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Sharing the gift of knowledge
Taking the seminary to the church
Bending toward justice
SUMMER 2017 › VOL. 5: ISSUE Nº 1
WIDENING OUR REACH
TABLE OF CONTENTS A message from the board chair 3 New initiatives 4 A gift to scholars and students 6 Bexley Seabury beyond walls 8 New MDiv model in action 10 DMin program report 12 Faculty news 14 Bending toward justice 16 Mission-minded leaders 20 Community news 24
MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR
Our search for a new president
continues with the help of Acting President
and Academic Dean Therese DeLisio. Terry
has been a gifted and imaginative leader of
our faculty, and an excellent steward of our
academic programs. We are excited that she
is willing to share more of her leadership
with us through the transition.
Meanwhile, our ministry to the church
continues with new possibilities ahead.
Bexley Seabury’s consolidation to our
well-appointed, environmentally responsible
campus at Chicago Theological Seminary
(CTS) has been fully realized. Beyond our
physical move last July, the ELCA recently
approached us about, and has now taken
over our obligation at their Higgins Road
property. This gift has left us humbled and
The Rt. Rev. W. Michie Klusmeyer energized, with more time and funds freed
Chair, Board of Directors for our mission at CTS.
Already, Bexley Seabury is responding
Dear Friends, in fresh ways to its call to be a seminary
beyond walls. The past year has been one
Recently I caught myself watching a movie, of widening our reach in the Episcopal
in which the characters were reflecting community and beyond.
about jazz music. One person said to the Building on established partnerships
other, “Jazz is about the future, but you’re and forging new bonds, Bexley Seabury is:
stuck in the past.” helping dioceses enrich their diaconal
I was so struck by that line, that I went training programs (page 4);
out and bought the movie, just so I could providing new resources for religious and
hear it again. When I heard it a second cultural scholars (page 6);
time, I said to myself, “That will preach, collaborating at ground level with
every Sunday!” diocesan and congregational leaders
If jazz is about the future, then I know through our Communities of Learning
for sure that what we are about, in our
Christian lives, in our Christian formation,
and Formation (page 10); and
creating new pathways to ministry in other
Bexley Seabury
in our formation of clergy and leaders of
the church.
ways you can learn about by reading on.
With more than 80 students currently
featured in The
We are called to remake ourselves—and
the world—in God’s image. What is life in
enrolled in our degree and diploma
programs, Bexley Seabury is poised to
Christian Century
the church about, if not change, and looking welcome one of the largest incoming classes
“Bexley Seabury has launched a new
to the future? Still, letting go and embracing in recent memory. As we have seen, with
way of educating seminarians...” said
the new is not always easy. It is too easy to the prayers and support of our community,
Bexley Seabury is embracing a promising The Christian Century magazine in their
stay stuck in the past.
As I write to you Bexley Seabury is future. February 15, 2017 issue. The feature article
writing a new chapter, as is our beloved “Forming priests among the people,”
President Emeritus Roger Ferlo, now one God’s peace be with you, focused on the new Master of Divinity
month into retirement. We are deeply model for field education and its benefits
grateful for Roger’s leadership and ministry, The Rt. Rev. W. Michie Klusmeyer for students and the church.
and his able shepherding of our community Chair, Board of Directors
You can read the article at bexleyseabury.
through the process of federation, visioning,
re-formation, and new growth. Thank you,
edu/christian-century-feb
Roger, for taking us so far in just five years.
n the cover: Invitation to Communion at the May 12 Commencement Eucharist, L-R: Director
O
Catherine W. Bagot; Stephen Edward Lane, MDiv 2017; Board Chair Mike Klusmeyer: Lily Esther
Marx, MDiv 2017; President Emeritus Roger Ferlo; Virginia Stewart Tyler Smith, DAS 2017.
age 2: More from the May 12 Commencement Eucharist at St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago.
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FOR MORE OF THE CHURCH BEXLEY SEABURY
Pushing mission boundaries
Two new programs that help foster a more dynamic and diverse church
HELPING DIOCESES to explore or deepen their baptismal call
HELP DEACONS to ministry as a lay or ordained person is
The role of deacons in the Episcopal welcome to participate. “We’re especially
Church has changed dramatically over interested in having lay leaders take the
time. Even today, how deacons are raised Baptismal Ecclesiology course,” said
by congregations and the nature of their Professor of Theology and Culture John
ministries depend on diocesan history and Dally who is leading the teaching team.
leadership. Not surprisingly, formation “We want lay leaders to embrace their
and training programs for deacons role in a church called into being by
vary widely. baptism. Just as importantly, we want lay
Last year, as Bexley Seabury faculty voices to be heard and valued by ordained
consulted with bishops about the students—and by our faculty.”
seminary’s new model for field education
for Master of Divinity students, diaconal FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE & CONTENT
training programs surfaced again and All Diaconal Enrichment Program
again. Covering all the bases—maintaining courses are offered in one of two formats—
vibrant training curricula that engage intensive weeklong or hybrid weekend—
and challenge both new and seasoned that include both face-to-face and
deacons—can strain diocesan resources. online learning.
