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12345678PRINCETON IN PHOTOSThe first of the new apartment buildings at the Charlotte Rachel Wilson residential complex (center) will open to students in January 2012. The other two buildings willopen later in the spring. Construction on the new library is proceeding on schedule (photos 1–8).Photographs by Kim Schmidt.

in this ISSUEFall 2011/Winter 2012Volume 16Number 1EditorBarbara A. ChaapelArt DirectorKathleen WhalenEditorial AssistantAllie NaskretCommunications CoordinatorMichelle Roemer SchoenStaff PhotographersJonathan Britt, Kim Schmidt,Austin Shelley, Jen Strickland de SalazarinSpire is a magazine for alumni/ae and friends ofPrinceton Theological Seminary. It is publishedthree times a year by the Princeton TheologicalSeminary Office of Communications/Publications,P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542-0803.Telephone: 609.497.7760Fax: 609.430.1860Email: inspire@ptsem.eduWeb site: www.ptsem.edu/inspire/The magazine has a circulation of approximately20,000 and is printed by George H. BuchananCo. in Bridgeport, NJ. Nonprofit postage paid atPennsville, NJ. © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,2010, 2011, 2012 Princeton Theological Seminary.17 FROM RIO TO MONROVIARead about the broadening experiences of PTS students whochoose international field education placements.BY ALLIE NASKRET20 ENTREPRENEURIAL ALUMNAE TAKE UNIQUEAPPROACHES TO MINISTRYLearn how three women graduates started nonprofitorganizations in their communities.BY KIMBERLY PINNIX23 REMEMBERING DON JUELDiscover how students and pastors still learn thejoy of studying scripture from one of PTS’s belovedformer professors.BY SHANE BERG26 COMMENCEMENT 2011See how some of the Seminary’s newest graduates arebeginning their ministries.PHOTOS BY KIM SCHMIDT30 TURNING 200!Learn how PTS is celebrating its Bicentennial in 2012—and join in the celebration.All rights reserved as to text, drawings, andphotographs. Republication in whole or part isprohibited. Princeton Theological Seminary, thePrinceton Seminary Catalogue, and the logos ofPrinceton Theological Seminary are all trademarksof Princeton Theological Seminary.Not all the views expressed in inSpirenecessarily represent those of PrincetonTheological Seminary.On the CoverAlexander Hall commemorates Dr. ArchibaldAlexander, the Seminary’s first professor. InSeptember 1812, he taught three students, holdingclasses in his study. Thus Princeton Seminarybegan. Permanent classrooms came with theconstruction of Alexander Hall in 1815, theSeminary’s most historic building. This year theSeminary turns 200—a true cause for gratitude forand celebration of two centuries of service to thechurch of Jesus Christ.Departments2 Letters3 inSpire interactive9 On & Off Campus33 Class Notes41 Investing in Ministry45 In Memoriam49 End ThingsinSpire 1

fall 2011/winter 2012LETTERSPhoto: Kristen Joy WattsFrom the President’s deskDear Friends and Colleagues,As I write, we are at the very endof 2011 and so at the threshold of ourbicentennial year. It will be a momentousyear and there is so much to look forwardto and so much for which we should giveprofound thanks to God.Let me begin by referring to mydistinguished predecessor, Tom Gillespie,who died after a short illness on November5th. Many of youknew Tom muchbetter than I. Hetruly expandedthe Seminary’svision andreach. He lovedthe Seminaryand under hisDr. Torranceleadership itblossomedbeyond its roots in Princeton and becamean articulate and respected voicewherever one went in the Christian world.In all that time of expansion and growth,Tom never lost his own roots in his identityas the husband of his beloved Barbara,as a preacher and pastor-scholar, as acommitted visionary who served his Godand the Presbyterian Church. And so wethank God for his life and witness. You canread my tribute to Tom on the Seminary’sweb site.The new CharlotteRachel Wilson campuswill open to studentsin early January 2012.For the last year, I havewatched it grow. Nowit will become a hometo the next generation,and will help toDr. Thomas W. Gillespiepreserve those benefitsof communal learning, friendship, andpersonal growth that we value so highly.As I write, the new library has changedshape again. All summer we watched thesteel frame being constructed and nowit is closed in with blocks, a real buildingthough anonymously grey, ready to betransformed by honey-colored stone in thespring. Interest and expectation mounts,led by a wonderful group of pastors on ourcampaign committee.Please join us during our bicentennialyear. There will be a huge range of eventsand opportunities for worship. Manypeople have poured imagination intoplanning the year. Much that is unexpectedwill take place: early in 2012 we will bejoined for a concert by Paul Mealor, whocomposed the setting of Ubi caritas forthe wedding of Prince William and KateMiddleton. Jim Moorhead’s excellentbicentennial history will come out in thelate summer. Please look out for QR (QuickResponse) codes, as they are wonderfulways of giving you updates and taking youto links on the web.As some of you know, after a gooddeal of heart searching, I decided toretire at the end of December 2012. I hadalways said that I believed that somethinginside a decade would be right for mykind of vocation at PTS. I was invited tocome by the Board specifically to bringabout change, to add momentum to ouraccreditation process, and to galvanizethe big projects that arenow being completed. Andwe had the downturn toweather.It may seem that weare going through manytransitions this year. Andwe are, but we are blessedwith a particularly strongand extraordinarily generousBoard of Trustees. Theyhave made it clear that they have arange of further tasks they would like tosee completed by the end of 2012. DanAleshire is the executive director of theAssociation of Theological Schools (ATS)and one of the wisest people I have metin the U.S. In May he told our Board thatwhile the church is changing quickly, oftenseminaries change v e r y slowly. Wryly,he added that some seminaries haveenormous heat shields that they can useto protect themselves against the frictionof change. Our Board wants us to preparepastors for the third millennium, not for the’80s or ’90s. That will require a measure ofrealignment with the diverse, changing,missional church of today. In ATS schoolsall across America, today only 29 percentof students are from the “Mainline” and71 percent are designated “evangelical.”At the heart of our new thinking is arealization that we are not called to impartan abstract or timeless body of learning, nomatter how excellent, but to engage in aprocess of formation, which begins at theSeminary and continues all through life.PTS is called to play its part in that.And this will impact who we admit and howwe teach them. It will impact the differentgravitational pulls between the M.Div. andthe Ph.D. It will embed the resources of ourinformation technology and new library,and it will affect our allocation of resourcesand stewardship. I see these alignmentsas a sustained act of faithfulness to thechurches we serve. These developmentswill lead the Seminary to be the same butyounger as it enters its third century!May God bless all of you.Iain R. Torrance2 inSpire

Social Media and Ministryfall 2011/winter 2012inSpire INTERACTIVEWe asked readers: Share an instance in which you have used social media in your ministry in a unique way, or a way that had a surprisingoutcome as a result of your interactions. Are you evolving with the technology, or resisting the change? What type of information would you like toreceive from PTS via Facebook and Twitter? We received many answers, but could not include them all. All responses are in inSpire online.kAt Good Shepherd Presbyterian inCharlotte, North Carolina, God has beenstretching us in recent years to try to reachbeyond the walls of our church. Several yearsago we moved our Wednesday night study toseveral coffeehouses and bookstores in thearea and created a “South Charlotte BookClub” listing on meetup.com. Within days wehad about ten (unchurched) people sign-upto read and discuss The Chronicles of Narniawith our church regulars. We never wouldhave met any of those folks if we hadn’treached out through social media. We havecontinued to use meetup.com as one form ofsocial media, as well as a number of others. Ihave written a series on “online ministry tech”at bit.ly/ministrytech.Robert Austell Jr. (M.Div., 1996)Charlotte, North CarolinakSometimes I’ll post a question I’mpondering when doing my sermon prep. I’llinclude some of the responses in the sermon.It helps worshipers prepare and creates moreparticipation in the service.Tom Lank (M.Div., 2008)Colorado Springs, ColoradokI do not use social media as muchas many do, but I am on Facebook anduse it in two primary ways: To post briefpithy statements from my reading that areencouraging and/or challenging. I don’tcomment on the quote, I just say, “this got myattention” or “from my reading” and I providethe link or author’s name. I also use Facebookas part of my pastoring as I comment onpostings by those in our church body. Usually,I comment so everyone can read it, butsometimes I go to the person’s personal page,if that is more appropriate.Bob Mink (Th.M., 1979)Moreno Valley, CaliforniakAs a pastor, I post my sermons onFacebook each week. Originally, I thoughtit might be a good way to connect withparishioners who miss that Sunday’s worship.However, I found the group who mostappreciated this form of dialogue was familyand friends from my place of origin. Soon, Ifound others in the presbytery were followingmy lead!Located in a small rural community, ourchurch has actually found that local radio is afantastic way to get the word out. Who wouldever guess AM radio had the same kind ofsaturation as Twitter? But one is remindedthat a church is an all-ages community andnot just for tech-savvy youngsters.David Wright (M.Div., 2009)Hackettstown, New JerseykAlthough I am teaching collegestudents I am not into Twitter, Facebook, etc.Every Blessing.Steve Weisz (M.Div., 1965)Atlanta, GeorgiakI would love to see an official PTSFacebook page and Twitter account, withnews updates and ways to connect to others.Nathan Hart (M.Div., 2004)Greenwich, ConnecticutEditor’s Note: Princeton Seminarydoes have official Facebook, Twitter, andLinkedIn pages. You can find the links tothem (and others) by visiting our socialmedia landing page. Go to www.ptsem.eduand click on the social media icons in upperright-hand corner.kHaving used Facebook, LinkedIn, andTwitter with very limited results, I havefound that blogging reaches more peoplemore effectively. Based on the NCC UniformLesson Series for Sunday schools, I writea Bible Lesson Commentary at http://biblelessonforum.com and a short Biblelesson at http://internationalbiblelessons.org/. These have been published each weekin The Oklahoman newspaper since 1989and online at http://newsok.com/life/religion.By using Google Analytics, I know that theBible Lesson Commentary reaches people(mostly teachers, I assume) in eighty-threecountries. People from various locationshave responded to me after reading the blogs,which has led to email exchanges and postinganswers to their questions on the blogs. Theearly and surprising success of these blogshelped me decide to retire early from pastoralministry (in August of this year) to pursue theirdevelopment and expansion.L.G. Parkhurst Jr. (M.Div., 1973)Edmond, OklahomakEach member of our pastoral staff isencouraged to tweet on behalf of the churchfrom their phones or computers. Yet, onlytwo choose to do so, myself and the head ofstaff. Our church tweets are automaticallyfeatured in three places: Twitter, our churchFacebook page, and our main web site. Wehave two types of posts: the first is generalannouncements, words of encouragement,or pictures from various events in the life ofthe church; the second, personal reflectionsor insights that we preface with the pastor’sinitials. Third, we have reoriented ourministry in a missional fashion, which we arecalling FaithServes. I now post “FaithServesFeatures,” which are special highlights of ourchurch leading in a missional manner.Case Thorp (M.Div., 2000)Orlando, FloridainSpire 3

fall 2011/winter 2012inSpire INTERACTIVEkI prefer group email communicationsto any of the “social media.” I would liketo have access to the Class of 1961 Fifty-Year Anniversary booklet to catch up withmy classmates. I would even be willing touse Facebook.Robert Solem (non-graduating M.Div., 1961)Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaEditor’s Note: Sorry, not this year—but you can contact Jack McAnlis(john.mcanlis@ptsem.edu), director ofplanned giving, in the Seminary RelationsDepartment—and next year it will be on theSeminary’s Facebook page.kFour ways in which Facebook has becomea tool for ministry:1. I’ve found that Facebook is the best wayto reach my senior high youth. They don’t useemail anymore, but they text and use Facebook.2. Sometimes I’ll read about a concern ora crisis in the community or in the church onFacebook before I hear about it any place else.Facebook gives me a “heads up.”3. Individuals in the congregationsometimes message me about a concern orvice versa via Facebook.4. When new folks show up in church,one easy way to send a quick “thank you forvisiting—hope you’ll come again” is to findthem on Facebook.Sarah Foulger (M.Div., 1979)West Boothbay Harbor, MainekWhen I started as a minister back in 1996,I never thought that I would be starring in ahumorous church commercial—especiallyone that wasn’t produced for TV, but forYouTube. Who knew that putting a commercialon the Internet and promoting it with Internetcompanies such as Google ads and Bing wouldlead to thousands of local folks watching it—and all this on a budget of less than $200.Of course, Facebook “likes,” emails, andword-of-mouth sharing had a big part in itssuccess too. The Sunday we first showedthe commercial ad in church, the church waspacked; many friends of the “cast” came tobe part of this “debut.” Even months afterthe promotion, we still get comments fromsome first-time visitors, such as, “the ad wasawesome,” or “it’s so funny,” or “it made mewant to check out your church.” Who knewthat the Internet and social media could offersuch opportunities for a local church? If youcare to check out the commercial ad, it canbe found on YouTube under the search phrase“funny church ad.”Frank Schaefer (M.Div., 1996)Lebanon, PennsylvaniakI never thought the day would come thatI would not “be with it,” as it were. Anyhow, Idetest the notion of “social media” and wouldnever be a part of such public expressionand demonstration of banter, etc. Alas, I havegrown old, retired, and anti-chatter.Adrian A. McFarlane (M.Div., 1974)Port Antonio, Jamaica, West IndieskI regularly use Facebook to collectinformation for my sermons. I might post,“What does it mean to fish for people?” or “Whydoes it matter that Jesus came back from thedead?” The answers help to shape my sermons.Knowing what my listeners are thinking givesme helpful insights, and recounting some ofthe answers enlivens the sermons and helpsthe listeners know that their input matters.The comments are often hilarious, charming,poignant, or inspiring.Charles B. Hardwick (M.Div., 1999; Ph.D., 2007)Bloomington, IllinoiskWe began using texting during our Sundayservices. We chose texting because ourcongregation is rather large and it is oftendifficult to dialogue with the gathered aboutthe Sunday text or topic. By using texting toan assigned cell number during the service,congregants can respond to questions, sharethoughts, or answer a question. The responsesthen become helpful to the organic formation ofthe message and allow the preacher/speakerto include respondents’ thoughts.Jerrett L. Hansen (D. Min., 1986)Huntingdon Valley, PennsylvaniakI enrolled at PTS in 1966. After two yearsand an internship, I left seminary. I wasinvolved in mission work in Africa for morethan two decades, primarily in Zimbabwe. Afterthe government blew up the largest oppositionnewspaper, The Daily News, I launched apersonal media campaign on TV, radio, andin newspapers and magazines, primarily withpolemical poetry. My goal was to expose thecorruption and machinations of the regime.It became advisable to return to the U.S. in2002. Since then we have been at our familyhomestead in Anacortes, Washington. I stilldo a weekly program, Different Points ofView, on Tuesdays. It can be found onlineat www.swradioafrica.com.I have posted 1,000+ poems on Facebookand recently uploaded a few on YouTube. Afew others can be found at http://forums.familyfriendpoems.com/duaneudd. I have beenvery moved on occasions when people havecommunicated with me and shared how muchtheir lives have been affected by somethingI wrote.Duane Udd (non-graduating M.Div., 1970)Anacortes, WashingtonkIn January I retired after nine years aspart-time visitation pastor at WallingfordPresbyterian Church in Pennsylvania (followingmy May 2001 retirement from my last full-timepastorate). I have never used social mediain my work, but can appreciate its benefits.I appreciate PTS’s current excellent use ofprinted material—always detailed, accurate,succinct. Thanks for the good job you do inchurning it out.Kenneth A.B. Wells (M.Div., 1960)Swarthmore, PennsylvaniakThe vibrancy of my denomination (thePCUSA) and our member churches is importantto me. Yet as a parent of four young children,I have very little free time and have not beenable to keep abreast of what is being discussedand planned by Presbyterians meeting in citieslike Minneapolis and, soon, Orlando. A friendrecently invited me to join a conversation onFacebook with five others. I’m grateful. I’munable to meet people for coffee or even talkon the phone, and Facebook might be the onlyway I could have a conversation about what ishappening in the denomination.Justin Sundberg (M.Div., 1996)Seattle, WashingtonkIn my role as media and innovationpastor at LiquidChurch.com, I work with ourchurch’s online campus, which holds severalfully interactive worship experiences across4 inSpire

various international time zones each week.We actively engage our global community withsocial media—Facebook, Twitter, and multiuservideo chats—to drive interaction.We also syndicate sermon audio and videopodcasts to thousands of listeners each monthon iTunes and other distribution platforms. Inaddition, video sermons are recut into twominutemicro message versions for increasedsharing across social networks.Our latest project is a first-ever Christmasvirtual choir. Individuals from around theglobe posted singing parts on YouTube andwe produced a fully dynamic rendition forour Christmas Eve services and churchonline experience.Churches need to recognize that socialmedia has become a part of the “DNA” ofrelationships today.Kenny Jahng (M.Div., 2011)Livingston, New JerseykIn my work as a college chaplain, I useFacebook constantly. It provides an excellentmedium for inviting students, blessing studentsand alumni/ae on their big moments, andstaying in touch. Since the core of my workis building actual face-to-face relationships,so far Facebook has only been a positiveenhancement to my ministry. I am keepingan eye out to see if or when Facebook andother social media begin to replace relational“intimacy,” and at that point I will begin to resist.Daniel McQuown (M.Div., 1996)Albion, Michigank“Technology and Social Media: Blessingor Curse?”There are many days when I find myselfin my office at church talking on the phone,sending an email, replying to a text message,and writing something down all at the sametime. Technology has changed and continuesto change our culture and the way that wedo ministry. Churches that refuse to embracetechnology and new forms of social mediaare often left behind. The question I often findmyself asking is this: Is it more of a blessing ora curse?Blessing: We can now communicate quicklyvia email and save time.Curse: Many people get mad if we don’trespond to their email right away.Blessing: We can communicate via email andeliminate unnecessary meetings.Curse: We have less and less face timetogether.Blessing: We all have cell phones and canmake calls anytime, anywhere.Curse: We can now be reached anytime,anywhere.Blessing: Text messaging can eliminateunnecessary conversations.Curse: Many of our children don’t know howto have a face-to-face conversation.Blessing: We can connect with everybody inour past through Facebook.Curse: Many affairs now originate from “oldflames” reconnecting online.Blessing: We can email lots of people atone time.Curse: Many people always find it necessaryto “reply to all” every time.Blessing: We can put the audio and video ofthe sermon on the church web site.Curse: Why come to church when I can watchthe sermon in my pajamas at home?Blessing: Loads of information is available atthe click of a mouse.Curse: We can spend all day “surfing the web.”Blessing: We can find out what somebody isdoing at any given moment through Twitter.Curse: Some people assume you really wantto know what they are cooking for dinnerevery night.Blessing: We are more connected.Curse: We are less connected.There are many days when I find myselfthinking back to the years when ministersserved during a period of limited technology.They served before the existence of socialmedia and pastored in an age of no email, nocell phones, no Facebook—an age of standingcommittee meetings, handwritten letters, andlandlines. It is hard for us to imagine our liveswithout the technology that we enjoy. However,I do believe there is a clear correlationbetween the technology and the anxiety inour culture. We are over stimulated. We aretoo available. We don’t know how to be stilland quiet.Don’t get me wrong. I am not advocatingthat we give up all the gadgets that we enjoy.That’s simply not going to happen. I am raisingthe questions: Do our gadgets serve us or dowe serve our gadgets? Are we running ourtechnology or is our technology running us?Part of being a Christian is learning to retreatand be still. We must be careful to not lettechnology run our lives. We should use it forits benefits but then know when to shut it off.Clay Stauffer (M.Div., 2005)Nashville, Tennesseefall 2011/winter 2012inSpire INTERACTIVEkPTS social media can provide informationon seminars and public programs as wellas updates on changes in leadership. It canalso be used to address student needs andrecognize achievements. However, I thinkemails work better.Jay Harold Ellens (Th.M., 1965)Farmington Hills, MichigankYouTube is an unparalleled collection ofclips to supplement public presentations ofevery kind. The principal use I see for Facebookis a way of broadcasting my “news” orannouncements. It is a great funnel for humorand for intelligent links of which I would nototherwise be aware. On several occasions,though, I’ve had the opportunity to jump intothreads of really controversial discussions andthrow in my two drachmas. It has actually felt,sometimes, like Kingdom business was beingdone; and I was as grateful to participate as inearlier, more traditional venues.Gene R. Smillie (M.Div., 1982)Elmhurst, IllinoiskTwo examples come to mind: a small onewith my new iPhone (not my choice, our adultkids and my wife got it for me—I’m 59). I usuallycarry a New Testament/Psalms. Now using myphone I can look up any scripture verse in anytranslation when asked at a bedside or a home!Today I heard from a member whose motherhad died. Her brother Skyped from Germanyeach day for three hours during his mother’slast days and was on Skype with the family andnurses when she died! It was good for him, andthe family was accepting of his choice.On a different note, I have yet to findsomeone willing to regularly update our website—after “everyone” wanted to get one. Soit’s not updated on a weekly basis, but only withour monthly newsletters. On the other hand, amember of the church is posting each serviceon YouTube. However, he has just raised theconcern of his family lawyer that we mayneed to get releases from the congregantsfor permission to post videos (of individuals).We’re pursuing the best way to handle this, butat this point the lawyer thinks a regular “Thisis what we do with morning worship, if youhave an issue with this, let us know….” In thenewsletter or from the pulpit will suffice.Jon Carlisle (M.Div., 1977)Coshocton, OhioinSpire 5

