2009 – 2010 T HE Y EAR IN R EVIEW

C AMBRIDGE THEOLOGICAL F EDERATION Contents Page

Foreword from the 3 Principal’s Welcome 4

Highlights of the Year Westcott Walkabout 9 China Visit 10 Alumni and Friends’ Garden Party 11 Yale Exchange 12 Overseas Guests Verna Jebb 14 Elijah Mwangi 15 India Link Mission to Delhi 16 Dinesh Singh 17 Suzanne Cooke and Sally Kimmis 18 Ordinand Visits and Placements Manchester 19 Canary Wharf 20 International Student Trust 21

Theological Conversations Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust 22 B K Cunningham – A Recollection 24 Prophetic Preaching 26

New Developments New Staff Members 28 Westcott Future Developments 30 Remembering Westcott 31 Westcott House Gifts and Mementos 32 Ember List 2010 33 Staff Contacts 34 Members of the Governing Council 2009 – 2010 35 2009 – 2010 THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Foreword from the Bishop of Leicester

Education and formation for ordained ministry in“ the faces challenges at least as great as those confronting all major public institutions in a time of rapid and dramatic financial retrenchment. We can already see how this will test the staff, the Council and the ordinands in new ways in the years ahead. Yet what this Year in Review reflects, and what those who have visited Westcott House will have experienced, is the depth of prayer, the breadth of vision and the commitment to change The Rt Revd is Bishop of Leicester and has been and growth which infuses the whole life of the Chair of the Council of Westcott House since 2007 House. Here is to be seen a confident, reflective and intelligent Christian faith vividly lived out in a vibrant, diverse and international community.”

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Principal’s Welcome

We have had an incredibly rich year, with a full two, again with one starred, in the BTh. The House of about 80 ordinands and independent module results for the Foundation Degree also students. Visiting students from Kenya, India, the included a high proportion of firsts. These results US, and the far North of Canada have challenged reflect the high standard of theological learning and deepened our preparation for service in a across the whole community, enabling all ordinands changing Church that is both local and global. to develop the capacity to think – and act – We have learned from one another, and been theologically in ministry. changed for good by our encounters. For many of the British ordinands, their own development has Higher Fee Challenge been transformed by placement and study We have a major challenge on our hands now, experiences overseas and in the UK – Yale, India, following Lord Browne’s review of Higher Peru, New York, and, of course, Manchester. Education funding and the Comprehensive My first visit to mainland China gave me a similar Spending Review. We fully recognise that the mind- and soul-expanding experience. You can read The Revd Canon Martin Seeley General Synod budget will not in the current Principal about the experiences of our visitors here, our financial climate be able to bear the cost of ordinands on placement, and my visit to China, in significantly higher fees. We are therefore working this Review. on strategies to secure additional funding to be able to provide bursaries to support those whom the Prayer Church needs to have the opportunity to benefit from Cambridge University taught Theology These experiences have the transforming benefit degrees. We are starting to seek funds for Westcott they do because they happen in the context of students, both through our own community and in rigorous spiritual and intellectual development. partnership with the Cambridge Divinity Faculty, to The daily office, and for a high proportion of the help bear the additional costs. Most further degree community the daily eucharist, are the communal students (MPhils and PhDs) already have to find frame and wellspring of all else that happens in part of their fees, but the trusts and other sources training. Our theology and our practice are we have depended on for these will not be rooted in the life of prayer. This year we have sufficient for the numbers we have on Tripos and strengthened our attention to ordinands’ practice of the BTh. We could well be looking at finding an personal devotion with lectio divina groups led by additional £5000 per student through a the chaplain, Lindsay Yates. combination of approaches, and this year there are The year has been one of outstanding academic a total of eleven Tripos students and 23 BTh results. Ordinands gained seven firsts between students. Further on in this Review you can read them, five, including one starred, in Tripos, and more about our fundraising needs.

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Guests

We welcomed a range of guest preachers and speakers through the course of the year. The visited the House in November and preached in the octave of the Feast of Christ the King, taking this as the context in which to engage the world’s ecological crisis. He concluded his sermon saying, “The Bible shows us the individual person realistically as someone always involved in relationships with other human beings and with the world of nature. We can perish in a world and a human community that is atomised but we are saved together. At the end of The Divine Comedy, Dante describes his vision of divine reality – ‘all the scattered leaves of the universe bound by love in one volume’. Professor David Burrell speaking at Westcott to Divinity Faculty and Federation students Such is the origin and the purpose of the Church and it is the calling of this House to explore, celebrate and substantiate Adoration into Action this truth.” Ken Leech paid a long-awaited visit to the House at the invitation of the weekly Silent Prayer group. He spent an afternoon exploring with us the relationship between contemplative prayer and social action, contributing to an ongoing consideration of these themes in the House as we deepen our commitment as a community of ‘adoration into action’. Ken’s presence with us was refreshing and challenging, and we are left puzzling what has happened to the social engagement from the Church’s catholic tradition, familiar to many of us from local experience but seemingly lacking theological leadership today.

Our invaluable Yale Divinity School link was expressed through the presence of Professors Nora and Arthur Tisdale in June. Nora,

The Bishop of London speaking to Karin Voth Harman on his visit Professor of Homiletics at Yale, led a presentation on prophetic preaching and she has written a piece in this Review. We also were honoured to welcome David Burrell, Emeritus Professor at the University of Notre Dame and now Professor of Ethics and Development at Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, Uganda. David delivered a challenging lecture about the development of theology among Jews, Christians and Muslims, rooted in the open encounter with the other and leading to a deeper regard each for their own faith and a richer appreciation of the faith of others. During his visit he also met with the Principals of the Cambridge Theological Federation institutions to explore with us the meaning of ecumenism as it expands to include a world of other faiths.

L-R: The Revd Canon Dr Isaac Ihiasota and the Revd Professor Sarah Coakley with Ken Leech

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for the work the Centre undertakes on social cohesion. I am delighted that he has agreed to stay involved with the House (he and his family remain living in Cambridge) giving us a valuable engagement with matters of faith in public life.

Dr Margie Tolstoy, who has been on the staff for about seventeen years as Tutor in Ethics, announced her retirement, taking effect in December 2010 after a well earned term’s sabbatical. Margie has made a deep and lasting impact on many ordinands’ lives, through her generous care, her unbounded hospitality, and her wisdom. Many Tripos students have benefited from her challenging and compelling course on the Holocaust in the Divinity Faculty, and students across the Federation have valued her contribution to the teaching of ethics. Recently she has taken in hand our archives and this has been an illuminating process for us as she discovers fascinating events and connections L-R: Writer James Wood and actor Tom Hollander with Martin Seeley in the history of the House. She will remain living in Madingley And then in September Tom Hollander, who plays the Revd Adam and we look forward to her continued participation in the Smallbone, and James Wood, the writer of the television series Rev House’s life. came to Westcott to ask me about my time as vicar of the Isle of Dogs, and about one or two other aspects of church life. Staff Farewells…

The Westcott community, of course, changes substantially every year with the leaving of one group and the arrival of the next group of ordinands. This year that sense of change has been substantially compounded by staff changes. The Revd Dr , who has been on the Westcott staff for seven years first as Chaplain and then as Tutor for Mission and Vice-Principal, was appointed to the newly created post of Director of Mission for the Diocese of Oxford. We were thrilled for Michael and Lizzie, but they leave a big hole. Michael was instrumental in the development of strategic planning in the House, and for a number of outreach programmes including missions, as well as for teaching mission in the Federation. He and Lizzie played a crucial part in the community’s social life too!

Dr Jeff Bailey, Tutor in Public Theology, was headhunted early in the year to join the staff of the think-tank, the Centre for Social Justice (of which we are all now aware through its influence on shaping elements of Government social policy and Ian Duncan- Smith’s founding relationship with the Centre). Jeff is responsible Michael Beasley and wife Lizzie Jeans receiving their farewell present

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For the past seventeen years the House has been held together by the skilful, attentive and deeply committed work of Margaret Winterbourne who has served under the title of ‘PA to the Margaret writes: Principal’ which seemed to embrace virtually every dimension of the House’s life. She has been untiring and unbelievably I can hardly believe I was at Westcott for seventeen years, generous in her work for the House, and successive groups of although sometimes it felt like a lifetime! It is interesting ordinands and staff are in her debt. to recall a different era – when I sat in the office on June I personally am deeply grateful to her for her support and evenings typing Bishops’ letters on an electronic typewriter guidance as I moved into this post, and her wisdom and while students performed Shakespeare on the lawn. perception. Margaret and John live near by and we are delighted Amy, my daughter, was five when I started work there that they will be able to drop in from time to time. and would come in with me during vacations, armed with puzzle books and crayons, then escape with We were able at the Garden Party in June to express our deep Dorothy [Tychicus] into town in the lunch hours. Happy thanks to our departing staff, all of whom are much missed. memories and, as many of you know, Dorothy sadly subsequently lost her battle with cancer. Over the years Amy has continued to spend some time at Westcott during the holidays, but usually to earn money!

It was with huge mixed emotions that I ‘hung up my mouse’, as Martin aptly put it, and decided to finish work. My husband, John, had already been retired a number of years and it seemed the right time for me to stop. We have been in Cambridge all our married life and both had the wonderful experience of working in the colleges. I shall miss that community greatly but will maintain the many friendships we have made. At my moving and memorable ‘farewell’ at the Garden Party, we were overwhelmed to receive the most beautiful garden seat from past and present members, for which we thank you greatly.

I was pleased to have a good handover period with Heather Kilpatrick, who I am sure will thoroughly enjoy her new post. Marie Bull has also taken over large areas of the work I did, especially to do with admissions. I did suggest to Heather one parting tactic – to enter Martin’s appointments in his diary half an hour earlier than he should be there, in the hopes he might then get there just on time! Margaret Winterbourne with Martin Seeley It would be impossible to thank everyone at Westcott who has made a mark on my life; it was a privilege to cross paths or work with so many of you. I thank you all, and wish you well on your journeys ahead.

