The Missioner Lent 2014

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Lent 2013 Vol. 30, No.3

Spring - Summer 2014 MARCH

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Ash Wednesday Quiet Day; no classes Experiencing Nashotah Prospective Student Program Spring Recess for Hybrid Distance Education Program

Beginning of Spring Distance Modules Spring Distance Module Residencies Maundy Thursday – No Classes Good Friday - Quiet and Fasting Day - No Classes Easter Vigil Easter Day Easter Monday-Easter Friday: Residential Spring Recess, No Classes

Annual Church Tour Last Day of Easter Term Lectures Reading Day Easter Term Examinations - All Final Coursework Due Alumni Day Commencement; Meetings of Trustee Committees Meeting of Board of Trustees Memorial Day - Offices Closed Faculty Planning Meeting

Summer Break for Distance Program

Independence Day - No Classes Summer Distance Modules Begin Session I Classes Session II Classes

Holy Week 2014 April 13 Palm Sunday: Solemn Eucharist 4:30 PM April 17 Maundy Thursday: Solemn Eucharist 5:00 PM April 18 Liturgy of Good Friday 1:30 PM April 19 Holy Saturday Liturgy 12:00 PM April 19 Easter Even: The Great Vigil & Solemn Eucharist 8:30 PM

“For I fully believe, that, with divine blessing we are laying a deep and permanent foundation upon which the Church of the living God will be gloriously established.”

Indeed, for 170 years Nashotah House has remained anchored to “that deep and permanent foundation” by providing a faithful priesthood for the Church – one that has spread mightily the gospel of Jesus Christ to all people.

Joining Bishop Kemper and giving expression to his desire for solid and faithful financial management, we have established The Jackson Kemper Annual Fund, the cornerstone of our annual fundraising and the

Nashotah House Theological Seminary The Office of Development & Church Relations

2777 Mission Road Nashotah, Wisconsin 53058 USA 1-800-nashotah (262) 646-6507 LaRae Baumann at lbaumann@nashotah.edu

To partner with the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund

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JOIN US FOR THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CHURCH TOUR OF MILWAUKEE. Discover the history of Milwaukee through the life of its churches.

Friday, May 2, 2014 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. $45 per person (includes lunch and dinner) The tour is limited, so please reserve today.

The tour will include the following churches: St. Anthony’s Church St. Stanislaus the Martyr Church St. Paul’s Church Cathedral Church of All Saints Basilica of St. Josaphat St. Joseph’s Convent Chapel Church of the Blessed Sacrament St. Sava’s Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Fish Fry at Serb Hall

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Contents

FACULTY FEATURE

The Rev. Calvin Lane

GUEST LECTURER

for Petertide II Archbishop of Canterbury

published quarterly by Nashotah House, a theological seminary forming leaders in the Anglican tradition since 1842.

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PUBLISHER The Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr.

Ms. Phoebe Pettingell

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PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Ms. LaRae Baumann

MEDITATION

The Rev. Canon Brien Koehler, SSC, ’76

STUDENT HIGHLIGHT

The Rev. Gabe Morrow, ’14

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SENIOR EDITOR The Rev. Andrew J. Hanyzewski, ’09 MANAGING EDITOR Ms. Rebecca Terhune, ’15 ART DIRECTOR Ms. Bliss Lemmon COPYEDITOR Ms. Amy Cunningham STAFF WRITER Mr. Cameron MacMillan ’16 FEATURE WRITERS The Rev. Canon Brien Koehler, SSC, ’76 The Rev. Charleston D. Wilson, ’13

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MARKETING MANAGER Ms. Jordan Robinson DIRECTOR OF RECRUITMENT Ms. Sarah Prosser CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Mr. Christian Wood ’16 Ms. Sarah Pokorny Ms. Bliss Lemmon

During Lent, may we grow in our relationship with God, deepen our Christian commitment, and allow God to provide an opportunity to reflect upon our walk with Him. As we pray, may we confess what has been done and left undone, and seek to be generous to those in need. With our Lord, may we take up our crosses and follow him (Lk 9:23).

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ADDRESS & TELEPHONE 2777 Mission Road Nashotah, Wisconsin 53058-9793 262.646.6500 WEBSITES nashotah.edu give.nashotah.edu THE MISSIONER EMAIL missioner.editor@nashotah.edu

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You are cordially invited to attend the

169th commencement exercises of Nashotah House Theological Seminary

Thursday, May 22, 2014 10 o’clock in the morning St. Jerome Catholic Church

995 S. Silver Lake St, Oconomowoc, WI 53066

Graduation Dinner

will follow Evensong in the James Lloyd Breck Refectory Commencement week will include Alumni Day May 21, 2014

For information, visit www.nashotah.edu or call (262) 646-6500.

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s I think about the Exhortation to keep a Holy Lent, I can see the Red Chapel from my office window, along with the Blue House and Upper Nashotah Lake. I often wonder about Jackson Kemper, James Lloyd Breck, and William Adams and their mission to the wilderness. No doubt Our Lord Jesus Christ brought them here with a Gospel vision, and no doubt they carried Him with them

in their hearts. I can only imagine the scope of temptation capable of leading them astray. Staying rooted in Christ and not letting discouragement prevail surely must have been an awesome spiritual struggle. Staying rooted in our Lord through prayer, sacrament, Scripture and fellowship helped them to acknowledge that they had no strength of their own and that control was not possible or necessary. We are here at the House today because of them.

Lent is an opportunity, in light of the Cross and Resurrection, to examine our relationship to Jesus Christ. We have our struggles just as our founders did. The Enemy enters through our egos. We find the need to be in charge. We can be blind to our true condition of dependence or of our failure to acknowledge we are capable of evil. When I pray about my own struggle with these issues, I often use the amazing passage about Simon Peter in John 13: “You shall never wash my feet.” This was not a statement of humility, but of blindness. His need for the washing of the Blood of the Cross was profound. Peter says near the end of the chapter, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Jesus responds, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.” How blind he was to himself.

More than a century ago, Jackson Kemper heard the same words that today empower the mission of the House and bring students here from

all over the world: “Peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you,” (Jn 20:21). At the House, through worship, sacrament, study, work and fellowship, we see an everdeepening relationship to Jesus Christ.

Through the instrument of formation, a gospel mission becomes possible.

Our mission today is to the new wilderness in our culture, as symbolized by the supremacy of the individual, who merges what we desire with our identity, thereby making it difficult to imagine doing without what we desire.

Our mission in the church is impacted by recent research which indicates that older people see the mission of the church as doing good in the world; and younger people see their mission as changing the world (often in their own image). This creates a vaste gulf between the two views of mission.

This Lent reminds us that we are raising a priesthood and leadership that deeply know we are often blind, controlling, capable of evil and in need of forgiveness.

We are raising a young priesthood who can indeed change the world, but only through the grace of Jesus Christ, who can transform blindness, compulsion to control and self-centeredness into instruments of change and new life.

The mission of Jackson Kemper continues as we remember these words of encouragement, “As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”

Pray for us. Be blessed by a Holy Lent.

The Right Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr.

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The Right Rev. Daniel H. Martins, ’89 11th Bishop of Springfield, Illinois

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anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me,” (Lk 9:23, ESV).

This is perhaps one of our Lord’s more familiar sayings. The frequency with which we encounter it increases even more in the liturgies of Lent. With a text as familiar as this one, it’s easy to jump summarily to whatever we think the spiritual kernel is, and overlook the details. In this case, the details are rich.

So let’s consider them.

For starters, the whole saying is predicated on an overt desire for discipleship: “If anyone would come after me” or “be my disciple.” The spirituality of the Cross makes sense in the context of discipleship. To nondisciples, the Cross is simply foolishness as St. Paul tells us in the First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter one, verse twenty-three.

Apparently, a Cross is something that is to be taken up, rather than imposed or accepted. This is counter-intuitive. It’s one thing to say that we will deal with the difficulties or sufferings with grace and courage. However, that is not the meaning of taking up our cross. I’ve long been struck how, in the fifth of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross, the cross is laid on Simon of Cyrene. Let us notice and not forget in the second station, it is Jesus who first takes up His Cross.

Disciples are invited to emulate Jesus in this, neither to manufacture suffering nor merely tolerate it, but to embrace it, LENT 2014

to welcome it — in effect, to domesticate it and make it available to the Holy Spirit to use for God’s purposes.

We who are Americans, accustomed as we are to endless choices and options, will find it tempting to contemplate taking up our Cross the same way we approach getting dressed in the morning as if we are assembling clothes by making a series of careful decisions.

The truth is, the only Cross we are bidden to take up is the one handed to us. It does not require deep discernment since our Cross is usually right in front of us, sometimes blocking our way. This can be disappointing. We may think ourselves qualified for a Cross that is of a higher profile, more visible, more apt to get us the approbation of our fellow disciples. It won’t do for me to take up your Cross, or you mine. The only Cross that will avail for our sanctification is that which has one’s own name written on it.

We are taking up a Cross, not something of equal or lesser value. And it’s not the sort of Cross that will fit easily on a fine gold chain, or be pinned to a lapel. It’s the kind of Cross that provokes humiliation, inflicts pain, and is a badge of shame. It’s an embarrassment. Indeed, for many of us, the character of our Cross may be distinguished by the way it demands that we be vulnerable to embarrassment and ridicule by those whom we crave an honorable reputation.

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daily basis, like going out to the front porch every morning to retrieve the newspaper. It’s not an occasional duty that comes our way from time to time, and for which we must be vigilant. It’s usually about as dramatic as brushing our teeth or doing the laundry. It’s a chore, routine spiritual maintenance, an aggregation of usually small decisions and minor actions that are somehow, in the economy of grace, taken up into God’s redemptive project of re-knitting the fabric of the universe.

Each decision along the way of the Cross is in the moment, a little yet significant decision. As the Cross of Jesus became the venue for the redemption of the world, the cumulative effect of the crosses his disciples take up daily can move mountains and build great things.

As the House moves toward a capital campaign, what are the mountains that might be moved by our little acts of faithfulness, the daily crosses we embrace?

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FACULTY FEATURE

ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

The Rev. Calvin Lane, PhD, ’11, Affiliate Professor of Church History and Priest-in-Charge, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Franklin, LA

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“Do not be captive to fear, but press on trusting in the grace of Almighty God; with earnest zeal perform the labor to which God has called you,” Pope Gregory the Great (AD 540-604) They were scared. Images of cruel, barbarous men filled their minds.

