried tion,” Dennis said. “Ecumenism is alive worship service: ‘Life is short, and we have two people from my congregation with and well in Oregon, which is something of not too much time to gladden the hearts of AIDS and had a cousin who died of the a paradox since the state has the highest per¬ those who travel the way with us. O be swift disease, and I couldn’t say no.” centage of unchurched people in the nation.” to love, and make haste to be kind. I summer 1996

Obituaries

• Eugen Zeleny, 1928M clerk, and treasurer of the Presbytery November 27, 1995. He was ninety years Eugen Zeleny, a Czech pastor who of Granville in Raleigh, NC, between old. Roe’s longest pastorate was at Knox survived four years in Nazi Germany’s 1963 and his 1971 retirement. Presbyterian Church in Sudbury, Ontario, Dachau concentration camp, died on • James R. Gailey, 1933B where he served from 1948 to 1959. October 8, 1995. He was ninety-two years James R. Gailey, a pastor who served the He also served Park Lawn Presbyterian old. Zeleny was an assistant pastor and Presbyterian Church (USA) for twenty-five Church in Toronto, Ontario, from 1959 then a pastor in Trnovany, Teplice, Sanov, years as a leader on the Board of Christian to 1965, and St. Timothy’s Presbyterian and Pardubice from 1929 to 1940. He Education, died on November 30, 1995. Church in Ajax, Ontario, from 1969 to was a pastor and prisoner at Javornfk in He was eighty-six years old. Gailey began 1976. He is survived by his wife, Mary- 1940, and was moved to Dachau in 1941, his pastoral career at the First Presbyterian Evelyn Roe, and their five children: Helen where he remained until liberation in Church in Smyrna, DE, where he served Stringer, Marilyn Shobridge, David Roe, 1945. From 1945 to 1950 he was director from 1933 to 1937. He then pastored the Jean Byers, and Arlene Gillis. of Czech Diakony, where he did church First Presbyterian Church of Bristol, PA, • Carlton C. Allen, 1936B social work. For the next thirty years, from 1937 to 1944. In 1944 he began Carlton C. Allen, retired pastor of the beginning in 1951, he was secretary of the his work with the Board of Christian First Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, synodal council of the Evangelical Church Education’s Division of Field Services, NM, died on December 4, 1995. He was of Czech Brethren, and was an advisor and beginning as field director of Christian eighty-four years old. Allen pastored the expert library worker in the same organiza¬ education for the Presbytery of Phila¬ Albuquerque church from 1967 to 1974. tion from 1981 to 1991. delphia, where he served from 1944 to He also served Trinity University in San • Merlin F. Usner, 1930B 1948. He was associate secretary of the Antonio, TX, as university chaplain and Merlin F. Usner, who served churches in Division of Field Services from 1948 to assistant professor of religion from 1947 the American South, died on August 20, 1950, associate secretary of the Education to 1953, and served as pastor of the 1995. He was ninety-two years old. Usner in Churches Division from 1950 to 1955, Presbyterian church in Bound Brook, NJ, pastored Central Presbyterian Church, and became the Field Service Division sec¬ for ten years, beginning in 1953. From Miami, FL, from 1935 to 1943. He was retary in 1955, a post he held until 1961. 1937 to 1939, he taught at Ewing pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, In 1961 he was made associate general Christian College in Allahabad, India. Louisville, MS, from 1948 to 1951; pastor secretary, and in 1970 he became general He is survived by his wife, Barbara N. of the First Presbyterian Church of East secretary. He retired in 1973. He is sur¬ Allen, and their two sons, Carlton C. Lake in Birmingham, AL, from 1951 vived by his wife, Clara Maser Gailey, and Allen III and John I. Allen. to 1955; pastor of Picayune Presbyterian their two children, James Jr. and Claire. • Adam W. Craig, 1937B Church in Picayune, MS, from 1955 to • Robert J. Laughlin, 1934G Adam W. Craig, a pastor and educator, 1962; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Robert J. Laughlin, who served churches died on December 28, 1995. He was Church of Ocean Springs, MS, from 1962 in Northern Ireland and Kentucky for eighty-three years old. Craig’s first pas¬ until his retirement in 1972. Usner also forty-two years, died on February 16, torate was at Irvington Presbyterian served as director of the Cook Christian 1996. He was eighty-five years old. He Church in Irvington, NJ, where he served Training School in Phoenix, AZ, from served as assistant pastor of Cooke from 1939 to 1944. Craig was pastor of 1943 to 1945, and was a missionary Centenary Presbyterian Church in Belfast, the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, and stated supply pastor in the Presbytery Northern Ireland, from 1934 to 1935, NJ, from 1944 to 1949, and an instructor of New Orleans from 1945 to 1948. and then became pastor of Shore Street at Princeton Theological Seminary from • Isaac Moultrie Bagnal, 1931M Presbyterian Church in Donaghadee, 1945 to 1947. He was pastor of Village Isaac Moultrie Bagnal, a pastor who Northern Ireland, where he stayed until Presbyterian Chapel in Pinehurst, NC, served churches in South Carolina for thir¬ 1952. In 1952 he moved to the United from 1950 to 1959, and headmaster of the ty-two years, died on February 7, 1996. States and became pastor of the First Mount Hermon School in Northfield, He was ninety years old. Bagnal’s first call Presbyterian Church of Frankfort, KY. MA, from 1959 to 1963. Craig also served was in 1931 as pastor of Belton-Honea He stayed at that church for twenty-four as pastor of Scarborough Presbyterian Path Presbyterian Churches in the South years, retiring in 1976. Laughlin is sur¬ Church in Scarborough, NY, beginning Carolina towns of the same names; he vived by his wife, Mabel Laughlin, and in 1964. continued in that pastorate until 1943. by their four children: Roy, Ian, Avril, • Benjamin F. Ferguson, 1938B He then served Easley Presbyterian and David. Benjamin F. Ferguson, who pastored Church in Easley, SC, from 1943 to 1952, • James S. Roe, 1935B churches in New Jersey, Maryland, and Bennettsville Presbyterian Church James S. Roe, who served twelve church¬ Virginia, South Carolina, and North in Bennettsville, SC, from 1952 to 1963. es in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada, Carolina during thirty-seven years of Bagnal was executive secretary, stated during sixty years as a minister, died on ministry, died on December 10, 1995.

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He was ninety years old. Ferguson’s first years old. Hughes served as assistant pastor and Cataraqui (1966 to 1971), Ontario. church was Greenwich Presbyterian of East Liberty Presbyterian Church in His last church was Enterprise United Church in Greenwich, NJ, where he Pittsburgh, PA, for four years beginning Church, where he served from 1972 served from 1938 to 1946. From 1946 in 1939, and was pastor of the First until his 1977 retirement. Fie is survived to 1949 he was pastor of Darnestown Presbyterian Church, Lambertville, NJ, by his wife, Elizabeth Wright. Presbyterian Church in Darnestown, MD. from 1943 to 1946. He then became • George Hileman Yount, 1942B From 1950 to 1961 he pastored assistant secretary of the Presbyterian George Hileman Yount, former pastor Presbyterian Church (US) churches in Ministers’ Fund, St. Louis, MO, a post of the First Presbyterian Church, Virginia, South Carolina, and North he held for five years. In 1951 he became Arlington, VA, died on December 11, Carolina, including Pageland Presbyterian assistant secretary of the Presbyterian 1995. He was eighty years old. Yount Church in Pageland, SC; Salem Ministers’ Fund in Los Angeles, CA, stay¬ was also assistant pastor at the Covenant- Presbyterian Church in Salem, SC; and ing until 1968. From 1968 until his 1976 First Presbyterian Church (now National Beulah Presbyterian Church in Monroe, retirement, he was assistant secretary of the Presbyterian Church) in Washington, NC. In 1961 he was called to Antioch same organization in Philadelphia, PA. He D.C., from 1942 to 1944, and worked Presbyterian Church in Red Springs, NC, is survived by his wife, Miriam Hughes. for a glass company in Washington, PA, where he stayed until his 1975 retirement. • Gilbert J. Kuyper, 1941M before he entered seminary. He is survived He is survived by his wife, Katherine M. Gilbert J. Kuyper, retired pastor of the by his wife, Annette Yount. Ferguson, and their children, Kathleen First Presbyterian Church, Kasson, MN, • Eugene L. Daniel Jr., 1948G Dennis and Carl Ferguson. died on November 22, 1995. He was Eugene L. Daniel Jr., who served as • Dayton Castleman Jr., 1939G eighty-one years old. Kuyper pastored the a chaplain to Allied prisoners in three Dayton Castleman Jr., who served Kasson, MN, church from 1977 until his prisoner of war camps during World War Chinese Americans as both a pastor and retirement in 1980. His career also includ¬ II, died on April 25, 1995. He was eighty- a missionary, died on November 28, 1995. ed service to the First Presbyterian Church four years old. Daniel served as an army He was eighty-four years old. Castleman in Algona, LA (1946 to 1952); Knox chaplain during World War II, and was was pastor of the First Presbyterian Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, MN awarded a Silver Star Medal for gallantry Church of Higginsville, MO, from 1936 (1952 to 1965); and the First Presbyterian in action. During the Tunisian campaign, to 1938, and then served as a home mis¬ Church in St. James, MN (1965 to 1971). Daniel became a prisoner of war when sionary at the Chinese Mission in New He also served as associate and co-pastor he remained behind during the American Orleans, LA. He became pastor of the of Hammond Avenue Presbyterian Church withdrawal to minister to wounded Chinese Presbyterian Church of New in Superior, WI, from 1972 to 1976. He German soldiers, an action which earned Orleans in 1957. received numerous awards for volunteer him a Distinguished Service Cross by • Leon A. Haring Jr., 1939b work during his life. The Sertoma Club order of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Leon A. Haring Jr., former associate of Albert Lea, MN, gave him its Service For the next twenty-seven months he pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, to Mankind award in 1991. He is survived served as chaplain to Allied prisoners of Arlington Heights, WI, died on November by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Kuyper, war, an experience recounted in his mem¬ 10, 1995. He was eighty years old. In and their children John and Rena. Their oirs, In the Presence of Mine Enemies. addition to the Arlington Heights church, daughter Helen predeceased her father. In 1946 he became a missionary to Korea. which he began serving in 1966, Haring • Harold K. Wright, 1941M In 1951 he was elected candidate secretary pastored churches in Kentucky, New York, Harold K. Wright, a pastor who served of the Board of World Missions of the and Illinois. He was associate pastor the United Church of Canada through Presbyterian Church (US), a post he of Ravenswood Presbyterian Church in thirty-nine years of ministry, died on June served for thirteen years. In 1964 he was Chicago, IL, from 1952 to 1957, and 28, 1994. He was eighty-one years old. called as associate pastor of Myers Park was co-pastor of Northshore Presbyterian Wright served churches in Lacadena, Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC; Church in Shorewood, WI, from 1957 to Saskatchewan; Advocate Harbor, Nova he retired from that church in 1975, 1965. From 1942 to 1948 he directed the Scotia; and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. but continued to preach at other churches Westminster Foundation in Philadelphia, He was pastor of St. Paul’s United Church in the Charlotte area. He was a member PA. in Kent Centre, Ontario, from 1947 of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, the • Frank C. Hughes, 1939B to 1951, and pastored Norwood United Goodfellows Club, the Charlotte Kiwanas Frank C. Hughes, who served the Church in Norwood, Ontario, from 1951 Club, and Mecklenburg Presbytery. He is Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund in Missouri, to 1958. For thirteen years, beginning survived by his second wife, Rose Daniel; California, and Pennsylvania, died on in 1958, he pastored churches in Ancaster his first wife, Nancy Daniel, predeceased December 13, 1995. He was eighty-one (1958 to 1963), Uxbridge (1963 to 1965), him. Daniel is also survived by his chil-

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Obituaries dren: Eugene L. Daniel III, John T. He was seventy-one years old. Bradburn and Shawn A. Dornseif. Daniel, Sallie Johnson, and Mary Daniel- was a Presbyterian missionary to Thailand • Carl Russell Johnson, 1957M Yost. from 1954 to 1967, and was director Carl Russell Johnson, who spent thirty- • Blanche Robertson, 1948E of resource development for American one years as an American Lutheran Blanche Robertson, who was a Christian Leprosy Missions in Bloomfield, NJ, from Church missionary to Madagascar, died educator for thirty years, died on 1974 to 1988. The king of Thailand gave on November 13, 1991. He was seventy- December 12, 1995. She was ninety-six him two medals for his work for the social nine years old. Johnson served as a mis¬ years old. Robertson was director of welfare of Thais with leprosy. Bradburn sionary to Madagascar from 1945 to 1976. Christian education at Central also pastored Shawnee Presbyterian From 1952 to 1976, he was a professor of Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, MO, Church in Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, PA, theology in Madagascar at Ivory Lutheran from 1931 to 1945. She taught Bible and Irom 1950 to 1953, and served Overlake Seminary of the Malagasy Lutheran religious education at Trinity University Park Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, Church. Johnson’s career also included in San Antonio, TX, from 1948 to 1951, WA, from 1967 to 1973. He is survived time as a pastor; he served the First and was director of Christian education by his wife, Dorce A’Lee Myron Bradburn, Presbyterian Church of Granite Falls, MN, at Wynnewood Presbyterian Church in and their children: Pamela Bradburn- from 1940 to 1943, and the First English Dallas, TX, from 1958 to 1961. Her Ochs, Paul Bradburn, and Robbin Lutheran Church of Stevens Point, WI, career also included time as a pastoral Bradburn. from 1943 to 1945. He is survived assistant at the First Presbyterian Church, • J. Raymond Holsey, 1953B by his wife, Caroline Johnson. Tulsa, OK, where she served from 1924 J. Raymond Holsey, retired pastor to 1931. She is survived by two nephews, ofMakemie Memorial Church, Snow Hill, In addition to those whose obituaries appear in this issue, the Seminary has James Fredrick and John A. Fredrick. MD, died on March 3, 1996. He was sev¬ received word that the following alum- • James A. Allison Jr., 1951B enty-two years old. Holsey pastored the ni/ae have died: James A. Allison Jr., who pastored Snow Hill church lor thirty-one years, John R. Kempers, 1925B Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church in beginning in 1953. He also served as Howard C. Blake, 1928b Gordon Conning, 1928B Roanoke, VA, for thirty years, died on moderator of New Castle Presbytery from George Neff, 1928B January 17, 1996. He was seventy-one 1962 to 1963. He is survived by his wife, Lowell C. Hine, 1929B years old. Allison pastored the Roanoke June Holsey. Charles H. Haines, 1930b church from 1960 until his retirement in • Paul F. Smith, 1954B Peter DeRuiter, 1931b Russell W. Annich, 1932B, 1933M 1990. He was also pastor ol Augusta Stone Paul F. Smith, who served both the Paul R. Abbott Jr., 1935B Presbyterian Church in Fort Defiance, VA, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches Edward J. Caldwell, 1938B from 1952 to 1959. Allison is survived by and helped establish drug and alcohol Varre A. Cummins, 1942B his wife, Margaret Anderson Allison, who treatment centers in Iowa, Illinois, and James L. Price Jr., 1943M Theoderic E. Roberts Jr., 1943M is also a Class of 1951 alumna. Rhode Island, died on January 22, 1996. Harlan Foss, 1945M • Donald G. Burt, 1951B He was sixty-seven years old. Smith served Alva M. Gregg, 1946M Donald G. Burt, retired pastor of the churches in both denominations in Bickford Lang, 1948B First Presbyterian Church, Independence, Minnesota for twenty years. In 1975 David Morsey, 1949b William R. Raborn, 1950B KS, died on January 26, 1996. He was he trained in the field of alcohol and drug Margaret Louise Henry Roberts, 1950e seventy-one years old. Burt served that rehabilitation treatment and counseling, Malcolm R. Evans, 1951B church for thirty-one years, beginning and joined the staff of Minnesota’s Glen E. Mayhew, 1952B in 1962 and ending with his 1993 retire¬ Hazelden Center. He helped establish Horace McMullen, 1953G Yoshiko Watari, 1953e ment. During his career Burt also served and run alcohol and drug treatment cen¬ Maren Gregory Cragg, 1955U Foley-Sartell Presbyterian Churches in ters in Council Bluffs, IA; Granite City, Elizabeth Marvin, 1955U Foley, MN, from 1951 to 1954, and IL; and Newport, RI. In 1986 he return¬ Donald E. Ardis, 1956b Calvary Presbyterian Church in Florham ed to parish work, and was pastor of Leon W. Gibson, 1959D Robert N. McCleery, 1960B Park, NJ, from 1954 to 1958. He was Georgiaville Baptist Church in Smithfield, Edward M. Huenemann, 1961D associate pastor of the First Presbyterian RI, from 1986 to 1988, and of Pomfret William F. Nisi, 1962M Church, Haddonfield, NJ, from 1958 Congregational Church in Pomfret, CT, Cecilio Arrastia-Valdes, 1975P to 1962. Burt is survived by his wife, from 1988 to 1990. He is survived by his Pamela G. Kolderup, 1977E Carol T. Brandt, 1978e Dorothy Burt. wife, Meriel Wilaby Smith, and their chil¬ Ernest Hutcherson, 1979M • Robert M. Bradburn, 1952B dren: Mark F. Smith, Paul T. Smith, and Leslie Crotz, 1987M Robert M. Bradburn, a pastor and mis¬ Priscilla A. Smith. He is also survived The obituaries of many of these alum- sion worker, died on February 15, 1996. by his stepchildren, Lane W. Ukura ni/ae will appear in future issues.

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Among the great blessings of life are the individuals who touch our lives with positive and lasting effect: par¬ ents, perhaps, who nourished and helped shape us, passing along values and sensitivities that continue to serve us well; pastors, teachers, or mentors, who inspired and encouraged us, sharing information with us, helping us see new possibilities for ourselves and gain the confidence to venture out into the deep; business partners or col¬ leagues who have worked with us through the years, challenging us to higher accomplishment by both word and example; or our spouses or dear friends, who know us well and have stood with us through the good and difficult times alike. When we consider what they have meant to us we appreciate them all the more, and often long for a way to express the feelings we have for them. Let me suggest a gift to Princeton Seminary in honor or memory of these special people in your life as an ideal means of doing so. Friends of our institution who have made such gifts in the past have found it deeply

The Reverend satisfying. Not only do they experience the personal pleasure of remembering someone in this way, but they Chase S. Hunt have the further satisfaction of knowing that their gifts will advance the mission of the Seminary as it prepares is the Seminary's director of men and women for service to the church. planned giving. While these gifts can be made outright if the donor so desires, the life income arrangements offered through For more informa¬ the Seminary’s planned giving program are a convenient alternative that can also be beneficial to the donor from tion, call him at 609-497-7756. a tax and estate planning standpoint. These arrangements typically provide income for the donor during his or her lifetime, and then become the property of the Seminary, either for its general purposes or for a purpose specified in the formal agreement made at the time of the gift. A spouse or other beneficiary may be provided for as well. Depending on the needs and desires of the donor, income can be fixed or variable; the gift amount may range from one thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Such gifts can provide library book funds, establish continuing education seminars or chairs of instruction, or provide for scholarships, programmatic needs, or capital improvements here at the Seminary, to name but a few of the possibilities. In all instances, the donor would be entitled to a charitable tax deduction and, if the gift were funded with appreciated property, capital gains savings. Imagine such a gift honoring someone dear to you or holding them in memory! If such a possibility appeals to you, please be in touch with me at your earliest convenience. Gifts The Reverend Allen E. Schoff (’40B) to the Annual Fund This list includes gifts made between February 8, 1996, Mrs. Catherine H. Sulyok (’5IE) to the Kalman and Catherine and May 31, 1996. Sulyok Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund In Memory of_ _ Mr. Charles A. Wagg to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Dr. David A. Weadon to the David A. Weadon Memorial Dr. James A. Allison Jr. (’5IB) to the Scholarship Fund Endowment Fund, the Miller Chapel Renovation Fund, and The Reverend Dr. Russell W. Annich (’32B) to the Scholarship Princeton Theological Seminary Fund Dr. Willis A. Baxter (’38B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Dr. Alison R. Bryan to the Annual Fund In Honor of ____ _ Mrs. Margaret A. Allison (’5IE) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Charles S. Burgess (’50B) to the Alumni/se Roll Call The Reverend Dr. William R. Dupree (’46B) to the International The Reverend Dr. Edward J. Caldwell (’38B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Students Scholarship Endowment Fund Call and to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Geddes W. Hanson (’72D) to the Geddes W. The Reverend Dr. Orion C. Flopper (’22B) to the Reverend Dr. Hanson Black Resource Library Orion C. Hopper Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mrs. Bernice T. Kirkland to the Annual Fund Mrs. Bernice T. Kirkland to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland (’38B) to the Annual Fund Mrs. Pamela A. Gonder Kolderup (’77E) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Mr. David Hugh Jones to the Touring Choir Fund In Appreciation of Mrs. Carol A. Belles to the David A. Weadon Prize Mr. Kenneth A. Lawder to the Kenneth A. Lawder Memorial Colleagues all over the country who have responded to support Scholarship Endowment Fund victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, to the Alumni/ae Roll Ms. Elizabeth Newcomer to the Annual Fund Call Ms. Ruth Mason Reaser (’57E) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Robert A. Keeler (’82B) to the Scholarship Fund Mrs. Elsie H. Root to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Charles T. Rush (’91 D) to the Scholarship Fund

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basic secretarial skills. We couldn’t afford are finished, doors have suddenly sprung day care. My husband took a job as a open in my career. Even the assignment manager at a local movie theater, but his to write this essay seemed to be a message schedule meant that he often came home from God: “Don’t worry, I haven’t forgot¬ at five on a weekend morning, and left ten about your calling.” again at seven for a field education place¬ As I look back over these three years, ment. I was nearly the sole caretaker of I see God’s presence in other aspects of our our children. Our excitement was gone, lives as well. Coming to Princeton meant lost in a haze of exhaustion and financial that my husband could become a pastor. worry. It also meant that my husband’s dyslexia The longer I lived in CRW, the more was diagnosed, and that we had a head I realized that daily community life bore start on catching my son’s learning disabil¬ little resemblance to the Christian ideals ity. Our children have had more of their of the Princeton campus. Campus com¬ father’s attention than they might have munity discussions of ordination issues had if he had continued with a nine-to- and the “he-ness” or “she-ness” of God five job; his time was tight, but he was seemed to have little bearing on the CRW sometimes able to attend school events, life of getting dinner on the table, taking for instance. My husband and I learned care of children, doing endless loads of how to truly communicate—in a small laundry, and learning from some neigh¬ apartment, there’s nowhere to run! And bors about the domestic violence that our new church in West Virginia works In 1993, my husband arrived at afflicts some couples in every communi¬ to house battered women, a subject with Princeton Theological Seminary to begin ty—even the Seminary. I found that no which I now have some familiarity. work on his M.Div. degree. Our family one was interested in discussing theologi¬ Princeton Theological Seminary, I see moved into the Charlotte Rachel Wilson cal matters with me, though I am at least now, merely exists. It isn’t inherently married student apartments, and at first, as theologically well read as my husband. sacred, but God can use it to reach I was happy to be there. We had moved While seminary refined my husband’s people in all kinds of ways—some of to Princeton from the more urban faith, it challenged mine. them painful at the time. If we are open Pennsauken, NJ, and it was wonderful While my husband was working toward to the leading of the spirit, then any to lie in bed at night and listen to crickets the fulfillment of a recognized calling, circumstance can become an agent and frogs instead of cars, trucks, and my free-lance writing—I had just begun of God’s work in our lives. I buses. The relative safety of a smaller town to be published, after being a full-time was wonderful, too. I could watch my son, mother—was placed in a state of suspend¬ now age seven, and my daughter, now age ed animation. Instead of writing, I edited five, play in the little playground from and proofread papers for foreign students, my front balcony—no longer did I have an enterprise that would eventually bless to hover over them like a turkey vulture. me both monetarily and spiritually. I was I was sure that I would be able to find privileged to become a part of life stories a job—after all, my husband s financial so touching that the very idea of editing aid had been partly based on the idea that them to suit English-speaking professors I would be working. I was certain that was a humbling experience. The discipline I would find day care for my children. of editing other people’s writing also If the first year was Paradise Gained, then helped me in my own work—the writing Debra Pugh is married to 1996 M.Div. grad¬ uate Mikel Pugh. The family now lives in the second was Dante’s Inferno. No job school that pays you to attend. And now Union, WV, where Mikel is the new pastor had materialized, not even one requiring that my husband’s seminary requirements of Union Presbyterian Church.

32 • inSpire summer 1996 con ed calendar

Areas

ft Spiritual Growth and Renewal Hi Theological Studies f Professional Leadership Development Conferences A Congregational Analysis and Development A Off-Campus Events September

23 If the Apostle Paul Worked for Goldman Sachs... Thomas K. Tewell

27-28 How the Bible Came to Us Bruce M. Metzger

29-30 Ecumemical Convocation Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Edward Cardinal Cassidy, Jane Dempsey Douglass, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Thomas W. Gillespie 30-Oct. 3 f A Ministering to Congregations' Emotional Needs John C. Talbot

October

2 I Hate You! Let's Talk! Dealing with Conflict in Everyday Life Carol Windrum, Tim Fickenscher

5 Seeing Is Believing: Creating Video for the Church Wayne R. Whitelock, Joicy Becker-Richards, Christopher Floor, Christopher Panuzzo

6-10 Off-Campus Event (Montreat, NC): At-Risk Youth, At-Risk Church: What Jesus Christ and American Teenagers are Saying to the Mainline Protestant Church Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry

14-16 i! ft The Continuing Conversion of the Church: Evangelism as the Heart of Ministry Darrell L. Guder 21-24 m f Gender Issues in Pastoral Care Christie Cozad Neuger 21-25 A The Time Between: Interim Ministry Basic Education, Week One Edith A. Gause, John A. Wilkerson

25 Body Building: People with Disabilities Enriching the Life of the Church William C. Gaventa, Norman and Muriel Minard, Ginny Thornburgh

28 Anthology or Book? New Directions in Psalms Study Patrick D. Miller

29- Nov. 1 A Master of Surprise: Teaching and Preaching from Mark Donald Juel

30- Nov. 1 The Spiritual Life of Spiritual Leaders Kent I. Groff ft

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Dual Careers, But Still Time Editor’s note: The article titled D ear Friends and Colleagues: to Write “Career Times Two” in the summer One of the Seminary’s trustees com¬ Thank you for another good issue issue y/inSpire neglected to note that mented to me that “Life on the campus of the goings-on at PTS. I particularly Laurena Ketzel-Kerber received her reminds me of a United Nations ses¬ want to commend you on your excel¬ Master of Business A dm i n is tration sion. The racial, ethnic, and gender lent “End Things” and the student degree from the Stern School of diversity of our students is amazing.” life article, “Career Times Two,” Business at New York University in Denominational, generational, and the¬ that appeared in the summer issue. May 1996. Congratidations, Laurena! ological differences also It was great to read about “the characterize our dynamic other halves” of the Princeton experi¬ Christian or Not? campus community. ence. As a former PTS spouse who This concerns the sentiment Feature articles in this helped put hubby through, I thank you expressed in your summer issue article issue of inSpire attest to for sharing what the “significant other” called “Mission Possible.” Presbyterian the diversity among us goes through. The “End Things” essay life has been bombarded by people that finds its unity in our by Debbie Pugh hit home, in that like me who are deeply concerned over common confession of not all PTS spouses have as positive the section in the Book of Order that Jesus Christ as Lord. One feature story experiences as others, and some have still states that only Christians can is on the importance of spiritual life at it downright hard. be “saved” or be acceptable to God. Princeton. And while many of our Keep up the good work. I read As an elder, I have left churches graduates are called to the local church, your magazine from cover to cover. that said I was no longer a Christian others are called to specialized min¬ Sally Braga because I stated in a forum that istries. This issue features two such (spouse of Henry Braga, ’77B) I believed a just and loving God graduates who serve the mentally ill. Naples, FL would accept a Mahatma Ghandi. What a joy it was to welcome so My present church now has many many of our African American alum- Thank you for your story “Career members who believe this also. ni/ae back to the campus this fall for an Times Two,” by Barbara Chaapel, Re-read the statement on page extraordinary reunion event. in the summer 1996 inSpire. Dual¬ thirteen [of the summer issue]. Equally joyful was the celebration of career couples make up such a small The mission statement says, “affirming the twenty-fifth anniversary of the percentage of the total student body Women’s Center at the Seminary. the sovereignty of the triune God over of Princeton, yet have such a harried all creation....” Ecumenically, the Seminary joined existence that it was great to see with the Roman Catholic diocese of I have many friends who are grad¬ an article letting people know what Trenton in a workshop that brought uates of Princeton Seminary, wonderful their lives are like. We would enjoy over four hundred guests to the campus people who would like this issue more in-depth coverage of couples for Protestant-Catholic conversations. explored. such as these, especially ones with In addition, a record number of Grace (Mrs. Joseph L.) Hill Hollander kids like the McColls. pastors flocked to Miller Chapel in Havertown, PA We love serving as co-pastors October to hear Dr. Fred Craddock after studying at PTS together, and deliver the Macleod/Short Elills Life in the Holy Land are glad to see the trend continuing. Community Congregational Church I couldn’t agree more with Pastor We encourage clergy couples to come Lectures. Habib Badr’s observations in “End to Alaska! It is a wonderful place to Through these pages we seek to Things” in the spring 1996 issue. minister and people are untraditional share with you the spiritual life that Please know that I enjoy receiving enough that a clergy couple is looked pulsates through this school of theology. and reviewing this inSpirmg source upon as an asset. Of the three clergy I hope you can feel the beat. of information from my alma mater. With every good wish and warmest couples in our presbytery, two are PTS Kim L. Nelson (’77B) grads. (Rich (’90B) and Annie (DOE) regards, I remain Northminster Presbyterian Church Zimmerman serve in Auke Bay.) Salinas, CA Thank you again for your timely Faithfully yours, article on the joys and challenges The interesting article titled of working together to make two “Living History” in the summer 1996 careers happen! Thomas W. Gillespie inSpire makes no mention of any con¬ Karen and Forrest Claassen (both ’95B) tact between the Seminary group who Craig, AK visited the Holy Land and the congre- 2 • inSpire fall 1996

gations and families of Arab Christians it makes me feel connected to an expe¬ and my lour siblings attended three who are still there. Many thousands rience I had a long time ago. different prep schools and four univer¬ of Christian Palestinians struggle Lynn Elliott (’88B) sities, my mailbox contains regularly to survive and to keep the native Rancho Palos Verdes, CA a well-stocked batch of journals and Christian faith from vanishing from appeals. the land in which that faith was born. I thank you for the inSpire maga¬ Donald Macleod (’46G) It is a struggle they may very well lose. zine, through which I could see how Francis Landey Patton Professor of Can you imagine how discouraging the school and alumni/ae are working Preaching and Worship Emeritus, it is to them to be ignored (as though out and feel connected to PTS. Princeton Theological Seminary they didn’t exist) by their western In Yang (89M) Baltimore, MD Christian brothers and sisters who Korean Presbyterian Church of Peoria come on their Holy Land pilgrimages? Peoria, IL I have just completed reading Surely a group of Princeton Seminary the summer inSpire and found faculty and alumni/ae did not go Aww... Shucks... it most readable and brimming with to the Holy Land to study its geogra¬ Applause for inSpire a broad coverage of subject matter phy and history, and to walk and pray I was the first one to the mailbox far beyond my expectation! Hopefully on the sacred ground, while ignoring on the afternoon the issue arrived, you will continue this fine work, their fellow Christians, who would and read through the entire copy for it is an excellent outreach for have earnestly welcomed a visit. Surely before my husband [Alan Blatecky, Princeton Seminary and a golden it was just an omission in the manu¬ ’72B, 73M] arrived home from work. tie to our alma mater. script. The layout and content are wonderful! Otto Gruber (’43B, ’45M) I do think, though, that mention Keep up the terrific job. InSpire Irvine, CA of visits with the Palestinian Christians certainly is an effective communication would have been a very good reminder tool with an eye-catching and profes¬ to readers that the early church is still sional (yet very “user-friendly”!) image. there and alive among the tombs and Gene Blatecky museums of the Holy Land, and that interim editor, Sharing New Hope Correction: In the summer 1996 no true pilgrimage should ignore it. New Hope Presbytery issue of inSpire, a class note about It’s where Christ lives in the Holy Raleigh, NC Garnett Foster ('66E) was printed Land. below a photograph of Dale Schlafer Paul A. Corcoran (’55B) I want to thank you for two pieces (’66B). Our apologies to both! Cornwall, PA in the summer inSpire. “End Things” by Debra Pugh was very frank and Editor's note: PTS trip participants impressive for her to write. The piece spent one night in the Palestinian by Elsie McKee was also very good— section of East Jerusalem, and spent lifting up her contribution and includ¬ an evening in conversation with ing clear reference to the brutal regime a Palestinian Christian leader. of Mobutu. Please write — we love to hear from you! However, with a limited amount Chris Iosso (’79B) We welcome correspondence from our of time available for travel, the trip Scarborough, NY readers, and enjoy getting feedback—both donors chose to emphasize the histori¬ positive and negative!—on the content and format of inSpire. Letters should be cal, biblical sites of the Holy Land The current issue of inSpire addressed to: over present-day issues there. has reached me, and I assure you Editors, inSpire I’ve read it from page one to thirty-two Office of Communications/Publications Princeton Ties with interest and much admiration Princeton Theological Seminary P.0. Box 821 I enjoy reading inSpire to catch for what you have achieved in making Princeton, NJ 08542-0803 up on the whereabouts of classmates, an alumni/ae organ into what is, email: [email protected] known and otherwise, and especially in my opinion, the finest of its type Letters may be edited for length or clarity, reading the summer issue’s “Student among many schools, theological and and should include the writer's name and telephone numbers, so that we may verify Life” and “End Things.” Thank you otherwise. Since I attended myself four authorship. for producing the journal, because different schools of higher education,

inSpire • 3 photo: courtesy of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary on&off Campus fall 1996 4 •inSpire Women areTopicofAnnualMissionLectures which weregivenbyDanaL.Robert,associateprofessorofinternationalmissionattheBostonUniversity and iscurrentlywritingahistoryofwomeninmission. Century," "WomeninIndependentEvangelicalMissions,"and"EcumenicalWomen'sMissionary School ofTheology. missiology and"thirdworld"churchhistory,thehistoryofAmericanevangelicalism,women'sstudies, Movement." McCord HonoredwithAustinSeminary Building fourth president ofPrincetonSeminary. McCordretiredin 1983anddiedin1990. Community Centerhonors McCord'smemory.HejoinedAustinSeminary's faculty and hiswife.HazelThompson McCord.DedicatedonOctober19,1996, theMcCord is namedafterformerPrinceton TheologicalSeminaryPresidentJames I.McCord in 1944,becamedean 1945,andstayeduntil1959,whenhewaselected asthe A UnitedMethodist,RobertreceivedherM.A.andPh.D.degreesfromYaleUniversity.Sheisinterestedin Robert's threelectures,givenonNovember11and12,hadthetitles"WomeninMissionNineteenth "The MissionTheoryofAmericanWomen"wasthethemeforthisyear'sStudents'LecturesonMissions, The newcommunitycenter buildingatAustinPresbyterianTheological Seminary EXIT and asksitquestions.Whatdidyousay?meanbythat?doesthathavetodowithus? and textisaverycomplexone.Thebookspeakstothecommunity,communityinterprets Candler SchoolofTheologyEmoryUniversityinAtlanta,GA. Craddock isaministerintheDisciplesofChristChurchandformerprofessorpreachingat Series onOctober14and15,1996. delivered the1996DonaldMacleod/ShortHillsCommunityCongregationalChurchPreachingLecture Donald Macleod,theSeminary'sFrancisLandeyPattonProfessorofPreachingandWorshipEmeritus. Because muchofthebook,asI'msureyou'vediscovered,isnotselfevident.Ithastobeinterpreted." between thechurchandsacredtext,"hesaidinhisfirstlecture."Therelationship Rhetorical Performance,""IntheServiceofGospel,"and"ForThoseWhoNeedtoHearItAgain." "A SermonforThoseWhoAreLeaving":MacleodLecturesatPrinceton Craddock's topicwas"ASermonforThoseWhoAreLeaving."HisindividuallecturetitleswereRare Fred B.Craddock,whoiswidelyconsideredoneofthebestteacherspreachinginUnitedStates, "Preaching, asyouknow,growsoutoftheconversationbetweenbookandcommunity, The Macleod/ShortHillslectureseriesisheldeveryotheryearatPrinceton,andnamedtohonor New FacultyBooks Commentary. Seminary's finest. of newbooksbysomePrinceton Press. Literature and Exegesis.Augsburg Fortress Manson ProfessorofNew Testament Beverly RobertsGaventa, theHelenH.P. Literature. Doubleday/AnchorBible Professor ofOldTestamentLanguageand Leong Seow,theHenrySnyderGehman Knox Press. Preaching andWorship.Westminster/John Long, theFrancisLandeyPattonProfessorof Lessons oftheChurch Year: Easter,by Introduction andCommentary,byChoon- Gospel, Scripture,editedbyThomasG. They're atitagain!Thefollowingisalist * Proclamation6,Series B:Interpretingthe * Ecclesiastes:ANewTranslationwith * PreachingasaTheologicalTask:Word, fall 1996 on&off Campus photos: Erin Roberts

m v - ,t. jplf 1 51* - A*.. T 1 Hildegard of Bingen visits PTS— Eight Centuries Late

The twelfth-century Benedictine nun Hildegard of Bingen was alive and well this fall at Princeton in the person of Ellen Oak, an artist and faculty member at the Institute for Theology and the Arts at Andover Newton Theological School, who performed as Hildegard in Miller Chapel on November 25. Oak created her one-woman show, called "Sounding the Living Light," to Food and Fun at Seminary Saturday familiarize modern audiences with what Piles of sandwiches set the scene for this year's Seminary Saturday, when nearly seven she called "the wisdom and passion of hundred area residents visited Princeton to find out what life at a seminary is like. this woman, and to invite people to Participants, who included both young people and adults and represented nearly eighty make connections with her context, her churches, took a campus tour and heard the Princeton Seminary Touring Choir perform. spirit, and our own time." The show pre¬ Young participants saw a presentation called "Having Fun Preparing for Ministry," and sents a selection of the music and writ¬ adults heard President Thomas W. Gillespie and professors Beverly Roberts Gaventa, ings created in the course of Hildegard's Deborah Hunsinger, Donald Juel, and Sang Lee speak on "What and Who It Takes to Train life, in which she was an abbess, preach¬ the Future Ministers of the Church." Both groups ate box lunches (prepared by Lonnie Kirk, er, counselor, mystic, prophet, poet, and above, and other food service workers) and then attended the Princeton vs. Harvard football musician. game at Princeton's Palmer Stadium. The turnout was the second highest in the event's history.

Touring Choir Gets Attend the Forums on Youth Ministry! New Director "Oh, no! Not another pizza party!" Stuck for new youth group ideas and direction? Consider attending one of two 1997 Princeton Forums on Youth Ministry. The PTS Touring Choir is on The forums have the overarching theme of "At-Risk Youth, the road again, this time At-Risk Church: What Jesus Christ and American Teenagers are under the direction of the new Saying to the Mainline Church." At the forums, participants C. F. Seabrook Director of hear lectures and exchange ideas about meeting the challenges Music, Martin Tel. Tel holds of youth ministry. master's degrees from the The first forum will be held from February 2 through 5, 1997, University of Notre Dame and in San Diego, CA. It will feature the 1996-1997 Princeton Calvin Theological Seminary, Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture, given by Mary and is in the Doctor of Musical Elizabeth Mullino Moore and Wade Clark Roof. Conference Arts in Church Music program preachers will include Jana Childers, Arturo P. Lewis, Cecil at the University of Kansas. Williams, and Mike Yaconelli. He has been a music director, choir director, and organist at The second forum will take place in Princeton, from April 27 churches in Kansas, Michigan, and Indiana, and spent the year through 30, 1997. It will also feature more 1996-1997 Lectures before his PTS appointment as a Fulbright scholar in the on Youth, Church, and Culture, given this time by Sara P. Little, Netherlands. A. G. Miller, and Leonard Sweet. Earl Palmer will be the confer¬ Under Tel's leadership, the touring choir will sing at twenty- ence preacher. one different churches throughout the academic year. In addition to the new ideas and colleagues to be found at Performances are planned at churches in Pennsylvania, New both these forums, participants may also enroll in the Certificate Jersey, New York, and Maryland in the first half of 1997; con¬ in Youth and Theology program. The certificate is awarded to tact the Chapel Office at 609-497-7890 for more information. those who concentrate on youth ministry by attending multiple forums and a capstone retreat. For more information on the forums and certificate program, please contact Kay Vogen in the Princeton Theological Seminary School of Christian Education, 609-497-7914. fall 1996 on&off Campus

Black Alumni/ae Conference Draws Record Numbers This fall's black alumni/ae conference, held October 3 through 5, drew seventy-five registrants—a figure which accounts for nearly one-quarter of all living black alumni/ae. "We had a terrific number of people registered, plus lots more people came for the public parts of the events," said Michael Livingston, a conference organizer who is also director of the chapel and campus pastor. "We had nearly two hundred or so folks attend the keynote address." The black alumni/ae conference, titled "The Black Church: A Sign of Hope?," began with a keynote address from Gardner Taylor, pastor emeritus of Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, NY. Other conference speakers included PTS Assistant Professor of New Testament Brian Blount, who led Bible study, as did Renita Weems, who is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Prathia Hall Wynn, who is dean of African American Ministries at United Theological Seminary, preached on Friday night, and the clos¬ ing banquet speaker was M. William Howard, the president of New York Theological Seminary. Blount, Howard, Weems, and Wynn are all Seminary alumni/ae. "The speakers were terrific," Livingston said. "It started out great and got better, and when you start with Gardner Taylor it's hard to imagine that things will only get better. At seventy- Women's Center Celebrates a Quarter Century of Life The Princeton Women's Center held a birthday party and slide eight, he is still peerless." In addition to listening to conference speakers, attendees also show in the Main Lounge of Mackay Campus Center this fall to cel¬ ebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. participated in roundtable discussions and agreed that confer¬ ences for black alumni/ae should happen more often—perhaps The party, which about sixty people attended, included a large once every other year. (This was the third such event since cake, various desserts, and a slide show organized by Mari Kim 1983.) A steering committee was started, and an endowment for Shin, a 1995 M.Div. graduate (and former Women's Center board scholarships and lectures may also be formed. member) who outlined the history of women at Princeton. The Audiotapes of speakers from this event are available by con¬ Women's Center offers fellowship and support to Princeton women, tacting Princeton Seminary's Department of Media Services, both through its presence and through formal activities like coffee 609-497-7900. hours with female faculty members, movie screenings, and com¬ munity gatherings. Other attendees offered memories and stories of their own, and the party broke up to laughter and the sound of fireworks going off Ministers in Uniform outside the windows—courtesy of Princeton University's 250th For twenty years, PTS anniversary celebration. has celebrated the ministry of military chaplains by hosting a Veterans Day luncheon for local chap¬ lains and for students inter¬ ested in military chaplain¬ cy, and by inviting a mili¬ tary chaplain to preach in Miller Chapel. This November, the Rev. Charles E. McMillan ('58B), director of the Presbyterian Council for Chaplains to Military Personnel and himself a retired U.S. Army chaplain, was the preacher. "Chaplains are not gun-toting, baby-killing members of our society," McMillan told worshippers. "They never carry weapons. They are first, last, and always pastors." Like pastors of churches, McMillan said, military chaplains lead worship, teach the Bible, counsel, and perform marriages, baptisms, and funerals for people in the armed services.

"For some soldiers, the ministry of a chaplain represents the only photo: Kathleen Whalen Elizabeth Clark time someone has ever prayed with and for them," McMillan said. The Presbyterian Council for Chaplains to Military Personnel Youngsters at the PTS Center for Children learned about fire safety cour¬ works with five hundred Presbyterian clergy who serve as full- and tesy of South Brunswick (NJ) Deputy Fire Marshall Michael E. Whalen. Here, Whalen demonstrates the importance of staying low in a fire. part-time chaplains in all branches of the service.

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Religion and Science: Can They Mix? PTS Helps Princeton University Celebrate Anniversary It's not every day that you help a neighbor celebrate a 250th Can religious belief and scientific birthday—but that's exactly what Princeton Theological thinking go together? That was the Seminary did this year when Princeton University celebrated question posed by a special edition of two-and-a-half centuries of academic life. the BBC's "Heart of the Matter" series, The celebration included many events throughout the year. which brought together five experts in At two of these, the Seminary formally participated. September to debate the issue. J. On September 21, Seminary President Thomas W. Gillespie Wentzel van Huyssteen, Princeton's gave the homily at an inter-religious thanksgiving service at James I. McCord Princeton University Chapel; area clergy also participated. Professor of Theology And on November 23, the Princeton Theological Seminary and Science, was one Choir, singing with the Nassau Presbyterian Church Choir, the of those experts. Princeton University Chapel Choir, the Westminster Choir The program was from Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and the taped in Brno in the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church Choir, presented a Czech Republic, at the concert celebrating Princeton University's anniversary. The monastery where choirs, which totalled 250 voices, sang Leonard Bernstein's Gregor Mendel pio¬ Chichester Psalms and Anton Bruckner's Te Deum. The neered the modern Concert Soloists of Philadelphia also performed Lyric for science of genetics. Strings by New Jersey composer and Pulitzer Prize for Music The other panel mem¬ winner George Walker. bers included philoso¬ "This idea began about two years ago when we were looking pher Mary Warnock, for a way for these five major Presbyterian-connected institutions to work together," said historian David Starkey, Catholic priest Kenneth Kelley, Nassau Presbyterian Church's music director. "What better project than and scientist Michael Heller, and profes¬ to celebrate the birth of a great institution?" sor and author Richard Dawkins. Participants espoused many views on the subject, from those who argued that religion is a superstition we would be better off without (Dawkins) to those, like van Huyssteen, who said that religion and science can each enrich the other's views. "Science and theology need not be in conflict," he said, "for they very often ask different kinds of questions. Science is about understanding our empirical world. Theology asks and explains dif¬ ferent questions: What is the meaning of life? What happens when we die? How can we be happy? The two sides ask different questions, and they give complimentary answers that we hope will make a fuller picture."