All of which led to Bexley Seabury’s Participants may earn a certificate
new Diaconal Enrichment Program, by completing for academic credit the
announced in January 2017. Baptismal Ecclesiology course and four
additional courses, which may include an
NEW DIACONAL elective. Alternatively, participants may
ENRICHMENT PROGRAM take any individual course. Depending
The Bexley Seabury Diaconal Enrichment on the recommendation of their dioceses,
Program offers a low-residency, graduate- participants preparing for ordination
level, five-course curriculum that focuses to the diaconate may enroll as auditors,
on developing theological understanding for continuing education credit, or for
and ministry skills most essential to academic credit.
deacons serving in the Episcopal
Church today.
Designed to supplement and build
upon diocesan training programs, the
program benefits leaders preparing for
REGISTER ONLINE NOW
ordination to the diaconate as well as
through August 11, 2017 for Baptismal
previously ordained deacons seeking to
Ecclesiolgy and other Fall 2017 courses at
enrich their ministries.
bexleyseabury.edu/category/courses/
Fundamental to the program is the
current-and-upcoming-courses/fall-
Baptismal Ecclesiology course, team-
2017. Classroom sessions for Baptismal
taught by the seminary’s entire faculty.
Ecclesiology meet in Chicago September
Four additional course offerings help
8-9, October 6-7, and November 3-4 with
participants refine their skills in pastoral
ongoing learning online.
care, cultural competency, community
organizing, and preaching.
The Baptismal Ecclesiology course is
not just for deacons. Anyone who wants
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Summer 2017 FOR MORE OF THE CHURCH
EMPOWERING LGBTQ LEADERS “Bexley Seabury is deeply grateful for this generous grant,”
Thanks to God’s grace and the generosity of two anonymous said Board of Directors Chair W. Michie Klusmeyer, Bishop of
donors, Bexley Seabury is forming more leaders who reflect the West Virginia. “We share the donors’ commitment to make a
rich diversity of our communities. Following receipt of a $279,000 difference in the Episcopal Church, and create new possibilities
grant, the seminary will award three three-year scholarships for LGBTQ leaders ready to work for a more just society.”
for entering Master of Divinity students from the lesbian, gay, Bexley Seabury St. Marina Scholars are named for an eighth-
bisexual, transgender, and queer community. century woman ascetic who assumed a masculine identity as
Bexley Seabury St. Marina Scholarships will cover the cost Brother Marinus in order to join an abbey. Her sex was discovered
of tuition, books, travel, and other expenses for all three years upon her death, and she was later canonized as St. Marina,
of Bexley Seabury’s MDiv curriculum, leaving students free to venerated by Syrian, Albanian, Coptic, and Maronite Christians.
concentrate on their studies. Although Bexley Seabury St. Marina Scholarships are
reserved for LGBTQ MDiv students, all students are eligible
SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE MINISTRY and are encouraged to apply for scholarship support. For
Bexley Seabury St. Marina Scholars will be members of the more information about Bexley Seabury’s Master of
LGBTQ community who are committed to justice ministry in the Divinity program and how to apply, visit bexleyseabury.edu/
Episcopal Church and who fulfill other Bexley Seabury Scholars master-of-divinity-mdiv.
Program requirements. One scholarship will be awarded each of
three academic years.
The Emergence of Deacons in the Episcopal Church
Men, often Native American or African, were ordained as missionaries
to serve isolated tribal communities on the prairie frontier while White
1840 1930 settlers were being trained as priests.
1885 Lay women were commissioned by bishops to pray and care for workers who fell sick or were disabled by 1970
the punishing demands of unregulated factory labor.
Men were ordained to serve particular parishes as perpetual deacons, trained privately by priests who needed
sacramental and pastoral assistants in order to respond to the post-World-War-II boom in church attendance.
1952 1970
Influenced by theological renewal of the 1960s the church re-formed and focused its theology and the office of deacon. Bishops
ordained men, and women from 1976 on, based in parishes and often providing social services. By the 1990s, the ancient roles of
deacons—prophet, interpreter, and social change agent—began to mix with the more contemporary deacon’s call to servant ministry. 1971
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FACILITATING SCHOLARSHIP BEXLEY SEABURY
Sharing the gift of knowledge
Bexley Hall rarities donated to Chicago’s Newberry Library
After 20 years in storage, a treasure trove from the Bexley Hall archives is on its way to being restored and
newly accessible to scholars and students of religion and culture. In March, the seminary donated the
Bexley Hall Rare Book Collection to Chicago’s Newberry Library, one of the finest independent research
institutions in the United States.
EARLY BIBLES, ERASMUS,
MUCH MORE
The Bexley Hall Collection is a unique
mix of precious books and ephemera
dating from the 16th through early 20th
centuries. The collection includes more
than 25 16th century imprints and books
from the presses of distinguished early
printers and presses such as Plantin,
Elzevir, and Froben. It encompasses more
than 325 titles; more than 120 bound
volumes containing approximately 1,200
19th century pamphlets, sermons and
religious tracts; and a multi-volume travel
diary written by an early 20th century
Bexley Hall alumnus.