Talk of ferocious terrain and equally ferocious people dominated their conversation. So they sent Augustine, now known as St. Augustine of Canterbury, back to Pope Gregory to reason with him, to plead with him and to beg him to let them return to the comforts of Rome. The year AD 597 is memorable in the history of Christianity, because in that year Augustine, former prior of St. Andrew’s Monastery in Rome, landed on the Isle of Thanet just off the coast of Kent, England with the purpose of rebuilding the church on the edge of the world. A critical bit of the story, though, is that along the way he and his companions lost their nerve. Who were they anyway to undertake such a task? Augustine himself hadn’t much experience in real leadership. Indeed, after his arrival he constantly wrote Gregory asking him what he ought to be doing. His men were from the Mediterranean, hardly ready for the cold of northern Europe.

In addition, they didn’t even speak the languages of this new locale. These were the facts — the cold, concrete and inflexible facts — that the pope would simply have to recognize. Gregory, they

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believed, needed to be realistic, so they sent Augustine back to plead with the pope to allow them to come home.

Pope Gregory, though, was not of the same mind. He explained, in a rather succinct letter to these monastic missionaries, that they were to rely on the Almighty, that they should have zeal in what God has in store for them and that the fables they are hearing along the road should be dismissed. One considers the stirring lines from John Bunyan (1628-1688), later written as a hymn by Percy Dearmer (1867-1936): Who so beset him round with dismal stories, Do but themselves confound, His strength the more is.

No foes shall stay his might, Though he with giants fight; He will make good on his right To be a pilgrim.

There are certainly a number of lessons to be learned from Augustine’s mission to England. One is the challenge of Catholicity.

The new archbishop, having adopted Canterbury as his see, tried to build bridges with the Celtic Christians who were isolated from the rest of the church and, frankly, teetering on sectarianism. At the Synod of Whitby in AD 664, the question was whether England would ideologically face Ireland and the sea or would it turn its face and share life with the rest of the Catholic Church as one body.

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in order to share a common life with the broader church. How often are we tempted to hide in a corner? What prizes will we have to give up in order to claim “one Lord, one faith, one baptism”?

Another lesson from Augustine’s mission has to be the constant and perhaps cyclic demand to evangelize and re-evangelize. Augustine after all was going to England to reclaim it for Christ. Once in Canterbury, he set to work restoring a broken down church building for worship. And the cycle continued long after Augustine went to his grave. The Cistercians of the twelfth century, for instance, came to England and reclaimed a number of churches that were tumbling down; Rievaulx in Yorkshire was described as a place of horror on their arrival. Is there any doubt, from a practical perspective, that people and places will always need to be refreshed with the living waters of the Gospel? We should not be surprised about decline but rather buoyed; this has happened before and God calls us to mission!

I think, though, that as women and men called to take up the cross and follow, our mission first has to grapple with that gnawing fear that we will fail, that we will suffer, that we will lose. This is the same fear that Augustine’s band of monks felt. However, Pope Gregory’s words are the same for us, “Do not be captive to fear, but press on trusting in the grace of Almighty God; with earnest zeal perform the labor to which God has called you.”

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ashotah House invites you to our campus and experience the wonderful atmosphere we can provide for the next retreat, conference, wedding, or other event you hope to hold. We are especially pleased to offer the use of the recently built Adams Hall which contains a large auditorium that seats up to 300 people, five conference rooms that each seat

20 to 60 people, and an additional attached dining/reception hall. The Adams Hall auditorium may serve as a worship space, a lecture hall, or can be transformed into a breathtaking reception hall. The auditorium and conference rooms are equipped for all audio/visual needs. Nashotah House also offers excellent catering options available upon request.

For more information on holding an event at Nashotah House contact the Events Department at events@nashotah.edu or 262.646.6500

ALUMNI FEATURE

ALUMNI CORNER

The Church Year:

DAILY

Spiral Journey

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Chaplain Nancy Breitsprecher, ’81

GRATITUDE

ON THE JOURNEY The Rev. Deborah Woolsey, ’07

Traveling through the seasons of the church year, we change gears as Lent begins. Lent becomes a time to ask whether we see these group of days as a circle, just going through the liturgical motions based on the life of Jesus, or whether we find it a spiral that takes us closer to God. Our Judeo-Christian heritage is one of expectation. God continued to do new things for Israel — the covenant with Abraham, an escape from slavery, the commandments to Moses. The expectations continued, always with a new promise. We ask ourselves, what new thing can we do that will help us on the spiral path as we try to follow Jesus?

Lent is both a preparation and a time of expectation. As we look toward what has been done through the life of Jesus, the wonders of His death, the resurrection and the promise of the Spirit to come; we see God’s grace and love sustaining and saving us from ourselves.

How do we keep our travel through the church seasons from becoming circles rather than spirals? Lent is a season for us to pay attention to where we are spiritually, to look at how we follow Jesus daily in our own lives. Do we circle through church cycles, or spiral closer to the Jesus we truly want to follow? In reading the Gospels, we see Jesus always reaching out to those most needy. Do we understand that this is a personal requirement for us also? How far do we reach out, or do we only do it by proxy Continued on page 30

“Let me not undertake this journey begrudgingly, but instead with love and thankfulness saying, I thank you for this, my God, that I am a traveler and a stranger in the world, like so many of your people before me.” This is an ancient Celtic prayer for those on a journey. While it is not from the Book of Common Prayer, it is the prayer I prayed every time I approached my seat in Chapel during my days as a seminarian at Nashotah House. I chose this prayer because I believed that my three years at Nashotah House were preparing me for the sojourn of living my priesthood in the world. Sometimes, especially when I hear the bells chime in the church I serve, I still say that prayer, as I live into that formation.

This amazing journey took me to the small but strong parish near Nashotah, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Sussex, WI, where I served as Rector from November 2007 December 2012. Together we were unafraid to take the Love of God into the world. Whether we were celebrating Holy Eucharist at Miller Park before a Milwaukee Brewers’ game, observing All Hallows’ Eve with an interactive vigil in the cemetery, collecting food for the local pantry, or helping with the Hospitality Center in Racine, we shared the fun and joy of being Christ’s heart and hands in the world. Continued on page 30

Letter from the

ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ADMINISTRATION The Rev. Philip Cunningham, ’08

here are certain mathematical formulae that we all learned growing up. We learn things like C=2πR, meaning that the circumference of a circle is twice the radius multiplied times pi. We also learn the Pythagorean Theorem which states a2 + b2 = c2 showing that the longest side of a right triangle can be determined by taking the square root of the squared sum of the other two sides. And now to this pantheon of famous equations we must add what I am calling the Nashotah Theorem. This theorem states that R+2⅓R = E. Or stated another way our revenue (tuition, rent, food, etc.) plus 2⅓ times our revenue equals our expenses. Or stated still one more way, for every $100 we spend we cover only $30 of it through our revenue sources meaning an additional $70 must be raised.

In looking at our financial history of the past ten years this seems to have been the one constant. Sometimes we need to raise a little more, sometimes a little less but, generally speaking 70% of our operating income must be raised from other sources. And this is not unique to Nashotah House. It happens at most seminaries. Some need a little more, some a little less, but whatever it is, there is a gap between revenues generated received through services provided and expenditures. How this “gap” is funded may vary between seminaries.

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through a combination of endowment revenues and annual giving.

What all of this means for Nashotah House is that, in order to survive and thrive, we need to ensure that we are able to fund consistently this difference in a way that is sustainable. In practical terms, this means we need to both build up our endowment (which currently stands at around $9 million) and grow our annual giving. The growth of the endowment will allow us to draw off of its revenue for funding while the annual giving allows us to pay as we go. If we fail to accomplish these two goals our future will be in great peril.

This is not to say that we will not look for efficiencies and watch our expenses – I am Scottish after all. The reality is, in order to run the school in a manner consistent with our goals and vision, fundraising is vital. And this is where we need everyone’s help. Fundraising is not simply one department that resides on the second floor of Lewis Hall, but should rather be the responsibility of all those who love Nashotah House.

Before I came to seminary I worked at a children’s hospital, which was heavily dependent on contributions in order to fund its mission of treating every child who came to them for treatment. It was NASHOTAH.EDU

instilled in all employees from their first day that everyone needed to help raise money in order for the institution to carry out its mission. We all knew that without this the place would not survive.

I believe that Nashotah has a great future but it is going to take all who love this place to help in that mission.

The financial realities of the present day require us to raise money continually in order to fulfill that mission. So my prayer is that all of us will come together and help so that we may continue to be the preeminent seminary in the preparation of men and women for serving God in their communities and beyond.

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CHANGE RINGING BELLS OFFER NEW SOUND TO THE HOUSE A few friends will join Michael in the Garth.

Nashotah House’s Great Bell ‘Michael’ has rung three times daily to call the community for morning, noonday and evening prayer since 1868, when it was first given as a memorial gift to The House by one Dr. Charles Delafield, a friend of House professor and Dean, Dr. Azel Cole. In 1894, Dr. Delafield’s son officially gave the bell to the Board of Trustees and had the bell inscribed as a memorial to his father.

Recently, the House received eight change ringing bells cast in 1990 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London.

The gift is from Pewaukee, WI resident Mr. Roland Perschon who has spent several years seeking a location for the bells, originally acquired by him as a memorial for his parents. When the

House approached Mr. Perschon, he offered them to the historic campus.

The bells were formally welcomed and blessed by the Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr., Nineteenth Dean and President of Nashotah House.

Dean Salmon christened the bells on the evening of October 10, 2013. The bells are named accordingly — Gabriel, ‘God is our Strength;’ Raphael, ‘God Heals;’ Jehudiel, ‘God is Praised;’ Jackson Kemper; James Lloyd Breck; James DeKoven; Charles Chapman Grafton; and Uriel, ‘God is Light.’

When asked how one baptizes a bell, the Rev. Steven Peay, Dean of Academic Affairs at Nashotah House, replied, “The term ‘baptize’ is an euphemism for the ancient tradition of blessing the bells. They are named and consecrated to the glory of God. They will be housed in a new tower to be built on campus.”

Using an adapted form from the Roman Pontifical, those officiating also used prayers and material from the Book of Occasional Services.

