This morning I arose hoping for a refreshing moment and by noon that
moment found me. I was grading students' quizzes from my morning Greek
course, when I received an email announcing a new post on Dr. Emilie
Townes' blog, One Black Woman Thinking Theologically. It was not,
however, her new blog entry that caught my attention. It was an earlier
post titled, "Collegial Scholarship," which drew my gaze…
In recent weeks the global public has been witness to a discussion of
human sexuality, specifically with regard to gender identification
because of questions raised about the biological sex of South African
track star, Castor Semenya.
Ms. Semenya’s biological sex has been questioned because of what
some have deemed her supposed masculine appearance and her dominance in
her sport of choice, in spite of her birth certificate that categorizes
her as female.
Mr. Ched Myers co-founder of Bartimaeus Ministries leads a Plenary session entitled "Decisionism, Denominationalism, or Disicipleship? Gospel Ministry in the Age of Economic and Ecological Crisis"
While this is an approximate outline, it offers the key steps in applying to a graduate program. You should start planning the summer before your final year in college/master’s programs or at least a year before you wish to start graduate school.
These 14 insightful tips for success are lessons from the experiences of
graduate students who learned how to navigate both the political and
technical aspects of the Ph.D. journey. Dr. Marbury presented these
suggestions to first year Ph.D. students at t he 2009 FTE Doctoral
Conference in Nashville, TN. A podcast of the session will be coming
soon on our ITunes podcast channel, FTE Calling Cast.
In the circuitous route that most fallible people take to becoming ministers, hundreds of voices provide encouragement along the way. Just last week as I celebrated my fourth anniversary in my first call, some of those memories stood out as particularly important in its notice and nurture. Whether it was the sonorous voice of Jim telling me at fourteen that I had the instincts to be a pastor, or the kind voice of Michael helping me find my first job in youth ministry, or the hushed and mystical voices of Margaret and Vicki as they taught me to pray, or the supportive voices of my Transition into Ministry cohort who have propped me up these last four years, I know I would not be a pastor without their mentoring; but their mentoring had a by-product I could not have imagined: not only did I learn to be a pastor from them, not only did I experience love, but I learned how to mentor as well.
An excerpt from an interview FTE recently conducted with Dr. Emilie
M. Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and
Theology at Yale Divinity School