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…and Arrivals Bishop’s Lodge. We also congratulate Jeremy Morris, Chair of our Teaching and Learning Committee and Dean of Trinity Hall, on his Of course, departures means arrivals and we are very excited to appointment as Dean of King’s College, Cambridge. have welcomed several new staff. The Revd Dr Will Lamb has joined us as the new Vice-Principal and Tutor in New Testament. Bishops and Deans Will had been chaplain of the University of Sheffield and Residentiary Canon at Sheffield Cathedral for nine years. We also During this year two more Westcott alumni have become diocesan welcomed the Revd Dr Andrew Davison to be the new Tutor in bishops and two alumnae become cathedral deans. Bishop Stephen Doctrine. Andrew had been on the staff of St Stephen’s House and Conway, Bishop of , moves here to become Junior Chaplain of Merton College, Oxford since 2006. We also – and, incidentally, therefore a member of Council. And as I write welcome the Revd Frances Mant who has joined the staff as a tutor. it has been announced that Bishop Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Frances trained as a doctor and then social worker before Woolwich, has been named Bishop of Southwark. We have been ordination, and recently moved to Cambridge from Birmingham. In thrilled at the appointment of The Revd Canon Catherine Ogle as June Mrs Heather Kilpatrick joined the staff in the newly created Dean of Birmingham, and the Revd Dr Frankie Ward as Dean of St post of College Administrator and Communications Officer. She Edmundsbury and Ipswich. They are all in our prayers for the came to us from Selwyn College where she was Development challenges and opportunities their new roles bring. Director and prior to that PA to the Master. At the start of the new academic year we welcomed Mrs Victoria Espley in the new post of Thank you Finance and Operations Manager. Victoria had previously been a With the staff changes, this has been quite a challenging, but senior manager in Swiss Reinsurance. You can learn more about the exciting year. I am hugely thankful to the staff for their generous new staff elsewhere in this Review. and unflagging commitment, giving above and beyond because of their passion about the place and what it can offer the Church. Professor Philip Sheldrake, on the Westcott staff in the early I am also indebted to the wise and sane counsel from the Chair of 1990s, had returned in the capacity of Senior Research Fellow, in our Council, Bishop Tim Stevens, who artfully steers us through order to assist us in developing programmes and resources in both calm and turbulence. relation to issues of faith in public life. Philip, known widely for his writings in spirituality, is engaged currently in interfaith work, looking at the understanding of the city in the three Abrahamic faiths. He will teach and assist in the development of programmes in public life, a focus we wish to develop at Westcott with Jeff Bailey’s help too. Governing Council

We also welcomed two new members of Governing Council. Morag Ellis, a barrister who took silk in 2006 and specialises in planning law, and David Scott, an investment manager for charities and private clients and a trustee of a number of church and poverty relief charities. Both trustees are bringing energy and wisdom to the work of the Council.

Two members of Council have been called to new posts. We were thrilled that Bishop Christopher Foster, Vice-Chair of the Council, Chair of the Strategy Group and has become the Bishop of Portsmouth – a personal delight for me since it is my home diocese and my father lives just around the corner from the

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The Westcott Walkabout

On Wednesday 16 June Westcott’s Mission Committee organised that we were indeed genuine trainee vicars, interest was another ‘Westcott Walkabout’. Fifteen brave ordinands hit the sparked, searching questions were asked, and fruitful streets of Cambridge, dressed in ‘trainee vicar’ t-shirts, to ask the conversations were had. On Jesus Green, one group of unsuspecting general public the question, “I’m a trainee vicar – do picnickers insisted on being photographed with these you have any advice for me?” and inviting them to a barbeque back strange ordinands. Here we also managed to stumble into an at Westcott. interfaith gathering of Jewish and Muslim female students who offered us houmous and strawberries. As well as After prayers in Chapel, we set off in different directions to offering us hospitality, they asked of us really challenging cover central Cambridge – from the Grafton Centre to questions: “Why aren’t Christian students interested in King’s Parade, and from Sidney Street to Jesus Green. In the interfaith dialogue?” “Why do our Christian friends think process, we spoke to variously bewildered shoppers and that expressing any interest in Christianity is an invitation to picnickers, pensioners and students, people hurrying by and be targeted for conversion?” people ambling about. One ordinand expressed surprise that, “Nearly all the people we addressed were willing to Meanwhile on Sidney Street two of our ordinands talk.” Many people were astonished that we were actually encountered a man who had a strong faith though he’d asking them what they thought, and wanted their opinion never been to church. Not only did he accept our invitation as to what makes a good vicar, irrespective of whether they to the barbeque, but he also joined us for worship in were churchgoers or not. Chapel, and left saying he’d experienced God’s presence in the eucharist and would seek out a local church to attend. In fact, some were so surprised that they were convinced The ordinand who met him reflected, “Maybe this that this was all a wind-up, refusing to believe that we really walkabout had a double meaning for us as ordinands, to were trainee vicars. Once we managed to convince people serve and see where God is already at work in others.”

For most of us, the ‘Walkabout’ was an enriching, hopeful experience. Just as people were surprised to be approached by us requesting their advice, I was pleasantly surprised by people’s openness to us. Whilst I sometimes fear that people share our media’s obsession with Church scandal and divisions, this did not come across. Many of the people we spoke to still want a Church with a public voice, that will take a lead championing the needs of our communities and the needs of the world, and whose clergy are reflective and open to others and what God might be doing.

Sam Dennis

9 China Visit November 2009

In November 2009 I had the extraordinary theological educators. Our visit also included a While walking through the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, privilege of visiting Nanjing and Shanghai. I tour of Holy Trinity Church, designed by I came across the bust of one travelled with Professor Eric Chong, Master of Gilbert Scott, and being immaculately restored John Magee. Back in the UK, St John’s College in Hong Kong, who arranged and which is scheduled to reopen soon. I wrote to Hugh Magee the trip and was my very generous host. Westcott will be making a gift to the (Westcott 1958) to ask if John furnishings of the church and if you would like was a relative. ‘My father’ was Westcott’s close connection with St John’s his swift reply! John, to contribute, please be in touch. I learned, was an Episcopalian College is due to the friendship between the who went to serve in previous Master, the Revd Paul Tong, and the Shanghai is a vast and vibrant global city of China in 1912, and established former principal of Westcott, Bishop Peter 20 million people whose history is bound up in a mission compound in Walker. The Peter Walker Bursary Fund, set up trade and commerce. Nanjing, a city of nearly Nanking where he was in 1937. He was one of several by Paul Tong, has enabled a succession of 3 million, bears the marks of a different history. westerners who helped the Hong Kong clergy to spend sabbatical terms It is home to the huge mausoleum of Sun Yat- Chinese during the massacre, at Westcott. sen and served at different times as the nation’s and he later testified in the capital, including under Sun Yat-sen and then Tokyo War Crimes Trials. But it was while visiting Shanghai I discovered John’s distinguished Chiang Kai-Shek (‘Nanjing’ means ‘Southern Westcott’s relationship with the church in contribution in support of the Capital’, while ‘Beijing’ means ‘Northern China goes back much farther. Eric Chong and citizens of Nanjing features in Capital’) But it also bears the marks and Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking I attended Shanghai Community Church, with memory of the horrific massacre of some and the more recent film, our hosts the Revd Guo Fong and his wife Nanking. The Canadian author, quarter of a million citizens between December Grace. Two thousand people attended the Linda Granfield, is currently 1937 and March 1938 by Japanese soldiers. writing a biography of John. service, crammed in the church and the church Friends in Hong Kong told me the sense of Hugh also recalled that Shen hall, and each Sunday they have five services, death would be tangible, and indeed it was, Yifan was a playmate of himself all with similar attendance! I was introduced to and his brothers when they and intensely so at the massacre memorial. The a member of the church, Mrs Hong Lu-ming, lived in Nanjing in the early memorial, designed by Nanjing architect Qi 1930s but he had not known who is the widow of Bishop Shen Yifan whose Kang, reminded me of Daniel Libeskind’s Berlin that Shen was T K Shen’s son. father, Bishop T K Shen, was the first Chinese Hugh’s own book, An Upgrader’s Jewish Museum – the shape and angularity of bishop of the then Anglican Church in China – Guide (which he warns me is the building led you deeper and deeper into and who had studied at Westcott in 1933. very radical) is just published. the reality being remembered. While there are While in Shanghai we were also introduced to revisionist historians who dispute the extent of the leaders of the China Christian Council, the massacre, the most graphic and including the Chair, Elder Fu Xianwei, and the overwhelming images and information in the Director of Training, the Revd Bao Jiayian. We memorial come from the Japanese soldiers were able to discuss links that would facilitate themselves who photographed and recorded mutual understanding and develop training. what they were doing. Several photographs Out of this we are now expecting two pastors have been transformed into searing sculptures from mainland China to come to Westcott next in the front of the memorial by the renowned year on sabbatical, and for a group of our staff Chinese artist, Wu Weishan. to go to China to provide training for Chinese

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Eric Chong and I took the opportunity of being in Nanjing to visit the brand new campus of the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, relocated from the centre of the city to a vast new ‘university city’ on the outskirts. Designed for 500 students, there are currently just over 200 taking either a four-year undergraduate BTh programme or a three-year MTh. Meeting with the staff, we were able to discuss mutually beneficial links, and through the Director of Studies, Dr Melissa Lin, we have started sharing internet resources and are planning faculty visits.

The whole trip was remarkable, and I am immensely grateful to Eric Chong for making it possible and taking ten days out of his busy schedule to accompany me. I look forward to the fruits of this visit growing for our mutual benefit – and indeed to Nanjing Union Theological Seminary returning before too long!