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Although the bells were to be named in order after both archangels and the House’s saints, there was a bit of a mix up in the process with Uriel as the name of the last bell, instead of Charles Chapman Grafton. Later, Chaplain to Nashotah House, Canon Brien Koehler, SSC ’76, addressed the naming of the bells, saying, “It was Providential that the bells were not named in their order — our local saints are hemmed in by the angels.”

Canon Joseph A. Kucharski, Professor of Church Music said, “Because of our unique witness and commitment to introducing our students to the historic English Choral Tradition, with its rich and varied approach to change ringing, we receive the gift of these magnificent bells and know they will enhance our work and common life together.”

While change ringing is common in England, where there are now over 5,000 towers, there are less than fifty in the United States. “Mr. Perschon’s incredible and historic gift will serve as GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

the perfect kickoff for our forthcoming campaign to increase our permanently restricted endowment,” said the Rev. Charleston David Wilson who serves as Associate Dean of Institutional Advancement.

“The Psalms often speak of making joyful sounds unto the Lord,” said the Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr., Dean and President of Nashotah House, “and these bells will do just that: as they peal, we are mindful of our storied past while we look boldly into the future.”

The House formally received the bells on campus October 10, 2013. The public was invited to attend. Following the reception of the bells, the Holy Eucharist was celebrated in the historic Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin.

As to where the bells will be installed, the Rev. Charleston Wilson, ’13, replied, “The bells will be housed in a tower and plans are being made to raise funds.

Currently, there are plans for building a bell tower in the Garth.”

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his summer, Nashotah House will welcome the Most Reverend and Right Honorable George Carey of Clifton, PhD, Archbishop of Canterbury (retired) to instruct the course entitled, ‘The Doctrine of Mankind (STM/ DMin)’ during the Petertide II Session July 21 - August 1, 2014. In this course, Dr. Carey will give an overview of the Christian teaching on humanity and its relationship to God, world, sexuality and the common life. The teaching of key theologians will be explored in the context of inter- reactive teaching.

In 1991, Lord Carey became the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury, serving 70 million Anglicans around the world. He retired in 2002, and was made a life peer as Lord Carey of Clifton. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire and President of the London School of Theology. He also serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is a cochair of the Council of 100.

George Carey was born in 1935 in the East End of London, the son of a hospital porter. He left school at 15 and began working at the London Electricity Board as an office boy, and also served with the Royal Air Force in Iraq during the fifties.

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a minister into the Church of England.

After graduating from London College of Divinity (ALCD) and King’s College London (BD. Hons) he served as a curate in Islington, London. During this time he went on to research the early origins of Christian ministry and earned both M.Th and Ph. Degrees. He then taught at two Colleges before becoming a parish priest at St.Nicholas’ Durham.

In 1982 he became Principal of Trinity Theological College in Bristol and, in 1987, Bishop of Bath and Wells. In 1991 he was invited to take up the post of 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury and served 70 million Anglicans around the world until his retirement in 2002.

In 2002, George Carey was made a life peer as ‘Lord Carey of Clifton.’ Lord Carey is Presentation Fellow of King’s College London, Fellow of Christ’s University College, Canterbury and Fellow of the Library of Congress. He is also the recipient of some 12 Honorary Doctorates and author of 14 books.

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Theology. In retirement, he is on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and Co-Chair of the Council of 100, which is seeking to bridge the gulf between the West and Islamic worlds. He is also Chairman of the United Church Schools Trust.

Lord Carey married Eileen Harmsworth Hood in 1960. They have four children and thirteen grandchildren. Eileen was a nurse and still retains a great interest in medical matters. She is co-Chair of St.Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy Appeal and associated with Church Army.

You will find ‘The Doctrine of Mankind’ listed as AT 721/AT 822. To register, please call Nashotah House at 262-6466500 or visit nashotah.edu. To learn more about Lord Carey and read a selection of his speeches and sermons, please visit glcarey.co.uk.

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ur culture has become obsessed with “how to” tips for leading a happy, stress-free life. To cite only one example, AOL is now sponsoring “Serenity Saturdays” in which users are prompted to take it easy by “meditating” on happy things—rather like the formula used in the Harry Potter books to produce a Patronus to chase off the Dementors who suck out all human joy, leaving one with memories of all one’s worst experiences. Further advice includes drinking herbal tea, and spending “quality time” with friends and loved ones. That such platitudinous advice needs to be spelled out points to the grim fact that so many people live with anxiety and downright unhappiness much of the time.

In Lent, the Church proclaims that we should “slow down,” take stock of our lives, cultivate more disciplined habits, and moderate our life-styles. Yet in general (though thankfully not everywhere) there seems to be a fear of mentioning the traditional disciplines of repentance and fasting—as if referring to such practices might either drive people away or else tip them into morbid depression. How often, in the average parish, does one hear a sermon about how we fall short of what God calls us to be? Or, if we do, is the preacher’s invocation of the Almighty’s disappointment and even anger aimed not at the congregation he addresses, but those not present to be admonished, while the hearers can feel smug in their superior knowledge of the divine will? Continued on page 32

Nashotah House Reclaims St. Laurence Cup

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fter four consecutive years of painful loss, Nashotah House’s flag football team, the Black Monks, victoriously reclaimed the St. Laurence Cup trophy Sunday, October 27, 2013. Hosted by St. Francis de Sales Seminary in St. Francis, WI, the teams took to the field at 1:30 PM on the field of St. Thomas More High School, Milwaukee, WI. A host of seniors, middlers and juniors ran wild as masculine grunting, hooting, and chestbumping fueled the team’s fierce — yet strategized — playing. Rarely, since the sixteenth century has such tension arisen between citizens of England and Rome, or their representative seminaries.

Preceding the game, the Rev. Thomas Buchan, clad in regal black and gold cope, officiated a most sacred litany. With holy water and incense, the football was blessed accordingly, and these sacred words of prayer were chanted: “Bless, O Lord, this ball to be a sign of arbitrarily assigned value moved at great effort and human expense hither and yon on a field demarcated at regular intervals of measurement, not to endless, but certainly to great delight, and let it be for us a token of thanksgiving for an afternoon in which to enjoy the bounties of thy creation. Amen.”

And so the game began. Words were exchanged, flags violently ripped apart, and a multitude of minor injuries were suffered. Only two touchdowns were scored during the game’s two halves – one by each team - necessitating an intense overtime match. Both teams were given

four downs at the ten yard line. The House’s human skyscraper, Tyler Whatley ’16, gracefully snagged a pass in the end zone from quarterback Christian Wood ’16, bringing the score to 12-6. Mr. Wood then rushed the ball into the end zone for a two-point conversion. In an attempt to reassert their sole power and authority over the enormous chalice trophy, the Catholics also landed a touchdown during overtime. Unfortunately for them, any chance at a two-point conversion was thwarted by the ever decent and orderly defense tactics of the Anglicans, leaving the final score at 14-12, Black Monks. As the referee’s whistle sounded, ending the game, the frustrated but powerless papists left the field, and the reformers triumphantly sprayed one another with champagne and flaunted their reclaimed lavabo for all to see.

Following the game, the hospitable St. Francis seminary hosted the opposing team for Evening Prayer. The visiting House was also cordially served a hearty feast of hamburgers and hot dogs. The two teams plan to continue their future endeavors on the field and hope to further relationships in an ecumenical dialogue of “tossing the pigskin around.”

The House players for the Michaelmas 2013 football game were: Mr. Nathan Adams ’14; Mr. Thomas Buchan, Jr.; Mr. Ben Hankinson ’14; Mr. BenJefferies ’14; Mr. Hunter Jordan ’16; Mr. Steve Lang, Sr.; Mr. Steve Lang, Jr.; Mr. David Pearson ’15; Mr. Christopher Pokorny, ’15; Mr. Lars Skoglund ’14; Mr. Evan Simington, ’14; Dcn. Terry Star ’15; Mr. Ben Terhune; Mr. John Trenum ’15; Mr. Tyler Whatley, ’16; and Mr. Christian Wood ’16.

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God’s Presence & Provision in Uganda Mr. John Sosnowski, ’15

GOD IN THE DETAILS As I considered the opportunities to complete a six-week internship in a Ugandan Anglican Church, I found the Cathedral for the Masindi Kitara Diocese is located less than half a mile from Trish and Newman’s home. I emailed The Rt. Rev. George Kasangaki to ask if I might serve an internship there, and he was most helpful in working out the details. I soon discovered that I would serve under the mentorship of the Rev. Francis Kajura, Vicar of at the Cathedral of St. Matthews..

My hope in this article is to illustrate how God manifested Himself to my wife Patti and I in all aspects of our preparation and time in Masindi as we ministered and were ministered to by the congregation there. Sometimes God simply opens the way to where and how He wants us to serve.

I knew I was being called as I committed to this TPP in Uganda. I would be under the authority of clergy about whom I knew little, in a culture whose Christianity fills a wide spectrum of understanding, whose language is unknown to me, and whose needs for basic necessities are great. However, I have found that to faithfully follow Christ is where He wants me to be in order to reveal Himself and His purposes.

GOD IN THE SENSES Being sensitive to the pastoral needs of clergy with whom I would interact was one of my hopes I had for my TPP — to have an opportunity to pray with them for their needs, and for our Lord to bless them as He might.

One day Rev. Francis seemed like he was simply “out of steam.” I knew he had to deal with suspending an employee of a church-sponsored program due to an issue of immorality. Also, he had been recently called out at night to deal with issues ranging from family squabbles to demonic oppression. I asked him what 16

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he needed prayer for and in what ways did he need Jesus to restore him. He spoke of the demands of his ministry, and also of his concerns for keeping his children in school due to expenses.

I asked if I could pray for him, and he said, “Please.” The release of God’s grace into that moment was felt as he wept and received what only our Lord can provide, in the comfort and assurance of His presence.

GOD IN THE DIFFERENCES The differences in the culture of the people in Uganda were certainly evident as compared to that in the United States, but there are also many similarities.

The evidence of our common brokenness is much the same the world over. On my last Sunday, I preached in the village church of Kijura, a town in western Uganda. Beatrice, the lay leader of this church had told me that most of her congregation consisted of families where the mother and father were not married. She suggested I might preach on the importance of marriage as sacrament, sealed and blessed by the Church.

I preached the first union of man and woman blessed by God, in the Garden of Eden. I spoke on the spiritual and emotional benefits of marital commitment blessed by a priest. As I finished preaching, I suggested what a delight it would be for those living together to contact Rev. Francis, and ask him to schedule marriage ceremonies for them.

