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Michaelmas Term Begins for Residential Students Summer Module Ends for Distance Learners Fall Module Begins for Distance Learners Fall Module Residential Week for Distance Learners: New Testament, Ascetical Theology, & Contemporary Society

Newbigin and the Pluralistic 21st Century: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the Ends of the Earth Annual Retreat for Residential Students – No Classes October 21-23 Meetings of Trustee Committees Meeting of Board of Trustees Academic Convocation – No Classes

Experiencing Nashotah – Prospective Student Program Thanksgiving Recess – No Classes Administrative Offices Closed

Last Day of Michaelmas Term Lectures for Residential Students Michaelmas Final Exams for Residential Students Fall Distance Module Ends for Distance Learners Winter Recess for Distance Learners Winter Recess for Residential Students Administrative Offices Closed for Christmas Administrative Offices Closed for New Year’s

Winter Module Begins for Distance Learners General Ordination Examinations Epiphany Term Residential Week for Distance Learners – Ethics and Moral Theology, Historical Theology, & Systematic Theology Epiphany Term Ends

Doctor of Ministry:

Forming Reflective Practitioners, Specialists with Proven Ministry Skills – Actively Engaged in Strengthening the Church in Biblical Exposition/ Preaching, Liturgy, Ascetical Theology/Christian Spirituality, and Congregational Development.

For more information, contact admissions@nashotah.edu.

Save the Date Convocation Ceremonies will take place at

October 24, 2014 at 10:30 in the morning DeKoven Commons in Adams Hall The House welcomes the Rt. Rev. Michael Marshall, retired Bishop of Woolrich (1975-1984), Diocese of Southwark, as this year’s convocation speaker. Bishop Marshall is a world-renowned churchman, preacher, and lecturer, the author of several books, and an accomplished concert pianist. He recently served as interim rector, Church of the Heavenly Rest from 2012-2013.

Nashotah House invites all attendees and their guests to a reception immediately following.

For more information, please call 262-646-6500.

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ashotah House Theological Seminary invites you to our campus to experience the wonderful atmosphere we provide for your next retreat, conference, wedding or other event. We are especially pleased to offer the use of DeKoven Commons which contain auditorium that seats up to 300 people, five conference rooms that each seat 20 to 60

people, and a dining/reception hall. The DeKoven Commons auditorium may serve as a worship space, a lecture hall or a breathtaking reception hall. The auditorium and conference rooms are equipped for any audio/visual needs you may have.

Nashotah House also offers excellent catering options upon request.

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

Table of Contents Aquinas: Radical in His Day, Relevant Today

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by the Rev. Thomas N. Buchan, III, PhD

Celebrating the Church Year

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by Ms. Jennifer Snell

Dean and President The Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr. Board of Trustees Chairman

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Assisting Students from Africa by the Rev. Steven A. Peay, PhD

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The Annual Donor Report from Nashotah House

The Rt. Rev. Daniel Martins, ’89 Board of Visitors Chairman The Rt. Rev. Paul E. Lambert, ’75 Alumni President The Rev. Canon H. W. Herrmann, SSC, ’89 Director of Annual Giving The Rev. Noah S. Lawson, ’14 The Office of Institutional Advancement Nashotah House Theological Seminary 2777 Mission Road Nashotah, WI 53058 262-646-6517 nlawson@nashotah.edu

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Alumni updates and Address Changes to: Ms. Kate Wood The Office of Institutional Advancement kwood@nashotah.edu

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Senior Editor The Rev. Andrew J. Hanyzewski, ’09

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As Peter taught that each gift is used to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s grace (1 Pt. 4:10), we give thanks this Michaelmas season in humble and bountiful adoration, completely surrendered to Our Lord, hearts fully bowed.

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n September 25, 1835, William White, George Washington Doane, and several other bishops consecrated Jackson Kemper as a missionary bishop to the American Frontier. In thirty-five years, he organized eight dioceses and founded three schools, one of them being Nashotah House. His last public work was a service of confirmation.

On May 22, 2014, Bishop Kemper’s blessed work continued as we graduated forty-two men and women to continue

The preacher for Commencement, 2014, was the Rt. Rev. Anthony Burton, Rector of the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, TX and sometime Bishop of Saskatchewan. The scripture appointed was from Isaiah, 1 Corinthians and the Gospel of Matthew, each pointing back to the vision of Bishop Kemper and the ministry for which our graduates were prepared.

leadership for the Church. Tuition only accounts for 30% of our income — 70% must be raised to support the seminary.

The ratio does not change, regardless of the size of the student body. We will require an additional 50 million dollars in endowment for the seminary to have a future for the next 172 years.

We are now in the early stages of this development.

“I will make you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth” (Isa. 49:6).

The Board of Trustees is currently involved in a significant governance reorganization. Together, we are laying a firm administrative foundation for the future.

“For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 3:11).

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…I am with you always to the end of the age” (Mt. 28:19; 20).

This was a joyful day for Nashotah House because God was glorified.

the mission he began. Four received Certificates in Anglican Studies; twelve, a Master of Arts in Ministry; three, a Master of Theological Studies; sixteen, a Master of Divinity; two, a Master of Sacred Theology; and five, a Doctor of Ministry.

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As we prepare for future graduations, the task of strengthening the House continues. The reorganization of the administration of the House is almost complete. Without compromising our mission, staffing has been reduced, several hundred thousand dollars in savings have been realized, a budgeting process is in place, new technology has been implemented, and accounting is being brought back in-house. As we have taken firm command of the finances of the House, we have a clear understanding of our financial issues.

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In addition, we are working toward the development of the Ambrose Institute for Congregational Ministry under the leadership of the Rev. Jack Gabig, PhD. It will offer ministry training in the areas of Catechesis, Congregational Revitalization, Spiritual Direction, Hispanic Ministry, The Permanent Diaconate and seeks to cooperate with other seminaries. We are also negotiating for a House presence in several other theological settings.

It is my hope that you will continue to pray for Nashotah House, her seminarians, Faculty, staff, administration, and Board of Trustees as we continue to raise up a faithful ministry of leadership for the Church.

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

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seem to recall a General Ordination Exam question from many years ago that asked the ordinands to write an essay on, “Stewardship is the Main Work of the Church.”

From time to time, I have reflected on that proposition, and still I am uncertain whether I agree or disagree with it.