Catholics and Protestants Discover Common Faith at Ecumenical Conference Quoting Pope John Paul II in saying that NY, and who serves as the sole American are not to be overanxious about the result. "if we will pray together, we will see that representative to the International It is his work, and he will give the growth what divides us is nothing compared to Pontifical Biblical Commission in Rome. in his way and his time. Our responsibility what unites us," Edward Cardinal Cassidy The event was widely attended, with is to do our part." (pictured above) preached at the opening members of the Seminary community, PTS Vice President for Seminary worship service at a PTS ecumenical con¬ as well as visiting scholars and local resi¬ Relations Fred W. Cassell, who was instru¬ vocation this fall. Jointly sponsored by dents, filling Miller Chapel to overflowing. mental in organizing the conference, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Participants focused on the difficult but agreed. Catholic Diocese of Trenton, the event was necessary task of examining both dis¬ "In a world that is ever more fractional¬ organized to examine the relationship agreement and common ground between ized, the holding of an ecumenical convo¬ between Catholics and Protestants. the Protestant and Catholic branches cation to celebrate the oneness of the PTS President Thomas W. Gillespie and of Christianity. church in Jesus Christ may not be head¬ professors Jane Dempsey Douglass and "There are times when difficulties are line-making news, but it is news," he said. Beverly Roberts Gaventa also spoke, as so great, enthusiasm so weak, and the "It emphasizes to the world that despite did Raymond Brown, a Sulpician priest goal so distant, that one could easily take our differences and diversity, we who is Auburn Professor Emeritus at up another activity," Cassidy noted. "But Christians have more in common than Union Theological Seminary, New York, when we seek to carry out God's will, we anything that might divide us."

inSpire • 7 photo: Chris Moody fall 1996 where hisparentsstillraisebeefcattle. Student Life cousins livednearby”)andattunedtothe family centered(“myauntsanduncles about thirty-fivemilesfromCody,NE, Nebraska home.Hegrewuponaranch worship, andwassurprisedwhenthepas¬ and journalism,planningacareerinmar¬ adults Iknewwereeitherranchersor big skies,”heremembers,“andtheexcite¬ livestock. rhythms ofnatureandtheneeds Minnesota, wherehegotinvolvedincom¬ companies. HeworkedinIowaandthen keting andadvertisingwithagricultural Nebraska andadegreeinanimalscience teachers.” through thesixthgrade,andonly I wenttoatwo-roomcountryschoolhouse ment ofrodeosandtheyearlybranding. Students BringRichExperiencestoMinistry says. “ButIreceivedmoreandaffir¬ tor suggestedheconsidertheministry. friends andFordbeganattendingthemin¬ munity theatreandmetthelocal From BroadcastingtoBranding:Second-Career Nebraska—in bothmiles andemotions. here IamatPrinceton.” three yearsofthinkingandpraying, mation frompeopleinthechurch.Ittook ister’s church;helaterjoined,helpedlead Presbyterian ministerthere.Theybecame 8 •inSpire the wayyou seethemintheWest.” “There arepeopleand trees everywhere! I neverseethe skyorthesun,atleast not Ford remembershislifeontheplainsas And Princetonisalong wayfrom Ford lefthomefortheUniversityof “I lovedthewide-openspacesand “My firstresponsewastolaugh,”Ford “It feelssocrowdedhere,” Fordsays. spots, too.Becauseheoftenwearsboots go toseminary,althoughhesayshispar¬ streets ofPrinceton. and hat,he’scalledacowboy,bothbyfel¬ there wasonlyatinyminoritypopulation. when Iwasaboyontheranch,”hesays. very spiritualpersoninthewayshelived ents andhiswife,Kim,seeministryasa have incommonisastrongsenseofiden¬ far deeperthanapparel,”hesays.“I’ma low studentsandbysmallboysonthe Princeton inpartbecauseofitsdiversity.” East isexpandingmyhorizons.Ichose branding whenIwassix.Sobeinginthe Methodist bishopcametosayaprayerat I didn’tseeablackpersonuntil ple here,”Fordexplains.“WhereIgrewup “There aresomanydifferentkindsofpeo¬ good fitforhim.“Mygrandmotherwasa tity withlivestockandtheoutdoors.” boys andhorseshowcowboys.Whatwe ranch cowboy,andtherearerodeocow¬ kinds ofcowboys,andthatthewordgoes ers. on me.Heknewhowtorelateranch- came backasafull-timepastor.Looking Cody wholedchurchservicesinacom¬ where heleadsworship serviceson Nebraska. “Peopleinruralareasdeserve church inWyoming,Montana,or back, Ithinkthismanhadabiginfluence recalls, “andthenhewenttoseminaryand “He hadbeenatractordealer,”Ford munity hallneartheFordfamilyranch. her life.Ispentalotoftimewith Sundays at rodeos orcattleshows and the Bible’sstoriesinlanguage peoplecan in thecities,”hesays.“Goodpreachingis He’d liketoserveasmall,cattle-country understand, likeJesusdid intheparables.” important everywhere,andIwanttotell ministers whoareaswelltrainedthose Socializing hasbeendifferent,too. “Folks don’tknowthattherearemany Easterners, he’sfound,havetheirblind Ford isthefirstmemberofhisfamilyto That maymeanatent-making ministry, Ford remembers,too,aministerfrom Ford seesasimilarministryforhimself. Americans ononeofthemanyreserva¬ works onhisfamily’sranchduringthe work andintheirleisure,”hesays,adding York City!” you neverknow.Ijusthopeitisn'ttoNew week. ItmayalsomeanservingNative we willdie,andthatgives meareverence home hasoneofthehighestsuiciderates explains, “andtherearerealproblemson gave thatlife.Seeingthingsdieonaregu¬ something elsedying. of living,inawaythatcitypeopledon’t. al connectiontoGodinnature. as theyusedto;peopleareisolatedintheir of family.Americanculture,hebelieves, home,” hesays,smiling,“butwithGod the reservations.Oneofthemnearmy by sidebutseldomtalktoeachother,”he tions intheWest. life.” I for lifeandatrustinthe Godwhocreated that isassuring.Wenever knowwhen lar basisputsyouclosertoGod.Forme, of meatoracartonmilkinthestore, rate fromit.Oursurvivaldependson things ranchersdo.ButIthink them. Manypeoplethinkthatiscallous. raised them,andthenhadtoslaughter he says.“Wewatchedcalvesbeborn, lies oncedid. tion andcommunitythattraditionalfami¬ kind offamily,offeringpeopletheconnec¬ that hethinksthechurchcouldbeanew has lostasenseoffamilyconnections. he iscalledastrongsenseofthevalue in thenation. that meatormilk,withtheGodwho it’s hardtoconnectwiththelifethatgave People areconnectedtonature,notsepa¬ understand thatdyingisanaturalpart It’s truethatkillingisoneofthehardest And Fordwillcontinuetofindaspiritu¬ What Fordwilltakewithhimwherever “I havealwaysbeenclosetoanimals,” “Families don’thelpeachotherasmuch “I’m hopingGodwillcallmeback “Native Americansandranchersliveside “When youpickupastyrofoampackage by BarbaraChaapel fall 1996

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faith and intellectual faith, between struc¬ ture and freedom. The sermons were cre¬ ative and the people weren’t afraid to be innovative as well as traditional.” Adam joined the church in May 1994 and came to PTS in September. The plunge into seminary education was From News invigorating. “I loved Princeton as soon as to “G ood [\Jews” I arrived,” she says. “It was all new—dis¬ From the time she was a little girl, Marie cussing theological ideas, having permis¬ Adam wanted to be a television journalist. sion to ask all the faith questions I couldn’t “I imagined myself at forty being the CBS ask in journalism. I was truly an inquirer.” anchor in Atlanta,” she says. But what began as a personal quest soon Bright, driven, and competitive, she pur¬ became a call to serve. “I started to care sued that goal through a journalism degree deeply about serving God and God’s peo¬ from the Missouri School of Journalism communion in a Catholic church and ple,” she says. “I also realized that the to a job with Channel 8 TV in Columbia, attending a non-denominational church seeds of my calling had been there all MO, as a general assignment reporter. as a teenager. “Neither experience took along. My experience as a journalist had “First I covered stories like the city council hold,” she recalls. been a way ol leading me in.” and the fire on Elm Street,” she remem¬ Then one Sunday in Columbia, while Now a candidate under the care of bers. “Then I got the health beat and put working on a story, “I just decided to National Capital Presbytery, Adam feels together longer stories for the six o’clock attend church,” she remembers. “It was confirmed in a call to ordained ministry, news.” 1 1:00 o’clock, I came to a Baptist church, although she is not yet sure what shape For a while the excitement and even so I parked the car and went in. I was the that call will take. Married over a year ago, stress of the job was all she’d dreamed only white person there, and I felt imme¬ she is looking forward to becoming part of. “I loved being at the heart of things, diately welcomed and included. I went of a worshiping community with her hus¬ bringing people the truth,” she says. But back every Sunday until I left Missouri. band, not rushing into the role of pastor. the pressure of producers to blur the line “I had been interested in the intellectual Working part time in the Seminary’s between entertainment and news began side of religion before. I had read media department this year, Adam is also to tarnish that idealism, and she found Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky, trying to cautiously intrigued by the partnership herself often catering more to producers understand God. But worshiping in that between media and ministry. “I have seen and less to her own sense of the story. Baptist church was the first time in my the irresponsible way religion is treated by “I realized I was viewing people as sources, life I had really felt the presence of God.” the media,” she says. “They tend to mostly not as people. I was trying to ‘one-up’ Back in Maryland, Adam visited several cover stories like Waco or the World Trade other reporters. Suddenly that successful churches “collecting information about Center bombing. There is a lot of sensa¬ picture of myself at forty looked bleak, them, like the journalist in me always tional religious journalism. On the other empty, and startling.” does,” she says, smiling. Much of what hand, the debacles of televangelists have So Adam took a six-month leave, travel¬ she discovered discouraged her—the undermined Christianity’s credibility with ing and working in Italy, during what she Baptist pastor didn’t believe in the ordina¬ serious journalists. Joining religion and the calls a “soul-searching time.” When she tion of women; many sermons were bor¬ media is risky business, because both TV came home, it was not to her job in ing; congregations seemed more like col¬ and religion can be used to manipulate.” Missouri, but to Bethesda, MD, to help lections of individuals than communities; Whether as a religious journalist, her aunt care for a newborn baby and con¬ she was treated as a stranger. a teacher (she has considered a Ph.D. in sider a new direction for herself. “People didn’t know what to make theology), or a pastor, Adam believes God Surprisingly, that direction brought her of someone who didn’t know the words is calling her to serve the unchurched. to Princeton Seminary. of the Apostles’ Creed or the tune of the “I want to present the Gospel story so it “The church played almost no role in Gloria Patrishe says wryly. is appealing and captivating to people who my life until my last year in college,” Finally, she found a welcoming don’t know much about Christianity,” she Adam says. With family members in both Presbyterian church. “I loved their bell says. “I believe my first career has prepared the Roman Catholic and Protestant choir,” she says, “and the congregation me to do this. I still look at the world and churches, she remembers taking her first struck a good balance between experiential see stories.” I

inSpire • 9 fall 1996

Helping the Spirit When the Mind Is Hurt

by Ingrid Meyer up a hymnal can be hard. Passing the peace can be particularly difficult for a paranoid schizophrenic who is afraid of people.” Martindale also encourages the patient to attend services a second time before leaving the hospital. Though many of her clients are Christian, she also deals with Muslim and Jewish congregations. Martindale’s responsibilities don’t stop there. She also leads seven patient groups at the hospital. Two of these are faith explo¬ ration “for higher-functioning patients,” she said, in which patients learn about each other’s faiths—Buddhist, Muslim, Protestant, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital Chaplain Catholic, and others. Liaison Joanne Martindale, above, works with the chronically mentally ill. Left, “These groups are for patients who want Martindale visits with Mary, a hospital to talk about their faith with other patients patient. who may have been religiously delusional at one time,” Martindale said. geted the money to hire more chaplain Another two groups are for women liaisons for the state’s other psychiatric hospi¬ who want to explore women’s concerns and tals. their importance in an institutional setting. Martindale’s job is to link patients with In these groups, Martindale said, “we talk congregations and religious communities about birth control, about doctors not listen¬ that will be able to help them after they leave ing to them the way they do to male the hospital. Many laypeople and clergy patients, about whether or not they need are supportive and welcoming toward people to wear makeup, about dating, and about The Bible urges us to help the poor with mental illnesses, but others are more family and children,” Martindale said. and the outcast—and virtually no one nervous. The other groups Martindale leads is more outcast than the mental patients “Lots of clergy will visit at a local are Spirituality for Recovery groups with at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in Trenton, hospital, but not at a psychiatric hospital,” patients whose substance abuse has compli¬ NJ, to whom 1988 M.Div. graduate Joanne Martindale said. “I gently ask them, ‘Do cated their mental illnesses. The groups focus Martindale ministers as part of her job you visit your parishioner in the local hospi¬ on the method developed by Alcoholics as chaplain liaison. tal? How is that different from visiting your Anonymous, with special attention paid Ministry to mental health patients is a parishioner here?’” to discovering a higher power. highly specialized field. Just how specialized Before a patient leaves the hospital, Martindale also leads religious services is reflected in Martindale’s lonely status—she if they would like a religious community, in the hospital’s small chapel, as do visiting is the only chaplain liaison employed by the Martindale helps them find one. She calls clergy from other faiths. She speaks about state of New Jersey. Martindale was hired ahead, educates congregations if they’re mental illness to churches, synagogues, eight years ago at Trenton, which was built nervous about having a mentally ill person sessions, and other groups, attends confer¬ in 1848 and is the oldest psychiatric hospital in their midst, and explains how they might ences, and coordinates the hospital’s religious in New Jersey, as the first chaplain liaison help the person feel comfortable. She then volunteers. in a program designed to hire more. The goes to worship with the patient, and helps As if Martindale’s weeks weren’t already program was organized to see if deliberately them know what to expect from the worship busy, she is a stalwart supporter of Princeton linking patients with religious communities experience. Theological Seminary, supervising field edu¬ before discharge would help them stay out “Patients often struggle with simple cation students at the hospital through each of the hospital longer, and thus reduce the things that others take for granted,” she said. academic year and summer. The Chaplain hospital's high recidivism rate. The program “For instance, getting a bulletin or picking Intern Training Program also serves students worked well—yet New Jersey has not bud¬

10 * inSpire fall 1996 from Seton Hall University, Eastern Baptist University. Her best friend was a police offi¬ “It was terrific,” he said. “There was Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary, cer, and arranged for her to ride along with a rigorous affinity toward the disenfran¬ and various rabbinical schools. In it, students one of his friends. It was there that she saw chised. I was intrigued. I liked it during are paid $2,200 for either one academic year, how church on Sunday stood in stark con¬ the year, and I stayed for the summer, which at ten hours per week, or $2,400 for one trast to the world of hourly hotels, bars, was a much more intensive forty hours summer of full-time work. She supervises and alleyways. “My call came from wanting a week for two and a half months. I focused “at least thirteen students each year," she to help people on the margins feel they have on psychology courses at PTS, applied to said, adding that Trenton Psychiatric a welcome in the religious community,” an MSW program. Things fell along that Hospital is “not a clinical pastoral education Martindale said. She has also worked at line, and the more things fell that way, the (CPE) site because we believe that people Trenton State Prison, and was the Protestant more it made sense to keep going.” should be paid for their work and time, chaplain at the Lloyd McCorkle Training Berlenbach says that he would like and that the state should pay for chaplains.” School for Boys and Girls, a juvenile prison to keep working with the mentally ill, but Between herself and her supervisor, Director in Skillman, NJ. would like to incorporate more deliberate of Pastoral Services Dwight Sweezy, Martindale says that she finds balance spirituality into the services he provides. Martindale estimates that they have super¬ to her days at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital “I’m not able, within my job description, vised nearly two hundred students. in her two sons, Quinn (age three) and Ryan to focus on that to the exclusion of other Despite the fact that the hospital is not (age two). things,” he said. He hopes to be ordained a CPE site, Martindale said, the program “They bring joy, play, balance, and either to a ministry like Martindale’s, or uses an action/reflection model of training laughter to the sometimes strains of min¬ to a self-designed ministry in a setting like similar to that used in CPE. Students go istry,” she said. Hunterdon. to the wards as chaplains to act, listen, and While many of Martindale’s students Both routes are difficult, he acknowl¬ minister. They then reflect on their experi¬ go into the local parish ministry, as is typical edges. There is a dearth of positions for ences by presenting verbatim conversations of Princeton students, at least one has mental health chaplains. with patients, case studies, sermons, book continued in the mental health ministry “I think it’s partly because of an overall reports, and theological reflections to the he first learned from her. Kirk Berlenbach, disinterest expressed by society as a whole other members of the program. a 1994 M.Div. graduate who pursued a joint toward the chronically mentally ill. If you “In this program you learn who you Master of Social Work have cash or good are as a minister,” she said. “The patients degree from Rutgers insurance, you are quick to give you feedback. Much of the University, is a clinical case can get spiritually intern program is learning how other people manager for Hunterdon focused therapy, truly see you.” Medical Center. He helps but if you have Chaplains must also deal with their chronically mentally ill Medicaid or no own personal issues, Martindale added. patients function in the insurance, it’s “Ministers, on the whole, are not that good community. another matter,” at confrontation,” she said. “The student “I see patients who he said. interns in the training program learn how come in via referral,” he Berlenbach to both praise and confront their peers hon¬ said. “Some refer them¬ also noted that estly. This is often the most difficult part selves, some are referred “the mental health of the training program for students. It’s one by the state hospitals, world is dominat¬ thing to preach a sermon, but it’s quite some are dropouts from ed by the medical another to explore how your own personality Hunterdon’s partial hospi¬ model of treat¬ stands in the way of someone else’s learning talization program.” ment. For more Kirk Berlenbach |'94B) helps mentally ill affluent echelons or development. We also encourage students Hunterdon, he noted, patients function in the community. to see the gifts they bring and use these gifts provides all mental health there’s a move more fully.” services except supervised toward holism, Martindale followed a circuitous path living for the mentally ill. but the chronics are lost in the trickle-down. to her current calling. Before coming to sem¬ In his work, Berlenbach serves as a diag¬ People just want to control their disruptive inary, she was a floral designer in California, nostician and a helper in planning life’s daily behavior.” and worked on the annual Rose Bowl tasks. He also provides a listening ear. The church, he thinks, could help. parade. She spent three years taking counsel¬ “I’m not mommy, and I won’t clean up “The problems are not just systemic on ing classes at Fuller Theological Seminary their room,” he said. “I won’t do basic things the secular side,” he said. “We need church before coming to Princeton. She later com¬ that they are capable of, though I will help recognition that ministry must reach beyond pleted four units of clinical pastoral educa¬ them draw up a plan to do the things they the walls of the parish. While parish ministry tion at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, need to do. I always try to hold direct assis¬ may be central and normative, it hasn’t WA; Delaware State Hospital; and Calvary tance as a last resort between my clients and kept the church from shrinking dramatically. Hospital in the Bronx, NY. disaster.” If the white, Protestant, middle-class church Her call to ministry, she said, came when Berlenbach’s first field education intern¬ wants to save itself, it needs to turn to the she was an undergraduate at California State ship was with Martindale. people who really need help.” I

inSpire • 11 fall 1996 Spirituality

by Ingrid Meyer

Spirituality. It’s a hot topic these days, with everyone from the church to New Age gurus claiming to have the inside track on the practices and attitudes that bring the human spirit closer, like Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to touching the hand of the God who made it. What is Christian spirituality? How is it expressed differently now than it has been in years past? What in this new interest is healthy, and what activities and mind sets support a healthy spirituality? And perhaps most importantly, what is being done at Princeton Theological Seminary—and what else could be done—to make sure that In years past, many Christians have been Professor of Theology and Science. “There Christian spirituality at the Seminary, and largely content to see the church as the main are some issues in life that science cannot by extension the church of the future, is wellspring of their spiritual lile and instruc¬ answer, such as the meaning of life and as vital and vibrant as it possibly can be? tion. In the past ten years, however, the death, and the meaning of evil. To find these The term “spirituality,” said PTS Stuart sources—or the perception of what the answers, many scientists are turning to reli¬ Professor of Philosophy Diogenes Allen, who sources might be—for Christian spirituality gion and becoming more metaphysical. Even teaches a course on spiritual life, was coined have changed a great deal. agnostic scientists such as Stephen Hawking by Roman Catholics in the eighteenth centu¬ “We’re in a period of public discussion of [author of A Brief History of Time] are writ¬ ry, with many Protestants preferring the term spirituality,” said Janet Weathers, an assistant ing books that go beyond science and talk “piety,” Methodists calling it “holiness,” and professor of speech communication in min¬ about a final theory.” Presbyterians calling it “Christian life.” It’s istry at PTS. She observed that Americans a tough term to define, because it means • Transportation to and communication are feeling more comfortable with their own so many different things to different people. with all parts of the globe are increasingly ideas, and are less likely to see the church as But while today’s “spirituality” can encom¬ cheaper and easier, particularly with the the sole source of spiritual information. They pass “the most outlandish New Age things, advent ol the internet. This means that more are also less likely to maintain strong connec¬ like people claiming to be the reincarnations Americans than ever before are interested in, tions to any one religious tradition, which of Samurai warriors who died thousands of and know more about, the world, seeing it Weathers said “is one of the things that years ago, to electronic machines to stimulate as a “global village.” They borrow spiritual makes people at seminary the most nervous.” your brain to put you in harmony with the ideas from other traditions and cultures, Why the changing spiritual landscape? universe,” Allen said, Christian spirituality both Christian and non-Christian, from is generally seen as “having a life in accord Many cultural and religious changes have around the world. This interest is reflected played a part. with Christian teachings and doctrine, and in new styles ol music, dance, and other • Science has failed to completely explain the practices that encourage this. The study material in worship, much of which clearly the world. Whereas at one point there was of spirituality is called spiritual theology. reflects other cultures. It is also reflected in It looks at theology and Christian practices a publicly-held hope that science could even¬ the new interest in spiritual practices such tually explain all phenomena, that belief from the perspective of the Holy Spirit as meditation, which have been associated is fading. bringing to fullness the work of Christ more with Eastern spirituality than with “Many scientists today realize that sci¬ in our lives as individuals and in our lives Western Christian spirituality. as the church.” ence is limited,” commented J. Wentzel • Denominations, particularly Protestant van Huyssteen, Princeton’s James I. McCord denominations, increasingly celebrate the

12 • inSpire fall 1996 mystics of their own tradition. Allen, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, and lated wisdom of group members as one for example, teaches about Calvinists like Ignatius of Loyola. of their most valuable resources. As a result George Herbert, whose collection of poems, • People, both Christian and non- of this emphasis, American Christians have The Temple, was published in 1634, as well Christian, are less likely to see the church begun to take responsibility for their own as John Bunyon’s Pilgrims Progress. as the source of all their spiritual resources. spiritual formation. They are less open “Paulist Press has been phenomenally They independently read books on their own to guidance from clergy. successful with its two-hundred-volume spiritual traditions, as well as on other tradi¬ Just as significantly, these small groups series Classics of Western Spirituality,” Allen tions and viewpoints. A glance at recent avoid judging their members. They some¬ noted, “and commercial publishers like New York Times Bestseller Lists shows times see God’s judgment as “lessened Penguin publish Blaise Pascal’s Pensees and Thomas Moore’s The Care of the Soul, or missing,” Wuthnow believes. The Cloud of Unknowing, (a book, edited Deepak Chopra’s series on Eastern philoso¬ A church tradition where God clearly by James Walsh, in the Classics of Western phies, and Kathleen Norris’s The Cloister says that some things are not allowed, then, Spirituality series). What we are seeing Walk as just a few examples of popular books can be difficult for some people who have is a massive revival of interest in Christian on spirituality. grown accustomed to the “small group mind classical books that Protestant seminary • Finally, the small group movement set.” The attitudes fostered by small groups, teaching had largely neglected.” has had a great deal to do with both a rising Weathers noted, “may actually increase indi¬ • Denominations also increasingly bor¬ interest in spirituality, and the longing vidualism. People can move to a different row from one another, with many Protestant for a connection that many Americans seem church or group community, and it’s difficult Christians more and more interested in unable to satisfy through their congregations to hold people to standards of Christian Catholic practices like lectio divina, which or denominations. behavior which may be very helpful, but is a method of meditative reading of the “According to research done by with which they may not want to deal.” Bible and prayer. Protestants are also making Princeton University sociologist Robert And an unwillingness to work through use of spiritual directors, who are people Wuthnow, forty percent of people in the conflict and seriously consider other trained as “spiritual companions” to pray United States belong to some small group, ideas is very damaging to spiritual health. with and suggest reading and meditation by which I mean a group which meets inten¬ Weathers added. for people who want to deepen their spiritual tionally on a regular basis to somehow “Spirituality involves discipline and lives. Many Christians are also interested in support one another,” Weathers said, citing accountability,” Weathers said. “I see a lack the mystical writers and visionaries of a vari¬ Alcoholics Anonymous as one example. of willingness to work through conflict to ety of traditions, including Thomas Merton, “People of all parts of the United States, find what is really valuable. People too often Julian of Norwich, Meister Eckhardt, races, and classes belong to these small end up with groups that simply reinforce groups.” Small groups focus on the accumu¬ the cultural values with which they feel most comfortable.” For example, she said, a per¬ son who doesn’t like a new pastor’s preaching may just go to a different church, instead of trying to think about what might be valuable The Life in the new style of sermon delivery. People may also be unwilling to hear that other church members disagree with them on reli¬ gious or cultural issues. of the Princeton Theological Seminary gradu¬ ates are ministering in this world, one where it’s easy for congregants to leave when the going gets tough, and where people increas¬ ingly feel that a church service does not completely meet their spiritual needs. It’s important, then, for the Seminary to train its graduates in how to deliver spiritual eart resources to congregants that are relevant Spiritual exploration at Princeton

inSpire *13 fall 1996 to current needs and attitudes about the Testament or theology or church history and also through daily chapel and groups nature of spirituality. Does Princeton without strengthening your spiritual life.” like the Association of Black Seminarians, Theological Seminary successfully do this? Still, many people interviewed for the Church for Lesbian and Gay Concerns, There are at least as many answers as there this article cited Princeton Theological the Women’s Center. Academics are not usu¬ are people in the Seminary community. Seminary’s high academic workload as a seri¬ ally spiritual.” A 1994 survey of Seminary alumni/ae ous impediment to the time and energy true “There are a lot of people around here revealed that only 15 percent of those who spiritual development requires. whose whole lives are centered around the answered the survey remembered Princeton “The workload is probably the greatest practice of a living faith,” Livingston agreed. as a spiritual place, a shockingly low number impediment to spirituality on campus,” said He also cited daily Miller Chapel services, for an institution that teaches professional Nancy Schongalla-Bowman, a 1979 M.Div. which are held every day that school is in ministers. alumna who currently works at Princeton as session, as an important part of Seminary life Since those alumni/ae studied a pastoral therapist. Schongalla-Bowman said for many people. at Princeton, however, many professors, that few people see academics as spiritually “This institution in a sense closes at ten including Allen, Weathers, Stephen nurturing, but that she sees many students o’clock every day and opens a spiritual door Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics exercising private means of spiritual growth. for the whole community,” Livingston said, Max Stackhouse, Ralph B. and Helen S. “Many students stay very focused noting that faculty, staff, administrators, Ashenfelter Associate Professor of Ministry on their relationship with God, and it is students—essentially everyone on campus— and Evangelism John W. Stewart, Associate a resource for them,” Schongalla-Bowman are encouraged to attend chapel. “Chapel Professor of Speech Communication in said, “but they do so through their own dis¬ is a dramatic and visible attempt to strength¬ Ministry G. Robert Jacks, Charles Hodge ciplines.” She noted that some students keep en spiritual life on campus.” Professor of Systematic Theology David journals, pray while alone or while running Other groups, including Eriday Night Willis, Benjamin B. Warfield Associate or walking in nature, or read devotional Fellowship, Night Watch (an informal and Professor of Medieval Church History Paul materials. They also form informal prayer deliberately unstructured worship time on Rorem, and others have developed courses and Bible study groups, meeting in homes, Monday evenings), and other student-led on spiritual disciplines and life—approxi¬ apartments, dorm rooms, and in locations worship events, as well as events organized mately ten courses, all oversubscribed. The around campus to encourage each other. by the Chapel Council (including special Center of Continuing Education’s new for¬ However, many students report feeling Holy Week services and a Paschal Vigil), also mat, which is in its second year, also incor¬ unhappily distant from God, Schongalla- contribute to campus spiritual support. Still, porates a number of courses on spiritual Bowman said, and do not experience faith many students feel that the Seminary should growth and development. as helpful in coping with their own perfec¬ do more to support their spiritual growth General Ministry 100 is one PTS course, tionism or the stress in their lives. These are and development. required for M.Div. students, that encour¬ typically students who are not involved in Those concerns led, over the last two ages students to focus on their own spiritual a prayer group or partnership, or do not years, to two surveys and several forums. formation. have their own regular devotional practice. The Office of Seminary Relations sponsored “Eve read 650 papers from GM 100 In addition to these spiritual practices, a survey on alumni/ae perspectives about courses over the four years we’ve had the spiritual growth at Princeton is also enriched Princeton Seminary, including the topic course,” said Abigail Rian Evans, associate by relationships with other community of spirituality. The Office of the Dean professor of practical theology (and former members—a view supported by M.Div. mid- of Student Affairs sponsored a campus-wide director of field education). “The consistent dler James Lynch. survey and led an on-campus forum on spiri¬ theme is that spiritual journeys and calls “PTS is a spiritual place because of the tuality, which was attended by many stu¬ to ministry are two parts of one whole for people who are here,” Lynch said. “Seminary dents and members of the faculty and most students. It’s the story of how God is a time in people’s lives that is filled with administration. The subject of spirituality is active in their lives. I have been moved questions, and students was discussed at a and impressed by their deep spirituality— gain support from con¬ faculty retreat. And they never trivialize the question of who God versations and relation¬ This institution the Alumni/ae is and what God means in their lives.” ships both in and out Association Executive And it is difficult, as Campus Pastor and of class. And the campus in a sense closes Council sponsored Director of the Chapel Michael Livingston supports that, through at ten o’clock two dinners—one noted, “to study Old Testament or New informal relationships every day and for faculty, one for opens a spiritual door for the whole community.”

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We need to expose students students—on spiritual¬ to a wide variety of the future, many ity at Princeton, and of whom feel that Interested in the subject of spirituali¬ ty? The following bibliography, on what the Seminary of spiritual prac¬ Princeton could have though far from definitive, may help should or could do tices, certainly given them a better you choose some books. to encourage spiritual things like Bible understanding of spiritu¬ growth. al issues. Spiritual Theology, by Diogenes The results of the study and prayer Karen Brostrom- Allen, Princeton's Stuart Professor of Philosophy. Cowley Publications, on-campus forums groups, but also O’Brien is stated supply 1997. (This book will be available at and the survey, which things like soup pastor of Beattystown the beginning of 1997.) was sent to all com¬ Presbyterian Church munity members, were kitchens and tutor¬ in Hackettstown, NJ, Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyon. mixed. Respondents ing programs.” a 1982 M.Div. alumna Barbour and Co., 1995. saw personal prayer, of the Seminary, and Classics of Western Spirituality, a worshipping in a con¬ a member of the series published by Paulist Press. gregation, participation in the Lord’s Supper, Alumni/ae Association Executive Council. seeking to discern God’s will for their lives, Asked if she received training in the develop¬ Soul Making, by Alan Jones. Harper and striving to live in just relationships with ment of spiritual life, she replied “not for¬ San Francisco, 1989. others as important, regular parts of their mally. I had informal training with peers and Contemplative Prayer, by Thomas spiritual lives. A majority also noted that professors, since several students and profes¬ Merton. Image Books, 1989. seeking to deepen one’s relationship with sors were very good about recommending Christ, personal Bible study, and devotional books and reminding us that we had to sepa¬ The Care of the Soul, by Thomas Bible reading are important parts of spiritu¬ rate ourselves from the study and other busi¬ Moore. Harper Collins, 1994. ality. Results on the issue of social justice ness of being a student to be alone with The Cloister Walk, by Kathleen were less uniform. Many people said that God. You could tell that this made a differ¬ Norris. Riverhead Books, 1996. they try to live in ways that help those who ence in their lives, and it was a good model. live on the margins of society, but fewer were But formal training would have given me Pensees, by Blaise Pascal. Viking convinced that this is part of spirituality. a little more support.” Penguin, 1966. The survey and forums, Evans said, Many members of the Seminary commu¬ Space for God: The Study and showed that there has been a sea change nity have suggested that more formal train¬ Practice of Prayer and Spirituality, by in what students expect the Seminary to ing for Seminary graduates in spirituality is Don Postema. Board of Publications do to support their spiritual lives. in order. Still, as Schongalla-Bowman noted, of the Christian Reformed Church, “When I came in 1991, students were “an additional requirement is probably the 1983. saying ‘let us do this on our own,’ without last thing we need.” And other Seminary Soul Feast, by Marjorie Thompson. being ‘programmed’ by PTS,” Evans said. community members have expressed reserva¬ Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995. “The April 1995 forum showed a seventy tions about the idea of there being one “offi¬ degree turn, with students saying that PTS cial” Seminary spirituality. is responsible for setting up a spiritual struc- “I don’t think the Seminary is a church, to a wide variety of spiritual practices, cer¬ ture. and I don’t think it should be a church, tainly things like Bible study and prayer And what should that “spiritual struc¬ said Brigid Boyle, a 1996 M.Div. graduate groups, but also things like soup kitchens ture” look like? Again, opinions are mixed. who is currently associate pastor of Penfield and tutoring programs.” Some students called for the establishment Presbyterian Church, Penfield, NY. Boyle In the end, the very diversity of opinion of more spiritual directors for students. That sees value in the wide diversity of opinions at Princeton may keep spirituality, in all role is filled, to a small extent, by Livingston about spirituality on campus. of its myriad forms, alive and well. and Schongalla-Bowman, as well as some “There seems to be a feeling among “Princeton is a very spiritual place professors and staff members. Both some parts of the community that if one because there’s hope here, hope for futures, Livingston and Schongalla-Bowman, howev¬ was not part oi a Bible study group, or did hope because we’re engaging the Gospel,” er, agreed that there is a need for more delib¬ not have a set amount of ‘alone time’ with Lynch observed. “We get a glimpse of how erate spiritual direction for students. God, that one was somehow less spiritual,” the world is supposed to be and how we And by being more deliberate about Boyle said. “I think it’s good that there were are becoming equipped to help humanity students’ spiritual direction, the Seminary also parts of the community that didn’t feel get there.” I would be supporting the church leaders that way. We need to expose students

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he is “still active in the ol Corvallis, OR. “Next year of Auburn, PA. “1 still preach Key to Abbreviations: Presbytery of Long Island and will be our sixtieth!” occasionally at nearby Upper-case letters designate participating in the life of the Presbyterian and Methodist degrees earned at PTS: First Presbyterian Church, 1939 Richard B. churches and help out at M.Div. B Northport, NY.” Mather (B) is professor emeri¬ a Baptist adult Bible class.” M.R.E. E tus of Chinese at the University M.A. E 1937 T am in my thir¬ of Minnesota. “Because of a “I have served ten interim pas¬ Th.M. M D.Min. P teenth year of service as a minis¬ shortage of manpower in the torates so far. Ready for more!” Th.D. D ter of visitation at the Presby¬ University of Minnesota’s says John R. Bodo (M, Ph.D. D terian Church of Toms River, Department of East Asian '52D), of San Rafael, CA. NJ,” writes Languages and Literature, I have Special undergraduate student U William S. Special graduate student G Ackerman (B). been teaching again for the last A collection of essays called two years. It has been exhilarat¬ Martin Luther: Theologian of the When an alumnus/a did not Albert G. Karnell (B, ing but exhausting,” he writes. Church was published in honor receive a degree, a lower-case letter corresponding to those '39M), a retired United States of the seventy-fifth birthday ol above designates the course Air Force chaplain with the rank “Still perking along,” writes author George W. Forell of study. of colonel, lives in Flallandale, William F. MacCalmont (M), who lives in Iowa City, LA. FL. Fie writes that, in a career (B), who 1 ives in Warwick, NY. 1928 Gordon R. that spanned twenty-five years, William J. Larkin (B) is min¬ Conning (B) is retired and he preached the Gospel in South 1940 Fred M. Corum ister at Chambers-Wylie lives in West Chester, PA. America, North America, (B, '48M) lives in Fresno, CA, Presbyterian Church, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He where he writes that “after five Philadelphia, PA. 1933 John B. was chaplain in charge of the years as a mission volunteer in MacDonald (M), age ninety, Tokyo Chapel Center in down¬ Presbyterian college libraries, After nearly fifty years of service lives in Forest Grove, OR, and town Tokyo, Japan, and sent I’m trying to get used to a rock¬ in Latin America, Frederick is “going strong.” services over the Far East Radio ing chair. Toughest job I’ve ever G. TJnley (B) lives in Peachtree Network throughout Japan, had.” City, GA. “I’m retired and active in senior Korea, and ships at sea. He has citizens’ activities on the county visited military personnel in all 1941 Norman S. 1944 Harold W. Kaser and area levels. I’m also involved parts of the world, and has been Kindt (B) is pastor emeritus (B, '47M) writes that he is in lake shore protection—God around the globe fourteen times. of the Lawrence Road Presby¬ director of church relations and gave us good things to use, not terian Church, Lawrenceville, of the Center for Church Life at abuse,” writes Phillipp H. John L. Reid Jr. (B, '42M) NJ. He also serves as chaplain Ohio’s Muskingum College. His Mergler (B) of Grand Rapids, writes that, at eighty-eight, he is at the Monroe Village Retire¬ wife, Winogene, died on July MN. “still upright, meaning vertical.” ment Center in Jamesburg, NJ. 28, 1995. He lives in Pasadena, CA. 1935 C. Donald Close W. Dayton Roberts (B) of Norman Robinson (B) (b) has been named pastor asso¬ “After work in China and vari¬ Miami, FL, writes that he has spends winters in Bonita ciate at the First Presbyterian ous U.S. pastorates,” writes written books in the two genres Springs, FL, and the summers Church, Topeka, KS. Fie writes Francis H. Scott (B, '47M), ol missionary biography and in Wyalusing, PA. He plays that he is still an active volun¬ “I am now in Westminster ecology. tennis about five times a week. teer and supply preacher. Gardens [Duarte, CA], this beautiful Presbyterian retirement David D. Robinson (B) 1945 Earl A. Loomis 1936 George community of approximately retired in 1980 and writes that Jr. (b) is a retired professor Borthwick (b) is pastor emer¬ 180 Presbyterian missionaries he has had “good years” since of child psychiatry living in itus of the First United Presby¬ and ministers. Next stop: heav- then. He lives in Port Arthur, Augusta, GA, though he made terian Church, Troy, NY. en! TX. his home in Greensport, NY, from September through “Just returned from our class’s “Some of us are still around,” 1943 “Betty and I are December ol this year. sixtieth reunion,” says William notes E. Aubrey Young (B), keeping well and happy,” T. P. Rambo (B), adding that writes James R. Bell (B),

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Jack H. Prichard (B) is chap¬ lain at the six-hundred-member Alumni/ae Update Royal Oaks Retirement Excitement is the best word to describe the October meeting of the Alumni/ae Association Executive Community in Sun City, AZ. Council! Executive Council meetings coincide with meetings of the Board of Trustees, allowing for an immediate update from the two council representatives who also sit on the Board of Trustees. I am “I am on the Committee on happy to report that both groups are excited these days! Preparation for Ministry of While many wonderful things are happening at PTS—the proposed four-million-dollar renovation of Louisville Presbytery,” writes Miller Chapel, planned new housing for single students, a totally revamped continuing education pro¬ John R. Rodman (B), gram, and the new publication inSpire, to name a few—the subject that caused the most animated and who lives in Louisville, KY. vigorous discussion in October was the Board of Trustees' commitment to developing a communica¬ tions strategy that uses computer technology to support the mission of the Seminary. “I conduct worship services on

Sundays at two local nursing In October trustees approved a resolution to begin the process of creating a home page for PTS on the homes.” World Wide Web. This will allow prospective students, alumni/ae, and friends of the Seminary to learn about and even access the Seminary's immense resources. What a wonderful day it will be when Princeton Seminary's Internet site includes all of its publications, its daily calendar, its course syllabi, H. Richard Siciliano (B) an on-line library catalog, class reunion information, and lots more. Prospective students will discover is vice president of the Houston all they need to know about Princeton Seminary, and will even be able to apply for admission electron¬ Interfaith Housing Corporation, ically! which provides affordable hous¬ The development of "distance learning"—education through computers and video hook-ups—is also in ing for senior citizens and Princeton's future. Pilot programs are currently being designed to link the Seminary with three or four single-parent families. locations in the United States; participants will be able to interact with one another through computer and video link-ups. Students in this scattered "class" will be able to see and interact with one another! And since the Seminary already possesses a state-of-the-art audio-video facility, the essential technolo¬ Arthur J. Wartes (B) is gy is already in place. a retired Navy chaplain and Through cyberspace, PTS will also be able to provide library privileges to seminaries and theological lives in San schools around the world which lack their own basic library facilities. As core books in Diego, CA. Speer Library become digitalized, a computer will provide instant access to them from any computer in the world. International, interactive distance learning might also be possible, 1946 linking a classroom at Princeton Seminary with a classroom in another part of the world. Peter J. While some may feel that all this Web talk and computer jargon is only a novelty or pass¬ Bakker (B) is ing fad, the statistics argue otherwise. In a survey for USA Today published in October a retired Navy 1996, IntelliQuest, an on-line tracking and polling company, reports that current Internet use is skyrocketing. More than 21 million people in the United States plan to go on line in chaplain and the coming year, adding to the estimated 35 million currently on line. International Data pastor who lives Corporation predicts 199 million people using the Internet by the year 2000. And Morgan in Bremerton, Stanley forecasts 200 million using email just four years from now! WA. A new day is clearly dawning, and while much remains to be done to bring all this to fruition at PTS, I am proud that our Seminary, already one of the finest theological institu¬ “I recently retired for the third tions in the world, is on its way to becoming a virtual global seminary—one day bringing the Gospel of time,” writes William R Jesus Christ to tens of thousands of students and friends who will never be able to visit the campus. Dupree (B), who until recent¬ Robert H. Crilley ('59B) is retired and lives in Waco, TX. Before his retirement he served as ly was parish associate at Mount pastor of Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Ml. He represents Region 8 (Illinois, Washington Presbyterian Michigan, and Indiana) on the Alumni/ae Association Executive Council. Church in Cincinnati, OH. He can claim “fifty-five years Presbyterian Church, Donald Macleod (G), house television system. of continuous ministry, begin¬ Plant City, FL. Princeton’s Francis Landey Charlestown, a retirement ning with serving three mission Patton Professor of Preaching community, has 2500 residents Presbyterian churches in my “I’m still doing workshops and and Worship Emeritus, is on the 110-acre campus of junior year in college in 1941.” seminars on interpersonal rela¬ now living at the Charlestown the former St. Charles Roman Dupree lives in Loveland, OH. tions and communications Community in Baltimore, MD, Catholic University and for Quest for Excellence,” where he is minister in residence Seminary. Two Baltimore news¬ Glen M. Johnson (B) says H. August Kuehl (B), and preaches a weekly thirty- papers have featured articles writes that he is a part-time who lives in Warren, RI. minute sermon over the in- on Macleod’s ministry. parish associate with the First

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Richard E. Neumann (B) Portland, OR, to San Francisco, tion and management. I am Waynesville, NC. He preaches is still on the staff of the CA; from Salem, OR, to the presently directing a capital twice a month and serves as pas¬ First Presbyterian Church, San Juan Islands; and from campaign for a Presbyterian tor of visitation. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, although he Arizona to Oregon. In 1982, church,” says John R. retired five years ago. Fie began the adjunct professor at Western Mecouch Jr. (B) of Ann Homer W. Roberts- working at the church in 1955. Baptist College hiked across Arbor, MI. Horsfield (B) is parish associ¬ He lives in Ft. Lauderdale but the country with students from ate at Kirkpatrick Memorial spends summers in Waynesville, Judson Baptist College, where Roy D. Roth (M) is retired Presbyterian Church, Ringoes, NC. He visited Australia and he was then president. And fit¬ and lives in Eugene, OR. NJ. He also helps at Hunterdon New Zealand in October. ness isn’t an occasional thing Hospice “when called upon.” with Anderson. Every day he 1948 Harry P. Phillips Jr. (B) does at least fifty pushups and Melvin L. Sohaper (M) “We are completing our fourth helped the class celebrate its bikes several miles, and he takes moved to Independence, KS, interim since retiring from fiftieth reunion in June 1996. one long practice ride before in July 1996 to become superin¬ the active pastorate in 1989,” each long trip. “That’ll prepare tendent of Independence Bible write Donald Swift (B) and “I have been retired for nine you for the first day,” he says. School. “I helped in founding his wife, Virginia Wach Swift years but continue to preach “The first day will prepare you this school in 1949 and served (’50e). “We still both play tennis almost every Sunday. Doris and for the second day. But nothing there for thirteen years, until at seventy-two! God is good!” I continue to enjoy traveling,'’ will prepare you for the third 1962,” he writes. writes Arthur H. Rust (B), day. ” 1950 G. G. Johnson of Knoxville, TN. 1949 (M) is interim pastor of Elim Wallace E. Easter (B) In April 1996, Jeanne Baptist Church, Minneapolis, is retired from pastoring Bellerjeau (E) enjoyed visits MN. Westminster Presbyterian from Sint Kimhachandra, who Church in Lincoln, NE, and is the general secretary of the 1951 Alfred J. Gerdel has been in five interim posi¬ Church of Christ in Thailand. Jr. (B) has been retired since tions at churches throughout Tiewtawat Pantupong (’64M), 1987, but is interim pastor Nebraska. “Thanks to Princeton who is pastor of Wattana at Odessa Presbyterian Church, Seminary in preparing me for Church in Bangkok, Thailand, Odessa, MO. He is also an a most wonderful life of service and his wife, Waranut (’63M), active volunteer in John Knox to Christ in the life of the who is chairperson of the Asian Village, as well as with his pres¬ Presbyterian church!” he writes. Church Women’s Conference bytery and synod. and the ecumenical relations Kathryn Troupe Healey (E) officer of the Church of Christ “In August 1995, I resigned is a substitute teacher and sings in Thailand, also visited. as interim director of the in the choir at the First Presby¬ Bellerjeau is retired and lives Richmond, VA, Peace Education terian Church, Waynesville, in Haddon Heights, NJ. Center, says Adelaide G. NC, where her husband, John Folensbee (B). “All my activi¬ F. Healey (’49B) is a parish asso¬ “In February 1997, we will ties now are voluntary.” ciate. be in India,” writes James G. 1947 Herb Anderson Emerson Jr. (B), who will Donald E. Meeder (B) (B) celebrated his eightieth James J. Heller (B, '55D) give the Bible study lectures retired from Community birthday this year by getting lives in Moravian Hall Square and the sermons at the annual Presbyterian Church in on a bicycle and pedaling with Retirement Community in Evangelical Conference of the Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL, a group of students on a three- Nazareth, PA. Mar Thoma Church in Kerala, in 1991. He does supply thousand-mile trip from Salem, India. Emerson lives in San preaching and teaches church OR, to Washington, D.C. “After retirement as director Francisco, CA. school classes. Anderson, who has been leading of financial development for bike tours for twenty-five years, the University of Michigan John F. Healey (B, '56M) Robert Tappan Osborn (G) rode about a thousand miles medical campus, I have been is parish associate at the is retired from Duke University. of the trip. He has hiked from active in fundraising consulta¬ First Presbyterian Church, He lives in Durham, NC.

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Warren W. Ost (B), the 1956 William Mills (B) S. Dunham Wilson (B) Donald R. Mitchell (B, founding chairperson and chief is retired and lives in Sun City is interim pastor of is the interim pastor at '72D) executive officer of A Christian West, AZ. the First Presbyterian Church, Neshannock Presbyterian Ministry in the National Parks, Gastonia, NC. Church, New Wilmington, PA. has retired, but is still working 1961 Paul Eppinger part time until a successor ('B, 65M) is executive director Henry E. Moore (M) Arthur Nelson (B) is retired is chosen. He lives in New York, of the Arizona Ecumenical retired in January 1995 but serves as the interim pastor NY. Council. and lives in Franklin, LA. of Thomas Presbyterian Church, Thomas, PA. “In retirement, I am quietly Rodman L. Fridlund (B) has “On June 1, I completed my visiting a small number of 1957 Charles K. been interim pastor of the First first year of retirement from persons who do not regularly Presbyterian Church, Petaluma, the active faculty of Greenville Murray Jr. (B) is retired attend church... a ministry CA, since January 1996. College,” writes Frank H. and lives in Pinehurst, NC. of encouragement just starting Thompson (M) of Greenville, to take shape,” writes Ralph A. Hugh G. Nevin Jr. (b) “On October 1, 1996, I began IL. “It has been a time of ‘rein¬ Tamaccio (B). He lives my twenty-fifth year as pastor vention.’ Second Isaiah, with of Schenectady, NY, has retired in Cape May, NJ. of the First Welsh Presbyterian its seventeen references to barn after thirty-three years as a cam¬ Church of Wilkes-Barre, PA,” (‘create’) has been my road map pus minister and thirty-six years Charles J. writes George B. Johnson to a new life out of my ‘exodus’ 1954 as a pastor, interim pastor, and Dougherty (B) retired on (B). from the old. I have served pulpit supply pastor. June 30, 1995. He leads retreats as pulpit supply, principally and has speaking engagements Clarence L. Reaser (B, Charles W. Marker (M) is in Presbyterian churches, and on the healing power of humor, a retired United Methodist min¬ have for six months conducted '65M) is retired and lives spiritual healing, and prayer, ister. He lives in Penney Farm, courses in ethics and values in at King’s Grant Presbyterian as well as serving as a supply FL, and is active in preaching; a unique program for select per¬ Retirement Community preacher and “enjoying retire¬ last year he was moderator of sons in the local federal correc¬ in Martinsville, VA. ment.” He lives in Salem, SC. Penney Memorial Church. tional institution. I conduct the inductive Bible study correspon¬ David J. Welker (B) is R. Donald Elley (M) retired ‘Eve been pastor dence course for my denomina¬ retired and works for the Rocky 1963 in 1991 and is currently the here since September 1994, tion. I have also completed Mountain Nature Association part-time interim pastor of and will stay until retirement,” twenty years as an elected mem¬ with Rocky Mountain National Greenlane Presbyterian Church, says Richard B. Anderson ber of the Bond County Board Park, Estes Park, CO. Auckland, New Zealand. (B), who is pastor oi Elmhurst of Supervisors.” 1959 Patricia Ann Presbyterian Church in George H. Kehm (B), Elmhurst, IL. “The church John H. Welker (e) works lor 1964 the first James Henry Snowden is rebounding and rebuilding.” McFarlane (B) has returned the Rocky Mountain Nature Professor of Systematic from four years of pastoring Association with Rocky Theology at Pittsburgh Charles L. Bartow (B), the Edinburgh and Dunfermline Mountain National Park, Estes Theological Seminary, retired who is Princeton’s Carl and Seventh-Day Adventist churches Park, CO. in June 1996. He continues Helen Egner Professor of Speech in Scotland. He is now pastor¬ to do research on developing 1960 Zane Alexander Communication in Ministry, ing the Houston Gulfhaven, a theology of nature from gave a talk at the eighty-second Friendswood, and Galveston (G) is pastor of Jamestown a Christian perspective. annual meeting of the Speech Seventh-Day Adventist churches Presbyterian Church, Communication Association, near his home in Dickinson, Williamsburg, VA, a historic John H. "Jack" held November 23 to 26, 1996, TX. 1955 church in Old Williamsburg. Visser (B) retired on August in San Diego, CA. His address 31, 1995. He now lives in was titled “Aimee Semple Francis L. Strock (B) is “I recently retired after teaching Cadiz, OH, and serves as stated McPherson’s Performance and a part-time chaplain at Presby¬ U.S. history and government supply pastor at Ridge and Preaching of Jesus. ” terian Homes in southern New for thirty years at Spring-Ford Scio Presbyterian Churches in Jersey, and serves as pulpit sup- High School in Royersford, Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery. PA,” writes Robert F. Lisi (B).

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Class notes ply for the First Presbyterian September 1996 and August Darryl E. Dech (M) is pastor a master’s program in marriage Church, Belmar, NJ. 1997 to study at the University of the First United Church and family therapy and continue of North Carolina’s Department of Christ, Royersford, PA. as adjunct faculty in the D.Min. 1965 Donald M. of Social Work. He will also program of St. Stephen’s Chappel Jr. (B) serves as serve as an exchange professor. This year David Randall (M) College, also in Edmonton.” an interim pastor at the Church Park’s usual job is in the celebrates his twenty-fifth year of the Mountains in Hoopa, Department of Social Work as minister of Macduff Parish Jack W. Cottrell (D) has CA, on a Native American reser¬ at Soong Sil University in Seoul, Church in Macduff, Scotland. completed his twenty-eighth vation. South Korea. “The congregation is marking year ol teaching at Cincinnati the occasion by sending my wife Bible College and Seminary in Lloyd G. Makool (M) does 1969 i n August 1996, and me on a holiday/pastoral Cincinnati, OH. He is working supply preaching and attends Donald O. Maddox (B) visit to Ekwendeni, Malawi, on his fourteenth book, which Christ Presbyterian Church became interim pastor of the where one of our members is will be volume one of a two-vol¬ in Madison, WI. “Their four Church of the Valley, Apple serving as a Church of Scotland ume commentary on Romans. pastors are doing a great job,” Valley, CA, which is his eighth missionary,” Randall says. he writes. interim position. In July 1996 James E. Forsythe (M) one of his sermons, titled Thomas A. Sebben (B) has completed twenty-five years Sharon Mohler (e) is “When Wishing upon a Star is secretary of the board of full-time prison ministry. a retired educator and lives Is Not Enough,” was published of directors of the National Twenty-two of those years were in Burlingame, CA. in Lectionary Homiletics. Association of Endowed spent in federal prisons. After Presbyterian Churches. retirement from the federal 1967 On May 15, 1995, “I’m having a great time He lives in Sharon, PA. system, Forsythe took a job David P. Gellert (B) became with our new church,” writes with the New York state prison pastor of the First Presbyterian Robert W. Morrison (B), A second novel by Kenneth system, working at Clinton Church, Pontiac, MI. pastor of the newly chartered A. Wotherspoon (M, '78P), Correctional Facility in Santa Fe Presbyterian Church titled The Caretakers, was Dannemora, NY, for the James E. Layman (E) in Edmond, OK. “We chartered published in February 1996 past three years. became associate pastor of on March 17, 1996, with 150 by Agassiz-Harrison Press. The the First Presbyterian Church, members.” story is about a United Church Robert E. Noble Jr. (M) Champaign, IL, on July 1, of Christ minister, as perceived is retired and serves as the stated 1996. Paul E. Mundschenk (b) by the church custodian. supply pastor for Cedar Creek will teach a course during sum¬ Wotherspoon, who is retired Presbyterian Church, Robert L. Unverzagt (B) mer 1997 called “Gifts from from the pastorate, lives Greeneville, TN. is pastor of Penningtonville the East: Exploring the Spiritual in Hope, British Columbia, Presbyterian Church in rural Journey in Hinduism and Canada. Samuel Olson (B) writes Atglen, PA. He is also chairper¬ Buddhism within a Christian from Caracas, Venezuela, to say son of Donegal Presbytery’s Context” at the Graduate 1971 On July 1, 1996, that the Iglesia Evangelica Las Christian Education Theological Union, Berkeley, George Brown Jr. (M) Acacias “is growing by leaps and Committee. CA. became associate dean and pro¬ bounds. Close to four thousand fessor of Christian education at attend regularly, and there are 1968 During 1995, 1970 i have agreed Western Theological Seminary, six daughter churches.” The Richard C. Brand (B) had to serve as general coordinator Holland, MI. seminary Olson helped found sermons published in several for a tri-synodical Evangelical fifteen years ago has two hun¬ publications, including The Lutheran Church in America “In addition to my educational dred students, and he is found¬ Expository Times, Preaching, and spiritual renewal event, to work in pastoral care and coun¬ ing a new church in Caracas. The Minister’s Manual. He is be held June 25 to 27, 1998, seling at Alberta (Psychiatric) “Our ministry reaches into the pastor of the First Presbyterian at Susquehanna University, Hospital at Edmonton, Alberta, whole city, with family min¬ Church, Henderson, NC. Selinsgrove, PA,” writes Canada, and a psychotherapy istries, rehabilitation, and com¬ Eugene W. Beutel (M, practice in the community” munity development programs,” J. Sam Park (M) has a one- '75P). writes John C. Carr (M), he says. year sabbatical between “I facilitate a case class for

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1972 Carole Brennan African American Alums (B) is a therapist for delinquent of Princeton teenage boys. She lives in

Springdale, PA. Irvin W. Underhill Jr., Princeton Theological Seminary Class of 1928, had a life filled with achieve¬ ment in many endeavors and on two continents. He was the first black person to be called as pastor to an all-white Presbyterian congregation, and he was a missionary to Africa, where he established a "I am now director of develop¬ school for Pygmy tribes who had never seen an outsider prior to his arrival. ment for Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary,” writes Underhill was born in Galion, OH, on April 8, 1896. When he was fourteen, his mother died, and his A. Paul DeMotte Jr. (B). blind father was unable to support the family in Philadelphia, PA, where they lived at the time. At age sixteen, Underhill became a church lay reader. Determined to receive an education, he worked his way through the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He became a Mark Trechock (B) is staff bank cashier, work that he often combined with lay preaching. He went on to work as a hotel waiter director of a grassroots commu¬ and a shipyard worker, but he felt strongly called to the ministry. Enrolling at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1926, he graduated in 1928 with his Master of Divinity degree. He was the only black nity group in western North student at Princeton at the time. Dakota that works on natural resource and rural justice issues. Underhill was appointed as a Presbyterian missionary to Africa on March 23, 1928. He and his first wife, Susan Reynolds Underhill, went to Paris for nearly a year and learned French, in preparation “Dakota Resource Council for missionary service in what was then the French Camerouns in West Africa. (The area is encom¬ formed in 1978 around citizens’ passed by the present-day country of Cameroun.) They also learned Bulu, the language of the Bantu concerns over the impact of natives with whom they worked, and for the next eleven years served congregations in West Africa. rapidly expanding fossil fuel During Underhill's mission service, he was the first outsider to contact West Africa's Pygmy tribes, extraction, and has been causing and established the first Pygmy school. His work with the Pygmies earned him a lifetime fellowship trouble for exploitative industry in England's Royal Geographic Society. Underhill also spent a month in 1935 working with Albert and do-nothing regulatory agen¬ Schweitzer, the distinguished missionary doctor, at his hospital in Lambarene (as pictured below). The time in Africa saw tragedy as well as success, however, as Susan Underhill died there at the age cies ever since,” he writes. “It’s of thirty. Underhill later gave a collection of nearly seven hundred pieces of African art to Lincoln a long way from Princeton, but University in her memory. the hunger and thirst for right¬ Underhill returned to the United States during the Second World War, and was appointed director of eousness I encountered there the Richard Allen Homes, a housing project in Philadelphia, PA. The pull to ministry was too strong, is ever present.” however, and in 1957 Underhill became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Nunda, NY. He was the first black pastor ever appointed to lead an all-white Presbyterian congregation. At the time 1973 Nymphas Underhill was called, the head of Rochester Presbytery said that "we feel Mr. Underhill was chosen as a minister should be chosen, on the R. Edwards (E, '75M) basis of ability, not race. We hope it will be the normal procedure for all is pastor of Elmhurst Presbyterian churches." United Methodist Church Underhill guided the Nunda church into forming a federation with a in Oakland, CA. local Baptist congregation; the resulting congregation, that of Trinity Church, still exists. He retired in 1967, shortly after the federation was Helmuth Egelkraut (D) formed. He spent his remaining years in interim pastorates and in spending time with his wife and two dogs. is dean of the German exten¬ sion site and professor of "Now that I am an octogenarian I find that it is a far better period of life Bible and mission, Columbia than I thought it would be," he wrote. "My experience in that age group has been filled with days of good health, great joy, and near-perfect Biblical Seminary. He lives peace." Underhill died on June 21, 1982, at the age of eighty-six. in Weissach, Germany.