fall 2011/winter 2012inSpire INTERACTIVEkkkMy appreciation for the power of socialmedia was inspired by comedian Jon Stewart,who had a guest on his show named GigiIbrahim, a leader in the Tahrir Square EgyptianSpring. He asked her what inspired her to leadthe effort and she replied that she was takinga course at the American University in Cairo(AUC) on revolution.The next day’s mail brought my copy ofthe New Internationalist (NI), which featuredJon Stewart interviewing Ibrahim. Thearticle contained this paragraph: “Twentyfour-year-oldGigi Ibrahim was active in theunprecedented number of protests in 2010which prefigured this year’s uprising. As aninveterate tweeter she helped report armyabuses and arrests for human right groups.”Presbyterians and Congregationalistsfounded the AUC under the old American Boardof Commissioners for Foreign Mission. I wrote aletter back to the New Internationalist that saidin part: “Adjacent to Tahrir square, the AUC’sfirst campus was being organized in the early1900s, modeled after the American University ofBeirut (opened in the mid-1800s). In both cases,many Middle Eastern Sunni and Shia Muslims,Jews, and Christians (Copts, Armenians,Eastern Orthodox, etc.) shared classes anddemocratic ideas. Many students from theWest learned to listen seriously in a new way.Such education fostered the first “Arab Spring,”which, among other factors, encouraged mostminorities of the Ottoman Empire to side withthe Western Allies in the “dark winter” of WorldWar One, to defeat Germany and the Ottomans.I have not used the term “Arab Awakening”because I do not think it was the Arabs whohave been sleeping. Gigi Ibrahim, and thethousands like her, may cause a tsunami ofcritical thinking across the USA that reminds usthat democracy has always been shared moreeffectively by education and mutual respectthan by invading other countries, arming theirgovernments, etc.A special high five to NI, etc. Since thisrevolution is digital, less time may be needed.Henry Bucher (Th.M., 1962)Sherman, TexaskCertainly, we have heard of the socialmedia revolution. But so far, I have limitedmyself to email. I guess this must be due totime limitations and having to sit behind thecomputer. However, I think the change is good.Samuel Kofi Osabutey (M.A., 1991)Accra, Ghana, West AfricaTrudging on with my very special ministry,which has been the ministry of a mentallydisabled patient with schizophrenia andallied disorders, I am keeping abreast withtechnology these days. My income, thesupplementary security income has been $150per month. The subscription for Internet wouldcost $20 per month and it is unaffordable for me.Now, I am turning to the use of carrier pigeons!If someone could donate a laptop to me, itwould indeed turn my ministerial activity hightechovernight.Tamas Barnabas (Th.M., 1985)Budapest, HungarykI am currently the staff chaplain coordinatorfor surgery/trauma at Parkland Hospital inDallas, a level-one acute care University ofTexas Southwestern Medical School teachinghospital. It is home to the regional burncenter. On a regular basis I use podcasts andmusic over my iPhone and iPad for inpatientsupport and care. I always carry my phoneand I am continually on the hunt for spiritualand religious thought-provoking materialsto broadcast through this media. It’s easy toaccess and carry. On several occasions anintubated ICU patient has responded to musicwith good outcomes. I carry calls to prayerfrom several religions, meditative music, anddetails regarding religious practices relatedto healthcare for staff references (MedScape,PubMed, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,Plainviews, etc.). I rely on the Internet (via myphone) to connect me to the most up-to-dateinformation in evidence-based research relatedto spirituality, trauma, religion, and acutecare challenges in order to be present to “myunique congregation.” The iUniversity functionallows for direct connections and podcasts tohundreds of academic institutions. I am stillwaiting for Princeton Seminary to hook up withthis fantastic vehicle of education.Judith A. Crilley (M.Div., 1986B)Dallas, TexasEditor’s Note: The Seminary has recentlybeen approved for an iTunes U account andwe will share the news with alumni/ae whenit is ready to access.When email arrived on the scene I wasoverjoyed. I liked the ease of it and its speed.But, it had its dangers for sure. One could saythings in an email that he or she would not sayon the phone, and sometimes the heat of themoment overtook good sense. I’m resistingFacebook and Twitter. They offer less reasonfor restraint. Communication is too precious agift to make it trivial. If it’s important, send mean email.Harry A. Freebairn (M.Div., 1962; D.Min., 1984)Easton, PennsylvaniakOne thing we did last year was useFacebook for daily readings for our members.We were doing a study of the Gospel of Lukeand had readings for each day of the series(from January to May). We set up an automaticmessage to be posted each day to ourFacebook page with the full text of the reading.Many of our members said it made readingthe Word much easier for them and they reallygrew through the experience.Edward Goode (M.Div., 1999)Wyoming, OhiokI just don’t get social media. Cell phonesand email, they are kind of helpful, but also getin the way of real communication. They are aminor convenience and often a major wasteof time. A web site seems to be enough. Whyall the rest? I don’t think the emperor has anyclothes on. I’m going back to my cave.Bruce Kochsmeier (M.Div., 1985)Carson City, NevadakThus far I’ve chosen not to use socialmedia for several reasons—privacy concerns,technological intimidation, time constraints,and my introverted nature. As a retiree, I’mgrateful for my part-time tasks, but I alreadyspend more time on my laptop than I prefer.So, the thought of even more time and effortexpended on social media is not appealing. Nodoubt a minority perspective though affirmedwith conviction!Stuart Plummer (M.Div., 1956)Fraser, Colorado6 inSpire

kAs a recipient of a Louisville InstitutePastoral Study Grant, I have been researchingthe spiritual lives of the 425 young adults Ihave confirmed at Maple Grove United Church.I used Facebook to find them and connectwith them. Some online discussion has takenplace, but they have used direct messagingmore often to share their deepest thoughts.We use Facebook to connect with youngadults once they leave the church. Womenin our church connect frequently with youthto give encouragement and advice. We havemore young adults and families coming backto church more regularly since we have had aFacebook ministry. Zoomerang was a helpfultechnological tool for a detailed questionnaire.Morar M. Murray-Hayes (D.Min., 2006)Oakville, Ontario, CanadakAlpharetta Presbyterian Church (APC)is located outside of Atlanta, in Alpharetta,Georgia, a tech-savvy area with AT&T, VerizonWireless, and McKesson Technologies astop employers. While the area is known as atechnology hub, the church itself has taken aslower approach to online solutions, includingsocial media. However, a recent projectshowcased an innovative use of these tools.APC’s special needs program, OpenArms, began in 1998 to welcome peoplewith varying abilities to the church withopen arms. This Advent season, OpenArms joined with APC’s music ministries topresent “An Open Arms Christmas” recording.Advertised on the church’s Facebook pageand personal Twitter accounts, the CD isavailable in both physical and online forms.The online download option has allowed theproject to be heard and purchased aroundthe world! An early email of appreciationcame from Hong Kong. You can check it outtoo: www.alpharettapres.com/openarmscd.Jamie Butcher (M.Div., 2009)Decatur, GeorgiakAfter my M.Div., I began a Ph.D. inanthropology. In 2010, I relocated to China to dofield research, and often lament that I’m unableto work (because of political and logisticalconstraints there) in an official capacity withthe church. However, I blog frequently aboutreflections on faith and ministry. Recently,an M.Div. classmate in California sent me aFacebook message about a trying conversationhe’d had with a church member facing infertility,in which he struggled to find the words tocomfort her. After their meeting, he logged ontomy blog, and read a reflection I’d written about“tossing our expectations into the ocean,” andreceiving God’s grace. He passed these wordsonto his congregant, with whom they reallyresonated. Reading about God’s work acrossmiles, oceans, and time zones, I felt humbledthat words of healing could be transferred insuch an unforeseen, yet meaningful, way.Erin Raffety (M.Div., 2008)Nanning, Guangxi, ChinakHealthy ministry in the twenty-firstcentury engages social media to interact andcommunicate. In September 2011 I began anew ministry, Jazz Church, in Charlotte, NorthCarolina. We have a web site (www.jazzchurch.org), Facebook page (Jazz Church–Charlotte),and twitter account (@jazzchurch). We willlaunch in February 2012 on the campus ofUNC-Charlotte, and a large percentage of ourgatherings will be college students. Socialmedia is part of their daily lives and will bea primary way we communicate with them.Without it, planting this new church would bemuch more difficult.Rick Hoffarth (M.Div., 1984)Charlotte, North CarolinakI’ve had a lot of success using social mediaas a way of keeping our college studentsconnected to each other and to the churchwhile away at school. I post Bible studiesand fun challenges with incentives like aStarbucks gift card for pictures posted of thebest and worst dorm room. I’ve also run a lot ofsuccessful Facebook advertising campaigns. Inaddition to my work in the local church, I nowconsult with and train churches and nonprofitsto use social media in their work and ministry.Mike Baughman (M.Div./M.A., 2004)Dallas, TexaskI have ADD and know I have to work harderto pick up the social cues that are essentialto all relationships—including ministryrelationships. Perhaps as a consequence, Ifeel phone conversations are disturbinglyimpersonal. I dislike the telephone, but havelearned to tolerate it as a tool of ministry. I findthe social media world emotionally disorientingand unworkable. However, I suspect this is afall 2011/winter 2012inSpire INTERACTIVEFollow PTS on Social MediaThe Seminary continues to expand itssocial media efforts to make it easier foralumni/ae, staff/faculty, and communitymembers to connect, engage, and interact.Currently, multiple departments havea presence on LinkedIn, Twitter, andFacebook. “Like” or “follow” them forthe latest information on events, campushappenings, and job openings! Simply visitwww.ptsem.edu and click on any of theicons in the upper right-hand corner, whichwill take you to the social media landingpage. You may have also noticed QR codeson mailings, brochures, and in our Calendarof Programs. To access informationquickly, simply scan the QR code withyour smartphone. In the coming months,our social media outreach will expand toinclude iTunes U, Flickr, and blogs.temperamental failing on my part. I try evenharder to communicate with friends, colleagues,and church members in face-to-face settings tomake up for my inability to feel the connectionsthrough social media.Steve R. Wigall (M.Div., 1977, Th.M., 1978)Lawrence, MassachusettskThe primary social medium channel I usefor help with my ministry is Facebook. Forthe last few months I have been adaptingmy Sunday homilies into an accessible blog.The written word is much different than thespoken word. There have been some positiveresponses. Fewer people are coming to churchto reflect on the scriptures, so social media ismore than able to close the lacunae.C. Gilbert Romero (Ph.D., 1982)Seal Beach, CaliforniainSpire 7

fall 2011/winter 2012inSpire INTERACTIVEFrom the Horse’s MouthThe inSpire interactive question prompted John Bruington, Class of 1977 and a pastor in Havre, Montana, to contribute the following essay.Out here in rural Montana, as in much of the nation, the mainlinechurch is dying. Times are especially hard in the Northwest, which hastraditionally had the lowest per capita church membership in the nation.At one time small congregations depended on aid-to-field support fromthe national, synod, and presbytery arms of the connectional church,but those days are long gone. Today the small church must survive, ifpossible, on its own.Here in Havre, which has not had an ordained Presbyterian pastorfor more than twenty years or a full-time pastor for ten to fifteen, newstrategies have been required. The new breed of rural pastor in theWest has to recognize that he or she must look for support outside thechurch in order for his or her ministry to survive. Some pastors arefortunate enough to have a spouse whose salary is enough to helpsupport the ministry; others must work in the secular world to makeends meet. Like it or not, the old model of the small church pastorate ischanging, and the church and pastor have to adapt.Church growth, in the traditional sense, is a long-term and very slowprocess as the local population ages and declines. The expectationthat the church will reverse its decline and eventually be able tosupport a full-time pastor is not very likely in the short run. So a longtermstrategy is needed. This is where making use of the social mediabecomes critical.Recognizing that some seventy-to-eighty percent of the localpopulation will never enter the sanctuary except for funerals andweddings, we have to take the message outside the church walls. Mostsmall towns have a local newspaper and many of them are open tosome kind of “church column” that allows the local pastor a much wider“audience” than Sunday mornings. However, that resource has to beused wisely to have any real impact. Let me share my story.Most of the community in which I minister are “unchurched” or“under-churched.” They don’t have a great deal of interest in sermonsor sermonizing. Most traditional church newspaper columns arewarmed-over sermons addressed to fellow believers, and they are notread by anyone not already involved with the church. Such readers don’tcare what Paul said, or who Moses was. Jesus is respected but largelyunknown, as if he were simply an ancient philosopher or spiritual gurufrom a by-gone time. Quoting the Bible is no more authoritative thanquoting The Iliad or some other book from the distant past.Recognizing that—along with recognizing that my PTS Master ofDivinity and McCormick Doctor of Ministry carry no weight with mostfolks—I began quoting my horse, Goliath. “Old Doc Goliath,” as I refer tohim, is quite a theologian if one is wise enough to consider the lessons.For example, getting tossed off into the cactus a few years ago turnedout to be an excellent lesson on humility. The importance of keeping aloose cinch, but not a loosed cinch, is a wonderful parable to talk aboutkeeping an open mind, but, as my Jewish friends say, “not so open thatyour brains fall out.”After some five years of my writing a weekly column, “Out Our Way,”a great many people who do not know me have come to know Goliath.More importantly, some fundamental Christian teachings have gottenthrough to people who would never listen to a preacher, but will listento the preacher’s horse. His outreach is no longer limited to our littleJohn Bruington and his horse, Goliath, offer perspectives on churchgrowth and reaching the “unchurched” through a column in the localnewspaper. Bruington and Goliath live in Havre, Montana.town; the column has been read and considered by folks as far away asAtlanta and San Diego. People who never read the church page beforeare now regular readers of Goliath.No, we have not had a huge growth in membership or turned ourfinancial situation completely around, but there are signs the gospelis getting through. When Goliath’s living through a rough winter andneeding extra oats reminds folks of the food bank, soup kitchen, andhomeless shelter, new donations start to arrive. When Goliath’s terrorof a crossing a culvert or wading a stream is connected to folks’ fear offacing new challenges in their lives and learning to trust God as Goliathtrusts me, lessons are learned. When Goliath dons his silly “reindeerhorns” at Christmas and stands by the Salvation Army Red Kettle,collections go up.No offense to the great PTS professors from whom I learned somuch in my days at dear old Princeton, but “Dr. Goliath” teachespractical theology in ways that reach folks they never can. His soonto be published book, Out Our Way, Theology Under Saddle, hopefullywill reach a public who long for God but will never find him in Tillich,Niebuhr, or Barth.Most newspapers these days depend on syndicated columnistswho may or may not speak to the day-to-day world of the community.But the educated pastor with a little imagination may manage to getthe Word of God out to the neighborhood in ways that make a realdifference. Especially, as out our way, when it comes straight from thehorse’s mouth.John Bruington graduated from Princeton Seminary with his Master ofDivinity degree in 1977 and pastors in Havre, Montana.8 inSpire

Ethiopian ConnectionsMany in the PTS community may not know that the patriarchof the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Abuna Paulos, isa Princeton Theological Seminary graduate. He earned his Th.M.in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1988, studying with Professor KarlfriedFroehlich as his “doctor-father.”In June, two fellow PTS Ph.D. graduates, and now members ofthe Seminary faculty, traveled to Addis Ababa, where they had anaudience with the patriarch and their former classmate.Paul Rorem, professor of medieval church history, went toEthiopia to learn more about Ethiopian church history in preparationfor a class he is teaching at the Seminary. He visited many medievalchurches and monasteries, and saw the obelisks (stele) in Aksumwhere Ethiopians believe the Ark of the Covenant still blessesEthiopia as the New Jerusalem.Loren Stuckenbruck, professor of New Testament, was in AddisAbaba for a conference on the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, where hepresented two lectures on that ancientbook. The Ethiopian Orthodox Churchis the only church that recognizes thebook as canonical in its eighty-one-bookcanon. While in Ethiopia, Stuckenbruckalso located three unstudied manuscriptsof Enoch, which will inform a text-criticaledition of the Ge-ez (classic Ethiopic)version of the book.fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSThe colleagues also visited the Ethiopian Graduate Schoolof Theology in Addis Ababa. Only thirteen years old, it is a rapidlygrowing ecumenical institution that, Stuckenbruck says, “hasshown remarkable strategic planning and has remained fiscallysolvent, while engaging energetically and with academic integrityits mission of providing training in Christian leadership for studentsthroughout the African continent.”The highlight of the trip for both men, however, was their visitwith the patriarch. They tried several times, unsuccessfully, toschedule an audience. Finally, on the last day, as Stuckenbrucksays, “we had hung around the presidential palace into theevening, hoping to see him upon his return from a church, when thephone call came with the green light, and we were ushered into areceiving room.“He seemed genuinely glad to see us and to hear fromcolleagues at Princeton, to receive our gifts and greetings. In return,he sent back two important books on the Ethiopian church for ourSeminary library, and gifts for individuals. Before we left, he madesure we saw a large photographframed in the foyer. There he was,holding a commencement programfrom his Seminary graduationceremony in the Princeton UniversityChapel. PTS was there in thepresidential palace, and the three ofProfessor Paul Rorem (left) and Professor Loren Stuckenbruck (farright) visit with their fellow PTS Ph.D. graduate, Abuna Paulos.us, each a PTS Ph.D. graduate, had alittle reunion of our own.”Faculty/Staff Appointments andPromotionsIn May 2011, PTS Professor GordonMikoski waspromoted to the rankof associate professorof Christian education,with tenure.Shawn Oliverwas appointedGordon Mikoskiassociate deanfor curricula in theAcademic AffairsOffice. In her currentrole, she is alsoa member of thePh.D. administrativepersonnel within the Shawn OliverOffice of AcademicAffairs, assisting students through theirprogram of study.Jennie Rodriguez joined theadministrative staff as the assistantdirector of field education. A recentgraduate of both PTS(Class of 2010) andthe Rutgers Schoolof Social Work, shealso serves on thepastoral staff atNuevas Fronteras andJennie Rodriguezthe United PresbyterianChurch in Plainfield.In the School of Christian Vocationand Mission (SCVM), several new staffmembers were recently appointed.Seraphim Danckaert, who came to PTSin January 2009 as social networkingcoordinator for SCVM, was promotedto a dual role as assistant director ofprograms at SCVM and assistant directorof strategy in the Office of the President.Amaury Tanon-Santos, who earned hisM.Div. at PTS in2005, was appointeddirector of the HispanicLeadership Program,and Sushama Austin-Conner joined the staffas communicationscoordinator at SCVM.Trustee NewsAmaury Tanon-SantosWarren D. Chinn, after many years offaithful service on the Board of Trustees,was elected a trustee emeritus, effectiveon May 24, 2011. Mary Lee Fitzgerald alsobecame trustee emerita, after her years ofservice, including as Chair of the Board.Alf Halvorson, pastor of the FirstPresbyterian Church in Bethlehem,Pennsylvania, was elected as an alumni/aetrustee for a period of three years, from2011 to 2014.inSpire 9

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSAn Advocate for Studentsand SeminaryLori Neff Transitions to NewAdministrative Position at PTSBY ALLIE NASKRETAfter serving for four years asassociate director of field education,the Reverend Lori Neff has taken on anew administrative role at PrincetonSeminary. In July, she became director ofaccreditation and advising, a new positionthat involves overseeing the school’saccreditation processes and expanding theacademic advising program.According to Neff, President Torrancefelt that it was important to have a personspecifically designated to manage theschool’s accreditation processes, whichinclude a periodic review every five yearsand a self-study every ten years. One issuethat accreditors were concerned with inthe past was that PTS had no formalizedacademic advising program. In response,the Seminary hopes to make moreresources available to students as theynavigate their academic schedules in lightof various calls to ministry.The seeds for an academic advisingprogram were planted last year, whenstudents were assigned faculty advisinggroups. As director of accreditation andadvising, Neff envisions the advisingprogram growing to include studentseminars and other programs fordiscernment. She also hopes to createmore opportunities for one-on-oneconsultation and to be a resource forstudents who find that their questionsaren’t currently being answered withinexisting Seminary structures.Neff’s extensive background in highereducation (including previous experiencein academic advising, institutionaleffectiveness, and accreditation) made hera natural choice for the position. She holdsa B.S. in psychology from ManchesterCollege and an M.A. in college studentpersonnel from Bowling Green StateUniversity. She has served as the assistantdean of students at Franklin College inIndiana, director of residence life andchief judicial officer at Barton College, andcoordinator of residence education atFrostburg State University.During her time working in studentPhoto: Joel Bockaffairs, she sensed a call to ministry.“I ended up doing a lot of pastoral carein the field of college discipline,” saysNeff, who found that the studentswith whom she worked were oftenacting out because they were trying toestablish their identity. Neff left Indianafor Princeton Seminary, where shecompleted her M.Div. in 2007, and beganworking in the Field Education Office afew weeks after graduation.Most of all, she has a great love forworking with students and believes thatit is “a unique privilege to walk alongsidepeople as they are navigating significantlife decisions.” She is grateful for hertime in the Field Education Office and forthe opportunity to have walked alongsidestudents as they “wrestled with Godand their call.” Although the nature ofthe relationship will be different, sheanticipates that she will still have theopportunity to work closely with studentsin her new position.Lori Neff is also excited to find creativeways to provide what students needbeyond what they get in the classroomand in field education. In her new role, shehopes to work toward making PTS “thebest possible educational institution inservice to the church” that it can be.Allie Naskret is a middler in theM.Div. program and works in the Office ofCommunications/Publications.PTS to Host Practical TheologyConference in AprilThe Association of Practical Theology(APT) will hold its biennial conferenceat Princeton Seminary on April 13–15,2012. The conference theme is “PracticalTheology and Sacred Texts,” and it willfeature a shared keynote address, “Paul asa Practical Theologian,” on April 13 by PTSprofessors Beverly Roberts Gaventa andRichard Osmer.APT president and PTS associateprofessor Gordon Mikoski says the theme“highlights Princeton’sunique contribution tothe field of practicaltheology—focusingon practice in atheological way.”Mikoski and Osmerare the authors ofa recent book onPrinceton Seminary’scontributions to the field of practicaltheology, With Piety and Learning: TheHistory of Practical Theology at PrincetonTheological Seminary.In addition to the keynote address,papers will be given in three categories:how practical theologians use sacred texts,what determines what is a sacred text, andsacred texts as themselves examples ofpractical theology.Although the conference is theprofessional meeting for scholars in thefield of practical theology, Mikoski saysthat pastors, “who do practical theologyevery day,” are encouraged and welcometo attend. For more information or toregister, go to www.practicaltheology.org.10 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSFaculty, Alumni/ae, and Churches Partner to Studythe ParablesYes, seminaries supply pastors. But the relationship betweenchurch and seminary can be even deeper and richer for localcongregations. Consider the partnership between four New Jerseycongregations and Princeton Seminary.Clifton Black, the Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theologyat PTS, led a four-part series titled “Pondering Jesus’ Parables”this past summer at four Delaware River Valley churches in NewJersey. The first three nights of the series, a partnership of thePresbyterian congregations in Titusville, Mt. Airy, Lambertville,and Stockton, were structured to allowparticipants to study each synoptic gospel’sparticular theological lens by looking at theiruse of Jesus’ parabolic sayings. On the lastnight of the series, Black guided participantsthrough sayings and parables in John’sgospel, as well as the gnostic Gospel of Clifton BlackThomas, that highlight Jesus’ own life and workas a parable for the Kingdom of God.“Since we studied parables, I would say Dr. Black was likea skilled server who had also prepared the dishes for a mix ofcustomers,” said the Reverend Merle Wilson (’07B), pastor of theMt. Airy Presbyterian church, and a former student of Black’s. “Hewarmly invited those who were new to extracanonical writingsand ideas to take a sip, and he challenged those already familiarwith them to cut across the grain and perhaps find different flavors.His gifts of teaching and understanding were equal parts firstcenturycultural contextand contemporaryAmerican Southernidiom, seasoned withhelpful Greek asterisks.We are grateful toGod for providing theopportunity to learnfrom and fellowshipwith him.”This was the secondsummer educationseries cohosted by the First Presbyterian Church of Titusville,Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, Lambertville Presbyterian Church,and Stockton Presbyterian Church. The idea germinated in 2009with a series on Old Testament prophets and prophecies by thenassistantprofessor Jeremy Hutton. The concept is designed toprovide Christian education opportunities to the congregationsand their communities. It has drawn participants from acrossMercer and Hunterdon Counties in New Jersey and Bucks Countyin Pennsylvania to the four churches, which host each night of theseries on a rotating basis.“Projects like this represent, I think, the best of connectionalministry,” said the Reverend Will Shurley (‘07B), pastor of theTitusville congregation and another former student of Black’s. “Bycombining our resources, we are able to provide our members andcommunities with opportunities for shared learning and fellowshipthat we simply cannot provide on our own. And we are grateful tothe Seminary and to Dr. Black for this gift.”Navigating the Waters atPrinceton SeminaryDiversity is a hot topic on campusestoday, as schools learn to value,understand, and celebrate culturaldifferences represented by their students,faculty, and staff. A key question is howthese conversations about diversitybecome more than skin deep.To address these concerns, PrincetonSeminary and The Kaleidoscope Institutehave launched a new cultural proficiencyand diversity competency initiativecalled Navigating the Waters: Pathwaysto Embracing Diversity, implementedunder the auspices of the Office ofMulticultural Relations.To help guide the effort and get a feelfor the climate at PTS, a survey aboutdiversity matterson campus wasdistributed tomore than 650people in the fall.The more than400 responsesreceivedfrom students, faculty, staff, andalumni/ae are being analyzed to developan implementation plan that will addressthe concerns raised most frequently.Through its curriculum andprograms, the Seminary providesa forum for supportive interactionamong faculty, staff, and students thatcelebrates differences in race, ability,gender, culture, age, sexual orientation,and religion/denomination. Helpingindividuals interact effectively withdiverse groups of people is central to thisprogram and to the Seminary’s mission ofdiscovery and vocational exploration.Schools and an increasing number ofchurches in the U.S. are characterized byvery diverse constituencies. This diversityprovides organizations like PrincetonSeminary the opportunity to preparewomen and men for service to Christ innew, creative, and imaginative ministries.For more information about this initiative,email navigatingthewaters@ptsem.edu.inSpire 11