Some of the volumes are among those
solicited from English donors by Bexley
Hall founder Bishop Philander Chase
and his successor, as second bishop of
Ohio and as president of Kenyon College,
Charles Pettit McIlvaine. These include
early Bibles and Books of Common Prayer;
early printings of works by Erasmus; and
works of theology, philosophy, and travel.
Bishop McIlvaine was instrumental in
assembling the extraordinary array of
19th-century pamphlets that form the
core of the Bexley Hall Collection.
Among the rare finds in the Bexley Hall Rare Book Collection is this book of oral history in Arabic,
with interlinear explanations in Persian (ca. 1680).
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Summer 2017 FACILITATING SCHOLARSHIP
Chicago’s Newberry Library
▲
was founded in 1887 after local
businessman Walter L. Newberry
died and left a $2.2 million gift
to establish a free, public library
on the north side of the Chicago
River. By 1894, the Newberry had
a collection numbering 120,000
volumes and 44,000 pamphlets
and was deeply involved in
educational programs for the
public. Soon after, the Newberry
began to focus its collection-
building on the humanities.
Chicago’s Newberry Library is home to 1.6 million books, 5 million manuscript pages, and 600,000 Four research centers—
maps. It is located at 60 West Walton Street and faces Washington Square Park, a legendary open-air focusing on the History of
free speech center known locally as Bughouse Square. Cartography, American Indian
and Indigenous Studies, the
“Bexley Seabury has stewarded this FALL EXHIBIT Renaissance, and American
remarkable rare-book collection with OFFERS PREVIEW History and Culture—emerged
great care and expertise,” said Newberry in the 1970s, with the goal of
President David Spadafora. “We look Selected volumes from the collection
stimulating disciplinary and
forward to building on their excellent work will be on display at the Newberry from
inter-disciplinary scholarship.
and welcoming the collection’s current September 14 through December 30, 2017
The Newberry is known as a
users into our community of learning and as part of its exhibit, Religious Change and
destination resource for those
scholarship.” Print, 1450–1700. The exhibit is designed
interested in Chicago and the
Now in the hands of Newberry to help visitors see the Reformation
Midwest; History of the Book;
archivists, volumes in need of restoration through the eyes of the people who
Music; Religion; and Medieval,
will receive proper care. As funds helped it spread through Europe and to
Renaissance, and Early
become available, the collection will be the Americas: preachers and teachers,
Modern Studies.
permanently catalogued and be accessible travelers and traders, writers and printers.
Anyone who is at least 14
to all Newberry readers. The exhibit is part of a larger
years old or in the ninth grade
multidisciplinary Newberry project,
may register for a reader’s card.
Religious Change, 1450–1700, exploring
As President Ferlo reported in
how religion and emerging print
Bexley Seabury Community
technology challenged authority, upended
News in March, “Our own Bexley
society, and brought the medieval
Seabury Board member, Canon
world into the modern age. The project
Diane Porter, who grew up in
encompasses several free public events,
Chicago’s Hyde Park, remembers
including two November addresses:
with fondness a formative trip
Wednesday, November 1, 2017—Martin
to the Newberry as a young girl,
E. Marty, professor emeritus at the
the reward for her first-prize
University of Chicago Divinity School,
participation in a summer
on Luther and the Reformation:
reading club.”
500 Years of Book-Burning and
Book-Learning
Tuesday, November 7, 2017—Brad
Gregory and Mark Knoll, both professors
at the University of Notre Dame, on
The Protestant Reformation and Its
Continuing Impact
For more information about the fall exhibit
please visit newberry.org/religious-
Newberry President David Spadafora and then
Bexley Seabury President Roger Ferlo view
change
a volume by Erasmus, Apologia ad Jacobum
Fabrum Stapulensen (1518).
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FORMING NEW LEADERS BEXLEY SEABURY Taking the seminary to the church Creating a new tradition of community-based learning 10
Summer 2017 FORMING NEW LEADERS
Absenting one’s self from the world to CLASSROOM + DISTANCE Students not only learn from seminary
focus on the intense work of theological LEARNING faculty and one another, but also from
study and spiritual formation in Bexley Seabury’s low-residency MDiv local lay and ordained leaders.
preparation for ordained ministry is an curriculum combines on-site sessions “We’re trying to move a little bit
ancient and much-revered tradition. scheduled in weekend or weeklong further to balance the academic with
Today, though, tuition and room and clusters with continued learning the experiential, to further blend the
board for three years—plus being away online. Additional courses are taken in theoretical with the practical,” said
from one’s family, job, and church conjunction with Chicago Theological KyungJa Oh, director of field education
community—come at a price that few Seminary and may be taken onsite or and formation for Bexley Seabury. Part of
can afford. 100% online. Compared to residential that shift for Oh, is tapping the wisdom
“Very few seminarians in this day seminarians, Bexley Seabury students and life experience of the community.