The Revd Canon Martin Seeley

Alumni and Friends’ Garden Party

Alumni, friends and current members of Westcott gathered Following a greeting from the Principal, the Revd Dr Jeremy for a full programme of events on Tuesday 15 June. This Morris (Dean of Trinity Hall and Dean-elect of King’s was the second Westcott Summer Garden Party, and it was College, Cambridge) offered an historical perspective on the lovely to see 65 alumni and guests from across a wide Church’s context, re-evaluating ideas of secularisation and selection of years returning to enjoy renewing friendships proposing a constructive way forward. Afternoon tea was and making new acquaintances. The occasion also gave then taken on the terrace and, further to Evening Prayer, alumni the opportunity to say their farewells to Margaret those present enjoyed a buffet supper in the garden. Winterbourne and Margie Tolstoy.

SAVE THE DATE • GARDEN PARTY • 21 JUNE 2011

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Yale Exchange

Each Michaelmas Term, ordinands from Westcott exchange with Stephanie Johnson, her husband Gordon and their children Kyra ordinands and students from Yale Divinity School. The exchange, and Robert were part of our first family exchange. Here follows in its seventh year, has now resulted in the prospect of the first Stephanie’s reflections, and those of Douglas Machiridza, the Westcott-Yale wedding! Ed Thornley tells how: Westcott ordinand who went to Yale with his wife Alice and their children Tawana and Tatenda. In the ‘Fall’ of 2009, I had the valuable opportunity to take part in the Westcott-Yale exchange – an experience which turned out to be significant for me for a number of reasons. I wanted to study at Yale primarily to carry out research for, and complete a first draft of, my MA dissertation which focused on theological interpretations of secular film, mainly looking at how Christian audiences respond to violent media, particularly horror films. Such an unusual research topic required specialist resources and expertise which Yale was certainly able to provide! Accompanying this, I took classes on liturgical history and development, gender studies and liturgy, and religious poetry throughout British history. These fascinating classes both aided my research and allowed me to explore how liturgy functions in different socio-political contexts, which complemented the rich and diverse experiences Stephanie with husband Gordon, Kyra and Robert I gained from Marquand Chapel and Berkeley Divinity School. We arrived at Westcott House tired and somewhat dazed after a Aside from academic discoveries, one day in class I met a Yale long international flight. A term in Cambridge was to be ‘our grand student named Devon Abts. Agreeing to a date (apparently she family adventure’ yet as we got out of the car from the airport, our liked my British accent), our relationship progressed and in March collective nervousness increased. But with the warm welcome from this year we became engaged. We plan to marry in Boston, Margaret and the thoughtful welcoming note with food from the Massachusetts next May. Yale was the highlight of my time in students, we were instantly at ease. In fact, our time at Westcott training, and of course one of the highlights of my life. House was marked by the sense that we had always been part and Edward Thornley would always continue to be part of the community. Our children, in the Dereham and District Team Ministry Kyra and Robert, looked forward to the weekly Thursday Club Norwich Diocese when they played and prayed with their schoolmates. My husband, Gordon, joined the Westcott football team and spent time with spouses and students exploring Cambridge.

For me the rhythm of twice daily prayer nourished my soul. I looked forward to the ringing of the bell, which sent me scurrying across the courtyard. On those days when I was distracted from my prayers I knew that others were lifting up their petitions and thanks to God for me, just as I did for them when they were not fully engaged. The Daily Office took on a synergy which celebrated and fed the community.

Through classes at the Divinity Faculty and Westcott I had a chance to explore ecumenism, Islam, the Prayer Book and the Bible. In supervisions, I was gently pushed to explain my understanding of these topics, challenging yet deepening my Ed Thornley and Devon Abts, engaged to be married theological foundation.

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In between all this I managed to meet both the Queen and the We had the opportunity to travel around America and flew to while our family had time to travel to Washington DC, New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, Florida, New Wales, Scotland, France and Sweden. Our only regret when we left York State and Toronto, Canada. The other significant highlights was that we couldn’t stay on longer at Westcott House. It was truly were meeting and being invited to see President Barack Obama at a ‘grand family adventure’ never to be forgotten. the White House, and attending a Yale University organised conversation ‘meeting’ with the former Prime Minister of Britain Stephanie Johnson Tony Blair and the former President of Mexico who are both visiting professors at Yale.

We also visited several churches of a different tradition from our When Martin Seeley approached me about the possibility of going own, which I believe gave us a wider experience of God’s Church. on an exchange programme to Yale together with my wife, Alice As for the girls, Tawana and Tatenda, going to the White House to and my two daughters Tawana and Tatenda, I could not believe see Barack Obama and Disney World in Florida were the highlights what I was hearing; it was like a dream. Since I was a young man of their stay. I had dreamed of visiting America and as a family we had always We could go on, if it were not for the constraints of time and hoped to visit some of the historic sites such as the White House, space. I conclude this article by thanking the many people who the Statue of Liberty, Martin Luther King Jnr Centre in Atlanta, made this exchange programme possible. We feel that the Georgia and Disney World in Florida. The added excitement was theological training, worship experience and exposure to American also that as an ethnic minority black African family by origin we life we received, and the travelling we did, will give me and my were visiting America when it had just elected for the first time a family the confidence required to face the challenges that may lie black American, Barack Obama, to be President. ahead in ministry. To say the least, visiting Yale was one of the most transformative Douglas Machiridza times of our lives. The first reason was the daily worship in the Curate at St John’s, Perry Barr and Divinity School Chapel. The worship was amazing, particularly the St Matthew’s, Perry Beeches, Diocese of Birmingham music and the sermons. What even made it more special for me was being asked to read the gospel in the service that was led by the Revd Dr Brad Braxton, formerly of Riverside Church in New York City, who had been invited to give a talk at the University. Also, the range of subjects my wife and I were introduced to and enrolled in were fascinating, stimulating and breathtaking.

Douglas, Alice and their two daughters Tawana and Tatenda

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Overseas Guests

Verna Jebb

Verna was a sabbatical visitor at Westcott for two months from mid-April. Her home is Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba province in Canada, where she lives on a Cree Indian reserve with her husband Mike, a carpenter, who joined her for the trip. Opaskwayak Cree Nation stands at the junction of the Saskatchewan and Pasquia Rivers which several thousand years ago became a meeting place for early aboriginal peoples and today is home to over 4,500 people of Cree descent.

Verna is ordained in the Anglican church in Canada. At present she is a chaplain in a correctional institution. ‘It is a mixed facility Verna Jebb with her husband Mike with 75 beds, but there can be up to 150 people there so it is very overcrowded. Most of those incarcerated are alcohol and drug- related offenders, with some violent prisoners with anger issues’. The main focus of her study is Amos, but her progress in the UK Verna leads services and offers counselling. ‘Those who have never was hampered by her difficulty reading in English, and much of her been in jail before have a particularly hard time, but because I have time was spent looking up words in the dictionary. ‘But this has moved around I often know some of their family on the outside been a big help and eye opener, helping me to understand how to and when I speak to the prisoners about them it helps them feel translate and to explain to my own people back home. It has taught human again.’ me how to be careful about being true to what was being said in the original text.’ Verna has taken leave from work in order to complete a Masters in Divinity. ‘It is now a Government requirement in Canada that to There were other useful lessons she learnt during her visit. ‘The work in a correctional facility I need to have a Masters degree’, singing is very inspiring. We don’t sing the Psalms and I would like she says. Between January and April Verna was studying at the to introduce this back home, although I will need to do this Vancouver School of Theology, and while there the possibility carefully as the community can be slow to accept change and it of a trip to England arose. won’t be easy because I don’t read music. Worship every day is special, and you remember the saints days. Feast days are really ‘The opportunity to visit Westcott was made possible by the celebrated here; back home, they are like any other day. I want to London-based New England Company, who sponsor a programme regain in my community what we have lost in this way.’ to give opportunities to indigenous peoples to study in England’, said Verna, whose educational aspirations were raised when she moved to a Cree Indian foster home as a child. ‘I was never encouraged to go to school’, she says, ‘but my foster family opened my eyes to the possibilities of continuing my education. I did try to do teacher training but it was too hard, as I couldn’t write. I tried several careers, and was a rather bad hairdresser for a while and also tried carpentry, which I gave up after discovering I was scared of heights when working on a roof. Then walking home from town one day, I said to myself, ‘Lord, I don’t know why I am living – there must be something I can do with my life’. At that moment I met a friend who was coming out of church. They were taking part in a Bible study course, and invited me to try it for myself. I said I was interested, went home with a copy of the study book and in one day caught up the eight lessons the group had already taken. It all went from there.’

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Elijah Mwangi studying Theology in a cross-cultural dimension has enabled me to view ministry from a broader perspective. The focus of ministry in For Lent Term 2010 Elijah Mwangi, an ordinand training at diversity is a key factor that is enhanced in the Cambridge St Andrew’s College of Theology and Development, Kabare, Theological Federation that Westcott House belongs to. Kenya, joined the Westcott community. His term was the first outcome of an agreement between the Principal of St Andrew’s, The worship life is a thing I will clearly miss. I congratulate the Canon Dr Moses Njoroge and Martin Seeley that the two Chaplain and all those who work together to enhance the quality institutions should develop a connection because they represented of worship life, most notably the Thursday evening service that such different aspects of the Anglican Communion. During his time ended up in the Common Room with a bowl of soup. The tutor at Westcott Elijah came to appreciate, amongst other things, the groups meeting every Wednesday morning was a unique family emphasis on sacramental worship, so Westcott’s farewell gift to worship. The commitment of individuals and corporate family of him was a chasuble. Westcott House is very inspiring. May that fervour remain within the community and in the fields of ministry that God has called I am deeply overwhelmed as I recount the essence of my stay at each one. Westcott House. Having arrived on 5 January 2010, when it was terribly cold, it goes without saying that my longing for Kenya This is a programme which should be encouraged greatly for it might have been great. Being away from my wife Lucy and our gives a practical interaction with diverse cultures. This enlarges the daughter Gloria could have intensified my homesickness. Funnily world in which one actuates ministry and theology. The move to enough, Westcott House was home away from home. I was warmly lasting ecumenism will be an emergence of sharing thought patterns received and warmly kept. that such an exchange programme begets.