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSDeForest “Buster” Soaries and Hughes Oliphant OldHonored as Distinguished AlumniIn October, Princeton Seminary named two of its graduates as2011 Distinguished Alumni. DeForest “Buster” Soaries Jr., Class of1989, and Hughes Oliphant Old, Class of 1958, were honored duringthe annual reunion banquet on October 24.Soaries is the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church ofLincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey,and a pioneer in the work of faith-basedcommunity development, including theestablishment of a housing assistancerecovery program that purchases homes offamilies facing foreclosure and leases themback to homeowners. Soaries was also Buster Soariesrecognized for his work in developing thedfree TM strategy, which teaches and encourages debt-free living.Dfree TM was featured on CNN’s Black in America documentaryseries. Soaries also wrote a book about the strategy, whichteaches people to live within their means without debt, deficits,and delinquencies.Soaries was New Jersey’s secretary of state from 1999 to 2001,the first African American to serve as a constitutional officer ofthe state.President Torrance told Soaries that Princeton was gratefulfor his “faith in and obedience to Christ’s command to love one’sneighbor as the foundation of his ministry.”Old was recognized for his lifetimecommitment as a pastor, teacher, and scholarcommitted to the centrality of preaching,prayer, and sacrament in Reformed worship,and how worship shapes and grounds theChristian life and the vitality of the church. HisHughes Oldcareer culminated in the publication of a sevenvolumework, The Reading and Preaching of theScriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. Torrance saidthat Old “single-handedly gathered comprehensive informationabout the Reformed tradition with tremendous enthusiasm.”Old was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award forLiturgics at the Calvin 500 Commemoration in Geneva, Switzerland,in July 2009. He is currently dean of the Institute of ReformedWorship at Erskine Theological Seminary.Faculty PublicationsRichard S. Armstrong has writtenA Sense of Being Called (Wipf and StockPublishers, 2011), which describes hisjourney from professional baseball tothe pulpit.Shane Berg has coedited withMatthew L. Skinner a book of DonaldH. Juel’s writings titled Shaping theScriptural Imagination: Truth, Meaning,and the Theological Interpretation of theBible (Baylor University Press, July 2011).James Charlesworth editedTemple Scroll and Related Documents(Westminster John Knox Press, June2011), which is volume 7 of Dead SeaScrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Textswith English Translations. Charlesworth ischief editor of this multi-volume project.Kenda Creasy Dean has writtenAlmost Christian: What the Faith of OurTeenagers Is Telling the American Church(Oxford University Press, July 2010). Shehas also coauthored with Andrew RootThe Theological Turn in Youth Ministry(InterVarsity Press, August 2011).Abigail Rian Evans has written IsGod Still at the Bedside? The Medical,Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Deathand Dying (Wm. B. Eerdmans PublishingCompany, 2011).Abigail Rian Evans, GordonGraham, and Kenneth Henke, alongwith PTS alumnus Clemens Bartollas,have coauthored a book on the life andteachings of Emile Cailliet titled The LongShadow of Emile Cailliet: Faith, Philosophy,and Theological Education (Wipf andStock Publishers, September 2011).Wentzel van Huyssteen coeditedwith Eric Weibe a volume titled In Searchof Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectiveson Personhood.Jacqueline Lapsley is one of theassociate editors of the Dictionary ofScripture and Ethics (Baker PublishingGroup, November 2011).Gordon Mikoski, Rick Osmer, and IainTorrance have coedited The RelationalTheology of James E. Loder (LangPublishing, Inc., 2011).Peter Paris and Luke Poweryhave contributed to Preaching God’sTransforming Justice: A LectionaryCommentary, Year B, Featuring 22 NewHoly Days for Justice (Westminster JohnKnox Press). Paris wrote the commentaryfor Ash Wednesday and Powery thecommentary for the seventh Sundayof Easter.Yolanda Pierce has written an articletitled “Why persecute the poor for beingpoor?” that was featured in GuardianNews in August 2011.Mark Lewis Taylor has written TheTheological and the Political: On theWeight of the World (Fortress Press,January 2011).Iain Torrance has coedited TheCambridge Dictionary of ChristianTheology (Cambridge University Press,2011). PTS faculty members and facultyemeriti who contributed to the volumeinclude Kenneth Appold, Clifton Black,John Bowlin, Richard Fenn, GordonGraham, Scott Hendrix, James Kay,Jacqueline Lapsley, Bo Karen Lee, SangHyun Lee, Bruce McCormack, DanielMigliore, and George Parsenios.12 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSProfessor Sang Lee RetiresAfter thirty years of teaching atPrinceton Seminary, Dr. Sang Hyun Lee hasretired as the Kyung-Chik Han Professorof Systematic Theology in June. He wasnamed professor emeritus. An ordainedPresbyterian minister, Lee came toPrinceton Seminary after earning an S.T.B.from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D.from Harvard University. As a naturalizedKorean American, Lee was the first AsianAmerican faculty member at PTS anda leading pioneer in Asian Americantheology. He served as director of theSeminary’s Program for Asian AmericanDr. Lee and his wife, Dr. Inn Sook LeePhoto: Kim SchmidtTheology and Ministry and also chairedthe Asian American Theology Group of theAmerican Academy of Religion.During his time at Princeton, Leetaught courses on systematic theology,Asian American theology, JonathanEdwards, and God and the problem ofevil. His major publications include ThePrinceton Companion to Jonathan Edwards(Princeton University Press, 2005), TheWorks of Jonathan Edwards, volume23, Writings on the Trinity, Grace, andFaith (Yale University Press, 2003), andThe Philosophical Theology of JonathanEdwards (Princeton University Press,1988). Lee has been widely recognizedby scholars as making an importantcontribution to an understanding of thetheology of Jonathan Edwards.The Sang Hyun Lee Lecture on AsianAmerican Theology and Ministry, a bienniallectureship, was created in order topreserve space for the Asian Americanvoices of the present, to empowerthe Asian American ministers andtheological scholars of the future, and toSang Hyun Leeremember and pass on the legacy of Dr.Sang Hyun Lee. Dr. Lee will be greatlymissed at the Seminary, and we aregrateful for his many years of faithfulservice and teaching.Photo: Kim SchmidtThe Reverend Deborah Brincivalli,Class of 1985, is requesting black,lightweight pulpit, academic, orchoir robes in good condition forprofessors and students at MatanzasEvangelical Theological Seminary inCuba. To donate robes, or for moreinformation, please contact:The Reverend Dr. Deborah BrincivalliExecutive PresbyterPresbytery of West Jersey1701 Sycamore StreetHaddon Heights, NJ 08035856.547.5100“Take This Cup”The chalice used in the OpeningCommunion Service on September 19was donated to the Seminary in 1964 byDr. and Mrs. Thomas Klem, membersof the First Presbyterian Church inTrenton, NewJersey. Dr. Klemwas a mastercraftsman anda silversmith,and the chaliceis one of onlythree made inthis pattern.He died a fewdays beforePhotos: Kim Schmidtthe presentation of the chalice to theSeminary, so it was presented by Mr.Charles Varga, Klem’s nephew. Vargaattended the service on September 19and is pictured here with PresidentTorrance. Former President McCordwrote in a letter to Mrs. Klem that thechalice would be used to celebrate theLord’s Supper in Miller Chapel “as longas the Seminary stands.”inSpire 13

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSFaculty AccoladesJames F. Armstrong received anhonorary L.H.D. degree from his alma mater,Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.C. Clifton Black delivered the twentyfourthannual Carolyn M. Parker MemorialPreaching/Teaching Lectures at the FirstPresbyterian Church of Lexington, NorthCarolina, in March. In April he participatedin a symposium, “Teaching Biblical Studies:Reflecting on the Past, Preparing forthe Future,” honoring Professor Fred L.Horton on the occasion of his retirementfrom the Department of Religion at WakeForest University. Horton introduced Blackto academic study of the Old and NewTestaments in 1973–1974.In March, Sally Brown attendedthe Association of Theological Schools’faculty-focused consultation in Pittsburgh.The consultation addressed the changingcharacter of faculty work in theologicalschools. She also attended a pre-consultationconversation with ATS women facultyto address particular issues of concernto them.In September, Brown gave thePace-Warren Lecture Series atthe Second Presbyterian Church inLexington, Kentucky. In October, shewas resident preacher/teacher at an allchurchretreat for the First PresbyterianChurch in Burlingame, California, at theMount Hermon Conference Center nearSanta Cruz.James Charlesworth gave theTheological Lectureship at AssociatedMennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart,Indiana, in March, where he demonstratedthe important link between knowledge andfaith. He also gave a lecture sponsored bythe United Nations Educational, Scientific,and Cultural Organization in the summerof 2010 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He ispictured here with Abuna Paulos (’70M,’88D), the patriarch of the EthiopianOrthodox Church.Charlesworth’s book The Good and EvilSerpent won one of eleven 2011 ChristianityToday Book Awards. It won in the biblicalstudies category.James Charlesworth and Abuna PaulosEllen Charry’s book God and the Art ofHappiness was read this fall by the honorscollege at Indiana Wesleyan University,as part of their Athens and JerusalemSeminar in campus-wide reading groups.She visited the college in November todiscuss the book with students and faculty.In November 2010, Charry led aLay Theology Day on her book for theEpiscopal Diocese of Rhode Island, aswell as a Clergy Day on “Working ThroughIssues Theologically.”In February, Kenda Creasy Dean spokeon her recent book Almost Christian: Whatthe Faith of Our Teenagers Is Teachingthe American Church in the Willson-AddisEndowed Lecture at Baylor University. Shealso spoke on the topic as the theologianin-residence/speakerat the annual IllinoisGreat Rivers Conference of the UnitedMethodist Church in June. Almost Christianwon one of eleven 2011 Christianity TodayBook Awards. It won in the church andpastoral leadership category.In May, Dean gave the commencementsermon at Wesley Theological Seminary’s129th commencement ceremony. She is a1988 graduate of Wesley.In February, Robert Dykstra gavethe Psychology and Spirituality Lectures,“Artistic Expressions in Counseling andPastoral Care,” at Moravian TheologicalSeminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Healso gave a plenary lecture titled “TheGospel of Kindness” at the nationalconference of the Covenant Network ofPresbyterians in November 2010.Beverly Roberts Gaventa spoke at theMinette and Huber Lelland Drumwright Jr.Endowed Colloquium in New TestamentStudies at Baylor University in April.Her lecture was titled “The Rhetoric ofViolence and the God of Peace in Paul’sLetter to the Romans.”Last January and February, GordonGraham gave a series of talks on “TheCeltic Saints” at St. David’s EpiscopalChurch in Cranbury, New Jersey.He also participated in May in a publicseminar, “The Role of the University in the21st Century,” organized by the GiffordCommittee of the University of Glasgow,and in March he spoke about “What ItMeans to Be Saved,” part of the LentenSeries of Eucharist, Supper, and Talks atTrinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey.In August, Graham was a keynotespeaker at the Centre of Theology andPhilosophy’s International Conference atthe Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Thetheme of the conference was “The Futureof Creation Order.”Graham also participated in a roundtablediscussion titled “The Aims of HigherEducation,” organized by the Centre forHigher Education, Research, Teaching, andLearning at Rhodes University in SouthAfrica in October 2010.In April, Darrell Guder was thetheologian-in-residence at UniversityPresbyterian Church in Seattle,Washington, where he taught a Biblestudy on Philippians, “Becoming aDistinctive Community.”Darrell Guder (second from right) pictured withfrom left to right: Toby Mueller, a PCUSA pastor,Warner R. Durnell, executive presbyter of NorthAlabama Presbytery, and Mark Mueller, pastorof The First Presbyterian Church of Huntsville.14 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSGuder was also the Kyser Lecturer atthe First Presbyterian Church of Huntsville,Alabama, in October.George Hunsinger was appointeda member of the Reformed/RomanCatholic International Dialogue team(2011–2017), part of the World Communionof Reformed Churches. He will representthe Presbyterian Church (USA). In Marchhe spoke at an interfaith conferencetitled “Toward a Moral Consensus AgainstTorture,” held at Duke Divinity School andthe First Presbyterian Church in Durham,North Carolina.Stacy Johnson was the guestpreacher in May at the seventy-fifthanniversary celebration of BrownsonMemorial Presbyterian Church in SouthernPines, North Carolina. Johnson grewup in Southern Pines and is a “child ofthe congregation.”In February, Cleo LaRue lectured atthe Sewickley Presbyterian Church inSewickley, Pennsylvania, on “The Shape ofChristianity in Years to Come.” He was theguest preacher in August at Trinity BaptistChurch in Raleigh, North Carolina.LaRue also participated in the Rogers-Cunningham-Bowman Ministerial Instituteat Nazarene Theological Seminary in June.Bruce McCormack gave the CroallLectures at the University of Edinburghin January. The title of the lecture serieswas “Abandoned by God: The Deathof Christ in Systematic, Historical, andExegetical Perspective.”In September and October, he gavethe Kantzer Lectures in Revealed Theologyat Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Thelecture series was titled “The God WhoGraciously Elects: Seven Lectures on theDoctrine of Election.”Kathleen McVey spoke at the DukeUniversity Syriac Symposium this year. Thesymposium was under the auspices ofthe North American Supervisory Board, ofwhich she is a member.In December 2010, the BBC programSomething Understood featured excerptsfrom a translation of Ephrem the Syrian’sThe Reformed/Roman Catholic International Dialogue Team on which PTS professor GeorgeHunsinger (third from left) servesHymn on the Nativity #4 done by McVey.In January, Peter Paris gave apresentation at the Princeton YWCA titled“The Relevance of Martin Luther King Jr.for Our Day.” He also participated in thePrinceton YWCA’s Stand Against Racismevent as part of a panel on “Racism andthe Global Struggle for Peace and Justice”in May.In February, George Parsenios spokeon the doctrine of atonement in the NewTestament at a symposium sponsored byPrinceton University and PTS in honor of Fr.Florovsky titled “On the Tree of the Cross:The Patristic Doctrine of Atonement.”Luke Powery gave a lecture on thepower of Negro spirituals as historicalnarrative, as part of a Martin LutherKing Jr. celebration at Geneva College inJanuary 2011.In February, Luis Rivera-Pagángave a lecture at the Third InternationalConference on Christian-Muslim Relationsthat focused on violence, nonviolence,and religion.Katharine Doob Sakenfeld taught acourse titled “Biblical Women in CulturalPerspective” as part of the EvergreenForum at the Princeton Senior ResourceCenter in March. The course was based onher book Just Wives? Stories of Power andSurvival in the Old Testament and Today.The Encyclopedia of the Bible and ItsReception, edited by Leong Seow, wasselected by CHOICE Magazine as one ofthe winners of its Outstanding AcademicTitles for 2010. Dennis Olson and JamesDeming serve as area editors for thiscontinuing project.Loren Stuckenbruck spoke at theE.G. Purcell Jr. Bible Conference atBarton College in March. In April, hegave a lecture on “Demonology in theSynoptic Gospels” at the Stone-CampbellJournal Conference at CincinnatiChristian University.In March, Mark Taylor participated in apanel on the current prison system duringa conference on “Imprisonment of a Race,”sponsored by Princeton University. Theconference focused on the prison systemin a historical and present-day contextthrough the lens of race.New Post-Doctoral TeachingFellow in Old TestamentDr. Stephen Russell, who recentlycompleted a post-doctoral researchfellowship in the Department of NearEastern Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, has joined the PTScommunity as a post-doctoral teachingfellow in Old Testament. He is teachingbiblical Hebrew and Old Testamentexegesis courses whilecontinuing research onhis second book, BeyondSacred Space. His bookdraws on philosophicaland geographicalconcepts of space,mapping the ways in which the ancientIsraelite and Judahite monarchies usedspatial strategies to bolster their powerand the ways in which those strategieswere resisted. Russell, who began hispost in July 2011, will teach for a twoyearfixed term within the Departmentof Biblical Studies. We welcome hispresence at Princeton Seminary, andthe gifts and experience that he brings.Photo: Kim SchmidtinSpire 15

fall 2011/winter 2012on&off CAMPUSKorean Documentaries toInclude PTSOn September 30, a film crew fromKorea spent the day on campus shootingfootage for a documentary film theyare making in celebration of the 100thanniversary of the Presbyterian Churchin Korea in 2012. They filmed studentsin class and in chapel, and interviewedProfessor Sam Moffettand his wife, Eileen, whowere missionaries in Koreafor much of their career;Professor Jim Moorhead,who spoke about the historyof the Presbyterian Churchin the United States; andPresident Torrance, who hasDr. Kyung-Chik Hanvisited Korea twice and spoke aboutthe theology of the Reformed tradition,and the relationship of Presbyterianchurches in Korea, America, and Europe.In December, a second Korean filmcrew came to campus as part of theirwork on a documentary film about Dr.Kyung-Chik Han, one of Korea’s mostprominent pastors of the twentiethcentury. Han fled North Korea in 1945and began a small church when hearrived in Seoul. Under hisleadership, that churchbecame the Young NakChurch, the largestPresbyterian congregationin the world. Han washonored as a PrincetonSeminary DistinguishedAlumnus in 1985, and in 1992 won theprestigious Templeton Prize for Progressin Religion.While in Princeton, the crew tookfootage of the campus, of the room inHodge Hall where Han lived when he wasa student, and of the portrait of Han thathangs in Luce Library.Photo: Kim SchmidtVisitors at Princeton SeminaryA Delegation from ZambiaIn September, four Zambians from theChurch of Central Africa Presbyterian andthe Uniting Church in Southern Africa wereguests of the Seminary, attending the dailychapel service, visiting Luce Library’s SpecialCollections, and sharing lunch with students.They were in the United States as part of a mission partnership with the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Pictured here with President Torranceare, from left, Elder Isaac Ngulube, The Reverend Sauros Phaika, the Reverend Gerald Phirir, and the Reverend Thomson Mkandawire.Photo: Kim SchmidtPhoto: Kim SchmidtPCUSA Seminary Support Network VolunteersIn May, one hundred volunteers from the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Seminary Support Network visited the Princeton Seminarycampus as part of their annual gathering. They attended chapel, took “mini classes” with Professors Ellen Charry and Deborah Hunsinger,learned from students about their field education, and heard from President Torrance about the new library. Princeton is grateful to thenetwork for their wonderful work helping to raise funds from churches for the Presbyterian seminaries.16 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012From Rio to Monrovia, from Belfast to Cape TownSTUDENTS’ INTERNATIONAL FIELD EDUCATION INTERNSHIPS EXPANDBY ALLIE NASKRETJennie Lee Rodriguez was near desperation as she entered theField Education Office to meet with her advisor Lori Neff. Rodriguezhad a gnawing feeling that she needed to know more. As a secondcareerstudent, she had served in ministry for many years in both NewJersey and Brooklyn, New York. Rodriguez was looking for somethingother than the traditional church placement—something that wouldchallenge and stretch her view ofwhat is possible in ministry. “I neededsomething to push me to where Godwas calling me,” she says.With the help of the FieldEducation Office and Director ofMulticultural Relations Victor Aloyo,Rodriguez applied for a yearlongintensive field education internshipin São Paulo, Brazil. The next fall, inSeptember 2008, she found herselfleaving her home, her family andfriends, and everything she had knownto travel to a place where she knew noone and the language sounded strangeto her untrained ears. “It was the firsttime I had taken such a risk,” saysRodriguez, who felt that she had tosurrender full control to God in herjourney. God was faithful; Rodriguezfound that the community in which sheserved embraced her with warmth andgenerosity. “When I was there, it didn’tfeel so foreign,” says Rodriguez, whosoon discovered many ways to connectwith people.In São Paulo, Rodriguez internedwith the Association for the Children ofBethlehem, an organization created toTHEIR PERSPECTIVES AND ENRICH THE SEMINARYprovide education and services for children either directly or indirectlyaffected by HIV. Rodriguez worked with street children at the Refugioorphanage, while also teaching English to children at the organization’sschool. In addition, she often preached and led staff devotionals atMorumbi Church, originally founded to reach these children. Whilethe language barrier was difficult at first, Rodriguez says, “God [slowly]taught me to understand Portuguese.”Marcia Scipio, M.Div. senior, takes a moment for reflection at her fieldeducation placement in Monrovia, Liberia.The North Coast of Northern Ireland, the location of Princeton Seminary’sfirst international field education placement. Jared Stephens (far left)served in Northern Ireland at Groomsport Presbyterian Church in2009–2010.In the background is the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Rodriguez says that she felt the strength of God’s presence inSão Paulo. “When areas are stricken with hardship, I find that thepeople see God more,” says Rodriguez. She vividly recalls talkingwith a woman at a bus station one day. Despite having just met, thetwo ended up praying together in the middle of the bus after a longconversation. “It’s not something I’ve experienced in my hometownof New York,” Rodriguez says. “Thepeople I met in Brazil are lookingfor something, they are seeking toknow God.”Rodriguez also recalls visiting Riode Janeiro during her year in Brazilto see the world-famous statue ofChrist the Redeemer that stands on amountain peak with arms outstretchedover the city. “To see the arms of Christthere”—in the midst of a high-crimearea, surrounded by shanty houses withtin roofs—was to Rodriguez an imageof “a country seeking God in the midstof confusion, suffering, and hardship.”She says that her time in Brazil renewedher faith and called her back to the rootof the gospel and the truth that “life[itself] is a Living Word.”Mission Partnership inCape TownDuring his time in South Africa,Patrick Dunn also experienced thepresence of God in the midst ofsuffering and loss. Dunn, who servedas a field education intern at BellvillePresbyterian Church (BPC) in CapeTown in the summer of 2010, says thatin his first week there, he found himself helping an undertaker carrya woman’s body out of her house while his supervisor prayed with herfamily. “In many ways, it drew me closer to the congregation muchfaster than I expected,” reflects Dunn, who accompanied his supervisoron many such house visits. “As God would have it, my supervisor wasthe most adept minister I’ve ever met with regard to handling death….I’ve never been to a church that’s so deeply invested in ministeringinSpire 17

