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SUMMARY:The 71st Commencement Exercises of Seminary of the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:Seminary of the Southwest will hold two ceremonies this year – an evening service of Holy Eucharist and a formal morning Commencement – to recognize and celebrate graduating students and award degrees in divinity\, religion\, counseling\, chaplaincy and pastoral care\, and spiritual formation and diplomas in Anglican studies and in theological studies. \nThis year’s Commencement speaker will be The Rt. Rev.  Daniel Gutiérrez\, Diocese of Pennsylvania \n  \n  \n  \n\nTuesday\, May 24 \nHoly Eucharist on the Occasion of the\n71st Commencement of Seminary of the Southwest\nwith the Presentation of the Seminary Crosses\n5:30 p.m.\nChrist Chapel\nSeminary of the Southwest \n501 E. 32nd St.\nAustin\, TX 78705 \nReception to follow. \n  \n\nWednesday\, May 25 \nThe 71st Commencement Exercises of\nThe Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest\nA service of mid-morning prayer\n10:00 a.m.\nEpiscopal Church of the Good Shepherd \n3201 Windsor Road\nAustin\, TX 78703 \nReception to follow. \nCommencement speaker: \nThe Rt. Rev.  Daniel Gutierrez \n16th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania \n  \n  \n  \n  \nHonorary degree recipients: \nThe Rt. Rev. John Smylie\, Bishop of Wyoming\, retired \nThe Rev. Canon Anthony Guillén\, Missioner for Latino/Hispanic Ministries\, The Episcopal Church \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/71st-commencement/
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SUMMARY:Holy Week and Triduum
DESCRIPTION:Note: All livestreamed events are also viewable on the Seminary of the Southwest Facebook page. \nHoly Wednesday (4-13-22)\n\nTenebrae\, 7:00 p.m.\, Christ Chapel\n\nThis Tenebrae will be an abbreviated office structured around chanted psalms\, readings\, and responsories. The distinctive ceremonial of the service includes fifteen candles\, ultimately symbolizing the triumph of Christ over evil and death.\nClick here to watch Tenebrae livestream\n\n\n\nMaundy Thursday (4-14-22)\n\nNoonday Prayer\, 11:45 a.m.\, Christ Chapel\, with the Exhortation\n\n\nMaundy Thursday Holy Eucharist\, 5:30 p.m.\, Christ Chapel\n\nPreacher: The Rev. Dr. Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski \nIf you are serving as a minister for the service\, please arrive at 4:45.\nClick here to watch Maundy Thursday Livestream\n\n\n\n\nMaundy Thursday Agape Meal\, following Maundy Thursday service\, Dining Hall\n \n\nJoin us for an Agape Meal after the Maundy Thursday service. We’ll enjoy a delicious meal with our families and friends.\nRSVP here\n\n\n\n\nMaundy Thursday Watch 8pm – 7am\, Christ Chapel\n\nFollowing the Maundy Thursday service and Agape meal\, an all-night vigil will be held in the chapel. You and members of your household are invited to symbolically keep watch with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane through the night in one-hour increments. Check upcoming emails for sign up information. Please consider signing up here for one of the open slots on the Maundy Thursday vigil. Even if two people have already signed up for a time slot\, anyone is still welcome!\n\n\n\nGood Friday (4-15-22)\n\nNo Office services today.\n\n\nThe Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday\, 11:45 a.m.\, Christ Chapel\n \n\nPreacher: Dr. Scott Bader-Saye\nIf serving as a minister\, please arrive at 10:45 a.m.\nClick here to watch Good Friday livestream\n\n\n\n\nVía Crucis\, 2:00 p.m.\, the Motte\n\nPray the fourteen Stations of the Cross with a solemn bilingual service with movement and music. All community members are welcome — no knowledge of Spanish required.\n\n\n\nHoly Saturday (4-16-22)\n\nHoly Saturday Liturgy\, 11:45 a.m.\, Christ Chapel\n\nIf serving as a minister\, please arrive at 11:15 a.m.\n\n\n\n\nThe Great Vigil of Easter\, 8:00 p.m.\, Christ Chapel\n\nPreacher: The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge\nIf serving as a minister\, please come to the rehearsal at 1:00 p.m.\nClergy from the Southwest community and others who would like to join should arrive at 7:15 p.m. in order to vest and line up for the procession. Clergy should bring a cassock\, surplice\, and while stole.\nBring your bells\, whistles\, horns\, and other noisemakers for this service!\nClick here to watch Great Vigil of Easter livestream\n\n\n\n\nEaster Gala Celebration\, immediately following the Great Vigil of Easter\, Weeks Center/the Motte\n \n\nChrist is risen! Let’s feast!\n\n\n\nEaster (4-17-22)\n\nEaster Egg Hunt\, 3 p.m.\, on the Motte\n\nJoin us for an Easter egg hunt! If you are bringing Easter egg hunters\, bring a dozen prefilled Easter eggs to share.\n\n\n\nEaster Monday (4-18-22)\n\nNo classes\n\nYou are invited to rest on Monday and celebrate Easter in its joyfulness the rest of the week.\n\n\n\n\nEaster Monday Cookout\, 4:00 p.m.\, the Motte \n\nCome and celebrate the Great Fifty Days with our traditional cookout. Wild hog\, lamb and a vegetarian option provided for the community. Bring a side and/or drinks and enjoy our shared life together!\n\n\n\nTuesday of Easter Week (4-19-22)\n\nCommunity Eucharist\, 11:45 a.m.\, Christ Chapel\n\nAs we are off on Monday\, this will be our festal Easter celebration followed by Assembly.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/holy-week-and-triduum/
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SUMMARY:Harvey Lecture 2022