There are lots of wonderful experiences I gathered within that short I note with appreciation the support I received from the Principal, stay. To begin with the diet was culturally different, as was life in Martin, and the tutorial and support staff. The general student body general. Things looked different but the friendly community made meant so much in helping me sort my classes in various colleges. me feel fully integrated. The other fascinating area was that The entire fraternity made me feel at home. Thank you very much.

The community says farewell to Elijah, with the gift of a chasuble

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India Link Cambridge Mission to Dehli

One of the great pleasures of my past few years in Delhi has women’s empowerment project, to name but a few! Much of been to welcome a steady trickle of Westcott ordinands who the Brotherhood’s work has been with Dalit communities come to extend their experience of the world Church. The (those formerly considered untouchable), who are often the connection between Westcott and Delhi goes back a very poorest of the poor. In what is still a highly caste-ridden long way, since Westcott himself was instrumental in society, most Christians in northern India come from Dalit establishing the Cambridge Mission to Delhi in 1876. In the backgrounds, and as such face double discrimination. late 19th and early 20th centuries a number of Westcott men Alongside practical work, an increasingly important (and they were all men back then, of course) involved theological project has been to articulate a Dalit theology, themselves in educational and missionary work in the city, to encourage hitherto voiceless and marginal people to notably the running of St Stephen’s College (the oldest of develop a voice and sense of identity. Delhi University’s constituent colleges, founded in 1881, the same year as the Clergy Training School here in One of Bishop Westcott’s hopes for his original Cambridge Cambridge), and later the work of St Stephen’s Hospital missionaries was that they would be sympathetic to (founded 1885). An important part of Westcott’s original discovering a distinctively Indian voice in theology. He vision was that those who came out would live and pray wrote that ‘the West has much to learn from the East, and together as part of a small community, the Cambridge the lesson will not be taught till we hear the truth as it is Brotherhood. More than a century later all of these apprehended by Eastern minds’. Westcott may have had the institutions are still going strong, including a much-changed age-old Indian philosophical tradition in mind, but today (and renamed) Delhi Brotherhood. Dalit theology, with its commitment to liberation and social justice, and its scathing critique of globalisation and India’s current ‘progress’, is a different Indian voice we need to hear.

Even on a fairly short visit to India, it has been possible for Westcott students to deepen their understanding of the local Christian scene by studying alongside local ordinands. We are especially grateful to the Brotherhood’s Jesuit neighbours at the Vidyajyoti College of Theology, who have made space on courses in areas like mission and dialogue or the ideology of Hindu nationalism. For those who have had time to travel more extensively, it has been possible to explore interfaith work at the Henry Martyn Institute in Visit of Gandhi to Westcott,1932 Hyderabad, and the highly contextual approach to L-R: Paul M Sekiya, Charles Andrews, Roger Hicks, Gandhi, B K Cunningham theological education and formation provided by Tamil Today’s Brotherhood of the Ascended Christ is still a small Nadu Theological Seminary. If a term in Manchester religious community, with seven full members (four ordained sometimes feels like a big ask for Westcott students, TNTS and three lay brothers; six Indians and one Brit).The requires a year of slum living and a further year in a remote brothers have offered a warm welcome to visiting ordinands, rural context! providing accommodation and meals, a structure of daily prayer, and most importantly an informal orientation to Coming to India is always an overwhelming experience, but Delhi and to Indian Christianity. As well as being deeply to live alongside the brothers for a few weeks offers our involved in the pastoral work of the Church of North India, ordinands an extraordinary insight into both India’s rapidly the range of social and community projects that the brothers changing society and a church which faces radically support is nothing short of astonishing. Under the auspices different issues from those at home. It is also important to of the Delhi Brotherhood Society they run schools and a say that the traffic between Cambridge and Delhi is not technical education centre, a night shelter for street only one way – we have this year been privileged to children, a 24-hour childline, an old people’s home, and a welcome Br Dinesh Singh to Westcott for a year’s

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Dinesh Singh with the 2010 leavers theological study (see his article below), and we have and sharing peace with each other was a phenomenal learned a great deal from him in return. ’s experience in spite of different denominations, traditions, current turmoil makes it all too clear that a 21st century liturgy, and gender. The willingness to value diversity and formation for ministry must take the world Church seriously, celebrate unity are a key feature of the Federation. and an important part of the House’s strategy for the future It is impossible to study Theology in a secular college or is to provide opportunities for our students to engage with university in India and most of the teaching of Theology or different parts of global Christianity. We are therefore religion is of a confessional nature. In the Cambridge delighted that the link which Bishop Westcott forged is Divinity Faculty I was able to grasp that the amount and still strong, and we look forward to developing it in new degree of faith people have varies with experiences and ways over the coming years. understanding and that intelligent religious debate is possible from a variety of faith bases. I was able to interact Andrew Mein with people reading Theology for completely different Tutor in Old Testament, resident in Cambridge for reasons. Simultaneously, there was the assurance of the Michaelmas Term and Delhi the rest of the year company of fellow ordinands back at Westcott House and the Federation, striving in their vocation for priesthood. Prayer, and the common life which brought us all together as a community, were great bonds we had in common by following Christ and preparing for ministry. My Year in Cambridge The facility of Westcott House, which provides the opportunity to ordinands to be educated with academics and I am native to the Himalayan region of North India and scholars pursuing religious studies with varied persuasion, is grew up in Delhi. I lived at the Brotherhood of the worth acknowledging in my experiences. This shows how Ascended Christ (the Delhi Brotherhood) in community for much even today the vision of B F Westcott is kept alive; to many years and volunteered in their mission along with my be engaged in mission, initiating dialogue with people of university education. Long association and sharing the life other faiths, endeavouring to learn and give something in and work with the brethren in the community, and the response. In his words: ‘eastern wisdom and western critical role they played in my baptism helped me look knowledge’, working with each other in mission. As I write into testing my vocation. I joined the community as a this, I’m reminded of what Professor David Ford advocates: probationer in 2007 to test my vocation. The Brotherhood the possibility and time to go beyond confessional theology of the Ascended Christ and Westcott House were the vision and neutral religious studies and set the ground for more of one man: B F Westcott. Life in the Brotherhood is intelligent faith, deep learning and imaginative wisdom. centered on liturgy and worship with a strong emphasis on In my experience Westcott House has carved out its own mission. This is the inspiration which made me think of unique role and answer to these new challenges by priesthood and a religious vocation. The year at Westcott providing a wide range of teaching, training and practical was full of new people, places and lots of activities to take experiences. part in; Thursday community nights to Wednesday tutor group breakfast; Federation worship, football, cricket My year in Westcott House gave me insight into the and so on! relevance of keeping engaged with academia and establishing its importance to prepare its clergy, missionaries The liturgy and worship anchored us all in the middle of the and theologians. It was a privilege to be among the hustle and bustle of university life. Federation worship was a community of Westcott House, and to be able to share the good experience to be introduced to the liturgy and prayer common life of faith, prayer and friendship. life of Federation colleges. The spirit of praying together Dinesh Singh (BAC)

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India – An Assault on the Senses I have often heard it said that India is an assault on the were looking forward to returning in a few weeks to their senses – but whatever anyone says, nothing can prepare you communities for their contextual placements. It was a for how it actually feels to be part of that great sea of pleasure and an honour to humanity, of life, death and sensory overload that is India. be part of their class in Integral Mission. It gave us a unique opportunity to think about what we would call interfaith My friend Sally and I were lucky enough to spend three dialogue from the perspective of a civilisation that has had weeks living, worshipping and studying in Delhi. Because to live with such issues for longer than any other. Despite of this our experience of Indian life was unlike that of many our obvious differences everyone was polite and hospitable, people visiting this vast city. We stayed with the Delhi some of the sisters even expressing their envy at our Brotherhood – a small, yet influential group of Anglican impending ordination! monks, founded by Bishop Westcott in 1876 in one of the more affluent areas of Old Delhi. Now when I say affluent It’s nearly impossible to sum up what has been a life I don’t want anyone to have a picture of Western affluence changing experience in a few words. From our daily walks in their minds, no, this is something quite different for even to reach the efficient yet packed Delhi Metro, our many, here, rich and poor, luxurious and squalid, rub shoulders many ludicrously cheap and delicious meals, our unending with each other in a strange kind of mutual resignation. journey to the mountains on a state bus and the glorious air conditioned trip home on a train, not to mention the Elephant Festival in Jaipur, being part of Hindu temple devotions, the craziness of Holi, the noise, the smell, the colour, the heat, the dirt; my time in India left me a little bewildered at first – it took me some weeks to let my experiences settle and to make any sense out of the assault it made on my senses. India and Delhi are not really for the faint hearted, but if you feel up to the challenge it may change your life, your perspective on faith and what it is to be a Christian. I just want to go back!