Methodist Church in Oklahoma Roger C. Harp (B) is the 1974 Elisabeth K. City, OK. This inner-city 1996 moderator of both the Fowler Simpson (B, '88M) Robert B. Sloan Jr. (B) congregation is establishing Synod of Lakes and Prairies’ has been interim pastor of is president and chief executive a specialized, discipleship-based Executive Forum and the the First Presbyterian Church, officer of Texas’s Baylor ministry with and to ex-offend¬ Western Area Staff Conference Southold, NY, since January 1, University. ers. In 1997 Tremper will earn Design Team. He is also execu¬ 1996. a D.Min. from Perkins tive presbyter of Homestead Dale G. Tremper (B) is Theological Seminary. Presbytery, and lives in Lincoln, 1975 M. E. Bellinger pastoring Penn Avenue United NE. (b) is adjunct professor of law

inSpire • 21 fall 1996 Class notes at La Verne University College is a professor of philosophy treatment program and obesity Richard A. Sutton (M), of Law, La Verne, CA. Bellinger and religion at Illinois College program. I will be providing pastor of Spring City United is also a full-time judge in in Jacksonville, IL, where he also clinical supervision, clinical Methodist Church in Spring Los Angeles Superior Court. serves as college chaplain. This services, education, and training. City, PA, celebrated the anniver¬ is his sixth book, and the fourth I am also continuing my sary ol his twenty-fifth year Ray Smith (B) is pastor of on Simone Weil. private practice work with in ministry on June 23, 1996, Wedgwood Presbyterian Church The Counseling Group P.A. with a special church service in Seattle, WA. 1977 Sang Chang (D) in Jacksonville.” Bauer is also and reception. has been elected president a Navy chaplain in the Navy Through the Eyes of Women: of Ewha Woman’s University Reserves. Louis D. Venden (D) Insights for Pastoral Care, a book in Seoul, South Korea. Ewha has joined the faculty of Loma edited by Jeanne M. is the largest women’s university Jeffrey G. Guild (B) is in his Linda University in Loma Stevenson-Moessner (E), in the world. second year in South Korea, and Linda, CA, as a professor has been published by Fortress has finished his fourteenth year of relational studies on the reli¬ Press. The book is a sequel to Steven R. Garstad (B) as a U.S. Air Force chaplain. gion faculty. Women in Travail and Transition, is interim pastor of the of which Stevenson-Moessner First Presbyterian Church, In August 1995, Miriam C. was co-editor. She is a professor Johnstown, PA. Resch (B) at Columbia Theological joined the Seminary. “Preached in Philippi and fol¬ staff of the lowed the footsteps of the apos¬ Samaritan Kent J. Ulery (B) has been tle Paul last summer in Greece,” Center, elected conference minister writes M. Randall Gill (B), Elkhart, IN, for the Michigan Conference pastor of the First Presbyterian as a pastoral United Church of Christ. Church, Boynton Beach, FL. counselor.

1976 Doug Baker (B) Roger P. Howard (B) is After serving is a PC (USA) pastor and mis¬ pastor of Sharon Community three years as sionary to Northern Ireland Presbyterian Church, Moon a chaplain in Hawaii and the 1980 Harmut Bergfeld who works with the Corrymeela Township, PA. Pacific, Jeffrey M. Young (M), who has been pastor Community for peace and rec¬ (B) started a new ministry at of the Evangelical Free Church onciliation between Protestants Stephen Kliewer (B) the Chief of Chaplains Office in in Elmshorn, Germany, moved and Catholics. works for Oregon Health the Pentagon in summer 1996. on September 1, 1996, to Science University as director become pastor ol the Evangelical In summer 1996 Robert L. of research, outreach, and devel¬ 1979 Richard D. Free Church in Hannover, Richardson (B), a lieutenant opment in the Department Campbell (B, '76E) is pastor Germany. “The congregation commander in the U.S. Navy, of Family Medicine. of the First Presbyterian is a charismatic and growing participated in a NATO exercise Church, Holland, MI. missionary church. With more designed to test the Marine 1978 After three years than nine hundred members, it Corps’ ability to smoothly serving as the family advocacy Philip M. Jones (B) received is the largest of the Evangelical deploy troops from the United specialist in the Family a D.Min. degree from Free Churches (Baptists) in States to Norway. Advocacy Program of the Naval McCormick Theological Germany,” Bergfeld says. The Air Station, Jacksonville, FL, Seminary in June 1996. congregation has sponsored Eric O. Springsted (B, Peter E. Bauer (B) has He ministers at the First an African, French-speaking '80D) is co-editor of The Beauty become the family program Presbyterian Church, Maumee, congregation, and plans to start That Saves: Essays on Aesthetics coordinator for the Naval OH. an English-speaking congrega¬ and Language in Simone Weil, a Alcohol Rehabilitation Center tion at the beginning of 1997. book that focuses on the impor¬ at the same station. “My new Joon Surh Park (D), Seoul, “We want to be better prepared tance of beauty in the thought position will have me as the resi¬ South Korea, is dean of the for the Expo 2000, when people of twentieth-century philoso¬ dent family therapist for the graduate school at Yonsei from all over the world will pher Simone Weil. Springsted inpatient and outpatient alcohol University. be in Hannover,” he says.

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Randall B. Bosch (P), School. She is in private practice William S. Johnston (b) 1982 Truman T. Bayville, NY, retired after as a pastoral psychotherapist earned a Doctor of Ministry Brooks III (B) is pastor forty years of ministry in the in Woodbridge, NJ, and is a degree from Vanderbilt Divinity of Christ United Methodist Reiormed Church in America. faculty member at Blanton-Peale School and was certified as Church in Lansdale, PA. His last church was Locust Graduate Institute. an associate CPE supervisor in He received a certificate in mar¬ Valley Reformed Church, November 1995. He is pastor riage, family, and sex therapy Locust Valley, NY. “I have recently assumed the of Ashland Presbyterian Church, in 1993 from the Penn Council position of associate pastor Cockeysville, MD. on Relationships. Carol Eichling Lytch (B) at the Suntree United Methodist is part of a group that has Church in Milltown, FL,” writes John G. McFayden (B, Kimble Forrister (B) is state received a grant from Lilly Hoyt A. Byrum (B), who '96P) received a D.Min. degree coordinator of Alabama Arise, Endowment Inc. for a two-year is responsible for adult disciple- from Princeton on May 20, a coalition of ninety-nine reli¬ study of faith, families, and ship at that church. 1996. He is pastor and head gious and community groups congregations. Lytch’s part of of staff at the First United working on poverty issues. the research will center on rela¬ Mary Ford-Grabowsky (B, Presbyterian Church, Dale City, He has also been appointed tionships among older adoles¬ '85D) is vice president and VA. to the Governor’s Commission cents, parents, and clergy, academic dean at the University on Welfare Reform. to attempt to determine what of Creation Spirituality in Douglas M. Strong (B, religious values are being com¬ Oakland, CA. She has written '90D) is co-editor of Readings Beverly J. Jones (B) municated from one generation two books: Prayers of Love in Christian Ethics: A Historical received a Ph.D. from the to another. Lytch is a Ph.D. (1997, forthcoming) and Prayers Sourcebook. He is associate Claremont School of Theology candidate at Emory University. for All People (1995). professor ol the history in 1995, and is director of reli¬ of Christianity at Wesley gious life at Southwestern is enjoying “Great reunion,” writes Theological Seminary, David H. Wall (E) Ed University, Georgetown, TX. his new position as program Hurley (B), “but surely was Washington, D.C. coordinator for PTS’s Center disappointed that only two of Katherine G. Killebrew (B) of Continuing Education. the Class ol 1981 showed up.” “Still teaching philosophy at the is a Synod of the Northeast Hurley is pastor of Bowling University of New Hampshire,” shared ministry consultant Green Presbyterian Church says Thomas P. Sullivan (B). 1981 Patricia R. for mission and stewardship, in Bowling Green, KY. “Sorry to have missed Briegs (B) received her serving Monmouth, West Jersey, D.Min. in spring 1996 from the reunion!” and Newton Presbyteries. Andover-Newton Theological

“A German translation ol my book Diakonia in the Classical Weddings Reformed Tradition and Today T &Births was published in 1995, and Weddings a Japanese translation is planned for 1996 or 1997,” writes Elsie

Mary Jo Dahlberg ('89B) to Tom Holtey, February 3, 1996 Anne McKee (D), who is the Dayle Gillespie ('89B) to Stephen Rounds, September 1, 1996 Seminary’s Archibald Alexander Adrienne Spirt to Richard G. Jones ('92B), May 26, 1996 Professor of the History of Patricia Morrison Brubaker ('93B) to James G. Kitchen III, May 17, 1996 Worship. Lucia L. Kendall ('93b) to Marshall Lloyd, June 29, 1996 Marnie Mullen ('93B) to Mark Crumpler, August 31, 1996 On July 1, 1996, Cornelius Paige Baker ('95E) to Mark Mcllraith, August 3, 1996 Plantinga Jr. (D) started as Births the first-ever dean ol the chapel at Michigan’s Calvin College. Megan Elizabeth to Debra and Robert S. ('79B, '86M, '95p) Norris, April 21, 1996 Andrew Damian Avram to Lynne Allen and Wesley D. Avram ('84B), February 15, 1996 Samuel John to Linda Ann Roberts-Baca ('84B) and Michael John Baca, May 1, 1996 Virginia Berglund Smith Samuel Van to Sarah and John ('87B) Wilson, April 3, 1996 (B) is the new Jean W. and Alex to Liz Floldeman and Dan Wessner ('90B), born August 17, 1994, and adopted August 28, 1996 Frank T. Mohr Professor

Laura Anna to Margery Waugh Schammel ('92E) and William Schammel, August 6, 1996 inSpire • 23 Brendan Atlee to Lynn ('93B) and Mark ('93B) Barger Elliott, August 31, 1996 fall 1996

Class notes of Ministry at McCormick Bates College, Lewiston, ME. A Journal of Bible and Theology, of the Korean Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She In April 1994 he successfully published by Union. Church Association in northern was previously associate pastor defended his Ph.D. dissertation, California. at the First Presbyterian Church, “Rhetorical Theology through Richard Buller (B), pastor New York, NY. the Thought of Emmanuel of the First Presbyterian lain S. Maclean (M) Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin,” Church, Waterloo, IA, writes received his Ph.D. in religion 1983 “Very busy, indeed,' at Northwestern University. “I have received many com¬ and society on June 6, 1996, writes Shin Chiba (D). ments on our Iowa family from Harvard University. His “But praying to the Lord for Sally J. Dixon (B) has retired picture in the spring issue dissertation was on the church his grace and guidance over and moved to Dover, NH. of inSpire—the one with me and democracy in Latin our human endeavors, includ¬ She and her husband, Norman holding a pig. Allow me to America, particularly Brazil. ing PTS.” Chiba serves Dixon, attend St. Andrews clarify. Yes, we have moved He now lives in Roanoke, VA. International Christian Fellowship in Kennebunk, ME. to Iowa. Yes, there are pig farms University in Tokyo, Japan. around Waterloo (population 1986 Brendan P. Jill Hartwell Geoffrion (B) 10,000). Yes, that is me holding Dempsey (B) is pastor of the Robert J. Cromwell (B) earned a 1996 Ph.D. in women’s a pig. But my call has been First Presbyterian Church, is in his fifth year as pastor of studies and Christian spirituali¬ a blessing to me. The needs of Cape Girardeau, MO, a position St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, ties from Union Institute, the city and a racially diverse he started in July 1996. Haysville, KS. He is also the Cincinnati, OH. She lives community are still around me. volunteer president of the in Eden Prairie, MN. New challenges await." Autism Society of Wichita, KS. Marcia J. Thomas (B) Bill Carter (B) Kermit Kyle Kneen (B) is pastor of the First Presbyter¬ has published two has received a Master of ian Church, Kiel, WI. books of sermons: Social Work degree from the Water Won’t University of Maryland and John Vissers (M) became Quench the Fire his D.Min. degree from Drew pastor of Knox Presbyterian and No Box Seats University. He is still a minister Church, Toronto, Canada, in the Kingdom. in Baltimore, MD, and serves in April 1995. His article “Words as pastor of Bethany United We Can Hear" Church of Christ, adjunct chap¬ 1985 J. Wesley was published lain at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Brown II (B) is completing in the summer child therapist at the Awele a clinical psychology internship 1996 issue of Treatment and Rehabilitation at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, In Trust magazine, Clinic, and instructor in pas¬ Princeton Medical Center, and and his jazz quar¬ toral care at the McKendree Mercer Medical Center. He tet will play on the opening Margaret Grun Kibben (B) School of Religion. He can be specializes in neuropsychology, night of the 1997 Institute hiked across Pennsylvania seen scrambling from setting to addictive disorders, and dissocia¬ of Theology at PTS. last summer with her father, setting on his Harley-Davidson tive trauma disorders. William A. Grun, a retired pub¬ motorcycle, christened “Pilgrim Bruce D. Ervin (B) is in pri¬ lic school teacher who audited One.” William P. Brown (B), vate practice as a licensed mar¬ courses at Princeton from 1981 who is associate professor riage, family, and child coun¬ to 1990. Kibben, a navy chap¬ Carl E. Zylstra (D) is the of Old Testament at Union selor, with offices in Pasadena lain with the rank of lieutenant new president of Dordt College, Theological Seminary in and Van Nuys, CA. He attends commander, is now back in Sioux Center, IA. Virginia, has written a book La Canada Presbyterian Church Norfolk, VA, after completing called Character in Crisis: in La Canada, CA. the Naval War College in 1984 Wes Avram (B) A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Newport, RI. In January she is the new pastor of the First Literature in the Old Testament. David Kwang Kim (B) will go to Camp Lejeune, NC, Presbyterian Church, Willmette, In July 1996 he also became is pastor of the Korean West with the Marine Corps. IL, just north of Chicago. co-editor of Interpretation: Valley Presbyterian Church, His last job was as chaplain at San Jose, CA. He is also head

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months of slow reading, but it provides a comprehensive pre¬ sentation of the development of Christian thought over the cen¬ turies. In a sense this is a continuation of the discussion Kung On the Shelves began in On Being a Christian, but it embraces a critical survey Have you ever wished that you could ask for a PTS professor's of church tradition in its varied confessional expressions, and recommendation before buying a book? On the Shelves fuses history and systematic theology as only Kiing can. We features book recommendations from a variety of Princeton have here a rare ecumenical treatise in the best sense of the Seminary faculty, with the hope that these suggestions will word. Kung defines and forecasts the only kind of ecumenicity help aiumni/ae choose books that will facilitate their profession¬ that will guarantee Christianity's viability in the third millenni¬ al and personal growth. um.

from Richard Stoll Armstrong, the Ralph B. and Helen S. Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, by Marva J. Dawn. Ashenfelter Professor of Ministry and Evangelism Grand Rapids, Ml: William B. Eerdmans, 1995. This monograph Emeritus: will be helpful to every parish minister who is confronted with a Empowering Ministry: Ways to Grow in Effectiveness, by multiplicity of opinions about how the church should worship. Donald P. Smith. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, Dawn has a creditable grasp of the problems of contemporary 1996. Drawing on data collected from a massive survey of liturgical experiments, including those that can easily and Presbyterian pastors and selected lay leaders, Smith argues that unwittingly become a surrender to and compromise with mod¬ pastoral effectiveness is best measured by a pastor's ability to ern culture. Preachers and those who teach preachers will find empower others. This hypothesis is thoroughly developed and in Dawn an informed mentor who objectively analyzes trends applied to all aspects of parish ministry. Writing with sensitivity, and prescribes possible remedial antidotes. Good reading! empathy, and a keen awareness of the pressures and demands of parish life, the author provides a useful criterion for assess¬ from Mark McClain-Taylor, associate professor of theolo¬ ing pastoral effectiveness, as well as many helpful ideas on gy and culture: ways to increase it. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, by David E. Stannard. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 95 Theses for the Church: Finding Direction Today, by Ben 1992. This is a much-needed historical study of the tapestry of Johnson. Decatur, GA: CTS Press, 1995. Johnson states and horror woven by the Spanish and British devastation of the then elaborates upon ninety-five (a la Martin Luther) theses that Americas. Read here why the Iroquois referred to George challenge the church to consider seriously its future in the Washington as the "Town Destroyer," and of Thomas rapidly changing world in which we live. The book is intended Jefferson's admonition to pursue Indians "to extermination." primarily for pastors, church leaders, and seminarians. Its What of clergy and businessmen's roles? Is this "holocaust" to propositions define the crisis of our times and its implications be put beside the 1930s Tremendum suffered by the Jews? for the church's ministry and mission. Calling for new modes of church life, faith, and witness, Johnson hopes his theses—some Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of are provocative, while others echo what other world-scene Domination, by Walter Wink. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992. observers have said—will stimulate conversation and reflection. The "great communicator" among biblical scholars lays bare the meanings of the Bible for challenging the seemingly intran¬ from Donald Macleod, the Francis Landey Patton sigent imperial powers of today. Read about "spiritual warfare," Professor of Preaching and Worship Emeritus: the powers of God, just war and pacifism, nonviolent engage¬ Christianity: Essence, History, and Future, by Hans Kung. New ment, "inner violence," and prayer—all presented with a dis¬ York: Continuum Publishing, 1995. This monograph requires cerning eye to the systemic suffering of the world today.

Heup Young Kim (B, '87M) participating in the Wabash “Bruce and I are living in and opportunities to experience is the author of Wang Yang-Ming Center Theology Program. Melbourne, Australia, now, the overwhelming power and Karl Barth: A Confucian- and would welcome visitors!” of God’s healing mercy, grace, Christian Dialogue. He is assis¬ Robert L. Morris (B) writes Audrey Schindler (B). peace, hope, and love,” he says. tant professor of systematic the¬ received his D.Min. degree from “The Hanover folks were and ology at Kangnam University, Gordon-Conwell Seminary on 1987 Elizabeth B. continue to be means by which South Korea. May 10, 1996. He is pastor of Affsprung (B) is stated supply God ministers to me as their the First Presbyterian Church, pastor at the First Presbyterian pastor and brother in Christ.” Linda Mercadante (D) Washington, NC. Church, Watsontown, PA. is the author of Victims and Jim Burkley (B), Princeton, Sinners: The Spiritual Roots P. Wayne Osborne (B) Paul A. Becker Jr. (B), NJ, is chairperson of New of Addiction and Recovery. is an elder at the First Presby¬ pastor of Hanover Presbyterian Brunswick Presbytery’s Work She is the B. Robert Straker terian Church, Stamford, CT, Church in Clinton, PA, reports Group on Higher Education. Professor of Historical Theology and executive administrator that his wife, Ada, died on July He recently received an Ed.S. at Ohio’s Methodist Theological at Joseph E. Brooks and 24, 1995, after a three-year degree from Rutgers University School, and spent summer 1996 Associates in Greenwich, CT. battle with cancer. “It has been in the social and philosophical a year of sorrow, remembrances, foundations of education.

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Raymond Scott Herr (B) two years, where he will write Creed, which has been favorably New England Conference reports that he and his family a dissertation on how the coun¬ reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly in June 1996. He is pastor will spend another three years try’s citizens travel along various Religion Bookline, The Anglican of Bryantville United Methodist in Zurich, Switzerland, where paths to political participation Theological Review, and Church in Bryantville, MA. he serves the International either formally, through the The National Catholic Reporter. Protestant Church of Zurich. socialist party system, or infor¬ Her previous book, Entertaining 1993 Cameron “Visitors welcome!” he writes. mally, through spiritual and Angels: Hospitality Programs for Bell (B) is associate pastor entrepreneurial actions based the Caring Church, is in its sec¬ of California’s San Marino Robert Bruce Johnson (b) in Asian culture. He will also ond printing. Community Presbyterian began pastoring two United work on his Vietnamese lan¬ Church. Methodist churches near guage skills through a Petry Roanoke, VA, on June 30, Foundation grant, “I resigned my church, and 1996. He is a Ph.D. candidate and will teach at I ll move my house soon,” writes in theology at Emory University. various political Hui Dae Tark (B, '95M) institutions on the of North Arlington, NJ. “I am 1988 ‘I continue to serve genealogy of how looking for a church. Pray for M as associate pastor of the First Western societies me. Presbyterian Church, Grand interpret politics. Junction, CO,” writes Mary Wessner and his 1994 Robert K. Hammond Atkinson (B). wife, Elizabeth o> Bronkema (B) and Stacy Holdeman, visited * Bronkema (B) are pastors at is the Vietnam from Z three small Waldensian churches Tim Sahr (B, '89M) O in southern Italy, and serve as director of research and policy 1990 to 1993; 1Q. at Ohio’s Franklin County they were the first chaplains at a children’s home. Board of Health. “I have one North Americans since the end In May 1996, Gordon more year of graduate school of the Vietnam War to be grant¬ Zerbe (D) began a two-year 1995 “I have just been at the Ohio State University ed residency visas for living and Mennonite Central Committee appointed to serve a three- School of Public Health until working in the southern part assignment as a professor church parish in a rural area I’m finished,” he says. of the country. of New Testament at Silliman ofTexas,” says Maryann University Divinity School McFadden Meador (B), 1989 Steven Chase 1991 “I am serving my in Dumaguete City, Philippines. who is a minister in the United (B), who is an assistant profes¬ fifth year as associate for youth The Mennonite Central Methodist Church. sor of spirituality and historical and families at Westminster Committee is the service, devel¬ theology at the Graduate Presbyterian Church, Westlake opment, and relief agency “People here find the Gospel Theological Union, Berkeley, Village, CA,” writes David G. of the Mennonite and Brethren a scandal,” writes James R. CA, and a Fellow at the Center Carpenter (B). in Christ Churches. Wilken (B) Irom Silver Creek, of Theological Inquiry in NY. “As far as I can tell, it hasn’t Princeton, NJ, has written “I will be serving as a mission- 1992 Hyungsuk been preached in these parts for a book titled Angelic Wisdom: ary-in-residence in my pres¬ Samuel Lee (B, '93M) quite a spell!” The Cherubim and the Grace bytery,” says Cheryl Ann is pastor of Christian education of Contemplation in Richard Elfond (B), “sharing from at Korean Central Presbyterian We're not of St. Victor. experiences in El Salvador and Church in northern Virginia. Costa Rica in this year of He lives in Fairfax, VA. ignoring you!

1990 Dan Wessner emphasis on Latin America.” The editorial staff of inSpire receives many class notes every (B), a doctoral student at the Elfond lives in Hastings, NE, “I have moved to California and year, and tries to print them all. University of Denver’s Graduate where she is associate pastor am unemployed,” writes Amy But because the magazine is School of International Studies, at the First Presbyterian Church. McCormick (B). published quarterly, it some¬ times doesn't include recently has received a MacArthur submitted class notes. If you Foundation Fellowship on Peace Elizabeth Rankin Geitz (b) David M. Whitford (B) don't see your class note here, please be patient. It will appear and Security in a Changing is an Episcopal priest and the was ordained as an elder in in a future issue. World. He is in Vietnam for author of Gender and the Nicene the United Methodist Church’s

26 • inSpire photo: Carolyn Herring spent exactlyfortyyears—hisentirecareer— ever, canmakethesameclaimasRobertH. church duringaministerialcareer.Few,how¬ A GoodandLastingFit while andgivethemsomestability, was lookingforapastorwhowouldstay NJ. Church ofAmwell,locatedinLambertville, Crawford, a1956M.Div.graduatewho series ofstudentpastorswhostayedanaver¬ church receivedmissionaid,andhada congregation hadaround120members.(It pastoring theSecondEnglishPresbyterian attended achurchfamilypicnicinRunkle’s age ofoneortwoyears.Thecongregation is stillapproximatelythesamesize.)The Princeton TheologicalSeminary,theAmwell young pastorandhiswife, Barbara,accepted stepped.” Butthecongregationliked Meadow. Crawford wantedtoserveamissionchurch. side ofthechurch’s small,historiccemetery. Crawford, andthefeeling wasmutual,sothe remembered. “Youhadtowatchwhereyou Cod-style manse,located justontheother the callandmovedinto the whiteCape When Crawfordgraduatedfrom Pastors oftenspendmanyyearsatone The match,hesaid,wasmadewhen “It wasatruemeadow,”Crawford outstanding in thefield November 1,1996,fortyyearstotheday said, forahouseinHarmony,NJ,where years, aswellinpersonnelandprograms. after theirarrival.Theyareleaving,Crawford that house,boxinguplortyyearsofmemo¬ Johnsonburg PresbyterianCampand The congregationwasverywillingtotrynew church. good timeshesharedwithhisever-changing leaving acommunity,buthappy,forallthe goodbye, hesaid,isbittersweet—sad,lor they intendtoenjoytheirretirement.The ries. Theyretiredfromthepastorateon vacation churchschool;acampingprogram gregation cametome!”hesaid.“Therewere change churches?Well,Idid,butanewcon¬ with thewholecommunity. Inadditionto small townhasmeantbeing deeplyinvolved and choirprogram;Sundaysummer things.” many changesinthecongregationover Conference CenterinnorthernNewJersey. a CropWalk;andjunior-highcampat for children;alearn-to-swimprogram, a volunteer fire fighterwiththeWest Amwell school busforthirty-one years,andservedas his churchactivities,Crawford drovea taught byCrawford,whichusedalocallake; Fire Company, andasafirstaid safety Now theCrawfordsaremovingoutof Those “newthings”includedamusic “People askme,didn’tyouwantto For Crawford,pastoringachurchin years. a photographerforanareanewspaper,the Tambertville RescueSquad.Hehasalsobeen officer, aswellchaplain,withthe without livinginourshadow.” he willmisswhenmoves,said,noting stancy anddifferenceinthelifeofcom¬ his ministrywas“notoneevent,butthecon¬ ran theDelawareValleyCouncilof tant inachurchthatCrawforddescribesas the churchsecretary,defactopastoralassis¬ Lambertville Beacon.BarbaraCrawfordwas stay intouchtoalimitedextent.Wecan’t and notbecomeattachedtomany,many that “youcan’tbeinonetownforfortyyears Churches FoodPantryforthepasteight “essentially amomandpopoperation,” would likeaninterimpastor. after usachancetodowhattheywant friendships. Wewanttogivewhoevercomes gregation, butwewillkeepuppersonal come backtoinfluencethelifeofcon¬ people.” HenotedthatheandBarbara“will munity.” It’saplaceandgroupofpeoplethat gotten agriponthings,”Crawfordsaid, and othersinthecongregationhavereally but havenotyetdecidedwhetherorthey of decidingwhattheywantinanewminis¬ open. Thecongregationisintheearlystages the nextpastorofAmwellchurchisstill would comeandstayawhile,” heremem¬ are alotofstrongfeelings. successor. “I’mtryingtopavetheway, adding thatthecongregationisveryorga¬ ter. Theyhavearrangedforsupplypreachers, lasting fit”inhisministry. sibly bepartofthenatureprogramatMerrill house andputitinorder,dosupplypreach¬ things are.” between thewaythingswereand added. “Theycan’tbemakingcomparisons to helpthembegindetach,thoughthere nized andcarefulinbeginningtochoosehis also lookbackonwhathe called“agoodand Creek Reservoir,nearhisnewhome.Hewill ing andsomephotojournalism,alsopos¬ fulfilled that expectation!”| bered, thinkingbackforty years.“Ithinkwe The questionofwhowillbecalledto Indeed, Crawfordsaid,thehighlightof “I’m reallypleasedtoseehowourelders “The newpersonwillbedifferent,”he “The congregationwanted someonewho In retirement,Crawfordplanstobuya inSpire •27 fall 1996 fall 1996

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comic of the year.” He came in third in the He added that he was “impressed with Friday Prayers, final round of competition but, as he says, the way people of different backgrounds Saturday Jokes “the guy who won is still a chiropractor, and could share their views on issues without sur¬ The Double Life of Rabbi/Comedian the guy who came in second is still a lawyer, rendering their individuality. I remember a Bob Alper but here I am.” He cites as his influences Catholic priest explaining the Catholic comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks—”1 Church’s position on abortion, and after a Being one of Princeton’s few Jewish was raised on him, and I think he’s hysteri¬ few people explained why they Doctor of Ministry graduates wasn’t enough cal,” Alper said—and comic Bob disagreed, the dis¬ individuality for Bob Alper (’84P). Since Newhart. cussion turned 1986, he has been both a rabbi and a stand- “Newhart’s work is endur- ... , , to the sub¬ I never realized how many up comic—the only person in the world to ingly funny, unhurtful, posi- ject of Jews there were in northern do both intentionally, he says with a how to New England until L. L. Bean smile. impart The Vermont-based Alper has came out with a line of goose church spent twenty-five years as a rabbi. down yarmulkes." doctrine to Though he’s currently just a part-time young people. clergyman, he still leads High Holy Everyone could Days services at Temple Micah in relate to that.” Philadelphia, PA. Most Saturdays and Though Alper was worried that Sundays find him traveling to one of being Jewish would present a prob¬ his many engagements at synogogues, lem at PTS, he found that his unique Jewish organizations, and comedy viewpoint was valued. In fact, he clubs. said, “Someone at Princeton once While Alper tells lots of jokes even told me that I should be more about Israel, food, rituals, holidays Jewish. They felt I wasn’t using my and rabbis, he doesn’t unique viewpoint to its best advan¬ tell jokes tage.” about In addition to his work as a rabbi | and comic, Alper has written two "Living in a rural area, we don't S books: A Rabbi Confesses, which is a have cable. We have a satellite * 1995 cartoon book written by Alper dish. Of course, our Orthodox and drawn by Minneapolis, MN- neighbors down the street have based artist Jack Lindstrom, and Life two dishes." Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This, a Jewish tive, gentle, and affable,” Alper said. “I 1996 collection of essays on life’s most spiri¬ American used to memorize his routines as a teenager. tual moments. The title essay from the sec¬ princesses, inter¬ Also, he genuinely has a good time during ond book will be printed in the January 7, marriage, or other sensitive or offensive top¬ his act, which was an important performance 1997 issue of Family Circle magazine. ics. Most of his act discusses the life and technique for me to learn.” His books, he said, underline the con¬ times of his own Jewish family—and that’s a Alper’s comedic education happened by nection and affinity he sees between religion topic to which most listeners can relate. listening and doing, but his rabbinical edu¬ and humor. “The act is the same, whether I’m in a cation came from Hebrew Union College- “I believe that faith and comedy are nat¬ comedy club, a corporate setting, or doing a Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, ural allies,” he said. “When I deliver a ser¬ Jewish function,” Alper said. “Ninety-five OH. He will receive a Doctor of Divinity mon, I hope that people are having a posi¬ percent of my humor is universal. And even degree from the same school this year. He tive religious experience. When I make peo¬ if I were just Bob Alper [he’s billed as Rabbi came to Princeton for a Doctor of Ministry ple laugh, I know they’re having a positive Bob Alper], I would still be a clean comedi¬ degree, he said, “because I was living in religious experience. an. That helps me a lot, because I’m a safe Philadelphia at the time, and Princeton “Humor is not just a fun thing,” he comedian. Any group can hire me and know offered the best program in the area. I loved added. “It’s absolutely essential to the rab¬ that my material will be appropriate for coming to Princeton. I really liked the ‘case binic technique. If you get an audience them.” study’ method of the program, as well as the laughing and wiping their eyes, it brings a Alper’s life as a comic began with a opportunity to attack the practical aspects of community together in ways an art auction Philadelphia-area contest to find “the Jewish ministry.” could never do.' I

28 • inSpire fall 1996 \ Obituaries

• J. Harold Gwynne, 1927B Blake, and one son, John Howard Blake, Sitka, AK, a post he held for ten years. J. Harold Gwynne, who pastored con¬ predeceased him. In 1966 he became a field administrator gregations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, died • J. Hayden Laster, 1933B for the Synod of Arizona and Northern on May 20, 1996. He was ninety-six years J. Hayden Laster, a pastor who served Arizona Presbytery; he was associate execu¬ old. Gwynne was ordained by the churches in Maryland, Alabama, tive of the Synod of the Southwest and Presbytery of Blairsville on June 14, 1927. Mississippi, and Tennessee during nearly Sierra Blanca Presbytery from 1972 until He served the First Presbyterian Church of forty years of ministry, died on July 20, his 1976 retirement. Armstrong is survived Windber, PA, from 1927 to 1938, and the 1996. He was ninety-five years old. Laster by his daughters, Allison Keef and First Presbyterian Church of Martins was ordained by Alabama’s Leeds Charlene Frederick. Ferry, OH, from 1938 to 1952. His last Presbytery in June 1933, and was called to • William McLeister II, 1943B church was Grace Presbyterian Church in Grove Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen, William McLeister II, who pastored Lakewood, OH, where he served from MD, where he served from 1934 to 1938. Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church of 1952 until his 1966 retirement. He wrote He then pastored Edgewood Presbyterian Mt. Lebanon in Pittsburgh, PA, for seven¬ books, articles, and poems, and was presi¬ Church in Birmingham, AL, from 1938 to teen years (from 1947 to 1964), died on dent of the Lakewood, OH, Ministerial 1945; Union Larger Parish Presbyterian July 12, 1996. He was eighty years old. Association. He is survived by a daughter Church in Union, MS, from 1945 to McLeister was ordained by West Jersey and two sons. 1948; the First Presbyterian Church, Presbytery on September 22, 1942. He • Howard Carson Blake, 1928b Milan, TN, from 1950 to 1952; the First also served Woodstown Presbyterian Howard Carson Blake, who spent thirty- Presbyterian Church, Harriman, TN, from Church in Woodstown, NJ, from 1942 two years working with the Moral Re- 1952 to 1959; Lakeview Presbyterian to 1947, and was pastor of the First Armament Movement (MRA), died on Church in New Johnsonville, TN, where Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MI, from May 20, 1996. He was ninety-two years he was the organizing pastor, from 1959 1965 to 1970. He was executive secretary old. Blake met Frank Buchman, founder to 1961; the First Presbyterian Church, of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, New of the Oxford Group (which later became McMinnville, from 1961 to 1966; and York, NY, from 1970 to 1971, and spent the MRA), when he was a student at Clover Hill Presbyterian Church in his retirement years on Hilton Head Princeton University. After studying for Maryville, TN, from 1966 until his 1972 Island, SC, and in Duarte, CA. He is sur¬ the ministry, Blake began thirty-two years retirement. Laster was also a longtime vived by his wife, Lee Wilson McLeister, of work with Buchman’s international member of the Maryville College board of and his three children: William McLeister team, concentrating on Scandanavia. In directors. He is survived by his wife, Willie III, Jane Opperman, and Ruth Anan. Denmark he was instrumental in building Harold Laster, and by their two children, • Paulos Mar Gregorios, 1954B a team that later played a key role in that James Hayden Laster Jr. and William Paulos Mar Gregorios, who was metro¬ country’s resistance to Hitler. He set up Harold Laster. politan ol the Delhi Diocese of the the MRA conference center on Mackinac • Robert Roland ("Army") Armstrong, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Island, MI, and helped run MRA confer¬ 1936b patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church ences of reconciliation after World War II Robert Roland (“Army”) Armstrong, in India, and principal of Orthodox in Caux, Switzerland. In I960 he became who was a minister and educator in Alaska Theological Seminary, Kottayam, India, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, for twenty-six years, died on December died on November 24, 1996. He was sev¬ Weslaco, TX, and then served as stated 16, 1995. He was eighty-five years old. enty-four years old. Listed in the interna¬ clerk of South Texas Presbytery. In 1965 Armstrong was ordained by Buckhorn tional edition of Who’s Who, Gregorios he was named Man of the Year for pio¬ Presbytery on September 18, 1937. He had already served as a journalist, business¬ neering a literacy program in the Rio served as a stated supply pastor for the man, teacher, secretary of the Mar Grande Valley. Blake was executive direc¬ Presbyterian Board of National Missions Gregorios Student Movement of India, tor of the Celebration of Evangelism in until 1940, and was then called to pastor and advisor to Ethiopian Emperor Haile Cincinnati, OH, in 1971, organized lay the First Presbyterian Church of Fairbanks, Selassie when he was ordained as a priest leadership and ecumenical conferences, AK, where he served until 1942. He pas¬ in 1961 with the name Father Paul and led a group of forty evangelical tored the First Presbyterian Church of Varghese. He was associate general secre¬ Protestants to Rome for meetings with Anchorage, AK, from 1942 to 1950, and tary of the World Council of Churches Catholic leaders during the Holy Year of then became a field representative and from 1962 to 1967, and was also a mem¬ 1975. He is survived by his children, Alice then assistant secretary for the Presbyterian ber of many of that organization’s commit¬ Blake Chaffee and Peter Carson Blake, and Board of National Missions, working in tees, as well as serving as moderator of by his second wife, Margaret Rickert Alaska and the Yukon. In 1956 he became the World Council of Churches’ Church Blake. His first wife, Margaret Stewardson president of Sheldon Jackson College in and Society division. He led the World

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Obituaries_

Council of Churches’ delegation to the • Lyle B. Gangsei, 1959M In 1958 he became a professor of theologi¬ United Nations General Assembly’s Special Lyle B. Gangsei, a pastor, church cal studies at Hanover College in Hanover, Session on Disarmament. Varghese became founder, and educator, died on July 23, IN, a post he held until 1967, when principal of Orthodox Theological 1996. He was seventy-five years old. he became associate for theological studies Seminary in 1967. He was consecrated Gangsei was ordained in the American for the Board of National Missions bishop as Paulos Mar Gregorios and Lutheran Church in January 1945. and Program Agency of the United appointed first metropolitan of the newly He was a chaplain in the U.S. Navy Presbyterian Church (USA) in New York, formed Delhi Diocese in 1976. He chaired from 1945 to 1946, and was associate NY. He was on the World Council of the World Conference on Faith, Science, pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church Churches’ joint project with the Vatican, and the Future at the Massachusetts in Madison, WI, from 1946 to 1947. called the Humanum Studies Project, as Institute of Technology in 1979, and He was the founding pastor of the well as the World Council of Churches’ was general president of the Indian Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd Task Group on Christians in Changing Philosophical Congress in 1990. Widely in Rockford, IL, where he served from Institutions. He was also a part of the revered for his learning, his piety, and his 1947 to 1951, and was founding pastor Presbyterian Church’s General Assembly compassion toward people from all walks of the Lutheran Church of the Task Force on Peacemaking and U.S. of life, he was the author of many books, Resurrection in Redondo Beach, CA, Foreign Policy, as well as the General including Joy of Freedom, The Gospel of the where he served from 1951 to 1957. He Assembly Theology of Liberation Kingdom, The Freedom of Man, Freedom pastored Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church Committee. Huenemann was a seminar and Authority, Truth and Tradition, Science in Perth Amboy, NJ, from 1957 to 1963, leader; represented the Presbyterian for Sane Societies, Cosmic Man, Human when he became chaplain of California Church at international church gatherings Presence, Tnlightenment, A Light Too Bright, Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks, CA. in the former Soviet Union, South Africa, A Human God, and Be Still and Know. He held that post from 1963 to 1969, and and Kenya; and had reviews and articles He also wrote numerous periodical arti¬ was dean of students at the same college published in Presbyterian Life, The cles, symposia, lectures, and encyclopedic from 1963 to 1972. He also served the Presbyterian Outlook, Theology Today, contributions. He was chief editor college as head of interim studies. Gangsei Church and Society, and Crossroads, among of the Indian quarterlies Star of the Fast then established Education Enrichment other publications. Most recently he and Purohithan. He received honorary Inc., where he designed and carried out was director of the Theology in Global Doctorate of Theology degrees from insti¬ a world-study program for educators; Context Association and the Foundation tutions in Leningrad, Budapest, and he counseled and taught seminars in for Peace and Justice. He is survived by his Prague, as well as the American Hall industry, hospitals, churches, and schools. wife, G. Frances Oesau Huenemann, and of Fame Award for extraordinary service After retirement, he served as an interim their children: Kathryn Habib, Joan E. to peace and unity, the German Otto pastor and joined his wife in her antiques Michie, and Jonathan E. Huenemann. Nuschke Prize for peace, the Oskar Pfister business. Gangsei is survived by his wife, Award of the American Psychiatric Virginia Peterson Gangsei, and their chil¬ In addition to those whose obituaries appear in this issue, the Seminary Association, the Man of the Year Award dren: David, Paul, Peter, Karthia, and has received word that the following in 1990 and 1995, and the Distinguished Stephen. alumni/ae have died: Alumnus Award from Princeton • Edward M. Huenemann, 1961D Theological Seminary. Edward M. Huenemann, a professor Robert L. Vining, 1929b William J. Duvall, 1932B • Arthur J. S. Curry, 1958b and theologian who also pastored churches Shirley E. Greene, 1935b Arthur J. S. Curry, who spent thirty- in Wisconsin and New Jersey, died on Bernard Munger, 1941b seven years as a pastor in the Presbyterian June 14, 1996. He was seventy-six years Joseph J. ("Jack") Myerscough, 1943B Church in Ireland, died on February 20, old. Huenemann was ordained by Darrell Parker, 1943b Richard H. Ackley, 1947b 1996. He was sixty-two years old. Curry Milwaukee Presbytery on October 23, Chulin Toktaeng, 1952G was ordained in Omagh Presbytery 1946. He pastored Dousman-Ottawa Gustav-Adolph Kriener, 1953M of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland Parish in Dousman, WI, from 1946 Joseph S. Rigell, 1956G on October 28, 1959. He was a pastor to 1948, and served Cedar Grove John B. Shaw, 1956B Theodore Sieh, 1957b in Ballygawley and Ballyreagh, Ireland, Presbyterian Church in Cedar Grove, WI, Derrell K. Smith, 1962M from 1959 to 1973, and in Millisle, from 1948 to 1952. He was pastor of East Robert B. Wardrop, 1975M Ireland, from 1973 to 1976. He began Trenton Presbyterian Church in Trenton, John L. Rice, 1978B serving in Cavanaleck and Aughentaine, NJ, from 1952 to 1956, and was minister The obituaries of many of these Ireland, in 1976. of education at the First Presbyterian alumni/ae will appear in future issues. Church, Trenton, NJ, from 1956 to 1958.

30 * inSpire fall 1996 investing in ministry

Gifts Mr. Kenneth A. Lawder to the Lawder Scholarship Endowment Fund T his list includes gifts made between June 1, 1996 and October 21, 1996. The Reverend J. Arthur Lazell (’37B) to the Annual Fund Mr. John S. Linen to the Annual Fund In Memory of_ Mrs. Mary B. Linen to the Annual Fund Mr. J. Keith Louden to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Russell W. Annich (’32B) to the Scholarship Fund Loved Ones to the Annual Fund Mr. John Assenheimer to the Annual Fund The Reverend David S. Maclnnes (’23B) to the Annual Fund Ms. Alice M. Baird to the Annual Fund Mrs. Norma Macleod to the Mrs. Norma Macleod Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. Fiarold B. Baird to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Willis A. Baxter (’38B) to the Scholarship Fund Mr. Frank Marsh to the Annual Fund Mr. J. Andrew Marsh to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. David J. Beale (1865B) to the Annual Fund Mr. George V.N. Morin to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Wilson T.M. Beale (’02B) to the Annual Fund Captain Marshall Beebe, USN, to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Thomas S. Mutch to the Morristown The Reverend Don Bert to the Annual Fund Presbyterian Church-Reverend Dr. Thomas S. Mutch Mr. Goss Blackstone to the Annual Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund Mrs. Lena Blackstone to the Annual Fund The Reverend W. Dayalan Niles (’66M) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Edwin H. Rian (’27B) to the Reverend Dr. Mrs. Celia Boden to the International Students Scholarship Endowment Fund Edwin H. Rian Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Parke Richards ( 05B) to the Annual Fund Mr. Louis Vanden Bosch to the Charles J. Reller Abiding Memorial Fund Award The Reverend John F. Ruben (’57B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Robert W. Scott (’38B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Harry L. Bowlby (’04B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Henry Seymour Brown (1900B) to the Annual The Reverend Dr. Carlton J. Sieber (’4IB) to the Annual Fund Fund The Reverend William M. Sparks (’63B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Edward J. Caldwell (’38B) to the Annual Fund Mr. John Chancellor to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Mr. James B. Stuart to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. George E. Sweazey (’30B) to the Annual Fund Class of 1957 Departed Members to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Mrs. Martha L. Sykes to the Annual Fund The Reverend Alfred H. Davies (’44B) to the Annual Fund Dr. David A. Weadon to the David A. Weadon Prize, the David A. The Reverend Dr. Harold C. DeWindt (’36B) to the Harold C. Weadon Memorial Endowment Fund, and the Touring Choir DeWindt Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Fund Dr. Paul L. Diefenbacher to the Annual Fund Mrs. Marian Lawder Whitman to the Lawder Scholarship Mr. James E. Dingman to the Annual Fund Endowment Fund Mr. John L. Felmeth, Jr. to the Reverend John Lowe Felmeth Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Dr. William H. Felmeth (’42B) to the Annual Fund In Honor of_ The Reverend Richard C. Brand (’68B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend James L. Getaz, Jr. (’49B) to the Alumni/ae Roll The Reverend Dr. William R. Dupree (’46B) to the International Call Students Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. Charles Littleton Groom to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Elizabeth G. Edwards (’62B) to the Annual The Reverend Dr. Harry W. Haring (1893B) to the Annual Fund Ms. Cristabel S. Hill to the Annual Fund Fund Dr. Donald Juel to the Scholarship Fund Ms. Myrtle L. Hogg to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland (’38B) to the Annual Fund Dr. Norman Victor Hope to the Norman Victor Hope Memorial The Reverend Dr. Raymond I. Lindquist (’33B) to the Lawder Scholarship Endowment Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Dr. Merle S. Irwin (’43B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Kristin Saldine to the David A. Weadon Memorial The Reverend Richard Lee Jacobson (’57B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Endowment Fund The Reverend Maria Alene Stroup (’96B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Dr. Edward J. Jurji (’42B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Llewellyn Kemmerle (’43B) to the Annual Fund Mr. James A. Kerr to the Annual Fund In Appreciation of__ The Reverend Ronald K.T. Bulbs’ (’79B) Years in Seminary and Mrs. Bernice T. Kirkland to the Annual Fund many others to the Annual Fund Mr. John Knox to the Annual Fund The Ministry to the Annual Fund Mr. Richard H. Lackey, Jr. to the Richard H. Lackey, Jr. Memorial The Reverend Chips C. Paulson (’86B) to the Scholarship Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Amy Scott Vaughn (’93B) to the Annual Fund

inSpire • 31 fall 1996 CGnd things

As the year celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the ordination of women to the ministry of the Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) comes to an end, inSpire is pleased to reprint this essay by James E. Roghair (’69B). It first appeared in The Presbyterian Outlook in January 1995, and it is reprinted with their permission.

Tribute to a Torn Diploma In Memory of Willa Baechlin Roghair ('70B) June 4, 1943-May 12, 1994

In November 1994, six months after But Willa really wanted to serve a con¬ of Willa’s commitment, made in the her death, I carefully took down Willa’s gregation. Struggling very much alone in conclusion ol the Presbyterian Life article: Princeton Theological Seminary diploma one oi the bedrooms of the manse which “I continue to regret that women incur from the wall of Utqiagvik Presbyterian she used as an office, Willa ripped up her so much resistance in their desires to serve Church in Barrow, AK. Ripped into four finely worded Latin diploma Rom Scholae as pastors of congregations, and I consider large pieces, taped back together, it had Theologicae Princetoniensis, intending as part of my ministry making sure that hung prominently on Willa’s office wall to send it back to President McCord. other women do not have to go through for many years, a silent reminder of many I intervened, hiding the destroyed this same kind of experience. Part of my struggles. The unobservant never noticed. diploma from her for a time and encour¬ time will be spent in counseling, speaking, The prudent didn’t ask. But now and aging her instead to write up her experi¬ writing, and serving on committees. This, then Willa would tell the story. ences. She did. “My Search for a Pulpit” too, is a mission.” Recruited to Princeton by then-President appeared in Presbyterian Life (February 15, Willa’s mission is complete, but others James I. McCord while serving as a 1971). A response from McCord said, who have benefited from and who contin¬ Volunteer in Mission at Sheldon Jackson “...I appreciate the problem which you ue this mission should never forget the College, Willa entered seminary with high have illumined for the whole church, symbol of Willa’s torn and patched diplo¬ hopes. She worked hard and distinguished and I look forward to working with you ma. I herself as a scholar. After a year out when in producing a different climate, even we were married on the campus of Boggs though it will take some doing.” Academy in Georgia, Willa graduated in The article launched Willa into the the spring of 1970, one of the top gradu¬ public spotlight. With the help of Maggie ates in her class. Kuhn, veteran organizer, Willa called Willa and I boldly began looking for together the first meeting ol Presbyterian small churches near one another. It didn’t Clergywomen (which became Church work. Willa wasn’t interested in pouring Employed Women). They met during the tea for my congregation! We finally real¬ General Assembly meeting in Rochester, ized I had to find a place where I could NY, in the spring of 1971. During that work. We moved into the manse in Union Assembly Willa suffered a miscarriage, City, IN. I began to learn to be a pastor. which poignantly stood for many of the Willa’s energy raged. women as a sign of their dilemma. Church Through much negotiation—rejected Employed Women was launched. Willa by the presbytery in which we lived, was gently removed Rom the leadership. accepted by the presbytery two blocks And Willa went on to continue her leader¬ away in Ohio—Willa was ordained by ship in other settings. the Presbytery of Newark for a marginal The torn diploma hung for many years James Roghair |'69B) is stated supply pas¬ position as director of church relations as a sign of Willa’s struggles for fulfillment tor of the Second Presbyterian Church in for the Darke County (Ohio) Migrant of her call, both to pastoral service and Chicago, IL. He married Elizabeth Byers Ministry. to leadership on behalf of other women. Roghair in June 1995. The patched diploma hung as a reminder

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2-5 Off-Campus Event (San Diego, CA): Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry At-Risk Youth, At-Risk Church: What Jesus Christ and American Teenagers Are Saying to the Mainline Church

3 The Church as a Partner in Health Care Reform Abigail Rian Evans

3-6 Parenting Is for Everyone: Living Out Our Baptismal Covenant Janet Fishburn

3-6 Building Leadership Momentum John C. Talbot

10-11 Soul Stories: African American Christian Education Anne Streaty Wimberly

14 Spirituality and America's Crisis Today Mark McClain-Taylor

17-19 The "Historical Jesus" Controversy E. Elizabeth Johnson

17-20 Treasure in Earthen Vessels: A Theology of Dust Sasha Makovkin

24-26 Inheriting the Promise: And Then... Women in Church and Ministry Conference

28 The Dead Sea Scrolls and Spirituality James H. Charlesworth March

3 Off-Campus Event (Trenton, NJ): Cultural Interpretation and the New Testament Brian K. Blount

3-6 Not Just an Apprentice: Thriving as an Associate Pastor David R. Van Dyke, Frances Unsell

4-7 Parish Pastoral Counseling Brian H. Childs

10-12 Contemporary Issues in Bioethics Nancy J. Duff, J. Brandt McCabe

13-14 Worship Space: Redoing the Living Room James S. Lawton

14 Come Unto Me: Rethinking the Sacraments with Children in Households of Faith Elizabeth Francis Caldwell

17 Essentials of African American Preaching Cleophus J. LaRue Jr.

17-19 What the Sages Knew: Wisdom Literature and Pastoral Care Donald Capps, Choon-Leong Seow

21 Finding the Holy in Everyday Life Anne Bateman Noss

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InSpire is a magazine for alumni/ae and friends 12 • 50 Years of Courage of Princeton Theological The first class of women to Seminary. It is published receive the M.R.E. degree from four times a year by Princeton Seminary graduated the Princeton Theological Seminary Office in 1947—fifty years ago. Since of Communications/ then, many other women have Publications, P.O. Box 821, followed them. How do these Princeton, NJ 08542-0803. female graduates and faculty Telephone: 609-497-7760 members assess the progress Facsimile: 609-497-7870 women have made in the Internet: [email protected] church and at the Seminary? by Ingrid Meyer The magazine has a circulation and Barbara A. Chaapel of approximately 23,000 and is printed by George H. Buchanan Co. in Philadelphia, PA. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Non-profit postage paid at Philadelphia, PA.