DESCRIPTION:One Person\, One Step: Faith Practice in Climate Crisis\nHarvey Lecture featuring the Rev. Nurya Love Parish \n6:30 p.m. | Knapp Auditorium \n \nThe Rev. Nurya Love Parish is  a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and executive director of Plainsong Farm & Ministry. She co-founded Plainsong Farm in 2016 as a new farm and ministry that educates leaders about wiser use of church-owned land. \nThe lecture will start at 6:30\, and there will be a dessert reception following. The event is free and open to the public\, and will also be live streamed. A recording is found below: \n  \n \n  \nFor more information on the Rev. Nurya Love Parish\, find her on social media and read about her work: \n\nhttps://twitter.com/nurya\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nuryaparish/\nhttps://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2021/04/30/qa-the-rev-nurya-love-parish-on-food-faith-church-owned-land-and-the-future/\nhttps://www.churchwork.com/about/\nhttps://www.plainsongfarm.com/
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/harvey-lecture-2022/
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SUMMARY:Garden Party: Texas Pauli Murray Scholarship Event
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URL:https://ssw.edu/event/garden-party-texas-pauli-murray-scholarship-event-2/
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SUMMARY:Alumni Breakfast- Diocese of Texas Council
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge and other members of the Southwest faculty and staff at the annual Alumni Breakfast at the 173rd Council for the Diocese of Texas. We look forward to seeing you there! \nSaturday\, February 26\, 2022 \n7:30am \nThe Woodlands Waterway Marriott \nPlease direct questions to Kaye Warren at kaye.warren@ssw.edu \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/alumni-breakfast-diocese-of-texas-council/
LOCATION:Harrison Library: Electronic Resources
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2022 Keynote
DESCRIPTION:A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest\, this year’s Black History Month continues with a keynote lecture.\n  \n  \n  \nThursday\, February 24\n\nBlack History Month Keynote\n\nSpeaker: The Rev. Dr. Brandon Crowley\nCrump Visiting Professor and Black Religious Scholars Group Scholar-in-Residence\nSeminary of the Southwest \nLecture: African American Religion on the Margins: The Theological Distinctives of Black LGBTQIA Church Plants \n7:00 p.m.  |  Knapp Auditorium \nDessert reception to follow  |  Howell Dining Hall \nRSVP here \n \nThe Reverend Dr. Brandon Thomas Crowley (pronounced Crow-lee) is an African American scholar in religion\, theology\, ecclesiology\, and queer theory. Since 2009\, he has served as the Senior Pastor of the Historic Myrtle Baptist Church in West Newton\, Massachusetts\, one of America’s oldest congregations founded by freed slaves at the end of Reconstruction and one of the only open and affirming historically Black churches in North America. Reverend Crowley earned a Ph.D. in Church and Society and a Master of Sacred Theology with a certificate in social justice from Boston University. He also earned a Master of Divinity from Harvard University\, where he was a presidential scholar\, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion with a certificate in cosmopolitan religious leadership from Morehouse College in Atlanta\, Georgia. Reverend Crowley is writing a book entitled Queering Congregations: Contextual Approaches for Dismantling Heteronormativity in Black Churches. He is also presently serving as an instructor in Ministry Studies at Harvard University’s Divinity School and the incoming 2021 Crump Visiting Professor of Theology and Black Religious Scholars Group’s Scholar-in-Residence at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/black-history-month-2022-keynote/
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SUMMARY:Garden Party: Texas Pauli Murray Scholarship Event
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URL:https://ssw.edu/event/garden-party-texas-pauli-murray-scholarship-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T190000
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SUMMARY:Well Now: Let's Talk About Black Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:This is a panel discussion on Black Health and Wellness featuring Dr. Marlon Johnson and the Rev. Jennifer Cumberbatch\, moderated by Flora Fearon. It will be a virtual event on Thursday\, February 17 at 7:00 p.m. RSVP here to ensure you receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/well-now-lets-talk-about-black-mental-health/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220208T190000
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SUMMARY:Payne Lecture - The Rev. Mary Earle
DESCRIPTION:2022 Payne Lecture featuring the Rev. Mary Earle\nFebruary 8\, 2022 at 7pm\nvia Zoom\nPlease join the Rev. Mary Earle – award winning author\, poet\, Episcopal priest\, and spiritual director – as she presents the 2022 Payne Lecture this February 8\, 2022 at 7pm. The lecture\, “All Our Hope on God is Founded: Spiritual Practices for Mission” will be presented virtually. \n \n\nEarle is the author of ten books; the subjects include the spirituality of living with illness\, rule of life\, Celtic Christian spirituality\, the Desert Mothers\, and Julian of Norwich. Her latest is a book of her poetry\, Did You Sing Your Song\, that was awarded a Silver Medal in the Poetry Division for the Ben Franklin Award by the Independent Book Publishers Association.