However, there’s no place we can go in our life of discipleship— individually or communally— that is not overshadowed by the demands of stewardship. It may or may not be the main work of the church, but it is vital in understanding the Church’s responsibility to Christ and in living as brothers and sisters in the Church.

Etymologically, a steward is a sty-ward, or “warden of the sty.” The fundamental notion is that a steward is a trustee, not an owner. A steward operates under the assumption that he or she will be held accountable for the condition of the asset that has been entrusted by the owner—whether that asset if financial, material, spiritual, emotional, intellectual or institutional. The precise expectations of stewardship vary greatly, but there is always the element of future accountability.

Nashotah House is thoroughly overshadowed by stewardship. Our early founders — John Henry Hobart, James Lloyd Breck and William Adams — understood this call to stewardship when Bishop Jackson Kemper sent them in 1841 to begin a mission in what would seven years later become the state of Wisconsin. Because they knew themselves to be stewards of the mission of the Church, a stewardship

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for which they were preparing to give account, their influence later led generations of students to be trained and formed at the House for ministry.

One dimension of stewardship rests in the way each of us in the larger Nashotah House family is a steward of our relationships with one another.

Those of us who have “put on Christ” from the baptismal font’s sacramental waters have received not only the gift of the Holy Spirit, but gifts from the Holy Spirit. Some of these gifts are more dramatic and public, others are quieter and private, but no gift is considered a toy for the individual believer. Each gift is to be used for the building up of the Body of Christ, for the mission of the Church and for the advancement of the Kingdom of God. For Nashotah House to thrive, all who are stewards of these gifts need to exercise them with fortitude and prudence.

Among the gifts that might be most salubriously exercised on behalf of the stewards of Nashotah House at this time in her history are patience, generosity and servanthood—indeed, to remember that we are all stewards and none of us is an owner. This is not easy. The temptations of ownership are ever-present. But if we will attend to him, we have an apostolic admonition NASHOTAH.EDU

from St. Peter: ”Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received” (1 Pt. 4:10). Nashotah House will prosper inasmuch as those who are her stewards regard each other as servants, waiting on and waiting for each other, always ready to ask, “What can I get you?” Extending the benefit of every conceivable doubt, taking delight in honoring one another, presuming goodwill and honorable intentions, placing the most favorable possible construction on each word uttered and each act performed by those who love the same House and serve the same Lord and live under the same divine mercy. Then, stewardship becomes not something to be overshadowed by; instead, it becomes a part of the life of faith, serving others as we have been taught to serve by Him who loves us.

Guest Feature Writer

Mr. Tyler Blanski, ’14 Editor’s Note: Two years ago, the Rev. Gabe Morrow, ’14, first set foot behind the fences of Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution near Plymouth, WI. The mission was simple: lead a Bible study each Friday for a room full of guys who are excited to be there and ready to engage faith. In 2013, Mr. Tyler Blanski, ’14, joined Gabe. Below is a reflection on an afternoon spent in fellowship.

On Friday afternoons, I help my dear friend Gabriel, a wise and holy brother, in leading Bible study at a prison about an hour and a half away from Nashotah House. The drive gives me time to pray and prepare. I pass farmland, small town churches and suburban sprawl. I zigzag my way through the rolling hills that surround Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians near Erin, WI. There I will sometimes stop and pray before proceeding.

This particular Friday at the prison we open to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4. My message is simple: “Brothers, do not lose heart!

Christ is among us!”

Imagine sitting in a small basement of a prison chapel, surrounded by about thirty inmates. At this time at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, there are no guards. A quiet chaplain is in a nearby room. And the room keeps shifting from attentive silence to loud and manly shouts: “Amen!” and “Praise Jesus!” Everyone holds an open Bible, several take notes, and everyone has come because he is hungry for the Word of God. They come because they do not want to lose heart.

It is soon evident that I am not leading this Bible Study, God is.

The Holy Spirit is moving. Several of the men start to preach about God’s faithfulness despite their sin, how God’s glory has been shown in their weakness, and how all of us are called to bear God’s love to a hurting world.

Near the end of our time together, I realize almost everything the brothers and I are preaching, almost every word we were pondering and inwardly digesting together from Paul’s letter, perhaps would have sounded trite or superficial in other Christian circles.

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So many Christians hear the Word proclaimed with boldness and without apology only to respond, “Stop using so many clichés!” or “Don’t be so preachy!” or “People are hurting. Stop being so confident in Jesus Christ!”

Too often, we confuse uncertainty with humility, thinking “everyone is wise in their own eyes.” We mistake Gospel truth for platitudes. We do not like the black and white picture of the prophet. We prefer gray. A friend recently told me not to use the phrase “born again” because, “It’s so cliché.” To which I said, “But Jesus invented this cliché.”

This is not to point fingers. We are all capable of suffering from the same spiritual smugness. But let’s consider that it takes running out of options, publicly failing—even being sentenced to years in prison—for our cold, rock-hard hearts to be able to really receive the Word in humility. Sometimes it takes being “afflicted, perplexed, struck down, persecuted,” as Paul says, to have the “life of Jesus manifested in our bodies” (2 Cor. 4:7-12).

Paul was imprisoned for the Gospel and the men who gathered at this Bible study have been incarcerated for criminal offenses.

So the parallel breaks down fast, except for this; these men have been humbled, and they receive the Word in humility. They are aware of sin and suffering, and they are starving for the glory of God. Friday’s Bible Study is packed with platitudes, unapologetic boldness, all sorts of preaching, clichés, tired metaphors, and “Bible talk.” I could hear the power of the Gospel roaring and the sound of baptized hearts rejoicing. It was humbling and beautiful. One of the men stood up and grabbed my hand: “Brother, we cannot deny that the Holy Spirit is here today!”

So with Friday’s Bible Study still ringing in my ears, this morning I ponder Simeon’s prophecy to Mary: “And a sword will pierce your own soul too” (Lk. 2:35).

And I pray, “Father, make me like Mary to stand in spirit beneath the cross, and let my soul be pierced. Make me lowly.”

Mr. Tyler Blanski, ’14, is the author of When Donkeys Talk: Rediscover the Mystery and Wonder of Christianity. He is married to Brittany and they have a son named Timothy.