Rev. Francis encouraged, “Ladies, if you are not married to the man you are living with, and are now willing to be married to him, please come forward to be prayed for?” Soon the altar rail was full. As we prayed for each person, Rev. Francis then asked the same question to the men, and they came forward as well. It was a holy moment. Ten couples NASHOTAH.EDU

came to Francis’ office that afternoon for counseling, and to register to be married.

The Spirit of God Himself had gone ahead of us, and prepared the hearts, in that place, through the teaching and

pastoral care of Rev. Francis and the lay leader, Beatrice.

Nashotah House has always held to the truth about the Great Commission. It is our privilege to be “door openers” to the Kingdom. We must simply be prepared to recognize where God is blessing His people, and then to come alongside and be vessels of His Grace to those whom He has called.

Mr. Sosnowski’s desire to complete a Teaching Parish Practicum (TPP) this past summer coincided with his daughter and son-in-law, Trish and Newman Lawrence, living in Masindi, Uganda. Mr. Lawrence is employed by Palmetto Medical Institute, a non-profit NGO, and serves as the project director of a medical clinic. Mr. Sosnowski, ’15, is from the Diocese of South Carolina. He and his wife Patti have two daughters, Liza and Trish.

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and was rejected. Disheartened but prayerful, Chris continued his work in videography. A year later, Redeemer’s youth minister left his position, and Chris got a call from one of the kids in the youth group encouraging him to interview again. He said no. Shortly after, he received a second call from another kid. His “no” turned into a “maybe.” He told Kate if he got a third call, he would call Fr. Robinson. Sure enough, the third call came. Soon after, Fr. Robinson flew him down and had him interview with about forty youth group parents. “The next day, Fr. Robinson called me as the new youth minister.”

MINISTRY WITH STUDY & COMMUNITY Mr. Cameron MacMillan, ’16

When Chris and Kate Wood first visited Nashotah House, they were extremely skeptical — not about the seminary or the people, but moving to the wintery woods of Wisconsin from the temperate climate of Florida. “It was strictly the location,” they said. “Our families are from New York City and Georgia. We didn’t want to live in Wisconsin.” But a change of mind took place after the couple spent three days on campus for Experience Nashotah, March 2013.

“After Experience Nashotah, we both fell in love with the style of worship and the community,” said Chris. “You can tell they are intentional about relationships.”

The couple discussed their experiences and the possibility of a northward journey. Later, the Woods prayerfully concluded Nashotah House to be the seminary where Chris would study for the priesthood. August 20, 2013, they arrived with their children, Michael, 1, and Maggie Jane, 3.

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Chris and Kate, “cradle” Episcopalians, were both raised in the AngloCatholic tradition. During their early twenties, both worked in Connecticut as counselors for the Saint Michael’s Conference, a conference for youth age 13-21 — Chris from New York, and Kate from Georgia. There, the couple met and fell in love after a long friendship. Soon after, Chris and Kate were engaged. In 2007 they married and spent the first part of married life in New York.

Working at the conferences, Chris noticed another love taking shape. He found youth ministry a blessing and was inspired to pursue further ministerial work.“I was interested in taking a more active role at my parish, Grace Church, in Whitestone, Queens,” he said. At the time, Chris continued his career in video production, but decided to devote more of his time to ministry. During his time working at the conference, Chris came to know the Rev. Fred Robinson and his youth group from Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota.

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Chris has a heart for youth, but has been called to broaden his ministry to an entire parish, “I’ll always love working with youth, but I look forward to ministering to adults as a priest.”

Chris hopes to spend time working as a curate after graduation. He said, “When you watch and learn from someone who is excellent, you pick up on those things.

Working with someone who knows parish ministry, you learn from the struggles and triumphs. This will makes a person more effective for when God calls you to be a rector.”

Kate is enjoying her time at the House as a junior representative for the Women of Nashotah House (WoNH). Despite the challenges of moving, she is comfortable and loving her new home.

“The community is amazing,” Kate said.

“When you need help, people know, and they offer their service. We left an amazing church family; but it’s been proved that this community is just as amazing.”

When asked why Chris thinks Nashotah House will equip him for his future ministry, he said, “Every seminary has the Scholastics, but what Nashotah House has under Bishop Salmon is formation in relationships. You don’t just get an MDiv; you get a PhD in relationships.” Chris and Kate look forward to their formation over the next three years and both agree that, “Nashotah House feels like a heart. As people graduate, it pumps more love into the Church.”

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MEDITATION

DENYING OURSELVES FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST

By the Rev. Canon Brien Koehler, SSC, ’76, Chaplain at Nashotah House and Associate Rector of Christ Church, San Antonio, TX Almighty God, whose dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (BCP, 220) Christians are always walking in the way of the Cross. Lent gives focus and special attention to this fact and helps give clarity and renewed purpose to our walk. But the holy season of preparation and prayer before Easter is not a brief detour into rigorous discipline once a year—something to be endured out of duty which will slip into the background until the Church year completes its cycle and brings us to Lent again.

Many of us would undoubtedly welcome such a compartmentalized and specialized season…where all of the serious work of the year could be concentrated into just a few weeks so that the rest of the year could be filled with Alleluias instead of Kyrie Eleisons. We have such seasons of endurance in our lives: the annual family reunion, the annual physical exam, finals week, tax day.

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But Jesus’ call to walk in the way of the Cross is not limited to the calendar. We use the Lenten disciplines to deepen the walk of Christian living, and we learn to do two things at once every day: we sing Alleluia (silently to ourselves during Lent) even as we pray Kyrie Eleison. Living as disciples of Jesus means that “even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,” (BCP, 499).

Jesus’ direction to us for daily discipleship is twofold: deny ourselves and take up our crosses. Self-denial, in the more limited sense of “give up for Lent,” reflects in usually small ways the larger daily task of denying oneself for the sake of Christ. As we increase in our love of Jesus, self comes to matter less and less.

Christians are always walking in the way of the Cross. Lent gives focus and special attention to this fact and helps give clarity and renewed purpose to our walk. But the holy season of preparation and prayer before Easter is not a brief detour into rigorous discipline once a year— something to be endured out of duty which will slip into the background until the Church year completes its cycle and brings us to Lent again.

Many of us would undoubtedly welcome such a compartmentalized and specialized season…where all of the serious work of the year could be concentrated into just a few weeks so that the rest of the year could be filled with Alleluias instead of Kyrie Eleisons. We have such seasons of endurance in our lives: the annual family reunion, the annual physical exam, finals week, tax day.

But Jesus’ call to walk in the way of the Cross is not limited to the calendar. We use the Lenten disciplines to deepen the walk of Christian living, and we learn to do two things at once every day: we sing Alleluia (silently to ourselves during Lent) even as we pray Kyrie Eleison. Living as disciples of Jesus means that “even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,” (BCP, 499).

Jesus’ direction to us for daily discipleship is twofold: deny ourselves and take up our crosses. Self-denial, in the more limited sense of “give up for Lent,” reflects in usually small ways the larger daily task of denying oneself for the sake of Christ. As we increase in our love of Jesus, self comes to matter less and less.

This attitude of humility and self-abasement is fundamental to growth in relationship to Jesus. The small sacrifices of Lenten self-denial are meant to increase our dependence upon God. Self-denial is one way to discover that we do not “live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,” (Mt 4:4). Unless acts of self-denial lead to a vision of the greatness of God (Alleluia) and our own complete dependence upon His mercy (Kyrie Eleison), we are practicing our piety in the very way that Jesus warns against in Matthew 6:1.

We have plenty of encouragement from the words of Scripture. John the Baptist sees it clearly when he declares, “He must increase; I must decrease,” (Jn 3:30). The spiritual process of the increase of Jesus and our own decrease begins in the mystery of Baptism, because for us as for St Paul, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me,” (Gal 2:20). Our small acts of self-denial help to build our love of God even as we displace our self-centered ways. We learn to say with St Paul, “Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ,” (Phil 3:8).

…And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen. (BCP, 59)

The Cloister (above) rebuilt after the 1910 fire (right). Below, a 1907 postcard shows the original undulating roofline of the Cloister.

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and Confidence, THE LEGACY OF ALICE SABINE MAGEE & THE CLOISTER

Ms. Amy Cunningham Archival Assistant, Frances Donaldson Library

Who is Alice Sabine Magee? Recently, I have begun the paperwork to nominate Alice Sabine Memorial Hall, i.e. “The Cloister,” built in 1893, for listing on the National and State Historical Registry.

Researching the history of the building led to the question, “Who is Alice Sabine?” Interestingly, at the same time the Rev. Charleston Wilson, ’13 in the Office of Institutional Advancement was being asked this question by donors to the Alice Sabine Magee Legacy Society.

The Nashotah House Walking Tour Guide indicates Mrs. Magee was from Philadelphia and, as a child, began gathering pennies to give to the House, a practice that would continue and grow throughout her life. It also states she wished to remain anonymous until after her death. Other sources, including her obituary notice in a New York 20

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newspaper claim she was from Syracuse, NY and died February 15, 1893 in Menton, France. Perhaps she spent her younger years in Philadelphia and her later years in Syracuse, NY. Regardless of her place of residence, annually she sent her anonymous contribution in a plain white envelope with a card simply marked, “In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”

The Board of Trustees meeting reports from the 1890s describe Mrs. Alice Sabine Magee as a “life-long contributor to this Institution.” In July 1892, the House received a gift of $5,000 from a Mrs. Magee of Syracuse, NY. Then, in April 1893, the President of Nashotah House was called to Syracuse to attend the funeral of this benefactor. After the funeral, he remained to hear the reading of her will revealing a bequest of $25,000

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for Nashotah House with the “request that whatever it was used for, her maiden name of Alice Sabine be used.”

Also noteworthy, the previous year in 1892, the Board of Trustees discussed building a residential building on campus and naming it after James Lloyd Breck, who, of course, we all know as one of the original founders of this seminary.

Alas, there was no more mention of a “Breck Hall” after the bequest of Mrs. Sabine. The 1893-94 Financial Report states that $27,553.83 was allocated for the “Building, plumbing, heating, etc. for Alice Sabine Memorial Hall.”

