Ratherview Summer 2012
Click here to read the summer 2012 issue of Ratherview: Our community's children help shape formation for ministry
September 10, 2012
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Click here to read the summer 2012 issue of Ratherview: Our community's children help shape formation for ministry
You are cordially invited to attend 2012-13 Special Events
November 27 – 28, 2012
60th Anniversary Lectures featuring the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Tuesday, November 27 schedule
2012 Trustee Award
Darin N. Digby
Seminary trustee, attorney and certified public accountant, author and lecturer, devoted Episcopalian, rock and roll and country band guitarist, and friend. As a member of the board of trustees, you have given faithful service to Seminary of the Southwest for 14 years. With your outstanding expertise and your own brand of dry humor you have led the board’s committees of finance and property for most of your tenure.
Martha J. Horne
Priest, President and Dean, Colleague, and Mentor, your leadership routinely reflects fundamental Christian virtues. Modest luminary and humble hero, you have exercised steady, faithful leadership in theological education during challenging times to build up the church and strengthen the witness of the Gospel.
Stanley Hauerwas
Texan, Canon, Teacher, Theologian, Bricklayer, Mentor, and Friend. You have said that you sought to live a life that would make no sense if God did not exist. We honor you today because we believe that God has, in fact, made your life intelligible.
Russell E. Schulz
Musician, composer, teacher, professor, tireless organist, intrepid choirmaster, mentor, advisor,and friend. You have given your life’s work to the service of the Church, her worship and her musical heritage and you give to others your own joy and knowledge of the repertoire.
Because It Is True
A Commencement Sermon
The Seminary of the Southwest
May 8, 2012
Editor's note: This article first appeared in the March 2012 issue of Diolog: The Texas Episcopalian
Sixty years ago the diocese of Texas formally established Seminary of the Southwest in Austin. Southwest primarily has prepared men and women for parish and diocesan ministry; however, laity have found degrees and programs at Southwest to further their calls to minister in the world.
Episcopal Communicators presented three awards to Seminary of the Southwest for special achievement in church communication at the Communicators conference at Camp Kanuga on March 23, 2012.
Ratherview, Summer 2011 won honorable mention for general excellence: magazine/periodical presented to Nancy Springer-Baldwin, editor; Vivify Creative, type & page compostion; and Kris Krieg & Laura Callender, photography.
The Very. Rev. Douglas Travis
Martin Luther King Sunday, January 15, 2012
St. James Episcopal Church, Austin
Genesis 37:17-20
Ephesians 6:10-20
Luke 6:27-36
We hope you enjoy this issue of Ratherview which is focused on forming leaders for Hispanic ministry. It features articles by faculty, alumni and one of our students, and much, much more.
The 2011 Charles J. Cook Award in Servant Leadership
Jennifer Long
Catholic Worker, executive director of Casa Marianella, friend to thousands who have received shelter, food, clothing, new life, and friendship through the ministry of Casa Marianella.
The 2011 Durstan R McDonald Teaching Award
Corinne Ware
Faithful teacher, insightful author, friend and guide to students, visionary administrator.
You served faithfully and with distinction as a member of the faculty of your alma mater, Seminary of the Southwest for thirteen years.
The 2011 Hal Brook Perry Award
Paul Benson Wehner
Priest, pastor, servant leader, comforter in word and deed. You were called in 2003 to lead Grace Church, Galveston, Texas not long after your graduation from this seminary. For five years, you led and cared for the congregation and its many ministries. Then, in 2008, a storm of great proportions dramatically intensified your leadership among the people you had been serving and the Galveston community.
The 2011 Hal Brook Perry Award
Kyle Dice Seage
Parish priest, diocesan leader, stewardship advisor, inveterate fundraiser. You have a passion for God’s work that has not waned since you first felt a call to ordained ministry as a youngster at Camp McDowell in Alabama, your mother diocese. After graduation from University of the South, you became Alumni Director at Millsaps College before heading to Seminary of the Southwest as a postulant from the diocese of Mississippi.
Dr. Anthony D. Baker, Southwest's Clinton S. Quin Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, has a recent publication, Diagonal Advance, Perfection in Christian Theology. At the campus celebration for Tony's new book, he spoke to students, faculty, and staff, saying "This place has been an important contributor in working out this book. I'm grateful to all of you for what you've taught me and how your questions and our life together has influenced my thought."
The seminary community gathered for its weekly Community Hour on Monday, November 28; however, on this day the students and faculty celebrated with Professor Kathleen Russell on the occasion of completing and successfully defending her D.Min. project at nearby Austin Presbyterian Seminary.