Suzanne Cooke Assistant curate at St Mary’s, Watton,

Days at Brotherhood House would start with morning prayer at seven o’clock, which meant getting up at around 6.30am to collect hot water from the kitchen, then we could wash ourselves and any clothes from the day before. Early mornings have a hazy stillness to them; there would be a heavy golden light over the house and garden and a thick dew on the lawn. Delhi and the heat of the day rise slowly – all, for a while, is calm. It was a lovely time of day. After a simple breakfast of tea, egg, toast and marmalade we would make our way through the back streets, past the Governor’s Residence to Vidyajyoti College where we were taking a class with Father Michael Amaladoss, a Jesuit and highly respected Indian theologian. Our fellow students were in the Suzanne and Sally with Fr Michael Amaladoss SJ third and penultimate year of their training. The weekend of our arrival the Jesuits in the group had been ordained and

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Witness, the band from St Clement’s, Salford, and winner of the 2009 Cross Factor Manchester Ordinand Visits and Placements Diocese church music competition

My time in Manchester of times, led alternative worship services and planned, together with Sandra, a special service for Advent. Sandra’s preaching style was to talk from the aisle without a script and after some One of the benefits of training for ministry at Westcott House is encouragement I preached in this way for the first time. I took the emphasis the House puts on external placements. I spent the part in the church’s fundraising activities, which I found nearly whole of the Michaelmas Term of 2009 working in the parish of always included a raffle of some description and helped with the St Clement’s in Salford, with its priest filling in of forms applying for grants to repair the roof. I helped Sandra Kearney. with the collection of survey data from residents which was The parish is across from Salford Quays and opposite Old needed to assist more applications for funding – this time for Trafford football ground. It includes the development which is to funds to help community activity. I joined some of the house the new BBC headquarters. However I found that I spent congregation at a weekly craft club and made a glove puppet – nearly all my time on the Ordsall estate that surrounds the best to draw a veil over my efforts with a needle and cotton – church and with the people that live there. From my appearance and played several games of pool with some of the elder on the first Sunday morning, the small congregation was very members at a day centre for the elderly (if I had misspent my welcoming and included me completely in the life of the church. youth it was not spent playing pool). One of the highlights of While the style of worship was very different from what I was my visit was joining the church band, led by Bob, as occasional used to (and this was challenging), over my time at St Clement’s third guitar and seeing them win the Cross Factor – a church I learnt a huge amount about what it takes to build, maintain and music competition organised by the . belong to a church community. The real highlight however was being included in a very special Fifty years ago people from the Ordsall estate worked on the church community which was providing a valuable ministry and docks at Salford Quays and the estate includes some iconic sharing the gospel with an inner city estate. This gave me the Manchester landmarks – Coronation Street and the Salford Lads opportunity to discover what being a priest could be like in, Club. Work on the docks has long since disappeared and what was for me, a very different context. The reading for my according to Government statistics the estate is one of the most last Sunday was from Philippians 1. I felt as I took my leave that deprived in the country despite being within a mile of Paul’s words would resonate for a long time to come: ‘I thank my Manchester city centre. However statistics cannot tell you about God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in the people and without exception the people I met were warm, every one of my prayers for all of you because of your sharing in friendly and wanting to help. the gospel from the first day until now.’

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Canary Wharf

Three Westcott House students, Julie Watson, Catherine Tucker and Tim Laundon, spent four days with the Chaplain to Canary Wharf, Fiona Stewart-Darling. Here, they write about their experiences in this unique, challenging, urban environment.

We are still in the aftermath of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Some bankers have been claiming to be ‘doing God’s work’, some have just tried to keep their heads down and others are claiming that the general public is scapegoating the banks unfairly. What an interesting time to be sent on a Social Context Placement to Canary Wharf.

We visited many big companies, including Morgan Stanley, Canary Wharf Group, Credit Suisse, Barlcays and HSBC, as well as local community groups and organisations such as Harbinger Primary School, Queen Mary College University of London, The East London Mosque, Churches Together in Poplar and the Poplar Lunch Club. It was interesting to jump between a financial centre representing several percent of the UK economy and one of the poorest boroughs in London, and fascinating to notice the desire to be seen to be having a positive influence on the one hand and disappointed, unrealistic expectations on the other.

Fiona (Canary Wharf’s Chaplain) is, in her words, a fresh expression of Church in this ‘mini-city’ and she has a vibrant, full-on and really quite breathtaking ‘parish’. It is a groomed, shiny shoes and suit wearing place, a fantastically high up the scale, finger on the pulse, powerful place filled with top banking executives and slick reception desks. Fiona has a tricky job but finds brilliant reasons to pop in on those who are otherwise hidden from our view, and expertly moves alongside them and speaks not only into issues of wealth, but of well-being and keeping the Christian gospel in an environment of multi-faith, inter-faith relations. She has found God there, and Christian brothers and sisters in positions of power and influence making big decisions. Christians at BP, for instance, were in a time of fasting and prayer for an end to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Fiona successfully called upon several ‘top’ people whose time alone cost thousands of pounds per hour, to come and spend time with us to answer our questions, which they did with grace, patience and, in some cases, puzzlement and excited surprise that we, as church people, might be interested.

Julie says of her time there, ‘I found it interesting, and very moving, tackling issues of local community and visiting both clergy in local churches and Christians working in health and schools in the shadow of Canary Wharf. Some are so filled with a never-ending energy and some seeming rather exhausted and in need of support. A primary school head teacher,

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also a tertiary Franciscan, explained that the socio-economic gap is such that he whose abbey at Mont Sainte-Odile we visited); his death on the and the children he teaches do not really aspire to the lifestyle of Canary Wharf.’ cross (paralleled in the tragedy of the Holocaust, demonstrated by our visit to the concentration camp at Natzweiler-Struthof, where Tim reflected that, ‘This week has made me feel that the Church needs to the many graphic images of the atrocities of the Second World regain its relevance in the sphere of economics and commerce, partly so as to offer War gave us much to think about); through to the resurrection a helpful critique, but mostly in order to become better able to support the many (shown in the ‘new life’ which came with the Conseil d’Europe). Christians who work for big corporations. I have left Canary Wharf wondering The foundation of the Council of Europe in 1949 was an attempt what it looks like for the Church to apply its highly developed understanding of to bring new life, healing and reconciliation to a broken and sin to our society and our economy in the wake of the financial crisis.’ crestfallen continent after the devastation of the Second World Catherine says, ‘The placement offered a constant flux, from chaplaincy War. Its objectives to protect human rights, to encourage European situations to parish situations, and I sensed that local parish situations could, cultural identity and diversity, and to consolidate democratic perhaps, benefit from the newly developing models of chaplaincy. These seemed to stability have brought together all but one of the diverse 48 nations work from the secular to the sacred and then back again. Here the priesthood is of Europe. seen as ‘humble community theologian’. In this ‘re-viewing’ of Church, such The short time that we spent together enabled discussion with models do not stretch the boundaries of faith to include contemporary culture, Christians from other denominations and countries, prompting me rather the other way round.’ to consider the work of bringing churches together across Europe and dialogue with people of other faiths in the culturally diverse Europe of 2010. God is a ‘God of relationships’ who through the International Student Trust Holy Spirit provokes us to exist in community. The spirit of unity that we achieved was very special and we can only hope that that The International Student Trust is an organisation which provides dialogue will continue and that each of us in our own ways will opportunities for students throughout Europe to meet to share strive for community and a sense of justice and fairness across experiences, discuss their faith and enjoy hospitality together. In Europe. the Easter vacation I had the chance to represent Westcott for a On the morning of our departure we discovered that an unknown week in the Alsace region of France, based at the beautiful Château Icelandic volcano had made its presence felt across Europe and so de Klingenthal, close to Strasbourg. it was a piece of very good fortune that we were travelling by train! The five days provided an opportunity for me to join students from Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and the UK (including James Stewart another ordinand from St Stephen’s House) and we were able to pause and reflect on our identity as Europeans and as Christians in that context.

As we progressed in our discussions about what Europe meant to each of us it became clear that this visit was planting seeds in our minds about community and working together. We all agreed that ‘fear of the other’ was behind many of our initial attitudes and our understanding of each other’s countries. Through this we had jumped to several stereotypical conclusions, which in their more extreme manifestations had led to many of the historical conflicts in Europe. However, we reflected that we are fortunate to be living in a time of peace in Europe.

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Theological Conversations Jewish and Christian Responses to the Holocaust Margie Tolstoy

For several years, Margie Tolstoy has taught ‘Christian and Jewish two women, side by side. One represents the Church. She responses to the Holocaust’ in the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge wears a crown and holds the cross triumphantly. The woman University. This paper has been transformational for many, including representing the synagogue is blindfolded, with the crown at Westcott ordinands, and we asked Margie to reflect on her her feet and in her hand the rejected tablets, representing experience of teaching this paper as she approaches retirement. the law. The legitimation for that comes of course from the Christian Bible, where the negative interpretation of ‘law’ At the end of the academic year and just before the exams and the disapproval of ‘the Jews’ is commonplace. It is start, students come to my room in Westcott at the top of difficult to comprehend that a religion with a powerful A staircase for their last Holocaust paper revision theology of ‘loving one’s neighbour’ could not find a more supervision. I make them a cup of tea and they look out of compassionate resolution for the fact that many Jews did not the window into the garden and observe what a beautiful recognise Jesus as the Messiah they were waiting for. Martin place Westcott is. Then, as always, we settle down and start Luther’s 1543 treatise, written the year before he died, on discussing the topic at hand. We have been through quite ‘The Jews and Their Lies’, had particularly nasty a journey together, both in lectures and supervisions and reverberations. The language used was so vicious that at the I never fail to be moved by their compassion and Nuremberg Trials, a confessed ‘killer of Jews’ defended understanding of the subject. Their engagement invariably himself by simply saying that Martin Luther would have becomes passionate. At the end of that last supervision done likewise given the opportunity. Scholars and Lutherans students often say how much they have enjoyed this paper in particular have speculated as to why Luther wrote this and then are a little taken aback for spontaneously having deplorably anti-Judaic tract; why he wrote that synagogues used the word ‘enjoyed’ and quickly add, “You know what should be burned, that Jews should be forced into manual I mean…”. And yes, I know exactly what they mean. The labour, that their houses should be taken away and that engagement with Jewish and Christian responses to the rabbinic teaching must stop. There is an appalling familiarity Holocaust has made a difference to their life. It has also about this now. Luther did not write that all Jews should be made a difference to mine. killed, but his greatness as a theologian has been severely It is not insignificant that the supervisions for this paper tainted. It was so different from what he wrote twenty years have taken place in Westcott House. Most students from the earlier in an essay entitled ‘That Jesus Was Born a Jew’: Faculty have never been inside a theological college. And why should they? Unlike in mainland Europe, the teaching If the apostles, who were Jews, had dealt with us of Theology in our Faculty is non-confessional. Coming to Gentiles as we Gentiles deal with the Jews, there Westcott illustrates, mostly unspoken, my commitment to would never have been a Christian among the the Christian faith. This is helpful, all be it in a rather Gentiles. Since they dealt with us Gentiles in such a unorthodox way, because Christians are in for a rough ride brotherly fashion, we in our turn ought to treat the in this course. In the lectures in the Michaelmas Term, Jews in a brotherly manner in order that we might students are introduced to the shameful Christian legacy convert some of them…When we are inclined to of anti-Judaism. boast of our position we should remember that we The polemic against Jews and Judaism in the writing of are but Gentiles, while the Jews are the lineage of famous and influential Christian theologians is deeply Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood problematic. Among the Church Fathers, there is no-one relatives, cousins and brothers of our Lord…God has who does not denigrate Jews and Judaism. Their belief that also demonstrated this by his acts, for to no nation Christianity made Judaism redundant is almost endemic in among the Gentiles has he granted so high an the Church and is known as supersessionism. It is widely honour as he has to the Jews. illustrated in religious art and on the front of many cathedrals it is illustrated through sculptures representing