\n\nEarle has offered presentations and retreats in a variety of ecumenical settings\, including conferences of the Academy for Spiritual Formation\, Spiritual Directors International\, the International Thomas Merton Society\, Oblate School of Theology and hospice organizations. She has written articles for a variety of journals\, including Presence: the Journal of Spiritual Directors International\, Radical Grace\, Reflections\, and The Lutheran. She was included in the Living Spiritual Teachers project of Spirituality and Practice. \nEarle is a graduate and former adjunct professor at Seminary of the Southwest. She was the recipient of the Durstan McDonald Teaching Award in 2003\, and also received the 2013 Hal Brook Perry Award\, conferred upon a graduate of Seminary of the Southwest who exemplifies exceptional ministry to parishes\, dioceses\, and/or specific communities or ministries. Earle and her husband Doug were numbered among the 2018 recipients of the Humanitarian Award from United Communities of San Antonio for their contributions to eliminating racism\, prejudice and bullying and for their work to promote inclusiveness and diversity in the community. \nHosted by Seminary of the Southwest’s Board of Trustees\, the Payne Lecture is an annual event that honors the Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne\, former chair of the seminary’s board and bishop of the Diocese of Texas\, retired. \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/payne-lecture-the-rev-mary-earle/
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2022 Worship Experience
DESCRIPTION:A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest\, this year’s Black History Month starts with a celebration worship service.\n  \nThursday\, February 3\n\nBlack History Month Worship Experience\n\n5:30 p.m.  |  Facebook Live \nThe service will feature worship leader the Rev. Dominique Robinson and preacher the Rev. Marcia Sadberry. \nThis will be an online worship service. You can view it on our Facebook Live page: www.facebook.com/myssw/live \nThis event is free and open to the public.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/black-history-month-2022-celebration-service/
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SUMMARY:Advent Meditations and Prayers are here
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URL:https://ssw.edu/event/advent-meditations-and-prayers-are-here/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211110T183000
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SUMMARY:2021 Blandy Lecture and Symposium
DESCRIPTION:(Scroll Down for Registration) \nSeminary of the Southwest presents the 53nd Annual Blandy Lecture and Symposium\, featuring the Rt. Rev. Hector F. Monterroso\, bishop assistant in the Diocese of Texas. Bishop Monterroso will present a talk on ‘Embracing the Multicultural Future of the Church\,’ followed by a Continuing Education session (credits available) designed to leave attendees with practical resources for addressing the opportunities and challenges Bishop Monterroso will highlight. \n53nd Annual Blandy Lecture and Symposium\nWith the Rt. Rev. Hector F. Monterroso\nWednesday\, November 10\, 2021 \n\n\n\n5:00pm – Evening Prayer (link to livestream)\n\n5:45pm – In person reception\n6:00pm – Online networking\n6:30pm – Presentation of Hal Brook Perry Award\, followed by Lecture from Bishop Monterroso\n7:30pm – Continuing Education session\n\n\n\nFollowing the lecture\, Southwest will facilitate a hybrid symposium in reflection of Bishop Monterroso’s lecture designed by the Iona Collaborative and Southwest’s Director of Latinx Studies\, the Rev. Nancy Frausto. \nSouthwest recently announced that the Hal Brook Perry Alumni Award will be presented at Blandy to Rev. Isaias Ginson\, MDiv class of 2010. \nThis year’s Blandy Lecture will be presented in a hybrid format\, with both an in-person and online track. In both formats\, there will be time for renewing connections\, building community\, and reflecting deeply on these issues of great importance. \nThe Blandy Lecture and Awards presentation will be simulcast online in Spanish. All online attendees will have access to Spanish language feed. \nSouthwest is happy to offer this year’s Blandy free of charge. \nWe invite registrants to generously honor our speaker and event organizers with a voluntary gift to the Southwest Annual Fund in support of our students. \n  \nRegistration is closed. If you would like to attend the online portion please email keela.vaughn@ssw.edu with a request for the link.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/2021-blandy-lecture-and-symposium/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211006
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SUMMARY:John Hines Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:Please join us via livestream on Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021 at 11:45am CST for Seminary of the Southwest’s annual celebration of our founder\, the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines. \nJohn Hines Day\nOctober 5\, 2021\n11:45am CST\n \nThe Rev. Morgan Allen (Class of 2003)\, rector of Trinity Church Boston will preach\, and the Rt. Rev. Kathryn M. Ryan (Class of 1992)\, bishop suffragan for the western region of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas will preside. \nJoin us via livestream at the seminary website or facebook page. \nWant to learn more about the John Hines Legacy Society and making a legacy gift? Contact Wally Moore\, Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving at 512.439.0326 or wally.moore@ssw.edu  \n\n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/john-hines-day-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210923T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210923T193000
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SUMMARY:Hispanic Heritage Month Eucharist
DESCRIPTION:This Thursday\, September 23rd\, join us on the Motte at 5:30pm CST for our Hispanic Heritage Month Eucharist. \nThe Rev. Anthony Guillén\, Missioner for Latino/Hispanic Ministries and Director of Ethnic Ministries for the Episcopal Church\, will be preaching and Francisco Chávez will be playing a new song he wrote for this service as well as some old favorites. \nThe service will be livestreamed to the Southwest Facebook page. \nCome for the Eucharist\, stay for a party with food and music!