and age have the luxury of a residential have both more freedom and more “We’re used to thinking about ivory
learning environment unless they responsibility for how they pursue tower theology, that theologians are
happen to live in the community where a their studies. people who are the gifted and educated;
residential seminary is,” said Sue Sommer That suits Steve Ashby, a music but we all, in our everyday lives, practice
(Seabury-Western ’93), rector at St. teacher and vocational rehabilitation theology; we just don’t know it. Each of
David’s Episcopal Church, Glenview, Ill. professional before beginning his MDiv us has something to contribute to the
“Effective seminary education needs to be studies. “Ultimately, it’s left up to us to conversation. Wherever we are, theology
nimble, needs to—itself—think outside the learn on our own; I like that personally. is,” Oh said.
box as much as it encourages seminarians Most classes meet once per month, and
to envision new ways of doing ministry,” it’s flexible when I’m going to study, as LEARNING TO LEAD IN THE
Sommer said. opposed to having a regular weekly class. REAL WORLD
It’s been casual. We can speak openly, and While Bexley Seabury MDiv students
SHIFTING THE BALANCE there’s not an overlay of formalities learn from and strengthen relationships
In January 2017, Bexley Seabury in classwork,” Ashby said. with CLF leaders, ongoing coursework
introduced a new Master of Divinity offers a theological grounding plus an
program that makes an MDiv degree FIELD EDUCATION CLOSE opportunity to learn skills for effective
possible for more students. Most of the TO HOME leadership and community building.
curriculum is offered in a hybrid format, Under the traditional MDiv field “I have so many things in my toolbox
which blends classroom and distance education model, students spend now, especially to foster diversity,” Ashby
learning. The program also relocates field 12–18 months in a congregation close said, along with a growing understanding
education, situating it at home rather to seminary, working as part of the of himself as a ministry leader. “I’ve
than at the seminary. leadership team under the supervision learned that I can be kind of guarded, and
That change resonates with of the rector. Students come together I’m learning how to not be that way, to be
Anna Risch, who has experience as a regularly to share their field education more open.”
community organizer working with faith- experiences and explore how to apply Risch described her experience as a
based groups. “I’m definitely not in the what they learn. melding of her professional experience
bubble residential community that some At Bexley Seabury, MDiv students and ministerial aspirations. “My missional
of my friends who went to traditional commit to a three-year internship in a and external focus hasn’t changed, but
seminaries have had. Instead, I’m in a congregation in their home communities, has become much more worshipful and
community that includes people of all or in a nearby chaplaincy, campus God-centered,” Risch said. “I’m learning
ages, walks of life, faiths, and traditions,” ministry, or other church organization. that the role of church and church
Risch said. Leadership at each field site (Community leadership is, number one, about worship
of Learning and Formation or CLF) and the divine...how to be more engaged,
actively participates in the student’s more candid, and more relational.”
formation—and helps shape the process.
11WHAT WILL GOD ASK OF YOU NEXT? BEXLEY SEABURY
“The challenges of my ministry are answered at Bexley Seabury...”
Opening new doors for
experienced priests
New skills to embrace one’s call
The Bexley Seabury Doctor of Ministry degree has long been recognized as a significant professional credential for experienced
leaders seeking new skills for ministry. The seminary continues to offer two DMin degrees: one in Preaching and one in Congregational
Development. Both offer students the opportunity to enhance their understanding of ministerial theory and strategize new ways to live
into their vocations.
Some DMin programs are open-ended and structured by the participant—a kind of extended sabbatical designed to refresh and
renew one’s ministry. The two programs offered by Bexley Seabury focus on achieving competence in a specific field of practical
knowledge. With the exception of elective courses, students move through a standardized curriculum as a cohort community, forming
significant bonds that continue through the writing of the thesis.
CALLED TO PROCLAIM? enhances preaching skills and contributes to the life of the
A fully ecumenical DMin in Preaching program is offered student’s home church.
through the Association of Chicago Theological Schools on Class of 2017 graduate Brian Palmer of Cambria, Calif.
a consortium basis. Students and faculty from each of six focused his thesis on preaching to the spiritual needs of older
participating seminaries* form the teaching-learning community. Americans. “I’m a priest-in-charge of a small parish serving
Similarly, worship services are thoroughly ecumenical. 81 people, most of whom are between 70 and 90 years old,”
Director of Lifelong Theological Education and Doctor Palmer said. “I loved everything about the program, from the
of Ministry Program Suzann Holding said the diversity of reading list to the summer residencies to the sermons and
both students’ peers and the faculty enlivens learning. “It’s a reflection papers. In the end, the thesis process was grueling but
distinctive and very rich environment for people who are trying highly beneficial because it forced me to look back and consider
to hone their preaching skills and the depths of their preaching. how I could apply these tools to meet the needs of my aging
Students are really immersed into the practice of preaching,” congregation. I hope that my thesis is helpful to others
Holding said. as well.”