On the Cover Departments Archival photographs of • • women graduates of Princeton 2 Letters 26 Outstanding in the Field Seminary are displayed 4 • On & Off Campus 28 • Obituaries against the background of a quilt made by Jane Ayres 8 • Student Life 30 • Investing in Ministry Barndt, a member of the First Presbyterian Church in 17 • Class Notes 32 • End Things Pottstown, PA. She displayed her quilt, called "The Rose 25 • On the Shelves 33 • Con Ed Calendar Window Quilt," at this year's Women in Ministry

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from the president's desk €A Letters Palestinians Neglected in Holy more truly a part of that land than Land Tour those who rule them now. D ear Friends and Colleagues: Having been disturbed by reading Thomas F Kepler (’58B) During this academic year the the “Living History” story [summer Arlington, Massachusetts Seminary is celebrating the fiftieth 1996 inSpire], I am glad to see the let¬ anniversary of the graduation of the ter from Paul Corcoran on the virtual Editor’s note: The Class of 1992 first class in the Master of Religious neglect of the Palestinians in that arti¬ recently returned from PTS’s second Education (MRE) degree program, the cle. However, the editorial note in alumni/ae trip to the Middle East. On fortieth anniver¬ reply—mentioning one night in East this trip, participants met with a pastor sary of the ordi¬ Jerusalem and one conversation with of a Palestinian Christian church in nation of one Palestinian Christian, and the Bethlehem, who spoke with the group women to the donors’ emphasis on the historical and about the situation of Palestianian ministry of the biblical over present-day issues— Christians both historically and in pre¬ Word and demands a response. sent-day Israel. They also visited a Sacrament in There is no “Holy Land.” That is, Scottish hospice crafi shop in Jerusalem, the Presbyterian the land is not holy, though it has been where they were able to buy crafis from Church (USA), the locus of holy people and events: Palestinian self-help groups located on and the twenty- the land is the land. Today it is a piece the West Bank and Gaza, areas which fifth anniversary of territory ruled by a modern political are still not accessible despite the peace of the Women’s state engaged for many years in the process. Center on the stark mistreatment and impoverish¬ campus. ment of a gigantic segment of the pop¬ This issue of inSpire highlights this In Memory of Willa Baechlin ulation. history of women in ministry. It is a Roghair Everything that takes place there remarkable tale, and its significance for I appreciate the reprint of the trib¬ has political ramifications, including the Seminary and the church is great. ute in memory of Willa Baechlin a decision not to consider present-day As one wag observed, “ The music in Roghair in the fall 1996 inSpire. The issues. Avoidance of current political Miller Chapel has definitely improved copy landed on my desk while I was matters is a decision in support of since we began singing in all four writing a paper to present at Columbia Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians, parts.” Even so has the church’s min¬ Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, during because it implies that all is well when istry been strengthened by including a consultation on Partnership of it most certainly is not. both genders. Women and Men in God’s Mission, The term “Holy Land” is pushed Over these years, the composition jointly sponsored by WARC [World very hard by the Israeli government of the Seminary has changed. Our fac¬ Alliance of Reformed Churches] and in inviting Christian clergy to visit ulty includes fourteen women, the stu¬ CANAAC [Caribbean and North and to lead tours. Every visitor who dent body fluctuates between 34 and 40 American Area Council]. shines up the museum image of a land percent female in the basic M.Div. pro¬ I joined WARC as the staff person of spiritual nostalgia helps to direct gram, and there are twenty women in on Women and Men in Partnership the administration. All of this is occa¬ the focus away from the responsibility (a new WARC program) after graduat¬ sion to celebrate. of that government to provide and pro¬ ing from PTS in 1992. Jane Dempsey tect human rights. With every good wish and warmest Douglass is the moderator of this com¬ regards, I remain I feel constrained to emphasize mittee. During the last four and a half what Mr. Corcoran mentioned: years I have been in this position, Faithfully yours, Christians are vanishing from the land I have encountered many women who where their faith—our faith—was have “torn their diplomas,” if I can born. Their numbers now constitute use these words metaphorically, myself a very small fraction of what they were included! I plan to use this article in Thomas W. Gillespie just a few years ago. Some of their fam¬ the consultation as an illustration. ilies may have embraced Christianity at In light of women’s experiences the very time that holy history was tak¬ of rejection and frustration in the min¬ ing place. They are not the strangers, istry, WARC’s Twenty-third General the outsiders; they are the natives, and Council theme, “Break the Chains of

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Injustice” (Isaiah 58:6), has given me in a small book written by a minister. many sleepless nights! The chains are In celebration of the fiftieth While serving in the Korean War, he’d just too many, especially in the South anniversary of the graduation ol the discovered an ancient and easy way (two thirds of WARC member church¬ first class of women to receive the to at least attempt to contact, and es are in the South, the region formerly Master of Religious Education degree ask feedback from, one’s spirit guides. referred to as the Third World), where from Princeton Seminary, the twenty- Sit alone in a darkened place; pray women do not have opportunities fifth anniversary ol the Seminary’s for God’s protection. Then with eyes for rigorous theological and biblical Women’s Center, and the fortieth open, request spirit-guide contact. reflections. I greatly appreciate that anniversary of the ordination of Be quietly expectant and patient. You Princeton gave me the opportunity women to the ministry of the Word may make contact that leads to any of to undertake my theological studies. and Sacrament in the Presbyterian a variety of manifestations: semblances Today I struggle day and night to Church (USA), this issue of inSpire of familiar objects, sounds, voices, a see that more women in the ministry features a cover story on the history flashing light (such as I experienced), in the South have similar opportuni¬ of women at PTS. In addition, many or even partial or full appearances by ties. It is my prayer and hope that suc¬ of the regular sections also highlight guides or others. “Answer” or no, give ceeding generations in the ordained women in ministry. thanks. ministry will carry on the pioneering That book was borrowed from me work of women so committed despite of serving at the Second English and lost. And I’ve forgotten both title the frustrations. Presbyterian Church as my field educa¬ and author’s name. I suppose it should Many thanks for your good work tion placement, where I learned from be in some library computer files. of keeping us updated on the life and Bob and Barbara a great deal about A woman of faith who, pondering mission of Princeton Seminary. faithfulness and ministry, not just to whether to abandon her problematical Nyambura J. Njoroge C92D) the church but to the entire communi¬ but terminally ill husband, slipped into World Alliance of Reformed Churches ty. They welcomed me into their home an asking mode and, having the pres¬ Geneva, Switzerland every Sunday as though I were part of ence of the Lord himself on her mind, the family, and I discovered during suddenly was visited by Jesus. He sim¬ On Science and Religion the course of the year that the warmth ply walked in (seemingly in the flesh) Reading the article on J. Wentzel of that welcome extended far beyond and sat down and asked her to stay van Huyssteen’s BBC interview on hungry seminary students! To my on. She did. We can’t all expect the religious belief and scientific thinking mind they model the faithful Christian Lord to visit personally, but God does called to mind an anecdote. life, for they are bearers of the light allow us spirit guides. Robert Oppenheimer (Albert of Christ to all whom they encounter. I have in mind the importance Einstein’s successor at the Institute Jacqueline Lapsley (’94B) of inSpire seeking and accepting mater¬ for Advanced Study in Princeton) gave Decatur, Georgia ial by “dropouts” of all sorts. Future a lecture. Following the lecture, he was plans are best laid when they are based asked a question to the effect of what Seeking Spiritual Guidance on all the wisdom of the past. George Rowland (’60b) the relation of science and Christianity The fall 1996 issue of inSpire Park Ridge, New Jersey is. He, being of the Jewish faith, features Ingrid Meyer’s fine “The answered to the effect that he could Life of the Mind, the Life of the Please write — we love to hear from you! not conceive of science without Heart,” under the categorical title We welcome correspondence from our Europe, and could not conceive of “Spirituality,” and states that “many readers, and enjoy getting feedback—both positive and negative!—on the content Europe without the influence of Jesus students report feeling unhappily and format of inSpire. Letters should be Christ. distant from God.” addressed to: Donald T. Jackson (’60B) It was very much that feeling Editors, inSpire Fairfax, Virginia which haunted me into leaving my Office of Communications/Publications Princeton Theological Seminary PTS studies during my middler year’s P.O. Box 821 Models of Faithfulness Yuletide exams (1958) and spending Princeton, NJ 08542-0803 Thank you for your story on the the next twenty-five years trying email: [email protected] Letters may be edited for length or clarity, life and work of the Reverend Robert to find out how to close the gap. Crawford and of his wife, Barbara. and should include the writer's name and I finally did that in 1983 by fol¬ telephone numbers, so that we may verify My last year at PTS I had the privilege lowing the simple instructions found authorship.

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Concert Honors David A. Weadon

On a spring evening in April, the Seminary community gathered in Miller Chapel for a memorial concert, "Out of the Depths: Songs of Grace, Songs of Woe," honoring David A. Weadon, the late C.F. Seabrook Director of Music and organist at PTS. More than 250 people heard the Seminary choirs, directed by Martin Tel, the current director of music and organist, sing John Rutter's Requiem and J.S. Bach's Cantata #38, Aus defer Not. Weadon, who died in December 1995, had conducted the Rutter Requiem at Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1989 for the benefit of the AIDS Child Center, a home for abandoned AIDS babies. "Knowing how important the work of the AIDS Child Center was to David," said Tel, "it seemed a very fitting tribute to feature this work in the first memorial concert." Angela Dienhart Hancock, a 1996 M.Div. graduate of PTS and the recipient of the first David A. Weadon Prize in Sacred Music, sang the soprano solos in the Requiem. Both she and her husband, Trent (with whom she is co-pastor of the McConnellsburg Presby¬ terian Church in central Pennsylvania), had been members of the Touring Choir while students. The concert was made possible by a fund established by Dr. David A. MacPeek in cooperation with Princeton Seminary to provide for an annual concert of sacred music in memory of David Weadon. Those interested in contributing to the fund should David M. Carlson, a PTS middler, designed the cover of the concert contact Vice President for Seminary Relations Fred W. Cassell. program for the Weadon Memorial Concert. He won a juried art exhibit of works created by members of the Seminary community to illustrate the concert's theme—"Out of the Depths."

Rare Book, Hodge Letters, and Eating Club Cup Are Archive Gifts

Princeton Seminary's archives were enriched recently by gifts from PTS alumna Jean MacDonald Rea ('79B) and Mrs. Wistar MacLaren, a descendent of Hugh Lenox Hodge, Charles Hodge's brother. Rea gave the Seminary a 1910 Friar's Club drinking mug and a copy of The Missionary Labors of William and Mary Ann Alexander in Hawaii, 1831, both of which belonged to her grandfa¬ ther, Raymond Chester Walker ('10B). The gifts were made on behalf of Tillie Walker MacDonald of Brewster, MA, who was Rea's mother (and Walker's daughter). MacLaren gave the Seminary a shoebox full of letters written to Charles Hodge between 1830 and 1877, the year of his death. Hodge was the Seminary's third professor and an important nine¬ teenth-century Reformed theologian in America. The mug bears the Princeton Seminary shield, and is the first item of its kind to be owned by the Seminary archives, Director of Archives and Special Collections William O. Harris said. "I have never even seen anything like this before," he added. Walker was a member of the Friar Club, one of several eating clubs for Princeton students, during his seminary years. The book about the Alexanders was given to Walker at its 1934 publishing because he was the pastor of Market Square Presbyter¬ ian Church in Harrisburg, PA. That church supported the Alexanders through their missionary service. "That book is a very valuable record of early Presbyterian mis¬ sionaries to Hawaii. It is quite rare, because the family's descen- dents only printed one hundred copies of this diary, for the use of the family," Harris said. "Because of Mrs. MacDonald's gift of her father's copy, the Seminary library is one of the few libraries anywhere which now has a copy." Among the Hodge letters donated by Mrs. MacLaren is one from his son Alexander written from India where he was a mission¬ photo: Carolyn Herring ary. Another came from his brother in Philadelphia, a physician Jean MacDonald Rea ('79B) holds the book and mug she recently who was one of the first gynecologists in the United States. gave the Seminary archives.

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Visitors from the West

PTS welcomed two alumni-in-residence from the western half of the country this '‘POOj spring. In March, Gary F. Skinner, Class of 1962 (M.Div.), returned to campus to talk with students about his work in church administration. He serves as synod execu¬ tive in the Synod of Alaska-Northwest, and was previously an executive in Chicago Presbytery and in the Synod of the Southwest. Floyd Thompkins, Class of 1987 (M.Div.), spent a week in April with Princeton semi¬ narians, sharing his work as a campus The Alumni/ae-in-Residence Program chaplain, first at Princeton University and brings alums to campus every year under then at Stanford. Thompkins has recently the auspices of the Alumni/ae Association left Stanford to become pastor of Antioch Executive Council to talk with students Baptist Church in San Jose, CA. about various ministries in the church.

Faculty Accolades

David Willis ('57B), the Charles Hodge Professor of System¬ for a moratorium on human cloning research, warning that "society atic Theology, received an honorary doctorate from Karoli has yet to come to a consensus on how to deal with the moral Gaspar Reformed University of Budapest, Hungary, last and ethical issues of adoption, let alone something as complicated November. Willis has been a member of the "College of as cloning." Duff also wrote an editorial on cloning titled "We Theologians" of the Debregen (Hungary) Theological Faculty Should Guard against Playing God" for The Washington Post. since 1978, and is, he says, "happy to be honored as a further PTS Associate Professor of Homiletics and Liturgies James F. recognition of the special ties between Princeton and Reformed Kay is just back from Scotland, where he delivered the Forrester- Hungarian theological education." Warrack Lecture on Preaching at St. Andrews University and Associate Professor of Medieval Church History Paul Rorem preached from John Knox's pulpit in St. Salvator's Chapel. ('73b, 80D) has been named editor of Lutheran Quarterly, James H. Moorhead ('71B), Princeton's Mary McIntosh Bridge a research journal of Lutheran history and theology with one Professor of American Church History, has been named editor thousand subscribers. The journal's goal, according to Rorem, of the Journal of American History, the journal of the Department is "to provide a forum for the discussion of Christian faith of History of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The periodical, which and life on the basis of the Lutheran confession." As the new began publication in 1901, is the oldest denominational historical editor, Rorem plans an upcoming series of brief articles on journal in the country. It has a circulation of 2,500. hymns by Martin Luther. Alumni/ae and others may subscribe Charles A. Ryerson spent the summer of 1996 in India, where to the journal by calling 1-800-555-3813. he supervised two PTS students in their field work and gave the The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), an organization of keynote address at a conference on the influence of theological approximately 6500 scholars committed to the academic study education on new patterns of mission and evangelism in India. of the Bible, named Princeton's Pat Miller as president-elect He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the Academy at its fall meeting in New Orleans, LA. Miller, the Charles of Ecumenical Christian Theology centered in Madras, India, and T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at PTS, will traveled to Thailand, where he visited a Buddhist/Christian joint become president of SBL in 1998. While he affirms SBL's con¬ program in AIDS counseling. tinuing commitment to broad scholarship and the development Sang Hyun Lee, Princeton's Kyung-Chik Han Professor of interest groups on many topics, Miller considers especially of Systematic Theology, has been invited to be a member of the significant "the movement of Hispanic, Asian American, and editorial board of the Yale edition of the works of Jonathan African American scholars to the front ranks of the society, Edwards. The board is a group of fifteen scholars from around and their creation of groups that will focus on the relation of the country that oversees the publication of Yale University Press's the study of Scripture to their experience." He also hopes the critical edition of the entire works of Edwards. Thirteen volumes SBL will be increasingly attentive to the ways biblical scholar¬ are already in print. Lee was also recently commissioned by the ship contributes to the life of the church and the larger society. board to edit the volume of Edwards's shorter theological writings, At last fall's meeting of the American Academy of Religion including essays on the Trinity, grace, and faith. (AAR), which meets in conjunction with the SBL, another And finally, Choon-Leong Seow ('80B), Princeton's Henry Princeton professor was honored. Peter Paris, the Seminary's Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Literature, has received two coveted awards that will support who was unable to give his presidential address in 1995 his work on two books during a 1997-1998 sabbatical year. He was (when he was AAR's president) because of the death of his selected as one of eight national Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology wife, gave a special plenary lecture on "The Soul of Black by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States Religion: A Lesson for the Academy." His words were received and Canada, and he was named a member of the Institute for with a standing ovation from his colleagues. Advanced Study, the School of Social Sciences, in Princeton. Nancy J. Duff, associate professor of theological ethics, These grants will allow Seow to devote an entire year to research testified in Washington, D.C., in March on the subject of human and study on the Book of Ecclesiastes, looking at both its social cloning before President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory and its historical contexts. He says he hopes to "rehabilitate Commission. Clinton created the commission, chaired by 'the Preacher' in Ecclesiastes, offering a fresh look at one of the Princeton University president Harold Shapiro, after a Scottish most marginalized books in the Bible, placing it in the mainstream researcher successfully cloned an adult sheep. Duff called of biblical theology, and making it a resource for the church."

inSpire • 5 photo: The Leigh Photographic Group on&off Campus spring 1997 this newtechnology toservethecentral missionoftheseminary— cal education.CraigDykstra, Lilly'svicepresidentforreligion PTS ReceivesLillyGrantToExploreUse ofTechnology 6 * inSpire and 1973PTSM.Div.graduate, acknowledgedthatmanyschools have thetechnologyin place, butmustlearn"howtointegrate ists, andadministrators todevelopnewwaysenhancetheologi¬ librarians, facultymembers, computertechnicians,mediaspecial¬ implementation grantlaterthisyear. ning granttoprepareaproposalforconsideration fora$200,000 bilities forteachingandlearning.Princetonreceived a$10,000plan¬ million programtoincreaseandmaximizetheir technologicalcapa¬ nary asoneofthirtytheologicalschoolstoparticipate ina$6.8 namely, teaching andlearning." The Lilly-fundedprogramaimstoencouragecooperation among The LillyEndowmenthasselectedPrincetonTheological Semi¬ in TeachingandLearning whole lifeoftheSeminary,aninfluencethatguides thirty-nine yearsthereand,Forrestalnoted,"putthestamp to honorhistoricPrincetonresidents, Local HotelNamesBallroomforPTSFounder Arts andCrafts.Theballroomisoneofseveralroomsnamed Forrestal atPrincetonwillbedancingthenightsawayinaball¬ known fortheirfunlovingnatures.Buthotelguestsatthe Seminary tothisday." of hisscholarlyattainmentsandferventpietyuponthe decoration stylefromspareScandinaviantothemorecozy room namedforArchibaldAlexander,whofoundedandwas Princeton TheologicalSeminary'sfirstprofessor. Seminary andtaughtitsfullcourseofinstruction.Hespent hotel hasjustfinishedamajorrenovation,changingtheir Alexander, wholivedfrom1772to1851,organizedthe The newlyrenovatedballroomcomesatatimewhenthe Nineteenth-century ScottishPresbyteriansweren'texactly to thecampusforthreemajorsymposiums. The 1997-1998academicyearwillbringtheologians, biblical scholars,andhistoriansfromaroundtheworld PTS ToHostMajorSymposiumsin1997-1998 tion, malestudents,including CharlesFranklinTate,shown the Women'sCenter.This year, continuinginthatfinetradi¬ Center Men'sAuxiliaryAnnualBakeSaletohelpsupport professor PaulRorem)beganwhattheycalledtheWomen's In 1970,severalmalestudentsatPTS(includingnow-PTS- A SweetRoleReversal! gender! Day toraisemoneyforthe no-longer-silent-in-the-churches here withhishomemadepie, soldbakedgoodsonValentine's • CharlesHodgeRevisited:ACriticalAppraisal—asym¬ • DeadSeaScrollsJubileeSymposium—asymposium • AConsultationonAbrahamKuyper—aconsultation for theStudyofAmericanReligionsatPrinceton the Seminary,FreeUniversityofAmsterdam, to evaluatethelifeandthoughtofDutchtheologian and theCenterforPublicJusticeinWashington,D.C. and statesmanAbrahamKuyper,co-sponsoredby of QumranCaveI,sponsoredbytheSeminary's celebrating thefiftiethanniversaryofdiscovery October 22-24,1997 birth, co-sponsoredbytheSeminaryandCenter posium onthetwo-hundredthanniversaryofHodge's November 9-12.1997 Department ofBiblicalStudies University February 25-28,1998 photo: Chris Floor on&off Campus sor ofpreachingandworship.Augsburg Christian Ethics.Westminster/JohnKnoxPress. Snyder GehmanProfessorOldTestamentLanguage andLiterature. are atyourlocalbookstore.Theyinclude: Fortress Press. by MaxStackhouse,theStephenColwellProfessor of Doubleday. Princeton Theological Seminary'sTheological liturgies. Westminster/John KnoxPress. F. Kay,associateprofessor ofhomileticsand Professor ofHistoricalTheology, andJames Douglass, theHazelThompson McCord Leonora TubbsTisdale,associateprofes¬ Book Agency (TBA). Community, editedbyJane Dempsey The programwillairinMayorJune. The pressesarerolling,andbooksbyPrincetonSeminaryfaculty about hisworkfreeinginnocentprisonersthroughCenturionMinistries. spondent LenCannon(left)interviewsPTSalumnusJimMcCloskey on thePrincetonSeminarycampusthisspring.Above,Datelinecorre¬ NBC Dateline,aprimetimetvnewsjournalprogram,filmedsegment These books arealsoavailablefrom Princeton AlumInterviewedonNBCDateline Ecclesiastes: ACommentary,byChoon-LeongSeow,theHenry Preaching AsLocalTheology,by Covenant andCommitments:Faith,Family, EconomicLife, Women, Gender,andChristian staff, andteachclassesinadulteducation." ed thatlocalchurchesmightinviteseminaryprofessorstobeschol- a churchcommunity,"heexplained,"beauxiliarymembersofthe ars-in-residence. "Professorsonsabbaticalcouldactuallylivein od oftheologicalreflectionontheAssemblyitself.Healsosuggest¬ one anotherandstaytogetherwhiledisagreeingholdingstren¬ PCUSA ModeratorVisitsCampus in conjunctionwiththemeetingofGeneralAssemblyforaperi¬ uous theologicaldebate,"hesaid. in theseminaries'abilitytohelppeoplechurchlearnlove Along thisline,Buchananproposedthatapanelofscholarsmeet female, whyhasthechurchinsistedonreferringtoGodwith women andmenaboutkeygenderissuesinthechurch. good newstowomen?IfGodisspirit,andneithermalenor community. Women,Gender,andChristianCommunity,edited essays inasmanyyearstoaddressissuesthewiderchurch Princeton FacultyJoininSecondBookonIssues male pronounsandimages?DoestheBible usefemale by thirteenPrincetonscholarsaboutgenderissuesasthey It addressesquestionslikethese:DoestheBibletrulyspeak relate tofaith.It'sformatissimilarChoon-LeongSeow's in MarchbyWestminster/JohnKnoxPress,includesessays by JaneDempseyDouglassandJamesF.Kaypublished Homosexuality andChristianCommunity,publishedlastyear. The bookintendstoencourageconversationbetween Facing theChurch PTS facultymembershavejoinedinthesecondvolumeof images forGod?Canaspiritualitydeveloped by menoutoftheirexperiencenourishthelives of women? for thebookarePatrickMiller,KatharineDoob Sakenfeld, KathleenMcVey,PaulRorem,Choon- Leong Seow,NancyDuff,DavidWillis,Leonora Tubbs Tisdale,JanetWeathers,CarolLakey Seminary facultywhohavewrittenessays Hess, DonaldCapps,Douglass,andKay. to theologyandgender questions,"says Kay. "Butweallsharea commitmentto a visionofthechurchwhere womenaswell as mencanbefullparticipants. Wealsooffer "The authorsreflectdiffering approaches these essays asanexpressionofsolidarity with women aroundtheglobe." the waytheymodeldiscourse tant theologicalresourcein faculty andadministrativestaff. the PresbyterianChurch(USA), colleagues whoteachatthe visited theSeminarycampus and addresscontroversy. Church" whoprovideanimpor¬ other Presbyterianseminaries, students andmembersofthe and speakwithPresbyterian on March25topreachinchapel 208th GeneralAssemblyof Buchanan, moderatorofthe "treasures ofthePresbyterian The Rev.Dr.JohnM. He calledthefaculty,andtheir "I haveenormousconfidence spring 1997 inSpire • 7 photo: Elizabeth Clark Student Life spring 1997 American womenoftheU.S.Congress. work, twomonthsafterLaVerneGill began thePTSM.Div.programin1994, years old,andtheywantedmetowrite low mycalltoministrybackintoschool, her towriteabookontheAfrican Rutgers UniversityPresscontractedwith a book!” papers aweekandIfeltaboutmillion M. Div.junioratPrincetonwritingfive twenty-five yearsafterIgraduatedfrom Howard University,”shelaughs.“Iwasan so 1startedwritingduring mysecond as aSenatestaffpersononCapitolHill semester atPTS,”shesays. a naturalchoicetochronicle theircareers. black congresswomen,Gillseemedtobe had introducedhertomostofthefifteen radio journalistinWashington,D.C.,and While inWashington, shehadproduced “I decidedthebookwas acalling,too, 8 • inSpire As ifstartingseminaryweren’tenough “I hadfinallyfoundthecouragetofol¬ But becausehercareerasaprintand She didn’thave tostartfromscratch. Ten: AfricanAmericanWomeninthe a publicradiospecialtitled“TheTalented and wroteaproposaltodothepublic attention paidtothem.SoIwenthome coming intothechamber,”sherecalls. day andIsawalloftheseblackwomen and airedonmorethan120stations “There wasnoplayinthemedia, again, andinterviewedSheilaJackson- the book.Duringspringof1994and nationwide.” radio piece.In1994itwaspickedup a physicist, to KievintheUkraine, and began writinginthesummer of1995. Lee, whohadbeenelectedin1995to interviews, visitedsomeofthewomen through 1993,Gilllistenedtohertaped to befeaturedontheradio program.She the 104thCongressfromTexas,toolate to southern Italythatsummer,”she says. my husband,whoisa mathematician and 103rd Congress.” That programprovidedtheseedsfor “I rememberbeingupontheHillone “1 wasfortunatetobe able toaccompany American historyandtothepoliticalhis¬ speaking engagements,sheholedupin While hedidresearchandfulfilled author’s copyofAfricanAmericanWomen castle roomwithaviewnearNaples. a several-weekwritinginterludein hotel roomswithhercomputer,including American progressasmaleandfeminist with Jackson-Lee,representforGillthe and makingacontributiontoAfrican History inJanuary1997. back inPrinceton,Gillreceivedthe years.” AfricanAmericanwomenplayed tory ofthiscountry.” to enjoythefeelingofbeinganauthor feeling wasrelief,”shesays.“ThenIbegan in Congress:FormingandTransforming assumption thatunderstoodAfrican an integralpartintheabolitionist,suf¬ by blackwomenforalmostfourhundred black congresswomanin1969)andending ning withShirleyChisholmofNewYork All wereDemocratswhomGilldescribes progress aswhite.Upuntil1996(the Gill believes,resultedfromanAmerican remained largelyinvisible.Thatinvisibility, frage, andcivilrightsmovements,yet “heirs apparenttothestrugglewaged (who wassworninasthenation’sfirst grounding of theseleadersthatinterested classism.” as “womanistpoliticianswithinterests Their ageswhentheybegantheirfirst of themarelawyers;onehadbeenanurse, of diversetalentsandbackgrounds.Athird Congress. black womenwereelectedtothe105th been AfricanAmerican.Threeadditional have servedinCongress,onlyfifteen Gill most. terms rangedfromthirty-sixtosixty-six. rest wereschoolteachersorsocialworkers. two werecollegeadministrators,andthe in theeradicationofsexism, racism,and in Gill’sbookrepresentarichpalette 104th Congress),ofthe172womenwho After monthsofeditingandrevising “When Igotthefirstcopy,mymain The fifteenwomenGillprofiled,begin¬ Though fewinnumber,thewomen But itwasthereligious andspiritual spring 1997 Student Life

“Many of the women acknowledged their spiritual grounding when I inter¬ viewed them,” she says. “Shirley Chisholm, raised witih a strict religious background, described her religious background as part of her decision to enter politics. Eva McPherson Clayton [elected to the House in 1993 from North Carolina] started out wanting to be a mis¬ sionary doctor for the Methodist Church; she later became a Presbyterian. Barbara Jordan of Texas [elected to House in 1973] was brought up in a strict Baptist home. But she acknowledged in her autobiogra¬ phy that the first time she actually felt that Scripture could be liberating was when she heard Howard Thurman speak while she was in law school at Boston University.” This strand of spirituality within social and political ethics is easy for Gill to relate Not every student is recognized by forth the idea of a thing, versus the thing to. “Social justice is part of my call to a queen—but that’s exactly what happened itself, which led to the idea of relativism,” ministry,” she says, “as faith was part of to Princeton Theological Seminary student Slok said. “Luhmann said that maybe rela¬ theirs to politics. I want to help change Camilla Slok last year when she entered tivism shouldn’t be seen as a problem, that the way people see the church, as they a contest sponsored by the University we can accept that there are many ways changed the way people saw political dia¬ of Copenhagen in her native Denmark. to look at things. He sees the concept of logue. Maybe a good way to describe it In the annual contest, each university the Trinity as a way of seeing the world.” is that we want to pull people out of the department assigns a topic on which its After a year of writing, Slok received comfort zone.” students may write, with each essay taking word that her essay had won first prize. African American Women in Congress approximately a year to research and write. In a ceremony at the University of will not be Gill’s last book. She is already All of the entrants, or none, may win Copenhagen’s main convocation, Queen researching a second one, on images medals, depending on the quality of their Margarethe II awarded her a solid gold of African women in the Bible, theology, work. Those who choose to participate get medal. The medal is embossed with an and the pulpit. thesis credit if their work wins a medal, image of the Greek goddess of wisdom, But writing, while satisfying, is not but if their work is not recognized they Athena, pouring water into a fountain her primary calling. She wants to take must spend another year writing a new while accompanied by her favorite bird, up a ministry of helping people who have thesis to satisfy their departments’ require¬ the owl. left the church find their way back. ments. A Th.M. student at PTS, Slok is study¬ “I’ve thought of starting a ‘Gospel cafe,”’ “That makes it a big risk,” Slok noted. ing pastoral couseling. She plans to go she says, “a place where people can meet, She chose to write an essay of one back to Denmark this coming August, have a cup of coffee, ask questions, and hundred and fifty pages on the religious to begin earning a Ph.D. in the Lutheran talk about issues of faith. It would be sort philosophical perspectives and conse¬ theology of counseling at the University of a way station for spiritual travelers.” quences of German philosopher Niklaus of Copenhagen. She ultimately plans Although her own spiritual travels Luhmann’s system theory. With the title to become a pastor in the Danish National have taken her from the halls of Congress “Cascades of Difference,” her paper Lutheran Church. to the set of a radio talk show, Gill is sure explored the meaning of the doctrines “The Danish church has an interest that God has always wanted her to end of postmodernism, among them how the in counseling, and many people are inter¬ up in ministry. Now a candidate for ordi¬ concept of the Trinity gives the possibility ested in being counseled by the church, nation in the United Church of Christ for many points of view, instead of seeing but counseling is not part of clergy’s edu¬ and a brand-new Princeton graduate, she the world through a lens of dualism. cation. I want to see how theology can is poised for the next turn in the road. I “Kant criticized the idea that a certain be used to help people,” Slok said. I knowledge of God is possible, and put

inSpire • 9 spring 1997

Telling the Nations

A PTS Professor's Thoughts on Evangelism for a New Century

by John W. Stewart Salvador, a seacoast town in northeast the philosophy of postmodernism enforces church is in the bishop” still reigns. A culture Brazil, shimmers with voices and colors and a virulent relativism, where nothing is of professionalism reinforces this ancient smells. A scene of almost infinite variety, absolutely true. This means that there are heresy. When professional clergy and special¬ it was the ideal setting for last November’s no neutral vantage points from which people ized theologians are designated as the sole Conference on World Mission and can decide ultimate questions about life’s interpreters and arbitrators in matters of Evangelism, sponsored by the World Council meaning. As musician Leonard Cohen sings, faith, evangelism often becomes the job of Churches (WCC) and titled “Called “Things are going to slide in all direc¬ of priests and presbyters. (The Presbyterian to One Hope: The Gospel in Diverse tions/Wo n’t be nothing you can measure Church (USA) was surprised to learn Cultures.” anymore.” The phrase “different strokes through a survey that nearly two-thirds As a PTS professor concerned with con¬ for different folks” captures this ethos, as of its members encountered their “faith¬ gregational life and witness, I left the confer¬ does storyteller Garrison Keillor’s remark forming” experiences outside the church.) ence wondering how mainstream American that “for liberals there are no right answers, Mainline congregations must confront congregations can become wiser and more just points for sensitivity.” these three challenges if the church is to effective in their witness to the Gospel. What In such a secularized and suspicious respond faithfully to its divine mandate should be the meaning, intent, and style of milieu, evangelism is more than just intru¬ to “go into all the world and make disciples.” evangelism as the century winds down? sive or arrogant—many consider it danger¬ How best can the church confront these The word “evangelism” carries enough ous. Many marginalized people, with long, challenges? baggage to intimidate many contemporary historically inclined memories, fear linking First, mainline Protestant denominations Christians, with memories and myths of God with political and social agendas, and must clarify their own basic, indispensible aggressive, “in your face” confrontations, contend that evangelization is little more convictions. Study after study points to an rote recitations, and whining and perspiring than a ploy to justify racial, gender-based, erosion of confidence in Protestant churches. characters on television. There are many political, and economic privilege. In the light At the WCC conference in Brazil, the distin¬ terms in the Christian tradition that don’t of postmodern assumptions and political guished missionary Lesslie Newbigin chal- fit in contemporary society—try “sin,” or concerns, many relegate religion to the “repentance,” or “second coming.” Beyond private sector of human experience. troublesome terms, however, what are A third reason for the dis-ease asso¬ responsible expressions and programs of ciated with evangelism is rooted in evangelism in a pluralistic world? The America’s culture of professionalization. question poses deep dilemmas within North In Western society, many complex American Protestantism. I suggest three chal¬ questions are referred to professionals lenges for today’s church. lor answers. Legal questions require The first challenge addresses the experi¬ lawyers, medical problems require doc¬ ence of religion in contemporary American tors, and computer glitches require culture. Religions are sometimes said to technicians. Similarly, questions about divide more than unify a multicultural soci¬ religious faith are best referred to pro¬ ety like America. The politically correct and fessionals: the clergy. The great Roman pragmatic resolution to this civil threat is Catholic scholar Yves Congar remarked to isolate all religious experiences. For many, that, by the late seventeenth century, this “privatization” of religion is now the the word “laity” had become equivalent American norm. Just as the “privatization” to the word “ignorant.” of personal income is now the social norm, Lurking beneath this professional¬ the American religious experience might ism is the idea that the church and its best be summarized as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” clergy are one and the same. Despite a A second and perhaps even deeper cul¬ theological heritage that values the tural convention is that of postmodernism, priesthood of all believers in Protestant and it poses a hindrance to the best anci circles, and despite the emphasis on most sensitive of the church’s evangelistic the church as the people of God in the efforts. A darling of academic thought, decrees of Vatican II, the dictim of “the

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pose for them, we must speak a fair-housing lobby, and tough-minded not as their opponents, but as parental scrutiny of the local elementary their advocates.” At its 1975 school began to emerge. This was a sterling meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, example of linking Christian witness and the WCC declared that “the advocacy. Gospel always includes the Finally, in light of our culture’s drive Go therefore announcement of God’s king¬ toward professionalism, we need an evange¬ dom and love through Jesus lism strategy with a workable plan to equip Christ, the offer of grace and the laity. We must find ways to cut through and make forgiveness of sins, the invita¬ the very deep, culture-based, ecclesiastically tion to repentance and faith blessed delineation between clergy and laity. in him, the summons to fel¬ As Newbigen noted at this conference, disciples of lowship in God’s church, the “the missionary encounter with our culture command to witness to God's requires the energetic fostering of a decleri- saving words and deeds, the calized, lay theology. It is much more impor¬ all nations....” responsibility to participate tant that lay members be prepared and in the struggle for justice and equipped to think out the relationship of human dignity, the obligation their faith to their secular work. Only thus —Matthew 28:19 to denounce all that hinders shall we bring together what the culture has divided—the public and

lenged delegates to declare openly the private.” that “the Gospel is certainly the An evangelism strate¬ most important fact in the world, gy that reserves the articu¬ and one which we cannot keep lation of the Gospel for to ourselves.” He noted that, professional clergy is both while the Gospel is never culture- irresponsible and doomed Iree in its expression, ir will always from the start. Clergy are first appear to be “foolishness” not shamans, oracles, nor to any culture, including our own. experts about Christian My own travels around mainline witness in the market¬ American congregations suggest place. Lay ministry is that the Gospel is one of our best- vital, as shown by a group kepr secrets. A congregation’s con¬ of lay women and men in victions must come before any a Presbyterian congrega¬ of its ideas about mission. tion in Pittsburgh, PA, And mission can best be who began a ministry carried out by Christians who of support and witness are confident in their own beliefs. for people who had lost The Gospel requires a radical their jobs through local incarnation. God, in unpre¬ corporate downsizing. dictable mystery, usually comes c Over the last decade, to people through other people. J this lay-led ministry has Most of us came into the o helped more than three O Christian faith when some other ■§. thousand people. It is person demonstrated the trans¬ no accident that the con¬ forming reality ol Jesus Christ. Even that old human wholeness, and a commitment to risk gregation has seen a steady growth in mem¬ stalwart Princetonian Charles Hodge con¬ life itself.” They deemed this “the whole bership. cluded that “the exhibition of genuine Gospel,” and I agree. The famed Oxford historian T R. Glover Christian experience carries with it a convict¬ Who benefits from a congregation’s min¬ concluded that the early Christian church ing power so much higher than that which istries? Ministries that are “in house” and succeeded because it “out-thought, out-lived, belongs to external testimony or logical argu¬ self-preserving rarely have evangelism and and out-loved" its adversaries in the pluralis¬ ment.” mission high on their agendas. By contrast, tic Roman empire. That trinity remains The only serious counterpoint to a con¬ one of the most evangelical Presbyterian con¬ a worthy vision for mainline Protestants temporary culture of privatization, I believe, gregations I know sends small cadres of its in our own day. I is to link conviction with advocacy. As James members ro live and witness in the same Ayers, an evangelism consultant for the inner-city housing units that the congrega¬ John W. Stewart is Princeton’s Ralph B. Presbyterian Church (USA), once wrote, tion purchased and rehabilitated. Not sur¬ and Helen S. Ashenfelter Associate Professor “When we talk with people about God’s pur- prisingly, a satellite, fledgling congregation, of Ministry and Evangelism.

inSpire • 11 spring 1997

1798

1798— Betsey Stockton, a slave, is born in Princeton, New Jersey. Stockton was later owned in the household of Ashbel Green, president of the board olA-jOorage of directors that started Princeton Theological Seminary. She was educat¬ Looking Back—and Forward— ed by Green's sons and other Seminary to Women at Princeton students, and after gaining her freedom, became the first never-married woman by Ingrid Meyer and to work as a Presbyterian missionary. Barbara A. Chaapel She was a nurse and teacher on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

Dime was, a woman’s place was in the Princeton citizen. He gave Betsey to without the unanimous agreement of the home. While she was welcome—and his daughter Elizabeth, first wife of Ashbel faculty and board of trustees. This did not expected—to attend church, she was certain¬ Green, who was president of the board of seem likely, as one member of the faculty ly not considered a candidate for leading trustees that founded Princeton Seminary. consistently opposed her graduation. a congregation. Though Betsey served as a nurse, cook, Jennings was undeterred. She finished Times have changed. Today, thousands and seamstress in the Green household, third in her class, with an average in the high of women are religious leaders, either as Green’s son James and PTS students nineties. Her academic work surprised some pastors or as educators. Women teach in the Eliphalet Gilbert (1816b), Charles Stewart of the Seminary’s faculty. nation’s seminaries. They are church deacons, (1821b), and Michael Osborn (1822b) “They didn’t think it was humanly elders, and executives. tutored her and taught her to read. possible for a woman to match the grades The road from congregant to leader has After the Green family freed Betsey of men,” she said. “But I said to myself, been filled with hard work, good times, sup¬ at the age of twenty, she joined Stewart and ‘I will match the young gentlemen’s grades port from the faith community, and times his wife, Harriet, in 1822 as a missionary or die in the attempt. ” of outright prejudice and doubt. The to the Hawaiian Islands. Stockton was During her time at Princeton, Jennings path has also included times of celebration, the first never-married woman to serve as felt little prejudice from professors or other as with this year’s multiple anniversaries a Presbyterian missionary. On the island of students. She did, however, have to work celebrating the important role Princeton Maui, she established schools for both chil¬ with the social conventions of the day. Theological Seminary has played in the edu¬ dren and adults, and was a nurse, credited Campus housing was not an option, so she cation of many female religious leaders. This with saving the lives of at least two children. lived across the street from Brown Hall dur¬ academic year sees the fiftieth anniversary of More than one hundred years elapsed ing her first year, in a house where rooms the graduation of the first group of women between Betsey Stockton’s education and were rented to “young ladies of unquestion¬ who received degrees from Princeton. It is the arrival of Muriel Van Orden Jennings, able character.” While she was invited also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the the first woman to earn an M.Div. from to dinner at one of the eating clubs every founding of the Seminary’s Women’s Center, Princeton Theological Seminary. She arrived Thursday night, she normally ate dinner and the fortieth anniversary of the ordina¬ at Princeton in 1928, planning to take at the Peacock Inn, which is now Princeton’s tion of the first Presbyterian women to the Greek and Hebrew courses necessary only five-star restaurant. The weekly five-dol- the ministry of the Word and Sacrament. to teach college-level biblical studies. T he lar meal ticket was a considerable expense. The stories of the women who have only other women studying at the Seminary Jennings decided to pursue Th.M. work passed through these doors, to a large extent, were students’ wives who audited classes, after finishing three years ol M.Div. study. mirror the experiences of women in the since the Seminary’s charter stated that At the beginning of the 1931-1932 school church as a whole, both bitter and sweet. no degree could be given to a woman. year, she discovered that the professor Through the years, both their legacies and Jennings, however, wanted to take exams. who had opposed her graduation had left their living contributions enrich Princeton, The board of trustees approved her request the school for medical reasons, and that as they enrich the church as a whole. on the conditions that she did not disturb she would thus receive credit for her work. The first woman educated at Princeton, the men, that she carried a full schedule Jennings graduated in 1932 with both a though she did not graduate, was a slave. of courses, and that her grades matched bachelor’s and a master’s degree in theology, Betsey Stockton was born in 1798 into the those of the men. She could also not expect and went on to teach for nearly sixty years. household of Robert Stockton, a prominent to receive credit lor her courses and graduate Jennings’s experience was that of a lone

12 • inSpire 1 820 — Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony are born and later become 1930 — Women are first ordained as leaders in the women's suffrage move¬ elders in the United Presbyterian Church ment in America. (USA).

1932— Muriel Van Orden Jennings, 1895— The Women's Bible, a feminist the first woman to graduate from PTS, reevaluation of the Old and New receives her degree. Jennings is award¬ Testaments, is published by Elizabeth ed the Th.B., which would become the Cady Stanton. M.Div. degree, as well as the Th.M.

1920 — The Nineteenth Amendment to 1932 the U.S. Constitution is passed, guaran¬ teeing the right of women's suffrage.

1945— Eileen Bergsten Remington receives the Th.B. degree.

Photos in the timeline are from the Princeton Seminary Archives.

woman on campus, as was that of Eileen “The academic level went up, though women’s lives easier. But they also recognized Bergsten Remington, who received a Th.B. many of the fellows wouldn’t admit that,” that the huge number of choices available in 1945. The first group of between thirty remembered 1950 M.R.E. graduate Virginia to women, and the increased complexity and forty women arrived on the Princeton Carle Haaland. “I think the education of women’s lives as they attempt to balance campus in 1944, when the Seminary merged was excellent. It certainly stood up against work and family, contribute to making semi¬ with the Tennent School of Christian Edu¬ my undergraduate work." nary harder today than it was forty years ago. cation, which had previously been located That education, however, came with “I think it’s easier now that you have the in Philadelphia, PA. Women moved with the a price tag. feminist movement behind you,” Haaland school, and lived in Tennent Hall, for many “The girls here were treated sometimes said. “You don’t have to plow your way years the only place on campus that women poorly,” Christman noted. “This was a male through. You already have an identity, clout, were housed. institution, let me tell you. Women made power, and recognition. The era is different, Almost without exception, the women their way very well in terms of becoming and the scales are equalized between men who lived and studied at Princeton in the part of the community, but we were second- and women.” On the other hand, she noted, 1940s and 1950s were working toward class citizens in the eyes of some of the male few women in the 1940s and 1950s balanced Master of Religious Education degrees. They students and some of the faculty members.” seminary work with family and children. planned to work in the teaching ministry of Living all in a group in Tennent Hall, Molden said that today’s women, in her the church. In 1947, the first class of M.R.E. women formed close friendships with one view, find it easier to receive equal pay for students graduated. That first class included another, but often felt socially isolated from equal work than did women of her genera¬ Ethel Cassel Driskill, Ruth Gittel Gard, the rest of the campus, particularly since tion. Evelyn Lytle, Anne Marie Melrose, Marion they could not join the eating clubs as full “There were some things we had to work Stout Wilson, and Mary Kathryn Troupe members. Princeton’s first African American through,” she said. “I remember when I was Healey. woman graduate, Jane Molden (’52M), the campus minister at Iowa State University. “It wasn't hard to be a woman at remembered that the Seminary “was a little There was a man at the State University of Princeton,” Lytle recalled. “We didn’t think short on establishing a spirit of fellowship.” Iowa who was paid more. My pay increased of ourselves as pioneers. We had a lovely Still, the women worked to form their own greatly after I protested. It was just a tradi¬ time, and the people here were very nice and social group. They also became a social force tion to pay women less, and they hadn’t real¬ friendly and helpful. We didn’t consciously on a campus full of male students who had ly thought it through. It’s much better now.” think of ourselves as the first women here.” had very little female contact before the Other early women graduates noted the Lytle and other women of her era women’s arrival. The women organized “complicated tradeoffs,” in the words of praised Princeton’s academics. Jean Cassat dinners, concerts, sings, and parties. Many 1966 M.R.E. graduate Eleanor Kirkland Christman, who graduated with an M.R.E. students married other students, a trend Hite, in the lives of many of today’s female in 1950, said that “for me, Princeton which has continued over the years. students. More choices have meant more was wonderful. It had the best courses Women from these early years agreed roles, more responsibilities. In some ways, for women, who at that time could not that while some things are harder for today’s 1955 M.R.E. graduate Eileen Flower Moffett- be ordained. I was getting what I wanted.” female students, many things have gotten said, having fewer boundaries has been In fact, many women pushed the acade¬ easier. They cited the increased acceptance a problem for contemporary female students. mic pace, moving the Seminary to a higher of women in church leadership roles, along “There are a lot of pressures toward level of classroom challenge. with the feminist movement, as having made conformity on women students,” she said.

inSpire *13 1 947 — Ruth Kolthoff Kirkman receives a B.D. degree, and Ethel Cassel Driskill, Ruth Gittel Gard, Evelyn Lytle, Anne 1949— Princeton's first female trustee, Marie Melrose, Marion Stout Wilson, Mary Elizabeth White Miller, is appoint¬ and Mary Kathryn Troupe Healey all ed. She serves until 1957. receive M.R.E. degrees. This is the first class of women to graduate from the Seminary. 1951 — Jean Cassat Christman is appointed instructor in Christian educa¬ 1947 tion, and serves until 1953. 19521-

1952 — A. Jane Molden receives an M.R.E. and becomes the first African American woman to graduate from the Seminary. 1953 — Dorothy Kirkwood Mooney is appointed instructor in Christian educa¬ tion, and serves until 1956.

“One young woman told me a story of a man to be hired, receive tenure, and go on to support system, the women also built a social bothering her, stopping by her room, asking have long PTS careers. life together, Gardner said. her out, and she didn’t feel comfortable Gardner was invited to join the faculty “Many of the women would come telling him to go away. When I was a stu¬ in 1961, as an instructor in Christian educa¬ to my apartment and watch TV and talk. dent, there were more rules, and that made it tion. We socialized together—I was only six or easier to say, ‘This is off bounds.’ There is a “The men were all very respectful of seven years older than most of them,” she subtle pressure to conform to ultra-secular me,” she recalled, “but I always felt as if they said. “I remember the night before gradua¬ feminism, and to be politically correct.” were extending me a privilege to be there, tion, when we all put on our caps and gowns In the 1950s, women began to serve to let me play on their team. I felt that way, and went out to the Princeton Battlefield as PTS educators. Jean Cassat Christman was too. and played hide and seek! Befriending the one of the first women hired as an instructor “They didn’t really know what to do women students socially helped me survive.” in Christian education. She was followed by with women. The first year I remember get¬ Some of that sense of professional and Harriet Prichard, a 1954 M.R.E. graduate ting a form announcing the faculty retreat personal isolation abated when Katharine who was the first woman to hold the title of in the fall at the Jersey shore. It asked me Doob Sakenfeld arrived in 1970. Fresh from professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. who I wanted to room with! I thought that earning her Ph.D. at Harvard, Sakenfeld “As a student, I learned that women were Princeton must be a more swinging place “had never heard of feminism,” but had the minority,” she said. “Dr. Mackay [PTS’s than I had realized! already faced a United Church of Christ third president] came to speak to the women “When I came, Christian education congregation refusing to interview her in Tennent and basically asked us all to was a required course in the middler year. for field work in her second year of divinity become ‘courageous spinsters.’ Some women I taught some of the sections, and most school. She was very likely the first woman were incensed, since he had implied that of the students did not want to be there. to celebrate communion in Miller Chapel. we came to seminary to find a husband, but That course was not a welcoming experience. She and Gardner became fast friends and we forgave him. He was a great man.” Since then, some of the men who were colleagues, joining forces from their disci¬ Being on the faculty, she said, involved in those classes have apologized to me for plines of Christian education and Bible moments of invisibility. how they approached me and the course.” to teach PTS’s first women’s studies course. “I was asked to be the token woman If the male students were unenthusiastic, “There were about twenty students on committees, but they didn’t really accept however, female students regarded Gardner in the class, and it was so exciting to be much that I brought to them. I had to re¬ as mentor, inspiration, and friend. She lived team teaching with Freda on this subject,” main in the background. I remember having in Tennent Hall with the women students, Sakenfeld said. “It was wonderful to have meetings to evaluate essays for the Temple¬ and has stayed in touch with many of them. these moments of naming the issue and ton Prize, and I was just never heard.” “I think they appreciated that I was treating it formally.” Prichard left the faculty after four years, a woman and a layperson who claimed Sakenfeld, Gardner, and the few female two as an assistant professor. Freda Gardner, a ministry,” she said. “That helped tell them students at Princeton at the time also met the Thomas W. Synnott Professor of that their ministries were valid. There weren’t outside of class, to discuss their common Christian Education, and Katharine Doob many roles for women on the campus. goals and problems. From those meetings, Sakenfeld, the W. A. Eisenberger Professor No women elders served communion in the the PTS Women’s Center was born. of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, chapel; none were even asked.” “By the time the Women’s Center came were the first two female faculty members In addition to serving as a professional into being, we were beginning to talk about

14 • inSpire 1957 — Harriet Prichard is appointed instructor in Christian education, and in 1959 is promoted to assistant professor of Christian education, becoming the 1970 — The PTS Women's Center, Seminary's first female professor. She a place for the women of the community serves until 1961. to discuss common goals and concerns, is founded.