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/hispanic-heritage-month-eucharist/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210829T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210829T190000
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SUMMARY:2021 Matriculation Evensong
DESCRIPTION:August 29\, 2021\nCampus of Seminary of the Southwest \n2021 Matriculation Evensong and Reception\nPlease join us via livestream on Sunday\, August 29\, 2021 for Southwest’s Matriculation Evensong service where new students are welcomed and begin their important journey of leadership formation. \nThe service will begin at 5:00 p.m. CDT. \nIn the service we will also be installing new faculty members\, Nancy Fausto\, Jee Hei Park\, Dominique Robinson\, and Brandon Crowley. As we do each year at Matriculation\, Southwest will also be presenting the 2021 Charles Cook Servant Leadership Award – this year to Alan Graham\, Founder and CEO of Mobile Loaves & Fishes\, for his ongoing work within and commitment to Austin’s homeless community. \nThe service will be livestreamed at the seminary website and facebook page. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/2021-matriculation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210822T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210827T170000
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SUMMARY:2021 New Student Orientation
DESCRIPTION:2021 New Student Orientation\nAll students\, Saturday\, August 21\nMDiv\, DAS\, MAR students\, Monday August 23-Wednesday\, August 25\nMDiv/DAS/MAR retreat Wednesday August 25-Friday August 27\nMore information coming soon.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/2021-new-student-orientation/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210520
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SUMMARY:70th Commencement Exercises of Seminary of the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:>>>Click Here to View Both Services\n\nSeminary of the Southwest will hold two ceremonies this year – an Order of Worship for the Evening and a formal morning Commencement – to recognize and celebrate graduating students and award degrees in divinity\, religion\, counseling\, chaplaincy and pastoral care and spiritual formation and diplomas in Anglican studies. These events will be in-person\, invitation only\, and socially distanced. They will be viewable online here. \nThis year’s Commencement speaker will be the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle\, IX Bishop of Texas. In addition to the 42 members of the 2021 class\, honorary doctorates will be given to the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle\, Ms. Ora Houston\, and the Rt. Rev. Martha Stebbins. \n  \n\nTuesday\, May 18 \nOrder of Worship for the Evening on the Occasion of the\n70th Commencement of Seminary of the Southwest\nwith the Presentation of the Seminary Crosses\n5:30 p.m.\nSeminary of the Southwest \n501 E. 32nd St.\nAustin\, TX 78705 \n  \n\nWednesday\, May 19 \nThe 70th Commencement Exercises of\nThe Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest\nA service of morning prayer\n10:00 a.m.\nSeminary of the Southwest \n501 E. 32nd St.\nAustin\, TX 78705 \n\n  \n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/70th-commencement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210412T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210412T200000
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SUMMARY:Harvey Lecture 2021 with The Rev. Carissa Baldwin-McGinnis
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis year’s Harvey Lecture\, “Jesus Speaks: The Call to Prophetic Preaching\,” will be given by The Rev. Carissa Baldwin-McGinnis\, Class of 2007. \nThe Eucharist preceding the lecture will be celebrated in Spanish. \nRev. Baldwin-McGinnis\, the Priest / Pastora at Northside Episcopal Church\, a bilingual church plant in Northeast Houston. Rev. Baldwin-McGinnis is a native of Austin and was a member at All Saints Church on the University of Texas campus. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and began her nonprofit vocation in Washington\, D.C.\, in the field of human rights. Her wife\, Pam\, and two children support her in her ministry. \nThe event will be Monday\, April 12\, 2021\, live on the Motte and streamed to our Facebook page. \nLiturgy will begin at 5:00 p.m. and the lecture will start at 6:30. \n\nThe Harvey Lectures were conceived at Seminary of the Southwest as a way of honoring the late Dean Hudnall Harvey\, who died unexpectedly in 1972\, after serving as the seminary’s dean for just five years. \nDuring Dean Harvey’s tenure\, following some institutional turbulence during the 1960s\, the seminary had begun rebuilding: in terms of enrollment\, financial strength\, and earning back the trust of many dioceses through the church. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe seminary community established the Harvey Lectures an annual series that would be overseen by student leaders and that would address the relationship between pastoral leadership and contemporary issues confronting the church. \nOver the years\, these Lectures have become a lasting and vital resource for the seminary\, bringing important and diverse theological voices to our campus.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/harvey-lecture-2021-with-the-rev-carissa-baldwin-mcginnis/
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SUMMARY:Holy Week 2021