The building burned in 1910 and was rebuilt to be “fireproof ” the following year. The post-fire rebuilding kept the same cloister exterior as the stone walls were the only feature not destroyed, but

other significant changes were made. The original building had fourteen doors connecting the cloister to individual rooms. The new building of 1911 was widened by six feet to allow for interior hallways leading to bedrooms and common study areas.

The fourteen doorways were replaced by the four

entryways of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Also, the roof line was dramatically changed from wave-like to high pitched. The new building is described extensively in the Nashotah House Catalogue of 1912-13, “Fortyfive students can be accommodated in this building. A bathroom with tub and showers is provided for each house, all the arrangements being of the most approved modern character.”

Those who have lived in the Hall

recently may be of the opinion that this “modern” plumbing and electricity may have remained largely untouched one hundred years later.

Somewhere along the way, the building stopped being referred to as “Sabine Hall” except in official correspondence and the more descriptive moniker of “The Cloister” became widely used.

The exterior of the building today is, for the most part, identical to the 1911 restoration and is a wonderful example of Gothic Revival architecture, a style popular in the late nineteenth century.

One of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Wisconsin is the adjoining building to Alice Sabine Hall, The Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, already on the National Registry of Historic Places. Hopefully, Alice Sabine Hall will join its neighbor on this list and the Nashotah community can appropriately remember and honor one of its greatest benefactors.

For more information about planned giving, please visit give.nashotah.edu.

Members of the Alice Sabine Magee Legacy Society include those who have established a planned gift to the House by including the House in their will or have provided other planned gifts.

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PARTICIPATION IN THE OFFERING — BECOMING EMBRACED BY CHRIST Mr. Gabriel Morrow, ’14

Editor’s note: Entrants to the Mercer Scholarship Essay were asked to describe a key element of their priestly formation that is rooted in their Nashotah House experience and how this element will positively impact their respective ministries in the congregations they are called to serve.

Have you ever stood in the belly of a whale? I have. No really, I have … and I kind of liked it!

You see, there’s a skeleton of a Blue Whale that is at the Natural History Museum in my hometown in California. It’s mounted outside in the walkway where children, young and old, can experience its seventythree feet of glorious wonder. There are numerous pictures over the years of me and this skeleton, my brother and I and this skeleton, my parents and this skeleton, and now my own children … and this skeleton. You stand back and look at how long it is, how magnificent his head is, and you admire the curve of the ribcage, the arc of its mandibles. But then there is the moment of decision when each person must decide for one’s self if they are brave enough actually to step inside the whale. Suddenly, something as simple as the curve of the ribcage becomes something marvelously new. I love finding theology in the simple things, like whale skeletons — so let me explain what I mean.

Don’t forget about the whale, but let’s talk about tennis balls for a second. Imagine, if you will, that a tennis ball was as large as your are — or vice versa, that you were as small as a tennis ball itself. Imagine you are standing looking at the ball, so tall you cannot see over it. If you try to grab it, you can’t even wrap your arms halfway around, but you can feel its curve. It curves away from you, right? It’s almost reminiscent of someone accepting an embrace.

Step into the ball, and describe the curve of the ball from within it. This is harder to imagine, but essential to my point. The ball now curves around me almost as if it is ‘embracing’ me.

Let’s get back to the whale. Once you are in the whale, and you look around, your perspective changes. You are in the whale and not merely looking at the whale.

The feelings inside of you change to a different set of feelings, realizing the way that you once perceived the world is now different. I have been in and out of this whale many times over the years. What would it be like to be in something and not just look at it, but willingly to place yourself in something that contains you and brings boundaries to your movement? To place yourself into a situation like that will change you. It places you into a reality where you are not necessarily in control, as you submit to a structure that is larger than you and your desires. And when we choose to work in the Church, particularly in the classic sense of working in a parish, therein we find the rub — the challenge to compel, draw, and propel individuals and families not just to look at the Church as outside participants, but to be in the Church in such a way that their perspective changes; choosing to let the Church embrace them.

The lens through which our parishioners look at the world is no longer the same anymore. I am convinced that although it may be noble for me to embrace the Church there is something holy and mysterious about the Church, the body of Christ, embracing me. It is no longer I who do the embracing, but Christ who embraces me.

When I refer to the Church, I am referring specifically to the body of Christ. To be in the body of Christ is a radically different perspective than looking at the body of Christ. I have always been quick to process the phrase “in the body of Christ” metaphorically, and I am not suggesting that it isn’t a metaphor. Not to be too peculiar, but what if I approached the phrase “in the body of Christ” in such a way that I literally was enveloped by Jesus, His body, His flesh. What if the Holy Spirit of our heavenly Father coalesced within me such that the boundary between the flesh of Christ around me and the Holy Spirit within me gets subsumed in my flesh? When we choose to step into a place such as Nashotah House we can either participate as outsiders Continued on page 32

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o raise funds for the Bishop Parsons’ Scholarship Fund, Nashotah House hosted a Wild Game Dinner at the James Lloyd Breck Refectory, November 13, 2013. One of our seminarians delightfully records his culinary journey.

Upon my entrance, I was handed a small glass of frothy golden beer and a bag of potato chips. These weren’t just any potato chips; these chips were slightly sweet, almost creamy and irresistibly addictive. And the Hefe-Weiss beer’s banana bread, citrus, and coriander notes were a perfect compliment to wash down the beer-flavored kettle chips. Located in Glendale, WI,

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And the Hefe-Weiss beer’s banana bread, citrus, and coriander notes were a perfect compliment to wash down the beerflavored kettle chips”.

this dish was the perfect appetite-whetting starter.

What’s a Wisconsin food event without beer cheese soup? We next moved on to a wild boar bacon and beer cheese soup. I must say this rich, creamy delight was my favorite of the night. I had never previously experienced wild boar bacon, and I cannot imagine a better venue for it to be presented than in a bowl of delightfully pungent melted Wisconsin cheese.

Sprecher Brewing Company introduced each course’s beer – wisely chosen to accent the food – and gave a brief explanation of the beer and how it would compliment its partnered dish.

Greeting me with a smile, the company’s Mr. Don “Wambo” Wambach, regional sales manager, explained to me how the company’s chips were made with the dehydrated powder of their “Special Amber” ale, giving them a mildly beery flavor.

Immediately, I knew I was in for an evening of palette-pleasing flavor and culinary education.

Attendees gathered at the refectory tables for a night of spirited conversation and an education-laced feast. Nashotah House’s Wild Game and Beer dinner featured an array of Sprecher Brewing Company beers and craft sodas, served alongside a five-course meal prepared by the House’s own culinary masterminds, Mr. Jorge Rangel, Mr. Jimmy Wade and Mr. Joe Scheff.

For the first course, guests were served duck confit. Chef Jimmy Wade explained the tenderizing process of salting and marinating the duck over night. The tender confit was served atop a puff-pastry bed, drizzled with a homemade blood orange glaze. Matched with Sprecher’s citrus-infused Hefe Weiss beer,

We then moved on to a micro greens salad with smoked buffalo sausage and Gouda cheese paired with Piper’s Scotch Ale, a hearty red-brown ale, with a smoky aroma of sweet caramel and toasted malt. Chef Jimmy concocted a homemade dressing using the Scotch ale, creating a pleasant marriage of flavor, not always easy between a salad and a beer.

Taking the all-star position for the evening was our main entree, a New Zealand red deer steak, topped with a thin, sweet venison gravy. Mild in its game flavor and tender as a piece of meat gets, this steak impressed the crowd. The aroma captured my attention before I even saw my plate.

Closing the night out with dessert, Chef Joe Scheff served a chocolate Irish Stout cake drizzled in coffee-infused caramel and Kahlua-laden chocolate sauce. Of Course, even dessert was paired with a beer choice and, for this course, Sprecher’s Irish-Style Stout was served.

Between the rich educational facet, the jovial fellowship, and the impressive piquancy of each course, guests were enamored with their experience at Nashotah’s Wild Game and Beer dinner. My advice for those who missed this one? Keep your eyes peeled for our next dinner event and don’t hesitate to treat yourself to a special night out.

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ith a tendency to jump in and my enthusiasm being a good thing, my wisdom certainly was lacking. As one of those people who gets “hooked” on mission work, I knew this to be part of my personality after my very first mission trip. It took my husband Brien and I a number of years, and numerous trips to begin to “work smart,” be wise and realize what was important in mission. After fifteen years of traveling to Honduras, I can say I’m still learning. Our favorite saying is, “When we think we have it figured out, we don’t!”

Keeping ears, eyes and mind open is important in the mission field. North Americans are generous, especially when they see need. Outpourings of our money, time and energy are witnessed when there is a disaster. However, North Americans tend to have a sense that we know best, and we can fix it if it isn’t working. I point a finger at myself.

Understand that poverty, illness, poor education are not easy fixes. Often it is one step forward and two back. Once we were asked to provide Sunday School materials to a deanery. We bought lovely and expensive Bible flip charts with excellent pictures and narrations, only to discover the lay leaders didn’t know how to read. It was a learning experience for us and we soon began an adult education program.

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that. It is in getting to know people, listening, asking questions, praying with them and looking around that we discover so much.

In El Salvador, we visited an orphanage. On our visit, I sat down on a bench to cool off and a little boy sat nearby, staring at me. After a few minutes, he asked in English, “What did you bring me?” Yes, the orphans loved the toys and the shoes.

Perhaps, though, if a group had gotten to know them, they would have discovered the orphanage was using newspaper because they had no toilet paper.

It was a Honduran man who taught us the importance of building relationships.

Porfirio was sixty-seven years old when we first met him. He lives in a very remote village on the Guatemalan border. We were the first North Americans to visit. Porfirio said, “I know you are here because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. You let us know that we are not alone.” The wisdom from this man – that is what mission is about. Porfirio was one who couldn’t read. He attended the education program we sponsored and can now read the Bible to his neighbors.

It is important in relationship building that you don’t do it all. Work in partnership with the people. We once painted a church, inside and out, in a small village in Honduras. I like to take photos, so I stepped outside and looked at the scene from a distance. I

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discovered the North Americans were painting away in the intense heat, sweating but happy. The Hondurans were all standing in the shade, arms folded, watching. There was definitely something wrong with that picture, and that needed to change.

The locals working with us, knowing they are partners in the work, will always remember that they were of value in the project. The most wonderful thing that has ever been said to me by a Honduran was this; “I have been using the welding machine you gave me to help support my family. But I’ve also helped others for free, because they had no money to pay me. You taught me that – to help those in need.” That is us sharing Christ with the world, and the people sharing Christ with each other.

