FY 2012 annual report - Andover Newton Theological School

Faculty NewsM.T. DávilaThe faculty show their team colors before Fall Convocation.M.T. Dávila :: Professor Dávila is on sabbatical during the fall 2012 semester.Sarah DrummondSarah Drummond :: Dean Drummond attended the 2012 biennial meeting of the Associationof Theological Schools, where she facilitated a panel titled “Reconsidering Old Patterns: Big Questionsin Academic Practice” that focused on three seminary presidents who are engaging new models fortheological education. She also led a workshop on Student Learning Assessment for the 2012 meetingof the Chief Academic Officers Society.14Dean Drummond is consulting with two other seminaries on the connection between curriculumreform and student learning assessment. Her first love remains campus religious life. She serves asan Affiliated Minister at Memorial Church at Harvard University, and in 2011-12 she served on thesearch advisory committee in Harvard’s search for a new Plummer Professor of Christian Morals andPusey Minister in the Memorial Church. She is actively involved in creating the new intensive trackin the D.Min. program and taught the first-semester seminar in June. She also plans to resurrect hercourse on campus and young adult ministries in the January 2013 session.Carole FontaineCarole Fontaine :: Recent publications include: “Can a Difficult Text Speak?: The Song of Songsin a Congregational Setting,” Christian Century; “Golden Do’s and Don’ts in Leviticus 19: A HumanRights-based Approach Reading” in Texts@Contexts Series, Leviticus-Numbers volume, ed. AthalyaBrenner (Fortress Press); Homiletics Today, exegetical essays for 2012 Year B Pentecost lectionary readings:Ruth 3 (24th Sunday) and 1 Samuel 1-2 (25th Sunday); and “’We Saw Justice in Them’: An Interview withWomen’s Activist and Political Prisoner Mahin Saremi,” WAFE Canada website.Mark HeimMark Heim :: In summer of 2012, Professor Heim taught a course in China titled “Wisdom andLove: Christian Learning in Dialogue with Buddhism,” which considered ways that Christian practiceand theological reflection may be enriched through the study of Buddhism, and also what particularwitness Christian faith may bring to Buddhist reflection. He will return to China in the winter 2013term, leading the border crossing course “Faith in a New China.”Jeff JonesJeff Jones :: Professor Jones retired from his part-time pastorate at First Baptist Church of Plymouththis October. Not wanting to remain idle, however, he has assumed a new full-time position asDirector of Ministry Studies at Andover Newton. Working with the Media Center, he has writtenand recorded a series of studies on discipleship, based on his book Traveling Together: A Guide forDisciple-Forming Congregations. The series will be used by the American Baptist Churches of Indianaand Kentucky as a resource for congregations. He also happily welcomed his first grandson this year!