1966 — The National Organization for Women, America's most visible women's rights organization, is founded. At Princeton Seminary, Elinor Kirkland Hite graduates with the M.R.E. class and receives a congratulatory kiss from her father, Bryant Kirkland. 1966 1967 — Freda Gardner is promoted 1956— Margaret Towner is ordained from assistant professor of Christian as the first minister of the Word and education to assistant professor of Sacrament in the United Presbyterian Christian education with tenure, becom¬ Church (USA). ing the first tenured female professor.

the place of women in society and in the remembered 1970 M.Div. graduate Cherry already had a woman associate pastor on church,” Gardner said. “Most women Watson Marshall, pastor of Hope Presbyter¬ staff and they needed to ‘keep the staff bal¬ coming to PTS had never met a woman ian Church in Baltimore, MD, “I started anced.’ But why didn’t churches even raise clergyperson, so they had no role models. with summer Greek. I was the only woman the question of balance when there were The opening of the Women’s Center was in the class. The first day I walked into class more men than women?,” she said. “There’s the culmination of a lot of conversation I sat beside a male student, and he turned more emphasis on affirmative action and about what it means to be a woman in to me and said, ‘What are you doing here?’ equal opportunity in the church today, but a male profession and a male institution, Those were among the first words I heard that also leads to tokenism, churches inter¬ the church. It marked a real change, as if the at Princeton.” viewing women just to say they interviewed women at Princeton said we were no longer Other women noted that the Seminary women, with no expectation of hiring us.” going to be satisfied with second-class citi¬ had not necessarily found ways to treat And the problems didn’t stop with grad¬ zenship. The center gave public voice to our women as equal and valuable. 1973 M.Div. uation. Alumnae almost universally said that concerns. Also, the culture was beginning to graduate Wendy Bagnal Boer, pastor of finding a job had been harder for them than support this voice as the women’s movement the First Presbyterian Church of Janvier it had been for their male colleagues. “The took hold in America.” in Franklinville, NJ, for instance, said that hardest part for the women came when we The Women’s Center took hold as well. “women today don’t have to endure the overt looked for jobs,” Marshall said. “I signed In the 1970s it received permanent space kinds of things that we did, like maids who up and went to many interviews where the and funding; PTS community members, changed the bed linens in the men’s rooms, pastor or the committee said ‘we don’t want both male and female, celebrated its twenty- but not the women’s. And now women have a woman’ and that would be the end of it, fifth anniversary this academic year. inclusive language in classes and chapel; we and I would get up and leave the room. In 1955, just before Gardner joined hadn’t even thought of inclusive language.” It was terrible. I lost one job because I was the PTS faculty, the United Presbyterian Though women emphasized that their single. They told me they wouldn’t hire me Church (USA) had voted to ordain women academic experiences at Princeton had been because they were afraid I’d get married and as ministers. On October 24, 1956, excellent, there were some problems in the stop working. That’s what everyone thought Margaret E. Towner became the first woman classrooms, too. Boer remembered that she women did in those times.” to be ordained to the ministry of the Word read Barth in a theology class and was dis¬ Still, women persevered. Marshall found and Sacrament. mayed by his views on the roles of men and a call as assistant pastor of the Presbyterian Towner’s ordination opened the door to women. “I wrote a paper disagreeing with Church in Hagerstown, MD, where the head careers as pastors for women. They were still, Barth and giving the reasons why,” she re¬ of staff, Russell Butcher (PTS Class of 1939) however, a minority within the ranks of cler¬ called, “and the professor didn’t understand “was so supportive of me,” she said. “I was gy. Sreadily increasing numbers of women why I disagreed.” the first woman minister in Baltimore Pres¬ have enrolled and graduated from Princeton, Ann Philbrick, a 1982 alumna, said that bytery. I remember presbytery meetings from one—Jennings—in 1932, to more than her academic education was “wonderful,” where there were only a handful of women sixty female graduates in the Class of 1991. but that other things had been harder. elders and me. At the breaks, there was Other seminaries have seen similar increases. Now an associate executive in National always a long line to the men’s room and Still, women found some prejudice—and Capital Presbytery, she remembered churches no line to the women’s room. Today there difficulty in getting jobs after graduation. “that wouldn’t hire a woman student to be are long lines to the women’s room. I stand “When I began seminary at PTS,” their field education intern because they in line and think how wonderful it is!”

inSpire *15 1972 — Joyce Bailey and Elizabeth Gordon Edwards are the first women to receive Th.D. degrees, which later 1984 — Geraldine Ferraro becomes the became the Ph.D. Edwards is currently first woman to receive the nomination of assistant professor of New Testament. a major political party as vice president of the United States.

1981 —Virginia S. Sullivan becomes the first woman to receive a D. Min. from Princeton. 1990 > 1 990 — Phyllis Trible, professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York, delivers the inau¬ gural Women in Church and Ministry (WICAM) lecture. She returns to PTS 1982 as a visiting lecturer in Old Testament next fall.

] 982 — Gail Anderson Ricciuti is the first clergywoman to speak at a PTS 1996 — The United Nations holds commencement. its Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, China.

Marshall will always be thankful to was exciting. The Seminary community is large, and 57 percent of those admitted Princeton Seminary for “getting me started.” hardly knew what to do with me. I served on are women, and 38 percent of those con¬ She and other women found support at PTS the Women’s Center board, and we struggled firmed. It is too early to tell if last year’s fig¬ in each other, in female (and some male) with what courses to organize in the bur¬ ures were an anomaly or signify that the faculty members, and in their faith. geoning field of feminist theology, and how winds of change are blowing. ” “I found at Princeton a wonderful group to study women in the Bible from a scholarly The number of women in the ministry of women and men who gave me support perspective. ‘Womanist’ was not even a term is steadily increasing. In 1980, there were and a community,” said Jacqui Lewis in the literature yet. I felt that I made a way 569 ordained women in the Presbyterian Melsness, a 1992 M.Div. graduate who out of no way in seminary. I had a variety Church (USA); by 1989, that number had pastors the Imani Community Church of communities, but no place that really felt quadrupled to 2,098. Comparatively few in Trenton, NJ. “As a black woman coming like home.” women serve as heads of staff, or are pastors to seminary, I didn’t expect to be a feminist. Despite the progress that women have of churches with more than one thousand However, I was a womanist, although I did¬ made, there has been a somewhat discourag¬ members, but those barriers are also gradual¬ n’t have that word for it then. I did find ing decrease in the percentage of women ly falling. Women continue to seek out new people at PTS working for liberation. And accepted to Princeton who actually enroll. ground and new challenges, building on the as a black woman I had access to both the Though the percentage of women admitted work of the women who went before them. Women’s Center and to the black communi¬ remains constant with previous years, fewer “I greatly benefitted from the women ty through the Association of Black Seminar¬ have chosen to attend Princeton. In 1992, who came before me at Princeton, and in the ians, and both were very important to me.” women formed 41.2 percent of the entering ministry,” 1985 M.Div. graduate Victoria Another black alumna from the Class junior class — the largest percentage ever. “Tory” Penman Pruner, associate pastor of of 1976, Joan Martin, remembers faculty In 1996, that percentage had dropped to 29 The Presbyterian Church of Toms River, NJ, members Guy Hanson (the Charlotte percent of the entering junior class. Director said. “In the same way, I hope I’m making a W. Newcombe Professor of Congregational ol Admissions Jeffrey V. O’Grady (PTS Class positive difference to women coming after Ministries) and Sakenfeld as crucially impor¬ of 1988, M. Div.) and the admissions com¬ me. I hope Princeton is more supportive of tant to her growth at the Seminary. mittee are working to reverse this trend. women now. I know there are women teach¬ “I also remember Ed Dowey [PTS’s “The figures last year raised a number of ing and preaching, and that’s good. But there Archibald Alexander Professor of the History questions for us,” O’Grady said. “For exam¬ is still a long way to go. When women start¬ of Christian Doctrine Emeritus] telling me ple, do our figures reflect a national trend? ed preaching in churches, people probably once that there would be plenty of years for Are fewer women preparing for the ministry, didn’t think they’d last. But they did. Now me to deal with tokenism in the church, that or is there greater discouragement about job there are women preaching every Sunday in my job in seminary was to be a student and opportunities? Is Princeton perceived as less small churches all across the country, and learn all that I could. I’ve told that to a lot hospitable to women than other schools, or thank God they are! Why shouldn’t they be of the students I teach now,” she said. perhaps less welcoming to non-Presbyterians? preaching in our large congregations as well? Martin is an assistant professor of Christ¬ Will the presence of new apartments for sin¬ Equality for women is still slower in coming ian social ethics at Episcopal Divinity School gle, second-career students have an impact in the church than in other parts of society, in Cambridge, MA. She was one of only on the enrollment of women? it seems to me. If the number of women in three black women at PTS during her stu¬ “Our figures for this year are encourag¬ head-of-staff positions is a barometer, then dent days. “It was lonely,’’ she said. “And it ing. The applicant pool for the Class of 1997 we have a long way to go.” I

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symposium on the interpreta¬

Key to Abbreviations: tion on the Bible, held in Upper-case letters designate Ljubljana, Slovenia, where Don't Be Left Out! degrees earned at PTS: he presented a paper titled Don't forget to mail in your questionnaire M.Div. B “The First Translation of for the new Alumni/ae Biographical Catalog, M.R.E. E the New Testament into the book that will contain biographical and M.A. E Pennsylvania Dutch.” He was career information about all Seminary alum¬ Th.M. M ni/ae, The final date for receiving information D.Min. P also invited to make remarks is July 31, 1997. Th.D. D on the occasion of the publica¬ Ph.D. D tion of the newly completed Slovenian version of the Bible, Special undergraduate student U University of Minnesota, where Special graduate student G which was translated by a 1945 On July 1, 1996, he is also professor emeritus. committee of Roman Catholic Wilson H. Yost (B) retired When an alumnus/a did not and Protestant scholars. from being chaplain at Royal receive a degree, a lower-case Robert Philips 1940 Oaks Life Care Center in Sun letter corresponding to those (B) writes that he has served above designates the course 1939 E. Emanuel City, AZ. He had served there of study. Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Burkman (G) retired from for seven years, after retiring Church in Aliquippa, PA, for pastoral ministry in the United from full-time ministry in 1986. the last five years. “I still play 1924 ‘I’m ninety-seven Methodist Church on June 13, tennis every day and read four and still enjoying life every day,” 1996, from the Southern New 1948 Edward C. hours every day,” he says. writes John E. Johnson (B), Jersey Annual Conference. All Gartrell Sr. (B) is pastor of Birmingham, AL. “It’s a told, he served a total of thirteen emeritus of Central Presbyterian 1942 James R. Carroll pleasure to punch on my sixty- southern New Jersey churches Church in Huntsville, AL, (B) and son John T. Carroll year-old Remington portable for sixty-four years. Burkman where he was pastor for twenty- ('79B, '86D) are co-authors typewriter. I’ve been a reader has also been a director of the nine years. Shortly before his of a book titled Preaching the of Reader’s Digest [with which Delanco Camp Meeting retirement, the church started Hard Sayings of Jesus. he corresponds] since the mid¬ Association for fifty-five years. Hawthorne Conservatory, twenties.” He lives in Ocean City, NJ. which provides instruments Otto Gruber (B, 1943 and instruction to musically '45M) writes from Irvine, CA, 1935 Richard Hadden J. Russell Butcher (B, talented but underprivileged that “in 1993 we drove east (B) and his wife, Frances Roots '47 M) is parish associate children and adults. to attend our fiftieth reunion, Hadden, who are composers at Frederick Presbyterian and what a wonderful fellowship and pianists, helped celebrate Church, Frederick, MD. John H. Scott (B) serves it became for all of us! Included the fiftieth anniversary of the as minister of visitation for in this reunion were the very Moral Re-Armament (MRA) James M. Crothers (B) has the 2400-member Fox Chapel fine visits we had with Tom International Conference Center moved to Green Ridge Village Presbyterian Church, and Barbara Gillespie. We have in Caux, Switzerland, last sum¬ retirement center, Newville, PA, Pittsburgh, PA. been friends a number of years, mer. More than seven hundred where he found classmate Elwyn going back to the days when delegates and diplomats from E. Tilden (’39B, ’40M, ’45D), 1950 E. Bradford Tom served churches here twenty-seven countries attended as well as John Buyer (’29b), Davis (M, '61D) writes that in California. If all goes well, the ceremonies. The MRA Abram Kurtz (’35B), and J. “although retired, I still preach we hope to be at Princeton for was launched in 1946 by Stuart Dickson (’43B), who almost every Sunday on a our fifty-fifth. American Lutheran pastor Frank is president of the residents’ pulpit-supply basis, and teach Buchman, whom Hadden association. a mid-week Bible class for senior “Enjoying retirement in admired. The Haddens were citizens in Media, PA." Coronado, CA, and serving also married at Caux in 1947; Richard B. Mather (B) the Lord in Graham Memorial they now live in St. Ignace, MI. is the first Chinese scholar Robert T. Deming Jr. (B) Presbyterian Church and San of Fredericksburg, TX, reports to become president of the Diego Presbytery,” writes 1938 In September 1996, American Oriental Society. the death of his wife, Alice, C. Virgil Zirbel (B). Bruce Metzger (B, '39M) He teaches part time at the in an accident. “Always glad participated in an international for prayers,” he says.

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Benjamin M. Weir (B) skills twice a month to parents Genevieve Kozinski Lakewood, NJ. “I have done was a senior mission scholar of children in the Head Start Jacobs (E) lives in Costa much traveling, and am enjoy¬ and taught at the Overseas program in Newark, NJ. Mesa, CA, and is writing a book ing my new life enormously!” Ministries Study Center in He also serves on the Goldberg titled Senior Diversion Programs New Haven, CT, during the Child Care Center board of for First-time Elderly Offenders. Robert E. Stover (B) 1996 fall semester. directors and attended a three- is a parish associate at St. John’s day current strategy forum Ward Murray (B) is retired Presbyterian Church and 1951 Harry E. Chase at the Naval War College in from the ministry in West a part-time chaplain at Washoe (B) of Westwood, NJ, is self- Newport, RI, in June 1996. Virginia Presbytery and now Medical Center, both in Reno, employed as a licensed family serves as a non-stipendary pastor NV. therapist. He teaches parenting of a United Reformed church in Harleston, Norfolk, England. Richard L. Van Deusen (B) of Mystic, CT, writes that ^take a bow Charles F. Stratton he is an active member of his (B, '80P) is parish associate presbytery, where he serves on Gerald A. Foster ('45M) received a Resolution of Honor from at the First Presbyterian the Committee on Preparation American Leprosy Missions on May 4, 1996. At the time of the Church of Glens Falls, NY, for Ministry. award, he had led the Wilmington, DE, auxiliary of American Leprosy Missions for thirty-six years. and pastor emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church 1953 After his retirement, Roland Mushat Frye {'53b), the Schelling Professor of of Youngstown, NY, as well W. Edmund Carver (B) English Literature Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, received the American Philosophical Society's Thomas as being “class steward with accepted an interim pastor Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the enthusiasm,” he writes. position in February 1996 Humanities in April. The American Philosophical Society is the at Faith Presbyterian Church, nation's oldest learned society and the award is the society's highest honor in the humanities. Frye is a member of the board 1952 Jerry W. Bohn Cape Coral, FL. of trustees of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. (B) is a volunteer at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, Hudson, Richard D. Miller (B, '60M) Jay A. Miller ('54B) was inducted into the Honeoye Falls-Lima FL, where Kenneth Gruebel of Fort Thomas, KY, recently High School Hall of Fame, Honeoye Falls, NY, in October 1995. He is a 1945 graduate of that school, and lives in Marion, IA. (’72B, ’95p) is the pastor. “I had a reunion with Charles teach adult Bible class and serve Dowell (B) and his wife, Pat, Donald F. Flemer ('57E) was honored by the National on the Evangelism Committee,” as well as with Dale Dickey Conference of Christians and Jews for twenty-three years of service to that organization, where he is director of the Bohn writes. He retired from (B) and his wife, Kerry. Southern Ohio Region. The commendation notes that he full-time pastoring in 1988. "strives always to eliminate bigotry and discrimination and to James N. Urquhart (B) strengthen our pluralistic society." He lives in Cincinnati, OH. Nelson O. Horne (B, '84P) served as an interim pas¬

Peter E. Bauer ('78B) was selected as one of the finalists for lives in Chautauqua, NY, and tor (1995—1996) at Lafayette the 1995 Department of the Navy Social Worker of the Year enjoys his retirement, especially Presbyterian Church, Award. He is the family program coordinator for the Naval using his computer. Tallahassee, FL. Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, FL. Marisa G. Keeney (E) “Honorably retired, I am Albert G. Butzer III ('80B, '85M), who is pastor of is a retired psychologist and lives presently parish associate at Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, VA, received the 1996 Alfred P Klausler Sermon in Taylors, SC. She teaches class¬ Highland Presbyterian Church, Award-Honorable Mention es on facing evil and Jungian Lancaster, PA, and interim from The Christian Ministry dream interpretation at pastor at Memorial Presbyterian magazine. His sermon "By the Charcoal Fire" was chosen Furman University’s Division Church, Lancaster, PA,” says from nearly two hundred of Continuing Education and James S. Weaver (B). entries, and was published in Learning in Retirement the September-October issue of Institute. The Christian Ministry. The cri¬ 1954 Robert L. teria for this sermon competi¬ Blackwell (B, '63M) tion included soundness of bib¬ “I have been retired since will retire in May 1997 from lical interpretation, appropriate¬ October 1, 1992,” writes the First Presbyterian Church ness for audience and occa¬ sion, originality, clarity of Charles L. Sorg (B) of of Arlington, NJ. Al Butzer and his wife, Betsy. expression, and organization. spring 1997 Class notes

“I was glad to see Fred Cassell, Dean Foose, and others Alumni/ae Update at the Philadelphia alumni/ae In May I will complete my term on the Alumni/ae Association Executive Council, as well as my tenure meeting,” says Robert E. as its president. Membership on the council has provided me the opportunity to serve the Seminary on Blade (B). behalf of you, its graduates. I have been able to give back to the institution that prepared me — and each of you — for ministry in the church of Jesus Christ. “Greetings to all my friends One of the highlights of the council's work is meeting and talking with students. When we come to the and classmates at PTS,” writes campus for our meetings three times each year, we often invite students to join us for dinner, or talk James F. Clark (B), who lives with them informally in the Mackay Campus Center or after chapel. Sometimes we ask representatives in Cheyenne, WY. of student groups, like the Student Government Association, to meet with us. It is particularly reward¬ ing to visit with students from the regions of the country where we live, from our presbyteries, or even our churches. Our conversations provide valuable exchanges, where students can share their excite¬ Richard E. Dunham Jr. (B) ment and their frustrations as seminarians with alumni/ae who have traveled the same path before is a parish visitor at Highland them. Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, We meet, too, with President Gillespie and other members of the administration and the faculty to hear PA. about Princeton's programs and people, and to ask questions about the institution's future directions.

“I serve as part-time minister The council has made two very specific contributions to the Seminary in the past few years. We dreamed of both a child care center at Princeton, and of a program to bring alumni/ae back to campus for adult ministries at the grow¬ to share their experiences and insights in ministry with students. Our initiative in these areas resulted ing Traverse City Presbyterian in the opening of the new Center for Children last year, and in the annual alumni/ae-in-residence pro¬ Church, Traverse City, MI,” gram. The latter brings two or three graduates each year back to Princeton for a week. During the week they preach in chapel and meet formally and informally with students to talk about their ministries. writes Walter A. Fitton

(B, '57M). The privilege of serving on the Alumni/ae Association Executive Council is one I wish all “An exciting, graduates could have. If you are called by a nominating committee from your region, I hope you will accept this opportunity to give your time and resources to support the facul¬ good time.” ty and administrators who are preparing the future leaders of the church.

Joseph C. It has been exciting, rewarding, and challenging for me to serve the Seminary I love. I Fowler (B) thank Dean Foose, director of alumni/ae relations and placement, the executive council, and you, my fellow graduates, for this opportunity. writes that “four

years into retire- Otha Gilyard ('74B) is pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Columbus, OH. He has 0) ment, I’m enjoy- S’ served on the Alumni/ae Association Executive Council for six years, two of them as president. ing guest teach- ® ing and preach- b . . o mg, singing ■§. John Hunn(B) Strasbourg University in France, Alan H. Hamilton (G) in the choir retired in July and has published five volumes of Costa Rica writes that at United Presbyterian Church 1994, and serves as interim pas¬ of a dogmatics for evangelical his wife, Claire, died on in Plainfield, NJ, and learning tor ol Rouses Point Presbyterian catholicity. September 17, 1995. to play the valve trombone with Church, Rouses Point, NY. the church’s thirteen-piece 1955 In September 1995, W. Donald Pendell Jr. (B) band.” Conrad H. Massa (B, '60D) Dorothea Nill Bowers (e) began his forty-second interim lives in Fort Myers, FL. began a new job as associate pastorate on February 15, 1996, Henry W. Heaps (B, '57M) professor of education and at Forest Lawn Presbyterian retired in 1990 from his call as Alice M. Meloy (B) director of the early childhood Church, Marion, OH. pastor of the First Presbyterian of Doylesburg, PA, says that program at Grove City College, Church, Dunellen, NJ. He lives she does pulpit supply, serves Grove City, PA. “I retired from full-time, active in Street, MD, and has served on presbytery committees service on March 1, 1995, three interim pastorates since and the board of Habitat Leonard T. Grant (B) and am enjoying retirement his retirement, the most recent for Humanity, among others, is interim associate minister immensely!” says Joseph J. at Elkton Presbyterian Church, and continues to write. of The Presbyterian Church Skelly (B) of Tucson, AZ. Elkton, MD. in Westfield, NJ. Girard Siegwalt (M) teaches 1956 John Chironna systematic theology at Jr. (B) is a part-time therapist

inSpire • 19 spring 1997 Class notes at Charter Hospital, Terre a translation of Schleiermacher’s Ronald Thane Roberts (B) lar supply preaching, though Haute, IN. Dialectic: On the Art of Doing is associate pastor of the he is retired. Philosophy. “This is the first Second Presbyterian Church, On August 3, 1996, Edward translation of any of his notes Lee’s Summit, MO. 1962 Richard V. R. Danks (B, '88p) retired as and lectures on dialectic, and Anderson (B) reports pastor of Noroton Presbyterian is accompanied by an introduc¬ In 1994, Walter D. Wagoner that he was recently elected Church, Darien, CT. tion and editorial commentary (M) of Greenwich, CT, retired to the vestry of the R. E. Lee for this study edition,” he says. as one of the directors of the Memorial Episcopal Church in C. Frederick Horbach (B) American Summer Institutes. Lexington, VA. “Episcopalians retired after twenty-eight years 1958 Frank G. Carver continue to name their churches at Cumberland County College, (M) retired from Point Loma 1960 Richard Nygren only after saints,” Anderson where he had been dean of stu¬ Nazarene College, San Diego, (B, '81P) retired from the writes. “I am retired from the dents and professor of humani¬ CA, after thirty-five years of Church of the Palms, Sarasota, federal government and have ties, on June 30, 1996. He lives teaching. He recently published FL, in April 1996, and is published a number of articles in Pittsgrove, NJ. When Jesus Said Goodbye: John’s now chaplain of Bay Village, on the Civil War. I sporadically Witness to the Holy Spirit, a Presbyterian continuing care labor on a book on the ‘Late 1957 Robert J. and began a two-year teaching facility in the same town. Great Unpleasantness,’ which Armstrong (B) of Columbus, engagement at European OH, retired on May 31, 1996, Nazarene Bible College in after eight and a half years Buesingen, Germany, in July as chaplain at Westminster 1996. Thurber Retirement Community. He is a part- Frederick V. Mills Sr. (M) time pastoral care minister at is a visiting scholar at Episcopal Boulevard Presbyterian Church Divinity School, Cambridge, and works with his wife, Laura, MA, for the 1996-1997 acade¬ in her career counseling mic year. and consulting business. 1959 Donald F. J. Lawrence Driskill (M) Chatfield (B) teaches preach¬ published his fifth book, titled ing at Garrett-Evangelical Worldwide Mission Stories for Theological Seminary and Young People, in January 1996. is a part-time, “contracted” The Duarte, CA-based retiree pastor to the United Church has also published Japan Diary of Christ of Spring Valley, IL. Pope John Paul II greets PTS alum Paul Eppinger in Rome.

(1993) and Cross-Cultural promises to rival elephants Marriages and the Church “I am a chaplain at Spring Lake 1961 Paul Eppinger in its gestation.” (1995). He works part time Village, an Episcopal retirement (B, '65M) is executive director with the First Presbyterian home and one of the few places of the Arizona Ecumenical Donald Erickson (E) retired Church, Altadena, CA, which where people are older than I Council, a group of approxi¬ at the end of 1996, after forty- is a Japanese American congre¬ am,” writes Robert V. Jones mately seven hundred churches two years of parish ministry. gation. (B, '62M) of Guerneville, CA. (and one million Christians) He still lives in Canberra, ACT, in Arizona. The bishops and Australia, and visited Princeton Kayton R. Palmer (B) fin¬ Edward O. Poole (M) retired executive ministers of this group for the Institute of Theology ished an interim position at the on June 1, 1996, after a thir¬ traveled to Israel and Rome last in 1990. He recently visited First Presbyterian Church, Pine teen-month interim pastorate fall, and had a private audience with Ron Legg {'63B), when City, MN, in January 1996. at Greenwood Presbyterian with Pope John Paul II. Legg was in Canberra. Church, Warwick, RI. He

Terrence N. Tice (B, '61D), now lives in Swarthmore, PA. Richard C. Hughes (B) lives On September 1, 1996, C. a professor at the University in Berlin, MD, and enjoys regu¬ James Hinch (B) became of Michigan, has published interim pastor of Westminster

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Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, (M, '88P), who is a United NY. 1968 John R. Methodist, a captain in the "Pete" Richardson (B) United States Navy Chaplain 1963 John R. was appointed Maryland Health Corps, and senior chaplain for Powers (B) has been asked Care System’s chief of pastoral the Third Marine Expeditionary to serve as executive director care in October 1996. He Force on Okinawa. His wife, of the President’s Commission is responsible for the overall Christy Erway Phillips (B), on Critical Infrastructure management of the pastoral is an American Baptist cler- Protection, which will look care service at the Baltimore, gyperson and active in local at ways to protect the nation’s Perry Point, and Fort Howard chapels and spouse groups. telecommunications, electric Medical Centers, providing The gathering also included power, banking and finance, for the religious and spiritual Ed Fedor ('79B) and Bob and other critical systems. needs of hospitalized veterans. Crall ('79B), both Presbyterian He is the first African American chaplains. “If any other fugitives Fredric T. Walls (B) to be appointed to this post. from Princeton are in this area, is director of the Presbyterian we would love to hear about it,” Church (USA)’s Committee on 1969 Robert L. Muse Phillips writes. the Self-Development of People. Lives of Commitment in (B, '71M) has been pastor of a Complex World. She lives The King’s Community Baptist 1977 Robert R. Kopp 1964 Charles E. in Cambridge, MA. Church, Cherry Hill, NJ, since (B) was featured in the 1995, Stenner (B) is part-time 1988. He serves as an adjunct 1996, and 1997 Abingdon interim pastor at Old Stone “After sixteen years as pastor of faculty member at Eastern Preaching Annual. He lives Presbyterian Church, Delaware, Manassas Presbyterian Church College, Wayne, PA; and at in New Kensington, PA, OH, which is his fourth such in Manassas, VA, I began work Eastern Baptist Theological where he pastors Logans Ferry position since retiring in 1991. on August 1, 1996, as pastor of Seminary, Philadelphia, PA. Presbyterian Church. Westmont Presbyterian Church He has chaired a new church 1965 Bey Gates in Johnstown, PA,” writes start steering committee for his 1978 Raymond A. Grunder (M) is retired David R. Snyder (B). denomination in Medford, NJ, Meester (B) is pastor and lives in Charlotte, NC. and in March 1996 published of Lincoln-Heritage Presbyter¬ He reports that his wife, David Stout (M, '76P) The Book of Revelation: ian Church, Lincoln, NE. Peggy M. Blythe Grunder, has been elected to the board An Annotated Bibliography. died on February 13, 1996. of trustees of Cornell College, 1979 John W. Auxier Mount Vernon, IA. He has been Arthur M. Smith (B), who (B) is associate professor Alan G. Reutter (B) a pastor in Iowa since 1966. lives in Chicago, IL, is a new of counseling at Trinity Western has been pastor of Fowler member of the Presbyterian Seminary in Langley, British Presbyterian Church, Fowler, 1967 Elizabeth Drake Church (USA)’s Committee on Columbia, Canada. He is CA, since August 1, 1996. Beck (B) began serving the Self-Development of People. also director of the Master as interim pastor at Delta of Counseling program 1966 William P. Presbyterian Church, Lansing, 1970 Ernest Shaw for Associated Canadian Findlay (B) is interim pastor MI, on July 1, 1996. Lyght (M, '79P) has been Theological Schools, a consor¬ of Utqiagvik Presbyterian elected to the office of bishop tium of theological seminaries Church in Barrow, AK, which James D. Brown (B), in the United Methodist headquartered at Trinity. he notes “is the northernmost former executive director of Church. On September 1, He recently led an evaluation community in the United the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s 1996, Lyght began leading the and reorganization of the con¬ States, three hundred miles General Assembly Council, New York Annual Conference, sortium’s counseling program. above the Arctic Circle, has accepted a call to be pastor which encompasses New York and on the Arctic Ocean.” of Market Square Presbyterian City and western Connecticut. John T. Carroll (B, '86D) Church, Harrisburg, PA. He and his father, James R. Sharon Daloz Parks (E) began work on February 15, 1975 A 1996 alumni/ae Carroll |'42B), are co-authors has co-authored and published 1997. gathering in Okinawa, Japan, of a book titled Preaching a book, titled Common Fire: included Bob Phillips the Hard Sayings of Jesus. The

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Class notes younger Carroll is associate John Salmon (M) teaches (on a semi-volunteer basis) population. It was a dream of professor of New Testament systematic theology and ethics to a small, Spanish-speaking mine in seminary to go serve in at Union Theological Seminary as a Wesley Lecturer at Trinity United Church of Christ con¬ a church in an integrated com¬ in Virginia, Richmond, VA. Methodist Theological College, gregation, and a growing United munity where I could do my Methodist new church develop¬ small part in promoting recon¬ ment for latino immigrants.’’ ciliation among all races and He is a member of Santa Fe peoples. That I now have the Presbytery. opportunity to do so in my own hometown is quite amazing!’’ Holly Ross Noble (B) has accepted a call to Topsham 1985 Lucille E. United Presbyterian Church and Abernathy (B) writes that East Corinth Congregational she is involved with “a ministry Church, two yoked churches in ol dolls and spirituality— Vermont, beginning September spiritual development through 1, 1996. porcelain doll making and healing associated with dolls.” 1982 On September 1, She lives in Cleveland, OH. 1996, Scott D. Anderson (B) became executive director Susan DePuy Kershaw (M) of the California Council of is pastor of the Congregational

From left: Ed Fedor {'78B), Christy Erway Phillips (’75B), Bob Phillips Churches. Church in Nelson, NH, and is ('75M, '88P), and Bob Crall |'79B). also interim area minister for the Virginia Berglund Smith American Baptist churches in Bob Crall (B) is a lieutenant Auckland, New Zealand. (B) is in her first academic year Vermont and New Hampshire. commander in the Chaplain He recently published (with as the Jean W. and Frank T. Corps of the United States Susan Adams) a book called The Mohr Professor of Ministry 1986 In 1996 Bob Navy, serving with the First Mouth of the Dragon: Theology at McCormick Theological Jystad (B) received a law Marine Air Wing in Okinawa, for Postmodern Christians. Seminary, Chicago, IL. Her degree from the University of Japan. appointment is for a two-year California-Los Angeles, which Peter A. Sulyok (B, '81M) term, beginning in September joins the Master of International Ed Fedor (B) is chaplain with is the coordinator of the 1996, and may be renewed Affairs degree he received from the rank of lieutenant colonel in Advisory Committee on Social for a third year. Columbia University in 1993. the United States Air Force, and Witness Policy, which is an is senior pastor and coordinator agency of the PC(USA) General 1983 Robert J. Mary Newbern-Williams for the Protestant and Catholic Assembly Council. He lives Cromwell (B) became pastor (E, '88B) beg an a new call last congregations at Kadena Air in Louisville, KY, and began his of Ruskin Heights Presbyterian October as associate for racial- Force Base, Okinawa, Japan. duties on September 1, 1996. Church in his hometown of ethnic schools and colleges in Kansas City, MO, on March 1, the Higher Education Program 1980 Kathy J. Nelson In 1996, Susan Carol 1997. He spent the past five Area of the National Ministries (B, '86M, '92P) is an adjunct Thomas (B) gave the invoca¬ years as pastor of St. Mark’s Division of the PC(USA). PTS faculty member, and tion at the investiture of her Presbyterian Church, Haysville, is serving a four-year term brother as a judge on the Ninth KS. “Ruskin Heights has a suc¬ James S. Rauch (B) on the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Circuit Court of Appeals, and cessful ‘Logos’ program, an began a new position as pastor Committee for Ordination also served as a chaplain at the inspirational choir, and willing of Westminster Presbyterian Examinations. She lives in Atlanta Olympics. workers,” Cromwell says. “The Church, Escondido, CA, Dayton, NJ, where she is pastor old suburban neighborhood is in September 1996. He served of the First Presbyterian 1981 Daniel R. becoming more urbanized. The as a 1996 Presbyterian Church Church. Erdman (B) writes that church is seeking to reach out to (USA) General Assembly com¬ “as of July 1, 1996, 1 am pastor the growing African American missioner.

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1987 B. Keith Brewer African American Alums (M) travelled to the former of Princeton Soviet Union from November 15 to 22, 1996. The trip Matthew Anderson, a graduate of Princeton's Class of 1877, cared for both the spiritual and the eco¬ was sponsored by the Board nomic lives of black Philadelphians. A dedicated pastor, he founded north Philadelphia's Berean Presbyterian Church. And only twenty-five years after the abolition of slavery, Anderson founded of Higher Education and two institutions to help African Americans lead independent, productive lives: Berean Savings Ministry of the United Association, an institution which supported the audacious idea that free black people deserved a Methodist Church, in order chance to own their own homes; and Berean Institute, which trained former slaves in carpentry, to explore partnership and dressmaking, and other employable skills. mission opportunities in Russia Born in Franklin County, PA, to farmer parents in 1848, Anderson was raised in the Presbyterian for colleges, chaplaincies, and Church and was educated first at Ohio's Iberia College and then at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, campus ministries. Brewer is in where he graduated in 1874. He spent a brief period at Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA, and then transferred to Princeton. After a short argument with administrators he was issued a his fifth year as chaplain of the room in Alexander Hall, and became the first black student to live in Princeton's dormitories. Wesley Foundation at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. After graduation, Anderson spent two years as a student at Yale Divinity School, and served as the stated supply pastor of Temple Street Congregational Church in New Haven, CT. He left New Haven with the intention of doing mission work in the American South, but a stopover in Philadelphia con¬ Gary (B) and Rosalind (B) vinced him to take charge of the Gloucester Mission in the northern part of that city. The mission Ziccardi live in Italy, where became Berean Presbyterian Church in 1880 and was named for Berea, the city mentioned in Acts 17:10 where Paul and Silas taught. Gary is in his third year as chap¬ lain at Aviano Air Base. He In 1888 Anderson and his congregation founded Berean Savings Association and issued its first pastors the general Protestant mortgage, a $1000 loan that made possible the purchase of a home in the 900 block of North Adler congregation, does a lot of crisis Street. The association, which still exists, made money through both world wars, the Great Depression, and lesser economic downturns. counselling and flightline visita¬ tion, leads the Christian educa¬ "We've never lost a dime," said Maximilian Martin, who was Berean's president from 1970 until his tion program, and coaches death in 1990. "When other banks and savings and loans were going out of business, Berean paid its depositors every penny and still made money." a children’s baseball team called the Angels. Rosalind leads the In the past thirty years, Berean has helped more than fourteen thousand people buy homes, primari¬ singles’ outreach, preaches occa¬ ly in West Philadelphia but also in Germantown, Mount Airy, and North and South Philadelphia. While the savings and loan was founded because discrimination kept black people from getting sionally, and is writing a series loans from other sources, it now serves customers of every background. of Christ-based chil¬ dren’s stories. "The only color we know is green," Martin said.

In 1899 Anderson helped found Berean Institute, a school devoted to Lynn 1 988 teaching newly freed slaves the skills they would need to make a living in Elliott (B) is residency f the "new world" of the North. Berean Institute is still active, and offers O coordinator and regis- w programs in accounting, business administration, computer science, cos¬ metology, electronics, secretarial and general clerical skills, court and con¬ trar for the University -g vention reporting, and data processing for approximately two hundred of California-Los J full- and part-time students. Angeles School of Anderson died in 1928, two weeks shy of his eightieth birthday. He was Medicine. “It’s perfect >• eulogized by classmate Francis Grimke as "the soul of generosity, of kind¬ for me,” she says. uIt’s £ ness, of hospitality....He has left behind him institutions and influences pastoring, but in a dif- ® that will go on making themselves felt for good....I am sure we will not ferent way—helping c forget him, or forget the many years of patient toil that he has bestowed upon this work which was ever near to his heart." the genius element of ° o society tie their shoes ° a and get across the In Yang (M) is pastor of Daisy N. U. Obi street.” She and her husband, of Eastminster Presbyterian 1989 the Korean Presbyterian Church (M) received a 1995 D.Min. Bob Jystad ('86B), are Church; John Hilley (B, of Peoria, IL, and in 1996 in African and African American also part-time foster parents. '92M), her husband, is pastor served as moderator of the of Downtown Presbyterian spirituality from Episcopal Synod of Lincoln Trails. Divinity School, Cambridge, In February 1996, Janet Tuck Church. Both churches are MA. Hilley (B) became pastor in Nashville, TN.

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1990 Fran Hayes Committee moderator. He lives Allan H. Cole Jr. (B) is pur¬ As of December 1, 1996, in Bowling Green, MO. suing a Master of Social Work Barbara McGowan (B) (B) has served as pastor of degree at Columbia University. is pastor of Holmesburg Congruity Presbyterian Church, In April 1996, Presbyterian Church and New Alexandria, PA, for the 1991 Steven Y. S. Jhu (B) became Patricia E. Fisher (B) Mayfair Presbyterian Church past five years, and participated pastor of Korean Christian of Randolph, NJ, was ordained (both in Philadelphia, PA), in the Synod of the Trinity’s Church, Honolulu, HI. on June 2, 1996. the first yoked congregations TAS^TE of Ministry (Transition in the Presbytery of and Survival Skills Training is working Philadelphia. “These are two Experience) new-pastor develop¬ William Lee Kinney (B) Caroline Lee (B) has been elected to the boards toward a Ph.D. in clinical small congregations, one mile ment event during her first, of directors of Lyon College psychology at Fuller Theological apart, looking for revitalization second, and fourth summers (Batesville, AR) and Vera Loyd Seminary’s School of and redevelopment,” she writes. in ministry. She has served Home (Little Rock, AR). Psychology. “I’ve found that you need to as part of that program’s leader¬ He also serves on the design watch what you pray for— ship team for two years. The team for a new series of books Since February 1, 1996, you might just get it. My desire TAS^TE program helps pastors David for laypeople to be produced has been was to be a solo pastor in a reflect on and improve their E. Lovelace (B) by the PC(USA) General interim pastor of Green Hill small congregation, and now commitments to ministry, exam¬ Assembly’s Office of Theology Presbyterian Church near I’ve got two!” ining joys, frustrations, conflict and Worship. Wilmington, DE. management, leadership, and fresh perspectives on calls to Jeannine M. Frenzel is the resource ministry. 1994 Nathan Byrd (B) 1995 Geri Lyon- Sulyok (B) is the stated supply pastor of Grande (B) is director of person for the Societal Violence Jethro Memorial Presbyterian Gerald R. Voie (B) is on the pastoral care at AIDS Family Initiative Team of the PC(USA) Church, Atlantic City, NJ, and Services and unit leader for General Assembly Council, Northeast Community Action associate for church redevelop¬ Corporation and Rotary Club pastoral care at the AIDS and lives in Louisville, KY. ment with the Atlantic City International boards of direc¬ Designated Center, State Presbyterian Mission Council. is in tors. He is also his presbytery’s University of New York, Frances K. Troup (B) a one-year CPE residency at St. Interpretation and Stewardship Buffalo, NY. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA. MiwetWeddings 1 irths Weddings

Carol Anne Pino to Kenneth Sprang ('74b), August 10, 1996 Sandra Larson ('77B) to John C. Asbury, June 22, 1996 Amy Beth Hankins to Guy Griffith ('86B), October 5, 1996 Janet Rea ('88B) to Dwayne M. Doyle, May 8, 1996 Laurel Vand to David Whitford ('92B), October 5, 1996 Denise Bartlett (currently enrolled) to Kevin Brent Fournier, June 29, 1996 Births

Sarah Grace Palmerton Binau to Ann R. Palmerton ('86B) and Brad Binau ('82M, '87D), September 26, 1996 Andrew Damian to Lynne and Wesley D. Avram ('84B), February 15, 1996 Susannah Mary Jean to Mary Robinson Mohr ('84B) and Randy Mohr, October 28, 1996 1996 After his 1996 David Frederick Goodher Mendez to Marg Goodher and Frederick J. Mendez ('86B), graduation, Keith Kerber (B) February 24, 1993 Andrew Curtis to Nancy Jo Clendenin Dederer ('91B) and C. Christian Dederer, September 20, 1996 and his wife, Laurena Ketzel- Brendan Atlee to Lynn ('93B) and Mark ('93B) Barger Elliott, August 31, 1996 Kerber, moved to Phoenix, AZ, Rachel Dianne to Stacy ('94B) and Bob ('94B) Bronkema, June 8, 1996 where Laurena has a job with AlliedSignal, Inc. Keith accepted

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On the Shelves Have you ever wished that you could ask for a PTS professor's From Harry A. Freebairn, director of field education: recommendation before buying a book? On the Shelves features book recommendations from a variety of Princeton Vital Signs, by Milton J. Coalter, et. al. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Seminary faculty, with the hope that these suggestions will Publishing Co., 1996. Subtitled The Promise of Mainstream help alumni/ae choose books that will facilitate their profession¬ Protestantism, this book sees the trio of Coalter, Mulder, and al and personal growth. Weeks turn their findings from the seven-volume Presbyterian Presence series into a song of hope for those of us who live in From Charles L. Bartow, the Carl and Helen Egner and love the mainline, sideline, or oldline church. More than Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry: just whistling in the dark, Vital Signs talks about what we can do, and celebrates what we are doing well. The final chapter The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, makes the book. Imagination, and Reason, by Mark Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Those of us who surmise that emotion, Listening Woman, by Tony Hillerman. New York: HarperCollins, thought, physical experience, and abstract conceptualization 1990. Most of Hillerman's mysteries weave Navajo rituals and cannot be separated have a scholarly advocate in Johnson, who desert topography into a blanket of suspense and intrigue. This is a professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University. His one features Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, whose rule of thinking book is based on a critical reading of current research in cogni¬ like his adversaries and paying attention to their tracks suggests tive science, and argues that imagination links cognitive and strategies for pastors who are baffled by behavior in their bodily structures. He demonstrates how basic concepts like bal¬ parishes. Often, we simply need to pay attention. ance, scale, force, and cycles emerge from our earliest physical experiences and are metaphorically extended by us to express From Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, the W. A. Eisenberger abstract meaning. Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, and director of Ph.D. studies: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1994. Island of Tears, Island of Hope: Living the Gospel in a Combined with the previous book, this is a serious challenge to Revolutionary Situation, by Niall O'Brien. Maryknoli, NY: Orbis the notion that language determines perception, and that the Books, 1993. Writing out of decades of experience as a local only worlds we can know are our own strictly word-created priest serving in the Philippines, O'Brien makes the case for worlds. The author is a professor and director of the Center for "active nonviolence" as a viable mode of Christian response to Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of the violence of systemic injustice. Winner of the Pax Christi Technology. peace award, this book puts a human face on the struggle for land reform in one local setting, while challenging readers in Standing by Words, by Wendell Berry. Farrar, Straus, and every community to break out of the complicity of silence that Giroux, 1983. Berry connects language and the world we inhab¬ perpetuates injustice. it, arguing for a use of words that is worth "standing by." Do you mean what you say, and will you be held accountable for The Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom what you say? Our own well-being, as well as that of the land and Sharon H. Ringe. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox we live on, depends on our being able to answer "yes." Berry Press, 1992. More than forty women biblical scholars have con¬ adds that poetry should forge connections and imply a lived tributed to this volume, which presents, for each biblical book, story, instead of being merely self-referential. Its meanings 1) a brief introduction to critical interpretive issues, and 2) com¬ "must resonate and accumulate within and among and in ments focused on passages and themes of special significance response to the meanings of other things." Surely there is a for the situation of women. This is thought-provoking general thought worth a preacher's attention. It is worth a professor's reading and a "must" for the reference shelf of pastors and attention, too. Bible teachers in this era of increasing concern for gender issues. a call in July 1996 to become with the church to Puerto Bug until the bus is rebuilt and the associate pastor for youth Penasco, Mexico, where they reliable (don’t hold your breath). We're not and families at Orangewood helped build two homes and Although we are hoping for Presbyterian Church, also laid the foundation for a third. an overseas assignment in ignoring you!

in Phoenix. He was ordained The pair have purchased a home a few years, we are enjoying The editorial staff of inSpire in September in his hometown in north central Phoenix “and this respite from our transient receives many class notes every year, and tries to print them all. of Santa Barbara, CA. He is are trying to adjust to being lifestyle. One of our greatest But because the magazine is involved in leading church grownups,” they write. “Lest fears is to become too ‘comfort¬ published quarterly, it some¬ times doesn't include recently services every week, and will you fear we have sold out, be able’ and not hear the Lord’s submitted class notes. If you eventually preach about once assured that Keith still has his call, so we continue to keep our don't see your class note here, please be patient. It will appear a month. In November the ’66 VW MicroBus and is cur¬ ears and eyes open for addition¬ in a future issue. Kerbers went on a mission trip rently driving a convertible VW al missions opportunities.”

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Guatemala, since there is a Presbyterian Church there. The groups, which are mainly from Presbyterian Church (USA) churches, presbyteries, synods, and seminaries, come to “see what is happening in the Third World and what it has to do with them,” Gloria said. “It’s a situation of increasing poverty and difficulty.” Still, Gloria said, North American Christians learn about much more than the poverty and hardship of life in Latin America. “One ol the wonderful things about my work is seeing how people are evange¬ A Career with Latin America lized by the Central American Christians, in the sense of life-changing experiences that PTS Alums Support Pastors in Guatemala and Costa Rica make us look at who we are as Christians

The Presbyterian Church (USA) is “Professors travel from place to place; and as North Americans,” Gloria said. “To celebrating a “Year with Latin America”; students study individually and in study see God’s spirit at work here over and over for Ross and Gloria Kinsler, it’s been more groups and centers,” Ross said. The combi¬ again is what has given my life meaning.” I like a career. Both I960 PTS graduates, the nation makes possible much more theologi¬ Amazing "Grace" Kinslers have blended education and mis¬ cal education than would otherwise be a real¬ A Church Builds Confidence and sion—first in Guatemala, and now in Costa ity lor these students. All students need Rica. As a result, Latin American Christians scholarships. Common Ground_ find it easier to attend seminary, and North The program is funded by churches in When Steve Yamaguchi first walked American Christians have learned about their North America and Europe. The seminary through the sanctuary of Grace Presbyterian neighbors to the south. is also building up its own resources, with Church in Paramount, California, at the The pair began their career with thirteen a goal of endowing the John A. Mackay beginning of his pastorate there nine years years of service in Guatemala. They then Chair in Christian Thought and Ecume¬ ago, he noticed there was no baptismal font. moved Geneva, Switzerland, where they nism. The chair will honor the former “Where would we baptize someone?” he served the World Council of Churches Princeton Theological Seminary president, asked an elder. “We don’t baptize people,” (WCC) for six years. who was known (among other things) for his came the response. They have been in San Jose, Costa Rica, love of both Latin America and ecumenism. In fact, those thirty worshippers—whose for ten years now. Both are professors at As the child of missionaries—his parents average age was over seventy—had not bap¬ Latin American Biblical Seminary, where served in Korea—Ross wanted to “follow tized anyone for five years, Yamaguchi Ross helps design theological education pro¬ that tradition in another part of the world, recalls. But he found the font under a pile of grams, particularly “alternative” patterns of and Latin America seemed to be opening discarded, broken lurniture, and returned it seminary education. up.” He sees the decentralized education to the sanctuary. “The traditional school model brings approach of Latin American Biblical That was the beginning of what he has students to a central place,” Ross explained. Seminary as an example of how the very likened to “turning around the Titanic”—the “An alternative is to decentralize the model nature of ministry is changing. redevelopment of that eighty-year-old, dis¬ and let people stay in their own milieu.” “We are turning toward ministry by the heartened Japanese American congregation The seminarians of Latin America often find whole faith community,” he said, “and mov¬ established by the Presbytery ol Los Angeles it financially difficult to leave their jobs and ing away from professionalization. Church in the early 1920s for Japanese immigrants. family responsibilities to attend seminary for leaders all have equal access to the seminary. “When I arrived right from seminary three to four years, so Latin American And this is not simply a matter of education in 1988, the church wondered seriously, Biblical Seminary has invented ways to bring design. Theology is not an academic con¬ if not openly, ‘Will we survive?”’ Yamaguchi the seminary to the students. By developing struct. This model leads away from the remembers. “Today we expect to survive. study centers and sister schools throughout polarizing of rich and poor. It has to do Now our question is: Where are we going Latin America, it has made it possible with the foundations of our faith.” and how faithfully will we do our work of for seminary students to attend the central Of course, education for laypeople is ministry?” school for between two months and one year an important part ol the church’s mission. The past nine years have brought vision and accomplish the rest of their studies near Gloria Kinsler leads study delegations and hope—and lots ol new people. “Our their home towns. throughout Central America, particularly membership is now 128; last Easter in our

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last class of twenty-five new members, eigh¬ “Our work at Grace seems more like an the lawn was just dead grass, and we found teen joined by profession of faith and five by 'uncovering’ or making manifest what is three dead kittens beneath some broken fur¬ reaffirmation of faith,” Yamaguchi reports. already the reality of God’s household,” he niture in an unused Sunday School class¬ “We re welcoming people who have not gone says. “We try in our ministry to realize what room. But we started cleaning it up, and the to church before. They’re new Christians and is already true—that God’s vision for the church began to change. We believed people new Presbyterians. holy catholic church includes the whole would come, and they did come.” “Grace might not look like your typical world’s outcasts.” Growing membership has led the congre¬ Presbyterian congregation,” he reflects. “We To help keep the congregation’s worship gation to add staff. PTS senior Gerald Arata offer you good news and hope if you've been and self-concept from becoming too was an intern there last year, and this year wounded and oppressed. We try hard to wel¬ parochial, Yamaguchi chooses hymns and the church will call its first associate pastor. come all people, regardless of background or music from around the world. “We learn, Grace is a member of the fellowship of condition. Our people have included the really learn, Spanish hymns, Japanese hymns, the eighteen Japanese American Churches homeless and the very privileged, those with African hymns," he says. “I remind the con¬ (the JPC) in the Presbyterian Church (USA) little formal education and college professors, gregation that as we sing these hymns, peo¬ who meet annually to support each other. people from one to one “We’re more blended hundred years old. than some of the We include people of other JPC churches,” Japanese, Korean, Yamaguchi says. “About Chinese, and other Asian 80 percent of our mem¬ ancestries, Caucasians, bers have some Japanese Hispanics, and African ancestry, but many Americans in lots of Japanese Americans do blended families. Some not marry other Japanese people drive an hour Americans. We want to to get here, some walk remain sensitive to both across the street.” the older people who are The eclectic mix is more influenced by not surprising for a Japanese culture and church that began on the younger people who the fringe of mainstream are much more A smiling Steve Yamaguchi is surrounded by members of his congregation, aptly named America. Its first congre¬ Grace Presbyterian Church. Americanized. Our wor¬ gants were mostly people ship service is in English, from rural or depressed areas of Japan, ple all around the world are singing them but I do a few rubrics in Japanese. My according to Yamaguchi, a third generation to the same God, on this very same day, Japanese is moderately functional: I can con¬ (sansei) Japanese American who grew up in and that we are all part of the one church duct a bilingual funeral service, but I could¬ South Central Los Angeles. Church growth of Jesus Christ. It means a lot to us, a small n’t order computer parts in Tokyo.” was stemmed by the Immigration Act of urban congregation in an overwhelming Yamaguchi admits that the work of 1924 which completely halted Japanese metropolis, to remember that we’re not church redevelopment has been hard. “This immigration. Then during World War II, alone.” little church was so beat up and discouraged Japanese Americans in the Western states Overcoming loneliness and lack of confi¬ when I came that many doubted we’d make were incarcerated in concentration camps; dence has been a challenge for the congrega¬ it. But I believed we would, and felt deeply three-fourths of the church members active tion. Their first building, in Long Beach, called to work for it. I remember Ed Dowey back in 1988 had been imprisoned or dis¬ California, was frequently vandalized, and [PTS’s Archibald Alexander Professor of the placed during World War II by the incarcera¬ worshippers were mugged on the way from History of Christian Doctrine Emeritus] pas¬ tion orders. the curb to the front steps of the church. sionately sharing with my senior class Dr. Yamaguchi’s own grandparents could not Many quit coming to church by the time Mackay’s words: ‘While you are young and be naturalized until the 1954 passage of anti¬ the congregation moved to its present site. while you are able, go to the hard places and exclusion legislation. His parents and all of “In 1987 they moved into a building do the hard things.’ When I was seeking their families were incarcerated in the camps. in which another congregation had died,” a call as a senior, lots of folks were lined “People in our congregation have experi¬ he says. “When I was called in 1988, the up hoping to go to the other ministries I was enced exclusion,” he says. But he is cautious building was in terrible shape. There was considering. No one was in Grace’s line. about using the word “inclusive” to describe gum on the pews, the pew Bibles and hym¬ In the quiet emptiness of that line, I heard the church’s present ministry. nals were torn and scribbled with graffiti, God’s call.” I

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• Madathiparampil Mammen (M. M.) Thomas From 1968 to 1975 he was chairperson of the Central M. M. Thomas, a major force in the Indian church as well as Committee of the World Council of Churches itself, guiding in the worldwide ecumenical movement, died on December 3, it through some of the stormiest years of its history. He received 1996. He was eighty years old. Between 1980 and 1987, Thomas an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 1978. was a guest professor of ethics, mission, and ecumenics at From 1952 until his retirement in 1976, he was director of the Princeton Theological Seminary for one semester in each of six Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society in years, teaching such courses as The Gospel in a Pluralistic World, India, where he helped to create literature for the guidance of the The Church in Mission and Unity, Christian Social Ethics in church and society of India on social policy, Christian-Hindu Asian Perspective, and The Ecumenical Movement. Indeed, relations, political analysis, family problems, and ecumenical according to his friend and colleague Charles West, who is affairs. He also wrote a large and diverse number of books of his Princeton’s Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics own in English and his native Malayalam, including Man in the Emeritus, “to say he taught these subjects is hardly adequate. Universe of Faiths, Secular Ideologies and the Secular Meaning He was the ecumenical movement in our midst. He embodied of Christ, The Christian Response to the Asian Revolution, The the world church in mission and through his teaching presence Realization of the Cross, and a series of Bible studies for the made us a part of it.” Thomas was born into a devout Mar church in Kerala. At the risk of imprisonment he opposed Indira Thoma Christian family in Kerala, India. He was the first secre¬ Gandhi’s suspension of democracy in 1976, a position which led tary of the Youth Christian Council of Action in Kerala, and was indirectly to his appointment as governor of the largely Christian then secretary of the Student Christian Movement in Madras, province of Nagaland, where he served from 1991 to 1993. India. From there he became youth secretary of the Mar Thoma At the time of his death he was actively promoting a three-year Church. From 1947 to 1952 he served on the staff of the World research project on mission and evangelism for India, to which Student Christian Federation in Geneva, Switzerland, with a spe¬ he had recruited two PTS faculty members as advisors. As West cial emphasis on Christian political witness. He helped plan the noted, “through the power of his thought, the breadth of his first assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1948, and vision, and the genius of his diplomacy, he has influenced the was active in the formation of the council’s Department of mind and policy of the ecumenical movement more than any Church and Society, of which he became an active member and other person save its architect, W. A. Visser’t Hooft. He was for served as chairperson from 1961 to 1968. He also chaired the a while our teacher and our friend. He remains our inspiration World Conference on Church and Society in Geneva in 1966. and our challenge.”

