Alumni Newsletter
Connect the Dots
July 13, 2015 ♦ It’s been quite an eventful few weeks since my last report. The rapid swings between good news and not-so-good news both in the church and in the public square have given many of us an acute case of spiritual whiplash. As regards good news, General...
How Do We Glorify God?
As published in the 2015 Bexley Seabury Magazine { Roundtable discussion of Fully Alive by Jason Fout THE TEXT | Fout, Jason A. Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture....
God’s Healing Stillness
June 22, 2015 ♦ Yesterday’s gospel reading was Mark’s account of Jesus calming a great windstorm at sea. Perhaps you heard it yesterday, as I did, under a great vaulted Gothic nave. That word “nave” comes from the same root as the word “navy.” As you read the passage...
Alums Know Best
Getting a head start on a good harvest You who have experienced Seabury-Western, Bexley Hall, or Bexley Seabury, know first-hand the faithful and rigorous education we enjoy here. You alumnae and alumni are leaders in the Church and in your communities. You know...
Faculty News—Ellen Wondra
The Rev. Dr. Ellen Wondra and World Council of Churches commissioner colleagues begin work on Christian unity CHICAGO, June 16, 2015—The Rev. Dr. Ellen K. Wondra, research professor of theology and ethics at Bexley Seabury, and her colleague commissioners on the World...
Let’s Say “Yes to the Mess”
♦ June 11, 2015 ♦ As I write, Suzi Holding, our director of lifelong theological education and the doctor of ministry program, and I are preparing to welcome 35 participants to our three-day intensive Leadership Institute, in collaboration with our colleagues at the...