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Alumni Recollection

Memories of Student Days

The Rev. Lawrence N. Crumb, ’63

Michaelmas was still the actual as well as the ceremonial Opening Day in 1958 when I entered as the youngest of 49 students. The junior class had 14 men, seven of whom stayed to graduate plus two transfers. The fall colors were glorious, and so was the liturgy. I remember the details—the Bishop of Milwaukee officiated in cope and mitre; the Rev. Donald

History and Liturgics, had a golden retriever named Andy, possibly after Lancelot Andrewes, the first of the Caroline Divines. The Porters lived in a house by the gate that later burned down, and Andy sometimes carried the basket of teaching notebooks in his mouth. Fr. Mount, who taught Pastoral Theology and Christian Education, had a black dog named Suzy of unremembered breed. Fr. Joaquin, librarian and Latin professor, had an old, sickly boxer named Heidi, who sometimes roamed the Cloister at night.

Fr. Jacoby, registrar and teacher of homiletics, music and the Prayer Book, did not have a dog. He was responsible for some of the décor in the chapel and had the stained glass window mentioned above made. In the middle of the year, Fr. Williams arrived to teach Old Testament. Greek was taught by one of the students. The following year, Dean Klein arrived from SeaburyWestern Seminary, where he had taught Old Testament. We wanted to cheer when he said, in his inaugural sermon, “In this seminary, the chapel is the principal classroom.”

Parsons, as sub-dean, celebrated a solemn mass in sanctuary slippers with silver buckles; and Dean White preached. It was the Dean’s last year before retirement, and we were all terrified of him. He had once said to a student late to chapel, “Mr. Jones, what do you know about astronomy?” followed by, “I want you out of here by sundown.”

One of the many details of Nashotah House that I recall is that nearly every priest had a dog, some of whom seemed to echo their owner’s various personalities. Dean White had a boxer named Tugwell, immortalized in the stained glass of St. Francis Chapel in Lewis Hall. Tugwell often attended Evensong, sleeping in a side chapel and following us to the refectory, where he made the rounds of the tables begging for food. Fr. Parsons who, of course, later became Bishop of the Diocese of Quincy and Dean of Nashotah House taught New Testament and Ascetical Theology. He had a water spaniel, Mr. Rafferty, who came to class and had to frequently be let in and out. He rode to the refectory with the student driver for the mid-morning coffee, providing a mascot for the event that brought together all three classes and faculty. Fr. Vogel, who taught theology, had a springer spaniel named Koko. Fr. Vogel had just published his doctoral dissertation, entitled Reality, Reason, and Religion which we called “the three R’s,” a required text in Apologetics. Fr. Porter, who taught Church 10

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There were three oratories in the main chapel, three in Lewis Hall, and one, once used by the college department, in the Fort.

They were used by the priests to say Mass when not involved in the House Mass, which was said by the Dean on Thursday with all faculty present. There was a sung mass with incense or solemn mass on major holy days, including all of Holy Week. Evensong saw the faculty in their academic hoods— including Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Philadelphia, General and Virginia represented. Thursday Evensong was followed by dinner with faculty present and a better menu than usual. There were processions to the cemetery on All Souls’ Day and to the farm on Rogation Sunday. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday were quiet days, silent and no meal until dinner, although hot cross buns and beverage were available mid-afternoon.

When I arrived in 1958, Kemper Hall had just been built and included classrooms, gymnasium, and dormitory. The seniors lived there, with the rest of us in the Cloister, but when our class got to be seniors it was so small that we stayed in the Cloister and let the Middlers have two years in the newer facility. The construction of married student apartments during my second year had made possible the admission of many more married students, and the presence of women on campus had a beneficial effect on student life.

The Rev. Lawrence N. Crumb, ’63, is the author of a series of memoirs entitled, Links in a Chain. Fr. Crumb studied at Nashotah House from 19581961, and returned for further classwork in 1964. In 1965, he began work as assistant librarian and instructor in Greek. Having served as a priest in the Episcopal Church since his ordination in 1962, Fr. Crumb retired in 1997.

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Renewal Mr. Cameron MacMillan, ’16 Liturgy, like the Church year, embodies the coming of the Holy Spirit again and again, into the realm of Creation where the ineffable is made known in and through material things. Incense, bells, bread, wine, vestments, kneeling, genuflecting—all reflect the beauty of heaven making itself known to sensual creatures. Each, in their unique way, points us to the Reality to which we are forever being summoned.

Liturgy’s repetition was never meant to be an insipid formality for the lifeless; it is a life-infused sacramental reality attesting to the solidarity and faithfulness of God the Holy Spirit to act in Creation again and again and again. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Liturgy reflects God’s constancy. The liturgy of the Church calls us to worship faithfully and consistently in the power of the Holy Spirit. On Pentecost, the disciples spoke in new languages for the spread of the Gospel.

Liturgy should be a new language—not of words alone, but of silent prayer, bodily worship, communal fellowship—that cuts across cultural, racial, and generational divides and increases our knowledge of and relationship with the living God. Do we then equate godly spirituality with well-done liturgy? Israel had a tendency to slip into this faulty logic – ‘burn enough sacrifices to the Lord and he will consider us holy because we’ve done our job.’ Over and over again the prophets rebuke the people for practicing empty rituals. Their point? Pretty worship doesn’t camouflage the lovelessness and negligent behavior of God’s people. God, through Hosea, scolds the people of Ephraim and Judah: “Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away” (Hos. 6.4b). Because of this hypocrisy, God’s judgment is upon them. Continued on pg 21

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Keeping in the tradition of community and fellowship Shelton Hall is beginning to take on a whole new look with a nod to the past. Shelton, which once housed the student refectory, now has St. Drogo’s Coffeehouse. Included in the new redesign of the former bookstore are tables and chairs that have belonged to past professors. One notable item is a large wooden table that is prominent near the center of the room. If this table could speak, the memories it could possibly tell?

“We found what we believe to be the old refectory pictures of James Lloyd Breck, William Adams, and John Henry Hobart, the classic Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ (1941), and a good bit of old frames in disrepair,” says Joel A. Christian, ’16. Joel and his wife, Robyn helped to refurbish the first floor of Shelton Hall. Joel also serves in the House’s pub as Master Barkeep. “Incidentally, the most unique thing found was a Waukesha County License to Manufacture and Sell Cigarettes from the year 1974-1975 issued to Nashotah Mission.”