• William J. Duvall, 1932B daughters, Elinor D. Heermans and Carol • James L. Ewalt, 1940B William J. Duvall, a Methodist D. Garrett. James L. Ewalt, former pastor of Episcopal minister who served churches • Galbraith Hall Todd, 1938B, 1939M Eastminster Presbyterian Church in in New Jersey, died on October 7, 1996. Galbraith Hall Todd, who spent fifty Hyattsville, MD, died on January 18, He was eighty-nine years old. Duvall was years as pastor of Arch Street Presbyterian 1997. He was eighty-one years old. Ewalt ordained on March 6, 1932. He pastored Church, Philadelphia, PA, died on January was ordained on June 17, 1940, by Erie Hedding Methodist Episcopal Church in 28, 1997. He was eighty-two years old. Presbytery. He was the associate pastor Bellmawr, NJ, from 1930 to 1932, and Ordained by Erie Presbytery on June 7, of the Second Presbyterian Church, churches in Barnsboro and New Sharon, 1938, Todd received his first call as pastor Elizabeth, NJ, from 1940 to 1941, and NJ, from 1932 to 1934. He also served of Pierce Avenue Presbyterian Church in was then called to pastor Linden churches in English Creek and Bethel, NJ, Niagara Falls, NY, where he served from Presbyterian Church in Linden, NJ, where from 1934 to 1936. Other churches in his 1940 to 1944. He became pastor at Arch he stayed from 1941 to 1943. He then ministry included Billingsport Methodist Street Presbyterian Church in 1944, and served a three-year stint in the United Episcopal Church in Paulsboro, NJ, where retired from that church in 1994. From States Army. From 1946 to 1960 he was he was called in 1936; Trinity Methodist 1948 to 1968, he was a lecturer in pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Church in Clayton, NJ; and the First homiletics at Reformed Episcopal Crafton, PA, and in 1960 became associate Methodist Church in Salem, NJ, where Seminary. He was the author of several pastor of the First Presbyterian Church he was called in 1958. He was a Civil religious books, including The Gamblers of Red Bank, NJ, where he stayed until War historian and for several years hosted at Golgotha, which was based on fourteen 1963. In that year he was called as pastor a weekly television program in the of his Lenten sermons. In 1964, he deliv¬ of Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia area on Abraham Lincoln. ered the opening prayer of the U.S. Hyattsville, MD. He is survived by his He loved to travel and visited thirty-four Senate. He was the chaplain of several wife, Anna, and by their children, John countries on six continents. He is survived fraternal organizations, and enjoyed histo¬ Ewalt and Martha Grant. by his wife, Mildred Duvall, and by their ry and genealogy.

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• William R. Johnston, 1942B He was seventy years old. Baynum was nents. He founded Bel Canto Opera in William R. Johnston, former pastor ordained by Morris and Orange Presbytery 1969 to produce older, little-known operas of the First Presbyterian Church of on June 15, 1954. He was called to be the and to give young singers a start, and Murrysville, PA, died on December 22, assistant pastor at the Second Presbyterian presented modestly staged performances 1996. He was seventy-nine years old. Church, Butler, PA, where he served from in the meeting hall of Madison Avenue Johnston was ordained by Redstone 1954 to 1955. He was pastor of Manassas Baptist Church, New York, NY. In 1979 Presbytery on June 4, 1942. He was pastor Presbyterian Church, Manassas, VA, from the company moved to Martin Luther of Round Hill Presbyterian Church in 1955 to 1961, and minister of education King High School, on the upper west side Elizabeth, PA, from 1942 to 1946; and at the Second Presbyterian Church, of Manhattan. The company’s highlights pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, MO, from 1961 to 1962. included productions of Auber’s Manon Scottdale, PA, from 1946 to 1951. In From 1962 to 1965 he was the minister Lescaut, Paisiello’s Barbiere di Siviglia, and 1951 he became executive of Redstone of parish life at the First Presbyterian the world premier of Tao Yuan, a fantasy Presbytery in Uniontown, PA, a post he Church, Birmingham, MI. In 1973 play combining music and dance by the held until 1954. In that year he was called he became a counselor at the State Chinese composer Sung Fu Yuan. He left as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Correctional Institution at Graterford, PA, Bel Canto Opera in 1985, but came out Uniontown, PA, where he stayed until as well as a caseworker and human services of retirement to direct Lakme in 1991. 1961, when he was called as pastor of aid for the Philadelphia County Board of He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Sieh, the Murrysville church. He served in the Assistance. He is survived by his wife, Jane and their children, Peter Sieh and United States Marine Corps from 1937 Baynum, and his children: Bruce, Beth, Catherine Birchard. to 1941. Johnston is survived by his wife, Robert, and Paul. • Mac C. Wells, 1969B, 1970M Barbara Johnston, as well as by their chil¬ • C. Fred Mathias, 1957B Mac C. Wells, a pastor who served dren: William Nevin Johnston, Elizabeth C. Fred Mathias, pastor of Northminster churches in New Jersey and Indiana, died Johnston, Susanne Leggett, Mary Jacob, Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN, on November 21, 1996. He was seventy- Nancy Shannon, and Sarah Kolcun. died on December 15, 1996. He was eight years old. Wells had a long career He is also survived by four stepchildren: sixty-four years old. Mathias, who had in the United States Air Force, where Christopher, Amy, David, and Timothy been pastor of that church lor the past he served from 1947 to 1965, before Volk. eleven years (since 1985), was murdered coming to seminary. He was ordained by • George F. Mace, 1943B in his home. His wife, Cleta Mathias, was Washington City Presbytery on May 11, George F. Mace, a pastor and presbytery also killed. The killer or killers have not 1969. From 1966 to 1969 he was the executive who served the church in Ohio been caught. Mathias was ordained by business administrator ol the First and Missouri, died on October 14, 1996. Northumberland Presbytery on June 6, Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ. In He was eighty years old. Mace was 1957. His first call was as associate pastor 1969 he was called first as the assistant ordained in May 1943 by the Presbytery of the First Presbyterian Church in York, pastor and then the associate pastor of Philadelphia. His first call was as pastor PA, where he served from 1957 to 1960. of Nassau Street Presbyterian Church, of the First Presbyterian Church, He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Princeton, NJ, which was a church Perrysburg, OH, where he stayed until Church, West Chester, PA, from 1960 formed from the union of the First 1949. In that year he was called as pastor to 1965. In 1965 he was called as pastor Presbyterian Church and St. Andrew’s of Mifflin Presbyterian Church, Gahanna, of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Presbyterian Church. In 1975 he became OH, where he served for eleven years. Wilmington, DE. The Mathiases are sur¬ associate pastor of the Second Presbyterian From I960 to 1967 he was associate pas¬ vived by their children: Mark Mathias, Church, Indianapolis, IN. Wells is sur¬ tor of Forest Hill Presbyterian Church in Garth Mathias, and Anne O’Neil. vived by his wife, Mauveleene Wells. Cleveland Heights, OH, and in 1967 • Theodore Sieh, 1957b In addition to those whose obituaries he became a member of the urban staff Theodore Sieh, the founder and artistic appear in this issue, the Seminary of St. Louis Presbytery, St. Louis, MO. director of New York City’s Bel Canto has received word that the following He became associate executive of Elijah Opera Company, died on September 22, alumni/ae have died: Parish Lovejoy Presbytery, also in St. 1996. He was seventy-one years old. Henry Little Jr., 1923B Louis, in 1970. Mace is survived by his Born in Hainan, China, he studied both Harry H. Bryan, 1939G wife, Maxine Mace. theology and music before immigrating A. Walker Hepler, 1939B • Robert D. Baynum, 1954B, 1966M to the United States in 1955 to study Shinnosuke Miyamoto, 1950b Robert D. Baynum, a teacher and social at Princeton Seminary and at the Juilliard Michael Samartha, 1968M Lucy Poba, 1983E worker who served churches in Tennessee, School of Music. Sieh learned the bel

Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, and canto operatic tradition from the Italian The obituaries of many of these Michigan, died on December 10, 1996. tenor Tito Schipa, one of its great expo¬ alumni/ae will appear in future issues.

inSpire • 29 spring 1997 investing in ministry

Gifts Mrs. Elizabeth D. Newcomer to the Alumni/ae Roll Call (gift given 2/14/96) This list includes gifts made between October 22, 1996, and Mr. William F. Nordt to the Annual Fund January 23, 1997. The Reverend Howard A. Northacker (’ 15B) to the Annual Fund In Memory of_ The Reverend Dr. Clifford G. Pollock (’37B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Howard E. Pusey (’52B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend James A. Allison Jr. ( 5 IB) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend William Robert Raborn (’50B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Frederick J. Allsup (’42B) to the Annual Fund Ms. Edith D. Rambo to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Russell W. Annich (’32B) to the Scholarship Ms. Roberta Emmons Ross to the Peter K. and Helen Emmons Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund Ms. Lorna M. Armstrong to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Michael P. Samartha (’68M) to the Scholarship Ms. Mar)' Armstrong to the Mary Armstrong Memorial Book Fund Fund Mrs. Santina M. Schlotter to the Annual Fund Ms. Lily Stall Bauernschmidt to the Flarwood and Willa Childs The Reverend Dr. Alan E. Schoff (’40B) to the Annual Fund Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund (gift given 2/14/96) The Reverend John S. Shew (’54B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Samuel W. Blizzard Jr. ('39B) to the Samuel The Reverend Dr. Alvin Duane Smith (’45B, ’47M) to the Annual Wilson Blizzard Award Fund The Reverend John R. Booker (’55B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. J. Ross Stevenson to the Annual Fund Mr. Clement A. Bowie to the Clement A. Bowie Family Memorial Mr. Hugh M. Sullivan to the Annual Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund Mrs. Catherine H. Sulyok (’51E) to the Kalman L. and Catherine The Reverend George Chalmers Browne (’40B) to the Alumni/ae H. Sulyok Scholarship Endowment Fund Roll Call Dr. Kalman L. Sulyok (’56D) to the Kalman L. and Catherine H. Mrs. Betty C. Bryant to the Newton W. and Betty C. Bryant Sulyok Scholarship Endowment Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. Gavin A. Taylor to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Edward J. Caldwell Jr. (’38B) to the Annual The Reverend Donald K. Theobald (’43B) to the Scholarship Fund Fund The Reverend Dr. Arthur F. Ewert (’47M) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Reinhardt Van Dyke (’38b) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. William FL Felmeth (’42B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Raymond C. Walker (TOB) to the Annual Fund The Reverend John D. Flikkema (’34B) to the Annual Fund Dr. David A. Weadon to the David A. Weadon Memorial The Reverend Dr. Allan M. Frew (’35B) to the Scholarship Fund Endowment Fund Mr. Raymond FL Gould to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Mac C. Wells (’69B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Mrs. Matilda Hahn to the Annual Fund Ms. Marian Lawder O’Brien Whitman to the Lawder Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Halsey to the Annual Fund Endowment Fund The Reverend A. Walker Hepler Jr. (’39B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. James Holmes (1826b) to the Annual Fund In Honor of_ The Reverend Dr. Reuel E. Johnson (’48B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Robert W. Battles Jr. (’64M) to the Scholarship Dr. Edward J. Jurji (’42B) to the Annual Fund Fund Miss Elsie M. Knodel to the Annual Fund Mrs. Ruth Battles to the Scholarship Fund James Bell, Esq., to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Howard T. Kuist to the Scholarship Fund Mr. Richard H. Lackey Jr. to the Richard H. Lackey Jr. Memorial Mr. Newton W. Bryant to the Newton W. and Betty C. Bryant Scholarship Endowment Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Joseph J. Lemen (’50B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Fergus Cochran (TOB) to the Annual Fund (gift Mr. John S. Linen to the John S. and Mary B. Linen Memorial given 2/16/96) Scholarship Endowment Fund Ms. Dorisanne Cooper (’96B) to the Annual Fund Mrs. Mary B. Linen to the John S. and Mary B. Linen Memorial The Reverend Dr. Geddes W. Hanson (’72D) to the Edler G. Scholarship Endowment Fund Hawkins Prize Dr. J. Scott Maclennan to the Annual Fund The Reverend William O. Harris (’54B) to the Speer Library Fund The Reverend Henry F. Jonas (’52B) to the Annual Fund Mrs. Alexandra Marshall to the Guilford C. Babcock Seminars in Practical Theology The Reverend Margaret Grim Kibben (’86B) to the Annual Fund Dr. James I. McCord to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Nancy E. Muth (’79B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Lewis McNeely (1848b) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Ann R. Palmerton (’86B) to the Scholarship Fund Ms. Irene Elizabeth Miller to the Annual Fund Mrs. H. Whitney Gillis Steinhauser to the Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. David J. Morrison to the Annual Fund Mr. Ralph M. Wyman to the Annual Fund The Reverend Otto M. Zingg (’62B) to the Scholarship Fund

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In Appreciation of_ Did You Know That...? The Reverend Dr. Charles L. Bartow (’63B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call the average debt of the entering PTS Class of 1996 Mrs. R. Paula Bartow to the Alumni/ae Roll Call (M.Div. students who will graduate in 1999) at the time The Reverend Charles L. Cureton III (’60B) to the Annual Fund of matriculation was $13,169 Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Glassman (Robyn) and Family to the 40 per cent of this class began their seminary education Annual Fund in debt The Reverend Henry F. Jonas (’52B) to the Annual Fund The Lending Library to the Center of Continuing Education of the 144 M.Div. students who graduated from Princeton in 1996, eighty one graduated with student The Reverend Dr. Hugh M. Miller (’42B) to the Annual Fund loan debt, an average of $14,680 per student Ms. Melinda Nichols to the Scholarship Fund The Presbyterian Church to the Annual Fund PTS students spend an average of $1,030 for books each year Princeton Theological Seminary to the Arthur Paul Rech

Memorial Prize in Theology and Pastoral Ministry the maximum need-based grant to PTS students is Princeton Theological Seminary’s “help” with Dr. Robert W. $7,285 (full tuition and comprehensive fees, but not Morrison (’69B) to the Annual Fund room and board) Princeton Theological Seminary Touring Choir to the Touring PTS scholarship aid pays full tuition for many students, Choir Fund but many other expenses must be met by other income Seminary work to the Annual Fund sources Speer Library to the Annual Fund of the 115 M. Div. students that began seminary in the Speer Library “for many pleasureful hours” to the Annual Fund fall of 1996, 105 are receiving grant and scholarship aid

Kay Ledward made a discovery. That was nearly twenty years ago. Recently widowed, she elected to take on the investment and management of her financial resources herself, quite a challenge. Devout in her faith, Kay has always taken seriously the responsibility of Christian stewardship and its influence on her priorities and the decisions she makes in the course of her daily living. A faithful and longtime member of her local church, Kay has also been a friend of the Seminary through the years. The discovery she made was the Princeton Seminary Fund, our pooled income fund. It is one of the life income plans we offer through our planned giving program. Kay discovered that an investment in that fund of $1,000 or more would both advance the cause of the Seminary and pay her income on a quarterly basis. She liked the idea that this income was variable

The Reverend according to the fortunes of the market, and could grow in a growing economy. She was also interested Chase S. Hunt to learn that a gift to the Princeton Seminary Fund would entitle her to a charitable deduction for is the Seminary's income tax purposes. Over the ensuing dozen years, she made several such gifts to that fund. At her director of planned giving. death, these monies will establish an endowed memorial fund bearing the names of Kay and her hus¬ For more informa¬ band, Robert. tion, call him at 609-497-7756. More recently, Kay Ledward made another discovery! This was of a life income plan called a chari¬ table gift annuity. Some years older now, Kay found it appealing that such an annuity pays her a fixed amount based on her age at the time the agreement is established, and that a portion of the quarterly payment she receives comes to her tax free. This arrangement also entitles her to an income tax charita¬ ble deduction. Since this discovery, Kay has made a number of gifts to the Seminary by way of these annuities, which will ultimately become a part of the same memorial fund as her pooled income fund gifts mentioned earlier. If you would like to make the discoveries Kay Ledward made for yourself, or learn of other oppor¬ tunities offered through our planned giving program, I invite you to contact me by mail or by calling me at 609-497-7756.

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When I graduated from seminary, I had military duty. The Army did not have packed at all times, ready to pick up and everything planned. Like so many of my many female chaplains. They needed me. go when the call comes. classmates, I would serve a few years as an [But I owned a house. I had two dogs. I never imagined how important “knap¬ assistant or associate pastor. Then I would I had a plan.] I felt a pull. Before I knew sack theology” would become in my min¬ move to a small church as solo pastor, fol¬ it, I had orders for active duty. I was pack¬ istry. I would have missed so much had lowed by an assortment of larger churches. ing up everything I owned and heading I been firmly planted in one place—travel Hopefully, I would “peak" with a head-of- to Fort Lewis, Washington. to many exciting places, working side staff position. Now what? Could I salvage any part by side with ministers from a wide variety I started off right on schedule. The of the plan? Counseling soldiers and their of denominations and faith groups, cele¬ First Presbyterian Church in Stillwater, families about personal issues was not brating Passover with Jews and Christians Oklahoma, called me as assistant pastor. so different from my civilian ministry. while deployed to a Muslim country, lead¬ Soon they changed the call to associate Granted, the multicultural aspect of chap¬ ing worship for people who had never met pastor. My path was set. laincy added an interesting dimension, a woman in uniform, facing a greater vari¬ Things were going just as I planned. but the hurts and hopes of the people ety of counseling issues in one month than I was just doing my job when a member were the same. Perhaps I could still get I might see in an entire year in a civilian of my congregation asked me to lead a back on track. parish. If I had not followed that call, worship service for his Army Reserve unit. I was learning the ropes of ministry in I would have missed an incredible oppor¬ It was early enough in the morning that the military community when my medical tunity. it did not interfere with the Sunday service unit got orders to head for Somalia. My career plans have certainly changed. in my congregation. [A little service to [But I hadn’t figured things out yet. I had Actually, I have stopped planning. My the community never hurt anybody, I told only been on active duty for three weeks!] rucksack is packed. I am ready to go! I myself.] They asked me to come back Before I knew it, I was in Mogadishu. again. Then they asked me to become I was leading worship while automatic their chaplain. [Wait a minute! This wasn’t weapons were fired from the roof of the in my plans. In fact, I had protested building. I was sitting in the office of against the military in seminary!] But the the Pakistani liaison officer arranging for unit had no one to be a pastor. I discov¬ my Muslim soldiers to attend mosque ered that many of the unit members had on Fridays. This certainly was not in no civilian church contact. When faced my plans. I was so far from my path with ethical dilemmas, the reservists had I would never get back! no one to advise them. When struggling Another Princeton Seminary alumna, with marriage problems, they had no con¬ Gail Anderson Ricciuti (’73B), co-pastor tact for counseling. Something tugged of the Downtown Presbyterian Church at me. Before I knew it, I was attending in Rochester, New York, was the com¬ Chaplain Officer Basic Course at Fort mencement speaker for the class of 1982. Monmouth, New Jersey. I still remember what she said. She sug¬ My plans were slightly altered, but I was gested that we embrace a “knapsack theol¬ not too far off track. I was still working ogy." We should not get so rooted in in the local church. I only met one week¬ one place that we could not pick up and end a month with my reserve unit. That go on a moment’s notice. What she called Chaplain Barbara K. Sherer (’82B) is a cap¬ tain in the United States Army. She works would not affect the course of my career. a “knapsack,” we call “rucksacks" in the at the United States Army Chaplaincy I he plan changed when another Presby¬ army. A good soldier will keep a rucksack Services Support Agency at the Pentagon. terian chaplain suggested I apply for active

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2-13 Institute of Theology (St. Andrews, Scotland)

22-27 56th Annual Institute of Theology (Princeton, NJ) Singing a New Song

For more information, contact the Center of Continuing Education, 12 Library Place, Princeton, NJ 08540, 609-497-7990 or 1-800-622-6767, ext. 7990

Summer School 1997 calendar July 2-August 22 Biblical Hebrew (six credits) J. J. M. Roberts New Testament Greek (six credits) Brian K. Blount July 7-11 Theology and the Arts One week on campus followed by two off-campus weekends, to be announced, and directed study. Max Stackhouse July 7-25 Exegesis of the Book of Jonah (Hebrew text) Robert B. Salters Literary Criticism of the New Testament Andrew K.M. Adam Doing Dogmatics Today (afternoon sessions) Christopher L. Morse Mobilizing Congregations for Ministry and Witness (afternoon sessions) John W. Stewart July 28-August 15 The Christian Mission in a Pluralistic Culture Alan P. Neely Basics of Pastoral Care and Counseling (afternoon sessions) James W. Ellis Jr. Urban Ministry and Youth Crisis Michael J. Christensen From Text to Sermon Nancy Lammers Gross August 18-22 Presbyterian Church Polity (one credit) H. Dana Fearon III

For more information about summer school or to register, please call 609-497-7820

photo: Chrissie Knight Visit usatwww.ptsem.edu. eighty-fifth annualcommence¬ on theSeminary'sonehundred Brawley (Th.M.)posetogether Neal Magee(B),andDiana of theSeminary'snewwebsite. PTS foroneyearaswebmaster ment. Mageewillstayonat Happy graduatesClifJohnson(B), in photos Princeton summer 1997 inSpire in this issue Princeton Theological ■ Seminary Features

Summer 1997 Volume 2 8 • Communicating with Care Number 4 Janet E. Weathers, Princeton's assistant professor of speech Editor Barbara A. Chaapel communication in ministry, settles in to her new life at Associate Editor PTS. Hope Andersen by Hope Andersen

Art Director Kathleen Whalen

Assistant Susan Molloy

Staff Photographer 10 • Ministry—A Work Chrissie Knight in Progress Is there life after seminary? InSpire is a magazine Graduates from the Class for alumni/ae and friends of 1996 return for PTS's of Princeton Theological annual continuing education Seminary. It is published four times a year by workshop focusing on the the Princeton Theological transition from academia Seminary Office to the 'real' world. of Communications/ by Julie E. Browning Publications, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542-0803. Telephone: 609-497-7760 Fax: 609-497-7870 12 • Shaping the Pastoral Role Email: [email protected] Through intense, hands-on experience, clinical pastoral The magazine has a circulation education (CPE) enables of approximately 23,000 and participants to examine how is printed by George H. the "self" both contributes Buchanan Co. in Philadelphia, to and detracts from their PA. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission ministry. is prohibited. Non-profit by Hope Andersen postage paid at Philadelphia, PA.

On the Cover The flavor of the clinical pastoral education experience is conveyed in images caught by student photographer Departments Chrissie Knight at St. Mary 2 • Letters 28 • Obituaries Medical Center in Langhorne, PA, where senior Leslie Mott 3 • On & Off Campus 31 • Investing in Ministry and Lisa Hess ('96B and a Ph.D. candidate) did their 15 • Class Notes 32 • End Things CPE unit this summer. 24 • On the Shelves 33 • Con Ed Calendar

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Correction: We incorrectly reported from the that PTS professor James Moorhead president's desk iA Letters was the editor of The Journal of Enjoying the Journey American History. The journal he Dear Friends and Colleagues: Thanks for inSpire. It is good edits is The Journal of Presbyterian in retirement to hear a little of what History. We regret the error. Summer at Princeton Seminary is being done at Princeton to continue provides a change of gears, but certainly the struggle. Lost, Then Found not a cessation of activities. This sum¬ I particularly enjoyed the article This is a story out of the past. mer, more than 120 students are on on spirituality that appeared in the fall I write this letter at the urging of the campus studying Greek and Hebrew 1996 issue that stressed the plurality Reverend Dr. Alexander Biro (’36M) in the Summer of means but the unity of goal in our of Budapest, Hungary. Language Program, common spiritual quest. Alexander arrived at the seminary and 78 students It occurred to me that the in 1933 and occasionally assisted are taking one Seminary should not be too overly my father, Alexander Daroczy (’23M), of ten courses concerned that alumni/ae think their in his parish in Carteret, NJ. With offered in preach¬ seminary didn’t do a very complete job World War II on the horizon, father ing, exegesis, theol¬ in preparing them for the whole of pleaded with Alexander not to return ogy, and pastoral their ministry. How could it possibly? to Hungary, but he felt duty bound care. The best any seminary can do is to his country to return. We never to set disciples on a course of discovery, heard from, or of, Alexander Biro again In addition, we had two very successful giving them tools to continue the jour¬ and thought him dead. A news item summer Institutes of Theology in ney, a compass and a sextant if you in an early 1990s inSpire alerted me June, one in Princeton and one in St. like, and the knowledge of how to use to his whereabouts, and in calling Andrews, Scotland, jointly sponsored them effectively! It is up to the individ¬ the Seminary, I received Alexander’s with St. Mary’s College. There are excit¬ uals to continue their own journeys address. ing plans underway to make the part¬ of exploration, hewing jewels from the This began a six-year correspon¬ nership with St. Andrews an ongoing rocks along the way and gaining suste¬ dence with an old friend that culmi¬ part of our continuing education nance from the continuing fruits to be nated with a reunion in Hungary program. You’ll hear more about those found in the countryside explored. in 1996. plans in the fall issue of inSpire. A seminary graduate who “knows it Irene C. D. Hutton, widow all” is a menace! Those who know they of Lewis J. Hutton (’44B) As we prepare for the opening of the are committed to a lifelong exploration Kingston, Rl new academic year, we await with antic¬ of what the Spirit is doing in them, ipation the arrival of three new faculty in the church, and in the world will What about Women? members, a new librarian, and three go far in their service of the Kingdom I want to thank you for the new administrators (about whom you and of their fellow human beings. “Women in Ministry” issue of inSpire. will read in the issue); the opening Continue to box the compass In the pastorate, I am finding ministry of the Witherspoon Apartments, a new then Princeton, and may you all learn to be challenging, filled with blessings, housing complex for second-career to take a fix on the Son! single students; and the debut of the Edward A. Johnston(’64M, '9ID) and a lot of work. I grow more and PTS web site! Canterbury, New Zealand more thankful for the solid rheological education I received at Princeton.

As always, we welcome your participa¬ Thanks for Stewart's Views on However, I have recently been told tion with us in the exciting venture Evangelism the dismaying news that the percentage of women students has dropped from of theological education. I write to congratulate you on approximately forty-two percent in the spring issue of inSpire—especially 1992 to twenty-seven percent today. With every good wish and warmest for John Stewart’s essay on the thorny regards, I remain According to Hartford Seminary, over¬ thicket of contemporary evangelism. all numbers for both women clergy It is clear, concise, and aware of both and students is and has been increas¬ Faithfully yours, the religious pluralism of the global ing. Something therefore is seriously village and of the enduring singular wrong, and I would like to see this verities of the Gospel. My compliments issue addressed in future publications. CCCoMaS Cl) "TSiCiespi' to him. His thinking nourishes mine. Janet L. Abel (’95B) Thomas W. Gillespie Bennett J. Sims (’49b) Endwell, NY Hendersonville, NC

2 • inSpire ,e Kn'9ht on&off Campus feeding theSeminary'sstudents,staff,and Tim Richards,whohasbeeninchargeof fax anorder,usenumber609-279-9195 staff andIalwaystried to givethecommu¬ vices atDrewUniversity inMadison,NJ. contracts, andwaspromotedtodirector guests forthepasteightyearsasdirector with expirationdate. Theological BookAgency(TBA).Toplace as assistantdirectoroffoodservicein1988 of foodservice.(HewasassignedtoPTS munity Ifelthere,"said Richards."My in 1988.)Richardsleftto headupfoodser¬ by Aramark,withwhomtheSeminary and includeaVISAorMasterCardnumber an orderbyphone,call609-497-7735.To the WilliamHarteFelmethProfessorof nity notjust aproduct,butfoodserved Science. Eerdmans,1997. faculty. Princeton TheologicalSeminary's I. McCordProfessorofTheologyand by J.WentzelvanHuyssteen,theJames Pastoral Theology.YaleUniversityPress, in Ministry.Eerdmans,1997. Professor ofSpeechCommunication of theSeminary's one ofthesetitles of yoursummer 1997. Otto, Jung,andErikson,byDonaldCapps, L. Bartow,theCarlandHelenEgner Speech: APractical by amember recently written reading? Pickup Theology ofProclamation,byCharles Hot OffthePressfromFaculty These booksareavailablethrough On May14,PTSbidafondfarewellto "I willmissPTSandthe senseofcom¬ Essays inPostfoundationalistTheology, Men, Religion,andMelancholia:James, Finished all God's Human PTS AlumnusBeatenduringViolenceinNairobi food serviceatthisinstitution hasbecome was PTSassociateprofessor NoraTisdale. tor ofmediaservicesat theSeminary), a genuineministry ofcompassionand care well asRichards'sparents,JanetandJim, with caring,givenasagift.AndI'm and hiswife,JoicyBecker-Richards (direc¬ succeeds himasdirector. Amy Ehlin,Richards'sassistantdirector, hall-full ofstudents,faculty,andstaffas luncheon, whichwasattendedbyadining "Under yourleadership," shesaid,"the leaving youingoodhandswithAmy." the demonstrators.Inarelatednewsstory with thelocalpoliceandthatthingswere that hespentthenexthournegotiating church andlaunchedtear-gascanistersat wielding clubsforcedtheirwayintothe the AnglicanAllSaintsCathedral.Police took refugewithotherdemonstratorsin weeks ofsporadicstudentprotestsagainst Africa andaPTSgraduateintheClassof July 8NewYorkTimesthatTimothyNjoya, arrived withlightsflashingandsirensblar¬ system. democracy rallyinNairobi,Kenya,theday a pastorinthePresbyterianChurchofEast ing. Theytookovercommandfromthe peaceful untilMoi'spresidentialguard in thePhiladelphiaInquirer,Njoyareported before. Thepolicecrackdown,inwhichat his pulpitthroughoutMoi'spresidency, Kenyan presidentDanielMoi'sone-party least ninepeoplewerekilled,cameafter Princetonians werealarmedtoreadinthe 1971, wasbeatenbypoliceduringapro¬ Among speakersatRichards'sfarewell Along withtherestofworld, Njoya, whohaspushedforreformsfrom staff, gavehimaleather briefcase. shirt. Ehlin,representing thefoodservice chair, aPTSumbrella,and aPTSsweat¬ forge bondsaroundwell-ladenandartfully decorated tables....Yourministryhasbeen cious hospitalityisextendedtoallwho for thecommunity—awayinwhichgra¬ Richards withgoodbye gifts: arocking gift formakingcelebrationstrulycelebrato¬ highly sacramental." ry, andforenablingthecommunityto pass throughthisplace.Youhaveaspecial violence. community whocontactedhimafterthe concern ofmemberstheSeminary August toteachthereforthenextnine were lookingfor. said hewasgratefulfortheprayersand Churches andagoodfriendofNjoya's) with brokenbonesandseverelacerations who threwthemselvesonhisbodyashe were itnotforthreeKenyanjournalists (on thestaffofWorldCouncil months. PTSalumnaNyamburaNjorge saying thattalkingwaswhattheprotesters attack, andNjoyaacceptedtheapology, and thenreturnedtohishome.Hesaidthe police commanderlaterapologizedforthe lay ontheground. he reportedthatwouldhavebeenkilled is thisnon-entity?" locals, shouting"WhoisNjoya?Who To expresstheirgratitude, PTSpresented They thenbeatNjoyawithaxhandles; Njoya planstotravelCanadainmid- Njoya washospitalizedforseveraldays summer 1997 inSpire •3 summer 1997 on&off Campus

New Faculty and Staff Join PTS Community Seven new faculty members and admin¬ new Youth Ministry Institute while she was business and family planning program istrators joined the Princeton Seminary completing her Ph.D. at the Seminary. She for several African nations. While doing community this summer. is interested in the relationship between this work, he lived in Rwanda and Burundi Ellen T. Charry is the Margaret W. culture, adolescence, and mainline in Central Africa and in various countries Harmon Associate Professor of Systematic Protestant churches. in West Africa. Theology. She comes to PTS from a posi¬ Stephen D. Crocco, the new James Chester Polk Jr., also a PTS graduate, tion as assistant professor at the Perkins Lenox Librarian, was director of the library will be the Seminary's assistant director of School of Theology in Dallas. A Ph.D. grad¬ at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from field education. A minister in the Southern uate of Temple University in Philadelphia 1987 until he came to Princeton this sum¬ Baptist Convention, he was a church starter and an Episcopalian, she teaches in the mer. He is trained in religious ethics, strategist and consultant for his denomina¬ fields of systematic and historical theology having earned his Ph.D. from Princeton tion in Fresno, CA, before returning to and has a special interest in bringing the University's Religion Department, and Princeton. He has also served as an associ¬ pre-modern doctrinal heritage of the church is currently the archivist of the Society ate minister of Shiloh Baptist Church in into conversation with contemporary femi¬ of Christian Ethics. Trenton, NJ, and as senior pastor of Mount nist insights. R. Scott Sheldon, an M. Div. graduate Salem Baptist Church in Victoria, TX. He Robert C. Dykstra has been appointed of the Seminary, returned in July to begin will work with churches and students with as assistant professor of pastoral theology. a new position in the Center of Continuing a congregational-based system of polity. He earned both his M. Div. and his Ph.D. Education as coordinating director of con¬ In other faculty and staff changes from Princeton Seminary. Before returning gregational life. He just completed four announced by the Seminary's Board of to join the PTS faculty, he taught theology years as executive presbyter of Cayuga- Trustees, James F. Armstrong retired at the University of Dubuque Theological Syracuse Presbytery in New York State; as the James Lenox Librarian and was Seminary. An ordained Presbyterian minis¬ prior to that he served as an associate given emeritus status. He continues as ter, Dykstra has special interest in pastoral pastor at the First Presbyterian Church the Seminary's academic dean. Ellen L. care and counseling and developmental in Northport, NY. Myers retired as assistant for academic theory. Adrian Backus began his new position affairs and was given emeritus status. Kenda Creasy Dean, a United as director of research, planning, and spe¬ James F. Kay was assigned to the Joe Methodist pastor who has worked in con¬ cial projects for the Seminary in July. R. Engle Chair of Homiletics and Liturgies. gregational settings with both youth and An attorney, he received his M. Div. degree Paul E. Rorem, a medieval church histori¬ college students, joins the faculty as assis¬ from PTS last spring. Before entering semi¬ an, was promoted to the rank of professor. tant professor of youth, church, and cul¬ nary, he was responsible for the overall Joicy Becker-Richards was promoted ture. She served as a consultant to PTS's administration of Africare, a ten million to the position of director of media ser¬ School of Christian Education and to its dollar, USAID-funded, private-sector agro¬ vices.

Sam Moffett: Man on a Mission

Dr. Samuel H. Moffett, PTS alumnus ('42B) and the Seminary's Henry Winters Luce Professor of Ecumenics and Mission Emeritus, returned to his birthplace of Pyongyang, North Korea, on January 25, 1997, exactly 107 years after his father, Samuel A. Moffett, first set foot on Korean soil. This was his first visit to northern Korea in sixty-two years. Moffett and his wife, Eileen, were members of a delegation on a humanitarian mission to deliver medical supplies, including an ambulance funded by the Eugene Bell Foundation, to the North. They were responding to an acknowledged desperate food shortage following two years of floods and drought in the North. Most members of the group were, like Moffett, alumni of the Pyongyang Foreign School. Others were medical doctors and members or relatives of the Bell family. were not permitted to leave Pyongyang, the second group trav¬ Since the division of Korea in 1948 into two republics, the North eled outside the city and into more rural areas. A third group is Koreans have turned to their close allies, the Russians and the scheduled to take additional food into the country later this year. Chinese, for support. Recently, however, the climate has changed, Moffett, who hopes to be among those to return to Pyongyang and the North is increasingly open to receiving much-needed in the near future, served as a missionary in South Korea from assistance from other sources. Hence, the humanitarian effort 1955 to 1981. In addition, he taught at the Presbyterian in January. Theological Seminary in Seoul, which was founded by Samuel The religious climate, too, is changing. According to statistics A. Moffett in 1901 and is now the largest Presbyterian seminary provided by officials in the government, there are three open in the world, for twenty-two years. From 1966 to 1977, he served churches in Pyongyang—two Protestant and one Catholic. as the dean of the graduate school there and acted as its associ¬ In addition, officials in the North acknowledge ten semi-public ate president from 1974 into the 1980s. While in Seoul, he meeting places and an estimated five hundred unregistered served as co-founder and first director of the Asian Center for house churches. Theological Studies and Missions from 1974 to 1981. Members of the Pyongyang delegation returned to North Korea Currently working on the second volume of A History of in May with a twenty-seven-car train filled with grain and rice Christianity in Asia, Moffett will return to Seoul in October to seed, as well as ten portable greenhouses intended to serve receive an honorary degree from Soongsil University, founded as models for the Koreans to reproduce and use in growing food. one hundred years ago by his father.

4 • inSpire photo: Chrissie Knight from theHistoricalSocietyofPrinceton, the NewJerseyStateHistoricPreservation to theVictorianmansion locatedat104 Weathers, assistantprofessorofspeech which iscurrentlytheresidenceofJanet for therenovationof102MercerStreet— efforts bybestowingPTSwithawardsfor a numberofarchitecturallysignificant on&off Campus communication inministry. also knownas"theCarriageHouse"— Society andtheHistoricalof buildings, includingBrownHall,Alexander an artist'sstudiobecause ofitswonderful nance incontext." Princeton acknowledgedtheSeminary's Hall, andLenoxHouse.Lastyear,both Princeton's BricksandMortarShine ly beenusedbyitsprevious owneras Mercer Street,102 hadsubsequent¬ "preservation, adaptivereuse,andmainte¬ natural light.However, by thetimeMichael “Diamond intheRough"Receives This year,PTSreceivedathirdaward, Since 1993,theSeminaryhasrestored Architectural Award Originally builtasthecarriagehouse to completetheproject.Agenuinecraftsman,Contihadatool from Hodgeandacompatibleredmortarwasdetermined. the supervisionofKarenSargent,architectfromFord, effect inthenarrowmortarbead. especially groundtoachievethesmall,rounded"bull'snose" and whodidthepointingforbothAlexanderBrownHalls, Farewell, Mills,andGatschwhohadbeeninvolvedinthe E. J.Conti,amasonwhospecializesinhistoricpreservation David Poinsett,theSeminary'sdirectoroffacilities,thenhired Lenox Houserestoration,coresamplesofstoneweretaken Hodge HallPutsaNewFaceForward This summerHodgeHallwasgivenamajorfacelift.Under faculty memberwhilemaintainingitshis¬ the woodwasrotted,andbirdshadnested worked ontheproject,enteredhouse, the mainfloorhadtoberemovedcom¬ toric integrity. could bebroughtbacktolife.Schnoering's was toassesswhetherornotthebuilding at Ford,Farewell,Mills,andGatschwho Schnoering, thearchitecturalassociate structure withoneobviousdiscrepency:the space intohousingforacoupleorsingle second taskwastoconvertthediminuitive and wasincompletedisrepair. grates isan original; theothersthroughout ed originalmaterialsinto thedesign.The inside," recallsSchnoering,whosefirsttask it hadbeenvacantforabouteightyears place isconstructedfrom apieceofold mantlepiece overthetriangular brickfire¬ half-moon additionattherearofhouse. remains istheoriginalpostandbeam had toberebuilt.However,mostofwhat pletely andawholecornerofthestructure beam. Oneoftheblack cast-iron heating Whenever hecould,Schnoering integrat¬ Because oftheseverewaterdamage, "The roofleaked,thefloorwasbuckled, Jersey's buildingcodes. career studentsandscheduledtoopeninthefall,hasbeen A LittleLight of energyefficiency,oftenexceedingtheStateNew ly-metered apartmentcommunitiesthatmeethighstandards nizes single-family,townhome,condominium,andindividual¬ (PSE&G) EnergyEfficientHomeProgram.Theprogramrecog¬ recognized byPublicServiceElectricandGasCompany's building inWestWindsorTownshipdesignedforsecond- The Seminary'snewWitherspoonApartments,aforty-unit the houseareexactreplicasoforiginal the house. the distinctivelightingfixturesthroughout the renovationfromitsinitiationandchose The hourglass-shapedbracketsintheloft way intoaloftthatisnowusedasstudy. the originalcolorsbasedonanalysisof spirit, hetransformedtheupperareawalk¬ deteriorated paint. design. Theexteriorofthehousereflects a newpurpose."It'salways light,private, are theflower-likedetailsincornertrim ing space." peaceful," observesWeathers. "It'saheal¬ restored nottoitstrue purpose butto president forfinancialaffairs,supervised blocks ofeachwindow. railing areSchnoering'sowndesign,as idea ofthehouse,"hecomments.Inthis "The ideawastoplayoffthesimpledesign The CarriageHousetoday hasbeen The Seminary'sownRickLansill,vice Schnoering alsoaddedhisowntouch. summer 1997 inSpire •5 summer 1997 on&off Campus

Alumni/ae Association Executive Musicians and of the Committee on Presbyterian Women's Global Exchange. John E. Turpin ('52B), who pastored the Council Adds Three New Reps Ministry of Philadelphia Presbytery. In addition, she sits on the Metropolitan First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, CA, Christian Council (an ecumenical gather¬ for twenty years before he retired, now In May, three members of the ing of denominations in the Philadelphia serves on the board of a Presbyterian Alumni/ae Association Executive Council metropolitan area). campus ministry at the University of completed their four-year terms: in Ann R. Palmerton ('86B), elected from California, Berkeley, and represents Region Four, William G. Carter ('85B); Region Eight, serves as associate pastor Region Twelve. Fie is also directing efforts in Region Eight, Robert Crilley ('59B); for outreach and pastoral care at Broad to organize and implement a conference and in Region Twelve, Jim Upshaw ('50B). Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus, on genetics and ethics for pastors and lay Their service over the past four years OPI. She is also a member of the leaders of congregations in San has been appreciated. Committee on Preparation for Ministry Francisco's East Bay area. The new representatives for these and the Committee on Ministry of the Each of these newly elected representa¬ regions continue the tradition of diversity Presbytery of Scioto Valley. In addition, tives has expressed appreciation for the which has characterized the council. she is active on the Justice for Women efforts PTS makes in preparing ministers Deborah Ann McKinley ('82B), represen¬ Committee in the Synod of the Covenant. to serve in an increasingly complex tative for Region Four, is pastor at Old From 1988 to 1993, she served on the world; each has also made a commitment Pine Street Church in Philadelphia. She denomination's Justice for Women to contribute energy and experience to is also a member of the executive board Committee and, in 1990, represented that further the effectiveness of the of the Presbyterian Association of committee in Australia as part of the Seminary's mission.

Faculty Accolades

Freda A. Gardner, PTS's children's author and PSCE former board Tradition, an ecumenical conference held Thomas W. Synnott Professor member and alumna, wrote: "Perhaps in Chicago in July sponsored by the PRO of Christian Education no other graduate of PSCE has given ORIENTE Foundation. PRO ORIENTE is Emerita, was named more service to the wider church. Her an ecclesial foundation of the Archdiocese a Distinguished Alumna role as advocate for educational ministry of Vienna of the Roman Catholic Church of the Presbyterian School and church educators has been ongoing that is committed to promoting ecumenical of Christian Education (PSCE) for forty years.... Freda sits at many relations between the Roman Catholic in Richmond, VA, during tables—tables of consultation, deliberation, Church and the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental that institution's Alumni/ae negotiation, and decision-making, as well Orthodox, and Assyrian Churches. McVey Weekend last April. Herself as tables of happy fellowship and holy was one of only fifty participants invited a graduate of PSCE, she communion. Whatever the table, she brings to attend, and the only Roman Catholic served on its board of to her place the wisdom and humor that lay woman scholar. trustees and co-chaired the are her distinguishing characteristics. It is Abigail Rian Evans was honored board's joint committee with with great joy that we say thanks to God for by her alma mater, Jamestown College Union Theological Seminary her fruitful witness and celebrate her con¬ in Jamestown, ND, when it awarded her in Richmond that recom¬ tinuing ministry to the church and world." an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters mended the federation of the Kathleen E. McVey, Princeton's degree in May. Evans is associate professor two schools. In the citation Joseph Ross Stevenson Professor of of practical theology and academic coordi¬ honoring Gardner, Katherine Church History, attended the Third Syriac nator of field education at the Seminary. Paterson, an award-winning Consultation for Dialogue within the Syriac

Eileen Moffett Accepts Distinguished Alumna Award

When Eileen Flower Moffett ('55E) and seminary students in the accepted the Distinguished Alumna slums in Seoul, helping men and Award at the Alumni/ae Reunion women to earn and save their Gathering in May, she and her husband, money to purchase their own Samuel H. Moffett ('42B), who had homes. By the time she left, five received the same award exactly twenty hundred families had saved years earlier, became the first couple enough to become homeowners. in the history of the Seminary to have The aspect of her career of both been awarded the prize. which she is most proud, howev¬ Despite her humble claims that she er, is her involvement with the "didn't deserve it," Moffett has had a dis¬ Bible Club Movement in Korea. tinguished ministry in Christian education Since it was started in 1929 by and in missionary work. She taught at PTS alum Francis Kinsler ('28B), the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon movement has helped more than a mil¬ between her middler and senior years at lion underprivileged children receive a seminary and later served as an assistant Christian-based education they would oth¬ professor at the Presbyterian College and erwise have been denied. During Moffett's Theological Seminary in Seoul, Korea, six-year tenure as director, about 50,000 the largest Presbyterian seminary in the children and youth were served annually. world. She also worked with colleagues

6 • inSpire photos: Chrissie Knight on&off Campus Find YourWayintoOurWeb! the XeroxCorporation; views fragmentsoftheDead as itappearedonthemonitor. director ofpublicrelationsfor Sea ScrollswithBrentLaymon, (right) previouslyhiddentext (above) ProfessorCharlesworth tee offaculty,administrators, andstu¬ will beliveatwww.ptsem.edu.Wehope working with theOfficeofCommun¬ for thecomingacademic yearandis you'll visititearlyandoften. design thewebsite.Neal Magee,a1997 dents hasbeenworking toplanand PTS graduate,isserving aswebmaster have anewaddress!ThePTSwebsite As ofSeptember,theSeminarywill During thepastyear,asmallcommit¬ the bookstore,andmediaservices),PTS Academic Programs(containingdegree Admissions (includingon-lineapplication and courseinformationaswellthe sub-sections underthehomepage: and gatherinformationabouthowitcan tions/Publications at1-800-622-6767 you canreachthewebmaster viaemail version ofinSpireandindexestothe ates), Publications(includinganon-line dent directory),Alumni/ae(offeringon¬ about theInstituteforYouthMinistry), Continuing Educationandinformation program guidefortheCenterof pus. be usefultousersbothonandoffcam¬ ications/Publications todesignthesite ext. 7760. Or calltheOfficeofCommunica¬ at [email protected]. events). People (includingastaff,faculty,andstu¬ (including informationaboutthelibrary, materials), EducationalResources releases andinformationaboutcampus Information (includingcurrentnews line discussionanddialogueforgradu¬ Princeton SeminaryBulletin,Theology Today, andKoinonia),News Dead SeaScrollsStarinBBCSpecial for 2,000yearshavebeeninvisibletothe few who,onTuesday,June17,gathered Jerusalem andtheHashemiteKingdom scientist, andafilmmakerhaveincom¬ Syrian Archbishop-Metropolitanin of theDeadSeaScrollsthatbelongedto pus, aNewTestamentprofessor,Xerox unaided eyewererevealed.Fragments lines oftheDeadSeaScrollstextthat Library towitnessanamazingevent: in aroomPrincetonSeminary'sLuce mon? Theywereamongtheprivileged His EminenceMarAthanasiusY.Samuel, The sitewillbeorganizedintoeight If youhavequestionsor suggestions, What doaSyrianOrthodoxco-episco- of Jordan,werebroughtto Princeton bytheVery Reverend John Meno, the projectinvolveseightPresbyteriancon¬ the TrueLightKoreanPresbyterian Church their congregations. congregations andhelpthemmakeadiffer¬ education, hopestheproject"willsupport of theChristianlifesuchasprayer,reading of workshopsatStonyPointCenterin of participants,includingapastorandat gregations. Eachchurchwillsendateam gational Spirituality.Fundedbythe Seminary andtheChristianFaithLife a hungerfordeeperspiritualexperience, Second PresbyterianChurch inRahway,NJ; Church inSouthSalem,NY;WestDelhi are theFifthAvenuePresbyterianChurch ence inthelivesoftheirmembersandcom¬ age themtomodelandsharetheirlearnings and sabbath-keeping.Theyaredesigned of Scripture,lifeintheworld,discernment, least onememberofthesession,toaseries Indianapolis-based LillyFoundationInc., (USA) toestablishtheProjectonCongre¬ Program AreaofthePresbyterianChurch has joinedwithAuburnTheological Princeton's CenterofContinuingEducation in Hempstead, NY. in Ridgefield, NJ;andChrist'sFirst Church First PresbyterianChurch inRamsey,NJ;the Presbyterian Churchin Englishtown, NJ;the Presbyterian Churchin Delhi, NY;theFirst in NewYorkCity;SouthSalemPresbyterian munities." in ordertofosterthespiritualmaturityof in faithanddiscipleship,butalsotoencour¬ not onlytofurthertheparticipants'growth New York. Pilot PrograminCongregational Testament LanguageandLiterature, co-episcopus atSt.Mark'sSyrian the DeadSeaScrolls,andSeminary the 50thanniversaryofdiscovery tary titledScrollhunters,tobeairedon the BritishBroadcastingCompany(BBC) scientists andtheologiansbecamepart¬ developed andoperatedbyDr.KeithT. Orthodox CathedralinTeaneck,NY. will commemoratetheeventbyhosting shot footageoftheeventforadocumen¬ direction ofGrahamJudd,acrewfrom exclaimed, "Unbelievable!"Underthe of textthathaveneverbeenseenbefore. at theRochesterInstituteofTechnology, a symposiumonthescrollsinfall. October 26onBBC1.Thisyearmarks George L.CollardProfessorofNew It was,asJamesH.Charlesworth,PTS's ners inrevealingandtranslatinglines Roger L.EastonJr.,assistantprofessor Knox, principalscientistatXerox,andDr. Using astate-of-the-artdigitalcamera The eightparticipatingcongregations Joyce Tucker,PTS'sdeanofcontinuing The workshopswillfocusondisciplines At atimewhencongregationsarevoicing Spirituality summer 1997 inSpire •7 by Hope Andersen Photos by Chrissie Knight

ou can tell a lot about people on to Ohio State University to pursue istry. Although she was just a child when Yby looking at the spaces in which her masters degree in literature. he was her pastor, she knew that he deeply they live. This seems particularly It was during her college years that loved, enjoyed, and respected the children true in the case of Janet Weathers, she experienced her first spiritual upheaval. in the church. assistant professor of speech communica¬ Active on the university debate team, she Weathers learned during a recent visit tion in ministry, who joined the Princeton often took her spiritual questions to her with Hayward that while in Winfield in Seminary faculty in 1994. Her dining room debate coach, Dale Stockton, who was also the ’50s, he started a local chapter of the is occupied by a shiny black baby grand a pastor. He helped her wrestle with the NAACP. She believes that many of her piano; her windows are framed in soft, challenges of analytic philosophy and athe¬ deepest theological convictions about the translucent drapes; and everywhere books istic existentialism. The year after she grad¬ power of God’s love for all and God’s and fragile momentos co-exist. Beauty mat¬ uated from Oklahoma State, Stockton, demand that we live just lives comes from ters to her. a young man dedicated to causes of justice hearing him preach during those early “Beauty is spiritually powerful,” she and peace and a father of two small chil¬ years. “Children stayed in church for the explains. “It is one of the ways that God dren and another one on the way, was sermon in those years,” she says, “and feeds us. I am always inspired and humbled randomly and brutally murdered. For I never remember wanting to be excused.” by creation. Flowers, art, music, light—they Weathers, who was only twenty-one at the She credits him with giving her strong roots are all lifegiving.” time, the trauma of this event shattered the in the faith that never quit influencing her, Weathers is the fortunate occupant still fragile scaffolding he had been helping even during the years she turned her back of 102 Mercer Street, also known as the her build to sustain her faith in the face on God. Carriage House, which was recently reno¬ of intellectual challenges and the reality After completing an M.A. at Ohio vated by the Seminary and which received of immense evil in the world. State, she began teaching in 1970, first a Princeton Historical Society Award for For most of the next decade, Weathers at the National College of Education in “adaptive use of a historical space.” was estranged from the church, yet many Evanston, IL, and then at a junior high For Weathers, who has been on sabbati¬ of her close friends were deeply religious school in Arcadia, CA. During this period, cal since September 1996, the house has people. “I never wanted to talk about God,” she explored secular humanism and existen¬ provided her not only with a sanctuary but she recalls, “but I always kept them close.” tialism and tried, as she says, to live a con¬ also with a space for many phases of her life One of these friends was Dr. Francis structive life within that mindset. But to be on display. Hayward, the pastor who had baptized always there was a deeper yearning, and And Weathers has had many phases her in the First Presbyterian Church as she neared thirty, she began to re-explore in her life. Born and raised in Oklahoma in Winfield, KS, when she was a child. her faith life, though not without an unusu¬ and Kansas, she attended Oklahoma State He took a pastorate in another state al prod. University and began exploring her interest when she was in the fourth grade, and her A pivotal event occurred on Weathers’s in the dynamics of human communication. family returned to Oklahoma, yet they have thirtieth birthday. She recalls that she went Having earned her B.A., she then went maintained contact ever since. He remains to see a secular psychologist to help her for her a powerful model of faithful min¬ work through the residue of the trauma summer 1997 of her mentor’s death. The woman problems through their communica¬ observed that Weathers didn’t seem tion? to have her relationship with God “It is not that we can eliminate right, to which Weathers replied, problems and conflicts if we com¬ “I’m not sure there is a God.” “Ah,” municate effectively,” Weathers remarked the psychologist, “so there’s observes. “We will always have the the problem.” pain of real conflict to challenge us, At first shocked by the thera¬ but there is so much unnecessary pist’s comment, Weathers found pain and suffering created because herself sitting in church again on of communication problems that Christmas Sunday a few weeks later could have been avoided. Such and joining the church on Easter. problems erode trust and eat away She chose a non-denominational at the fabric of our communities, church that provided her with in our churches, in our seminaries, wide-ranging, open discussions and throughout our society.” of Christianity. “I was not yet ready In reflecting on her situation to tackle the confessional statements at Princeton, Weathers acknowledges of the church of my youth,” she that she is being presented with reflects. A couple of years later she an extraordinary opportunity. “PTS began to study with a Christian yogi, is special,” she says, “because no Graham Ledgerwood. It was through of study culminated in the realization that other seminary has a communication area his guidance that she began to return to to do what I felt called to do, I would need as fully developed as this. No other seminary an understanding of Jesus as the incarnation to complete a second Ph.D.,” she recalls. could provide this growing edge.” of God rather than thinking of him only Weathers earned her first Ph.D. in speech She is finding that she is able to integrate as a good model for human life. It was communication from the University her love of music, poetry, and art not only also from Ledgerwood that she learned to of Southern California in 1979 and then into her teaching, where she uses poetry to approach the Bible through contemplation taught at a variety of institutions, including help students to understand the experiences and meditation rather than only with the ten years at the University of California, Los of others and to instruct students in reflect¬ critical tools of analysis. Angeles, and several years at the University ing on and communicating Scripture, but “I did not start studying with him of Southern California. She is currently fin¬ also in her personal life. An accomplished because of the depth and devotion of his ishing her dissertation for a Ph.D. in theolo¬ pianist who has played since she was five commitment to Christ, but as I look back gy and personality from Claremont where, years old, Weathers has recently started on that time seventeen years ago, it seems in 1992, she received an M.A. in theology. taking lessons again. “I love music,” she says. to me that God used this man to teach Weathers’s work at Princeton is con¬ “I find it relaxing and inspiring. I also think me many things about God and about Jesus cerned with bringing the disciplines of we can gain insights into life by experiencing Christ that I would not have been willing communication, education, and theology the ways composers explore and share to hear from the pulpit of a Presbyterian together. How can she help people to better harmony, dissonance, and rhythm in their church,” she says. “I marvel at the wonderful communicate the Word? How can she help music.” and diverse ways God works with our pain people to appreciate the theological signifi¬ She loves, too, the yellow color on the and confusion to offer us the loving truth cance of their daily interactions? How can walls in the Carriage House, a color that of the Gospel.” she help people to better communicate with she feels is both comforting and energizing. Over the next ten years one another and avoid creating unnecessary “I would never have Ledgerwood contributed known to choose it,” significantly to Weathers’s she says. “I would have spiritual development and settled for white.” But strongly encouraged her Weathers, who gives care¬ to respond to the call to ful thought to all aspects ministry and enter seminary. of her life, whether she “I might never have been is working on her disserta¬ able to return to the Presby¬ tion or deciding which terian church without perennials to plant in his guidance and teaching,” her backyard, doesn’t seem she says. like someone who settles Despite the skepticism for anything. Rather, of many of her academic she seems to bring to life colleagues, Weathers enrolled a grace that enables her in Claremont School of to thrive on whatever life Theology. “My initial years gives her. I

inSpire • 9 summer 1997 Ministry—A Work in Progress 1996 Grads Reflect on the First Year Out