fall 2011/winter 2012to dying people and their families. In a sad way, it was actually anenormous blessing to me to have such a thorough introduction togrief, healing, and proclaiming the gospel in the midst of tragedy,” saysDunn.As an intern at PBC, Dunn interacted daily with people who cameto the church seeking help. Located on the perimeter of an urban area,Bellville suffers from widespread homelessness, prostitution, humantrafficking, and a thriving drug trade. Dunn had the opportunity towork with a mission organization called Metro Evangelical Services(MES), which works in partnership with PBC. On any given day, hemight find himself counseling a person who had lost a job, or speakingwith a woman who was desperate to get out of her trade as a prostitute,or accompanying the MES staff to take census of the ever-changinghomeless population. He says that such a diverse range of experiencesprepared him in many ways for future ministry.According to Dr. Chester Polk, director of the internationalfield education program at PTS, this is precisely the purpose of theprogram—to prepare students forministry in a diverse world, and toexpose them to the work that thechurch is doing in other regions ofthe globe. In training future pastors,chaplains, teachers, and directorsof NGOs, Polk believes that it is“responsible” to provide students withopportunities to serve internationally,since the stretching experiences thatstudents have abroad prepare them inunique ways to serve in ministry. Inan age when the center of the churchis shifting to the southern hemisphere,it is increasingly valuable for studentsto gain an understanding of how thechurch functions and thrives there.Polk explains that the intent of the international field educationprogram is for students to “live in community and invest their lives inthe lives of the people there.” What results from these relationships isa “cross-pollination” of ideas, knowledge, and experience. “It is not somuch that students are teaching, but that they are learning and gaininginsight into another culture and tradition,” says Polk. Students findtheir viewpoints challenged as they interact with people from verydifferent backgrounds.Beginnings of Field Placements OverseasThe international field education program at PTS began in 1983when Dr. David Irwin (D.Min., 1983) accepted a student intern atGroomsport Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland. Irwin called thisinternship program “The Princeton Connection.” Under the directionof the Field Education Office in the 1990s, the international programslowly expanded, as field education students were added to academicprograms led by Professor Mark Taylor in Guatemala and ProfessorCharles Ryerson in India. As the office built relationships with pastorsabroad, new international sites were developed. Polk now serves as aliaison between the PTS community and churches around the globe,18 inSpirebuilding relationships with international field education supervisorsand occasionally visiting placement sites abroad.Since the program began, more than 200 students have servedin countries around the globe, including Brazil, Cambodia, theDominican Republic, Ghana, Nicaragua, India, Japan, Mexico, Kenya,South Africa, Romania, Uganda, and South Korea. These studentsrepresent PTS to the global community and serve as Christ’s presencein the world. Some serve in church placements, while others workin specialized ministries and nonprofit organizations. Students applythrough the Field Education Office, and those who are selected to serveabroad are fully funded by the Seminary. In 2010–2011, nine studentsserved at seven different international sites, including one newlydeveloped site in Rwanda.Students who have served in international field educationplacements find that their experiences abroad greatly influence theirperspectives on theology and ministry. Jared Stephens, who was theintern at Groomsport Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland in2009–2010, explains, “Perspective isthe most important thing…. [Afterbeing abroad], the questions that youask are different.”Stephens says that because ofhis time in Northern Ireland, he hascome to understand the church in anew way. In a country where tensionsbetween Catholics and Protestantshave historically contributed to violentdivisions, the church now has “areal sense of the need for unity andreconciliation,” he says. According toThe sacrament of baptism celebrated at Providence Baptist Church in Stephens, the church is a vital partMonrovia, Liberiaof the culture in Northern Ireland.“The church functions differently incommunity there…. The ministersees himself as a member of the community at large, with socialresponsibilities, even political roles,” he explains. Experiencing howthe church functions in another part of the globe expanded andchallenged Stephens’s views of the church’s role in the world. It alsoconfirmed that his life is inextricably tied to the lives of his Christianbrothers and sisters around the world. “I came to see the world churchas the body of Christ—rather than individual nations with individualchurches,” says Stephens.Similarly, Marsha Scipio, who served in Monrovia, Liberia, inthe summer of 2010, found that her experience abroad expandedher understanding of the church and its mission. Providence BaptistChurch (PBC), where Scipio served, has a rich history and has oftenbeen called the cornerstone of the nation. In the older section of thechurch building, the Liberia Constitution was signed, after formerU.S. slaves, and then missionaries, landed in West Africa to set upan independent government. Scipio explains that today the church“stands as a symbol of hope for a city and a people recovering from afourteen-year civil war that ended in 2003.” During the Civil Crisis,PBC was a refuge for those trying to escape the violence, evidencedby the bullets still embedded in the church’s outer walls. The church

continues to serve the surrounding community by providing hot mealsto feed the hungry and offering counseling sessions for homeless anddrug-addicted young men and women, some of whom were formerchild soldiers.Witnessing PBC’s integration with the surrounding community“allowed me to expand my own understanding of what the mission ofthe church should be,” says Scipio. Before serving in Liberia, she didnot picture herself working in a church setting, but with a parachurchor nonprofit organization. “Prior to [my time in Liberia] there seemedto be a disconnect between my understanding of the role of the churchand what the churches in which I had been involved were actuallydoing,” she says. Upon returning from Liberia, Scipio decided totransfer from the M.A. program to the M.Div. program. She cannow envision herself serving in a church that is as integrated with itscommunity as PBC is.Service Abroad Changes LivesStudents who participate in the international field educationprogram often return as new people. Polk says that he notices a“definitive difference in who [students] are” when they return fromtheir international experiences. Not only do these experiences expandstudents’ perspectives; they also oftenchange their lives and ministries.Deeply moved by his field educationexperience, Patrick Dunn returnedto Cape Town this past summer tovolunteer at Bellville PresbyterianChurch and Metro Evangelical Services,and also to begin pursuing ordinationin the Presbyterian denomination insouthern Africa. Dunn plans to returnto Cape Town after graduating fromPTS, with a view toward being ordainedfor parish ministry and settlingthere permanently.Jared Stephens not only learneda great deal at his international fieldeducation site, but he also fell inlove. He is now engaged to a girlfrom Northern Ireland, whom he met on a train ride during his yearthere. Stephens hopes to be ordained in the PCUSA and to return toNorthern Ireland with his fiancée after having served as a pastor in thestates for a while. At the very least, in whatever church he will serve, hehopes to build relationships between that church and churches abroad.While some students feel led to serve abroad again, others applywhat they’ve learned internationally to the ministries they are doinglocally. Rodriguez joined the PTS staff this past summer as assistantdirector of field education. In this position, she hopes to open upnew field education possibilities to her students. She also continues toserve part time at her first field education church, Nuevas Fronteras,in Plainfield, New Jersey, a congregation that shares a building withUnited Presbyterian Church. While the two congregations keep theirown cultures and styles of worship, they serve together through theProvidence Baptist Church leadership team in Monrovia, Liberia. ThomasWilson (far left) graduated from Princeton Seminary in 2011; MarshaScipio (fourth from left) is a senior.fall 2011/winter 2012Plainfield Parish Ministry. Rodriguez hopes to create a missionalministry at Nuevas Fronteras, to further involve the congregation inlocal and international service.Rodriguez says her experience in Brazil “pushed me to go outsideof the box…and to think about the question What did Jesus really do?”She recently participated in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land sponsoredby the Macedonia Ministry Project, and thought about that questiona lot while walking around Galilee and Jerusalem with sixteen otherpastors from the Princeton-Trenton area. “Jesus didn’t just sit in thetemple—he walked around a lot,” Rodriguez concludes. “He must havehad strong legs,” she adds jokingly, referring to the many hills in theHoly Land.Rodriguez’s realization that Jesus walked a lot during his lifetimebrings to mind the prophet Micah’s familiar exhortation to “do justice,love kindness, and walk humbly with our God” (Micah 6:8). Thecommand requires movement—to wherever God might lead. For some,this means following the age-old command that God gave to Abraham:“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to theland that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1)Students who have trusted God’s call to travel to a new land havefound that God blesses their journeys. Students’ experiences abroadgreatly influence the way theyapproach ministry and transform theirview of what the mission of the churchshould and could be. Moreover, thesestudents’ international experiencesnot only influence their own lives;they also change the conversationsthat happen on campus and affect allthose who hear their stories. Polk saysthat “living vicariously through [thesestudents’] experiences is informative,inspiring, and affords me an ongoingway to reflect on my own ministry.”The international field educationprogram enriches and expandsthe PTS community, as studentsare connected to a web of globalrelationships. Rodriguez, a New Yorkerwith a Puerto Rican heritage, says she now has family in São Paulo.Stephens, who grew up in the countryside of Canada, has been knownto wear a kilt on campus and to tell stories with an Irish accent. Scipio,a Brooklynite, recently met with her supervisor from Liberia while hewas in the states, while Dunn, a Midwesterner from Indiana, brings tocampus his experience at an integrated church in Cape Town. Studentsreturning from field education placements abroad do their part to makePTS a truly international community. Their stories provide PrincetonSeminary with an ongoing way to reflect on its own ministry in anever-expanding world. wAllie Naskret is an M.Div. student who works as an editorial assistantand writer in the Office of Communications/Publications.inSpire 19

fall 2011/winter 2012Entrepreneurial Alumnae TakeUnique Approaches to MinistryTHREE DREAMS REALIZED THROUGH NONPROFITS THAT ENRICH,EMPOWER, AND ENTERTAIN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE U.S.BY KIMBERLY PINNIXStefanie Shumaker (M.Div., 2006)Gretchen Sausville (M.Div., 2005)Eleanor Norman (M.Div./M.A., 2006)Meet three Princeton Seminary alumnae: StefanieShumaker (M.Div., 2006), Gretchen Sausville(M.Div., 2005), and Eleanor Norman (M.Div./M.A.,2006). All three women are entrepreneurs who areworking in different geographic locations toward acommon goal—fulfilling a need in the communitythrough ministry.Having first been introduced to a refugee at just five years oldthrough her church and later watching her family “adopt” a refugeefamily, Stefanie Shumaker said, “Throughout my life, anywhere I go,I always seem to be drawn toward and interacting with refugees, eitherthrough the church or during my day-to-day routine.” Shumaker’stown, Salt Lake City, Utah, is home to an estimated 25,000 refugees,which sparked her interest in developing a way to help them succeed inthe U.S. “Many people don’t realize that a refugee is a ‘survivor,’ whowas forced to leave his or her country due to persecution over politicalviews, race, religion, or even nationality. They’ve suffered hardships andI want to help them establish a life in the U.S.,” said Shumaker.Shumaker began Ambatana Threads, her Salt Lake City business,when she combined her hobby—sewing—with her passion forhelping local refugees. “Ambatana,” a Swahili word that means“uniting people,” describes the mission of Ambatana Threads—aclothing and accessory company that employs refugees in a variety ofcapacities: accounting, clothing design, manufacturing, marketing,and communication. “It is a place where women from differentcountries come together, make new friends, and share business ideas,”explained Shumaker.In Utah, finding employment is the biggest challenge facingthe largest groups of refugees—Somali, Sudanese, and Bosnian.In employing refugees, Shumaker is growing her business; moreimportantly, she is providing them with job experience and an income,which she hopes will help them “make it” in the U.S. Shumaker isparticularly interested in hiring women (refugees), so they can learnskills and earn a paycheck to provide for their families. In most refugeefamilies, the men are the sole “providers,” but if they are injured orget sick and can’t work, it is nearly impossible for a refugee familyto survive.Similar to Shumaker’s call to empower women in the community,Eleanor Norman founded an organization that recruits women tochange the face of philanthropy in a Virginia town. In 2010, Norman’scall as temporary supply pastor led her to Bayside Presbyterian Churchin Virginia Beach, Virginia. After relocating, she made an effort tomake new friends by joining a community group, Lead HamptonRoads, a networking forum for young leaders. Inspired by themeetings, which shed light on the need for charitable assistance in thecommunity, Norman established Impact Hampton Roads just a fewmonths later. Her idea is simple: women volunteers (members) eachdonate $1,000 in dues to Impact Hampton Roads. The dues thensupport grants for local charities.“The idea of women coming together, giving up a few hoursof their time each month, and making a donation to benefit a localorganization empowers them and shows women that they, too, can havea lasting impact on the community,” said Norman.Although Impact Hampton Roads focuses its efforts on engaging20 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012women, young adults and men can also join. Youth can participateby making an annual contribution and men can support the missionby joining Men of Impact. Together, the members’ fees are pooled toaward $10,000 and $100,000 grants to charities to support criticalneeds or new ventures in the arts, education, recreation, or familyhealth and wellness.“Sharing our story with the community, seeing the excitementwhen we give applications to organizations, and encouraging them tothink ‘big’ is extremely rewarding,” said Norman.Impact Hampton Roads is a sister organization of Impact, whichwas founded in 2001 by a group of women in Cincinnati, Ohio. Todate, the fifteen Impact sister organizations in the U.S. have raisedmore than eleven million dollars for charities throughout the country.Likewise, the success of Impact Hampton Roads is truly a testamentto the passion of its members and leaders—all staff are volunteers, 100percent of donations support the grants, and overhead costs are coveredby corporate sponsorships. The members also play a pivotal role inrecruiting new members and raising awareness about the organization.Similar to Norman’s efforts, community engagement is also part ofGretchen Sausville’s call, but with a slightly different approach. Afterparticipating in a community production of Godspell in the spring of2010, Sausville recognized the need for a community theater in Granby,Connecticut. Along with a few “good” friends, she founded The GoodCompany Theater just a few months later. Her hope is that the theaterwill support community members who are interested in the arts whileproducing shows for the enrichment, education, and entertainment ofthe community.Although Shumaker, Norman, and Sausville are working indifferent ways to further the mission of the church through communityministry, they all share a desire to make their communities better places.They recognized a need and chose to take action, despite how risky ortime-consuming their ideas were. Norman said, “I want all members ofmy community to live in a clean, safe, and culturally rich environmentwith access to quality education and healthcare. That is why I amworking to provide charities with larger grants than are typical,” saidNorman. Many nonprofit organizations must piece together multiplegrants to fund a program or provide a needed service to the community.“By offering generous grants, we hope to streamline the process andmake it easier for charities to implement new programs, which willbenefit the entire Hampton Roads community,” continued Norman.Like Norman’s efforts, The Good Company Theater is also focusedon bringing “good news” to the community by performing shows thatdeliver positive messages. With the busyness and stress of everydaylife, the theater serves as an “outlet” for community members—both“Ambatana,” a Swahili word meaning “uniting people,” describes themission of Ambatana Threads.Good Company creates great community! Left, GretchenSausville, founder; right, Deborah Torgersen, chair.Mahafarin, an employee at Ambatana Threads who fled fromIran, found her niche in the U.S., sewing clothing.inSpire 21

fall 2011/winter 2012performers and audiences. “It’s remarkable how theater connectsso many people of different faiths, socioeconomic levels, andprofessional backgrounds,” said Sausville. “Whether by attending ashow or by performing, everyone benefits.” In addition to providingentertainment, the theater supports neighborhood businesses by usinglocal seamstresses, carpenters, caterers, musicians, and designers. “Weinvolve the greater community and use and share the gifts of manyindividuals,” said Sausville.Shumaker also does her part in engaging the community. Inaddition to employing refugees and directing them to local transitionservices, Ambatana Threads supports employees by raising thecommunity’s awareness about the refugee population and the challengesthey face—finding a job, learning English, and adjusting to life in aforeign country.Although the three women are contributing to their communitiesShumaker, Norman, andSausville…share a desire tomake their communities betterplaces. They recognized aneed and chose to take action,despite how risky or timeconsumingtheir ideas were.“”through their businesses, ironically, becoming entrepreneurs wasnot their intent. “I never thought I would found an organization,but looking back, I’m not too surprised by where I am today. I’vealways been very philanthropic and involved in fund-raising—evenin high school and college,” said Norman. While Sausville does havea background in performing and visual arts, she didn’t initially setout to establish a nonprofit theater company. She said it happened“organically,” and now she can’t imagine life without the people she hasmet through the theater.Not having a background in business made it a little morechallenging for Shumaker in establishing Ambatana Threads. But, shetook courses and immersed herself in books that gave her an overviewof business management. Through her own “trial and error,” she nowmanages the company’s web site, designs clothing labels, and sews manyof the products—children’s clothing, aprons, wallets, tote bags, andlunch boxes. “Having patience with myself and learning along the wayhas been challenging, but interacting with the refugees and hearingtheir success stories makes this venture worth all of my efforts,” saidShumaker.Similarly, Norman has a busy schedule, balancing two roles—as atemporary supply pastor and as the president and founder of a fundraisingorganization. “At times it can be difficult, but I believe beinga community leader is part of my call. Every time we receive a checktoward our $100,000 goal, we are inspired to work harder and to thinkof new strategies to meet our goals,” she said.All three women agree that their time at PTS benefited them,though in different ways. Sausville said, “My participation in TheVagina Monologues at PTS gave me the confidence to pursue theaterprofessionally and showed me that ministry is not confined to the wallsof the church.” Sausville is also grateful for many of the experiencesshe had at the Seminary, in particular collaborating and interactingwith diverse groups of students and faculty. She said, “The experienceof sharing different theological viewpoints and listening to each other’sideas ultimately sharpened my interpersonal skills. Today I rely onmuch of what I learned at PTS to run The Good Company Theater.”Although Shumaker is not currently working in a church as shefocuses on building Ambatana Threads, she also relies on what sheexperienced at Princeton Seminary. She said, “In helping my employeesassimilate, I often find myself providing counseling and relying on thepastoral care techniques I learned at PTS.”In addition to their “side ventures,” Norman and Sausville servethe church on a full-time basis. Sausville, who is associate pastor ofWestminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, Connecticut, said,“Having the theater as an outlet creates a spiritual discipline that bringsbalance to my life. By carving out time for myself, I am ‘fresher’ andhave become a more tuned-in pastor.”The future is looking bright for these Princeton Seminary alumnae:Ambatana Threads is a nonprofit organization, but Shumaker is in theprocess of applying for a license as a Limited Liability Company (LLC).If the company becomes incorporated, she is hopeful that the businesswill continue to grow, allowing her to expand her employee base.Through her business venture, Shumaker is raising awareness about therefugee population and the struggles they face while also supporting alarger goal—helping to ensure that refugees in the Salt Lake City areabecome viable citizens who can sustain lives in the U.S.Norman, who set out to bring good will and generosity to Virginia,is doing just that. In November 2011, less than one year after ImpactHampton Roads was established, her efforts were realized. Membersand board members of Impact Hampton Roads awarded the first$100,000 grant to a Virginia nonprofit organization.The Good Company Theater recently produced The Best ChristmasPageant Ever and in upcoming months will mount productions ofDaughters of the Appalachians and Abracadabra!, an original musicalbased on the Gospel of Luke.These three young women who once shared classes at the Seminaryare now “bonded together by a passion to make a difference in thecommunity,” said Norman. wFor more information, check out these web sites:Ambatana Threads www.ambatanathreads.comImpact Hampton Roads www.impacthamptonroads.orgThe Good Company Theater www.goodcompanytheaterct.orgKimberly Pinnix is a writer in the Office of Communications/Publications.22 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012Remembering Donald JuelREADING SCRIPTURE, ENCOUNTERING GODBY SHANE BERGIt happened in Mackay onemorning in April 1999. Suddenly NewTestament Professor Don Juel chargedin through the doors of the dining halland began looking around intently.When his eyes came to rest on me,the corners of his mouth curled upin a smile and he made a beeline formy table. “Berg,” he barked, “you’rea North Dakota Lutheran—justwhat I need!” “Former Lutheran,” Ireminded him, though he knew full wellI had become a Presbyterian in college.“Doesn’t matter,” he replied impatiently, “you grew up singing the oldLutheran hymns.” I conceded the point. “I cannot remember the wordsto the second verse of ‘Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended,’ andI want to use it in my sermon this afternoon,” he continued. “Do youremember how it goes?”I tried several times to come up with the words, but I could notquite sort them out in my head. I finally shrugged my shoulders andsaid, “I’m sorry—I can only remember the verses when I sing them.”“Well sing then!” he insisted. “Right now?” I asked hesitantly. “Yes,right now!” he replied, now almost in exasperation. Though I am nomusician, there was little that I would not do for my beloved professor,and so right there in the dining hall I launched into a halting renditionof one of my favorite hymns. I did manage to come up with the wordsto the all-important second verse that he was seeking:“Who was the guilty, who brought this upon thee?Alas my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee.‘Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee;I crucified thee.”Donald Harrisville Juel was the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of NewTestament Theology at Princeton Seminary from 1995 to 2003.“Yes, you’ve got it!” he exclaimedwith delight. After a parting shotabout my questionable vocal skills, hethanked me and darted out as quicklyas he had come. This was a classic Juelmoment—he was mischievous andfunny while at the same time vigorouslypursuing a serious theological train ofthought. In my classes with him, andespecially in the countless lunches that Ihad the joy of sharing with him, I cameto know well how his playful natureadded warmth and levity to his intense theological imagination. Workand play were not separate categories for him.Juel had invited me earlier in the week to sit in on the class inwhich he was delivering his sermon—Jews and Judaism in ChristianPreaching, which he cotaught with his colleague Professor Ellen Charry.Juel was preaching to the students a Good Friday sermon that modeledhow to avoid an anti-Semitic reading of the Gospels without emptyingthe passion narrative of its drama and shock.Like the other students in the classroom that stuffy late springafternoon, I was spellbound as Juel worked his way through severalpassage in Luke’s passion narrative. He elegantly and persuasivelyshowed us how Jesus’ words on the cross—“Forgive them, Father, forthey do not know what they are doing” (23:34)—refer not merely tothe “Jews” who had put Jesus on trial but rather to every character inthe Gospel and by extension to all of humanity. Juel drove home hispoint by citing the words to the second verse of “Ah, Holy Jesus” thathe had sought from me earlier in the day, which speak of the guilt forJesus’ death not in the third-person but in the first-person. “I” crucifiedJesus, not “them.”inSpire 23