DESCRIPTION:Holy Monday\nMid-Morning Prayer\, 9:30 am on the Motte \nSpanish Evening Prayer\, 5:00 pm via Zoom \n\nHoly Tuesday \nMorning Prayer\, 9:30 am via Zoom \nEvensong\, 5:00 pm on the Motte \n\nHoly Wednesday \nChoral Morning Prayer\, 9:30 am on the Motte \nEvening Prayer\, 5:00 pm via Zoom \n\nVia Crucis (Stations of the Cross)\n\nWednesday\, March 31 \n4:00 p.m.\n \n\nPlease join the Pláctica conversation group from 4-6 on Wednesday for a workshop style Stations of the Cross/Via Crucis in Spanish. We will briefly discuss its historical background\, make a traditional “tapete” or carpet\, and walk a shortened Via Crucis\, sharing ways that the body of Christ throughout Latin America continues to suffer the way of the cross.\n\n\n\nTenebrae Service\n\nWednesday\, March 31 \n7:00 p.m.  \n\nPlease join us on the Motte on Holy Wednesday\, March 31st for a service of shadows\, Tenebrae\, at 7 pm. It will be a shortened service of chant and scripture and light. Bring your children in their PJs\, and let us enter into the Triduum in prayer.\n\n\n\nMaundy Thursday\nMorning Prayer\, 9:30 am via Zoom \n\nMaundy Thursday: Holy Eucharist followed by Community Meal\nThursday\, April 1 \n5:30 p.m.  \n RSVP here \nThis will be live on the Motte and will be streamed to our Facebook page. We will be holding a simple Agape Meal in the Motte following the Maundy Thursday Service. Please RSVP so that we have an idea of how many people will attend. Bring a chair and or a picnic blanket and join us.\n\nFind the Order of Service here.\n\n\n\nCommunity Vigil\nThursday\, April 1 to Friday\, April 2 \n\nAfter the Maundy Thursday service and Agape meal\, we will hold a symbolic all night vigil in Christ Chapel beginning at 8:00 pm with the final shift starting at 7:00 am.  All members of the community (students\, faculty\, staff\, members of your household) are invited to participate.  So if you\, or members of your household\, are interested in signing up for a one hour time slot\, there is still time.  Follow this link to sign up.\n\nWe hope this can be a prayerful time for our community.  Bring journals\, prayer books (there won’t be any in the chapel)\, bibles\, sketchbooks\, prayer beads\, or simply your whole self.\n\n\n\n\nGood Friday: The Service of Solemn Collects\nFriday\, April 2 \n11:45 a.m.  \nThis will be live on the Motte and will be streamed to our Facebook page.\n\nFind the Order of Service here.\n\nHoly Saturday: The Liturgy of Holy Saturday \nSaturday\, April 3 \n9:30 a.m.  \nThis will be shared via the ChapelVue Zoom link (found in Populi).\n\nFind the Order of Service here.\n\n\n\nGreat Vigil of Easter followed by Community Gala\nSaturday\, April 3 \n8:00 p.m.  \nThis will be live on the motte and will be streamed to our Facebook page.\n\nFind the Order of Service here.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/holy-week-2021/
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SUMMARY:African American Biblical Studies Discussion
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nSeminary of the Southwest and the Black Religious Scholars Group (BRSG) are pleased to present: \nMaking It Plain: The Sacred Tradition and Civil Discourse of African American Biblical Interpretation\nMarch 10\, 2021 \n7pm CST \nvia Zoom Webinar \nClick Here to watch a recording of the event\n  \nPlease join us for this panel of current BRSG scholars\, as they discuss this important perspective in biblical interpretation\, moderated by Dr. Scott Bader-Saye\, academic dean. \nPanelists include:\n \nDr. Valerie Bridgeman is Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs\, as well as Associate Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School of Ohio. She also is founding president and CEO of WomanPreach! Inc. —the premiere non-profit organization that brings preachers to full prophetic voice. She has been in licensed or ordained ministry since 1977. Dr. Bridgeman is active in several professional guilds and has been inducted into the Society for the Study of Black Religion. She also sits on several boards\, including the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. \nShe served as general editor and consultant for the United Methodist Church’s Africana Worship project and has published several book chapters and articles. Her publications also include her roles as associate editor and author for The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora (2009)\, Norton’s Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons\, 1750 to the Present (2010)\, and co-editor of Those Preaching Women:  A Multi-Cultural Collection (2008). Her most recent work is a co-authored volume on Hosea for the Wisdom Commentary series\, due out soon. She currently is working on a commentary on Job\, also for the Wisdom Commentary series. \nDr. Bridgeman earned her Ph.D. in biblical studies (Hebrew Bible concentration) and secondary studies in ethics from Baylor University.  She earned her Master of Divinity from Austin Theological Seminary in Austin\, Texas and a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major of Communication and Religion from Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. \nShe is a peace activist and advocate for human rights\, and was inducted into the 2010 class of Martin Luther King\, Jr. Collegium of Scholars and Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta\, GA. \nHerbert R. Marbury researches the Bible’s textuality—that is how biblical texts come to meaning both in the ancient world and in the contemporary worlds of modern U.S. communities. Although he turns to cultural studies\, he grounds his work in both historical-critical and hermeneutical methods.  In the ancient world\, he focuses on Judah under Persian and Hellenistic imperial domination\, which are the societies from which much of the literature of the Hebrew Bible emerged. In his first book\, Imperial Dominion and Priestly Genius (Sopher Press\, September\, 2012) he focuses on Ezra-Nehemiah and asks\, “What meaning(s) might Ezra-Nehemiah have held for elites in Persian Jerusalem?” He investigates the Second Temple community’s counter-narratives of resistance against imperial domination. \nSince 2012 Marbury has served as co-chair of the African American Biblical Hermeneutics section of the Society of Biblical Literature. There\, he raises the question of meaning for African American communities. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation (New York University Press\, 2015)\, he uses cultural studies as a mode of inquiry and builds on the method developed in Imperial Dominion. Pillars of Cloud and Fire recovers trajectories of counter-history in examples of African American biblical interpretation heretofore unexamined by biblical scholars. Focusing on figures such as Absalom Jones\, David Walker\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Frances E. W. Harper\, Adam Clayton Powell\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and Albert Cleage\, Marbury asks\, “What meaning(s) has the exodus story held for successive African American communities in the U.S. from the antebellum period through the era the Black Power Movement?” \nDr. Mitzi J. Smith\, J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament\, Columbia Theological Seminary\, is an AME itinerant elder. She received a Ph.D. in Religion from Harvard University and M.Div. from Howard University School of Divinity. Smith authored The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles (2011)\, Insights from African American Interpretation (2017)\, Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice\, Intersectionality\, and Biblical Interpretation (2018); co-authored Toward Decentering the New Testament (2019); edited Teaching All Nations (2014) and I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader (2015); and co-edited Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity (2020). She writes for workingpreacher.org. \n  \nThe Rev. Yolanda Norton is the Crump Visiting Professor and Black Religious Scholars Group Scholar-in-Residence for the 2020-2021 academic year at Seminary of the Southwest. Norton will be the third visiting scholar as part of the five-year partnership between Southwest and BRSG. \nNorton is a Ph.D. candidate in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel and Theology and Practice Fellow at Vanderbilt University. Her current research interests include womanist interpretation\, narrative and literary criticism\, and the Persian period. In particular\, her work focuses on the books of Genesis and Ruth\, and how each text treats foreign women\, and considers the ways in which insider-outsider paradigms in Scripture influence constructions of identity and facilitate the vilification and/or oppression of women of color who encounter the biblical canon in the modern world. \nCurrently\, Norton is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and H. Eugene Farlough Chair of Black Church Studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary\, a Visiting Instructor at Moravian Theological Seminary\, and adjunct faculty at Wesley Theological Seminary. She is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has served in various ministerial capacities in the Washington\, D.C. area and Nashville\, TN. \nNorton is also creator/curator of the notable Beyoncé Mass\, which evolved out of a chapel service developed by students in Norton’s class “Beyoncé and the Hebrew Bible” at San Francisco Theological Seminary. The class explored female-centric interpretations of the Bible and how Scripture reflects Black female identity. Like the worship service\, the class explored how Beyoncé’s personal life\, career trajectory\, music and public persona reflects aspects of Black women’s stories.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/brsg-southwest-panel-on-african-american-biblical-interpretation/
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SUMMARY:Our Lenten Window - Icon Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Our Lenten Window \nIconography Exhibition \nStop by the Booher Library and/or check out the virtual gallery here.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/our-lenten-window-icon-exhibit/
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SUMMARY:Black History Month 2021 Celebration Service
DESCRIPTION:A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest\, this year’s Black History Month events focus on the theme “Our Legacy of Hope.” You are invited to join us as we honor the legacy of African Americans in the U.S. and confront the future of race in the country and the church.\n  \nThursday\, February 25\n\nBlack History Month Service of Evening Prayer\n\nGuest preacher: The Rev. Yolanda Norton\nThe Crump Visiting Professor and Black Religious Scholars Group Scholar-in-Residence \n5:30 p.m.  |  Virtual \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. It will be available live on our Facebook Live page. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/black-history-month-2021-celebration-service-2/
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SUMMARY:Payne Lecture - Ruby Sales
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 9\, 2021 | 6:00 p.m. CST | Virtual \nCo-Presented by St. James’ Episcopal Church\nThe Board of Trustees of Seminary of the Southwest is proud to announce that the 2021 Payne Lecture will feature Ruby Sales. \nHosted by Seminary of the Southwest’s Board of Trustees\, this annual event honors the Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne\, former chair of the seminary’s board and bishop of the Diocese of Texas\, retired. \nThis year’s Payne Lecture is co-presented by St. James’ Episcopal Church\, and is included as part of Southwest’s Black History Month. \nThe lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \n‘Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos’  – Ruby Sales\n(Title is taken from Martin Luther King’s book\, Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos.) \n \n  \n“This question requires us to interrogate\, from all of our multiple identities\, the meanings of community without erasing our particularities or our universality. As spiritual guides\, what is our understanding of chaos and what is our understanding of community? Within this context\, how do we read Moses’ ascension to the mountaintop and being the beneficiary and carrier of what we call the Ten Commandments or the law. Finally\, how do Christians build a social gospel for the 21st century that speaks to the question of community or chaos in a capitalist White male elitist technocracy where very few lives matter and Black\, Brown and indigenous lives matter least of all.” \nTuesday\, February 9\, 2021 \n6pm CST \nRUBY NELL SALES \nPublic Theologian\, Historian\, Activist\, Social Critic\, and Educator \nRuby Nell Sales looks at her work as a calling rather than a career. She answered the call to social justice as a teenager at Tuskegee Institute where she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and worked on voter registration in Lowndes County\, Alabama. \nSales received a B.A. degree from Manhattanville College and attended graduate school at Princeton University.  Sales received a Masters of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Divinity School where she was an Absalom Jones Scholar. While there\, she developed a reputation as a preacher and has preached at churches and cathedrals around the nation.  After divinity school\, she founded and still directs a national nonprofit organization\, the SpiritHouse Project. \nAs a social justice activist\, Sales’ work is cited in several books\, journal articles and films such as Taylor Branch’s At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68; Broken Ground: A Film on Race Relations in the South; Dan Rather’s American Dream Segment; and Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights by Rich and Sandra Neil Wallace.   Sales was one of the founders of SAGE Magazine: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.  As a social critic\, Sales has published works in several journals\, newspapers and magazines and is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Radio Inside the Issues with Dr. Wilmer Leon.  Sales was keynote speaker at a gathering of nationally renown theologians to discuss “Public Theology Reimagined” hosted by and later broadcast on the NPR program\, On Being with Krista Tippett. \nSales has received numerous awards and honors.  She was selected and honored as a Veteran of Hope by Vincent G. Harding in 2004 and taught a class with him at Morehouse College on “After the March on Washington” in 2012.  She continues to write and observe on Movement History.  Sales became a national HistoryMaker (www.HistoryMaker.com) in 2009. In August 2013\, Sales was awarded the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Living Legacies Civil Rights Recognition Award.  In 2014\, she was inducted into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers and became a recipient of the Beautiful Are Their Feet Award from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. In May 2015\, Sales received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from West Chester University in Pennsylvania.  Sales was honored with the national Martin Luther King\, Jr. Peace Award from the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) at their centennial celebration in November 2015. An oral history of Sales is housed at the Library of Congress\, and she was selected as one of fifty African Americans from the Civil Rights Movement to be spotlighted in the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington\, DC which opened September 2016.  Sales was also one of the honorees of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) spotlighted at the opening of the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in April 2018 in Montgomery\, Alabama.  In February 2019\, TED.com released Sales’ TED Talk entitled\, “How we can start to heal the pain of racial division.” \nSales has made the struggle for racial justice one of the centerpieces of her work through the SpiritHouse Project.  Since 2007\, she has worked to expose the state sanctioned deaths of African Americans by White police\, security guards and vigilantes by compiling a national database on these events; offering spiritual\, financial and organizational support to families; and by exposing these activities through church and community meetings\, forums\, and press conferences around the nation.  In fall 2014\, she co-sponsored a Teach In / Preach In with the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference\, Eden Seminary and Christ the King Church in St. Louis\, Missouri in response to the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson\, Missouri.  During the spring of 2015\, she organized a Teach-In in Philadelphia which exposed the Means and Tools of Oppression that plague most communities of color. In March 2016\, Sales and SpiritHouse Project organized a national Day of Action in Washington\, DC entitled\, Stop the War on Our Children\, during which women from around the nation gathered to acknowledge young victims of state sanctioned violence with a silent procession from the White House to the US Capitol\, a public hearing hosted by Dr. Wilmer Leon\, and the delivery of caskets containing the names of victims to key Senate\, House and Supreme Court leadership. \nRecognizing a need to nurture the hope that still resides in young people as well as to revive an intergenerational community and human compassion\, in 2016 the SpiritHouse Project introduced Hope Zones.™  They are alternative learning spaces designed to strengthen the hope\, courage\, reason and will of young people to individually and collectively stand up for themselves with dignity\, clarity and nonviolent persistence. Hope Zones™ are sanctuary sites of learning\, intergenerational connection and community formation which offer diverse communities an opportunity to work toward the common goal of advancing democracy and non-violence. \nSales continues to teach and preach at colleges\, universities\, churches and cathedrals around the United States.  Funded by the Duke Endowment\, she is currently creating Racial Justice Cafes in North and South Carolina. \n  \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/payne-lecture-ruby-sales/
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SUMMARY:52nd Annual Blandy Lecture and Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Seminary of the Southwest presents the 52nd Annual Blandy Lecture and Symposium\, featuring the Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas\, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology at Union. \nDean Douglas will present a talk on ‘Being Church in the Time of Black Lives Matter.’ \nThis year’s Blandy Lecture – rescheduled from November – will be presented in an online format. Given the change in format required by the pandemic\, Southwest will offer the lecture and follow-up symposium without charge this year. \nWe invite registrants to generously honor our speaker and event organizers with a voluntary gift to the Southwest Annual Fund in support of our students. \n  \n52nd Annual Blandy Lecture and Symposium\nWith the Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas\nThursday\, January 14\, 2021 at 7PM CST\n \n  \n“A significant and powerful theological voice\, Kelly Brown Douglas is a person that our alums\, current students\, and faculty are eager to be ‘with’ for this year’s Blandy Lecture. While we will miss our normal ‘in-person’ fellowship\, these unique circumstances allow for us to share a vital perspective within The Episcopal Church\,” said the Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge\, dean and president. \nIn keeping with early church practice of moral conversation\, participants preparing for the Blandy conversation\, will receive a biblical reflection to guide their preparations and encounter with the lecture. The seminary’s Iona Collaborative staff will facilitate a “symposium” conversation for registrants immediately following the lecture. Participants