From April 8 to 11, 1997, thirty-eight in the way she initially anticipates, it is clear graduates from the Class of 1996 returned to her that she is helping others. To illustrate to Princeton to participate in the her point, she told of a Korean congregation Seminary's annual continuing education member whose wife was ill and would event designed to assist recent M. Div. not leave her home. When Nam visited and M.A. graduates with issues of transi¬ the woman at home to support and encour¬ tion from life in an academic community age her, she realized that the woman needed to roles in other settings, especially medical attention. Nam found herself pastoral leadership. James Cushman, an accompanying the woman to the hospital. ordained Presbyterian pastor and a special¬ “I think God asked you to be here,” ist in understanding transition issues, pre¬ the woman’s husband later told Nam. sented workshops on pastoral role adjust¬ “You were here at the right time for us.” ment. Donald Juel, the Seminary's Richard Likewise, Mary McKey was impressed J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament by the “fit” of her position as pastor of the Theology, was chosen by the class to give First Presbyterian Church in Lincolnton, the faculty lectures. Other event leaders NC, a 350-member congregation that had included Brian Blount, an assistant profes¬ not previously considered hiring a female sor of New Testament at PTS; Dean Foose, pastor. Reflecting on the past year, she noted, the director of alumni/ae relations at PTS; “For me the high point was having my gifts and R. Scott Sheldon, program director and experience match so closely with what for congregational life in the Seminary's the congregation needed. It was amazing Center of Continuing Education. Among the way that God brought us together.” those attending were five alums who McKey’s ministry has been aided by shared with Julie E. Browning their experi¬ he classwork, particularly the courses she ences—the highs, the lows, and much in- took in preaching and in the theology of between—of the first year in ministry. small groups, from which she constantly draws. In addition, she refers back to her Learning does not stop with graduation clinical pastoral education (CPE) experience, or ordination. According to a handful which taught her that she could not “fix" of recent PTS graduates, that is when the other people’s problems. “The important real learning begins, and it is this situational thing is to sit with them in their pain and learning that the graduates most value, even to walk the walk with them,” she said. if they don’t always fully understand how Nam agreed, saying that while she their experiences will benefit others. had focused on theology and Bible during “I realized that I don’t know everything,” her academic career, these had not proved said Andy Rausch, who has spent a year to be the most practical for her professional working as associate pastor at the First role. Recounting her visit to a dying man, Presbyterian Church in Marion, IA. But she said, “It’s hard to know what to say there were some moments when the theoreti¬ to a man with a terminal diagnosis.” The cal and the practical came together. “Like the man spoke with her at length about his fear first time I opened my Greek New Testament ol dying, the places he wanted to go, and his to look at a passage I was actually preaching concerns for his wife. “God will be with you on,” he said, “I thought, wow, this is why in another stage,” Nam told him as they I took Greek!” prayed together, holding hands. Within Last fall Hey Young Nam began working a week, the man had died. In asking God as associate pastor at a United Methodist to help her talk with the man, she realized Church, comprising both a Korean and that her role was to be a listener, a presence. an American congregation, in Eatontown, “I need to let them talk,” she said. NJ. Nam said that although she does not “People in the hospital need a person always feel confident in handling new at the moment, and it happens to be me they situations and her impact is not always felt see. It is not really me; it is God working summer 1997 through me,” she said. “The more I experi¬ gifts from congregation members. Although ence this, the more empowered I feel.” 6 6 You have to she appreciated the kind offerings, Bunting Cathy Bunting, associate pastor of Oak said the experience made her stop and think Hill Presbyterian Church in Akron, OH, really listen about how the public perceives ministers agreed with the need for ministers to listen. and about the difference between work “You have to really listen to people with to people with and school. all your heart,” she said. “You pray for all your heart. “It’s different,” she reflected. “In the and with people, and you really listen.” church you are not surrounded by a commu¬ An important experience for Bunting during You pray for nity of people who are striving for common her seminary days was her field education careers, so the bonding is not there. At the work in the oncology unit at The Medical and with peo¬ same time, you must maintain a professional Center at Princeton. “I felt as if I was stand¬ distance, and there is less diversity among ing on holy ground,” she recalled. “People ple, and you the community. My church members are allowed themselves to be vulnerable with very similar, very homogeneous. I miss the me.” The lessons she learned there, she really listen.” diversity at PTS.” has carried with her into her ministry. Rausch said that he has been both in lifestyle—some positive, some negative— In retrospect, several of the graduates challenged and encouraged by his work the graduates said. On the one hand, noted, given the opportunity to do it again, with young people. “What is so exciting several noted that their living conditions they would make changes in their course- about youth work is that kids are so busy,” had improved. “I am so blessed to live work to better prepare them for the situa¬ he said with enthusiasm. “Yet some pick in a house ten times the size of my dorm tions they face. Nam said she wished that church over all their other activities.” During room!” Rausch said with a laugh. “And she had spent more time studying preaching. his youth, it was not uncommon for youth to have privacy!” “In the field, preaching is the main thing,” groups to number 150 to 200 members. On the other hand, for Schaefer and she noted, adding, “But I’m still glad I took “Now we’re talking about a dozen members,” his family, living in the manse has meant less other courses because everything I learned he said. “But a newcomer’s presence is really privacy. “I cannot get away from work. I am is helpful.” felt, and we get to know them well.” always there, and people are always coming Bunting said, “I would have liked to Since today’s youths are so busy, Rausch by,” he said. “I am always mentally at work.” have had one semester of Greek and one said that he must sometimes go to them. In addition, the living situation has brought semester of Hebrew, as well as information “I’ll go to the places where they work and stress for the rest of his family. “We have about tools for translation,” in order to read say hello as I’m buying something,” he said. four children,” he said with a smile. “The texts in their original languages. “I bought a lot of ice cream this past year,” house does not always look spic and span, “I would have taken more counseling he added with a laugh. “But it gave me so my wife worries when people feel they courses,” said Frank Schaefer, pastor of Zion a chance to see them in a ‘real life’ setting, can drop by anytime.” United Methodist Church in Lebanon, PA, to remind them that I’m interested, and Just as Schaefer feels he is always who acknowledged that he refers back to it allowed them to tell their friends and “on call,” others said that their communities his PTS coursework to guide him in his coworkers who I am.” have trouble seeing them in roles other than ministry. Other areas in which some of the It is this ability to be human that is most ministry. graduates felt that they needed more educa¬ important, the graduates agree. They urged “I found it very hard to worship on tion were in the practical areas of budgeting the Class of 1997 to be true to themselves Sundays,” Rausch said, noting that he had and business administration. and to recognize that there are many things difficulty in being a member of his congrega¬ In reflecting on their years at Princeton, that can’t be learned in a textbook. tion. “You need a place where you can go the graduates felt both appreciation and “It’s important to be yourself, be and just be a member of the congregation. nostalgia. For Bunting, seminary taught relaxed,” Schaefer said. “Don’t try to be the You are going to dry up if you don’t.” her how to think both logically and theologi¬ best theologian in the congregation. When Schaefer said that he occasionally feels cally. “It is all coalescing,” she said. I started here [at PTS], I was very confused. pressured by expectations. “One thing Schaefer misses the Seminary’s academic But toward the end, I really had defined my I am noticing is that I am being put up setting and finds that structured learning theology, and that has given me a tremen¬ on a pedestal,” he said. “I still have problems is difficult in his work. “It helps to go back dous source of confidence. Now I can help and challenges, but I don’t feel that I can and reread some of the things I did at the my congregation, which is so different from share them with my congregation. They Seminary,” he said. “It affirms that the intel¬ where I am theologically, by giving them come to me with their problems, but they lectual stimulation that I had at Princeton my support." don’t expect me to have any.” continues to be with me, and I get away “You learn more out of class than you For Bunting, one particular sermon from the nitty-gritty of ministry.” Looking do in class,” Rausch mused. “You have to revealed just how seriously her congregation around the empty classroom, he reflected, respond to people. And sometimes you just takes her. “There was a reference in my “It is nice to return here. Outside it is hard have to throw out the plan and wing it." 3 sermon to chocolate,” she recalled. “I added, to be disciplined and to continue to study.” ‘Boy, do I love chocolate! ” Within days, The transition from the academic to the Julie E. Browning is a freelance writer she was inundated with chocolate-flavored working world brought significant changes who lives in Trenton, NJ.

inSpire • 11 summer 1997

Shaping the v Pastoral Role by Hope Andersen

A familiar cartoon depicts a man supervisors have come to appreciate the sig¬ And yet he was required to take on a pas¬ banging his head against the nificance of personal awareness, behavioral toral identity immediately. Fortunately wall."Why are you doing that?" theory and method, and spiritual develop¬ for Carlson, he had a good supervisor a passer-by asks. To which he replies, ment in the formation of healthy pastoral who encouraged him to visit patients and "Because it feels so good when relationships. “Because we minister out of to become known on the floors. I stop." There are those who would who we are,” Haines says, “we need to know Carlson’s supervisor compared the CPE say the same about the Clinical who we are.” CPE provides participants with experience to the Chinese word for “crisis,” Pastoral Education (CPE) experience: the opportunity to explore themselves, their which is made up of two characters: “danger” "It felt so good when I stopped." vocations, theologies, attitudes, and fears, and “opportunity.” Carlson’s experience min¬ And yet most CPE veterans recognize and to examine how the “self” both con¬ istering to people in crisis affirmed that that pain is a necessary part of spiritu¬ tributes to and detracts from their ministry. comparison. “When people are going al growth. For David Carlson, a PTS senior who through terrible things, they find out that spent the summer of 1996 at the University they need God,” he says. The opportunity, As Leslie Mott, a PTS senior enrolled of Louisville Health Science Center, as Carlson understands it, is “to let people in CPE this summer at St. Mary Medical a level one trauma unit in Louisville, KY, tell their own stories. We are called to listen, Center in Langhorne, PA, says, “I knew the lessons began immediately. “It made ‘ER’ particularly when people are suffering.” it was going to be hard. Everybody look like child’s play,” he says. Everyone who Though much of the CPE experience said it would be tough, but worthwhile.” takes CPE seriously gets pushed out of his does take place on the floors, an equally What makes the CPE experience simul¬ or her comfort zone. significant portion of the program occurs taneously “tough” and “worthwhile”? “I thought that I was afraid of blood,” in group and individual sessions with the According to the Reverend Denise G. continues Carlson. “My very first patient CPE supervisor, and a typical day devotes Haines, regional director of the Association was a fourteen-year-old boy who had been time to both ministry and education. Since for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) run over by a tractor. His face was raw, and CPE is based on action and reflection, most Eastern Region, it is the pedagogical method they had to use leech therapy to keep the days include IPR (interpersonal relations), that the program uses that makes it so circulation going so the skin would remain a clinical seminar in which one student challenging. Unlike traditional academic viable. But I was OK. I talked to the fami¬ in the group presents a verbatim (a highly programs, which are based on a more objec¬ ly—his mother, his aunt, him.” structured written description of a pastoral tive approach, the CPE method of learning By the end of the summer, Carlson’s fear visit) to the other members of the group and is grounded in action and reflection. Initially of blood was gone. It had been replaced by the supervisor for discussion and feedback. conceived as a method of learning pastoral a deep appreciation for the here and now. Mott recalls her first verbatim at St. practice in a supervised clinical setting, “I saw all these people in freak accidents. Mary’s. “I thought it was a great visit, but the concept of the program was expanded It made me feel that what we have is a gift. my supervisor pointed out that the patient in the 1920s to include the study of “the Life is a fragile thing, and yet so important.” controlled the visit very well.” A later living human document.” Carlson recalls that the first weeks of encounter, which Mott assumed had gone Over the years, the program has evolved the program were uncomfortable. He didn’t badly because the patient had been unre¬ and expanded, integrating knowledge of know what to say and didn’t feel as though sponsive and in denial of his condition, medicine, psychology, and other behavioral he had anything to offer. “At the beginning, received positive feedback from her supervi¬ sciences into its approach. Most recently, I was trying to do too much,” he remembers. sor and peers. “My experience is very differ-

12 • inSpire summer 1997 ent from what my peers see,” Mott con¬ realize exactly what was going on [in a pas¬ students with an opportunity to speak with cludes. “Everything is through my filter.” toral visit] that you didn’t even know.” supervisors from a variety of sites, to shop For Mott, the writing and discussing A third facet of CPE is the didactic, for an interviewer and register for an inter¬ of verbatims provides an opportunity or teaching seminar, in which supervisors view, and to enjoy dessert! Some particularly to examine theological, sociological, and or visiting lecturers address topics relevant organized students see this as a time to com¬ psychological assumptions that she was not to pastoral care. These can range from plete the application process; they arrange aware of holding. Such self-awareness is one presentations on active listening skills and to interview with a supervisor during the of the primary objectives of CPE. According the power of story to day-long presentations afternoon and be done with it. Others, like to the Reverend Frederick G. A. Sickert on focusing (a technique of internal exami¬ Mott, prefer to interview on site in order (’71M), CPE supervisor at Legacy Fiealth nation), healing massage, or observation to see the facility. Systems in Portland, OR, the action/reflec- of surgery. Sickert uses his early didactics, What are supervisors interviewing for? tion experience is an effective way to “help when students are experiencing the anxiety What makes a successful CPE candidate? students begin to look at themselves and and experimentation common to the early According to Elaines, “the best students are what they are about. Through individual weeks of CPE, to tell his own story. By mak¬ people who have had successful adult experi¬ work and work with peers, students discern ing himself vulnerable in sharing something ences.” They are the ones who, she believes, their identity. They learn what it means of himself, he hopes to promote trust among are equipped to handle the “very personal to be a good pastor.” the group and to facilitate communication. nature of the training process, which is both In addition to group sessions, students Like any situation in which one partici¬ an intimate and a threatening experience.” meet with their supervisors for individual pates as a member of a group under supervi¬ Sickert agrees. “We’re a pretty confrontive guidance. These meetings can be as signifi¬ sion, the CPE experience is colored by the group,” he says. “The candidates who will cant for the supervisor as for the student. group dynamic. Thus, in order to create both contribute the most to and receive the Sickert recalls an experience in which the best possible combination of individuals, most from the training are those who have a Catholic student from St. Paul School supervisors are highly selective in the screen¬ already worked hard on themselves.” For of Theology in Kansas City, MO, was ing process. At Legacy Fiealth Systems, Sickert, the bottom line is that if the peer struggling with how to minister to people applications are reviewed by an experienced, group is good, the experience will be good. who had no religious upbringing. “Elis ecumenical, gender-balanced team consisting Not fun, not easy, not relaxing, but good. challenge,” Sickert said, “was how to build of a Lutheran pastor with a Ph.D. in clinical “The people who didn’t have a good a bridge.” By week three of the program, psychology, a former Episcopal bishop experience are those who didn’t want to deal the student had come up with his own reso¬ and CPE supervisor, a Methodist pastor, with the things they were going through," lution. Pie told his patients that his lifestyle a Presbyterian pastor, and nurse managers. says Carlson. Fie admits that the peer groups was to pray often, and that he would pray The screening team’s goal is to bring together were tough, especially in the beginning. for them. Even if they didn’t believe in God, a strong, diverse group capable of supporting “People would break down," he recalls. he would believe in God for them. Fie prac¬ one another on the journey. “Your supervisor definitely finds out where ticed wearing his clericals one day and casual Not all programs have such a rigorous you are and pushes you to the edge. But clothes the next, as a way to illustrate both screening process, but all CPE applicants are I found that I could learn a lot if I took what his vocation and his humanness. To Sickert, required to complete an application that asks was said and considered it. Group taught these were creative solutions and important personal questions. Candidates are asked steps in one student’s journey toward a better to write “a reasonably full account of your understanding of himself and his role as life.. .describe your family of origin, your minister. current family relationships, and your educa¬ Students benefit from good supervisors. tional growth dynamics.” In addition, they PTS senior Matt Stith made a point of must describe the development of both their applying to and interviewing for basic CPE religious and work lives and recount an inci¬ at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, dent in which they were called to help some¬ NJ, because he had heard such positive one, assess the problem, include the solution, things about the supervisor, the Reverend and evaluate the experience. Subsequent Cynthia Strickler (’86B), and some pretty to submitting an application, all candidates gruesome accounts of how difficult the CPE must be interviewed, either at an ACPE experience can be with a bad supervisor. site or by an ACPE supervisor. Stith, who admits that he went into CPE PTS is among the seminaries that kicking and screaming and only because streamline this process by bringing two his presbytery required it for ordination, dozen or more CPE supervisors to prospec¬ was pleased with his choice. tive students. Every year in January, supervi¬ “Cindy is a tremendous chaplain,” he sors are invited to a PTS healthcare-related explains. “She has a lot of experience, and continuing education event and a dinner she really knows her stuff. She can direct IPR at the Seminary, which is followed by “Meet without dominating it, without being over¬ the Supervisors” evening, sponsored by the bearing, and she has a way of making you Office of Field Education. This provides

inSpire *13 summer 1997 me a lot, too, about how people receive he has a tendency to want to fix situations, academic credit for CPE reflects Princeton’s criticism. We had some pretty heated discus¬ to solve them intellectually. “But,” he commitment to its importance.” Though the sions.” admits, “there are some situations that Seminary does not require CPE for all of its Group experiences are as diverse can’t be fixed, that can’t be solved.” students, about thirty-five students per year, as the individuals in them. Mott’s group He also learned very early on that the mostly in the summer, complete a basic 400- includes PTS alumna Lisa Hess (’96B), chaplain is not the only one who ministers hour unit. Those students who are required who is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at to those in crisis. During his first “on call,” to do CPE by their denominations generally the Seminary, one male Presbyterian from which took place on the third day of the elect to complete the summer field education New Brunswick Theological Seminary, two program, Stith had to accompany a family unit and their denominational requirement nuns, and one Catholic laywoman, in to the morgue to see the body of their twen¬ at the same time. addition to herself. Stith’s group is slightly ty-two-year-old son who had been killed The most compelling advocates for CPE, smaller, but three of the four members are in a motorcycle accident. Stith recalls that however, are those who have completed the Presbyterians affiliated with PTS; in addition the emergency room technician, the nurses, program. Stith, who entered the program to Stith, Heather Christensen (’97B) and even the security guards were all extremely reluctantly, says emphatically, “I really love Chris Hammond, a PTS middler, are doing pastoral in their dealings with the family. CPE. I’m a convert. I admit that my pres¬ CPE at Somerset. This summer, Sickert’s “The best that can be said for my perfor¬ bytery was right, and I think CPE should mance,” he recalls, be required of everybody. ” “is that I didn’t faint And Mott adds, “I would highly recom¬ or throw up.” mend CPE to anyone going into parish The CPE program ministry. CPE provides a ready-made crisis has expanded over the for you to walk into. Our patients are our years. Today, the pro¬ teachers.... If you’re interested in taking gram accepts theologi¬ an interior journey, CPE will do it for you. cal students, ordained It’s like professional therapy.” clergy, members of Similar sentiments are expressed by religious orders, and Carlson as he reflects on his summer of basic qualified laypeople. CPE: “If you look seriously at the way that It offers a variety of you have been changed, the way that God sites in which to “prac¬ has touched you and ministered to you tice pastoral care with in CPE, you don’t do things the same ever qualified supervision again. You’ll be looking at ways to minister. and peer group reflec¬ That’s the way that it helps you. And when tion,” including hospi¬ a crisis comes in later life, you’ll be equipped tals; correctional because you’ve had experience. You’ll be centers; hospice; geri¬ confident that God will give you exactly group comprises five theological students, atric and rehabilitation centers; and parishes. what you need.” all of whom have left the business world, There are over three hundred accredited Despite rave reviews from most every¬ including a CPA, a music teacher, an advo¬ CPE centers in the United States, including one connected with CPE, not all PTS cate for the poor, a member of the military, Alaska and Hawaii, from which to choose. students are able to take advantage of the and an administrative assistant. There is even a new CPE center in Puerto program. Regrettably, there is no PTS For Mott, the group experience has Rico! funding for the program, a fact that presents been good, though she admits that it is still In recent years, an increasing number problems for a number of students because early in the process. Through both group of denominations have required that not only must the student pay a site fee and individual supervision, she is learning candidates for ordination complete CPE. of $250 to $600, but also, of course, the a lot about herself. “The group and my Lutherans, Episcopalians, and many student earns no money that summer and supervisor have recognized things in me that Catholics are required to complete the must usually pay for room and board I hadn’t seen. I am nurturing and talented, program before being ordained. Many besides. Stipended CPE positions are scarce. and I have a good sense of presence.” presbyteries in the PC(USA) require CPE “We encourage churches and judicatories In addition, her work in group and of their candidates for ministry. And even that require CPE to assist students with the individual supervision has given her a signifi¬ if it is not required, most churches strongly costs,” says Kate Bilis-Bastos, assistant for cant insight: her greatest asset and greatest suggest that prospective pastors complete specialized ministry internships in the Office hindrance are one and the same. “I have the program. of Field Education at PTS. “It’s a shame,” a deep, abiding empathy for people,” she PTS students have the option of doing she says, “to reserve CPE for an elite few says, “and if I am not aware of it, I can CPE as an elective or to satisfy one of the when every future pastor, not just future overstep boundaries.” two required field education internships. chaplain, can benefit from it.” Like Mott’s, Stith’s perception of himself Abigail Rian Evans, PTS’s associate professor Having listened to the stories of current and his ministry has changed since begin¬ of practical theology and academic coordina¬ and past CPE students, that is a statement ning CPE. He has learned, he says, that tor of field education, says that “awarding that is difficult to dispute. 1

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himself has prepared a book book on worship for use in the time for the conference serving Key to Abbreviations: of meditations and prayers congregation. as executive secretary for the Upper-case letters designate for the board of directors of conference board of trustees degrees earned at PTS: The Swarthmore Rotary Club. Harold W. Kaser (B, '47M) and managing our Minnesota M.Div. B is serving as director of church United Methodist Federal M.R.E. E 1939 Robert E relations and of the Center for Credit Union.” M.A. E Graham (B) writes that, at Church Life at Muskingum Th.M. M D.Min. P eighty-one, he is “still preaching College in New Concord, OH. Richard W. Irwin (B), Th.D. D now and then—when asked!” a resident of Campinas, Brazil, Ph.D. D 1945 Walter L. Dosch is pastor of the Primeira Igreja

Special undergraduate student U T. Murdock Hale (B) and his II (B, '48M) writes that he Presbiteriana Independente Special graduate student G wife, Miriam, celebrated their is “enjoying the challenge and de Sao Paulo and a professor fifty-seventh wedding anniver¬ opportunity of my seventh at the Seminario Teologico When an alumnus/a did not sary in March. He writes, interim at Olivet-Covenant Presbiteriano Independente receive a degree, a lower-case letter corresponding to those “I am actively managing our Presbyterian Church in the de Sao Paulo. above designates the course 280-acre tree farm of Northern historic Fairmount section of study. hardwood, spruce, and fir.” of Philadelphia.” 1948 Martin E. Lehmann (D) recently pub¬ 1924 John E. Kemper Y. Taylor (B), 1946 Glen M. lished his book A Biographical Johnson (B), reportedly the now legally blind, continues Johnson (B) of Lakeland, FL, Study of Ingiver Ludwig oldest living alumnus of PTS, “to officiate at the Lord’s Supper is serving as part-time parish Hommensen (1834—1918): celebrated his 98th birthday once a month at a home for associate pastor for the First Pioneer Missionary to the Bataks on May 2. Many happy returns! assisted living.” Presbyterian Church in Plant of Sumatra (Edwin Mellen City, FL. Press). 1933 John B. 1940 They Sought MacDonald (M) is recuperat¬ a Land, written by William 1947 Previous commit¬ D. MacNab Morrison ing and “doing well” after O. Ragsdale (B, '46M), ments kept J. Carlton (M) is the stated supply for having fractured his hip as is scheduled to be published Forshee (M) from attending Wedgefield Presbyterian Church chaplain at the reunion of the in the fall by the University the 50th reunion; however, in Wedgefield, SC, which 89th Infantry Division (World of Arkansas Press. he sends greetings and news was honored by the General War II) in St. Louis. to his former classmates: Assembly for its stewardship 1943 On a very up-beat “I have been retired from active program. 1934 Thanks to note, James R. Bell (B) ministry in the Minnesota Frederick E. Christian (B) writes that he is “still alive Annual Conference ol the 1949 John Butosi (M), for contacting members of the and thankful, still kicking and United Methodist Church who served as president of the Class of ’34 and procuring news thankful, still volunteering and since June of ’86,” he writes. Hungarian Reformed World about their lives. He reports thankful, and with my wonder¬ “In retirement, I work part Federation from 1991 to 1996, that Henry Bucher (B) took ful wife still “an extensive trip to China, the having fun and Philippines, and (other) points thankful!" of interest” and has written a fascinating manuscript detail¬ 1944 ing impressions, especially from Paul T. the Santa Tomas prison where Dahlstrom he had spent some time during (B) recently World War II.” He also writes published that Robert C. Grady (B), Worshiping— of Hendersonville, NC, has Present and been somewhat limited by Future Hope photo: Chrissie Knight recent eye surgery, but otherwise (Fairway Press, Celebrating their fiftieth reunion year are (left to right): (front row) Walter Baldwin, Wallace Easter, Leroy Dillener, Jiri Carda, James Heller (middle row) Gervase Zanotti, John Sinclair keeps reasonably well. Christian 1996), a study (back row) Marie Melrose, Betty Gibson, Donald Meisel, Howard Redmond.

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Class notes currently teaches missiol- John C. Purdy (B) of Santa John B. Smiley (B) has ogy at the Reformed Fe, NM, co-conducted the completed his interim ministry Theological Academy in Men’s Bible Study series at the in Hammonton, NJ, and is Debrecen, Hungary. 1997 Spring Men’s Assembly now “back to comfortably held in April in Seattle, WA. retired status.” Kyung Yun Chun (M) is professor emeritus Among other activities which 1953 Howard W. at Han Shin University keep him busy, Nathaniel C. McFall Jr. (B), who taught in Seoul, South Korea. Roe (B, '55M) notes that his in Xian, China, in the spring of “woodshop produces many 1996, has been actively involved 1950 Now in her different commissions of furni¬ in Amnesty International, sixth year in Sitka, AK, ture,” and that he serves on the Habitat for Humanity, hospice Virginia C. Haaland board of Habitat for Humanity ministry, men’s study groups, (E) writes that she keeps and preaches when asked. and the First Presbyterian

“in daily touch by re-lis¬ Sanders’s ’88 Convocation lec¬ Church of Cape May, in Cape tening to PTS Institute of tures on Luke.” She further John W. Sheibley (B) May, NJ. McFall also serves Theology taped lectures by J.C. exclaims, “Long live taped lec¬ and his wife are doing as a member of the Board Beker on “Romans,” Choon- tures by such a pantheon of promotion for Bacone College, of Education in Cape May and Leong Seow’s “Spirited scholars!!!’’ a Native American college a member of the Oratorio Conversations,” and James A. in Muskogee, OK. Society of Stockton College.

1951 After forty-five “After fifteen glorious sun-filled years as a missionary in Japan, months at the Desert Palms ^take a bow Kenneth J. Dale (M) Church in Sun City West,

Richard M. Hadden ('35B) premiered his commissioned work has retired to Pilgrim Place Arizona, we moved to the "Centennial Celebration March," played at Fort Mackinac by the in Claremont, CA. First Presbyterian Church of 126th Army Band, at the 100th anniversary of Mackinac Island Bartlesville, Oklahoma.... State Park in Michigan in August 1996. 1952 Ruth Grob (B) It’s a downtown congregation Robert Beringer ('61B, '70M), pastor of the First Presbyterian moved back to the United of wonderfully friendly people Church in Metuchen, NJ, received the ninth annual Charles S. States from Switzerland in from throughout the communi¬ Edgar Award from the Metuchen-Edison YMCA. The award was August 1996, and is now living ty. We ll be here till sometime bestowed "on the basis of his outstanding leadership qualities and personal integrity." in Duarte, CA. in 1997,” writes Robert E. Palmer (B). He has been Doug Baker ('76B) is a staff member of the Corrymeela Marisa G. Keeney (E) doing interim ministry for the Community, a community working for reconciliation in Northern Ireland, which received the 14th Annual Niwano Peace of Taylors, SC, is “enjoying past five years. Prize from the Niwano Peace Foundation of Japan. teaching courses... for the Furman University Learning 1954 John P. Crossley Patricia H. Davis ('84B, '92D) has been named a Flenry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 1997-98. Her project, "Spiritualities in in Retirement Program to Jr. (B) has been appointed Adolescent Girls," explores the role of spirituality in girls' daily retirees from all over the U.S.A., director of the School of lives and examines the contribution their spirituality makes which is a great way to continue Religion at the University of toward their understanding of themselves and their world. to be creative.” Southern California for a third

Gaston E. Espinosa ('92B) has been awarded the 1997-98 three-year term, 1997—2000. Cesar E. Chavez Dissertation Year Fellowship for U.S. Latina/o Clinton E. Kinney (B) Scholars at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. recently attended the 90th Bryan H. F. Ernst (b), who

Angelina Van Hise ('93B), who is chaplain at the Kimball reunion celebration ol the retired from full-time ministry Medical Center in Monmouth County, NJ, received the Wheaton College Men’s Glee in 1990, now serves part time Monmouth County 4-H Alumni/ae of the Year Award. Club, of which he was business in the Uniting Church in

Lisa Kristine Nichols ('97B) was one of four finalists for the manager in 1947 and president Australia. He is also a part-time 1997 David H. C. Read Preacher/Scholar Award, given by in 1948. organist and a member of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City to a male choir at St. Paul’s Uniting -aduating seminary student who "demonstrates special dis¬ tinction in both preaching and scholarship and is committed to Church in Deepdene, Victoria. the parish pulpit." summer 1997 Class notes

Retired in 1995, Ronald V. Fleming (B) has had Alumni/ae Update an interim position with When I was fourteen, I lost the preaching contest at the regional Christian Endeavor convention. I had two Presbyterian churches entered the contest thinking that I might be cut out for the ministry. But after losing the event, I walked in Ohio since January 1997: dejectedly up the church aisle wondering about a career in architecture instead. Just then one of the Westminster Presbyterian judges caught up with me, put his arm around my shoulder, and told me that if I hadn't used notes, I Church in New Concord and might have won the contest (the first place finisher had memorized his talk). And then he said, "You really ought to consider going into the ministry." Norwich Presbyterian Church in Norwich. He plans to travel Of the many nudges, signs, and signals that coalesced in my call to the ministry, that single sentence to Italy and Greece with his stands out as the most memorable. His unsolicited opinion served as an early but important confirma¬ tion of God's summons, so that while there continued to be occasional glances at the drafting table, I daughter Rebecca this summer. thereafter set my sights on the ministry of the Gospel.

John E. Hunn You know young adults and others who would make splendid servants of Christ in the church. Their faith is rooted and growing. They are insightful and expressive. They enjoy (B) is now interim working with people and have a heart for others. Who knows? They may even have cast a pastor at the wistful eye toward the pulpit at one time or another. Well, then, take them to lunch. Share First Presbyterian your enthusiasm for ministry and ask them to consider the possibility of God's call on their Church in Rouses life. If there is a flickering interest, offer to help clarify their sense of vocation. When appro¬ priate, suggest that they make a trip to Princeton to see first-hand what seminary educa¬ Point, NY. tion is all about.

Paul E. Pierson Don't wait for them to speak to you; speak to them. You may help them hear another voice, and have the joy of hearing them reply, "Here am I; send me." (B, '71D) writes that he completed Tom Erickson ('61M) is pastor of Valley Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, AZ. a two-year stint He has served on the Alumni/ae Association Executive Council since 1994. as interim pastor of

Bel Air Presbyterian Church Committee in the Presbytery the World Council of Churches died in April 1995, and that in Bel Air, CA, in 1995 and of Plains and Peaks, which in December in Miami, FL. he retired as executive presbyter is currently in his last year as is currently in a multi-million- of the Presbytery of Ohio Valley professor of history of mission dollar fund drive. 1956 John Chironna in January 1996. and Latin American studies Jr. (B), who retired in 1996, in the School of World Mission Gayle W. Threlkeld (B) is currently working part time Donald M. Stine (B, '59D, at Fuller Theological Seminary. continues to enjoy retirement as a therapist at Charter '64M) writes that he “remained “I will go to senior status and and to participate in presbytery Hospital in Terra Haute, IN. retired for about a year and then continue to teach part time and work, particularly his assign¬ founded the Markham Woods mentor doctoral students during ment as coach/mentor with the Having retired in 1991, Counseling Center at Markham the next academic year,” he says. Redevelopment Pastors’ Cluster. Kenneth B. Cragg (B) Woods Presbyterian Church, In November his faculty col¬ is now the parish associate Lake Mary, FL, to serve this leagues presented him with 1955 James M. at the Presbyterian Community growing suburb of Orlando.” a festschrift titled Missiological MacKellar (B) retired in June Church of Massapequa, NY. Education for the 21st Century 1996 after twenty-one years Frederick E. Stock (M) published by Orbis Books, as stated clerk of the Synod of Edward Danks (B, '88p) and his wife, Margie, retired a collection of essays by men the Northeast and then enjoyed reports that his wife, Barbara, from the Christian Hospital and women involved in missio¬ a four-week trip to China. died on December 21, 1996. in Sindh, Pakistan, in May logical education from all five 1997. continents and from various W. Donald Pendell (B), Since March 1997, William theological traditions ranging who is Communications Chair J. Mills (B) has been serving John G. Truitt Jr. (b) sends from Roman Catholic to of the Columbus (OH) Church as interim pastor at the Second the following update: “When Pentecostal. Council, represented the Presbyterian Church in Oil City, retired Air Force Chaplain John Presbyterian Synod of the PA. Truitt swings onto his motor¬ Bradley F. Rohwer (B) Covenant and the Columbus cycle, he is known as ‘The is moderator of the Highland Church Council at a week-long Robert C. Sackmann (B) Sermonator. ” He is a member Camp and Retreat Center broadcast seminar sponsored by writes that his wife, Helene, of the Gold Wing Road Riders

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Association of Phoenix, AZ, of the Northeast Permanent Kermit D. Johnson (B) at Westminster Presbyterian and the Tar Heel Wings in Judicial Commission and of the is the author of Ethics and Church in Buffalo, NY. North Carolina. General Assembly Council of Counterrevolution: American the Presbyterian Church (USA). Involvement in Internal Wars, John H. Maltby (B) is 1957 Charles to be published this year by serving on the Evangelism T. Botkin (M) is presently Earl W. Kennedy (M, the University Press of America. and Congregational Ministry contract pastor for Forest Park '68D) writes that he plans Committee of New Brunswick Reformed Church and the to retire this summer after Barbara A. Roche (E), Presbytery. He also served for Christ Congregational Church thirty-four years teaching founding editor of Horizons two years as master of Pioneer ofWoodhaven in Queens, NY. religion at Northwestern magazine and Bible study, has Grange #1 of Dayton, NJ, College in Orange City, IA. resigned, effective September 1, which recently celebrated its The Paulist Press has recently 1997. She has served as editor 125th anniversary. published The Religion of Israel: 1959 Gordon T. since Horizons founding nine A Short History by William Cramer (B) currently serves years ago. Richard L. Stephan (B) has J. Doorly (M). as stated clerk of the Synod left the ministry, resigning his of Alaska-Northwest. Kenneth B. Yerkes (B) membership in National Capital James R. Eakin (B) writes is “really enjoying both interim Presbytery in the Presbyterian that he and his first wife Y. Carl Furuya (D) has retired ministry and the Episcopal Church (USA). He offers this remarried in February and from International Christian Church.” He is interim rector explanation to his classmates: moved from San Pablo, CA, University in Tokyo, Japan, at Christ Episcopal Church “On many occasions over to Indianapolis, IN. where he served for thirty-seven in Rolla, MO. my past thirty-five years as years as professor of theology, a Presbyterian minister I have The University of Oklahoma university minister, and univer¬ 1961 David H. Koss disagreed with stances the Press has recently republished sity church pastor. During those (M) was awarded a professional church has taken. However, The Black Infantry in the West years he was invited back development grant from Illinois I always felt welcome in the byArlen L. Fowler (B). to PTS four times as a visiting College in Jacksonville, IL, fellowship of the denomination lecturer in ecumenics and where he has taught religion and that I could speak openly James W. Kesler (B, '61M) theology. His book A History since 1972. and honestly without fear returned to work in May of Japanese Theology has recently of reprisals. The denomination as pastor of Peace Presbyterian been published by Eerdmans. Thomas E. Terrill (B) has now turned its back Church in Clinton Township, was the leading consultant on its tradition of inclusiveness MI, after having recovered from Robert L. Kelley Jr. (M) for “The Uprising of’34,” and tolerance of differences a heart attack in early March. retired in May after forty- a nationally televised documen¬ of opinion. With the approval two years on the faculty tary. A second edition of of Amendment B, I find that In February, Daniel W. Reid of Pittsburgh Theological his book The American South: I can no longer in good con¬ (B) completed twenty-five Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. A History has recently been science maintain an identity years of service at Lenape Valley published. Terrill teaches history as a representative of this Presbyterian Church, New 1960 J. Daniel Brown at the University of South denomination.” Britain, PA. (M), a professor of religion and Carolina. philosophy at Catawba College 1963 Richard B. Terrence N. Tice (B, '61D) in Salisbury, NC, is the author 1962 Harry A. Anderson (B), pastor has published two translations of Masks of Mystery: Explorations Freebairn (B, '84P) became of Elmhurst Presbyterian of works by Schleiermacher: in Christian Faith and Arts, director of field education Church in Elmhurst, IL, writes, On What Gives Value to Life recently published by the at PTS in July 1996, and “Continuing on in Elmhurst (Edwin Mellen Press) and University Press of America. published his sermon “Got until 2000 and my retirement. Dialectic, or the Art of Doing a Date with an Angel” in the Just opened a PADS homeless Philosophy (Scholars Press). P. William Hutchinson Jr. Journal for Preachers (Advent shelter in the church. A great (B) is currently assistant 1996). miracle!” 1958 William E. chair of the Department of Chapman (B, '62E, '69D) Performing Arts at Rhode Island C. James Hinch (B) is Thomas M. Johnston Jr. is a member of the Synod College in Providence, RI. now serving as interim pastor (M) is chair of the Synod

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of the Trinity’s Executive I believe the basic principles 1968 Earl W. Kennedy we are losing drug battles and Forum in 1997 and completes thereof often apply to meeting [the] next generation of Blacks.” ('58M, D) writes, “I am cur¬ his two-year term as president the needs of the elderly and rently the Marvin and Jerene of the Pennsylvania Council the terminally ill....” Paige M. McRight (B) is DeWitt Professor of Religion of Churches. beginning to work on a D.Min. at Northwestern College in William A. at Columbia Seminary in 1966 Orange City, IA. I plan to retire Donald W. Polkowski (B) has been active Decatur, GA, “focusing on faith 1964 in May after thirty-four years Shaner(M) is now senior as a chaplain, counselor, and development in college students at NWC.” pastor at Calvary Baptist psychotherapist in Ann Arbor, in today’s culture.” Church in Clifton, NJ, and MI. He writes, “I am seeking 1969 Thomas F. an adjunct professor in sociolo¬ a pastorate in the Presbyterian Frederick G. Sickert (M), Johnson (M) is “moving from gy at Bloomfield College church. Hopefully I will director and CPE supervisor the presidency of the University in Bloomfield, NJ. be able to do private practice for Legacy Health Systems of Sioux Falls (SD) to professor (psychotherapy) as well." in Portland, OR, is “looking of biblical studies at George Fox for resident CPE students.” University in Newberg, OR!” S T Kimbrough Jr. (D) is the author of the recently William R. James E. Roghair (B) is 1972 published book A Heart to Forbes (B) pastor of pastor (stated supply) at the Praise Thy God, (Abingdon Westfield Presbyterian Church Second Presbyterian Church Press). He has also released in Westfield, NJ, has been of Chicago, IL. these new recordings: “Classics elected to the board of trustees

from Hollywood to Broadway,” Kenneth W. Smith of Bloomfield College in “Kurt Weill on Broadway,” Bloomfield, NJ. (B/72M) is now headmaster and “Spirituals: Songs from of the Sandy Spring Friends the American Experience.” School in Sandy Spring, MD.

Elizabeth D. ♦ 1967 1970 Jackson W. Wallace Alcorn Beck (B) is serving as interim 1 1965 Carroll (D) is the Ruth W. and (M) read the Emancipation pastor at Delta Presbyterian A. Morris Williams Jr. Professor Proclamation on New Year’s Church in Lansing, MI. of Religion and Society at Duke Day in Beaufort, SC, at the Divinity School, Durham, NC. third annual re-enactment Earl S. Johnson Jr. (B) In January, he gave the Sprunt of its initial reading in 1863. took a group from his church, Lectures at Union Theological He is the great, great grandson the First Presbyterian Church in Seminary in Richmond, VA, on of the Rev. Dr. William Henry Pittsford, NY, on a trip to Israel “The Church in Post-traditional Brisbane, the first reader, at the end of January 1997. Society.” whose biography he is currently 1973 Martha Harp, writing. Jocelyn Konigsmark (B) wife of Roger Harp (B), died Irene Getz (E) is an adjunct is running an antiquarian on March 10, 1997, in Lincoln, instructor in adult education Nancy Chapman Burcher book business out of her home NE, after a brief illness. at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, of Tallahassee, FL, writes, in Wayne, PA. (e) MN. She and her husband, “Brewster (a blonde thirty-five- Andrew J. Schatkin (B) Ed Fastner, live in Eagan, MN. pound Cocker Spaniel) and Robert C. Murphy (B) has his own law firm with I visit the elderly and the termi¬ recently earned an M.S. 1971 Jim Forsythe offices in Long Island and nally ill either in their homes in counseling from Villanova Bayside, NY. He obtained (M), who retired from the or in local private nursing University in Villanova, PA. a diploma in international Federal Bureau of Prisons and homes.... My ministry to the He is also a full-time psy¬ law and human rights from is now director of New York elderly first began with daily chotherapist for Life Counseling the University of Strasbourg State prisons, writes, “[There telephone calls wherever they Services, a Minirth-Meier facili¬ in France, and a certificate are] 70,000 inmates in New lived. Although I am trained ty for Christian counseling. in international law from the York, a terrible indication that in early childhood education, Hague in the Netherlands.

inSpire • 19 photo: Chrissie Knight A Handbook,publishedin January byGreenwoodPress. of AnthropologyReligion: Glazier (B)istheauthor Advent inKennettSquare,PA. Texas, sevenyearsago,Inow Joseph Stanley(B)writes, of crime.” personally counselvictims a drive-byshootinginVidor, “...having recoveredfrom Sermons ofAlbertSchweitzer, University inApril1997. his Ph.D.fromFloridaState Steve Melamed(B)received Church inRutherford,NJ. pastor ofrheFirstPresbyterian at theEpiscopalChurchof His thesistopicis“TheAfrican summer 1997 ed toPalmBay,FL. service inJapanandhasrelocat¬ Dianna Pohlman(B)is Class notes chaplain for the245thSupport Thomas E."Buzz" thirty-two yearsofmissionary (E) iscurrentlyinterimrector 20 • inSpire Mattingly III(B)isnow Karl Karpa(M)retiredafter 1913-14, 1930.” 1974 StephenD. 1975 N.DeanEvans Jon Black,PeterMaier,BruceBoak,Schundler,CoryLoder,JackVanEns. Mary Thies,JeanAnneSwope,DavidHeneger,ArtSundstrom,WadeEpps(backrow) Celebrating theirtwenty-fifthreunionyearare(lefttoright):(frontrow)BillForbes, After nineyearsasassociate services coordinatorforHospice where sheisemployedasapro¬ of CentralVirginia. accepted apositionasspiritual Shanda Carignan(B)has Church inRichmond,VA, Panama. Battalion inFortClayton, duction editorattheUniversity has relocatedtoLawrence,KS, director ofchaplaincyservices. Duluth, MN,whereheservesas St. Mary’sMedicalCenterin the bio-ethicscommitteeof rector atSt.Paul’sEpiscopal Parish inVictoria,Australia. the DeepdeneUnitingChurch Brown (M)isministerof Rebecca KnightGiusti(B) (B) hasbeenappointedto on cablevision7inPittsburgh. and KoppwithRealPeople,” of St.JohntheEvangelistparish daughter Rosaaremembers Press ofKansas.Sheandher Rus Howardhost“Howard Robert R.Kopp(B) and in Lawrence. Kopp writes, “Itisthetheologi- 1976 RobertJ. 1977 JohnD.Gibbs women’s studiesattheState written byLindaPershing lorist andafeministtheorist, Spirituality andWork(Alban Hands toWork:Connecting Jeffrey M.Young(B)writes, University ofNewYork,Albany. to wraparoundthePentagon men whocreatedfabricpanels It tellsthestoryofwomenand University ofTennesseePress. Institute). ten thebookHeartstoGod, Presbyterian ChurchinSanta is anassistantprofessorof the armsrace.Pershing,afolk¬ in 1985socialprotestagainst Barbara, CA,hasrecentlywrit¬ the personnelactionsofficerfor “I amenjoyingmyministryas (B), hasbeenpublishedbythe The RibbonaroundthePentagon, Jacobsen (B), pastor ofGoleta Stephen Theological cal alternativeto Seminary inMay. Francisco D.Min. fromSan Richard Miles Howard Stern.” (B) receivedhis 1978 <- As aConfessionalChurchtothe Theological Seminary.His who isheadofstaffthe Egypt. which isscheduledforreleasein with producerJeffrey of BethelUnitedMethodist Matters (Jan/Feb1997). article “DiscerningtheSigns over $550forhisSr.High youth out of4,364finishers,he raised annual MethodistHealthCare of Moses.Thetitlethemovie, on anewfilmbasedthelife pastors whometinHollywood one ofagrouptwenty-five staff team.InMarch,hewas a contractwithJossey-Bass George Cladis(B)hassigned Church inCresskill,NJ. Chung (M)isservingaspastor California andHawaii. of thePacificandSouthern her positionaswomen’smin¬ Shin-Hwa Park(B)resigned Culture” appearedinTheology of theTimes:Responding to teachparttimeatFuller Come visitusatthePentagon.” the ArmyChiefofChaplains. to Washington, D.C. fellowship’s June missiontrip Katzenberg (TheLionKing, building andleadingachurch Publishers towriteabookon istries associatefortheSynods Eisenhower (M)continues Houston MarathononJanuary Pasadena, TX,raninthe25th First PresbyterianChurchin Robert A.Garwig(B), 12, 1997.Placing1,170th 1998, willbeThePrinceof The LittleMermaid)toreflect 1980 SungMan 1979 WilliamD. summer 1997 Class notes African American Alums of Princeton

Two hundred years ago, in April, a child was born who was des¬ tined to achieve renown as "one of the most prominent Wright's fervor for reform extended beyond his church commu¬ Negroes of that time" for his work in the abolitionist movement. nity and led him into a number of black organizations as well as That child was Theodore Sedgwick Wright. into a position of prominence in the culture of the time. Like his father Richard P. G. Wright, who took a strong stand against col¬ Wright, who attended Princeton Theological Seminary from onization and voiced his opposition to slavery, Wright became 1825 to 1828, claims a special place in Princeton's history as the deeply involved in the antislavery movement. In a characteristi¬ first black person to graduate from the Seminary. (The first cally moving address delivered before the Convention of the black to graduate from an institution of higher education is New York State Antislavery Society on September 20, 1837, he believed to have been Alexander Lucius Twilight, who received observed, "It is an easy thing to ask about the vileness of slav¬ a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1823.) ery in the South, but to call the dark man a brother, to treat all men according to their moral worth, to treat the man of color in It is to the Seminary's credit that when the Board of Directors all circumstances as a man and a brother — that is the test." received Wright's application for admission, there was no debate about his color. Rather, the minutes of the meeting held As a result of his commitment to abolitionism, he participated in on May 16, 1825, state that when "Dr. McAuley, on behalf of the the New York Committee of Vigilance in the mid-1830s. In 1838, Presbytery of Albany, applied to the board to have Theodore he co-founded the New York Association for the Political Wright, a fine young man of color, admitted into the Seminary Elevation and Improvement of People of Color and attended the (the Board) resolved that his color shall form no obstacle in the black state convention at Albany in 1840. In addition, Wright way of his reception." founded the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) and held a seat on the society's executive committee; he was also active in In 1828, Wright received his Certificate of Graduation, the stan¬ the New York State Anti-Slavery Society. dard degree issued by the Seminary at that time. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Albany on February 5, 1829, and In working with these organizations Wright became aware of in 1830 succeeded Samuel E. Cornish, his former teacher, as the insidious nature of prejudice and questioned the integrity of pastor of the First Colored Presbyterian Church (also known as many of the abolitionist societies: the "Swamp Church") in New York City, where he was pastor until 1847. Our hearts have recently been gladdened by an address of the annual meeting of the Friends' Society in the city of New York, During Wright's seventeen-year tenure there, the church devel¬ in which they insist upon the doctrine of immediate emancipa¬ oped into the second-largest African American congregation in tion. But that very good man who signed the document as New York City as people responded to Wright's devotion to the organ of that society within the past year received a man moral reform. He formed a temperance society as part of his of color, a Presbyterian minister, into his house, gave him his church's outreach program. Recognizing the need for both spiri¬ meals alone in the kitchen, and did not introduce him to his tual and practical guidance, he established the Phoenix Society, family. What can the friends of emancipation effect while the a group committed to "morals, literature, and the mechanical spirit of slavery is so fearfully prevalent? arts." Working with the Phoenix High School for Colored Youth, he fought for the education of blacks and urged his people to Writer and educator Walter Merrill, in his contribution to the examine their attitudes and actions: Encyclopedia Britannica's Dictionary of American Negro Biographies, said of Wright, "except for Frederick Douglass, few There is a remissness — a criminality in our American Negroes of his generation labored more effectively people, in not supporting learned professional for the freedom and equality of his race than Theodore S. men, enterprises, and institutions among us, not Wright." The price of that labor was an early death at the age of longer to be tolerated. The little petty jealousies, fifty, apparently caused by overwork. And yet, Wright would not the human prejudices, and the contracted benevolence have been able to live his life more moderately. He was a pas¬ which characterize and ruin us, would disgrace the sionate man whose words and actions resonated with convic¬ darkest ages and dumbest people that ever cursed tion and roused others from apathy. "Let every man take his the world. What are we waiting for? Do we expect or stand," he wrote, "burn out this prejudice, live it down, talk it wish our white brethren to drag us from our poverty, down, everywhere consider the colored man as a man, in the ignorance, and degradation, as the mule carries church, the stage, the steamboat, the public house, in all places, his burden, without effort on our part? and the death-blow to slavery will be struck."