The program is anchored by a three-week residency each Asked what advice he would give someone considering
summer, late June through early July. Each residency consists the program, Palmer was clear: “Dive in! It will be one of the
of a core course, an elective, and a colloquy. Collaborative, most wonderful experiences of your ministry. It is structured,
contextual learning continues between residencies in the supported, innovative, and exciting. Everything about the
student’s community of faith with assistance from members program worked for me.”
of the congregation. The culminating project is a thesis that
12Summer 2017 WHAT WILL GOD ASK OF YOU NEXT?
“......creative, collaborative, theological, gospel-oriented, and practical.”
CALLED TO LEAD? She hopes that through her thesis, she will find a way to
The Bexley Seabury DMin in Congregational Development bring missional theology to clergy searches. “I want to figure out
program is designed to help students develop the skills they how to make this about a journey of faithful discernment,” Grace
need for more innovative and more effective ministry. The focus said. “When a search becomes a spiritual journey, it’s incredible.
is on analytic and relational leadership skills that are grounded Everyone grows spiritually, including me.”
in theological reflection. Students appreciate the flexible format: For his thesis, Thornberg wants to explore “structuring for
onsite coursework offered during June and January residencies innovation within the church. I’m in this really creative church
interspersed with distance learning. that is willing to curate experiences and explore new ways of
“The program format and content reflects our ‘seminary doing ministry. As an organization, how do we implement and
beyond walls’ approach,” Holding said. “We focus on leadership— explore new ways of formation and ministry?”
yours and your team members’—and, more organizationally, Students are invited to integrate theory and practice as they
congregational health and vitality. We encourage students to explore the challenges and opportunities facing today’s faith
push their ministries beyond the usual constraints, the ‘this is communities. This includes in-depth study of family systems
the way we’ve always done things’ approach.” theory, asset-based community development, community
“The challenges of my ministry are answered at Bexley organizing, and other strategies for strengthening the fiber and
Seabury,” said student Jeff Thornberg, rector at Holy Trinity vibrancy of community life, both inside and beyond church walls.
Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C. “They made the decision to Thornberg described the learning experience as “creative,
think outside the box...The program gives tremendous resources collaborative, theological, gospel-oriented, and practical. It’s a
to people like me who are involved in parish ministries for tremendous opportunity to remove one’s self from the dance
dealing with complex issues.” floor, to look at one’s self from the balcony, with faculty who
Most students enter the program having served several are invested in mutual success.”
congregations in sequence. As Canon to the Ordinary, a special “I did a lot of research,” Grace said. “I was specifically
assistant to the bishop, in the Diocese of East Tennessee, looking for congregational development and I wanted a practical
second-year student Patricia Grace is always working with degree as a opposed to a PhD. Bexley Seabury was the only
multiple congregations, primarily congregations in transition program with that kind of focus, with faculty that would have
or dealing with some type of conflict. the expertise.”
“I’ve been using the classes to change the way I interact
with parishes. I’ve been looking at how I do vestry retreats...how *Chicago Theological Seminary, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary,
I teach leadership...and how we can turn the traditional search Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary,
North Park Theological Seminary, and Bexley Seabury.
process into a more spiritual exercise, as opposed to what it’s
become, a hiring program.” Grace said.
“Dive in! It will be one of the most wonderful experiences of your ministry...”
13TEACHING & LEARNING TOGETHER BEXLEY SEABURY
Faculty news
Recent accomplishments and activities to further the work of the seminary
TEACHING & LEARNING TOGETHER BEXLEY SEABURY
The Bexley Seabury faculty gathered for 2017 Commencement, L-R row 1:
KJ Oh, Roger Ferlo, Therese DeLisio, Suzann Holding; row 2: John Dally,
Milner Seifert, Jason Fout, Ellen Wondra.
John Dally, professor of theology and culture, heads the team
that created and will teach the seminary’s new Baptismal
Ecclesiology course. Part of the new Diaconal Enrichment
Program (see page 4), the course explores what characterizes a
church that is called into being by baptism, as articulated in the
1979 Book of Common Prayer. Dally is also writing a book, The
Death of the Beautiful Young Man: The Erotics of Redemption; his
creative process was the focus of a series of nine weekly webcasts
last fall.
Therese DeLisio, acting president and academic dean, and
Board Chair Bishop W. Michie Klusmeyer congratulates President Ferlo associate professor of theology and liturgy, attended the North
at the 2017 Commencement Eucharist at St. Paul and the Redeemer after Academy of Liturgy at the January 2017 annual conference,
awarding him double emeritus honors on behalf of the Board participating in the Anglican Colloquium of liturgical scholars
of Directors as well as a Bexley Seabury cross. and leaders. She is a regular member of the academy’s Liturgy
and Ecology seminar and is currently writing a review article
on the topic of water justice that will appear in an upcoming
issue of the Anglican Theological Review. DeLisio contributed
to extending the reach of Bexley Seabury “beyond walls” by
preaching and facilitating an adult forum on the eucharist at
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Rockford, Ill.; and by securing
a $15,000 faculty development grant from the Association of
Theological Schools that will help the seminary to move further
and faster toward offering enriched hybrid and wholly
online courses.