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What are good guidelines for mission work? Go to the same place for several years so you get to know the people.

Watch, listen and ask questions to find out what they really need. I know a well-intentioned woman who taught the women she met in Central America to make bathroom rugs and toilet seat covers to sell, then discovered the ladies themselves had no bathrooms or toilet seats. Make Jesus the most important member of your team. It isn’t about doing things for them, it is about being brothers and sisters in Christ and working with them. Maybe the most important thing you can do is smile, hug and encourage, not give hand-outs. Pray for them and with them, and ask them to pray for you.

Remember, these are our brothers and sisters.

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November 2013, I began a new venture – always learning. The venture involves teaching ladies embroidery in order to sell. The organization I work with is called Threads of Blessing. Threads began by teaching not only a skill, but also self-esteem, creativity, group dynamics and principles of micro-enterprise. The ladies now use the money they make from their embroidery, not only to help their families, but to loan small amounts for business ventures, and they have set up their own business renting equipment for weddings or parties.

Threads began in Honduras, but moved their concentration to Uganda.

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Ms. Terry Koehler works with the ministry Threads of Blessing in Honduras. She brings a host of experience to the mission field as a clergy wife for thirty-seven years and as a former director of a school. In 1998, she and her husband the Rev. Canon Brien Koehler, ’76, began mission work in Honduras. Terry is the mother of three children and the grandmother to three little boys.

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Thus, as difficult as it is to see a wonderful era laid to rest, Nashotah House is encouraging folks to purchase their Anglican/ Episcopal bookstore needs from one of the many online sources.

A New Chapter for the Mission Bookstore The current Administration of Nashotah House is leaving no stone unturned in its evaluation of best practices for the seminary. One of the areas under serious consideration is the Mission Bookstore. In the age of numerous “dot-coms” and the whole of e-commerce, complete with its competitive pricing, hard questions circling around “what to do with the bookstore” have been brewing. Is it wise stewardship for the seminary to keep subsidizing the bookstore? Should the store be closed altogether? Or can something else be done? A final decision has not come easy.

A trial run of a smaller space began in July 2013. The stock was moved into what was once the “Kemper Gift Shop;” the shelves were filled with books, the sales counter and cash register were placed in the center of the room, and the doors were opened in time for the Michaelmas term. Operating each weekday for two hours, the store has been able to supply students with their bookstore needs. Though the majority of days has seen at least one sale, a quarterly analysis determines that this is not enough to sustain the store long term—something else must be done. Thus the Administration has decided to couple the Mission Bookstore with a new venture of a student commons created around a student-run coffee shop. The hope is to have intentional space where students and visitors may study and socialize. With a cup of java, they will have the opportunity to purchase a class text or the latest volume from Nashotah House Press.

For years the Mission Bookstore has been a blessed resource for churches, individuals, and alumni alike. However, it is no longer feasible for the House to continue this service. The financial resources are simply not available. In an effort to help, many supporters of the House have invested money by purchasing their Christian bookstore needs from Nashotah House. However, paying worker’s salaries, stock, postage, and packaging cost more than those sales can make. Other vendors can provide for people’s needs better and more efficiently.

Recognizing the primary mission of the bookstore is to service students’ needs for their textbooks, the Student Affairs department now receives specific orders prior to each semester to facilitate the acquisition of textbooks. Plans are underway to start small and work our way into a dynamic functioning student commons on campus. We encourage you to stop in and see the progress being made.

Welcoming with Warm Clothes and WellStocked Baskets Ms. Angela Morrow

When new residential students arrive on campus, they are greeted with many of the usual tasks of moving to a new home. As they open their new front door, a WoNH (Women of Nashotah House) Welcome Basket is there to greet them. This basket contains essentials that are needed when arriving at a new home but are not immediately at hand. After the contents of their truck shifted around, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Pokorny, ’15, said they were thankful they had some immediate supplies.

Mr. and Mrs. David Pearson, ’15, appreciated the bottle of water after carrying their possessions upstairs at Shelton Hall.

Also included in the baskets is the “Survival Guide,” a booklet with information on everything from the nearest grocery store to the address of the Milwaukee County Zoo. Many students move to Wisconsin from much warmer locations and faced with the prospect of a Wisconsin winter, their wardrobes might feel a bit lacking. During orientation week, WoNH offers new students the Winter Closet. Winter coats and other essentials along with winter toys are collected from graduates, local churches and current students. New students shop the Winter Closet for free. The Rev. Meghan Farr, ’13, said, “What I love about it is the Winter Closet is a great way to feel connected to former families and students and to pass on to new families. It’s not even just the clothes, its things like sleds and toys that I love to think of new kids using.”

With opportunities such as the Welcome Baskets and the Winter Closet, WoNH continues to offer the gift of hospitality to new students and their families.

Registrar’s Office Announces Full Student Access Ms. Sarah Pokorny, Registrar The Office of the Registrar’s mission is to record and preserve each student’s educational record from application to graduation and beyond. In helping to fulfill this role, we sought to utilize technology in our record-keeping process by moving from paper files to digital records. A second need we saw was the lack of access that students had to their own records, especially when seeking degree progress and financial statements.

The first step to meeting the needs of the students was to implement the Student Portal, which launched July 2013.

Students now have constant access to their unofficial transcripts, student account and degree audit. Furthermore, they are able to register for classes at any time of the day. Concurrently, we also introduced our faculty to the Faculty Portal, which grants them real-time access to their course rosters, electronic grade book and electronic grade submissions. At the beginning of November 2013, we also launched the online bill-pay feature on the Student Portal, where students make payments to their account with a credit card or electronic check. Our Admissions Department also created a separate feature allowing students to apply to Nashotah House online. These resources will be used in addition to our online learning platform, Sakai, which allows students access to their course syllabi, discussion boards, class resources, and assignment submissions.

In keeping with our goal of easy access, we have also placed additional resources and forms online on the Registrar’s page of the Nashotah House website at: www.nashotah.edu/ academics/registrar/.

the Administration Building of Nashotah House Theological Seminary for a variety of reasons—all to support students in furthering Nashotah House’s mission. The recently remodeled office space offers an inviting atmosphere for students and visitors to stop by and visit. Ms. Evans and Dr. Hartley maintain an open door policy. Although they jokingly say theirs is the office of “derailment and distraction,” the importance of the engaging space is essential to what Nashotah House seeks to be: hospitable. The central location of the office embodies the philosophy of ministry that Dr. Hartley has taken with Student Affairs—creating and maintaining an atmosphere of wellness and balance. A person cannot get very far into Lewis Hall without passing by the open door of Student Affairs—and it is meant to be that way.

The renovations took place August 2013 under the leadership of former Associate Dean of Administration Mr. Ryan Delaney. The House’s staff painter-extraordinaire, Mr. Ricco Medina, refinished the 19th century wood trim and painted the office “Nashotah House Blue,” a light blue in accordance with the new branding of the House. New carpeting and communication ports for phones, computers and electrical outlets were installed as part of the office remodel. The dark wood trim is complimented by the old fireplace and matching furniture, desks, credenza, hutch, and finished bookshelves.

The lounge chair next to the bookshelves has become a coveted spot amongst visitors to the office.

It is providential that at the doorway of the SA Office one can see through the glass windows to the Red Chapel and Blue House—those iconic buildings of Nashotah House’s founding.

Students and Alumni needing official transcripts, letters of recommendation from the faculty and other miscellaneous forms will find those forms on this page, and many other pages of the website have undergone revisions to be more interactive and informative as well.

Student Affairs Office Continues to Further the Mission Upon a recent visit to campus, a Son of the House noted amongst his reminiscences, “things have sure changed around here since I was a student thirty years ago.” One of these changes is the location of the Student Affairs Office.

Now located at the base of the staircase and behind the glass doors on the first level of Lewis Hall, the Student Affairs Office (SA Office) is the working home to the new Director of Student Affairs and Admissions, Dr. Rick Hartley, and his Student Affairs Associate, Ms. Alane Evans. The Student Affairs team oversees admissions, housing and campus events.

As an integral part of strengthening of student-administration relations, the SA Office has been moved to this central place in

Likewise the historic painting of early Nashotah that hung in the Dean’s office for many years, now takes its place above the mantle of Student Affairs. The symbolism of the past is appropriately present in the very place where students are inculcated into the future of the House.

Likewise, the SA Office is a prominent space for impromptu meetings with the Associate Dean of Administration, the Academic Dean, or the Registrar, as well as the regularly scheduled meetings of the Recruitment Strategy Team. The office has become a place to dream about the future and make plans to follow the Lord into the next generation of the House.

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through donations of money to church or charitable organizations?

but hungered, as ordinary people do, for the same connection with God.

Instead of giving up something for Lent, what can we add to our own awareness? We can move out of our place or situations where we feel safe.

We can reach out with hands and hearts to the people Jesus helped, healed and encouraged.

Many who are shamed by hopes gone wrong are not in our parishes.

Maybe they think they don’t have the clothing to fit in, or they have too little of an education to keep up with the Bible studies, or perhaps they have felt left out so much they can’t imagine fitting in. Lent is a time to move out of our comfort zones and meet with the uncomfortable, as Jesus did.

Jesus helped, healed, forgave and consoled those outside of the society He saw around Himself every day.

Let us take a closer look at the people made in God’s image. They are found in the group homes for the disabled and mentally challenged and through those hidden from us as they struggle with poverty, hopelessness, child abuse and needs that surround us today. We can explore this deeper, as Jesus did, seeing these images of God who are often hurting and helpless.

We can explore this, seeing for ourselves how the disabled and mentally challenged are treated and if their religious needs are being met. Often, the level of staffing precludes taking residents to church.

Who fulfills their need to know and worship God? We may be missing out on the breadth and depth of the variety of people in our community, for it is the “underserved,” and the “undeserved” that drew the attention of Jesus no matter where He traveled.

Many churches have meal programs for the poor and homeless. Have we been the servers, or have we sat and eaten with guests and heard their own stories? Have we as clergy, not just our parishioners, staffed a food pantry and met face-to-face the people to be served? Many inmates in county jails seek prayer and Bible study. What of those who have extended prison sentences? I spent many years meeting with “lifers” at a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin. These men had little hope 30

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Jesus gave us a spiral of expectation for better things to come. God’s Spirit and grace are needed in all walks of life. Our prayers aren’t just with our lips and heart; we pray through our bodies and through the tiredness we experience in helping others. This is how we can move onto the spiral path leading to our own Savior.