fall 2011/winter 2012Jesus died not because he fell in among a few malicious people,but rather because all of humanity is “under sin,” as the apostlePaul might say. Despite our bestintentions and valiant efforts, Juelasserted, we humans are caught inwebs of ignorance, suspicion, andresentment that forever undermineour well-laid plans and reasonableassumptions. We do not know whatwe are doing, and our only hopeis that God will break the powerof sin and give life to us. In Juel’smasterful reading of Luke, thisbasic Reformation conviction camethrough with grace and power.Over the course of his teachingcareer, Juel offered such rich andstimulating insights to thousandsof people—students in his classesShaping the Scriptural Imagination: Truth, Meaning, and theTheological Interpretation of the Bibleby Donald H. Juel, edited by Shane Berg and Matthew L. SkinnerPublished by Baylor University Press, July 2011Copies can be ordered through Cokesbury TBA at PrincetonSeminary or on www.amazon.com.24 inSpireShane Berg lectures on the Gospel of Mark to a group of students at thePresbyterian seminary in Cairo. He and President Iain Torrance taught intensiveJanuary term courses at the school in January 2010 just prior to the revolution inTahrir Square.at both Luther Seminary and Princeton Seminary, pastors attendingconferences at which he spoke, and lay people in whose churcheshe preached and taught all overthe United States. Whether it washelping people see the Parable of theProdigal Son in Luke from an entirelynew angle of vision (he preferredto call it “The Lament of an OldestChild”), calling into question thetraditional way of understanding theParable of the Seeds and the Sowerin Mark (“Be good soil? Soil can’t‘be’ anything!”), or exploring thetheological possibilities of the “shorterending” of Mark’s Gospel, Juel alwaysoffered what amounted to a masterclass in interpreting the Bible withinthe community of faith.My friend Matt Skinner, aPTS M.Div. (1997) and Ph.D.(2002) grad who now teaches NewTestament at Luther Seminary, and I are convinced that Don Juel stillhas a great deal to teach the church about interpreting scripture. As aresult of this belief, we have edited a volume of his essays that representhis accessible and lively interpretations of scripture. We also includedtranscripts of eight of his sermons because they are such vivid examplesof his approach to reading the Bible. The sermon on Luke 23:34 thathad made such a deep impression on me in the spring of 1999 isamong the sermons we chose for the volume.The book has recently been published by Baylor University Press.The director of the press, Carey Newman, is an admirer of Juel’swork and eagerly agreed to take on the project as soon as Matt and Iproposed it to him. Newman and his editorial team did a terrific jobbringing the book through the various stages of the publication process.They are proud partners in making sure that Don Juel’s legacy lives onfor future generations of pastors and scholars.Matt Skinner regularly encounters those who have been influencedby Juel’s teaching and writing. In Skinner’s nine years on the facultyof Luther Seminary, speaking to congregations, groups of pastors, andother Luther Seminary graduates, over and over again when peoplelearn his educational history, they venture the question, “Did you byany chance know Don Juel?” “I’ve seen people joyfully imitate hisdistinctive mannerisms, quote his best lines, and speak fondly abouthis deep influence on their lives and ministry,” Skinner reports. “Donwasn’t one of those scholars who writes a big book that reorients thefield of New Testament studies; he was the kind who knows howto guide others into the riches of the field, who knows how to take‘subject matter’ and bring it to life—in both generative and disturbingways. That’s the kind of teaching that leaves a legacy, and I’ve beenrepeatedly struck by discovering just how wide Don’s legacy is at thetwo seminaries that I know best.”One of Don Juel’s dearest friends was Beverly Gaventa, hiscolleague on the Princeton Seminary New Testament faculty. When Iasked her to reflect on what made him such an effective and inspiring

fall 2011/winter 2012“The Bible itself was not a magical book forDon, but he regarded Bible reading as a kindof sacramental activity—not necessarilybecause grace is sure to flow from the Bible’spages, but because the possibility of anencounter with God is always there.”teacher, she struggled to give a short answer. “He was incrediblylearned, but he wore that learning lightly,” she offered. “He was deeplycommitted to shaping students as interpreters of scripture. He knewhow to provoke them in order to bring out their best thinking, but histouch was so gentle they always felt supported.”As a colleague, Gaventa claims Juel was unequalled. “He was warm,witty, generous, and supportive, and he wanted all of us to flourish,”she said. “He and Lynda embodied hospitality in this community, bothwith colleagues and students.”Don’s widow, Lynda, played a key role in the book by providingaccess to her husband’s files, which yielded notes and manuscriptsthat were incorporated into the volume. In the attempt to capture thedefining quality of Juel’s life and teaching, she offers that “Don wasabout ‘venture.’ He loved the metaphor of sailing into deep unknownwaters. He was an explorer, a questioner, and yet a man of great faith.He always knew he would be a teacher and preacher. He loved hisstudents, his colleagues, his family, and learned from them all. Hethrived on theological discussion. It drove him deep into the Word,and what it can do. He hoped that his students would catch that sameexcitement as they searched and explored the scriptures, and that theymight set forth on their own venture of faith and revitalize the church.”Matt Skinner was one of those many fortunate students whoexperienced Don Juel’s compelling teaching, so I asked him to namethe single most important thing he learned from Juel’s classes, writings,and sermons. “Perhaps the most important thing I learned from Donwas that the Bible can make a difference in the lives of people andcongregations,” he replied. “That sounds simplistic, I know, but it’snot, especially when you try to see it happening in real life. Too manyChristians have found themselves in positions where they don’t knowwhat to do with the Bible. They don’tknow what to expect from it. The Bibleitself was not a magical book for Don,but he regarded Bible reading as a kindof sacramental activity—not necessarilybecause grace is sure to flow from theBible’s pages, but because the possibilityof an encounter with God is alwaysthere. It’s there when we don’t get toodistracted by the historical, rhetorical,and methodological questions that alwaysMatthew Skinner is associatecome, but instead let those lead us to professor of New Testament atconsider who God is and to ask, ‘What if Luther Seminary.God really is like that, right here and rightnow? What difference might that make?’”For Don Juel, God’s surprising and often unsettling intrusion intohuman lives meant all the difference in world. wShane Berg is assistant professor of New Testament atPrinceton Seminary.Donald Harrisville JuelDonald Harrisville Juel (1942–2003) was the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Theology at Princeton Seminary from 1995until his untimely death in 2003 from a lung disorder. He had previously taught at Luther Seminary (1978–1995), Princeton Seminary (1974–1978), and Indiana University (1972–1974). His education included a B.A. from St. Olaf College (1964), a B.D. from Luther Seminary (1968),and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Yale University (1973).Juel was a beloved professor whose masterful teaching made a deep impact on his students at both Luther and Princeton. He was alsomuch in demand for church conferences, continuing education events, and alumni/ae gatherings.Juel was also an accomplished scholar. His most significant works explore the literary and theological dimensions of the Gospel ofMark. Juel wrote important books on the literary qualities of the trial narrative in Mark (Messiah and Temple, Scholars Press, 1977) andthe rhetorical artistry of Mark (Master of Surprise: Mark Interpreted, Fortress, 1994). He also published a popular book on Mark thatsets out his assessment of Mark’s theological achievement in an accessible and winsome fashion (Gospel of Mark, Interpreting BiblicalTexts series, Abingdon, 1999). In addition to these studies of Mark, Juel also penned a well-received volume on the interpretation ofthe scriptures of Israel (what became in time the Christian “Old Testament”) in the early church (Messianic Exegesis: ChristologicalInterpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity, Fortress, 1988).inSpire 25

fall 2011/winter 20122011CommencementOn a beautiful spring afternoon last May, PrincetonTheological Seminary held its 199th CommencementServices. One hundred and sixty-eight studentsprocessed into the Princeton University Chapel to receivetheir diplomas. Included in six degree programs weretwenty-one international students from Egypt, India,Japan, Korea, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar,Scotland, South Africa, and Turkey, most of whomreturned to their native countries to teach and assumeleadership positions in the church. We congratulate thegraduates and keep them in our prayers in their first yearof ministry.Andrew (M.Div., 2011) andSamantha (M.Div., 2011) HudsonClergy couple Andrew and Samantha Hudsonserve as teachers at SEMISUD, a Church ofGod seminary located in Quito, Ecuador.Based there for two years, the Hudsons teachtheology and ministry development.“Our goal is to humbly offer a diverseperspective in the theological training ofthese future pastors; for that is what wetreasured most in our Princeton experience,those professors who had more diverseperspective to teach,” said Samantha. Theyalso hope to “serve as a bridge among God’sfamily, between Ecuador and the UnitedStates. As people’s worldview increases, theycan learn more about the God who createdthis world from their brothers and sistersof other cultures; things they could neverhave imagined without that cross-culturalexperience,” she said.The Hudsons hope that their presencewill build a bridge for the Ecuadorians,and “our letters a bridge for those in theUnited States.”26 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012Rachel Daley (M.Div., 2011)Winner of The Seward Hiltner Award inTheology and Personality at CommencementExercises, Rachel Daley serves as a missionworker for the Reformed Church of Americain Hungary.Edip Aydin (Ph.D., 2011)Mor Polycarpus Eugene Aydin, Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of the Netherlands,graduated from the Seminary with a doctorate in church history. In April 2007 he wasordained and appointed as the Patriarchal Vicar for the diocese of the Netherlands and isheadquartered at Dayro d-Mor Ephrem (Mor Aphrem Monastery) at Losser, the Netherlands.Since 2002, Aydin has been one of the executive members of the popular web site of theSyriac Orthodox Church, “Syriac Orthodox Resources” (http://sor.cua.edu).Aydin is pictured with President Iain Torrance, who invited him to give the benedictionat Commencement Exercises.Kellen Smith (M.Div., 2011)serves as associate pastor for youth,families, and colleges students at BrynMawr Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr,Pennsylvania. The recipient of The John T.Galloway Award in Expository Preaching,Smith is pictured here with Seminary trusteeand Bicentennial cochair John Galloway(Class of 1966). The Galloway Award isnamed for John’s father, John T. Galloway.inSpire 27

fall 2011/winter 2012Edwin Estevez (M.Div./M.A., 2011)Dual-degree student Edwin Estevez spent lastsummer working at Trenton PsychiatricHospital in Trenton, New Jersey, wherehe believes his work “bore witness to theimportance of gathering as a community,to remind one another of who we truly arein Christ—accepted, embraced, valued, andloved. It bore witness to our healing journeyand the seasons of our life, both the light andthe darkness. And most of all, that in the lightand in the darkness, God is there with us.”Winner of the Graduate Study Fellowship forthe Parish Pulpit Ministry, Estevez returnedin the fall to his native Guatemala, wherehe lives with an indigenous Mayan familylearning the Mayan language throughtutorship, is taking a class on Mayanspirituality/anthropology at Centro Mayade Idiomas (Mayan Center for Languages),teaching English, volunteering in thecommunity, and traveling with his classBY around BRENNA Guatemala’s LEA NICKEL heritage sites.Voices from Israel/PalestineNate Dresback (M.Div., 2011)M.Div. graduate Nate Dresback and his wife, Julie, who worked as theSeminary’s church and donor relations manager while Nate was a student,have relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, where Nate teaches English as part of theTeach for America program.28 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012Thomas Wilson (Th.M., 2011) is from Monrovia, Liberia, and was inspired to attendPrinceton Seminary by his local pastor, Samuel B. Reeves Jr. (Class of 1997), and by CleoLaRue, the Seminary’s Francis Landey Patton Professor of Homiletics, who visited Liberiawith a team of Seminary students in 1999. After graduation, Wilson returned to Monroviato minister in his local church and help equip others for ministry throughout Liberia. He ispictured here with his family, who attended his graduation.Cynthia Lindenmeyer (D.Min., 2011)D.Min. graduate Cynthia Lindenmeyeris an online chaplain for the AmericanPublic University and associate pastor atSt. Matthews United Church of Christ inCarlisle, Pennsylvania. She is also designinga program in the church that combines body,mind, and spirit by teaching fitness coursesand focusing on healthier eating. The D.Min.process helped her to know how to “envisiona project and present it to a congregationwith both a sociological and theologicallens.” Lindenmeyer, a 1990 graduate ofthe U.S. Military Academy at West Point, ispictured here with her daughter.Amy Peeler (M.Div., 2005, Ph.D., 2011)As a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana WesleyanUniversity in Marion, Indiana, Amy Peeler teaches Bible and theology classes toundergraduates, and is able to pursue research interests, including the publication of herdissertation, “‘You Are My Son’: The Family of God in the Epistle to the Hebrews.”“The Seminary has prepared me wonderfully for my position. The classes I took give me agood control over the content of my classes, and the opportunities I had to teach gave mepractical experience and, therefore, give me confidence in the classroom. My doctoral workhas taught me how to research and to write and instilled within me the passion to do so.”inSpire 29

fall 2011/winter 2012BICENTENNIAL 20121812–2012Celebrating Two Centuries of ServiceIn 1812, James Madison was reelected president of the United States, Louisiana was admitted to the union as the eighteenth state,and the U.S. passed its first foreign aid bill (to aid Venezuelan earthquake victims). The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war againstBritain. Napoleon invaded Russia and reached the Kremlin, only to be turned back, an event commemorated in Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”The waltz was introduced into English ballrooms, Lord Byron made his maiden speech in the House of Lords, and Dr. Joseph Lister was the firstto use disinfectant during surgery.And in Philadelphia in 1812, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church established The Theological Seminary at Princeton and marked aturning point in theological education. In the interests of advancing and extending the theological curriculum and going beyond the liberal artscourse in the nation’s early colleges and universities, the church set up its first post-graduate professional school of theology.The Design of the Seminary described the purpose of the institution this way: “to unite in those who sustain the ministerial office, religion, andliterature; that piety of the heart, which is the fruit only of the renewing and sanctifying grace of God, with solid learning; believing that religionwithout learning, or learning without religion, in the ministers of the gospel, must ultimately prove injurious for the church.”Piety of the heart and solid learning. As Princeton Theological Seminary marks its Bicentennial in 2012 and begins its third century of service tothe church, these are still the core of its mission. Join us for the Bicentennial events!JamesMoorheadMarch 19–22, 2012: Princeton in the Church’sService: A Conference Celebrating the History andHeritage of Princeton Theological SeminaryThis conference will bring together scholars ofvarious ages and areas of expertise to look afreshat Princeton Theological Seminary’s history and itsheritage. Dr. James H. Moorhead, the Seminary’sMary McIntosh Bridge Professor of AmericanChurch History, and author of a forthcoming historyof the Seminary, will anchor the conference.Speakers include:Gary Dorrien, Union Theological Seminary, New YorkJohn R. Fitzmier, executive director of the American Academyof ReligionKathryn Gin, Princeton UniversityPaul Gutjahr, Indiana UniversityGeorge Harinck, Free University, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDarryl G. Hart, Western Seminary, CaliforniaValerie Hotchkiss, Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignNicole Kirk, Princeton Theological SeminaryJames Moorhead, Princeton Theological SeminaryMark Noll, University of Notre DameLeanne Van Dyk, Western Theological Seminary, MichiganRobert BohlIain TorranceMarch 22, 2012: Opening Worship Service for theBicentennial CelebrationMiller Chapel, 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.Preacher: The Reverend Dr. Robert W. Bohl, Chair,Princeton Theological Seminary Board of Trustees,former pastor of Village Presbyterian Church inPrairie Village, Kansas, and Princeton TheologicalSeminary graduate, Class of 1961March 23, 2012: Presidential Lecture on theGeneva BibleStuart Hall, Room 6, 9:30 a.m.President Iain Torrance will give a special lectureon the Geneva Bible titled “The Open Book: ThePersistent Vitality of the Geneva Bible (1560) evenafter the Publication of the King James Bible (1611).”April 12–15, 2012: Drama Production: The Patriots by Sidney KingsleyScheide Hall, Gambrell RoomThe Patriots examines the creation of a new nation, a few yearsprior to the founding of the Seminary in 1812. It demonstrates whata volatile cultural landscape existed at the turn of the nineteenthcentury for our nation’s leaders and the founders of the Seminary.30 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012BICENTENNIAL 2012Princeton Seminary will celebrate its Bicentennial Year with two worship services in thanksgiving to God for our two centuries of missionand ministry—one in March in Miller Chapel and one in October at Princeton University. The Seminary will host several major academicconferences—on Princeton’s history and heritage, on practical theology and sacred texts, on the Book of Romans, and on Scottish philosophyand the natural law tradition in America. We will celebrate the international presence of the Seminary in a world music concert in May, andPresident Torrance will give a special lecture on the Geneva Bible in March. Dr. N.T. Wright, world-renowned biblical scholar, will give thekeynote lecture at the Bicentennial Alumni/ae Reunion in October.We hope you will join us in the Bicentennial Celebration, and will return thanks to God for the contributions that Princeton TheologicalSeminary has made to the church and the world, and for its future mission and work.Rick OsmerApril 13–15, 2012: Biennial Conference of theAssociation of Practical TheologyThis conference, hosted by Princeton TheologicalSeminary, will focus on the theme “PracticalTheology and Sacred Texts,” with keynote speakersDr. Richard R. Osmer and Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventafrom the Princeton Seminary faculty.May 18, 2012: World Music ConcertMiller Chapel, 7:00 p.m.Featuring The Oîkos Ensemble, a consortium of gifted musicians fromaround the country built around the duo of the Reverend Clifford Aerieand Dr. Christopher Bakriges. Learn more about The Oîkos Ensembleat www.oikos-ensemble.com.Beverly RobertsGaventaCleo LaRueMay 2–5, 2012: Conference on Creation, Conflict, andCosmos in Romans 5–8A panel of international scholars gathered by Dr.Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Princeton Seminary’sHelen H.P. Manson Professor of New TestamentLiterature and Exegesis. The conference will includeplenary papers from:John M.G. Barclay, Durham University, DurhamMartinus C. de Boer, Free University, Amsterdam,the NetherlandsSusan Grove Eastman, Duke UniversityDivinity SchoolNeil Elliott, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MinnesotaBeverly Roberts Gaventa, PrincetonTheological SeminaryJ. Louis Martyn, Union Theological Seminary,New York (emeritus)Ben Myers, Charles Sturt University School ofTheology, SydneyStephen Westerholm, McMaster University,Hamilton, OntarioPhilip G. Ziegler, King’s College, Universityof AberdeenJ. Wentzelvan HuyssteenJune 6, 2012: Science for Ministry Public LectureErdman Center, Cooper Conference Room, 7:00 p.m.Princeton Seminary professor of theology andscience Dr. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen will lectureon “A Sense of Self: Theological Anthropology inDialogue with the Sciences.”June 29–July 7, 2012: Choir Tour and PCUSA GeneralAssembly Alumni/ae EventChoral ensembles are part of the Seminary’s history.In our 200th year, members of our choir will bepresent at the 220th General Assembly in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, as representatives of the first seminary founded bythe General Assembly (1812). The choir will visit local churches andcommunities on a “whistle stop” concert tour en route to Pittsburgh.At General Assembly, the choir will sing at PTS’s alumni/ae event, aswell as worship with commissioners. Watch the web site for details.July 22–27, 2012: Institute of TheologyFor clergy and lay leaders, participants will reflect on the theme “TheMany Faces of the Apostle Paul.”Princeton Theological Seminary professors Cleo LaRue andGordon Mikoski will give workshops on preaching and teachingPaul. To register visit www.ptsem.edu/Seminary_Relations/RomansConference.inSpire 31

fall 2011/winter 2012BICENTENNIAL 2012July 22–27, 2012: The Joe R. Engle Institute of PreachingFor preachers in their first two-to-eight years of ministry who wishto nurture and strengthen their preaching vocation in the companyof colleagues. This year’s theme will focus on the preaching andteaching of Paul. Well-known preacher and author Patrick Willsonwill be the pastor/preacher-in-residence.John BowlinSeptember 6–9, 2012: Conference on ScottishPhilosophy and the Natural Law Traditionin AmericaA conference organized by the PTS Center forthe Study of Scottish Philosophy, to celebrate theintellectual and religious context in which PTSwas founded, while simultaneously investigatingchallenges that face the contemporary seminary’shopes to combine critical study with spiritualformation. This conference, coordinated by Dr.Gordon Graham, the Seminary’s Henry Luce IIIProfessor of Philosophy and the Arts, is madepossible by support of Theresa Khuri and thefoundation that is being created, of which she will behonorary chair.Speakers include:Hadley Arkes, Amherst CollegeJohn Bowlin, Princeton Theological SeminaryDawn DeVries, Union Presbyterian SeminarySamuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois at ChicagoStephen J. Grabill, Acton InstituteGordon Graham, Princeton Theological SeminaryJennifer Herdt, Yale UniversityAlan Keyes, former U.S. AmbassadorEsther Kroeker, University of LeuvenKeith Lehrer, University of ArizonaGeorge H. Nash, The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural RenewalDaniel R. Robinson, Oxford UniversityLeigh Schmidt, Washington University in St. LouisScott Segrest, University of AlaskaJeffrey Stout, Princeton UniversityNicholas Wolterstorff, Yale UniversityRene van Woudenberg, Free University, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsOctober 11 and October 13, 2012: Conversations about the Historyand Heritage of the Versión Reina-Valera of the Bible and the KingJames BiblePrinceton Theological Seminary Campus (October 11, in English)Evangelical Presbyterian Church El Buen Vecino, New York,New York (October 13, in Spanish)These events offer discussion of the differences between the VersiónReina-Valera of the Bible (in Spanish) and the King James Version (inEnglish) in the context of the 1600s and today. President Torrance andDr. Rady Roldán-Figueroa will be the speakers.MarilynMcCord AdamsOctober 25, 2012: Closing Worship Service for theBicentennial CelebrationPrinceton University Chapel, 2:00 p.m.Preacher: The Reverend Canon Professor MarilynMcCord Adams, the Distinguished ResearchProfessor of Philosophy at the University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill, and Princeton TheologicalSeminary alumna, Class of 1985We gather to offer praise and gratitude to Godfor the teachings of those who taught, as well asthe ministries of those who learned, at PrincetonTheological Seminary.Watch the Princeton Seminary web site for more Bicentennialinformation, including Bicentennial Moments, historicphotographs and timeline, audios of historic lectures fordownload, and opportunities to contribute your own memories andstories. www.pstem.eduBicentennial Celebration CommitteeRobert M. Adams, Co-chair, Class of 1962 and PTS TrusteeMary Lee Fitzgerald, Co-chair, Class of 1961 and PTS Trustee EmeritaDarrell L. Armstrong, Class of 1999 and PTS TrusteeCress Darwin, Class of 2003, 2004Deborah A. McKinley, Class of 1982 and PTS TrusteeNeal D. Presa, Class of 2004Rhonda Jean Rhone, Class of 2005Kimberly A. Strange-Shanks, Class of 2005Paul G. Watermulder, Class of 197732 inSpire