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He held the doctrine of ‘justification by faith alone’ so dear After the Holocaust, numerous documents attempt to put that it became his life work. For him within Judaism, as the Christian house in order. The efforts by the Vatican indeed within the Church, there was a piety of achievement, under the leadership of Pope John Paul II were particularly a works righteousness that he militantly opposed. There is impressive. Cooperation between Jewish and Christian little consolation in the fact that his motivation for his anti- scholars is proving to be fruitful. To have an extensive and Judaic ranting at the end of his life was theological. His own honest study about the German churches and the Holocaust, example undermined the validity of the doctrine. edited by a Jewish academic (Susannah Heschel) and a Christian scholar who teaches at a Lutheran university Despite the slow but steady progress of Jewish integration, (Robert Erickson) is exciting. They move beyond the ways particularly in Western Europe, a racist attitude towards of the past and the creative tension is constructive. Jews, anti-semitism and a contemptuous portrayal of Jews Triumphalism and supersessionism are exposed and left within the Church remained, and the charge of deicide, behind. Yvonne Sherwood in her imaginative study of the repeated every Good Friday, justified this. As late as 1934, Book of Jonah shows how with a sense of humour and fine Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that ‘the Church of Christ has scholarship both Jewish and Christian perspectives are given never lost sight of the thought that the ‘chosen people’, who their due. Daniel Boyarin, the Jewish scholar, is immersed in nailed the redeemer of the world to the cross, must bear the Christian patristic writing. Post-Holocaust theology is curse for its action through a long history of suffering’. beginning to have an impact in the academy and in the After the Holocaust, Christians started at last to reflect on churches. We study how Jewish and Christian concepts of this arrogant assumption. In 1965, The Vatican document forgiveness differ and the remarkable art produced as a ‘Nostra Aetate’, for the first time in the history of response to the Holocaust. Students read the work of Israeli Christianity, officially withdraws the writers Aharon Applfeld, Amoz Oz and charge of deicide – and thus makes others and discern how the Shoah has Jewish-Christian dialogue possible. influenced their work and life in Israel. Students become very aware of the This is exciting territory and students, number of negative references to both Jewish and Christian and those Jews in the New Testament and who claim to be atheists, write aware of the way the Hebrew Bible supervision essays which are a privilege is ‘colonised’, in other words read to read. And the unexpected bonus in christologically and selectively this course is that Christian students without much regard for the fact become fascinated by Judaism and that it is also the sacred scripture of Jewish students feel that in this class another vibrant and living tradition, they can safely become interested in

Judaism, that shaped Christian faith. Ecclesia et synagoga Christianity. The tragic background to We listen to Handel’s Messiah with all this is of course the Holocaust. The the text by Charles Jennens in front of us and notice that impact of hearing Anita Lasker-Wallfish speak of how the the Christian story is mainly told through passages from the ‘cello saved her life in Auschwitz and to become immersed Book of Isaiah. in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, the story of his parents’ life before, during and after the Holocaust all in cartoon form, and to From the 17th century onwards, Jewish integration into watch a film where children of German perpetrators meet mainstream society was slowly taking place all over Western children of Jewish survivors 50 years after the event is rich Europe. Cromwell, at the end of his reign, allowed selected fare. And the story of the Christian inhabitants of the small Jews to live in England again. Reading George Eliot’s Daniel village in France, Le Shambon, who saved more than 3,000 Deronda illustrates beautifully the well-intentioned but Jews, told and filmed by Pierre Sauvage, who was born there patronising attitude of 19th century (English) Christians to Jewish parents, is a wonderful example of human courage towards Jews as well as the growing militancy among young and Christian integrity. This paper is focusing on responses and educated Jews to establish a Jewish homeland. George to the Holocaust and we are encouraged and privileged to Eliot had become fascinated by Judaism and in Daniel Deronda be critical of the past, but also to meet brave and good she draws the reader skilfully into the life of our hero, who people, on film, in books, in art and in person who are turns out to be kind, clever, beautiful and Jewish. She also helping to create a more just and kindly world. That is portrays the lively Jewish community in the East End of where the energy comes from in this course and the students London. respond to it most magnificently.

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B K Cunningham – A Look Back in Gratitude Stanley Mogford

All of us are part of organisations, be they a parish or college, House came almost entirely from the Principal. He was the club or company, and of course family. We know that our present very heart of it. Superficially, there was nothing outstanding experience of these organisations is in part the result of an ongoing about him. In appearance he was somewhat overweight. conversation with their past and particularly their origins or He had the severe disadvantage of being almost totally deaf. formative years. The longer I am at Westcott the more I realise We all had to talk to him through a box he carried with him, the abiding impact of both Bishop Westcott and ‘BK’, Principal and we seldom saw him without his earphones. To many it from 1919 to 1944. Among the many letters received from last would have been an almost insufferable barrier to a full and year’s Review was one from the Revd Canon Stanley Mogford rewarding ministry. He was not defeated by it. His (Westcott 1936), in which he referred to his recollections of scholarship was obviously of quality or he would not have B K Cunningham. He was asked if he would write the following been appointed to the work he did but he would never have piece, elaborating on those recollections, and we are delighted equated himself with the Regius Professor of Divinity. But that he agreed. there was a charisma to him that almost

The Revd Canon Martin Seeley Portrait of B K Cunningham which hangs in the Westcott dining hall

My time in Westcott was for one year only from 1936 to 1937. As I understood it at the time, the then , Timothy Rees, made an arrangement directly with the Principal for me to go there. My impression is that I was the first ordinand from the disestablished to be accepted at Westcott. If so, I was certainly not the last as many others have followed me, some infinitely more distinguished than I ever was, including the present Dean of Llandaff, the Chancellor of Llandaff and no less a priest than Dr Barry Morgan, . The staff in 1936 was small, consisting of only three caring for some 40 ordinands (all male of course). There was the Principal whom everyone referred to as the Professor, the Vice-Principal (later to become everyone would immediately feel. Canon Collins of CND fame), He was a man of affection, of and a younger man, as kindliness. He had a joy in living, no Chaplain, whose name mean achievement for someone who had I believe was Wright. All three to contend with the loneliness of naturally were men of quality deafness. There was a holiness about him or they would not have that some of us feared would be forever been appointed to such out of our reach. A martinet he was not. responsibilities but it was But power he had, and it was the power of soon apparent to me that affection. Through it he shaped the life of the ethos and direction of the B K Cunningham in earlier years the House.

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For some like myself, coming from four years in another Vestments or lack of them didn’t make the priest. Closeness college, three of them in residence, two aspects of Westcott to God and the love he bore to those around him would soon became obvious: Westcott in 1936, perhaps now also, show the quality of his life as a man of true vocation. The as far as I know, managed to get by without rules or Professor’s words of wisdom and example stood me in good regulations, or if there were I never noticed them. BK stead in my own years as a parish priest. My first parish in seemed to prefer a minimum of discipline imposed from one of the South Wales valleys was very tractarian. We had above. We had a round of lectures, some inside, some daily eucharist, with vestments, sanctuary bells and much else. Such forms of worship were new to me. But it never worried me, once I mastered which vestments to use. On the other hand, my first living, again in a South Wales valley, was very different. The choir had not long been robed and even candles on the altar were allowed but were not to be lit. Again, it never worried me. Westcott House, under BK, had given me a lifelong conviction that rituals, be they small or extravagant, all have their value but only if they bring us alive to the presence of God.

At the end of my year, with GOE (General Ordination Examination) done, and ordination near, all ordinands in Westcott (then as now, no doubt) all had a one-to-one interview with the Professor. He said prayers with us, laid his hands on our heads and gave us his blessing. Though now so long ago, I remember it as if it was yesterday. Before

The Revd Canon Stanley Mogford going, one of my fellow ordinands, who went on to be a bishop in the Church of England, as did most of my contemporaries now I think of it, warned me that if BK had something about me that worried him he would only come outside the House but no-one oversaw our attendance. We out with it as my hand was on the study door. So it proved. had a daily series of services in the chapel but no-one stood As I was about to close the door I heard him say, “Stanley, at the door and checked us in as happened to me in my when you get into your parish …” and out came what he former college at Oxford, name ticked off at the chapel door saw as my prevailing weakness. Then, as if to compensate at 7.50am every morning of every day, term after term over for what he feared might have disappointed me, he gave me three years. We were all a company at Westcott, sharing a a signed photograph of himself, one I kept in my study common life, with the Professor one of us and in that close through the 43 years of my life as a parish priest but, sadly, fellowship no-one wanted to fail or disappoint him. Those somehow lost during my last move into retirement. Now I who occasionally overslept and missed a service, before fear it will never be recovered. But why do I want it? I dare starting on breakfast, went to the high table and spoke into to believe, as with so many others, the image of the man the box. “Sorry, Professor, morning in!” It was no good became part of me and helped me to be the man I am. mumbling into the box or he wouldn’t have heard. Everyone Others will say the same. shared in the confession.