Why a coffeehouse? As more people discover Christianity through the Anglican tradition, people are also looking for a new way of life—a return to simple things. Perhaps that which their grandparents and great-grandparents enjoyed. Coffee shops, knowing our neighbors, loving them and taking care of them, helping them if they call in middle of the night because somebody was sick there —a return to a different kind of life. Not so much a longing for the past, though. The Psalmist tells us not to long for the things of the past as that is wrong in the eyes of God. The writer of Proverbs also tells us to instead learn from those who have gone before, remembering that what we believe as Christians often must be explained to others—that the mission field is also in the coffee shops, the markets, or in waiting for the kids to hop off the school bus.

The coffee shop has been something talked about for years at Nashotah House, a place for students, staff and faculty to meet, study and socialize in a comfortable environment. Coffeehouses have always been at the center of social activity and cultural changes, they have stimulated writers and fueled revolutions.

“Coffeehouses bring people from all backgrounds to think, discuss and share as they sip on warm invigorating beverages,” Joel says. “I think that fits well with the transformational work we do here at Nashotah House. In the middle of a divided church and a divided culture we work, worship and share together with brothers and sisters of all backgrounds.

The campus coffee shop is the House’s student union for the use of the community. The equipment for the coffee shop has come miraculously from quite a few places. Some of the equipment Joel has had previously, and some was purchased by donations or by Nashotah House. All of the furniture and serving areas were either donated or found unused around the House, which is amazing when you see how well it all comes together.

Coffee on campus certainly has its perks—St. Drogo’s hours are Monday-Friday from 6am-7:45am, closing promptly for Morning Prayer, and from 1:30pm-4pm, closing for Evening Prayer.

“Much of the coffee I have served so far was consumed in hosting the Nashotah House staff and various visitors to the House. But the first ‘actual’ paid cups of coffee were to Ricco Medina, who has been doing amazing work around the school, including working on restoring the Red Chapel. I wanted just to give him coffee for all the hard work he does but he insisted on paying,” laughs Joel.

Ms. Rebecca Terhune, ’15 is managing editor of The Missioner magazine. She will complete her Master’s in Theological Studies with a focus on Historical Theology in May, 2015. Ms. Terhune is married to Jason, a postulant for holy orders with the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. They have three sons, Benjamin, Perry and Gunnar.

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s of July, 2014, the House is now well-outfitted for the next years of faithful worship in keeping within our Tractarian heritage and reverence—with several new sets of vestments. The last substantial order of vestments was made in the mid-1990s and since they are worn daily, a number of them had become threadbare, beyond the possibility of repair. The Chapel Committee of St. Mary the Virgin, Nashotah House, hired a local seamstress to repair the vestments that were salvageable, giving particular attention to the older handembroidered chasubles in our sacristy, including several made by the Sisters of the Holy Nativity in Fond du Lac, WI. However, for many of the “every day” chasubles, the time had come for them to be replaced.

The vestment order included two red, two violet and two green chasubles with matching stoles and maniples, a new green solemn set, two green copes and a tapestry frontal for the High Altar in St. Mary’s.

“The tapestry frontal will save considerable wear-and-tear on our existing frontals, as the sacristans will now only change the frontal for Red Letter Days instead of sometimes changing the frontal several times each week,” says the Rev. Alexander Pryor, ’14, Teaching Fellow in Church Music at Nashotah House. “Now that we observe fewer transfers in our Liturgical Calendar, we found ourselves in need of a serviceable green solemn set so that students get the full experience of vesting for the Solemn Eucharist that is observed each Thursday evening at Nashotah House.”

The pieces were made by Wippell (of Exeter, UK) and Watts and Co. of London. In gratitude, the Chapel Committee used generous gifts given for the upkeep of the chapel and its contents to purchase the vestments.

“These new vestments are in addition to the generous gift of a cloth-ofgold solemn set worn at the 2014 Commencement, and a black solemn set that is forthcoming,” says Dcn. Pryor.

Aquinas – Radical in His Day, Relevant Today The Rev. Thomas N. Buchan III, PhD

From a contemporary vantage point, St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1275) is often seen as one of those old-fashioned and difficult-to-understand figures of a distant Christian past. People of our day and age—even those who might want to understand and appreciate him—have sometimes struggled to figure out just how they might do so. By comparison with early twenty-first century standards which place a premium on accessibility and something called “relevance,” Aquinas can frequently seem remote, formal, and intimidatingly difficult. However, To borrow a phrase from G.K. Chesterton, it is probably not so much the case that Aquinas has been tried and found wanting, but found difficult and left untried.

Of course, there’s something rather curious about this. Though the point could be pressed too far, if they were able to get to know him a little, it might surprise many of the modern devotees of “relevance” to learn that St. Thomas was himself not such an old-fashioned thinker as to avoid the new philosophical resources available to theologians of his day. Nor was he, strictly speaking, a monk of the “old school” in the world he inhabited.

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Thomas was a member of the relatively new Dominican Order of Friars (c. 1216), founded on the relatively new idea that the adherents of heretical doctrines might be taught and converted rather than merely prosecuted and burned. In his own day, Thomas was an active participant in the life of the relatively recent institution of the university—studying and pursuing wisdom, not in the monastic cloister, but in the new, secular, collegium of masters and scholars. Thomas was willing to engage with the relatively new rediscovery of many of the works of Aristotle—a philosophical system more closely identified with Arabic and Muslim thought than with anything Christian in Thomas’ thirteenth century.

None of this should be taken to suggest that Thomas was merely a trend-chaser or a faddish ‘movement theologian.’ He was not— as we sometimes see today—a proponent of cultural accommodation in the name of staying ‘relevant.’

But he was what Christians in every age should be willing to be: unafraid of engaging the world within which he was called to live as Christ’s disciple, unafraid to require subjection to Christ of the best thinking

and resources of his day, unafraid to try to bear witness to God’s love and wisdom, to hold out the hope of salvation in Christ, in ways that might find points of agreement with and corrective healing for even those who were his philosophical opponents.

Thomas understood that the whole world and any order it might be understood to evince and manifest could only have its source and its end in the One who had in love created it, in love been crucified and resurrected for it, in love vouchsafed its sanctified fulfillment. And he believed that as the dependent and gratuitous creation of that One, the world and all within it could only be rightly understood as a participation in the good purposes of the God who calls his servants friends.