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Roger Ferlo, president emeritus and professor emeritus of Church at the March 2017 annual, international conference
biblical interpretation and the practice of ministry, continued his convened by the Pacific, Asian and North American Asian
service as priest associate at St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago, Women in Theology and Ministry. “For me, the really amazing
and was re-elected president of the Anglican Theological Review. work these women do is mentoring the next generation of Asian
He has been appointed scholar-in-residence at the Newberry women theologians,” Oh said. “Half the scheduled conference
Library, Chicago, for the 2017-2018 academic year. time is reserved for PhD students who are being mentored
Jason Fout, (Seabury-Western ’01), associate professor of Anglican by established Asian women theologians and post-graduate
theology, organized two live-streamed preparation sessions for the professors not only on navigating the academic system, but also
2017 General Ordination Exams, viewed by more than 90 students on job prospects, dissertation reviews, project critiques, and
from seminaries across the U.S. He participated in a March 2017 advocacy. Missing from this whole process is protecting turf,
Association of Theological Schools mid-career roundtable seminar status, position, and ego.”
and in Genesis Gathering, an April 2017 conference for Episcopal Milner Seifert, lecturer in liturgy and music, attended the
church planters. Fout also served on a panel offering theological July 2017 annual conference of the Hymn Society in
reflection at the second Missional Voices conference in April. On Waterloo, Ontario.
Sept. 1, he will take up new responsibilities as co-editor in chief of Ellen Wondra, research professor emerita of theology and ethics,
the Anglican Theological Review. continues to serve as acting editor of the Anglican Theological
Suzann Holding (Seabury-Western ’99), director of lifelong Review and on the World Council of Churches Commission on
theological education and doctor of ministry program, and Faith and Order. Wondra participated in WCC working group
lecturer in practical theology, was appointed to represent meetings last June in Krakow, Poland and in January in Bossey,
the faculty on the search committee for President Ferlo’s Switzerland, and recently returned from a plenary meeting in
successor. She participated in the Mindful Leadership Summit Praetoria, South Africa. In April, she moderated a roundtable
in Alexandria, Va., in November 2016 and in the Festival of on official ecumenical dialogue at the DePaul University World
Homiletics in San Antonio, Texas, in May. Catholicism Conference. Wondra has also developed a new
KyungJa (KJ) Oh (Seabury-Western ’00), director of formation course: Faith and Life Together: Ecumenism and Ethics will
and field education, and lecturer in practical theology was examine the changing nature of what divides Christian churches,
a panelist on the topic of When Women Lead: Leadership and will take on the challenge of finding effective responses to
Experiences of Asian American Women in the Institutional current barriers to unity.
Ellen Wondra and working group colleagues at the June 2016 WCC
Commission on Faith and Order meeting in Krakow Poland, pictured
with the Cardinal of Krakow. Behind the Cardinal is a portrait of his
predecessor, John Paul II.
15THE WORK CONTINUES BEXLEY SEABURY
PART 1
President Ferlo opened Chicago Convocation 2017 with a presentation entitled
What I Am Still Learning.
The world as it is, and as it
should be
From two distinct vantage points, President Ferlo and Convocation
Keynoter Gayle Fisher-Stewart probed where the church stands
and where it needs to go.
“Bending Toward Justice,” Bexley the institutional church, in particular the Jesus movement” that Presiding
Seabury’s 2017 Chicago Convocation on seminary life and ordained ministry, Bishop Michael Curry has calls us
April 26, was a day of study and prayer have prepared us for action in this to be. Ferlo suggested it’s an earned
devoted to considering our ongoing place and time. reputation, admitting he has experienced
responsibility to create a world in which What good are the institutional “impatience, sometimes fury” over what
every person is valued equally and is church, seminary life, and ordained the Episcopal Church sometimes “does to
treated with dignity and respect. In ministry, Ferlo asked, today—at the point itself” through what non-members—and
three presentations, President Ferlo and of religious crisis? Reflecting on his 32 newcomers—perceive as divisive, even
guest faculty for the day guided our years of ordained ministry and several petty conduct.
consideration of how we are called to favorite works of Welsh poet R.S. Thomas Still, he suggested, our messiness is
act on that responsibility. (1913–2000), Ferlo painted a challenging, redeemed by our ability to unify around
yet hopeful picture. the table in the priesthood of all believers.
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE In our highly secular, increasingly “Only through collective believing does
As context for taking up the “scepter un-churched society, Ferlo said, Christ really matter,” Ferlo said.
of justice” (Psalm 45:6), President Episcopalians often appear self-centered
Ferlo offered his assessment of how and self-righteous, “definitely not
16Summer 2017 THE WORK CONTINUES
DISRUPTION & COURAGE the walls that keep us from being what ANSWERING THE CALL
REQUIRED God calls us to be.” More than ever, she Fisher-Stewart believes we are called to be
To move from messiness to redemptive said, “the world needs people who are heavenly beings—agents of God—here on
unity, Ferlo said, requires a disruption committed to taking Christ into the world, earth. Our mission is to make the planet
of the church’s nostalgia for outdated not primarily through words but, rather, a place where there are no divisions or
systems, especially among ordained through actions that build up the exclusions, where we all reflect the image
leadership. For Bexley Seabury and other beloved community.” of God.
accredited Episcopal seminaries today, Drawing on her spiritual journey, the As Jesus did, we should, Fisher-
it will take courage due to a growing struggle of civil rights leaders, and the Stewart said, “Scrutinize every policy
distance between our seminaries and teachings of some of her favorite Black and program and ask, Does it treat God’s
some bishops and Commissions theologians Fisher-Stewart issued an people with respect, and respond to their
on Ministry. urgent call to embrace the self-sacrificing, their needs?” As one timely example,
Fortunately, Ferlo said, Bexley other-oriented love found in the Gospels. Fisher-Stewart asked us to consider the
Seabury has already made progress It all begins, she said, with deciding experience of residents of Flint, Mich.
on the disruption and courage fronts. what we are each willing to do to change “You can’t love your neighbor,” she said,
Specifically, he pointed to four decisions ourselves and spark change in others. “by quietly watching them drink lead-
made over the last five years that Recalling her ordination day, contaminated water.”
have strengthened the seminary and Fisher-Stewart spoke to her commitment Being non-racist or non-homophobic,
contributed to growth: to break down walls and the sense of for example, is not enough. We must be
A common commitment on the part of mission she felt. “Something changed anti-racist, anti-homophobic and stand
the Board of Directors, faculty, staff, and that day, the first time I broke the host,” a with and for the oppressed—stand for and
students to make something new; moment she described as an unexpected act for distributive wealth and
A counter-cultural reliance on revelation. “Christ’s body is broken by us,” distributive justice.
partnerships founded on shared values; she stressed. “God gave us earth to practice
A decision not to compete with other heaven—to build up the beloved
seminaries, but learn from them; and CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY community and bring peace, justice
Adopting a teacher model (restoring To participate in the process of building and mutual care into the world,”
the rabbinate) for forming and up the beloved community, Fisher-Stewart Fisher-Stewart said. “If not us, who?
training clergy, moving away from the invited us to take stock. Self-examination If not now, when?”
administrator-therapist model. As rabbis includes owning up to what we say or do
do, Episcopal clergy must theologize, (or fail to say or do) both as individuals RESOURCES:
guide community spiritual life, and as community members. “Even in the Practicing Reconciliation in a Violent
and leave all other matters to church,” she said, “God’s people continue World by Michael Battle, Morehouse
congregational leaders. to break the body of Christ by hatred Publishing 2005
All of which leaves us with some and division.” Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and
work to do as we recommit ourselves to Powerbrokers and secular institutions Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas,
acting for justice. We have a responsibility conspire, too, routinely breaking Christ’s Orbis Books 2015
to advocate for intellectual life and a body and building walls that divide us. The Universe Bends Toward Justice:
renewed respect for expertise. Ferlo said. As Fisher-Stewart phrased it, “What Radical Reflections on the Bible, the
does ‘good news’ mean in a world where Church, and the Body Politic by
DOING THE WORK nations play chicken with nuclear bombs; Obery M. Hendricks Jr., Orbis Books 2011
“We have our work cut out for us,” where a murder is broadcast on Facebook
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem
Keynoter Gayle Fisher-Stewart began. In Live; where women exist to be groped;
Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of
an impassioned address, Fisher-Stewart where children are hungry?”
Resistance by Reggie L. Williams,
called on Christians to “break down
Baylor University Press 2014
Gayle Fisher-Stewart, associate rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., is founder of the Center for the Study of Faith in Justice. She is
the 2016 recipient of the Morgan Directors’ Award given by the Episcopal Evangelism Society.
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PART 2
Photo by Fr. Ethan Jewett
As part of his presentation about his experience on-site and behind the scenes of the Stand at Standing Rock, John Floberg
passed around the Episcopal flag that flew over Camp Sacred Stone—“the most treasured object I’ve touched in a long time.”
The world as it is, and as it
should be
Standing with those who stood at Standing Rock
John Floberg (Bexley Hall-Crozer ’91), neighbors, should it leak. taking the credit he is owed for making
priest-in-charge of three Episcopal it happen.