Class Notes may be edited for length or clarity, and should includethe writer’s name, degree(s), year(s) of graduation, address, andtelephone number. We receive many class notes and try to printthem all, but that is not always possible.Photographs are welcome, but upon discretion of the editors maynot be used due to the quality of the photograph or space limitations.Photographs may be submitted electronically as long as they arehigh resolution or at least 300 dpi.Key to Abbreviations:Uppercase letters designate degrees earned at PTS:M.Div. B M.A.T.S. TM.R.E. E D.Min. PM.A. E Th.D. DTh.M. M Ph.D. DSpecial undergraduate student USpecial graduate student GWhen an alumnus/a did not receive a degree, a lowercase lettercorresponding to those above designates the course of study.1936 In October, WilliamT.P. Rambo (B), executivepresbyter emeritus of LongIsland Presbytery, celebratedthe seventy-fifth anniversaryof his ordination.1943 Donald Fletcher’s (B)web site, donaldfletcher.com,is devoted to the four books hehas written since his retirement.His newest publication is TheGift—Looking to Jesus AsHe Was.1947 John H. Sinclair(B, ’53M) has published hisfirst historical novel, TheScattering of the Heather:Stories of Sinclairs andKin on Six Continents. Thebook is the result of twentyyears of research on thelives of Sinclair’s Scottishancestors, including his great,great grandmother, whohappened to be a Mackay.The book is available fromwww.briobooks.com.1950 Nat Roe (B, ’55M)received a special recognitionfrom the Rotary for his servicein World War II and anotherspecial recognition for initiatingWashington Presbytery’sjoint ownership in PineSprings Camp, a camp thatprovides every camper witha “vital encounter with JesusChrist that leads to growth inChristian faith and discipleship.”Roe still works in his shop andlast year made 200 woodencrosses in celebration of TheChurch of the Covenant’s(Washington, Pennsylvania)fiftieth anniversary.1953 J. Calvin K. Jackson (B)has written Looking Over MyShoulder: My View through aManse Window (CreateSpace,2011). The book can bepurchased at amazon.com.1954 Last November, PaulPierson (B, ’71D) ended asixteenth-month assignment asco-interim pastor of The FirstPresbyterian Church of Hollywoodin Los Angeles, California.1956 Robert Crawford (b)has published his ninth book,The Battle for the Soul: AComparative Analysis in an Ageof Doubt (Palgrave Macmillan,2011). The book can be orderedat www.palgrave.com.Donald A. Crosby (B, ’59M) haspublished Faith and Reason:Their Roles in Religious andSecular Life (State Universityof New York Press, January2011). He is professor emeritusof philosophy at ColoradoState University.1961 Bruce W.H. Urich (B)reports that at the age ofseventy-eight he is enjoyingthe good life in Orlando,Florida. He was asked togive the commencementaddress at the twenty-fifthcommencement exercises ofFlorida Christian University inDecember and was awardedan honorary doctorate inChristian education. He hasnow been the dean of FloridaChristian University and FloridaTheological Seminary for fifteenyears and stated supply of St.John’s Presbyterian Church ofOrlando for twenty-one years.1963 John R. Powers (B) gavea keynote presentation in Juneat the World Conference onDisaster Management (www.wcdm.org) in Toronto, Canada,on the topic “Assessing theRisk of Nuclear Terrorism.”1965 Genevieve M. Dox (E)serves as pastor of the FirstCongregational Church ofAntwerp in Antwerp, New York.fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTES1966 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. (D) isa research fellow at the Centerfor Studies in the WesleyanTradition at The Divinity Schoolat Duke University in Durham,North Carolina. His recentpublications include JohnWesley’s First Tune Book:The Foundery Collection of1742, coedited with CarltonR. Young (The Charles WesleySociety, 2011), Lyrical Theologyof Charles Wesley (Wipf andStock, 2010), and Help Us toHelp Each Other: Hymns forLife and Ministry with the Poorby Charles Wesley, coeditedwith Carlton R. Young (TheCharles Wesley Society, 2010).His recent CDs include LiederDer Jahreszeiten (Songs of theSeason), The Sacred Songs ofJohann Sebastian Bach, andArabesque Recordings 2011:The Wonder of Christmas.1967 Norman A. Beck (D) haspublished Anti-Roman Cryptogramsin the New Testament:Hidden Transcripts of Hopeand Liberation (revised edition,Peter Lang, 2010); Blessed toBe a Blessing to Each Other:Jews, Muslims, and Christiansas Children of Abraham in theMiddle East (second edition,Fairway Press, 2010); andLectionary Scripture Notes forSeries A (CSS Publishing, 2010).Beck is the Poehlmann Professorof Theology and ClassicalLanguages at Texas LutheranUniversity and the pastor ofSt. John’s Lutheran Church inStockdale (Denhawken), Texas.Gordon Williams’s (B) thirdbook, The Forgotten Key toChristian Marriage and AllMarriage, was released in 2010.inSpire 33

fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTES1970 Bill van de Meene (M)is retired and living in Australia.He keeps busy with a numberof activities, including a recentoverseas trip with his wife,Myfanwy, to the country of hisbirth, Holland, as well as visitswith their daughter, Allison,and her husband, Dan, north ofLondon, and with their daughter,Susan, and her partner, Vin, inHong Kong.1971 In August, John C. Carr(M) returned to India for thefourth time for a three-weekassignment teaching pastoralresearch methodology andcounseling theory at the MarThoma Theological Seminaryin Kottayam, Kerala. He thentraveled to the InternationalCongress on Pastoral Careand Counseling in Rotarua,New Zealand.1972 Alan Blatecky (B, ’73M)has been appointed headof the Office of Cyberinfrastructurefor the NationalScience Foundation.David M. Evans (B) serves asinterim pastor of St. AndrewPresbyterian Church in MarbleFalls, Texas, near his home inAustin. In October he joinedfifteen other clergy colleaguesat Mo Rach for their thirtiethannual gathering. The groupalso includes Paul Debenport(’71B) and Fred Lyon (’83B), andincludes Presbyterian, UnitedMethodist, United Church ofChrist, and Episcopal pastors.Joseph Pathrapankal (m) hasretired from the faculty oftheology in Bangalore, India,and is now the director of theAnugraha Renewal Centre(www.anugrahaktm.org)in Kerala.1974 In June, RichardJohnson (B) was awarded theDoctor of Ministry degree fromAshland Theological Seminaryin Ashland, Ohio. He retiredfrom the Air Force ChaplainService in May 2008 as acolonel and immediately begandoctoral studies at Ashland.His dissertation is titled “TheDynamics of Spiritual Healthand Connection.” Johnsonserves as senior pastor of twoUnited Methodist churches inMunfordville, Kentucky. Jack Niewold (B) haspublished a memoir, Frail Webof Intention (WinePress, 2010).Though the book covers hislife to date, the description ofhis years at PTS is especiallycolorful, with memories, aidedby journal entries, portrayingfaculty and fellow students,as well as his experiences infield work.1977 John “Bronco”Bruington (B) sends greetingsfrom Montana. His book, OutOur Way: Theology UnderSaddle, is almost ready to besent to the publisher. He writesthat it is based on his weeklycolumn featuring theologicalinsights gained from his16 ½-hand quarterhorse, “Doc”Goliath, and Jack, his “Rez”dog, and says that there is“real interest in some solidtheology with a good deal ofhorse sense. [The] problem is[that] all of my readers know orwant to meet Goliath and Jack,but nobody wants to meet me!”[See essay by Bruington in thisissue of inSpire, page 8.]Robert Hull Jr.’s (D) book TheStory of the New TestamentText: Movers, Materials,Motives, Methods, and Modelswas published by the Societyof Biblical Literature in October2010. Hull retired in May 2010after teaching New Testamentfor thirty-three years atEmmanuel School of Religion inJohnson City, Tennessee.This past summer, Laura Loving(B) received a Masters inLiberal Arts from St. John’sCollege in Santa Fe, NewMexico. She writes that theprogram “encompasses theGreat Book series, so whilerevisiting Augustine and theBible, I immersed myself ineverything from de Tocquevilleto Tolstoy, Herodotus to Homer,the list goes on.” Her husband,Bill Humphreys (’77B), spouseof thirty years, attendedher graduation along withher siblings (all veterans ofseminary), a Smith Collegefriend, and all of their kidsand significant others. “Greatfun in Santa Fe!” Laurateaches English part timeat Carroll University inWaukesha, Wisconsin (whereBill has been a chaplain fortwelve years) and is on thepastoral staff at WauwatosaPresbyterian Church inWauwatosa, Wisconsin.1978 Hilary H. Battle (B) hasretired from the Ohio Departmentof Mental Health ashospital chaplain (director ofthe Department of Religion).He is currently investing moretime working with his churchand is writing a second bookof sermons and lectures. Hewrites, “I [gave] a lecture on‘Creation of Marriage,’ andcoined the phrase that marriageas created by God is a‘heteromonocovenant’ union.Blessings to all!”Donald Howard (B) has beenelected vice president ofChautauqua County RuralMinistry in Dunkirk, New York.He has served on the board forthe past two years, followingyears of volunteer service tothe organization. Rural Ministryprovides for the needs of andadvocates for the homeless andpoor so they may increasinglygain control of their lives.Howard also serves part timeas pastor of the Fredonia(American) Baptist Church inFredonia, New York, is on thestaff of the Fredonia CentralSchool District, and teaches a“Religions of the World” coursefor the University of Phoenix.1979 Stephen Muse (B) haspublished a new book, WhenHearts Become Flame (OrthodoxResearch Institute Press),which shares some of hisjourney into Eastern Orthodoxyand how this has shaped histhinking about the ministry ofpastoral care and counseling.He and his wife, Claudia, havebeen in Columbus, Georgia, fornineteen years, where he is directorof counselor training andclinical services for the Turner34 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTESMinistry Resource Center ofthe Pastoral Institute, Inc. Hebecame a grandfather threeyears ago. “Doxa Theo!”1982 Michael Gorman (B,’89D) will step down as deanof the Ecumenical Instituteof Theology at St. Mary’sSeminary and University inBaltimore, Maryland, at the endof the 2011–2012 academic year,and assume the newly createdposition of distinguishedresearch professor of sacredscripture on July 1, 2012.a sequel to his first novel,James Oliver Young: InterimPastor. Both are availableat www.amazon.com.1984 After nineteen years,John Groth (B, ’96M) hasretired as a regional directorof Delaware and New Jerseyfor the Priority One Foundationin order to form another men’sministry, Gallantry in Action(www.gallantryinaction.com).Diana Hagewood Smith (B)recently entered a humanIt Mean to Be Human? Thehaiku is printed here.Dark skull-eyes haunt meDid you hear the eagle strike?Taung child so long dead?1985 Noel Anderson (B) wascalled as pastor and head ofstaff of the First PresbyterianChurch in Upland, California,last February.After teaching New Testamentfor twenty-seven years atNorthern Seminary, CharlesH. Cosgrove (D) has beenD.Min. from PTS helps himlead a summer theology workshop.“Gretta and I recentlycelebrated fifty-four years ofmarriage. We continue to findchallenging projects.”Karla Brown Smith’s (E) poem,“Where, O God,” was publishedonline in The Journal ofPastoral Care and Counseling,Volume 65:2. It is reprintedbelow with permission fromthe journal. Where, O God?Where, O God, are you leading me?Where, O God, do I find my rest?Where beside the still waters that run deep?Where beside lofty mountain grandeur?My soul seeks you in the daylight hours of a new dawn.My soul seeks you in the business and busy-ness of a noon dayMy soul seeks you in the quietness of the eveningas I lay down to rest.Where do I see your face?Where do I experience your grace?Where do I feel your presence?I come to rest in your houseI come to rest in your templeI come to where many have come before me lookingfor your face, your grace, and your presence.Here in the quietness of this hourI sense I am not aloneHere in the quietness you are hereYou are nearer to me than life itselfYou provide me with life, with breath, with joy.I want to stay, yet I feel a pullI want to stay and drink this all inI want to infuse you into every cell of my beingYet I must goI cannot lingerWhere, O God, where?Where are you leading me?—by Karla Brown Smith1983 Jin Han (M, ’88D) hascontributed to The BlackwellBible Commentary on SixMinor Prophets, writing thefirst part on Nahum, Habakkuk,and Zephaniah.David C. Marx’s (P) secondnovel, Heather Young, wasreleased in February. It isevolution-themed haiku andlimerick contest sponsored bythe Smithsonian Museum ofNatural History to celebrate thefirst anniversary of the Hall ofHuman Origins. Her haiku onthe Taung Child won third prizeand an author-autographedcopy of the exhibitioncompanion volume, What Doesappointed professor of earlyChristian literature at Garrett-Evangelical TheologicalSeminary in Evanston, Illinois.1986 Bruce W. Buller (P) isretired but often leads liturgyand preaches, and writes that“funeral homes say I am onspeed dial.” He says that hisLast February, Marie (Sam)Trapp (e) celebrated hertwo-year anniversary ofbeing cancer-free (she wasdiagnosed on New Year’sEve 2008 and had surgery inFebruary 2009). She writes,“To celebrate my new hairpost-chemotherapy I am nowan unabashed carrot-top!inSpire 35

fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTESThanks be to God and my familyand church for their support.”1987 Christopher Keating (B)has become a featured blogwriter for the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch’s Belief Saint Louissection. His blog appears atstltoday.com/civilreligion.Christopher P. Momany (B)has published Doing Good:A Grace-Filled Approach toHoliness (Abingdon Press). Thepiece is intended as a primeron the Wesleyan/Holinessethic of love. Momany isthe chaplain and a part-timeprofessor at Adrian College inAdrian, Michigan. Charleston He blogs at www.drmontyknight.wordpress.com.1989 Seth Sykes (M) is associatedean at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, overseeingthe university college. His wife,Lisa (’90B), is associate pastorof Welborne United MethodistChurch in Richmond, andparticipated last year in theUnited Nations EnvironmentalProgram meeting of the IntergovernmentalNegotiation Committee2 in Chiba, Japan, whereshe assisted in a process thatwill lead to a global legallybinding treaty on mercury in2013. She is the author of theUnited Methodist resolutionon “Protecting Children fromMercury-containing Drugs”and the president of The Coalitionfor Mercury-free Drugs, a501c3 dedicated to eliminatingmercury in medicine.1991 Yvonne Best-Motaung(B) is living and serving inthe Johannesburg area ofSouth Africa with her husband,Zachariah Motaung. They arecopastors of the Kagiso BaptistChurch and celebrated theirfirst anniversary in February2011. She writes, “God hasopened the opportunity forglobal mutual partnerships inministry and missions immersionsfor churches in both ofour countries. An exciting timeof ministry for both of us.”Steve Miller (B) writes thatthe Miller family (Mende,Steve, Joshua, and Hannah)landed in Westlake, California,in the fall 2010, where hewas installed as the newassociate pastor for adultdiscipleship at WestminsterPresbyterian Church Westlake.Seminary, and inaugurated asa full professor. His inauguraladdress was titled “ASpiritual Life.”Monica McDowell Elvig’s(B) second book, You AreLight, a healing meditationworkbook, was internationallyreleased by O-Books (February2011). It can be purchased atwww.monicamcdowell.com/.Fran Grace (M, ’97D) haspublished Meditation in theClassroom: ContemplativePedagogy for ReligiousStudies (State University ofNew York Press, 2011), abook she coedited withJudith Simmer-Brown. She isprofessor of religious studiesat the University of Redlandsin California, and the authorof Carry A. Nation: Retellingthe Life.1988 Robert A. JohnsonJr. (B) recently became theexecutive director for Friendsof Forman Christian College inLahore, Pakistan, where he andand his wife served as administratorsand faculty membersfrom 2005 to 2008. Along withhis position in the United States,Johnson will resume his statusas associate professor of religiousstudies at the college.Monty Knight (P) has retired,after sixteen years, aspastor of the First ChristianChurch (Disciples of Christ)in Charleston, South Carolina,and has resumed his vocationof pastoral counseling in1990 Alf Halvorson (B, ’91M),pastor of the First PresbyterianChurch in Bethlehem,Pennsylvania, and a memberof the Seminary’s Alumni/aeAssociation Executive Council,received a Doctor of Ministryin mission and evangelism fromAustin Presbyterian TheologicalSeminary in May.Ken Kovacs (B) has publisheda new book, The RelationalTheology of James E. Loder,about PTS’s former professorof Christian education. It is arevised version of Kovacs’sdoctoral dissertation and isthe second volume in thePeter Lang Practical Theologyseries edited by Iain Torrance,Rick Osmer, and GordonMikoski. It is available onwww.amazon.com.1992 M. Kendall Lancaster(B) has retired from the ClevelandClinic Hospice programand the Hospice of the GoodShepherd, a program of theLutheran Churches in theCleveland, Ohio, area.1993 Judith Cooke (B)is pastor of HigganumCongregational Church inHigganum, Connecticut. Herhusband, Jay (B), is directorof pastoral services atHartford Hospital.1994 Edward W. Baugh (B)is pastor of the PequannockReformed Church in Wayne,New Jersey.Allan Cole Jr. (B, ’01D) wasinstalled last March as thenew academic dean of AustinPresbyterian TheologicalChristine Kallil (E) has been afaculty consultant for ThomasEdison State College for thelast twelve years, mentoringonline courses in religion andMiddle East history. She hasalso assessed portfolios in bothfields for the last eight years.1995 Ken Carter (P) has beenappointed district superintendentof the WaynesvilleUnited Methodist ChurchDistrict. He can be reached atwaynesvilleds@wnccumc.org.On June 1, 2011, Rhonda Myers(B) began serving as pastor ofthe Chapel Lane PresbyterianChurch in Midland, Michigan.She writes that it is “a joy tohave accepted a call to servethis vital congregation, whichis spiritually deep and rich in36 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTESministry, particularly in theareas of mission, service, andChristian education.”The Somers Point Jazz Society(New Jersey) presented anevening of words and musicfeaturing author and poet RinaTerry (B) in November.1996 Phillip G. Camp (B) waspromoted to associate professorin the Hazelip School ofTheology at Lipscomb Universityin Nashville, Tennessee,in 2010.Courtney Cromie (B, ’01M)has been called as pastor ofCornerstone PresbyterianChurch in Jackson, New Jersey.She was installed on October2, 2011.James Metzger (B) haspublished Dim, a novel abouta young seminary graduate(who attended Princeton!)who quickly discovers that heis a poor fit for his first UnitedMethodist Church parish ineastern rural North Carolina.The book is available atwww.barnesandnoble.com. Kristi Upson-Saia (B) haspublished her first book, EarlyChristian Dress: Gender, Virtue,and Authority (Routledge,2011). Since earning herPh.D. from Duke in 2006, shehas been teaching in theReligious Studies Departmentat Occidental College inLos Angeles.1997 Elizabeth (Clark)Thasiah (B) and Victor Thasiah(B) have relocated to ThousandOaks, California, with their twodaughters Eden (nine) andAthena (four). Elizabeth is theexecutive director of Clergyand Laity United for EconomicJustice in Ventura County.Victor is assistant professor ofreligion at California LutheranUniversity and a task forcemember of the nationalEvangelical Lutheran Churchin America Criminal JusticeReform Task Force.1999 Jeff Gephart (B) is thedean of students at the BearCreek School in Redmond,Washington, and pursuinga doctorate in educationalleadership at Seattle University.Kenyatta Gilbert (B, ’07D)has recently published TheJourney and Promise of AfricanAmerican Preaching (FortressPress, 2011). The book exploresthe historical development ofAfrican American preachingand proposes effective tools tokeep this distinguished traditionalive. Gilbert, an ordainedBaptist minister, is assistantprofessor of homiletics at theHoward University School ofDivinity in Washington DC.Charles “Chip” Hardwick(B, ’07D) has been nameddirector of theology, worship,and education for the PCUSA’sGeneral Assembly MissionCouncil. He will ”connectand engage Presbyteriansin issues of theologicalconcern to the church’s lifeand witness, bringing PCUSAseminaries, universities, andpastor/theologians together toaddress the presenting issuesand questions of theologicalimportance to congregationsand the denomination.”Sara M. Koenig (B, ’08D)is assistant professor ofbiblical studies at SeattlePacific University in Seattle,Washington. She is picturedbelow (middle) with fellowPTS doctoral graduates andfaculty colleagues Laura Sweat(’11D) and Michael Langford(’10D) at the university’s 2011opening convocation. James A. Lee (P) has publisheda new book, Running withReckless Abandon. It is aboutcontemporary charismaticpractice from a Reformedperspective. The book isavailable at www.amazon.com.Mark. C. Lee (B) writes,“Thesaying, ‘When it rains, it pours,’appears to be so true lately. Inthe midst of good news, therewas not-so-good news startinglast January. I finished myD.Min. with Erskine Seminary,through the Army’s MEDCOMprogram, at the end of January.Then my father passed awayin early February. Shortly afterthe funeral, I deployed toIraq for my second tour. Thistime, I’m with a combat stresscontrol unit, to help soldiersdeal with the stressors of lifeand deployment. Also, the day Iarrived in Iraq, I found out I waspromoted to major. A whirlwindof events, and God’s gracecontinues to abound and carryme each day.”Tony Tian-Ren Lin (B, ’00M)is assistant director of theInstitute for the AdvancedStudies in Culture at theUniversity of Virginia.Mark Pulver (B) works forDeloitte in San Francisco,California. As a senior writerand presentation skills coach,he provides communicationsadvice and strategy forcolleagues who are developingproposals to gain new businessopportunities, and preparesthem to deliver convincingand inspiring presentations toprospective clients.Carolyn Schneider’s (D) newbook, I Am a Christian: The Nun,the Devil, and Martin Luther,was published in 2010 byFortress Press. The book tellsLuther’s story of a woman whofought the devil well.2000 After eight and a halfyears at Trinity PresbyterianChurch in Charlotte, NorthCarolina, Baron Mullis (B, ’10P)began a new call last Januaryas pastor of MorningsidePresbyterian Church inAtlanta, Georgia.inSpire 37

fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTES2001 Theresa Latini (B, ’06D)has published The Churchand the Crisis of Community:A Practical Theology ofSmall-Group Ministry (Wm.B. Eerdmans PublishingCompany, 2011).2002 Rhonda Britton (B) hadthe privilege last October ofparticipating in a two-weekmission trip to Argentina andBolivia with Canadian BaptistMinistries. She writes, “Seeinghow God ministers to thosewho live in a developing nationand how they thrive with farless than most of the world wastruly life-altering.”weddings & BIRTHSWEDDINGSKatherine Cooke (’05B) and William Kerr, June 18, 2011Annie Shepard and Joshua Jon Stewart (’05B), November 27, 2010Jamie Butcher (’09B) and Ryan Bonfiglio (’09B), October 9, 2010Sarah Henkel (’09B) and William Summers, January 1, 2011Louisa Watson (’09B) and William Umphres, May 29, 2010Amy Fairbanks (’10B) and Tom Seat (’09B), July 16, 2011Penelope Parsons (’10B) and John Hogan, August 15, 2010Stacy Tschirhart and Ryan Reed (’10B, E), April 17, 2011BIRTHSElizabeth Anne to Hannah and Philip B. (’00M) Wilson on June 20, 2011Andrew Julian to Christine and Matt (’03B) Gough on October 11, 2010Nicholas Hatch (B) wasinstalled as pastor ofAlexandria First PresbyterianChurch in Alexandria, NewJersey, on February 27, 2011.Participating in his installationservice were fellow alums(from left to right): ElizabethVandegrift (’89B), Hatch, RobertCarter (’02B), and Mark Hanna(’02B). LeQuita H. Porter (B)celebrated her first year ofministry as senior pastor of theEast Preston United BaptistChurch of Nova Scotia, Canada,on the anniversary of herinstallation on October 30, 2011.Rhonda Britton (’02B), pastorof Cornwallis Street BaptistChurch of Halifax and formerPTS classmate, preached at themorning worship service.2003 Jeremy Deck (B) hasbeen appointed executivedirector of the PresbyterianGlobal Fellowship, an organizationthat transforms “mainlinecongregations into missionalcommunities followingJesus Christ.”Matt Gough (B) was installedlast January as associatepastor of youth and theirfamilies, young adults, andoutreach and evangelism atSunnyvale Presbyterian Churchin Silicon Valley, California.He and his wife, Christine,welcomed their second son,Andrew Julian, on October11, 2010.Tracy Mehr-Muska (B) wasrecently elected as thepresident of the Connecticutchapter of the Association ofProfessional Chaplains. Shewrites that she “owes somuch to PTS and my amazingprofessors and caring staff.”Meredith L.D. Riedel (M)has joined the WheatonCollege faculty as anassistant professor of history.She teaches courses inworld history. 2004 Wes Goldsberry (B)completed his Th.M. degreeat Harvard Divinity School inMay, and in July was appointedas the academic dean at TheWhite Mountain School inBethlehem, New Hampshire.Toby Long (B) finished medicalresidency in June and wasawarded the 2011 ColoradoResident of the Year by theColorado Academy of FamilyPhysicians. Long and hiswife, Andrea, and their threedaughters, Elise, Claire, andSylvie, are relocating toSaginaw, Michigan, where hewill begin work as a NationalHealth Service Corps Scholaron Saginaw’s east side.Loren Pankratz (B) has planteda church in Centerville, Utah.Visit the church’s web site atwww.thebridgeutah.org.Former PTS trustee NealPresa (M) is a candidatefor moderator of the 220thGeneral Assembly of thePresbyterian Church (USA).He is a teaching elder/pastorof Middlesex PresbyterianChurch in Middlesex, NewJersey, moderator of ElizabethPresbytery, and chair ofthe General AssemblySpecial Committee on theHeidelberg Catechism.2005 Jenn Graffius (B) isthe director of chapel atFuller Theological Seminary inPasadena, California.38 inSpire