Along with a minimum pressure of imposed discipline, Westcott also seemed singularly blind to all forms of ritual, be it catholic or protestant. BK felt and taught that what made a good priest were not rituals but his nearness to God.

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THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATIONS

Prophetic Preaching Nora Tisdale

Westcott’s relationship with Yale Divinity School means not just a new human community of equality under God. It was the an exchange for ordinands but increasing contact between prophets who, during times of war, have given me hope of teaching staff. We were delighted to welcome Nora and Alfred a day to come in which God’s promised shalom will reign. Tisdale to Westcott in June, and here Nora reflects on how she And it has been the prophets of recent years – prophets came to write Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach (Louisville, who speak out against economic injustice, prophets who KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). Nora is the Clement- challenge governmental lies, prophets who hold us Muehl Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. accountable in world courts of opinion – who give me hope that one day the earth will be full of the glory of God as the I chose to write a book about prophetic preaching for waters cover the sea. several reasons. Finally, I wrote a book on prophetic preaching because it The first is that I think for many preachers – including has been a topic of scholarly research interest for me in myself – prophetic preaching is the most difficult kind of recent years, and I wanted to share some of what I’ve been preaching we do, and we need all the help we can get in learning with others. thinking through how to do it well.

I know that when I first graduated from seminary 30 years ago and went out to serve as co-pastor, with my husband, of four small churches I equated prophetic preaching with head-on, confrontational preaching, and thought that unless I was making people angry through an occasional prophetic sermon, I probably wasn’t doing my job well. My models then for preaching were the minor prophets, and it wasn’t until I had been in ministry for a while that I realised they might not always be the best models for parish ministry, since they were not also trying to be pastors and priests for the people to whom they prophesied! It is tough to be both prophetic witness and crisis counsellor, gadfly and comforter. So this book is an attempt to hold those roles in tension, and to wrestle with how we can best ‘speak truth in love’ to our parishioners.

Second, I have chosen to address prophetic preaching because I believe that ultimately prophetic preaching gives hope – hope of a new day to come when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

One of the reasons I am continually drawn toward prophetic preaching – even though it is not easy – is that in my own life’s pilgrimage it has often been the prophets who have given me hope. It was the prophets who, during my upbringing in the racially segregated southeastern United States in the 1950s, first boldly proclaimed that such living was antithetical to the Gospel, and who helped me envision Professors Nora and Alfred Tisdale at Westcott

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One of the great gifts of my academic life was the opportunity to work for three years with an interdisciplinary team of scholars who were commissioned to write the history of the Riverside Church in New York City in celebration of Riverside’s 75th anniversary. This is a church that is known in our country for its prophetic witness, and I spent a number of months in the archives there, researching the lives and reading or listening to the sermons of the first five Riverside preachers: Harry Emerson Fosdick, Robert James McCracken, Ernest T Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, and James A Forbes, Jr. I came away from that project deeply inspired by the witness of these faithful, prophetic preachers – each of whom used his own unique gifts, life experiences, and theological perspectives to bring a prophetic word to Church and nation. But I also came away challenged, for one of the striking things about the Riverside sermons is that you can literally read the history of nation and world through them. I know of few other pulpits today where that is the case.

Reading those sermons caused me to ask questions such as: where have all the prophets gone today?; how can we reignite a fire for prophetic preaching in the hearts of pastors?; and what strategies and forms might we use to best ‘speak prophetic truth in love’ to our own parishioners.

My book is structured according to those questions. In Chapter 1 I ask ‘Where have all the prophets gone?’, as I identify some of the reasons pastors today avoid or under- emphasise prophetic witness in their ministries. I conclude that our resistance at heart is a spiritual problem, and so in Chapter 2 I outline what a ‘spirituality for activism’ might look like.

In Chapter 3 I turn toward practical strategies for prophetic preaching – describing and illustrating ten ways in which we might better ‘speak truth in love’ in our sermons. In Chapter 4 I turn to forms for prophetic preaching, offering twelve different options for structuring sermons. Finally, in Chapter 4, I address the integration of word and deed in prophetic witness.

My hope is that this book will not only inspire greater courage in prophetic witness, but will also provide pastors with practical tools and strategies for doing so.

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS

New Developments

New Staff Members

The most important new Victoria Espley joined Westcott developments this past year have House in October 2010 as Finance been the staff changes, written and Operations Manager. She has about in the ‘Principal’s a BA in Accounting and Finance Welcome’. Here the new staff with Economics and a Graduate introduce themselves. Diploma in Law.

She started her career as a Andrew Davison returns to graduate trainee for Royal Westcott House as Tutor in SunAlliance in Manchester before Doctrine after seven years away. joining an international reinsurance company in London as He spent those years in South East London as assistant an underwriter. She was awarded an Associateship of the curate in the parish of St Dunstan, Bellingham, and in Chartered Insurance Institute in 1999 and went on to Oxford as Tutor in Doctrine at St Stephen’s House and become Senior Account Manager in Reinsurance and Junior Chaplain of Merton College. Liability Management for Swiss Re, based in London. It was from Merton that Andrew came to Westcott in 2000, Victoria decided to move from finance into educational after seven years in chemistry and biochemistry. Before that management and is about to complete a Certificate of he grew up in East Yorkshire. Outside of academic work his School Business Management. Victoria is a trustee of three principal interests are music and travelling, often with Cambridge charities involved with education and young architecture in mind. people: The Church Schools of Cambridge, ACE Nursery Schools and Cambridge Jumbo Toy Library. Victoria is Vice- Andrew looks forward to being part of the Westcott team Chair of Governors at a Cambridge school where she is also and having a place in the House’s long history of training Chair of the Business Committee. Victoria is married with clergy and providing theological resources for the Church. two children. He brings enthusiasm for doctrine and the difference that the Christian faith makes. Heather Kilpatrick joined Among Andrew’s interests are two themes reflected in recent Westcott as College Administrator books: ecclesiology (For the Parish: A Critique of Fresh Expressions, and Communications Officer in with Alison Milbank) and apologetics (Imaginative Apologetics: June 2010. Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition). This year also Heather was previously at Selwyn saw the publication of a prayer book Lift Up Your Hearts College for ten years, latterly as (with Toby Wright and Andrew Nunn, SPCK) and an essay Development Director heading up ‘Theology and the Renewal of the Church’ in Mark their development and alumni Chapman’s The Hope of Things to Come: Anglicanism and the Future relations programmes. Her role (Continuum). there included alumni events, communications and publications which are areas of experience she will bring to Westcott in the role of Communications Officer. Prior to joining Selwyn, Heather was Visitors’ Manager at where she was responsible for managing the Cathedral’s calendar of events, marketing the Cathedral as a tourist venue and overseeing a programme of guided tours and schools visits. Heather is married to Iain and has two children. She attends St Barnabas Church on Mill Road in Cambridge, although (as the daughter of a Baptist minister) she considers herself a true Baptist at heart.

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Philip Sheldrake has returned Following the Dearing Report on Higher Education (1997), to Westcott House as Senior Will was one of the first cohort of university lecturers to Research Fellow in the House receive a qualification in teaching and learning. He is a and the Cambridge Theological Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and is deeply Federation. committed to the development of teaching and learning in theological education. He continues as Honorary Professor of Theology at Will’s principal research interests lie in the reception history University of Wales Trinity St of the New Testament and what has recently been described David and Moulsdale Professorial as ‘the pedagogy of the Bible’. He is intrigued by the current Fellow St Chad’s College, Durham University. Philip was rediscovery of more ancient patterns of biblical exegesis, and previously lecturer and Director, Institute of Spirituality, how these insights may shape formation for ministry and Heythrop College University of London (1984-92), Tutor in discipleship in the Church today. Evidently, Will is the first Church History and Director of Pastoral Studies at Westcott Tutor in New Testament at Westcott for a number of House (1992-97), Vice-Principal of Sarum College (1998- decades (!), and although he fears that he will never match 2002), Leech Professor of Applied Theology Durham the erudition and learning of Bishop Westcott, he hopes that University (2003-2008) and then Joseph Visiting Professor he will still convey something of Westcott’s passion for Boston College MA. biblical scholarship.

Philip’s current research interests are in the history and Frances Mant, as an undergraduate theology of Christian spirituality, public theology and medic at Jesus College Cambridge, interfaith. His current projects are a book on ‘the idea knew nothing of Westcott House, of the city in Christian thought’ and establishing an despite its close proximity. Now, interdisciplinary project on interfaith contributions to some thirty years later, she is debates about urban futures. Philip will be in Westcott two delighted to be putting this right! or three days each week. In preparation for this she has qualified and practised both as a Will Lamb is delighted to have doctor and a social worker, also returned to Westcott as Vice- graduating from London and Principal after fifteen years in Exeter universities along the way. Finding her vocation at Yorkshire. last, she trained at the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham He trained for the ministry at and was ordained priest in 2006 in Worcester Diocese, Westcott from 1992-95, and brings where she served her curacy and worked for a year in a wealth of experience of parochial hospital chaplaincy. ministry and theological education. Frances now lives in Cambridge with her husband (a While serving as a curate in research professor at the Medical School) and two teenage Halifax and then as a team vicar near Barnsley, he taught children. She will work part-time as a Tutor at Westcott New Testament Studies at the College of the Resurrection, House and will also supervise a Social Context Placement Mirfield. Since 2001, Will has been the Anglican Chaplain for the Cambridge Theological Federation. Alongside her to the University of Sheffield (where he has also taught passion for pastoral care she has a particular interest in part-time in the Department of Biblical Studies). In 2005, contemplative prayer and in the Christian Mystic tradition. he took on an additional role as a Residentiary Canon at Sheffield Cathedral, where he helped to revitalise the Cathedral’s music and arts strategy, and – much to his surprise and everybody else’s consternation – took on particular responsibility for the Cathedral’s social enterprise and business activities.