At the time of his death, it was by no means clear to his contemporaries that Thomas was “old-fashioned.” Many thought his ideas dangerously new-fangled, too flirtatious with systems of thought and ways of reasoning that were not thoroughly Christian in any easily recognizable or immediately obvious way. Shortly after his death, Thomas’ works were blacklisted for their dangerous amalgamation of things new and old, and it took time for his contributions to be received for what they were: a faithful and diligent articulation of the Christian tradition in the new idioms afforded by the thirteenth century.

May God grant us the same grace, the same courage, to bear wise, discerning, and risk-taking witness to the eternal truth of his Word in the times in which he has given us to run our course.

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The Rev. Thomas N. Buchan III, PhD is associate professor of Church History and Program Director of the Master of Sacred Theology (STM) academic degree at Nashotah House. He is married to Shelly and they have two children, Thomas and Mary.

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Newbigin, Pluralism & the Digital World: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Ends of the Earth

October 17-18, 2014 “If the Gospel is to challenge the public life of our society... it will only be by movements that begin with the local congregation in which the reality of the new Creation is present, known and experienced; and from which men and women go into every sector of public life…”

- Lesslie Newbigin A Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society

by Lesslie Newbigin

In his day, missionary Bishop Lesslie Newbigin drew upon principles he had learned in foreign mission to think about the mission frontier of a secularized West. Today’s digital world presents yet another dimension on this frontier. Almost any congregation is, at the same time, influencing and being influenced by its neighborhood, region, nation, and the world. Christians must think creatively about the Mission of the Church and the reign of Christ in the 21st Century. This symposium will provide an educational experience through a dialogic learning model involving Keynote Presenters, ministry veterans and emerging leaders to consider both ancient and future ways of sharing in faithful Gospel Mission today.

Presenters: Bishop Todd Hunter

Church Planter and Anglican Bishop

Dr. George Hunsberger

Professor of Missiology, Western Theological Seminary Cost $200 per person – includes: sessions, meals, refreshments and hand-outs Discount price $150 per person (for groups of five or more) For more information please contact our host Fr. Jack Gabig at jgabig@nashotah.edu.

To register for the symposium please visit: http://www.nashotah.edu/academics/fall-2014-symposium/

The Habit of Imitating Christ The Rev. William O. Daniel, Jr., PhD, ’12 How do you know what to do when you come upon a red, octagonal stop sign while driving down the road? No, really. How do you know what to do? Chances are, before you ever learned how to read, before you knew the difference between an octagon and a triangle, perhaps even before you knew which color red is, you observed your parents bringing the car to a halt every time one of these objects presented itself. This would have happened with such regularity that no one ever thought to teach you what to do when approaching a stop sign, or any other sign for that matter. Why? Because they didn’t need to. You already knew what to do. You knew this because the sign’s meaning was inscribed on your imagination through the embodied habit of the car stopping every time a sign was there.

While much learning occurs in academic classrooms, perhaps the most effective learning is that which goes unnoticed, like learning to stop at stop signs. Sociologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) describes this form of learning as a habitus. According to Mauss, our habitus is “the practical reason of a social body, acquired by the individual by an education in the techniques of embodied movement at work in the social body.” In other words, what we think, believe, and how we behave are inseparable from the communities in which we live and the social practices constantly at work on our imaginations. Habitus not only names a cultural effectiveness, it also refuses any separation of thought and action, as well as conditioning social structures.

While Mauss uses habitus to describe the indivisibility of human nature and human action from a social body, its use has a long history. At least since the time of John Cassian (c.360-435), and perhaps most clearly with Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.

543), monasticism has existed as a central witness to this interwoven fabric of human life. In The Rule, Benedict describes the life of the cenobite as one whose very life Michaelmas 2014

is a rule—the monk himself is an opus Dei—a liturgical work of God. Bringing opus Dei into liturgical focus, Benedict presents an understanding of liturgical action that is indiscernible from the life of the monk.

It is tempting to read The Rule of Saint Benedict as a set of provisions by which the monk, if he follows each with vigor, will attain the sanctity of Christ. The nature of The Rule, however, as with most every monastic rule ever written, is descriptive. It concerns the forma vitae—the form of life, and it recognizes that the form does not flow out of the rule but vice versa. It is the rule that is derivative, not the life. The Rule is biographical; it is descriptive rather than prescriptive.

Returning to our analogy, we did not begin driving cars about the country because we had placed stop signs everywhere and needed something to stop. A sign does not search for something to signify. And, following Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), “To think that you are following a rule is not to follow a rule.”

It is for this reason that mimesis is central to Benedict.

Imitating Christ—whose life (vitae) is the rule (regula)—is its focus. The Rule is the way of one who follows Christ. In other words, it is The Rule of Saint Benedict and not Saint Benedict of the Rule. It is at this point we can hear Benedict whisper to us, “The habit does not make the monk.” Nevertheless, the habit donned by the monk is intertwined with the habitus that is the monastery. We might say that the liturgical habits of imitating Christ in the spiritual elders of the monastery are the ways in which the monk learns to inhabit the habit—the ways he learns to wear the habit well, which is nothing short of demanding. As John Cassian says in the Conferences, “One does not come to resemble those whose hard work and whose zeal one declines to imitate.”

Our habitus conditions us to perceive our relation to all things.

Accordingly, to understand the things of God demands an understanding through a liturgical habitus—the practice of imitating, whereby the wisdom of God is inscribed on our hearts through the disciplining of our bodies. As Saint Paul writes in his first letter to the church at Corinth, “The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:1). Benedict would tell us that the habitus is the monastery, not a prescription for understanding the gifts of the Spirit of God. The habitus is the Spirit of God coming to inhabit the practitioner. As we come to understand what to do when we approach a traffic sign, by a similar conditioning do we come to understand what it means to follow Christ.

The Rev. William O. Daniel, Jr., PhD, is Chaplain and Professor of Religion and Ethics in Saint James School, Hagerstown, MD, where he lives with his wife Amanda and their two children, Wyles and Aydah. The above is abridged from a lecture delivered by Fr. Daniel at Nahotah House, Winter 2014.

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hen the weather outside is frightful and there is no delightful fire inside, in fact there is no actual inside, where do you go?