Take a BowPeter E. Bauer (’78B) received the Bob and Joyce Dell Awardat the United Church of Christ GeneralSynod meeting in Tampa, Florida, in July.It is a national award presented by theMental Illness Network of the UnitedChurch of Christ, and was in recognitionfor the training Bauer provided oncombat trauma, spirituality, and aidingtroops and families effected by the Peter E. Bauercombat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.Kevin Bowers (’01B) has beenselected to participate in the Wabash Pastoral LeadershipProgram, a Lilly Endowment-sponsored program at WabashCollege in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Bowers is pastor of BethanyPresbyterian Church in Lafayette.Brennan Breed (’06B) has been awarded a 2011 Charlotte W.Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The NewcombeFellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious awardfor Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciencesaddressing questions of ethical and religious values. Breedis a doctoral candidate in religion at Emory University. Hisdissertation, “‘Engraved on a Rock Forever’: Reception Historyand the Hebrew Bible,” offers a theoretical foundation for thestudy of the appropriation of biblical texts by diverse communitiesthroughout history.Ben Daniel’s (’93B) book Neighbor: Christian Encounters with“Illegal” Immigration (Westminster John Knox Press) was named2011 Religion Book of the Year by ForeWord Reviews, a tradejournal for small and independent publishers.At its June 2011 commencement exercises, The PenningtonSchool in Pennington, New Jersey, awarded history teacherMark DiGiacomo (’03B) the Henry and Selma Otte DistinguishedTeacher Award. He has been a member of the faculty since 2005.Kimberly L. Hyatt (’96B) was awarded the 2011 Womenof Vision Award by Girls Inc. of Northeast Florida for artsachievement for her work as executive director of Cathedral Arts,an afterschool program serving more than 1,000 youth each week.Tim Kennedy (’03B) has been selected as an AbileneBizmagazine’s 20 Under 40 Award Winner for 2011. Each year themagazine honors up-and-coming business leaders, highlightingtwenty local business people under the age of forty who appearto be the leaders of the future. Kennedy is university chaplain atMcMurry University in Abilene.Robert H. Linders (’70M, ’77P), senior pastor of St. Paul’sLutheran Church in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was inducted inMarch into his high school Athletic Hall of Fame. Linders was theNew Jersey State champion in the 800-meter run in 1960 and alsofall 2011/winter 2012class NOTESa member of the school’s Championship of America Mile RelayTeam that year, in what was then the third-fastest high schooltime in the history of the Penn Relays. Both records have beenunsurpassed after fifty years at his highschool, Northern Valley Regional inDemarest, New Jersey.D. Michael Lindsay (’00B) has beennamed the eighth president of GordonCollege in Boston, Massachusetts. Hetook over the helm on July 1, 2011.Gregory A. Love (’88B, ’97D),D. Michael Lindsayassociate professor of systematictheology at San Francisco TheologicalSeminary, has won the 2011 Angell Award of the PresbyterianWriters Guild. The award is given annually for the best first bookpublished the previous calendar year by a Presbyterian writer.Love’s book, Love, Violence, and the Cross: How the NonviolentGod Saves Us through the Cross of Christ (Cascade Books), waschosen from among nineteen entries published in 2010.Carol E. Lytch (’80B) has been elected as president ofLancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.She assumed the role as the school’s eleventh presidentin mid-August.Marvin A. McMickle (’83P) has been appointed the twelfthpresident of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School inRochester, New York. He began his fulltimeservice on January 1, 2012.Christopher Momany (’87B) hasreceived the 2011 Adrian CollegeAlumni Humanitarian Award. He is a1984 graduate of Adrian College andhas worked to help bring the college’santislavery tradition forward at a timeMarvin A. McMicklewhen as many as twenty-seven millionpeople worldwide are still held in captivity.Momany provides national and Michigan-based leadership forvarious efforts against human trafficking.John P. Muilenburg (’39M), the oldest living graduate (99) ofNew Brunswick Theological Seminary, was honored for his manyyears of ministry and service with a recognition tea at PenneyMemorial Church in Penney Farms, Florida, in March. Muilenburgwas a missionary in China, the Philippines, and Haiti.Norm Nelson (’67M) was presented with the 2011 Alumnus ofthe Year award at Westmont College’s homecoming in October.He was also honored as founder of the college’s “Spring Sing” onthe occasion of the event’s fiftieth anniversary celebration, whichdrew a full house of 5,000 at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Nelson isinSpire 39

fall 2011/winter 2012class NOTESTake a Bowpresident and on-air host of Compassion Radio, which broadcasts1,000 program releases daily across the United States.Frank Yamada (’95B, ’05D) was elected the tenth president ofMcCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He assumedthe presidency on July 1, 2011, andis the first Asian American to lead aPresbyterian Church (USA) seminary.Frank YamadaSamuel Vogel (U) wasordained on June 5, 2011, inOulu, Finland. He is a Lutheranpastor in northern Finlandand a Ph.D. candidate at theUniversität Tübingen.Joshua R. Ziefle (B, ’11D)has started a new positionas associate professorof youth ministries atNorthwest University inKirkland, Washington.2006 Melissa Bean (B)works at the New York-NewJersey Trail Conference, anonprofit organization locatedin Mahwah, New Jersey,founded in 1920 to create,protect, and promote a networkof nearly 1,800 miles of publichiking trails.Millason Dailey (B) and herhusband, Erik (’04B), haverelocated to the northernsuburbs of Chicago. Millasonserves as associate pastorfor student ministries at theFirst Presbyterian Churchof Libertyville, and Erik isassociate pastor for youthfaith formation at the FirstPresbyterian Church ofLake Forest.Jon Hauerwas (B) is currentlyworking on a D.Min. atColumbia Theological Seminary.He is pastor of Saint JamesPresbyterian Church inBellingham, Washington.Jason Ingalls (B) wasordained to the priesthoodin the Episcopal Church atSt. Bartholomew’s Churchin Nashville, Tennessee, onJanuary 8, 2011.Stephen McKinney-Whitaker(B) was called as copastorof United PresbyterianChurch of Peoria, Illinois. Heis excited to share pastoralduties with another Princetonalum, Randall Saxon (’73B).McKinney-Whitaker began hisD.Min. in preaching in Junethrough the Association ofChicago Theological Schools.He was also the featuredpreacher October 2, 2011, onthe nationally syndicated radioprogram Day1. His sermon,based on Philippians 3:4–14,was titled “How Do We Getto Holy?”Amy Morgan (B) and AmandaAdams Riley (’05B), alongwith fellow clergywomenMelissa Lynn DeRosa andMarianne J. Grano, havewritten The Girlfriends’ ClergyCompanion: Surviving andThriving in Ministry (The AlbanInstitute, 2011).In August, Eleanor Norman(B, E) became the nationalconference director forthe Ayaan Hirsi Ali (AHA)Foundation. The AHAFoundation’s mission is to helpwomen in the West who aredenied basic human rightsin the name of militant Islam.She is also a partner withAyaan Hirsi Ali in Ladybug LLC.Ladybug creates toys, books,and games that promote honor,respect, and manners forchildren. Their first productsare scheduled to be releasedin 2013.Matthew J. Webber (B)received his Th.M. insystematic theology fromCalvin Theological Seminary inMay 2011. He is the associatepastor of the First PresbyterianChurch in Holland, Michigan.2007 Joshua Cleveland(B) is assistant director ofalumni and parent relationsat Whitworth University inSpokane, Washington.2008 Rebecca Lea JordanHeys (B) is minister of discipleshipat Calvin ChristianReformed Church in GrandRapids, Michigan.2009 In July, Catalyst forChange Church, a multiculturalchurch in west Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, and pastored byKeon Gerow (B), celebratedtheir move into a new buildingby championing the causesof the community. The churchresponded to local crime andviolence with a communitymarch, cookout, and concert,planned to share the love ofGod and model nonviolentresolution strategies.Louisa Watkins Umphres(B) is a first-year pastoralresident at Bryn MawrPresbyterian Church in BrynMawr, Pennsylvania.2010 Adam Bowers (B)has started a social mediamanagement and consultingfirm for churches and otherorganizations. His web site(www.adambowersmedia.com)offers a blog with free tips andinsightful articles about thechurch and social media.2011 Tony Jones (D) haspublished The Church Is Flat:The Relational Ecclesiologyof the Emerging ChurchMovement (The JoPa Group,2011). The book is availableon www.amazon.com. Jonesis theologian-in-residenceat Solomon’s Porch inMinneapolis, Minnesota.Anne West Kesner (E) isin a chaplain residencyprogram at Norfolk SentaraHospital in Norfolk, Virginia.She and her husband live inChesapeake, Virginia.40 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012investing in MINISTRYGiftsThis list includes gifts made betweenNovember 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011.Annual FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:Diogenes AllenKent J. Annan (’99B)Karen Assenheimer and Reunion PTS StaffGeorge Russell Barr (’00P)Carol A. BellesRobert A. Beringer (’61B, ’70M)Brian K. Blount (’81B)Dean Robert Brown (’00B)Sandra R. Brown (’80D)Donald CappsFred W. (’54B) and Joanne CassellEllen T. CharryHoward F.M. Childers (’61B)Henry Paxson Choi’s First BirthdayVirstan Choy (’74B)Courtney B. Cromie (’96B, ’01M)Kenda Creasy Dean (’97D)Robert W. Dickson (’51B)Arlo D. Duba (’55B, ’60D)Douglas A. (’54B) and Ellie DunderdaleJoan EricksonAbigail Rian Evans (’61B)Leah Gaskin Fitchue (’83B)Freda A. GardnerThomas W. Gillespie (’54B)George F. Gillette (’51B)Bruce Peyton Greenough (’99B)Nancy Lammers Gross (’81B, ’92D)Melinda L. Hall (’10B)Geddes W. Hanson (’72D)Margaret Grun Kibben (’86B, ’02P)Lonnie, Aaron, and Dorothy KirkD. Michael Lindsay (’00B)Sang Hyun LeeJames Arlen Mays (’58B)Stephen McConnell (’84B)Bruce Lindley McCormack (’89D)Ordination of Sarah Iliff McGill (’10B)Kennedy M. McGowan (’89B)Elsie Anne McKee (’82D)Frani MeltonIsobel M. MetzgerGerald S. Mills (’56B, ’75P)Rosemary C. Mitchell (’77B)Eileen F. Moffett (’55E)Samuel H. Moffett (’42B)W. Bradley Munroe (’88B)Chae Woon (’74M) and Young Soon NaJames R. (’82B) and Patricia NeumannJohn J.M. O’Brien-Prager (’85B)Dennis T. OlsonEarl F. Palmer (’56B)Chips Paulson (’86B)Jane Rae PenickPrinceton Theological SeminaryPTS Seminary Relations StaffDonald R. Purkey (’61B) on his75th BirthdayJ.J.M. RobertsNathan W. Royster (’09B)Katharine Doob SakenfeldRuth Faith Santana-Grace (’94B)Special Collections Staff at PTS ArchivesBirth of Montgomery Mae StaufferJohn W. StewartRichard A. Sutton (’79M)Martin TelKurt and Edith UlmerJanet L. WeathersLouise F. Westfall (’79B)David W. Wright (’09B)In Memory of:Alfred C. Acer (’81P)Carlton C. Allen (’36B)Glen E. Barton (’61B)David J. Beale (1865B)Wilson T.M. Beale (’02B)W.J. Beeners (’48B)J. Christiaan BekerThe Benham ClubJames R. Blackwood (’45B, ’46M)William N. (’57B) and Carolyn K. BoakRobert B. Boell (’38B)John A. Bollier (’51B)Donald W. Bracken (’56B)A. Allen Brindisi (’71B)Frederick H. Bronkema Jr. (’59B, ’65M)Charles S. Burgess (’50B)David H.W. Burr (’50B)Arthur M. Byers Jr. (’50B)J. Paul Cameron IV (’70E)Jasper A. CatalanoHarry E. Chase IV (’51B)C. Donald Close (’35b)Sidney R. Conger (’55B)Jack Cooper (’43B)Robert P. CrouchTrudy F. DarrochDean N. Dobson (’38B)Edward A. Dowey Jr. (’43B)Wallace Edward Easter (’47B)Charles R. Erdman Jr.Frederick W. Evans (1905B)Frederick W. Evans Jr. (’47B)James Stewart Evans (’85B)Paul Frederick Everett (’64B)David A. Fee (’56B)Carl S. Fisher (’39B)Diane Jamison Fitch (’93B)Walter A. Fitton (’54B, ’57M)William L. Flanagan (’64B)Philip W. Furst (’35B)Susan Hall Galloway (’66E)Clarence Edward Getz (’24B)Leon W. Gibson (’59D)William A. Gibson (’46B)Marilyn Joan GoffrierChristine Rannie Grimbol (’76B)Robert P. Heim (’55B)Conrad S. JergensonChristian S. Jessen (’26B)Cora Belle JohnsonReuel E. Johnson (’48B)Robert K. Kelley (’48B)Hugh Thomson Kerr Jr.Norman S. Kindt (’41B)Bryant M. Kirkland (’38B)George S. Knieriemen Jr. (’53B, ’68M)Theodore Koopmans (’38B)Lois E. Rozendaal Koyama (’58B)Jessie Hodges KryderHoward Tillman KuistBickford Lang (’48B)Carol LansillWilliam J. Larkin (’43B)Gertrude LawtonJerome J. Leksa (’65M)Charles Lowell Lentz (’57B)L. Blaine Libbey Jr. (’63B)David E. Ling (’52B)James E. Loder (’57B)John E. Luchies (’39M, ’47D)Donald Macleod (’46G)Lloyd Makool (’65B)inSpire 41

fall 2011/winter 2012investing in MINISTRYDavid Moore Mann (’49B)Peter J. Marshall (’64B)James I. McCordMrs. James I. McCordClint A. McCoy (’74B)David R. McEachenBruce M. Metzger (’38B, ’39M)Allan G. Moore (’44B)Carl Robert MuellerDana Ferguson Myers (’91B)Harold P. NebelsickViggo Norskov Olsen (’60M)Leonard J. Osbrink (’45B)Warren W. Ost (’51B)George T. Peters (’40B)Otto A. PiperRichard R. Preston (’64B)Robert and Minnie PutmanMuriel Osgood Roe (’50e)H. Edwin Rosser (’45B)Noah Benjamin RowlandM. Richard Shaull (’41B, ’46M, ’59D)Barbara Ann SidenerWilliam and Mary SmollonDavid R. Steele (’55B)Cullen IK Story (’64D)Ralph A. Tamaccio (’51B)Daniel C. (’44B) and Lois A. ThomasElwyn Earl Tilden Jr. (’39B, ’40M, ’45D)Frank J. Turnbull (’39B)G. William Vogel Jr. (’51B)Robert S. Vogt (’46B)R. Stanley Wallace (’55B)David William Weaver (’31B)Charles S. Webster Jr. (’41B)D. Campbell WyckoffScholarship FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:Richard R. Boyer (’85B)Ellen T. CharryArlo D. Duba (’55B, ’60D)Freda A. GardnerKenneth F. Gruebel (’72B, ’95p)Erin Heisler (’09B, E)Judith H. Hockenberry (’86B)Kenneth Hockenberry (’84B)Margaret Grun Kibben (’86B, ’02P)Cleophus J. LaRue Jr. (’90B, ’96D)Scott D. Nowack (’99B)Ordination of Eric Richard Peltz (’11B)40th Wedding Anniversary of Elmer andFlorence (’78B) RidleyChoon-Leong Seow (’80B)Jonathan Walton (’02B, ’06D)Michael Jay WehokampLouise F. Westfall (’79B)Richard L. Young (’89B)In Memory of:Donald L. Barker (’47B)George W Carson (’47B)Robert G. Cotter (’64B)Alexander T. Coyle (’30B)William H. Felmeth (’42B)George P. Fulton Jr. (’44B)Alfred J. Gerdel Jr. (’50B)Alan Hagenbuch (’58B)Samuel R. Holder (’59M)Robert C. Holland (’62B)Elmer George Homrighausen (’24B)Reuel E. Johnson (’48B)Hugh Thomson Kerr Jr.G.S. Knieriemen Jr. (’53B, ’68M)Joseph J. Lemen (’50B)George R. Mather (’55B)George S. Maxwell (’29B)James I. McCordBarbara J. MingesW. Burney Overton (’42B)Otto A. PiperPaul H. Pittman III (’89B)Esther Cornelius StineCullen IK Story (’64D)Ralph Brownlow Thompson (’66B)Herbert C. Tweedie (’41M)2011 Senior Class GiftIn Honor/Appreciation of:Janice S. Ammon (’90B)Kenneth AppoldCarol A. BellesShane A. Berg (’00B)C. Clifton Black IIJohn R. BowlinMichael A. Brothers (’86B, ’94M, ’03D)Sally A. Brown (’80G, ’01D)Donald CappsEllen T. CharryKenda Creasy Dean (’97D)Robert C. Dykstra (’82B, ’90D)Rosa GomezLawrence Gordon GrahamDarrell L. GuderDeborah van Deusen HunsingerCleophus J. LaRue Jr. (’90B, ’96D)Kathleen E. McVeyDennis T. OlsonRichard R. OsmerGeorge L. ParseniosRoel ParsonsYolanda PierceChester Polk Jr. (’95B, ’06P)Luke A. Powery (’99B)Paul E. Rorem (’73b, ’80D)Nancy L. Schongalla-Bowman (’79B)Choon-Leong Seow (’80B)Loren Stuckenbruck (’86B, ’94D)Martin TelJ. Ross WagnerDavid H. Wall (’80E)Richard F. YoungBicentennial Campaignfor the LibraryIn Honor/Appreciation of:Herbert E. AndersonFred W. (’54B) and Joanne CassellEllen T. CharryLarry Kent Graham (’78D)Nancy Lammers Gross (’81B, ’92D)J. Calvin K. Jackson (’53B)Paula Ann KemLonnie, Aaron, and Dorothy KirkCleophus J. LaRue Jr. (’90B, ’96D)Sang Hyun LeeJames T. MarcusBruce McCormack (’89D)Eileen F. Moffett (’55E)Samuel H. Moffett (’42B)John J.M. O’Brien-Prager (’85B)Dennis OlsonMimi OmielinskiChips Paulson (’86B)Princeton Theological SeminaryRuth Faith Santana-Grace (’94B)Robert Thomas Sharman42 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012investing in MINISTRYIn Memory of:W.J. Beeners (’48B)Donald W. Bracken (’56B)Chandler McCuskey BrooksCharles S. Burgess (’50B)Ernest T. Campbell (’48B, ’53M)David L. Crawford (’47B)Susan Hall Galloway (’66E)H. Raymond and Lillian Dare GotwalsStephen H. Janssen (’75B)Christian S. Jessen (’26B)John Ray KnightW. Roberts Kruse (’15B)William Tenton Kruse (1881B)Gladys E. MarcusPhilip Hunt McConnelBruce M. Metzger (’38B, ’39M)T. Richard MuthHarold P. NebelsickJames A. PlumsteadH. Edwin Rosser (’45B)Noah Benjamin RowlanEdward Louis Schalk (’42B)M. Richard Shaull (’41B, ’46M, ’59D)Frank J. Turnbull (’39B)William J. Wiseman (’44B)For the Residential Apartments:In Honor/Appreciation of:Fourth Presbyterian Church of ChicagoAlfred F. Brady Memorial EndowmentFund for Worship LifeIn Memory of:Alfred F. BradyAnsley G. and Jane R. Van DykeScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Ansley G. (42B, ’44M) and Mrs. Jane R.Van DykeBenjamin Franklin Farber Jr. MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Charles W. FarberBryant M. Kirkland Minister of theChapel Endowment FundIn Memory of:Bryant M. Kirkland (’38B)Carol Gray Dupree Center for ChildrenEndowment FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:Staff at the Dupree CenterIn Memory of:William R. (’46B) and Margaret I. DupreeMaurice C. Mitchell (’39B)Center for Barth StudiesIn Memory of:Markus BarthClass of 1953 ScholarshipEndowment FundIn Memory of:W.J. Beeners (’48B)George S. Knieriemen Jr. (’53B, ’68M)Howard McFall (’53B)Class of 1959 50th Anniversary FundIn Memory of:John A. Mackay (’15B)Class of 1961 50th Anniversary GiftIn Honor/Appreciation of:PTS Seminary Relations StaffClass of 1970 ScholarshipEndowment FundIn Memory of:Arthur M. Adams (’34B)Jack Cooper (’43B)Bruce M. Metzger (’38B, ’39M)David Livingstone Crawford MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:David L. Crawford (’47B)Dr. Charles T. Fritsch MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Charles T. Fritsch (’35B)Edler G. Hawkins PrizeIn Memory of:Edler G. HawkinsG. Robert Jacks ScholarshipEndowment FundIn Memory of:G. Robert Jacks (’59B)The Geddes Hanson LectureshipIn Honor/Appreciation of:Geddes W. Hanson (’72D)Harwood and Willa Childs MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:Richard S. (’58B) and MargaretChilds ArmstrongInternational Students ScholarshipEndowment FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:Robert Coy DupreeCambria J. Kaltwasser (’10B)Iliana K. Wood (’10B)In Memory of:William R. Dupree (’46B)James G. Emerson Jr. SustainingPastoral Excellence Endowment FundIn Memory of:John K. Sefcik (’53B, ’68M)John R. and Isabel Hyde DonelikScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:John R. and Isabel Hyde DonelikJohn S. and Mary B. Linen MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:John S. and Mary B. LinenJoseph and Rose Carlucci MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Joseph and Rose CarlucciinSpire 43