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Westcott – Future Developments

We have spent the past couple of years addressing our Facilities fit for the 21st century financial structure and operational costs so that we can As returning alumni point out, our buildings have not cover the expenses associated with our core activity of changed much over many decades! We have undertaken training ordinands through the income we receive from necessary refurbishment in the past three years, including the Church of England’s Ministry Division. However, there rewiring, updating fire alarm systems, and improving are other areas of cost – most notably building disabled access, but much remains to be done. Community refurbishments, bursaries and outreach – that are not life is an essential component of what we offer, requiring as covered by this support, and we are looking to help many as possible to live on site, but we do not have enough ourselves where possible by diversifying income streams accommodation to make this possible for all ordinands. We through conferences, independent students and therefore need to add rooms for around fifteen more single fundraising activities. students and five married students, and to upgrade The three key priorities for Westcott are therefore: remaining accommodation. As we move into greater use of electronic learning resources, we also need to provide library • maintaining theological excellence; facilities both for books and online study that are fit for this • providing facilities fit for the 21st century; generation of students. • developing our outreach to the wider Church. Raising money for new building and Maintaining theological excellence renovating current facilities is a key priority. Westcott is a thriving community, currently with 73 Church of England ordinands and six resident independent students. Developing our outreach to the wider Church Of these, half are aged 30 or younger, just under half are Our focus is on the training of ordinands, but we have women and just over half are single. extraordinary resources in both staff and ordinands, and we We have been consistently full over the past several years, wish to make these resources much more available to the and the signs are good for next year even in these wider Church. challenging times. Ordinands clearly value the quality of our We have been aiming to do this through conferences, but community life and the seriousness we place on the study of the internet is an extraordinary vehicle of which we wish to Theology in the context of the life of prayer, interweaved make much greater use as a resource for clergy and . with extensive pastoral practice. We wish to redesign our website to make this a more Ordinands usually spend between two and four years in effective resource for the Church, as well as extend what we training with us. Most follow a degree pathway, with two- have to offer through study days, conferences and thirds taking Cambridge University awards and one-third publications. taking awards accredited by Anglia Ruskin University. The Resourcing outreach initiatives to support the proposed increase in academic fees could endanger our vital learning and development of clergy and laity relationship with Cambridge University and the access for is a key priority. ordinands to the theological excellence and rigour which this ensures. It is our intention to do all we can to enable Fundraising activities will be vital to the success of our ordinands to continue to take Cambridge Divinity Faculty objectives. In setting out our priorities here, I hope you have awards, including the BA (Tripos) and BTh, as well as higher a feel for the current and future direction of Westcott degrees including the MPhil and PhD. The impact of fee House. I also hope that you will feel able to help in some increases on the Anglia Ruskin Foundation Degree is still way, and I will be in touch again in due course with some unclear, but this too may be in jeopardy. suggestions as to how you may be able to do this. In the meantime, if you would like to contact me about Raising funds for bursaries to enable ordinands to anything you have read here, I would be delighted to hear continue to take Cambridge University degrees is from you. a key priority. The Revd Canon Martin Seeley

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Remembering Westcott

If and when the time is right, we hope that you will consider naming Westcott House as a recipient of at least part of your Will. You may choose to help as an expression of affection for the College, or out of gratitude for the education and preparation for ministry you received. You may wish to give a gift in your Will because circumstances have not permitted you to help during your lifetime.

Westcott, as a registered charity (no. 311445), pays no tax on gifts of money or property made in this way. In addition, the gift may have benefits for your estate by reducing the amount liable to Inheritance Tax.

Your existing Will may be amended by simply adding a codicil. Alternatively, the gift can be included in any revision of your Will that may become necessary from time to time. In either case, if you do amend your Will you are strongly recommended to obtain the assistance of your solicitor.

The following wording for a Will or codicil may be used:

I give to WESTCOTT HOUSE, JESUS LANE, CAMBRIDGE (Registered Charity Number 311445) the residue / [a proportion] of the residue of my estate / the sum of £[amount] free of tax for the general purposes of the House AND I DECLARE that the receipt of the Principal or other authorised officer for the time being of the House shall be a good and sufficient discharge to my executors.

We would encourage you to leave money for ‘general purposes’, as needs vary over time and this will allow the College to use the money wherever it is most needed. However, if you prefer, you can indicate that you have a particular interest in certain areas such as bursaries, teaching, or the College buildings and grounds.

If you would like to speak to someone about making a gift of this kind, please contact:

The Revd Canon Martin Seeley (Principal) Westcott House Jesus Lane CAMBRIDGE CB5 8BP

Tel: +44 (0)1223 741000 Fax: +44 (0)1223 741002 e-mail: [email protected]

Westcott House Gifts and Mementos We are very pleased to offer an assortment of Westcott House gift and memento items.

Westcott House Cuff Links Westcott House Greeting Cards

With either chain link Large greeting card (15x21cm) with white (as pictured) for envelope, blank £20 or swivel inside for your fitting £18 message. +£2.50 p&p £1.50 each +50p p&p, or 5 for £6 +£2 p&p

Westcott House Photo Postcards The Westcott House Icon Postcards featuring photos of Westcott House, All Saints’ Church, The Westcott A 14x19cm print Icon, and Hort of the icon on 30p each 2mm thick card. or a set of all £3.50 four for £1 +50p p&p +£1.50 p&p for for up to up to 3 4 cards +£2.00 p&p for 4-5

To order any of these items please write to the Development Office, Westcott House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BP or email [email protected].

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Ember List 2010 Diocese

Helen M Bailey Ripon and Leeds Charlotte E Ballinger Gillian S Barrow Lincoln James C Blackstone Southwark Phillip J Bradford Worcester Kathryn M Campion-Spall Southwark Julia E Candy Durham Rebekah L Cannon Chichester Suzanne Cooke Norwich Anthony G Curtis Newcastle Owen J Dobson London Thomas E Glover Durham Sandra J Hall Chichester Sally E Kimmis Norwich Patrick S King Salisbury Douglas T Machiridza Birmingham Catherine A Macpherson Wakefield Fiona R Mayer-Jones York Rosemary J Morton Chelmsford John Pares Norwich Ruth J Patten Chelmsford Susannah M Rudge Birmingham Anthony M Searle St Albans Neil C Shave Manchester Catherine J Shelley Manchester Priscilla E Slusar Lichfield Philip J Smith Durham Andrew N Thomas Oxford Edward C Thornley Norwich Faith G Wakeling Chelmsford Michael J Womack St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Priests

Nicholas Adams Bristol M Christine Barrow Ely Nest W Bateman Lichfield David J Baverstock (date tba) St Albans Natalia Critchlow London Lara E Dose Manchester Jonathan Elcock (date tba) Manchester Bonnie J Evans-Hills Leicester Dawn A Glen Derby Ruth C Goatly St Albans Sarah C Gower Ely Brutus Z Green London Paula W L Griffiths Chelmsford Timothy D M Hayward Ely Christopher G Holden Blackburn Anne M Howson Chelmsford Christyan E James Canterbury Stuart Labran Coventry Karen I Mitchell St Albans Imogen Nay Southwark Christine A Ostler Peterborough Michael M Rose Lincoln Meymans K Sala London Anne R Shorter Peterborough Stephen F Stavrou London Alexander W Summers Chelmsford Jenny C Totney Salisbury Christine L Turpin Worcester Ellen L Wakeham Lincoln

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Staff Contacts

Martin Seeley Simon Gatenby Principal Tutor for the Manchester Project Direct line: 01223 741010 Direct line: 0161 273 2470 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Will Lamb Liz Gordon Vice-Principal, Tutor in New Testament House and Conference Manager Direct line: 01223 741013 Direct line: 01223 741004 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Heather Kilpatrick College Administrator, Will Adam Communications Officer External Tutor in Applied Ecclesiology Direct line: 01223 741005 Direct line: 020 8886 3545 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Dave Male Doreen Albiston Tutor in Pioneer Ministry Finance Officer Direct line: 01223 746585 Direct line: 01223 741003 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Frances Mant Jeff Bailey Tutor Tutor in Public Theology Direct line: 01223 741102 Direct line: 01223 741014 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Andrew Mein Marie Bull Tutor in Old Testament Admissions Officer Direct line: 01223 741102 Direct line: 01223 741001 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Elizabeth Phillips Acting Director of Pastoral Studies, James Buxton Tutor in Theology and Ethics Tutor Direct line: 01223 740952 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Louise Codrington-Marshall Jeff Phillips External Tutor for Parish Ministry Tutor in Theology and Philosophy and Minority Ethnic Concerns Direct line: 01223 741014 Direct line: 020 8876 7162 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Victoria Raymer Tiffany Conlin Director of Studies, Tutor in Liturgy Tutor in Pastoral Theology Direct line: 01223 741011 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Andrew Davison Philip Sheldrake Tutor in Doctrine, Assistant Director of Studies Senior Research Fellow Direct line: 01223 741007 Direct line: 01223 740052 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Victoria Espley Lindsay Yates Finance and Operations Manager Chaplain Direct line: 01223 741003 Direct line: 01223 741012 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

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Members of the Governing Council 2009 – 2010

The Rt Revd Tim Stevens, Chair The Revd Canon Martin Seeley, Principal The Revd Dr Michael Beasley, Vice-Principal Mr David Gill, Honorary Treasurer

Ms Morag Bushell The Revd Duncan Dormor The Rt Revd Christopher Foster Miss Elizabeth Foy The Revd Canon Vanessa Herrick The Revd Dr Philip Luscombe The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris The Revd Dr Victoria Raymer The Revd Dr Anthony Russell Mr David Scott The Revd Canon Alma Servant Mrs Denise Thorpe The Revd Canon Dr Fraser Watts Mr Michael Womack

Observer:

The Revd Simon Gatenby

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JESUS LANE • CAMBRIDGE • CB58BP

TEL: +44 (0)1223 741000 FAX: +44 (0)1223 741002

EMAIL: [email protected] www.westcott.cam.ac.uk

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