Pictured below is Dr. Russell with M.Div. student, Clay Towles from the Diocese of Oklahoma.
Payne Lecture
Hosted by the Board of Trustees
February 9, 2012
James “Jay” Magness,
Bishop Suffragan for federal ministries
Harvey Lecture
Hosted by the students
March 26, 2012
Sam Wells
Dean of Duke University Chapel & Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School
We hope you enjoy this issue of Ratherview. It includes articles focused on forming Christian leaders written by leaders in our community. In recognition and gratitude of their support, we include the Honor Roll of Donors. And much, much more.
May 11, 2010
James Scott Mayer
Native son of Texas, Seminary of the Southwest alumnus, Bishop of Northwest Texas, you lead as a true friend and lover of the people you serve.
Born in Dallas, educated at Texas Tech University, your work in sales was enjoyable, but a call to ordained ministry grew and persisted. That call was blessed by the Church of the Incarnation and the Diocese of Dallas, and you came to Austin for your seminary training and formation.
John Claggett Danforth
Episcopal priest, former three-term senator from Missouri, and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, you have dedicated yourself to reconciliation and peacemaking.
Born in St. Louis, graduated from Princeton University and then Yale University Law School and Yale Divinity School on the same day, you were ordained priest in the Episcopal Church and began your law practice and ministry in New York City before moving back to your home state of Missouri where you began a career in politics
James Scott Mayer
Native son of Texas, Seminary of the Southwest alumnus, Bishop of Northwest Texas, you lead as a true friend and lover of the people you serve.
Born in Dallas, educated at Texas Tech University, your work in sales was enjoyable, but a call to ordained ministry grew and persisted. That call was blessed by the Church of the Incarnation and the Diocese of Dallas, and you came to Austin for your seminary training and formation.
The 2010 Charles J. Cook Award in Servant Leadership
Zane Wilemon
Founder and Executive Director of Comfort the Children International, Seminary of the Southwest alumnus, priest in the Diocese of Kansas, you lead by empowering those you work with to reach their full potential.
The 2010 Hal Brook Perry Award
John Harry Gunkel
Physician, pilgrim, faithful Christian. You are a missionary who takes the Great Commandment to heart as a call on your life.
You dedicated your life to the healing arts as a neonatal pediatrician, medical school teacher, and pharmaceutical researcher. After years of that ministry, you returned to San Antonio for what could rightfully be called an active retirement.
The 2010 Hal Brook Perry Award
Esteban Saucedo-Nava
Minister for fifty-three years to congregations in Texas, Mexico and New Mexico, you have served God and the people of God as priest, pastor, counselor, and evangelist.
In the name of Jesucristo. Amen.
"This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!" Now repeat after me and say it like you mean it: "This is the day the Lord has made…. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!" By God, I'll make joyful Christians out of you yet!!
Now I want all of you to turn to Psalm 100 and I want us to say it together and say it like you mean it, with a loud voice and your lungs full of joyful air! Psalm 100
Acts 5:27-33, Psalm 34:15-22, John 3:31-36
… for he gives the Spirit without measure.
Measuring, weighing, analyzing, counting, verifying, certifying, judging…
So many of our common activities require us to figure things out.
We get the picture of day upon day spent in trying to arrive at conclusions that will allow us to live another day.
Of course, living another day seems to be a metaphor to those who are healthy and wealthy.
First Reading: Ephesians 4:1-6
Psalm: Psalm 122
Gospel: John 17:6a,15-23
In the summer of 2001 I accepted the call to become the rector of a parish which had recently undergone a somewhat catastrophic split over the issues of the day. My predecessor, the majority of the vestry, and about 150 members of the parish had left to form a new parish no longer in the Episcopal Church.
A sermon about Bishop John Hines – founder of Seminary of the Southwest – given by the Rev. Kathleen Sams Russell, assistant professor of contextual theology, on John Hines Day (October 1, 2009) in Christ Chapel
This past summer, I made the journey-along with several thousand other people–to that particular expression of our tradition–General Convention which was held in Anaheim, California, the home of Disneyland and down the road from Hollywood.
"Sophia and My Neighbor's Van: A Violent Confrontation," a sermon by Dr. Anthony Baker, assistant professor of Systematic Theology, given on September 17, 2009, in Christ Chapel
A Brief Explanatory Prologue
On the occasion of John Hines Day and the anniversary of his 100th Birthday
Christ Chapel– Seminary of the Southwest
Micah Jackson, John Hines Assistant Professor of Preaching
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