fall 2011/winter 2012investing in MINISTRYA Foundation for ResearchThe Arthur Vining Davis Foundations have made a majorcontribution to the Seminary Library’s Special Collections througha grant to organize, preserve, describe, and make publicly accessiblethree major collections of personal papers: the John MackayCollection, the Carl McIntire Collection, and the Thomas F.Torrance Collection.The McIntire and Torrance Collections are fully processed,and searchable guides for each are available online. Processing theMackay Collection is ongoing.According to Clifford Anderson, curator of Special Collections,the McIntire Collection “has become among our most popular,drawing historians from around the country and the world.”Scholars from the southern United States, from Singapore, and fromFinland have recently come to Princeton to use the collection.All three collections are significant in both size and importance.The McIntire Collection is the largest in the Seminary archives,totaling 650 linear feet. It and the Mackay Collection together“document two faces of American Protestantism during its heyday,and the Torrance Collection provides access to the unpublishedcorrespondence, sermons, and manuscripts of the most significantEnglish-speaking theologian of the second half of the twentiethcentury,” explains Anderson.Working on this project hasuncovered complex links between thecollections. In particular, the Mackayand McIntire papers documentthe struggle over the future ofPresbyterianism at mid-century, andthe combination of the two collectionsat one library puts each into aninterpretative context that would bediminished if they were located at separate institutions.The Mackay and Torrance Collections are complementary,explains Anderson, “not only because both collections documentthe influence of Karl Barth on English-speaking theology, but alsobecause they illustrate the influence of Scottish theologians on theAmerican theological scene.” Mackay was the fourth president ofPrinceton Seminary, and a world church leader and ecumenist.Torrance is the father of current PTS president Iain Torrance.Special collections like these provide original sources andtherefore resources for original historical research. Churchhistorians, historians of doctrine, and students need towork from contemporary documents, and not rely solely onpublished narratives.Finding aids for the McIntire Collection are at http://digital.library.ptsem.edu/ead/collection/222/. Finding aids for the TorranceCollection are at http://digital.library.ptsem.edu/ead/collection/223/.Miller Chapel Restoration ProjectIn Honor/Appreciation of:Stephen P. Mitchell (’78B)In Memory of:Maurice C. Mitchell (’39B)Mrs. Harry Bushnell Weld ScholarshipEndowment FundIn Memory of:Mrs. Harry Bushnell WeldPresbyterian Church in Morristown—The Reverend Dr. Thomas S. MutchScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Thomas S. MutchThe Reverend Dr. Gerald S. and JudithMills Seminar in Parish MinistryIn Honor/Appreciation of:Gerald S. Mills (’56B, ’75P)The Reverend Dr. Samuel Allen andAnne McMullan Jackson MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Thomas C. Jackson (’52B)Richard H. Lackey Jr. MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Richard H. Lackey Jr.Robert Doran Young ScholarshipEndowment FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:Robert D. YoungSalvatore and Clara Migliore MemorialScholarship Endowment FundIn Memory of:Grandparents, Salvatore and Clara MiglioreSamuel Wilson Blizzard AwardIn Memory of:Samuel Wilson Blizzard (’39B, ’41M)Speer Library FundIn Memory of:Jeffery L. Faue (’72B)Thomas A. and Alma Neale WorldMission and Evangelism Prize inSpeech CommunicationsIn Memory of:G. Robert Jacks (’59B)Touring Choir FundIn Honor/Appreciation of:PTS Touring ChoirIn Memory of:Thomas Laurence Throne (’58B)The 2011 PTS Fall Phonathon was a success!!We raised $60,325 in gifts and pledges from501 donors. We hope you enjoyed speaking toour student callers, who reached 1,726 of you!44 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012in MEMORIAMBlessed are the dead…who die in the Lord. Yes, says the Spirit, they will restfrom their labors, for their deeds will follow them.Revelation 14:131938: Lauren E. Brubaker Jr.September 22, 2010Mitchellville, Maryland1939: Maurice C. MitchellDecember 28, 2010Lumberton, North Carolina1940: Franklyn D. JosselynDecember 25, 2010San Diego, California1942: William GrosvenorNovember 13, 2010Matthews, North CarolinaEdwin R. WeidlerOctober 15, 2011Richmond, Virginia1943: George W. ForellApril 29, 2011Iowa City, Iowa1944: Victor I. AlfsenJuly 16, 2011Lacey, WisconsinHerman DamMarch 25, 2011Murfreesboro, TennesseeEdwin Sih-Ung KwohMay 30, 2011Los Angeles, CaliforniaFred VermeulenOctober 24, 2011Charlotte, North Carolina1946: W. Philip BembowerSeptember 20, 2011Knoxville, TennesseeAlan GripeSeptember 28, 2011Rochester, New YorkRobert S. VogtJuly 16, 2011Edmonds, Washington1947: Duane H. CollinsJune 18, 2011New Bern, North CarolinaEdward A. CooperriderOctober 3, 2002Berwyn, PennsylvaniaJ. Richard HartOctober 8, 2011Geneva, New YorkWilliam Pierce LytleMay 27, 2011Los Gatos, CaliforniaE. Clark RobbMarch 28, 2011Newberg, Oregon1948: Edward C. Gartell Sr.July 10, 2011Huntsville, AlabamaC. Benton Kline Jr.June 20, 2011Stone Mountain, GeorgiaMartin E. LehmannAugust 18, 2011Sperry, IowaKlaas LursenJuly 29, 2011Amstelveen, the NetherlandsTetsuo SaitoJanuary 7, 2011San Jose, California1949: C. Wayland JamesMarch 26, 2011Carlisle, Pennsylvania1950: David H.W. BurrJuly 10, 2011Advance, North CarolinaGordon G. JohnsonApril 1, 2011New Brighton, MinnesotaKenneth M. ReadMay 7, 2011Ocean Park, Maine1951: Bruce DavisJuly 13, 2011Columbus, OhioRichard R. GilbertJanuary 6, 2011Asheville, North CarolinaPhillips B. HendersonSeptember 21, 2010Wethersfield, ConnecticutJohn P. LeeFebruary 23, 2011Duarte, CaliforniaA. Paul NobleFebruary 12, 2011Saint George, UtahHorace M. PattonFebruary 1, 2011Beachwood, New JerseyFred A. Trimble Jr.November 11, 2010Montoursville, Pennsylvania1952: Robert S. BarkerMay 7, 2011Hokkaido, JapanCharles A. DarocyJanuary 21, 2011Prudenville, MichiganJames E. Drummond Jr.November 23, 2010Lincoln City, OregonWilliam E. SloughJuly 11, 2010Rochester, New York1953: Louis K. AdayOctober 30, 2010Niagara Falls, Ontario, CanadaJames M. Armstrong IINovember 20, 2010Tallahassee, FloridaDavid B. DaviesDecember 11, 2010North Little Rock, ArkansasCharles L. DonnellOctober 20, 2011Black Mountain, North CarolinainSpire 45

fall 2011/winter 2012in MEMORIAMRobert E. HoffmanNovember 17, 2009Maryville, TennesseeStuart H. MerriamFebruary 5, 2011Schenectady, New YorkDelos E. Pypes Jr.February 7, 2011Edwardsville, Kansas1954: Ernest E. HaddadJune 14, 2011Ormond Beach, FloridaCalvin F. SchmidSeptember 16, 2011San Diego, CaliforniaDonald R. SimeDecember 9, 2010Mars Hill, North CarolinaCharles E. SimonsNovember 14, 2010Clarkdale, Arizona1955: Benjamin L. Armstrong Jr.December 12, 2010Sellersville, PennsylvaniaErnest J. LewisJune 13, 2011Arden, North CarolinaGerald D. LymanAugust 11, 2011Hemet, CaliforniaW. Scott McPheatOctober 19, 2011Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaDonovan O. NorquistMarch 16, 2011Primos, Pennsylvania1956: F. Ray Riddle Jr.March 2, 2011Midland, TexasWilliam S. SebringNovember 10, 2010Capitan, New MexicoRalph C. Stribe Jr.December 24, 2010Ann Arbor, Michigan1957: Donald S. BachtellApril 2, 2011Collingswood, New JerseyCharles T. BotkinAugust 17, 2010New Hyde Park, New YorkWilliam J. DoorlyJanuary 9, 2011Bryn Mawr, PennsylvaniaRobert F. GoodMay 27, 2011Naples, FloridaRobert D. SimmonsDecember 23, 2010Williamstown, West VirginiaWilliam F. Skinner IIApril 21, 2011Williamsburg, IowaRobert C. StromMay 9, 2011Evanston, IllinoisNorman W. TaylorFebruary 1, 2011Clifton, Texas1958: Donald F. GrothApril 12, 2011Mission Viejo, CaliforniaJamieson MatthiasNovember 8, 2010Redlands, CaliforniaRobert F. TebbeFebruary 20, 2010Lakeland, Florida1959: Samuel R. HolderJune 16, 2010Sarasota, FloridaRodger M. KunkelJune 29, 2011Sarasota, FloridaAlbert C. SaundersJune 9, 2011Oceanside, CaliforniaRea S. WeigelNovember 8, 2011Palm Coast, FloridaWilliam B. WilcoxJuly 6, 2011Henderson Harbor, New York1960: Perry T. FullerJuly 7, 2011Delray Beach, FloridaDuncan Steuart WatsonAugust 29, 2011Kallista, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia1961: Robert BoehlkeNovember 11, 2011Bloomington, MinnesotaSidney L. Kelly Jr.January 18, 2011Winston Salem, North CarolinaDavid H. von KossJuly 23, 2011Jacksonville, IllinoisEarl N. KragtOctober 16, 2011Spring Lake, MichiganGarnett E. PhibbsOctober 29, 2009Charlotte, North CarolinaEugene A. RoddyFebruary 15, 2011Marlton, New Jersey1962: Brian G. ArmstrongMay 26, 2011Hiawassee, GeorgiaAlan W. WhitelockNovember 19, 2010Port Isobel, Texas1963: Donald R. MitchellMay 28, 2011Charlotte, North CarolinaHarold G. TurnerOctober 9, 2011Boones Mill, Virginia1964: Paul E. GrabillAugust 11, 2011State College, Pennsylvania1965: Stephen R. BrownJuly 2, 2011Greeley, Colorado46 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012in MEMORIAMAndrew C. ByersFebruary 2, 2011Zionsville, PennsylvaniaLloyd MakoolDecember 18, 2010Sun Prairie, Wisconsin1966: Dale I. GregoriewFebruary 4, 2011Fairview, TexasGerald L. StoneApril 14, 2011Reno, Nevada1967: Dawn Woodward Gotoh-StevensAugust 25, 2011Ignace, Ontario, CanadaDavid E. ThomasMarch 10, 2011Pawleys Island, South CarolinaHermogenes S. UgangMay 24, 2011Jakarta, Indonesia1968: Charlotte H. BeckOctober 7, 2011Ojo Caliente, New MexicoHoward J. HappMarch 27, 2011Rancho Palos Verdes, California1969: Carol M. AmesApril 3, 2011Northampton, Massachusetts1970: Al F. Thomas Jr.January 3, 2011Statesville, North Carolina1971: William L. BlyeAugust 9, 2011Kinston, North CarolinaDavid S. MorrowMay 9, 2011Holland, MichiganManuel F. SalabarriaDecember 12, 2009Miami, Florida1972: Brian J. EganJanuary 25, 2011Birmingham, AlabamaWade D. EppsJuly 17, 2011Burlington, New JerseyArvid H. OlesonAugust 7, 2011East Moline, Illinois1973: Gwyned WilliamsApril 12, 2011Bethlehem, Pennsylvania1975: H. Wilson ScottFebruary 25, 2011Lehighton, Pennsylvania1976: James W. AdamOctober 17, 2011Reading, Pennsylvania1977: James W. Myles IIIApril 29, 2010Wayne, PennsylvaniaDavid M. ThorpJanuary 9, 2011Medfield, Massachusetts1979: Dennis E. NorrisNovember 5, 2010Cleveland Heights, OhioMary C. RibaudoApril 14, 2005Branchburg, New JerseyElaine L. WilsonAugust 16, 2011Marmora, New Jersey1980: Mark W. BaileyMay 8, 2011Westtown, PennsylvaniaJohn C. BerstecherApril 7, 2011Bethel Township, PennsylvaniaRonald P. ConnerJanuary 30, 2011Washington, District of Columbia1982: Robert D. CurtisNovember 27, 2010Ottawa, KansasFrederick F. Powers Jr.July 16, 2011Scituate, Massachusetts1983: Edward J. DoughertyApril 14, 2011Lawrenceville, New Jersey1984: John W.L. HoadMay 27, 2011Charleston, South CarolinaRichard I. SchachetOctober 2, 2006South Lake Tahoe, CaliforniaSamuel L. VarnerSeptember 22, 2009Virginia Beach, VirginiaRussell C. WentlingJuly 20, 2011South Yarmouth, Massachusetts1985: Max G. CullerJuly 20, 2010Norfolk, Virginia1987: William H. PaulMarch 5, 2011Whiting, New Jersey1988: Daniel R. KincaidNovember 7, 2011Evansville, IndianaBettyann MirotaOctober 4, 2010Merritt Island, Florida1990: Willie Mae NantonJanuary 19, 2011Bordentown, New Jersey1991: John R. BuckaNovember 18, 2010Minneapolis, Minnesota1993: Young-Lim HanApril 21, 2011Seoul, Korea1997: Laura June NelsonOctober 31, 2011Des Moines, IowainSpire 47

fall 2011/winter 2012in MEMORIAMThomas W. Gillespie1928–2011Dr. Thomas W. Gillespie, presidentemeritus of Princeton Theological Seminary,died at Princeton Medical Center onNovember 5, 2011. He was 83 years old.Gillespie was appointed as the fifthpresident of the Seminary, the firsttheological seminary established by theGeneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Churchand the largest Presbyterian seminary in thecountry, in 1983 and served as presidentand professor of New Testament until hisretirement in 2004.During his presidency, Gillespiestrengthened the Seminary faculty withthe addition of three African Americanprofessors, eleven women professors, and thefirst professor of science and theology, Dr.Wentzel van Huyssteen, from South Africa.Gillespie’s tenure saw the establishment ofthe Kyung-Chik Han Chair in SystematicTheology, held by Professor Sang Lee and thefirst chair at an American seminary to honoran Asian church leader.During Gillespie’s presidency, PrincetonSeminary constructed several new buildings,including Luce Library, Scheide andTempleton Halls, the WitherspoonApartments, and a new parking garage.Erdman Hall was completely redesigned andrenovated as the Seminary’s state-of-the-artcontinuing education center (now the homeof the School of Christian Vocation andMission), and Miller Chapel underwent amajor restoration, including the installationof the Joe. R. Engle Organ.Under Gillespie’s leadership, theSeminary established the Institute for YouthMinistry, one of the foremost educationalprograms in support of the theology andpractice of youth ministry in the country.Gillespie also led in the development ofa significant partnership with Pew CharitableTrust and Lilly Endowment Inc. to providean office for the Hispanic TheologicalInitiative, a national initiative to support andtrain Ph.D.-level Hispanic/Latina(o) scholarsand teachers.Gillespie was the author of The FirstTheologians: A Study in Early ChristianProphecy, published by William B. EerdmansPublishing Company in 1994.But it was as a pastor that ThomasGillespie was most known and valued bythe Seminary community and alumni/ae.He regularly preached in chapel during hispresidency, and often provided pastoral careto students, faculty members, and staff. Heonce said that “there is no work in the worldthat is more interesting, more challenging,and more gratifying than the work of pastoralministry. Among the honors that have cometo me, I can think of none greater than whena member of my congregation has introducedme to a friend by saying, ‘I would like you tomeet my pastor.’”Gillespie understood the Seminary asbeing in service to the church, and servedon many denominational committees andbodies of the Presbyterian Church (USA),and of San Francisco and New BrunswickPresbyteries. After his retirement, he served asa member of the General Assembly Council,the PCUSA’s national governing council.Gillespie graduated from PepperdineUniversity in 1951 and from PrincetonTheological Seminary in 1954. Priorto assuming his position as president ofPrinceton Theological Seminary, he begana new church in Garden Grove, California,and served as its pastor from 1954 to 1966.In 1966 he was called to be pastor and headof staff of the First Presbyterian Churchin Burlingame, California, and servedthere until 1983. He earned a Ph.D. fromClaremont Graduate School in 1971.Dr. Gillespie is survived by his wife of58 years, Barbara; his son William Gillespieof London, England, and daughter-in-lawAngela Im; his daughter Robyn Glassman ofDenver, Colorado, and son-in-law KennethGlassman; and his daughter Dayle GillespieRounds of Princeton, New Jersey, and son-inlawStephen Rounds; and his grandchildrenWilliam, Trevor, and Hilary Glassman, IslaGillespie, and Emilia and Alexandra Rounds.Memorial gifts in honor of PresidentGillespie may be made to the Thomas W.Gillespie Scholarship Endowment Fund andsent to the Office of Seminary Relations,Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 MercerStreet, Princeton, NJ 08540. Onlinedonations can be made by going to Giveto PTS in the navigation bar on the homepage (www.ptsem.edu), and clicking “giveonline” in the drop-down menu. On thedonation page under the “other” category,enter “Gillespie Scholarship” and the amountof your gift.48 inSpire

fall 2011/winter 2012end THINGSBridge to MinistryA Week of Silence and Service in the Taizé CommunityBY KELLEN A. SMITHIf I were a scriptwriter, I could nothave written a more meaningful close tomy seminary story. My Princeton Seminaryformation concluded with a weeklong travelcourse to the Taizé community in France.I was particularly drawn to this opportunitybecause of my involvement in leadingservices in the style of Taizé in Miller Chapelduring my time at Princeton. Having firstbeen introduced to Taizé, an ecumenicalmonastic community in the Burgundyregion of France, by a pastor in my homecongregation in Delray Beach, Florida,I had awaited the chance to experience thiscommunity firsthand.Professor Bo Karen Lee, our facultymentor for this study trip, led our groupof six seminary “pilgrims.” Preparation forthe trip included spending several days withJason Santos, a PTS doctoral candidate whowrote an excellent overview of Taizé.Taizé has become a pilgrimage sitefor tens of thousands of people each year,especially young people. A Swiss pastor,Brother Roger, started the community inthe 1940s and was its leader until his deathin 2005. The Brothers of Taizé also venturebeyond France to organize gatherings foryoung people around the world.A day at Taizé is ordered by three prayerservices—morning, midday and evening—in the Church of Reconciliation. Duringthese services, pilgrims join the Brothers ofTaizé in meditative singing from the Taizéprayer books. These inspired songs are whatTaizé has become most beloved for aroundthe globe.While at Taizé, I felt called by God tochoose the unique experience of spending theweek in silence. This meant that I would joina small group of other pilgrims staying in thequiet and quaint village of Taizé in a housenear the main grounds. The accommodationswere simple and comfortable, providing aprivate room to be fully immersed in the giftof silence.Spending a week in silence may notimmediately sound like the kind ofexperience to put at the top of your bucketlist. Yet this experience was so formational,I would not hesitate to do it again. It wasinitially challenging to allow my mind tobecome quiet and my spirit to settle, butafter the first few days, my rhythm becameone of great joy in silence. I would spendthe morning reading scripture and in theafternoon, I would take time for personalprayer, enjoy a holy nap, and walk throughthe beautiful French countryside. While thedays themselves seemed to pass slowly, theweek went by very quickly.Besides the inspiring prayer services,a poignant part of my week was sitting atthe table and sharing meals with my fellowpilgrims. We gathered for meals in a beautifulcommon room that overlooked the hills ofBurgundy. As each meal began, the aromaof freshly peeled tangerines filled the room.The only spoken words that broke the silentfellowship were the Taizé prayers we sangbefore eating. Each face around the table wasof a different nationality—French, German,American, and others. As we served eachother in the sacred silence, the real blessingwas that we spoke the common language ofservice to one another. In these moments atmealtime, it was as if I were joining Jesus andthe disciples at the table of servanthood.During the afternoon, I regularly took awalk to a pond beside a wooded area wherepilgrims spend time in silent reflection.The sounds of a gently flowing waterfalland migrating waterfowl provided a naturalsoundtrack. I often walked across a bridgeat the far end of the pond. I saw this bridgeas a metaphor for the point in life at whichI found myself. Having served in ministrybefore seminary, my time at Taizé helpedme to reflect on both where I had been andwhere I was going in ordained ministry.Shortly after returning from Taizé, I beganmy call as associate pastor for youth, theirfamilies, and college ministries at BrynMawr Presbyterian Church in suburbanPhiladelphia. My bridge to ministry was builtupon three years of rich theological educationand the blessing of a prayerful week at Taizé.As I have reflected on my time in silenceat Taizé and my ministry with studentsand parents, I am reminded of the valueof listening. At Taizé I deeply realized thatI have as much to learn from listening as Ihave to share when speaking. As a pastor,I now seek to further practice a gospel oflistening in my ministry. This means being inrelationships with others that allow space forthem to speak about what is on their heartsand minds. In that space for listening, thegood news of God’s abundant love is invitedand shared.Love, devotion, and generosity ultimatelymade this experience possible for ourPTS group. This pilgrimage to Taizé wassupported by a generous grant from the FISHFoundation. We returned with full hearts andgratitude for all those in the PTS communitywho helped to arrange this wonderfulopportunity. The journey to Taizé revealsa glimpse into the kingdom of God on earth.Taizé is truly a sacred place where the loveof God is known and shared. The spirit ofBrother Roger lives on, and his words echoin the Church of Reconciliation, when hewrote for all time that, “God is love, andlove alone.” !Kellen Smith graduated from PrincetonSeminary in May 2011 and serves as associatepastor at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church inBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

CALENDARThe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture:“Martin Luther King Jr. and a NewPolitical Economy of Justice”Thursday, February 97:00 p.m., Miller ChapelDr. Obery Hendricks, professor of biblicalinterpretation, New York TheologicalSeminary, and PTS alumnus, Class of1990, lecturerThe Women in Church and MinistryLecture: “Divine Dreamers: FeministReligious Imagination and theShaping of the American Church”7:00 p.m.,Thursday, February 23Main Lounge, Mackay Campus CenterDr. Beverly Ann Zink-Sawyer, SamuelW. Newell Jr. Professor of Preaching andWorship, Union Presbyterian inary, and PTSalumna, Class of1979, lecturerPrinceton Monthly Conversation:“Women in African Christianity”Friday, March 99:00 a.m., Erdman Hall, School of ChristianVocation and MissionMercy Oduyoyo, director of theInstitute of African Women in Religionand Culture, Trinity Theological Seminary,Ghana, speakerPrinceton in the Church’s Service:A Conference for PTS’s BicentennialCelebrating the History and Heritageof Princeton Theological SeminaryMonday, March 19 through Thursday,March 22This conference will bring togetherscholars to look afresh at PrincetonSeminary’s history and its heritage.Bicentennial Opening WorshipService: “Lest We Forget”Thursday, March 2211:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Miller Chapel(identical services)Dr. Robert W. Bohl, chair, PrincetonTheological Seminary Board of Trustees,and PTS alumnus, Class of 1961, preacherPresidential Lecture on the GenevaBible: “The Open Book: ThePersistent Vitality of the Geneva Bible(1560) even after the Publication ofthe King James Bible (1611)”Friday, March 239:30 a.m., Stuart Hall, Room 6Dr. Iain R. Torrance, president andprofessor of patristics, PrincetonTheological Seminary, lecturerThe Warfield Lectures: “Readingfor Preaching: The Preacher inConversation with Storytellers,Biographers, Poets, and Journalists”Monday, March 26–Thursday, March 31Dr. Cornelius “Neal” Plantinga Jr.,president and Charles W. Colson Professorof Theology Emeritus, Calvin TheologicalSeminary, lecturerFor a complete and updated listing of events at PTS, visit our online public events calendar at www.ptsem.edu.Select the public events calendar link.inSpire MagazineP.O. Box 821Princeton, NJ 08542-0803Non-Profit Org.U.S. PostagePAIDPennsville, NJPermit No. 90ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED