C.H.A.N.G.E (Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment) Member Network recently received an ECHO Award from the Winston-Salem Foundation. The ECHO Award honors people and organizations that are building a stronger community by building connections among people. CHANGE is directed by Rev. Ryan Eller (MDiv ’07) and is based in Forsyth County, NC. The organization is committed to building a stronger community by developing relationships across racial, ethnic, economic, political, social, and religious lines, and strives to cultivate the skills of local leaders by identifying shared concerns and needs so that actions can be completed together for the common good. In its…
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May 2, 2012
Alan Sherouse (MDiv ’05) has been the pastor of Metro Baptist Church in New York City since 2009. Through joint efforts with Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries, Metro Baptist Church helps to serve 1,400 to 1,600 community members per year through an outreach program that involves Head Start preschool, after-school educational programs and homework help, a teen center, English-language evening classes for adults, and direct services to the community through a food pantry, a clothing closet, school supplies and toiletry kits, and holiday meals and family events. Read more about Alan Sherouse and the “big impact in the Big Apple” in an article…
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May 2, 2012
A thought from poet T.S. Eliot for the end of the Academic Year 2011-2012: With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. –from Quartet No. 4: Little Gidding Little Gidding was first published in 1942. The last of Eliot’s poem series entitled Four Quartets, Little Gidding emphasizes the unity of past, present and future. Pentecostal fire is the primary image featured in the poem. The…
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April 29, 2012
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion has awarded a grant to the Wake Forest University School of Divinity to develop new course offerings in the School’s vocational formation curriculum. The Center’s “Expanding Ministry Formation into New Pedagogical Contexts” grant will support the work of the divinity school and six other schools of theology to explore the process of teaching ministry formation in contexts outside the classroom. The School of Divinity will use the grant to create two new courses in the Art of Ministry program and two in other curricular areas to support the formation…
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April 23, 2012
The Spring 2012 semester is drawing to a close. Please note the following dates and deadlines: Next Monday, April 30, 2012, is the last day to pre-register for the fall 2012 term for current students. After April 30, no changes to fall registration can be made until the first day of fall term classes. Also, all wait lists will be purged on April 30. Our final community lunch for the spring term is next Tuesday, May 1, 2012, and will feature a discussion related to ATS grant that bears the title “Christian Hospitality and Pastoral Practices.” Professors Mark Jensen and Jill Crainshaw are hosting…
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April 23, 2012
Calendars say much about people’s lives. My calendar has many different blocks of varied colors on it, each of which is filled with information about where and when I am doing what at a certain time on a particular day. As the end of another semester approaches and I look back over my calendar and the school’s calendar, I am reminded of just how far we’ve all journeyed since January 1 when 2012 began. Lectures, workshops, classes, seminars, and many other activities season my January to April professional calendrical landscape. My personal calendar adds to those activities with notes about…
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April 15, 2012