Chaplain Nancy is a native of Wisconsin. She received her BA in 1953 at Rosary College, now Dominican University, with her junior year at L’Institut des Hautes Études at the Catholic University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

In 1968 she joined the Society of Friends, conducting prison ministry through the Chaplain’s office at a maximum-security prison located in Waupun, Wisconsin. After receiving her MDiv from Nashotah House in 1981, Nancy served as a Pastor with a nondenominational church, The Community of Christ the Servant, and as a Protestant Chaplain at South Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled. Now retired, Nancy serves as a volunteer Hospice Chaplain for the unchurched. She also is a supply preacher for local area churches.

Nancy has been married to her husband Paul, a retired librarian at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, for fifty-nine years.

They have six children, many grandchildren, and are recently new great-grandparents.

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There were many blessings for me at St. Alban’s, but perhaps my neighbors were the most surprising blessing of all. A year after I arrived in Sussex, a single dad and his daughter moved into the apartment next to mine. His daughter would stop by to visit me every so often; later she invited me to share dinner with her and her father, and take walks with them. I enjoyed having these friends. Then one day, her father, whose name is Michael, asked me on a date, and my friend became so much more. I married the man who had been my neighbor and friend. Michael, his daughter Hailey and I are now growing into a family and I am so grateful to share with them in this incredible journey.

In February 2012, in addition to being the Rector of St. Alban’s, I began working with the Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner as part of his Living Compass team. Working with Scott and his wife Holly, along with others, was exciting and fulfilling work. This work allowed me the privilege to walk with others on the journey God has for them, to partake with individuals and parishes in living into the wholeness God has already given us. This part of the journey helped me see the ways I can live into my calling as a priest besides serving a parish, and gave me a tool to use for many needs in parish ministry.

In January 2013, my new family and I moved from Wisconsin to Dayton, OH where I am now the Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Southern Ohio.

I am still learning about the history and potential of this new parish, one that is much larger than any I have experienced and I am enjoying getting to know my new parishioners. I never imagined serving a church like St. Paul’s or living in a large city, but here I am, right where God wants me to be.

I have no doubt there will be other surprises along this amazing journey, and no matter where God’s call takes my family and me, I feel those days at Nashotah House prepared me to handle whatever the journey brings me. That is something for which I am daily grateful.

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It is great to see the look on my fellow seminarian’s faces as these donors have allowed me to give back to Nashotah House...

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he kitchen that has served those living in Kemper Hall for more than a half-century was in need of significant repair when the administration was approach by brothers Eric and John Dyrud who have served on the Foundation Board for several years. Each year the Dyruds seek out a project on campus for which they can raise money and often participate in the work as well. This year, excited about the prospect of doing something that would really make an impact for the students, it was decided that the Kemper Kitchen was the project to take on.

Mr. Jason Terhune, ’15, met with the Dyruds and discussed what could be done with the initial budget.

The plans included new cabinets and countertops. After the project was started the Dyruds said that they were so excited about the transformation that they thought more money could be raised and the project expanded to include a new dishwasher, a built-in microwave, a disposal and a new tile floor in front of the cabinets. Mr. Terhune said, “The generous expansion of the budget allowed us to really take this from a nice improvement to what the residents in Kemper Hall call ‘a real blessing and something that makes it feel like home.’”

Inspired by other’s generosity towards this project, Mr. Terhune offered to complete much of the work himself.

Looking back to his days as a Master Tradesman, he happily transformed the kitchen in the hopes of honoring the Hall’s namesake. From the Milwaukee and Chicago areas, the donors include Mr. John Dyrud, Mr. Eric Dyrud, Ms. Beverly Joutras, and Mr. John Jones.

Soon after the project was complete, the Dyruds were ready to begin raising money for whatever project may come next.

“Several places around campus have been in need over the years of upkeep and maintenance,” said Mr. John Dyrud. “New landscaping, sidewalks, drainage, furniture, lighting. When asked to donate funds, many people consider giving to immediate needs on campus, which makes it very helpful to see projects completed.”

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“I have enjoyed partnering with our donors in this project,” said Mr. Terhune. “It is great to see the look on my fellow seminarian’s faces as these donors have allowed me to give back to Nashotah House as well, by funding something that I could work on during our summer break.” Once the kitchen was complete and classes resumed, several students from the surrounding area brought chili as a housewarming gift and the new kitchen was celebrated.

This is the future of Nashotah House; people who truly love this place and want to support sudents in their formation for ministry. We have a lot of big dreams for the House, and they start with people who care enough to invest in this great seminary. If you would like to be a part of the great changes going on at Nashotah House, give us a call and together let’s put the dreams into action.

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looking at, or we can place ourselves in something that is far more expansive than our 170 years, our beautiful surroundings or our liturgical heritage.

We can step into the body of Christ.

It would seem that it would be difficult for me to communicate the richness of being in and embraced

by Christ without having been there myself – to be in and not without. That is my call here at Nashotah House; to be immersed within so that eventually I can be a part of calling God’s people in to the body of Christ, as opposed to allowing them to fool themselves into thinking that mere passive observation is enough. If I am honest, there have been many times where I have settled for being a mere observer of the body of Christ from the outside. I’ve tried for a long time to wrap my arms and head around the Church when what I really needed to do was to let the Church — and Christ himself — wrap His arms around me.

Nashotah House is my time to immerse myself in the ancient and daily practices of the body of Christ in a manner few other seminaries across the globe choose to do. I receive this blessing of being in the body of Christ at Nashotah House because we are the heirs of the promise given to Abraham so long ago, “… in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” (Gen 12:3).

That is why I am at Nashotah House; to place myself within something sacred and holy with the intent and calling to welcome those who are outside to come into Christ.

Mr. Gabriel Morrow, ’14, hails from the West Coast, but has found a home in the Rocky Mountains with his wife Angela and children Amelia Grace and Jude. Along the way he has flown a few airplanes, taught a few subjects, preached a few sermons, pastored a few students, and mowed a few lawns. God willing, he will be ordained in the Diocese of Albany.

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When Lent becomes a time of “self-improvement,” we inevitably get caught up in concentrating on ourselves, our “growth,” our “progress.”

And since our self-help culture enjoins against negativity, it is only too easy to award ourselves stars in those areas where we think we have grown or progressed. But when this is about us, there comes an insidious tendency to make ourselves the measure of others: to adopt the convert’s zeal to tell listeners that if they would only take us as a model, they too could be saved. At the same time, in our journey toward self-fulfillment and freedom from anxiety, we become ever more adept at silencing those nagging doubts about our real worth with more busyness—and become more critical of those we find uncongenial and wedded to different systems and modes of expression. “Self-yeast of spirit a dull dough sours,” wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins in his “Terrible Sonnets.” He was referring to the depressive’s sensation of being trapped inside a despised self, unable to break free. But when we concentrate on ourselves, is it enough to just avoid bad thoughts and focus on the positive, or should we try to “die to self ” in order to find new life in Jesus Christ?

These musings have been inspired by my recent reading of that largely forgotten 19th century novelist, Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901).

A parishioner of John Keble, her fiction illustrates the theology and practice of the Oxford Tractarians and the Anglo-Catholic revival, not didactically, but through the lives and actions of her characters.

With the revival of academic interest in the Victorians—even with the passion of Women’s Studies departments to re-examine the works of minor female authors—Yonge remains un-revived, although she was once considered the equal of Thackeray and Trollope. I believe this is so because the values she espouses remain profoundly unfashionable.

Her heroes and heroines strive to “die to self ” in order to further the common good of their families and those less fortunate in society, and so to grow into better followers of Christ. They sometimes resort to severe deprivations such as giving up personal talents in order to better discipline bad habits that make household life more of a strain: sloppiness, bad temper, uncharitable attitudes. Edward Bouverie Pusey’s sermons warned hearers to Bear in God’s light to see thyself, barred of all outward advantages, what thou thyself hast made thyself… Never seek praise, nor speak of any good in thee, except for some good end, nor say what may draw out praise… Do not even blame thyself, if it makes others think thee humble… Be afraid of the praise of others…

Take patiently any humiliation from others. It is a precious gift from God. To imagine what living out this approach might be like, read the great novels of Charlotte Yonge, especially the two family sagas, The Daisy Chain and The Pillars of the House, where subtlety of character and motive rival anything drawn by the greatest of her contemporaries. No one is preachy or goody-goody… or without sin. Her favorite portrayals are of large families, but none of them are devoid of dysfunction, and all accurately portray the real struggles of living closely with others. Nor is Yonge romantic about the sacrifices others demand of us. The “precious gift from God” we derive from humiliations by others comes out of genuine suffering and grief.

Repentance is a primary theme for Yonge. In The Daisy Chain, one of the sisters, Flora, has smoothly managed her family’s house and many younger siblings after her mother’s tragic and sudden death. Capturing the eye of a local nobleman, she proves equally successful at managing his lack of ambition by maneuvering him into a successful political career, while she works tirelessly for his advancement by entertaining all the right people.

Though she loves her baby, she has little time for it. Unfortunately, the inexperienced nurse uses laudanum to quiet its fretfulness (a common remedy at the time), and it dies of its inadvertent addiction. Flora’s remorse is bitter and, at first, beyond anything she can handle. Her realization that her pride in being able to manage the lives of others led to this tragedy makes her misery all the more terrible, and her

road to emotional and spiritual healing is long, painful, and brutally realistic, but ultimately triumphant.

In The Pillars of the House, the frivolity of a young woman, whose temperament has always been attracted to the most showy forms of Anglo-Catholic devotion, brings about an accident in which her youngest sibling is drowned.

Her emotionally undisciplined nature leads first to despair, then to a conversion to a more emotion-based form of Methodism—during which she viscously attacks the “false religion” of her Church of England clerical brothers, projecting her own superficial understandings on to them. In time, a fresh bout of disillusionment and despair brings on a collapse in which she “bottoms out” and is taken in by an Anglo-Catholic convent. Subsequent novels give us glimpses of her finding

her vocation in the religious life as a nursing Sister. “Among the sundry and manifold changes of the world,” her heart has discovered “where true joys can be found” in becoming the strong and serene person God created her to be.