This past winter our little village in Western New York saw record low temperatures and high winds. One morning as I entered the vestibule of our church I discovered a man curled up in a blanket sleeping next to the snow blower. That same week, two families with children came to my office seeking housing after being evicted or fleeing from their inadequate apartments. Homelessness is not an issue we had considered in this pristine, Norman Rockwell-esque village.

The issue remained hidden until the weather became so severe.

In each of these situations we found it difficult to access resources for these folks. Social services for the homeless and displaced are limited and tend to be concentrated in our more urban areas. The closest facilities were 30 minutes away and their hours of operation made it difficult to coordinate transportation even when we could find a driver. But what could we do? We are a small church, made up of older folks with limited energy and very little money.

At Christmas, folks came together and gathered clothes, food and presents for the displaced families. We found safe housing for them and drove them there. One was relocated out of state, closer to relatives, but the other family could only find housing in another town far away from their friends. The man sleeping in our breezeway had nowhere else to go.

This situation started a discussion of what we could do to provide safe, secure shelter for this individual, and others like him, while raising awareness of the issue of homelessness to lead to a more permanent solution to the problem. We soon learned of an Episcopal parish in Eugene, OR, Church of the Redeemer. We organized with this ecumenical community in Eugene to form a portable shelter village called “Opportunity

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Village.” The idea began to grow that we could build such a structure and put it on our property right in the middle of the village. Our Sr. Warden compared several designs and in one weekend constructed the first “little house.” The following Sunday it was blessed and set out in the rector’s parking space.

It didn’t take long before it was occupied and has continued to serve as a temporary shelter from the storm for several people.

One night we had two men vying to stay there.

Several local newspapers and TV stations reported on the project that drew much attention to the issue and resulted in donations of money to build more shelters. Area agencies started taking a closer look at the situation and discussing how they can better use resources to meet the needs of displaced persons in our more rural areas. It is significant how this little house has enriched our parish. Our newly-formed men’s group have distributed the funds and things we have learned to build in other locations. Currently, we are brainstorming new ways to aid the homeless in our area through the use of our building and the Soup Kitchen which is housed in our church. We have seen how God can do great things when His people are willing to give the little they have. And, what of the man who I found sleeping next to the snow blower? He just completed the training to be a licensed Eucharistic Minister. To God be the glory, great things He hath done.

The Rev. Virginia Carr, ’09, currently serves as priest-in-charge of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Westfield, NY, vicar of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, at the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, and is a former chaplain to The Forth Street Café — a street ministry of St. Luke’s, Jamestown, NY. She and her husband, Owen, along with their three children, served with The South American Missionary Society (SAMS) in Honduras from 1994-1997.

As an additional blessing of her work among the homeless, they are also now the proud parents of a three-year-old boy whose name (given him by his birth parents) means “justice” and “a new home”. Throughout her life, as God has called her to new ministries, she has made her answer, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be unto me according to your word.”

“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 more than 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 springboard for expanding the legacy entrusted to us.

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Meditation

Self-Service or

Perfect Service?

By the Rev. Canon Brien Koehler, SSC, ’76, Chaplain at Nashotah House and Associate Rector of Christ Church, San Antonio, TX

In our increasingly “self-service” world, have you noticed how little notice we take of one another? Eye contact with those whom we meet walking on sidewalks is rare. Opening doors for one another is rare. Good manners while driving have become the exception rather than the rule. Conversation with strangers? Really?

Our cultural context is increasingly individualized. We shun carpools. We program our entertainment as we like it and block out everything else with earbuds. We stare for hours each day into the screens of our phones and tablets, at all times and in all places.

One of the greatest challenges in today’s mission field is replacing self-service with the mutual-service of the Body of Christ: interrelated and interdependent rather than selfsufficient. Even many Christians live in a “self-service” mode, and as a result their vision of “the Body of Christ” is simply gathering for worship in the same place with some others for a few minutes each week, and then going separate ways until the next time. The “serve one another” vitality of the New Testament is often hard to find.

But, in fact, submitting ourselves to one another and outdoing one another in showing honor (Rm. 12:10) are still hallmarks of Christian fellowship, and our service is not just “doing a good turn daily,” as admirably promoted by the Boy Scouts for over a hundred years.

Christian service in this life is our training for the “life of perfect service in [the] heavenly kingdom,” (BCP, Burial Rite).

Our service to others is rooted in imitation of Jesus himself, who “came not to be served but to serve” (Mt. 20:28). This basic message is at the heart of the Gospel, and Jesus makes it clear that his service is our example in John 12:13-17.

Our service to the Lord and to his people is our way out of self-service, self-absorption, and imagined self-sufficiency.

Such service is the antidote to all arguments about “who is the greatest”. And our service to one another makes full use of the diverse gifts God has given us-not for our own enrichment or edification, but for building up the Body (Eph. 4:16). Our prophecy, our service, our teaching, our exhortation, our contributions, our aid, and our acts of mercy are the training 20

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ground of perfect service and perfect freedom (Rm. 12:6).

The “true humility” for which we pray daily in the House Prayer will lead us to see the service of others for what it truly is in the words of the Book of Common Prayer: “Christ’s people…in serving the helpless…are serving Christ himself.” It is in this wholesome, humble service that we see the pattern of our future hope in the life of perfect service. St. John the Divine gives us a vision of the destiny of Christ’s people: “They are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night within his temple; and he who sits upon the throne will shelter them with his presence” (Rev. 12:7).

There is no self-service option in the kingdom of heaven! Christians are surrounded now by opportunities to bring people out of self-service into the service of others. As we seek those opportunities and act upon them, we need not act alone or without support. It is, after all, in the celebration of Michaelmas that we are reminded of another model of perfect service and encouragement even as we await the Day of our own perfection: O Everlasting God, who has ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order; Mercifully grant, that as thy holy Angels always do thee service in heaven, so by the appointment they may succor and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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celebration is an invitation to an encounter. We can settle for a superficial practice of marking an anniversary on the calendar, but to truly celebrate means that we encounter the meaning of the event or the person we remember.

Therefore our national holidays, for example, are not just an excuse for a barbecue. Instead, they are invitations to encounter the value of our country’s heritage, that we may become inspired to continue those benefits in our daily lives.

As we begin to understand the essence of celebration, we can rediscover the potential of celebrating our Christian holidays. But before we make that application, let us draw from the guidance of Abraham Lincoln who understood deeply the power of celebrations and memorials.