will be invited to reflect on Dr. Douglas’ presentation and then speak about how her words might influence and even transform particular practices in their own local church communities. \n\n	Biblical-Reflections-for-Blandy-Lecture-and-Symposium\n\n  \n“In many early Christian churches\, there was a structured time for moral conversation immediately following the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. It was the Church’s adaptation of the second part of a formal dinner party called the Symposium – a time for drinking\, music\, dancing\, and other entertainment. This was a revelatory and transformative practice where church members reflected on their lives and spoke prophetically about where and how God was working among them. This conversation built up the church community and encouraged and consoled individual congregants in the challenging work of daily faithfulness\,” said the Rev. John Lewis\, director of the Iona Collaborative. \nParticipants will receive a certificate acknowledging one hour of contact time for continuing education credit. \nAbout The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas \nThe Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas was named Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology at Union in September 2017.  She was named the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology in November 2019.  She also serves as the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. \nPrior to Union\, Dean Douglas served as Professor of Religion at Goucher College where she held the Susan D. Morgan Professorship of Religion and is now Professor Emeritus.  Before Goucher\, she was Associate Professor of Theology at Howard University School of Divinity (1987-2001) and Assistant Professor of Religion at Edward Waters College (1986-1987). \nDean Douglas is widely published in national and international journals and other publications.  Her groundbreaking and widely taught book Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (1999) was the first to address the issue of homophobia within the black church community.  Her latest book\, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015)\, examines the challenges of a “Stand Your Ground” culture for the black church. \nDouglas’ other books include The Black Christ (1994\, 25th Anniversary edition 2019)\, What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls (2005) and Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant (2012)\, which seeks to move the black church beyond its oppressive views toward LGBTQ bodies and sexuality in general. \nIn addition\, Dean Douglas is the co-editor of Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection (2010).  She has been a pioneering and highly sought-after voice in regard to addressing sexual issues in relation to the black religious community.  She has been very active in advocating equal rights for LGBTQ persons. \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/52nd-annual-blandy-lecture-and-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Christmas Holiday
DESCRIPTION:No classes and offices will be closed for Christmas.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/christmas-holiday/
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SUMMARY:First Day of Advent
DESCRIPTION:The first day of the Advent meditations for 2020.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/first-day-of-advent/
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SUMMARY:Thanksgiving Holiday
DESCRIPTION:No classes and offices will be closed for Thanksgiving.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/thanksgiving-holiday/
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SUMMARY:Reading Week
DESCRIPTION:Seminary of the Southwest Reading Week.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/reading-week/
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SUMMARY:John Hines Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Ministry of Southwest’s Founder\nThe community of Seminary of the Southwest invites you to John Hines Day\, a celebration of the ministry of the founder of Seminary of the Southwest. \nThe legacy of Bishop John E. Hines is invaluable not simply to Southwest but to the Episcopal Church as a whole. In honoring this legacy we seek to embrace the remarkable courage with which he spread the gospel and led the church. The call for social justice in our modern world is no less important than at the time of Bishop Hines\, and it is the great privilege of the seminary\, in partnership with our John Hines Legacy Society members\, to help form the future leaders of the Church. \nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020\n\nMore details to follow.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/john-hines-day-2020/
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SUMMARY:2020 Matriculation
DESCRIPTION:2020 Matriculation – Welcoming the Incoming Class\n \n  \nPlease join us on Sunday\, August 30\, 2020 at 5pm for Southwest’s Matriculation service where new students are welcomed and begin their important journey of leadership formation. \nThis year’s event will be virtual and available for viewing by the greater public\, premiering on Seminary of the Southwest’s Youtube Channel. \n  \n>>>Watch 2020 Matriculation Service Here\n>>>For the Order of Service\, click here  \n\nDr. Scott Bader-Saye\, Academic Dean\, will preach and the Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge will preside. \nSouthwest will also be presenting the 2020 Charles Cook Servant Leadership Award to The Cumberbatch Family for their ongoing work within and commitment to our community. \nThe Charles Cook Servant Leadership Award was created in 2009 by the faculty to honor their colleague and Seminary of the Southwest alum Charlie Cook on the occasion of his retirement from the Seminary. Charlie’s entire ministry–from his parish work\, to his time as the professor of pastoral theology\, to his continued devotion to the mission of the church–has been one continuous example of servant leadership. Each Fall\, another Academic Year begins\, the community pauses to remember this common calling we have and to honor one who especially embodies the Christian commitment to selfless service on behalf of others. \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/2020-matriculation/
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