congregations at Standing Rock Sioux A GLOBAL GATHERING
Nation, had barely exhaled. Days into a As the word went out the camp THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
sabbatical in April 2016, he heard that population swelled with resisters who IN ACTION
a camp was taking shape at Standing became know as water protectors. Soon Floberg called on local Episcopalians to
Rock. “Tepees were popping up across the Stand at Standing Rock and the motto, help the Sioux organize and advocate
the valley floor, something I never saw in Water Is Life, were all over the news and for a halt in construction with the
25 years of ministry,” Floberg said. His social media worldwide. amalgam of stakeholders in the pipeline,
sabbatical would have to wait. Over the 11 months Camp Sacred including industry, bankers, legislators,
Camp Sacred Stone would anchor Stone functioned, an estimated 6,000 and law enforcement. He also obtained
resistance to the much-anticipated to 10,000 water protectors had lived at the support of the Episcopal Church
Dakota Access Pipeline. Construction Camp Sacred Stone and participated in Executive Council and Presiding Bishop
of the pipeline would require bulldozing nonviolent resistance, including members Curry, who in turn engaged primates from
ground that is sacred to the Sioux Nation. of some 300 indigenous tribes from as far other faith communities. Episcopalians
In addition to violating their beliefs, land, away as Norway. from across the country donated more
and treaty rights, Standing Rock Sioux “The Sioux Nation at Standing Rock than $116,000 to pay for day-to-day and
Chairman Dave Archambault said the became the center of the indigenous equipment needs.
pipeline threatened the water supply not world. Standing Rock also woke up the In September, Curry visited Sacred
only for the Sioux but also for 17 million church world,” Floberg said, without Stone and on arrival presented Floberg
18Summer 2017 THE WORK CONTINUES
persists today. Not until 1999 did some
of those affected receive any reparations:
a paltry $20,000 each for about 82,000
Japanese Americans. “The same question
comes up for me with Standing Rock,”
Kuramitsu said. “What do reparation and
redress look like?”
Convocation Keynoter Gayle
Fisher-Stewart (see page 17), spoke to the
Exodus account of the burning bush from
which God directed Moses to remove his
sandals, “for the place on which you are
standing is holy ground.” [Exodus 3:5]
Like Old Testament people, she observed,
Photo by Kevin Nance
Photo by Kevin Nance
the Sioux Nation holds the land sacred.
“Here, today,” Fisher-Stewart said, “there
is no holy ground because we prefer
profits over people.” Reflecting both on
her social justice work and her 20-year
career as a police office in Washington,
Following a Sioux Nation tradition, John and Floberg received a Doctor of Divinity, honoris
D.C., Fisher-Stewart encouraged
Sloane Floberg honored President Ferlo and causa degree for his ministry to the Sioux
participants to appreciate our nation’s
Bexley Seabury with a star quilt. Nation, and his nonviolent advocacy and
history. Just as today’s local police
priestly compassion.
departments have their roots in slave
with an Episcopal flag to fly over the In December, it seemed the water patrols, Fisher Stewart said, the use of law
camp. It was the second flag to go up, protectors had prevailed. President enforcement at places like Standing Rock
Floberg said, and the only Christian flag Obama directed the U.S. Army Corps and Ferguson, Mo., is not about serving
among more than 300 indigenous of Engineers to halt construction and and protecting, but about maintaining the
nation flags. conduct an environmental review. In status quo of those in power.
Floberg also organized a national January, the tribal council voted to shut
call to lay and clergy leaders from the down camp. Weeks later, before the camp WHAT WE CAN DO
spectrum of faith communities. More had been fully evacuated, President Floberg offered several ways to respond
than 500 arrived in early November, some Trump signed an executive order faithfully to Standing Rock and other
traveling more than 1,000 miles, to pray authorizing completion of the pipeline. injustice, including:
with and stand with the water protectors. Going forward, Floberg said Find out whose land you are on
resistance will continue through court and create a doxology that can be
THE PEACE UNRAVELS action and pressing more banks to call incorporated in liturgies to honor
Month after month, protests were back loans they have provided to fund the the First Nations people who have
peaceful. Then the stakes went up. pipeline. Longer term, the more difficult contributed to your community and
A disinformation campaign was launched work of engaging broad support for oil helped it flourish.
to discredit and provoke the water independence will begin. Following the example of the Episcopal
protectors. Extra security forces appeared, Church, divest. Withdraw support from
reportedly retired military special-forces OTHER VANTAGE POINTS banks or other organizations benefiting
personnel. Statehouse rhetoric escalated, President Ferlo asked two other justice from exploitative projects.
as did actions by law enforcement. advocates working within the faith Develop an incarnational theology for
Arrests. Strip searches. Pepper spray. Tear community to share their views on the your community.
gas. Water cannons in below-freezing resistance at Standing Rock.
temperatures. Kenji Kuramitsu, a writer and RESOURCES:
What was intended to primarily be a Master of Divinity student at Chicago’s Standing with Standing Rock taught
ministry of presence turned into an effort McCormick Theological Seminary, Episcopalians about solidarity: Lessons
to keep everyone safe. “No matter what, cited parallels with government action range from theological to nitty-gritty and
we had to stand there—stand with the against Japanese Americans during and logistical by Mary Frances Schjonberg,
Sioux Nation and their elected leaders,” following World War II. In 1942 120,000 Episcopal News Service, June 22, 2017
Floberg said. “I was able to do what I did Japanese Americans were forced into Native Americans, the Mainline Church,
because the church stood with me. The concentration camps. They were robbed and the Quest for Interracial Justice by
Episcopal Church became incarnational of their homes and jobs. Even worse, David Phillips Hansen, Chalice Press 2017
at Standing Rock.” a new strain of racism emerged that
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