His famous Gettysburg Address, though a short speech, is worth quoting here at length because it encapsulates what can happen to us when we set apart time to remember.

Lincoln spoke these words at Gettysburg during the Civil War: “We are met on a great battle-field… We have come to dedicate a portion of that field... It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it… It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they… have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom….”

Lincoln’s address is full of twists. He understood that we do not generate the power to dedicate, consecrate, or hallow. Instead, we are to be dedicated, consecrated, made holy. As we gather to recall and honor significant heroes of history, we are invited to take increased devotion to their cause. We are given the chance to highly resolve that their past actions were not in vain. Thus we become receptive to the new birth of freedom by God’s gift.

When we apply the expectation of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to our other celebrations, we experience how much meaning is apparent: an anniversary is not just for marking time, it is for our renewal. A holiday or a memorial bring us into contact

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with truths we often forget during our workaday lives. We celebrate and are dedicated—new inspiration becomes possible.

If this dynamic can happen for our national holidays and family events, how much greater is the meaning when the center of our celebrations is God in Christ. For Jesus has promised his fol l owe rs : “w he re two or three gather in my name, there am I with them” (Mt. 18:20). The year-long calendar of Christian festivals and seasons that make up our Church Year are an invitation like no other. The Church Year invites us to encounter not a mere history lesson, not just artistic liturgy, not a pretext for a potluck, but the personal Triune God. And the life of Christ revealed to us in Scripture and in the breaking of bread proves to us that this encounter is good and worth celebrating.

Celebrating the Church Year is also full of twists. We celebrate God’s salvation in history and discover that it is ours today.

We encounter the meaning of God’s victory and find we are encountering God himself. We prepare for the next celebration in the Church Year, and we see that we are saving the date for a divine appointment. We become inspired, but the inspiration is God’s own spirit in us (2 Cor. 3:18). The potential of celebrations is the new birth of freedom that Lincoln exhorted, and the potential of celebrating the Church Year is that God’s Spirit makes this new birth of freedom in Christ not rhetoric but our present daily reality.

After her graduation from Biola University and the Torrey Honors Institute, Jennifer worked in administration at Biola University’s Christian Apologetics Program and then at Nashotah House. Alongside her husband Fr. Micah Snell ‘08, Jennifer has mentored students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Wheatstone Ministries and now Houston Baptist University.

Alumni Corner

Hope Offered to Those in the

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By the Rev. Rose Ann Felty, ’10

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efore being called to the priesthood, I had been blessed by being an Episcopalian in parishes all my life. As an adult I accepted employment in new cities based on the quality of life in my potential new parish. Therefore, church and serving through the church was a strong part of my identity.

I began my priesthood as rector of a small parish in the verdant New York Hudson Valley. Old established churches in my hometown of San Antonio, TX, were built and grown mostly in the prosperity of the early 20th century.

But in my new parish, I found that they had been marrying and burying before Texas was even a state. Their devotion to recreate their hometown church built a close replica of a stone cathedral with long ago memories of a craggy English coast. But fervor, tradition and memories sometime fade leaving modern day communicants with someone else’s story and missing salvation. And the stately church grows cold when new life and conversion is seen of something from the past. In this region, churches of all denominations have dwindled, or are combined and many close their doors.

Very quickly, I came to meet generations of people attempting to pursue life in the shadows of set apart holy places with no idea of their significance to a community or people who lived lives of faith. God was no longer known and certainly not a Savior.

So the beautiful gift of faith that Jesus has for each one of us, the gift I certainly wanted to share, went undesired by those I have been called to love and serve. I set out to meet and find anyone who had a hunger, or even a slight curiosity for God. This search would take months.

While the parish had a small group of weekly attenders they were unavailable for study or outreach or mission. But as a priest you keep showing up because showing up is hopeful and hope animates our spirit. And then a curious new parishioner showed up. She wanted to read a book about a little boy who had discovered heaven was real and wondered if I would read it to her. She lives in a mobile home park community where the police no longer trouble to answer the domestic violence calls. I will always remember the sound of my hesitating foot on the metal step as I entered to a crowd awaiting this strange event.

Those gathered included Hispanic gang members (I do speak Spanish), recent parolees, active drug users, spouse and child abusers and others with obvious wounds too deep to fathom. In rapid fire questioning they asked about my clothing and cross. They asked about the word “church” and the word “God”. To the most defiant gang member, a teen-aged boy, I noted his gang colors and apparel and surmised the benefits of membership: identity, protection and salvation from the world around him. So I explained my black and white “gang” colors and why I needed salvation from my world too. But my salvation has a longer life, very long. And my ‘gang sign’ is my Daughters Michaelmas 2014

of the King cross—the Cross through which we are all initiated into a life that can’t die. He was curious. My overwhelming desire, heart wrenching desire, was to share a moment of authentic hope. There was a frightening pause where I begged Jesus to show up and be real to them. The Holy Spirit filled the room and gave me words to answer their questions without using any of the church vocabulary we so love as Christians. This was not of me. All I had to do was show up and hang on. And keep hanging on and showing up.

Women and children gathered in the kitchen for many months as I read them the simple story stopping at each page to share a gospel application. The men gathered in the living room and no kidding, each week the television was turned down lower. By the end they were listening and yet pretending not to.

Showing up has opened the door at the Rectory for others to come and disgorge the impossibilities of their lives, choices and circumstances. And they continue to show up and allow themselves moments of curiosity.

This account of one facet of ministry does not conclude with a neat tied up package where everyone comes to the Lord, is baptized and confirmed. This community goes forward and falls back mightily and terribly with tragic consequence. Nevertheless, in faithfulness and curiosity some keep showing up and I keep showing up. As of this writing the saints rejoice that in two weeks one grandfather and one small boy will enter into the new life of grace, by the power of the Holy Spirit they will be sealed in Baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever. Hallelujah.

The Rev. Rose Ann Felty, ’10, is Rector at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Stockport, NY, in the Diocese of Albany.

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n Nashotah House Founders Day, April 16, 2014, the Rev. Ben Jeffries, ’14, stood up in the refectory to read the reflections of Dean Webb (1898-1906) from the early years of this wonderful institution. It was one of those moments where you realize the more things change the more they stay the same. For instance, the House seems to have always had financial issues, always had buildings burn down and according to those who have spent some time here, the students of previous eras—always heartier and more devout.