Other penitents find different vocations in their struggle to free themselves from the bondage of their wills and discover true freedom in the divine will. So may it be for all of us.

Phoebe Pettingell is currently Sacristan at S. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Providence, RI. A literary critic, she wrote the column, “On Poetry” for The New Leader from 1976 to 2006, and has published in numerous journals including Yale Review, The Living Church, The Sewanee Review and Poetry Magazine. She published the Forward to the American edition of The Poems of Rowan Williams. After 35 years in the Diocese of Fond du Lac, she worked as Director of Communications and Publications at The Church of St. Michael and St. George before moving to Providence.

REMEMBERING A DEVOTED BENEFACTOR OF THE HOUSE

Mr. Glenn R. Simpson, Jr., died December 2, 2013. An ardent supporter and devoted worker for Nashotah House, he became a trustee of the House in 1970 and served on many committees and projects. Mr. Simpson was granted an honorary Doctor of Canon Law in 1978. A generous benefactor of the House, Mr. Simpson was Chairman of the Vision in Action Campaign which funded the student housing known as the ‘Peaks.’

Joshua Simpson and great grandson Adrian Simpson: also, his stepchildren Steven and Jan Jorjorian, Thomas and Bonnie Jorjorian and their children Anne, Peter, Matthew and Andrew.

He was preceded in death by his wife Margaret (Polly) Whiting-Simpson, his brothers Richard and Bruce and sisters Mildred and Helen. He was a man of many interests and contributions. Glenn served in the U.S. Army in Germany and France in WWII.

“I was teaching at the House the week when we learned of Glenn’s death,” said ACNA Bishop Keith Ackerman, ’74.

“What a great man. We remember his generosity, his ready smile and his total commitment to the House.”

“I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Simpson from the days of my postulancy in the Diocese of Milwaukee in 1973, when he served on the Milwaukee Standing Committee and helped me on my way to ordination,” said Canon Brien Koehler, ’76.

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was a life member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Glenn was fond of many activities in his lifetime including exploring the backcountry of Utah, being a private pilot and traveling about the country in his motor home. Perhaps his greatest passion was serving his beloved Episcopal Church.

He served as a vestryman and warden, Sunday school teacher and Sunday school Superintendent at Trinity Episcopal Church in Wauwatosa, WI. Several times he was a delegate to the National Convention for the Diocese of Milwaukee.

Glenn will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered. A memorial service was held January 11, 2014, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Wauwatosa, WI. .

Portions originally published in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on December 8, 2013.

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Petertide Courses 2014 Session I: July 7 - 18 LT 827 – Liturgy in England: Augustine of Canterbury to the Eve of the Reformation Medieval English liturgy features three important characteristics.

First, as an insular nation, separated from the European Continent, it developed its own unique forms of worship and piety. Second, in spite of the Norman Conquerors’ attempt to extinguish Anglo-Saxon ways and even less successfully to impose liturgical innovations, the Church in Medieval England maintained a secure culture of its own.

Perhaps most significant of all, Medieval English liturgy served as the foundation for the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. In this course students will research primary texts, archeological evidence, and the socio-political contexts in which these liturgies developed.

The Rev. Arnold Klukas, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Liturgics, Nashotah House

CH 723/AT 824 – Spirituality of the Reformation Between roughly 1400 and 1750, Christianity in Europe experienced a reorientation of its liturgical, theological, ecclesiastical, and ascetical life in addition to the dissolution of Latin Christendom.

While attention is regularly paid to the reformation of doctrine and church polity, this course will offer a sustained discussion of the development of distinct and rich patterns of prayer and devotion in the Early Modern world. Covering a range of regions and personalities, this course will examine attitudes toward art and the material context of devotion, the role of music and silence, and the increasingly didactic character of public worship during an axial period. Throughout, we will consider the dynamic relationship between Christian thought and Christian practice to better appreciate the ascetical background of many contemporary Christian churches today. A particular concern will be for the English context and early Anglicanism. Research methods and tools will also be discussed as students prepare final papers.

The Rev. Calvin Lane, PhD, Affiliate Professor of Church History, Nashotah House

BE 812 – The Word and the World: A History of Preaching from the Reformation to the Present Day In this course, Fr. Peay will examine the history and development of the sermon – its influences and its influence – on the Church from the Reformation forward. Special attention will be given to the reading and critique of important examples of sermons from the period(s).

The Rev. Steven Peay, PhD, Professor of Homiletics and Church History/Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Nashotah House

CD 833 – Church Planting in the Anglican Tradition This course will focus on understanding the process of developing new faith communities in the Anglican Tradition. Students will explore several models currently in use and to develop a comprehensive strategy from conception to reproduction for planting a church utilizing one of those models. Central to the implementation of this strategy will be such skills as recruiting, training and deploying an effective church planting team, developing effective strategies for evangelism and discipleship, and providing for the care of the new congregation through the first five years by creating healthy patterns for growth, development and reproduction. Developing a missional theology that works in a transitional, secular culture will lie at the heart of this course.

The Rev. Tom Herrick, DMin, Director of the Titus Institute for Church Planting

DSem 801 – Ethnography, Methodology and Theological Reflection This three-credit introductory overview to DMin research science is required for all new/in-coming Doctor of Ministry students and is recommended for the second year of the process. It will cover all aspects of design for the Doctor of Ministry Degree. The module will equip students for the process of exploring, researching and reflecting theologically on a specific ministry concern in context in an effort to advance the faithful ministry of the Church. It includes a Handbook as a reference guide for use during the Doctor of Ministry process.

The Rev. Jack Gabig, PhD, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Nashotah House and The Rev. David Jones, ThD, Affiliate Professor of Pastoral Theology, Nashotah House

Session II: July 21 – August 1 LT 828 – The Liturgical Environment in the Anglican Tradition In spite of the calamities of Conquest, multiple reformations and the English Civil War, the Church of England was able to develop a dignified and beautiful liturgy which continues to the present day.

In relationship to the Book of Common Prayer and its traditions, we will look at the visual arts - in particular, vesture and liturgical furnishings and architecture, as well as other special characteristics that are unique to the Anglican aesthetic.

The Rev. Jeremy Haselock, DMus, Canon Precentor and Sub-Dean of Norwich Cathedral, England

AT 721/AT 822 – The Doctrine of Mankind In this course, Dr. Carey will give an overview of the Christian teaching on humanity and its relationship to God, world, sexuality and the common life. The teaching of key theologians will be explored in the context of inter- reactive teaching.

The Most Reverend and Right Honorable George Carey of Clifton, PhD, Archbishop of Canterbury (retired)

BE 836 – The Pauline Epistles and Nicene Trinitarian Theology This course will explore the way exegesis of St. Paul’s epistles contributed to the Trinitarian doctrine that was given definitive shape at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, as well as the way that developed Trinitarian doctrine may also serve as a hermeneutical rule for reading Paul theologically today. Attention will be paid to the preaching and teaching of Paul’s letters in contemporary pastoral settings.

Wesley Hill, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Trinity School for Ministry

TH 721/CD 834 – Augustinian Catechesis Through study of the ancient Church’s principles and methods of catechesis – appreciating not only its doctrine, but also its use of ancient rhetorical theory—this course aims to provide students with: 1) an introduction to the Patristic understanding of Christian formation, especially as preparation for baptism; 2) greater insight into the content and methods appropriate to Christian instruction; and 3) a deeper understanding of how and why the priest’s own spiritual development contributes to or detracts from the task of catechesis. Though the course will focus primarily on the writings of St Augustine, students will also become familiar with other ancient texts, both Christian and classical.

The Rev. Jeremy Bergstrom, PhD, Deacon, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, GA

for more information & to register for these petertide courses please visit nashotah.edu.

St. Luke’s, Springbrook; and Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Eau Claire.

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The Rev. David Stuart Bumsted, ’13,

ordained Priest on December 9, 2013, by the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.

He is priest associate of Ministry to Youth at Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota, FL.

The Rev. Phillip Cunningham, ’08,

The Rev. Ryan Delaney, ’13,

ordained Deacon on October 25, 2013, by the Rt. Rev. William H. Love, Episcopal Diocese of Albany. The Rev. Delaney is Diocesan Missionary-Church Planter for the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, 580 Burton Road, Greenwich, NY.

The Rev. Jason Murbarger, ’13,

ordained Priest on December 9, 2013 by the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Episcopal Diocese of Springfield. He is Assistant to the Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church, Vero Beach, FL.

The Rev. Diane Reece, ’13,

ordained to the permanent diaconate on October 5, 2013, by the Rt. Rev. Derek LS Jones, Bishop of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy. She is serving the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and in the church of Nigeria with the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA). ordained Priest on October 5, 2013, by the Right Reverend Derek LS Jones, Bishop of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy. He was appointed first lieutenant in the United States Air Force Reserves and serves as chaplain.

The Rev. Charles F. Hart III, ’11,

is Associate Priest of The Anglican Parish of Christ the King, 2727 O Street NW, Washington, DC 20007.

The Rev. Robert M. Lewis, ’07,

is Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 410 W. Second Street, Grand Island, NE 68801.

The Rev. Clinton Wilson, ’13,

is Curate of St. David of Wales, 623 Ector Street, Denton, TX 76201.

NOTIFICATION OF DEATH died October 7, 2013, age 75.

The Rt. Rev. John-David M. Schofield, ’97, died October 29, 2013, age 75.

Mr. Glenn R. Simpson, Jr., ’78,

The Rev. Mark Ricker, ’12,

ordained Priest on June 17, 2013, the Rt. Rev. William Jay Lambert, Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire. He is Deaconin-Charge of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ashland, WI.

The Rev. Charleston Wilson, ’13,

ordained Priest on December 9, 2013 by the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Episcopal Diocese of Springfield. He is the Priest Associate for Evangelism and Parish Development at Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota, FL.

The Rev. Aaron Zook, ’12,

ordained Priest on June 2, 2013, by the Rt. Rev. William Jay Lambert, Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire. He is Priest-in-Charge, St. Alban’s, Spooner; Priest-in-Charge, THE MISSIONER

is Associate Dean of Administration of Nashotah House, 2777 Mission Road, Nashotah, WI 53058.

The Rev. David Judson Hogarth, ’64,

The Rev. Lamar Reece, ’13,

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died December 2, 2013, age 89.

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