Keith H. Poppen (B) writes at the First Presbyterian Church of Pennsylvania Health System. 1981 Duane Hix (B) that he’s passed all nine of in Stanhope, NJ, in February. has moved to a new call at his ordination exams, is about Joyce Ann Rife (B) retired Kenwood Park Presbyterian writing his credo, and is enjoy¬ Gavin Kerr at the end of January and Church in Cedar Rapids, IA. 1982 ing his role as pastoral counselor (B) was recently promoted reports that she is “having fun

at Christ Community Church Hugh Matlock (B, '84M) to vice president for human traveling.” in Carmichael, CA. resources for the University was installed as the new pastor

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John C. R. Silbert (B) Heights Presbyterian Church IN, on March 16, 1997. He female pastor and head of staff has two new positions: in his hometown of Kansas had spent the six years prior as of Flemington Presbyterian interim pastor for membership City, MO, on March 1, 1997. program director of the London Church in Flemington, NJ, and evangelism at the First Concerning his new call, Mennonite Centre in England. in its 205-year history. Presbyterian Church in Rob states: “Ruskin Heights Greensburg, PA, and consultant has a successful ‘Logos’ program, Michael S. Moore (M) 1985 William A. for church and public media an inspirational choir, and will¬ was appointed associate director Evertsberg (B) has accepted for the Presbyterian Media ing workers. The old suburban of Fuller Theological Seminary a call as pastor and head of Mission in Pittsburgh, PA. neighborhood is becoming more Southwest in Phoenix, AZ, staff of the First Presbyterian urbanized.’ The church is seek¬ beginning June 1, 1997. Church in Greenwich, CT. 1983 Kathleen ing to reach out to the growing Bostrom (B, '80E) has had African American population. Brett Webb-Mitchell (B) Kurt T. Gaubatz (B) two children’s picture books It was a dream of mine in semi¬ has had a book published is on leave from his teaching accepted for publication by nary to go serve in a church in by the United Church Press duties to serve as a national Tyndale House, and is anticipat¬ an integrated community where titled Dancing with Disabilities: fellow at the Hoover Institute ing publication of her book of I could do my small part in Opening the Church to All at Stanford University. biographies of children’s authors. promoting reconciliation among God’s Children. In addition, she has published all races and people. That I now Marion A. Jackson (B, articles on clergy couples and have the opportunity to do so 1984 Robert W. '86M) has been appointed the children of clergy couples in my own hometown is quite Gustafson (P) is an adjunct superintendent of the Southwest in The Christian Ministry. amazing!” professor in pastoral care at District of the New Jersey She is currently writing a book Bangor Theological Seminary Area for the United Methodist on teaching values to children. J. Nelson Kraybill (B) in Bangor, ME. Church. was inaugurated as president Robert J. Cromwell (B) of Associated Mennonite On April 1, Sally Willis- Susan dePuy Kershaw (M) became pastor of Ruskin Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Watkins (B) became the first writes, “In addition to serving as pastor of Nelson Congregational “ Weddings Church in Nelson, NH, I am irths serving as interim western area minister of the American Baptist Churches of Vermont and New Weddings Hampshire.”

Joanne B. Scott ('84B) to Paul Miller, May 24, 1997 Lisa A. Larsen ('88B) to Craig Henderson, March 22, 1997 David Kwang Kim (B) Amy Schneider to L. Robert Nelson ('89M), January 19, 1997 is now chairman ol the Board Donna Anderson to Douglas B. Hoffman ('92B), September 14, 1996 of Directors of the Korean Kathryn K. Bowers ('94B) to Mike Pettersen, March 1, 1997 Christian Television Station Heather Finck ('96B) to W. Jim Soha ('96B), July 6, 1996 (KCTS) in northern California. Births 1986 Stuart C. Lord Madelena Hedwig Collins to Mary Anne Collins-Stauffer ('80B) and John Jeffrey Collins ('81b), (B, '87M), a DePauw August 11, 1996 Aubrey Nicole to Darlene J. and Matthew J. Blanzy ('82B), April 12, 1997 University adminstrator who William Rouner to Kristen Rouner Jeide ('82B) and Bruce R. Jeide, March 29, 1996 coordinates student volunteer Lydia Marie to Diane M. Hagewood Smith ('84B) and Joe M. Smith, born March 15, 1995, programs and teaches ethics, and adopted August 12, 1996 Lindsay Elizabeth to Margaret Kibben ('86B) and Timothy Kibben, May 13, 1997 leadership, and social justice, Laura Anne to Lynn and Thomas L. Blackstone ('87B), May 4, 1997 served as executive director Nathan to Debra A. Ebling ('87B) and J. Patrick Vaughn ('87B), February 11, 1997 of “The President’s Summit for Christian Visco Jae-Young Na to Amy L. Na ('89B) and Kang-Yup Na ('89B), August 6, 1996 America’s Future,” which took Caitlin Grace to Susan J. and Jonathan Bunker ('93B), April 18, 1996 Emily Anne to Lois C. and Timothy J. Smith ('93B), July 1995 place from April 27 through Jordan Theodore Robert to Carolyn I. and Maurice Wright III ('93B), August 23, 1996 April 29 in Philadelphia. T.J. to Brenda and Thomas J. Edwards ('94B), November 6, 1996 Emily Anne to Kathleen (Katie) Loughman ('94E) and Peter Loughman ('93B, '94E), April 14, 1997 summer 1997 Class notes

In May, Audrey L. Schindler Methodist pastor Barbara D. Anabel C. Proffitt (D) has Since April 13, Angela L. (B) beg an a call as pastor of Burrus (B) is chair of her been named dean of Lancaster Ying (B) has been associate the Leighmoor Parish of the conference’s Health and Welfare Theological Seminary in presbytery executive for mission Uniting Church in Australia, Committee and the AIDS Lancaster, PA, where she has and program for the Presbytery in Melbourne. Action Team. been on the faculty since 1989. of Seattle.

1987 Joseph P. Dunn 1989 Victor Aloyo Jr. Chandra S. Soans (M) 1992 David R. Brewer (M), now in his tenth year (B) writes, “The Presbyterian is pastor at Grace-Trinity (B) is “enjoying serving as inter¬ as pastor of Ballston Spa Church of the Redeemer (UCC) Church in Philadelphia, im pastor while also preparing Presbyterian Church in Ballston of East Brooklyn [the church PA, and an adjunct assistant for law school.” Spa, NY, began a television he pastors] is attempting to professor at New Brunswick series titled Miracles and More combat the issues of racism and Theological Seminary in New Gaston E. Espinosa (B), Miracles last November. He is discrimination which are sorely Brunswick, NJ. a Ph.D. candidate in also vice president of the board plaguing our society. We have Chicano/Latino history of trustees of Albany Presbytery. opened the doors for a full Kristen Will (B) is living at the University of California multi-cultural, multi-lingual in Boston, MA, where she at Santa Barbara, is co-editor Richard C. Nevius (P) ministry that includes twenty- continues to work as a clinical of the forthcoming volume has retired as rector of St. Paul’s nine countries and four different social worker with the elderly Chicano Religions to be pub¬ Church in the art colony of San languages. We worship God mentally ill. lished this fall. He was a visiting Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, in English, Spanish, Hindi- lecturer in religion at Westmont Mexico. Since then, he and Punjabi, and Korean....” 1991 Dale P. Andrews College in Santa Barbara during his wife have built a home (B), a Ph.D. candidate at the 1996-97 academic year. in San Miguel and have done Cathy Ann Ludwig (M) Vanderbilt University, has been extensive international traveling has accepted a call to become called to serve as assistant pro¬ Doug Hoffman (B) to conferences and congresses. pastor of Christ Evangelical fessor of homiletics and practical is pastor at St. Matthew’s He has recently returned to Lutheran Church in Union, NJ. theology at Louisville Presbyter¬ United Methodist Church and Mexico after spending a term ian Theological Seminary in the director of the St. Paul’s as visiting professor of Greek Dana B. Martin (P) has Louisville, KY, starting in the Christian Center, both in East and New Testament at St. been named acting director fall semester of 1998, pending Baltimore, MD. Andrew’s Theological Seminary, of the library for the American the completion of his disserta¬ Manila, the Philippines, where Baptist Historical Society. tion. He is currently a teaching Clara E. Thomas (B) was he will be teaching part of each fellow at Vanderbilt specializing ordained a deacon in the United year for the forseeable future. Kennedy M. McGowan (B) in black preaching, homiletics, Methodist Church in June. She is now first vice moderator and the theological foundations has been minister of discipleship Charles Rowins (P) of Long Island Presbytery and of pastoral care. at the First United Methodist writes, “After many years in is also president of Pronto, Church in Hightstown, NJ, Episcopal schools, I now work a local social service mission. Eun Joo Kim (B, '96D) since February. for Johns Hopkins University is youth pastor at the Korean in a program for academically 1990 Deborah Central Presbyterian Church 1993 James A. talented pre-collegiate young Blanks (M) was appointed of Queens, NY, which has Glasscock (M) writes that people. On Sundays, I officiate assistant dean of religious life begun construction of a new he received a diploma in at a community chapel at Princeton University. sanctuary and gym/multi¬ jurisprudence and human rights (St. Christopher’s-by-the-Sea) purpose room. from Strasbourg in August on Gibson Island, just north J. Paul Davis (B) was 1996, and defended a thesis on of Annapolis.” ordained at Tabernacle United Stephen M. LaSor (B) “The Eastern Orthodox Church Church, a UCC congregation writes that he is district chair¬ and Human Rights.” He is 1988 Ann Fitzgerald in Philadelphia, on March 23, person in a new configuration a member of Grace Presbytery Aichinger (B) earned 1997. He will minister at the for Redstone Presbytery and and accepts interim pastorates. her Th.M. from Columbia First Congregational Church a grateful participant in PTS’s Theological Seminary (UCC) in Portland, OR. group trip to Israel in March in Decatur, GA, in May. 1996.

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On the Shelves Have you finished all the books on your summer reading list? God is neither black nor white but rather the color of water; the On the Shelves features book recommendations from a vari¬ book traces this remarkable young man's odyssey to under¬ ety of Princeton Seminary faculty and staff, with the hope that stand his rich and complicated heritages. these suggestions will help alumni/ae choose books that will contribute to their personal and professional growth. From Michael E. Livingston, campus pastor and director of the chapel: From Carol Lakey Hess, assistant professor of Christian education Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society, by John Edgar Wideman. New York, NY: Pantheon Religion, Feminism, and the Family, by Anne Carr and Mary Press, 1994. In Fatheralong, author J.E. Wideman combines a Stewart VanLeeuwen, eds. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John trenchant social analysis of race and society and a revealing Knox,1996; Families in the New Testament World: Flousehold personal narrative. Wideman's earlier book Brothers and and Flouse Churches, by Carolyn Osiek and David L. Balch. Keepers introduced his siblings. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox,1996. These are two books in the comprehensive series The Family, Religion, and Here he acquaints the reader with his parents: "My first rule of Culture, edited by Don Browning and Ian Evison. Focused to my father's world is that you stand alone. Alone, alone, alone.... raise important issues surrounding the North American debate My mother's first rule was love." He travels from Amherst, MA, about family, the series advances no single point of view and to the harsh inner city of Pittsburgh, to a town called Promised gives no one solution. It does, however, attempt to create Land on the wrong side of the tracks in rural South Carolina. opportunities for a middle way between neo-conservative and Wideman's insights into the development and misuse of the neo-liberal extremes. Religion, Feminism, and the Family concept of race are rendered in piercing and lyrical prose. "The includes a range of authors and viewpoints (excluding extreme word 'race' evokes a paradigm," he writes, " a system, network, viewpoints on either end), and it delves into historical back¬ or pattern of assumptions, relationships, a model of reality... of ground as well as raises current issues. It is a readable, informa¬ history and causation as complete, closed, and pervasive as reli¬ tive, and provocative collection. Families in the New Testament gion." This book is both a a strong social commentary and a World builds on and extends the work that Osiek and Balch sensitive autobiography. have done before. The result is an interesting and helpful archaeology of early Christian households. The consideration of A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African American Religious social patterns oriented around honor, shame, and gender roles History, by Albert J. Raboteau. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. This is especially illuminating. There are other books to follow in this collection of essays provides a fresh perspective and rich histor¬ series, including a summary of the debate and a handbook with ical detail on a wide range of issues in African American reli¬ a practical emphasis. gious history. Believing the Gospel to be "of necessity, universal in a particular way," Raboteau shares diverse stories of individ¬ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to Flis White Mother, uals and groups prominent in the African American religious by James McBride. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1997. This experience in the United States. Among topics included are inspiring and vibrant story of a real-life family gives flesh and Richard Allen and the AME church, an exploration of black blood to discussions on the family in the US. Raised by a Catholicism, a comparison of Thomas Merton and Martin Luther Jewish mother whose family fled pogroms in Poland, and who King Jr., and black destiny in nineteenth-century America. The herself fled an abusive father and found refuge, love, and life in book is further enriched by Raboteau's search for further knowl¬ the black community, the author tells of his family's triumphs edge about the circumstances of his father's death, and his over an inordinate number of hardships and ills: anti-semitism, meeting with the son of the man who killed him. racism, death, and poverty. McBride was told by his mother that

1994 Patricia Fisher Church in Bloomfield, MI, 1996 Heather by Detroit Presbytery. He has (B) was ordained in the Finck (B) is now serving We're not accepted a call as associate Presbyterian Church (USA) as pastor at Fewsmith Memorial ignoring you! pastor of the International in June 1996. Presbyterian Church in Community Church in Surrey, The editorial staff of inSpire Belleville, OH. receives many class notes every YoHan John Kim (B, England. year and tries to print them all. But because the magazine is '95M) is college pastor at the Paul Lasley (M) is now published quarterly, it some¬ Dustin W. Torrance First Presbyterian 1995 a U.S. Army chaplain in the times doesn't include recently Ellington (B) is in his third submitted class notes. If you Church in Torrance, CA. Second Squadron ol the Second don't see your class note here, year as associate pastor for youth Armored Cavalry Regiment please be patient. It will appear and young adults at the First Scott McKee (B) was in Fort Polk, LA. in a future issue. Presbyterian Church in Visalia, ordained on March 23 at the CA. Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian

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Hi outstanding in the field Digging into Diaspora A Pastor Probes the Past

If you are looking for Robert MacLennan, you may well find him quite literally out standing in the field, or more accurately on the north shore of the Black Sea. Since 1993, MacLennan, a Presbyterian pastor for over thirty years and PTS M.Div. Class of 1966, has been involved in an inter¬ national archeological venture involving the United States and the Ukraine. It is known as “The Black Sea Project.” Unpacking MacLennan’s involvement in the project is an archeological event in itself, because the road which led him to Chersonesus is richly layered terrain. To begin at the end, which is what archeologists seem to do, MacLennan will return to Chersonesus, an ancient port discovered a menorah in secondary use in the rubble at the base of a sixth-century basilica. city at the southwestern tip of the Crimean peninsula, in mid-August to continue search¬ as well as others from the nineteenth centu¬ Presbyterian Church of Hollywood in the ing for evidence of a Jewish community ry, verified not only the presence of a Jewish early ’20s and who grew up in that West which flourished in the Crimea about 2,000 public space in Chersonesus and in the east¬ Coast Christian community, end up digging years ago, a time when that area was a part ern city of ancient Panticapaeum (modern for shofars and menorahs in the Ukraine? of both the Roman Empire and the Bosporos Kerch), but also that the Jewish community It has all been part of a natural progression, kingdom. He will dig with colleagues from participated in and was respected by the larg¬ he says. His passion for history was nurtured Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, the er community. Nevertheless, from an archeo¬ by his biblical background; the study of University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, logical perspective, the site remained largely ancient languages and primary texts was and other universities in the United States, unexplored as far as the Jewish presence a part of his early theological training. as well as with Ukrainian archeologists, pro¬ was concerned. Thus, it was determined that While at PTS in the ’60s, he pursued fessors, and students from Zaporozhye State further excavations should be carried out his fascination with “origins, primary University, in Zaporozhye; the Chersonesus by a joint American, Russian, and Ukranian sources, beginnings, first causes,” he says, Museum Preserve, in Chersonesus; and the team. and seriously studied languages and primary Ukranian Academy of Science, all in the The project’s first season was in July texts in biblical studies, ancient history, and Ukraine. 1994 and involved fifty-five staff members psychology. But studying the Bible and other MacLennan first visted the area in 1993 and volunteers. By the beginning of the texts was not sufficient. In that turbulent era, when he and colleagues J. Andrew Overman second season in June 1995, the group had he began to examine his own attitudes and and Douglas Edwards, under the patronage grown to sixty-two members. During these beliefs. He questioned his tradition and was of Macalester College and a private benefac¬ digs, which focused on excavations of a fifth- troubled by its exclusivity. “I came to see tor, made a research trip to the area north and sixth-century C.E. basilica, MacLennan myself as wanting to be a pastor of a church of the Black Sea in search of Jewish Diaspora says he and his colleagues “discovered much in the world... to be a part of making our communities. The trip made both academic evidence for a synagogue in ancient society work,” he explains. And so began his and geographical sense, based on the history Chersonesus, [including] two menorahs, commitment to creating a climate of open¬ of the area, but had been impossible prior to several fragments inscribed in Hebrew and ness in his ministry. the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. Greek, and inscriptions from various places MacLennan’s ministry, whether as asso¬ For eighty years the Crimean military city in the Crimea indicating a Jewish presence ciate minister of education in Lincoln, NE, of Sevastopol had been closed to Westerners; from at least the first century C.E.” Over teaching pastor in Edina, MN, or pastor internally, during Stalin’s years in power, the next few years, they hope to accumulate in Scarsdale, NY, has always concerned itself any studies of ethnicity had been prohibited. more information about “the various peoples with dispelling myths about “the strangers What MacLennan and his colleagues that lived in Chersonesus.” in our midst.” He has been an advocate discovered upon arrival in Chersonesus was How did MacLennan, whose grandfa¬ for diverse “underdogs,” including women, that excavations carried out in the ’50s, ther, Stuart MacLennan, built the First Japanese Americans, and Jews.

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has its own unique histo¬ ry,” says MacLennan. “What I discovered is that Judaism is not the back¬ ground for Christianity. Judaism has a parallel growth to emerging Christianity in the first three or four centuries C.E.” In 1988, MacLennan wrote his Ph.D. disserta¬

(above) A menorah found as part of a wall of an early tion at the University Roman cistern is now part of the collection of the of Minnesota on “Early Chersonesus Museum. Second-Century Texts

(left) In a photo taken in 1996, Zherebtsov shows the on Jews and Judaism.” Black Sea Project directors where he found the meno¬ Soon he began to lecture rah in 1957. at synagogues on such ber of years he taught a class topics as why a Christian would study the with Rabbi Jack Stern of the Mishnah (the core of the later Talmuds) and Westchester Reform Temple on the problem and origin of anti-semitism. in Scarsdale in which parti¬ He started to look at what went wrong in cipants explored Christian twentieth-century Germany and got involved anti-Judaism and Jewish in Holocaust studies. anti-Christianism. In his studies of Jewish culture, he was A pivotal experience in his journey drawn to the issue of what it means to MacLennan has continually sought occurred when, in reading R. H. Charles’s be in diaspora, an issue with which he had through his ministry to “look at real issues 1913 two-volume translation of the concerned himself in a more ecumenical way and to try to find a way to bring people Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, he came throughout his ministry. He decided to study together.” While serving in Scarsdale he sup¬ across the rabbinic writings Pirke Aboth the Jewish Diaspora communities in the ported the Japanese ministry there and held (the Sayings of the Fathers). These writings Black Sea region, an interest shared by his joint services with the Japanese congregation gave him a new appreciation for and under¬ colleague Overman. The rest, as they say, on Hiroshima Day and Pearl Harbor Day standing of emerging Judaism. “Judaism is history. I to celebrate a shared humanity. For a num- Where the Bible Meets the Ehlues Bill Carter Joins Theology and Jazz

The first time Bill Carter tried using “The text was about being a long way ing the various pieces of my life,” his talents as a jazz musician in worship from home,” he says, “and the psalmist he says, “especially since I was called at the First Presbyterian Church in Clarks chose to sing in the language of oppression. to ministry. The Reformed tradition Summit, PA, (the congregation he has For us in America, that’s the blues.” speaks strongly to the head, the intel¬ pastored for the past seven years) was on So Carter, a professional jazz pianist lectual part of who I am. It’s very text- a Sunday in Lent. The lectionary psalm for before he enrolled at Princeton Seminary oriented. But when we smashed our stat¬ the day (Psalm 137) gruesomely lamented in 1982, arranged a blues rendition of the ues and took the arts out of our churches Israel’s Babylonian captivity by asking God text for a tenor in his choir and accompanied during the Reformation, we lost something. to dash the captors’ children’s heads against him on piano. “After he sang, I talked about Theoretical truth must also be embodied.” a rock. what it meant to feel far from home, but the For Carter, jazz is the tune that incar¬ It was also Girl Scout Sunday. music was really the sermon.” nates the text. “Jazz and other new, non-tra With that bizarre juxtaposition and his Joining jazz and theology is now com¬ ditional forms of liturgical music join the admittedly devilish sense of humor, Carter monplace in Carter’s ministry; in a sense, text of the Scripture and the church’s his¬ decided to present the psalm as a blues piece. it furnishes a defining paradigm for his faith. toric confessions with the tune of human “I’ve always been concerned about integrat- experience,” he explains.

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He thinks good preaching should do the his sermon tunes in my voice. That’s how But the Clarks Summit congregation same thing. “I’ve learned how to preach good you learn to play jazz, too. You listen to wasn’t satisfied with that reasoning. “This sermons by tuning in to other preachers Coltrane or Brubeck and put your fingers congregation celebrates and cultivates peo¬ who tell stories from human experience, like where they did on the piano or saxophone ple’s gifts, including their pastor’s,” he says. Fred Craddock [former professor of preach¬ keys and hear how their music sounds “And their understanding of spiritual gifts ing and New Testament at Candler School in your voice, your style.” goes far beyond the traditional ones.” of Theology]. I listen to his tapes and try out Carter heard lots of jazz growing up Now Carter plays regularly in a jazz in Owego, NY. His quartet, with “gigs’ in churches, nightclubs, mother played the and colleges. In 1996 he returned to his clarinet, and he undergraduate alma mater to perform and remembers many lecture as a jazz pianist in residence. And this evenings spent listen¬ summer he and his quartet were featured at ing to Benny the Seminary’s annual Institute of Theology Goodman and Count in an evening of jazz. Carter also teamed Basie records. His with his friend, fellow-pastor and poet Bill own piano lessons Leety, to lead an Institute workshop on litur¬ took him from two- gy and the arts. part-inventions by Interested in expanding the range Bach to the blues. of music that is used in worship, Carter He played his way urges pastors to learn to work with the through college at musicians in their churches and to trust SUNY Binghamton them. “Ministers should teach their musi¬ (“I think I played cians theology, and learn music theory at more wedding themselves in return,” he says. “Together receptions and parties pastors and musicians must dig deeply into in my last year of the bedrock of the church’s liturgy—its texts high school and and its music—and their own experiences my four years of college than I’ve attended of God’s presence.” in twelve years of ministry,” he says). Ultimately, Carter believes faith thrives The Christian faith was a mainstay in when people integrate what they confess his home, too. He describes a nurturing and what they experience about God. Presbyterian family that “went to “Jazz has done that for me,” he says. church [the First Presbyterian And he hopes to share that insight Union Church of Owego] with his newest community of faith— every Sunday, attended the Princeton Seminary Board of Trustees. Sunday School, stayed for Elected as an alumni/ae trustee this past coffee hour after service, May, Carter will serve a three-year term and talked about the sermon on the board. over Sunday dinner. We even He muses about the board working made every member canvass as “more of a collaborative jazz group than calls!” he remembers. as a traditionally structured organization.” So it seemed natural “I hope we can talk together about the to Carter to find himself whole business of integration between tradi¬ in seminary. He “put music tion and innovation, between Scripture and on ice” while at PTS, and while experience, between text and tune,” he says. pastoring his first congregation “I hope we can be flexible, and I hope we (the Catasauqua Presbyterian can even have fun! For me, jazz is a model Church in Catasauqua, PA). “I felt of how to do that. I thought for so long that for a time as if I had to leave the there was a clear line between the secular music behind, as if this new calling and the sacred; but now I believe that if the was very different, and my jazz was, whole earth is really the Lord’s, no experi¬ in a sense, a lesser gift," he says. ence is outside the sacred.” I

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• Clarence E. Reed to 1937 and again from 1963 to 1967. as a missionary in Brazil and Latin Clarence E. Reed, an emeritus From 1940 to 1949, he pastored the America. During that time he also served member of the Seminary's administra¬ Kochenderfer’s Church, then moved on the faculties of Lincoln University tion, died on April 8, 1997, in Fort on to pastor Steelton Evangelical United Seminary in Pennsylvania, the College Myers, FL, from injuries sustained Brethren Church from 1949 to 1952. of Emporia in Kansas, the Presbyterian in a fall. He was eighty years old. From From 1952 to 1963, he was with the Seminary in Campinas, Brazil, and the 1934 to 1966, Reed was employed Ironville Church in Columbia, PA, United Theological College of the West in the Business Office. In 1966, he and from 1967 to 1970, he pastored Indies. From 1974 to 1977, he was an was appointed director of housing and the Jonestown-Fredricksburg Church administrator at the Presbyterian Manor student employment; he then served in Jonestown, PA. He also served the in Clay Center, KS. Mclntire is survived as director of housing from 1971 Safe Harbor-Colemanville Church by his wife, Esther. until his retirement in 1981. A lifelong in Conestoga from 1971 until his retire¬ • John A. McConomy, 1942G resident of West Windsor, NJ, Reed ment in 1982. He is survived by his John A. McConomy, who pastored was an elder and trustee of the First wife, Ruth Essick Miller; his brother, Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe, Presbyterian Church of Dutch Neck. John; and his sisters, Mable M. Price, PA, for twenty-five years, died at his He was also a former president, vice Dora Lambert, and Sylvia Naslund. home in April 1997. He was eighty years president, and secretary of the West • Robert B. Boell, 1938B old. Ordained by the Lutheran Church Windsor Township School Board. Robert B. Boell, who was pastor of America on November 2, 1941, Reed is survived by his wife, Marie; of Westminster Presbyterian Church in McConomy also served as pastor of a daughter, Shirley R. Cortelyou; two West Chester, PA, from 1945 to 1964, churches in Hightstown, NJ, from 1941 sons, Kenneth and William; and five died at his home on February 22, 1997. to 1943; Weissport, PA, from 1944 to grandchildren. He was eighty-four years old. Ordained 1949; and Philadelphia, PA, from 1949 by the Presbytery ol George in Iowa in to 1956. In 1979, McConomy was award¬ • William A. Parke, 1933b June 1938, Boell primarily served churches ed a doctorate in ministry to the aging William A. Parke, a native of Northern in the East. From 1938 to 1943, he by Lutheran Theological Seminary Ireland and pastor in the Presbyterian pastored the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he had earned Church of Ireland, died on August 12, in Montgomery, NY, and from 1943 a Master of Divinity degree in 1941. 1996. He was eighty-seven years old. to 1944, he was assistant pastor at During his retirement, McConomy Parke was ordained by the Presbytery of Central Presbyterian Church in Rochester, was the visitation pastor at Holy Trinity Dungannon in the Presbyterian Church NY. In 1964, after a successful twenty- Lutheran Church in Wildwood, NJ, of Ireland on October 15, 1935. His first year tenure as pastor of Westminster where he was a member. He was also call was as assistant pastor of Ulsterville Presbyterian Church during which he a member of the New Jersey Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Belfast from 1933 doubled the size of the congregation, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, to 1935. He was installed as pastor of hired the first associate pastor, and initiat¬ the Lower Township (NJ) Kiwanis Club, Castlecaulfield Presbyterian Church in ed three building programs, Boell returned and the Lower Township Garden Club. County Tyrone in 1935 and served there to Iowa where he pastored the Lakeside McConomy is survived by his wife until 1941. Most of his career was spent as Presbyterian Church in Storm Lake. Boell ol fifty-five years, Lillian E. Giersch pastor of Orangefield Presbyterian Church was the widower of Lillian Passmore Boell, McConomy; four children, Lillian M. in Belfast, where he served from 1941 who died in 1970. He is survived by his Ferrard, Deborah C. McConomy-Wallace, until his retirement in September 1975. wife of twenty-five years, Emily; his son, John W. McConomy, and Stephen M. Parke is survived by his wife, Margaret. Robert; his daughter, Lillian B. Klein; McConomy; and eight grandchildren. • Grant INI. Miller, 1935B two grandsons; one step-son, Richard • Richard C. Redfield, 1946B Grant. N. Miller, who pastored several G. Potter; and five step-grandchildren. Richard C. Redfield, former pastor United Brethren congregations in • Robert L. Mclntire, 1939B, 1946M, of Lake Burien Presbyterian Church Pennsylvania during his career, died on 1959D in Seattle, WA, died on February 1, 1997, January 5, 1997. He was ninety-one years Robert L. Mclntire, a pastor, missionary, as a result of injuries incurred as a pedes¬ old. He was ordained by the United and educator, died on November 21, trian in a pedestrian-vehicular accident Brethren in Christ Church, Eastern 1996, at the age of eighty-two. Mclntire, that took place in Burien, WA, on Pennsylvania Conference, in September who was ordained by the Presbytery December 13, 1996. He was eighty years 1935. Miller began his career as pastor of Wichita in May 1939, served as pastor old. He died at Harborview Medical of the Hillsdale Circuit in Middletown, of the Parish of the Folded Hills in Center where he had been volunteer PA, from 1935 to 1936. He served the Woodsfield, OH, from 1939 to 1943 chaplain in the trauma and critical care Powl’s Valley Circuit in Halifax from 1936 before beginning his thirty-year career units since his retirement from the

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pastorate. Redfield was ordained by the two sons, Graham and Marshall; a daugh¬ • Peter W. Macky, 1963B, 1970D Presbytery of Los Angeles in November ter, Jennifer E. Twyford; two step-sons, Peter W. Macky, professor of religion 1946. He served as pastor of Manitou Philip C. Peck and John H. Peck; and and chair of the Religion and Philosophy Park Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, WA, several grandchildren. Department at Westminster College in from 1946 to 1950. For the succeeding • Raymond C. Provost Jr., 1953B New Wilmington, PA, died on April 10, fourteen years, he was pastor at Emmanuel Raymond C. Provost, retired Presby¬ 1997, of mesothelioma, an untreatable Presbyterian Church in Spokane, WA. In terian pastor and missionary, died on cancer of the lining of the lung, caused 1966 he went to Lake Burien Presbyterian February 18, 1997. He was seventy-seven by prolonged exposure to asbestos (proba¬ Church where he served as pastor until he years old. Ordained by the Presbytery bly from the ceiling of the college chapel). retired in 1983. Redfield is survived by his of Philadelphia on June 24, 1953, He was fifty-nine years old. A Rhodes wife of fifty years, Virginia; his daughters, he served as a missionary in Korea Scholar and a Rockefeller Doctoral Fellow, Katherine Meeks, Betsy Messerschmitt, from 1948 to 1965. There he founded Macky earned an A.B. in engineering from and Susan Gossman; and two grandchil¬ Moon Wha Junior/Senior High School Harvard University (at the age of nine¬ dren, David and Elizabeth Meeks. in Kyongju and established the Korea teen) and B.A., M.A., and D.Phil. degrees • Donald L. Barker, 1947B Scholarship Fund for students in need. from Oxford University. In addition Donald L. Barker, former pastor of the Recently, when the new campus of Moon to his studies at PTS, he did work at Duke First Presbyterian Church in Vincennes, Wha was dedicated, he was honored for University, the University of Illinois, and IN, died on November 7, 1996. He his contributions to the school. When Fuller Theological Seminary. From 1966 was seventy-two years old. Barker, who he returned to the United States in 1 965, to 1967, he was an instructor in biblical was ordained by the Presbytery of Cairo he accepted a call as pastor of the Church studies at PTS. In 1967, he was ordained in Illinois on July 10, 1947, also pastored of the Straits in Mackinaw City, MI, by the Presbytery of Los Angeles South a number of churches in Illinois, including where he served until his retirement in West. He then served as associate pastor Union Ridge Presbyterian Church in 1984. He is survived by his wife, Mariella; at Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church Union Ridge from 1947 to 1952. For the two sons, David and Jonathan; two daugh¬ in Pacific Palisades, CA, from 1967 to next six years, Barker was parish director ters, Elizabeth Anne Drummond and 1970. In 1970, he joined the faculty and pastor of the Sharon larger parish Janet Cummings; and five grandsons of Westminster College, where he taught in White Pine, TN. From 1959 to 1967, and one granddaughter. until his death. He was Westminster’s first he pastored North Hills Presbyterian • George S. Stephanides, 1958M Joseph Henderson Lectureship winner; Church in Knoxville, TN. Barker is sur¬ George S. Stephanides, pastor of St. in 1990, he received the Sears Roebuck vived by his wife, Eleanor. Paul’s Church in Irvine, CA, for twenty Foundation “Teaching Excellence and • Thomas G. Northcott, 1949B years, died on December 17, 1996. He Campus Leadership Award.” Macky was Thomas G. Northcott, who pastored was sixty-three years old. He was ordained the author of many books, including churches in Washington, D.C., New in the Greek Orthodox Church of North The Bible in Dialogue with Modern Man; Jersey, and on Staten Island, NY, died on and South America on July 31,1960. In Violence: Right or Wrong; Pursuit of the February 22, 1997. He was seventy-seven addition to serving parishes in California, Divine Snowman; Candles in the Dark: years old. Ordained by the Presbytery of New Jersey, and Massachusetts, he was Modern Parable; The Centrality of Metaphor Newton on April 13, 1948, Northcott was very active in both church and lay activi¬ in Biblical Thought: A Theory of a native of Canada and had served in the ties. He held offices in the Clergy Interpretation; St. Paul’s Cosmic Myth: Royal Canadian Air Force during World Brotherhood, the St. Nicholas Ranch and A Military Version of the Gospel; and War II. In 1949, he became pastor of Retreat Center, Guadalupe Manor, United The Island of the Sun, a fantasy novel, Kenilworth Presbyterian Church in Way of Orange County, and the National along with numerous articles. A gifted Washington, D.C. The following year Conference of Christians and Jews, among athlete, Macky was a two-time All- he accepted a call as pastor of the Fourth other organizations. He also served on the American swimmer at Harvard. In 1977, Presbyterian Church in Trenton, NJ, Archdiocesan Council, the San Francisco he founded the New Wilmington Area where he served for four years. From Diocese Council, and the Hellenic Soccer Club, introducing youths in the 1954 to 1957, he was pastor of the First College/Holy Cross Board of Trustees. area to soccer. In addition, he developed Presbyterian Church on Staten Island, NY. He was a recipient of the church offices New Wilmington High School’s soccer During the 1960s, he opened a real estate of Confessor, Sakellion, Economos team and coached the Westminster men’s office, but continued to serve as interim of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and varsity soccer team from 1990 to 1996. pastor and guest preacher at various Protopresbyter. He is survived by his wife A devoted and beloved teacher, Macky churches in Connecticut. In addition, of thirty-five years, Elaine; a daughter, touched many lives. He is survived by for thirty years he led Bible study groups. Mary Brown; a son, Steven; and a grand¬ his wife, Nancy; and two sons, Cameron Northcott is survived by his wife, Zeneida; daughter. and Christopher.

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• Patrick A. Dowd, 1972M • Mary Margaret Thiel, 1975B Belfast newspaper Sunday Life published Patrick A. Dowd, a retired Roman Mary Margaret Thiel, women’s ministries a front-page feature disclosing his previ¬ Catholic priest and officer in the United associate for the Synods of the Trinity and ously “very private sexuality.” A committed States Navy, died on March 5, 1997. the Covenant, died suddenly of a massive pastor and scholar, he served as assistant He was sixty-nine years old. Ordained by heart attack at her home in Punxsutawney, editor of Irish Biblical Studies, lectured as the Roman Catholic Church’s Archdiocese PA, on March 9, 1997. She was sixty years an adjunct professor at local universities of Milwaukee on May 30, 1939, he then old. Thiel was ordained by the Presbytery and theological colleges, and wrote a doc¬ dedicated his life to serving the church of New Brunswick on September 21, toral dissertation on “the theological impli¬ and the Navy, where he rose to the rank 1975. That year she also served as assistant cations of artificial intelligence.” In addi¬ of captain. From 1939 to 1964, he was director of field education at PTS. In tion, he was a regular broadcaster for both assistant priest at St. Robert’s Church addition to her work with Presbyterian BBC and Downtown Radio religious pro¬ in Milwaukee, Wl. From 1964 to 1965, women, Thiel also pastored several grams. Northern Ireland’s longest-surviv¬ he was a chaplain for the United States churches in Pennsylvania, including ing kidney transplant patient, he suffered Navy in San Diego, CA. The following Anita Presbyterian Church in Anita, acute kidney failure two decades ago and year he served as chaplain for the Third Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church was given about a month to live. After Marine Division. From 1966 to 1968, he in Punxsutawney, and Zion Presbyterian receiving a kidney from his mother, he served as a chaplain at the Naval Training Church in Reynoldsville. She is survived lived a rich, productive life. He is survived Center in San Diego; then, from 1968 to by two daughters, Elizabeth and by his mother, Meta, and his sister, Lorna. 1971, he served as a chaplain aboard the Katherine. • Kirsten E. Lunde, 1986B USS America. In 1972, he began a three- • Michael L. Hicks, 1979M Kirsten E. Lunde, executive director year call as chaplain in Virginia Beach, VA. Michael L. Hicks, assistant director of Christian Churches United (CCU) During his naval chaplaincy, he served two ol pastoral service at Community/Kimball of the Tri-County Area in Harrisburg, PA, tours in Vietnam and as fleet chaplain of Health Care System in Toms River, NJ, died on March 26, 1997, after a year-long the seventh fleet. He was the only chaplain died on April 9, 1997. He was fifty-four battle with cancer. She was thirty-six years entitled to wear the “Silver Dolphin,’’ years old. A member of the Association for old. An ordained Presbyterian pastor reflecting his initial service in the Navy Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. (ACPE), who also held a master’s degree in social as an enlisted submariner. He was selected Hicks held a number of hospital chaplain¬ work from Rutgers University Graduate Chaplain of the Year in 1975. After retir¬ cy positions in Pennsylvania, New York, School of Social Work, Lunde had served ing from the Navy, he was a chaplain Georgia, and New Jersey. Prior to that as an associate pastor of Kreutz Creek for Sharp Memorial Hospital for three he served as a parish minister in Butler, Presbyterian Church in Hellam, PA, and years and then served San Rafael Parish NJ. He is survived by his wife, Barbara director of community affairs for Planned in Rancho Bernardo, CA, for more than Kalehoff Hicks; three sons, Stuart, Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania. seven years. He is survived by two sisters, Gregory, and Christopher; two daughters, She became executive director of CCU, Sally D. Lyons and Helen D. Maasch; two Deanna Moyer and Emily; and six grand¬ an ecumenical federation of churches in brothers, James and John; thirty nieces children. Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties and nephews; and sixty grandnieces and • David J. Templeton, 1984B in Pennsylvania, in January 1995. She is grandnephews. David J. Templeton, former pastor survived by her husband, Patrick Walker • Richard Lee Henrickson, 1973B of Trinity Presbyterian Church in (’86B); a daughter, Anna, and a son, Richard Lee Henrickson, an ordained Greyabbey, Ireland, died on March 24, Robert; her mother, Joan Warren Sullivan; Lutheran pastor, died on March 19, 1995. 1997, as “a direct consequence of injuries her father and step-mother, Robert and He was forty-seven years old. Henrickson received in a para-military style assault” Lyn Lunde; and a sister, Karin. was ordained by the Lutheran Church on February 7, 1997. At that time, of America, the Metropolitan New York a group ol men, armed with nail-embed¬ In addition to those whose obituaries appear in this issue, the Seminary Synod, on May 11, 1975. Prior to his ded baseball bats, broke into his home has received word that the following ordination, he was the assistant director and beat him severely. Seven weeks later, alumni/ae have died: of Christian Ministry in the National he died. He was forty-two years old. James W. Butler 1927B Parks in New York City. In 1975, he Templeton was ordained in 1986 and Henry C. Banks 1930B J. Charles McKirachan 1933B accepted a call as pastor of Christ Church, served for one year as assistant pastor Lawrence E. Fisher 1937B also in New York City. The following year in Duncairn and St. Enoch’s Presbyterian Hugh F. Ash 1941B he became dean of the Manhattan District Church in north Belfast; in 1987 he was Theodore P. Valenti 1944B/1949M for the Lutheran Church of America. installed as pastor of Trinity Presbyterian J. Edward Paul 1945B He has no known living relatives. Church in Greyabbey, where he served The obituaries of many of these alumni/ae will appear in future issues. until 1996. He resigned soon after the

30 • inSpire summer 1997 investing in ministry

The Seminary’s Planned Giving Program offers outstanding life income plans that complement retirement issues and consider important financial and tax concerns. To illustrate this, let me share with you the experience of two friends of the Seminary, Pixie Biggs and her late husband, Richard. Years ago, Richard Biggs established a Charitable Remainder Unitrust with our institu¬ tion. This arrangement allowed him to make a generous gift to the Seminary, receive a sizeable income tax charitable deduction, and receive income for life that would continue to be paid to Pixie if she were to survive him. An attractive feature of this unitrust arrangement was that the trust assets would be revalued each year; the percentage of payout to him, determined when the trust was established, would be based on that new valua¬ tion. Thus, as the trust prospered in a growing economy, Richard’s income from it would also grow. That was The Reverend an important consideration for him in his retirement years and in his provision for Pixie. I can still recall the Chase S. Hunt is the Seminary's Biggses’ delight with this arrangement, and Richard’s great satisfaction as he signed the trust document. “This director of is something I have been planning to do for more than fifteen years,’’ he said. “This is a happy day for us!” planned giving. Some time later, Richard and Pixie made two other life income arrangements with the Seminary in succes¬ sive years by way of the Deferred Payment Gift Annuity, an ideal retirement vehicle. Both annuities provided an income tax charitable deduction for the year in which they were established and called for income payments to the Biggses to begin several years later, in 1993. These payments, which now continue to be paid to Pixie, provide her with fixed income, some of which is tax-free. In addition, the capital gain impact on one of those annuities that they funded in part with appreciated securities is reduced and spread over the years of their life expectancy, as determined when that annuity was established. As with the earlier unitrust arrangement, these annuity agreements brought great pleasure to the Biggses in accomplishing a charitable objective that was important to them and expressing their affection for and support of the Seminary. If in your retirement planning you wish to explore these gift plans that have served the Biggses so well and continue to provide for Pixie, or if you are interested in learning about the other life income plans offered by the Seminary, please let me know.

Gifts Mr. John S. Linen to the John S. and Mary B. Linen Scholarship Endowment Fund This list includes many of the gifts made between January 24, Mrs. Mary B. Linen to the John S. and Mary B. Linen Scholarship 1997, and fune 9, 1997. Others will appear in later issues. Endowment Fund In Memory of Mrs. Esther Loos to the Scholarship Fund Ms. Alexandra B. Marshall to the Guilford C. Babcock Seminar in Dr. Willis A. Baxter (’38B) to the Scholarship Fund Practical Theology The Reverend Dr. Alison R. Bryan to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. C. Frederick Mathias (’57B) to the C. Frederick Mr. John H. Born Jr. to the Annual Fund and Cleta R. Mathias Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. Flarwood Childs to the Harwood and Willa Childs Mrs. Cleta R. Mathias to the C. Frederick and Cleta R. Mathias Scholarship Endowment Fund Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mrs. Willa Childs to the Harwood and Willa Childs Scholarship The Reverend Thomas A. McGregor (’33B) to the Annual Fund Endowment Fund Ms. Martha King Wagner McKeon to the Speer Library Fund Mr. Charles R. Craig to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Seth C. Morrow (’38B) to the Alumni/ae Mrs. Beatrice Childs Dyment to the Harwood and Willa Childs Roll Call Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Shinnosuke Miyamoto (’50b) to the Scholarship Mr. James E. Dingman to the Annual Fund Fund Mr. Charles R. Erdman Jr. to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Thomas S. Mutch to the Presbyterian Church The Reverend Dr. Lawrence E. Fisher (’37B) to the Scholarship in Morristown—The Reverend Dr. Thomas S. Mutch Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund Ms. Elizabeth R. Gary to the Elizabeth R. and Tom C. Gary Mrs. Louise Schaefer Newell to establish the Louise Schaefer Scholarship Endowment Fund Newell Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. Tom C. Gary to the Elizabeth R. and Tom C. Gary Mr. Clarence E. Reed to the Clarence E. Reed Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Scholarship Endowment Fund for Continuing Education Mr. Bruce E. Haddad to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Richard C. Redfield (’46B) to the Alumni/ae Mrs. Dorothy Haddad to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Harry W. Haring (1893B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Parke Richards to the Annual Fund Mr. Norman I. Holpp to the Annual Fund Mrs. Santina Schlotter to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. Merle Scott Irwin (’43B) to the Annual Fund

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The Church and the World of Genetic Research: Enemies or Partners in Conversation?

After publishing a brief response to without qualification (“Science is always children through somatic cell nuclear the success of the Scottish embryologist a positive influence in the long run,” transfer, and these fields of research have Ian Wilmut in cloning an adult sheep claimed another correspondent), we must already provided important scientific and (see The Washington Post, Sunday, March demonstrate the ability to face honestly biomedical advances.” (The report does 2, 1997, Cl), I received several letters the potential for harm that inevitably acknowledge the importance of humane expressing opposition to my article. Some accompanies the potential for good in treatment of animals in all research that were from biologists criticizing me for pro¬ scientific advances. Rather than becoming involves the use of animals.) hibiting research into human cloning and blindly enamored with exciting scientific As the church enters and continues to promoting the superstitions oi religious discoveries, we cannot lose sight of other participate in the conversation and debate belief. Others spoke on behalf of the seemingly mundane problems that lead over the moral issues involved in human church, upbraiding me for reckless support to human suffering (such as the lack genetic research (as well as in plant and of research into human cloning and pro¬ of fundamental health care experienced animal genetic research), we cannot moting the interest of science over revela¬ by millions of children and adults in this assume that all scientists or leaders in the tion. Although these letters clearly reflect¬ country and abroad). The church does biotechnology industry are devoid of ed the bias of their authors, I assume not have to assume the stance of enemy moral concerns, nor can we simply let responsibility for some of their contradic¬ in relation to science (or the business science and business regulate themselves. tory interpretations of my article. Because industry which accompanies scientific We have the opportunity for genuine and the possibility of human cloning presents discoveries in biotechnology) as it has fruitful conversation with the scientific a true moral dilemma, my position so often in the past, nor does the church and business worlds involved in genetic sounded somewhat ambiguous. I found have to be a naive or uncritical ally of research. We can maintain our own dis¬ that I could neither take a stand firmly science and business. tinct identity as the church while avoiding opposed to all research into human The recent recommendations of the moral pronouncements that are devoid cloning nor could I support such research National Bioethics Advisory Commission of scientific knowledge. I without serious reservations. (chaired by the president of Princeton While I neither justify equivocation on University, Harold Shapiro) leave room this issue nor promote a deliberately vague for further reflection, study, conversation, or evasive stance on the part of the church, and moral contemplation regarding the I welcome the opportunity to analyze issues surrounding human cloning. In its the complex moral challenges provided recommendations to President Clinton, by recent advances in genetic research and the NBAC concluded that “at this time it hope the church will as well. Before we are is morally unacceptable” for anyone “to too quick to condemn all scientific efforts attempt to create a child using somatic cell at cloning (“God above will not tolerate nuclear transfer cloning.” Consequently, cloning of any kind,’’ wrote one corre¬ the commission recommended legislation spondent), we ought to take this opportu¬ that would prohibit anyone from attempt¬ nity to learn about the incredible advances ing to create a child in this manner. They in science and marvel at the makeup also recommended that a “sunset clause" of human biology and human ingenuity. be included in any such legislation to Far from challenging Christian faith, such ensure a review of the issue in a few years. an exploration can lead to a further appre¬ Furthermore, they did not recommend ciation of the mysteries and wonders a ban on animal cloning or the cloning Nancy J. Duff is associate professor of of God’s creation. of human DNA sequencing, “since neither theological ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. On the other hand, before we are too activity raises the scientific and ethical quick to support the advances in science issues that arise from the attempt to create

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22 Cosmos and Community: Creation and Moral Imagination in the Old Testament William P. Brown October

6-7 "Shall We Gather at the River?": Evolving Forms of Worship in the Old Testament J. J. M. Roberts, Kathryn L. Roberts

9 Contemporary Voices in Christology Doris K. Donnelly

10 Contemporary Issues in Christology Doris K. Donnelly

13-14 A Launching Leaders for Small Group Ministry David Stark 17 t The Pain of Christmas: Ideas for Preaching Thomas K. Tewell 20-22 X Making History: Biblical Stories and the Creation of Identity Patricia Dutcher-Walls, Donald Juel Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

27-29 Speaking the Text and Preaching the Sermon Charles L. Bartow, t Michael G. Hegeman, Kristin E. Saldine

27- 31 The Time Between: Interim Ministry Basic Education, Week One Robert C. Anderson, Edith A. Gause Stony Point, l\IY

28- 29 Teaching the Bible in Small Groups Richard R. Osmer Nashville, TN

31 Are There Rattlesnakes in the Pews?: Church, Clergy, and Lawsuits f Eric J. Graninger, Elizabeth Haynes, Julie Slinger, Thomas F. Taylor November 3 t Confirmation and Catechism Richard R. Osmer 5 t Many Voices—One Lord Nancy Lammers Gross 6-7 Pastor As Spiritual Director Julie Neraas 12-13 f The Role of the Church in Times of Catastrophe Gerald C. Moule

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