It was somewhat funny, but it also showed something of human nature and the extent to which God has continually provided for this place of priestly formation. We like to think that we have set plans in motion and created initiatives by which things get accomplished. And this is, of course, true on one level, for God has given us intellect and initiative so we are not to sit idly by waiting for a bucket of money or perfect students to fall from the sky. But the fact remains that like the writer of 1 Chronicles says, “All things come of thee O Lord and of thine own have we given thee.” All that we are and will be, Nashotah House included, only exists because God first moved. Yes, there have always been troubles at Nashotah House and the past may appear to have been rosier, but somewhere in all of this God provided. This fact does, however, remain: that we are God’s hands and feet on this earth. We must work tirelessly for God’s kingdom while always remembering that everything comes first and foremost from God—ourselves, our souls and bodies.

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If Nashotah is truly to be what it is supposed to be it must submit all of what it is to God. We must pray and ask what God wants this place to be. In Acts 9 there is a line that appears almost to be a throwaway summary of the early years of the Christian movement which reads, “Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.”

But at second glance it does not seem to be a throwaway line at all; it seems to contain all things necessary for the prospering of a Christian institution. The early church experienced a time of peace, meaning it was not at war with itself, but was all fixed on the same mission. They were built up which seems to be part and parcel of this peace.

For only when all agree to the lordship of Christ do things truly get built up. And finally, they lived in the fear of God and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. They remembered, like all the great saints, that all comes from God.

Our job as servants of God and as those who love Nashotah House is to be like the church in Acts. The church in Acts did remarkable things because of their trust in God and their trust that he was there for them. But it was also a church that was unified in its mission. Doing all things in one accord, glorifying God in all things and building up the kingdom of heaven. That is the call for us who work at Nashotah House and those who love Nashotah—to live in peace and build up this place to the glory of God.

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Liturgy can be performed well by persons whose hearts are devoid of love for God and neighbor.

But ornate vestments, perfect-pitch chants, and impeccable processions are not the end goal of liturgy. Nor are they what God desires from his people. That is not to say well-done liturgy has no place in the Church. However, if liturgy becomes less of a vessel through which the Holy Spirit inspires us to selflessly love God and our neighbor, and more of a polished performance, we are in danger of having God speak a word of judgment against us for our empty rituals. When the disciples received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, they spoke in tongues for the sake of proclaiming the Gospel cross-culturally. Liturgy done right (not necessarily “well”) will function in the same way.

It will not serve vain ritualistic ambition, but will strengthen and build up the community, seek to glorify God, and proclaim his saving grace. Liturgy continually guides the Church through prayer, praise, repentance, Scripture, and culminates in the Holy Eucharist, reminding us that God expects us “to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with God” (Mic. 6.8).

Our postmodern culture is hungry for truth and they are looking to find it in narrative form.

What an opportunity this presents for those of us who practice liturgical worship! Our culture is disillusioned with forms of Christianity that seek only to elicit a “decision” from seekers but leaves them without a faithful form of ongoing discipleship. If our liturgy is nothing but a dead ritual, this culture will be the first to sense it.

We should not expect people to be captivated by form alone. On the other hand, if our liturgy is genuinely centered upon Jesus Christ, and his living Spirit present among us, the Gospel will be authentically proclaimed and, with the diverse group at Pentecost, today’s seekers will say, “We hear them telling in our own tongue the mighty works of God.” When our worship is carried out in the power of the Holy Spirit, liturgy will be a vessel in which new followers are pointed to Jesus, as well as strengthen the lives of the faithful who experience God’s power and beauty in the aesthetics of worship.

Mr. Cameron MacMillan, ‘16, is a ‘middler’ student in Nashotah House’s MDiv program. He is seeking ordination in the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. His interests are college and youth ministry, short fiction and good coffee.

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he House welcomes the Rev. Andrew Grosso, PhD as Director of Distance Learning. Fr. Grosso has served as an adjunct member of the faculty of the distance program since 2011, and has facilitated courses in systematic theology. He received his PhD in Systematic Theology from Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI) in 2004; his MDiv from the School of Theology at the University of the South (Sewanee, TN) that same year; and his MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Theology and Educational Ministry) from Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) in 1996.

From 2004-2008 he served as Canon Residentiary at Grace Episcopal Cathedral (Topeka, KS); from 2008-2014, he was Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church (Atchison, KS). He also served as Dean of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry, a regional formation initiative overseen by the dioceses of Kansas, West Missouri, Western Kansas, and Nebraska. He is the author of Personal Being: Polanyi, Ontology, and Christian Theology (Peter Lang, 2007), and has published articles and reviews in Tradition & Discovery, the International Journal of Systematic Theology and Sewanee Theological Review. His research interests include post-critical philosophy and theology, incarnational theology and trinitarian theology.

He is a member of the Polanyi Society and is the Associate Editor of Tradition & Discovery, the Society’s quarterly publication. In his free time, Fr. Andrew enjoys practicing the Japanese martial art aikido, exercising and reading. Fr. Andrew’s wife, Diana, is originally from Seattle; they have been married since 1998. Her interests include music, painting and languages, chiefly French and biblical Hebrew. Fr. Andrew and Diana live at Nashotah House along with their three cats, Chiba, Sabine and Tyndale.

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from Africa The Rev. Steven A. Peay, PhD Two years ago I was asked to meet with the Dean and President, the Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr., and one of our African doctoral students, the Ven. Fyneface Akah from the Diocese of Evo, Nigeria. The Archdeacon had brought a letter from his bishop and wanted to share it with us. We were seated, but he stood and read the letter as if his bishop himself were speaking. When he finished, with an appropriate respect to the Dean, Akah turned to me and said, “My Father Peay, this is your Macedonian call! Acts 16:9, Paul has a vision of a man saying, ‘Come over and help us.’”

The Archdeacon summarized what has been happening consistently for the last several years—African bishops and priests asking us to come over and help them. They have heard of Nashotah House and they want what we have. During the Michaelmas, 2013 term, we welcomed a visiting school principal, from another Nigerian diocese, who said, “We need what you do here—we do not have it and we need it.”

“Come over and help us”—but how? We cannot replicate Nashotah House in Africa, can we? We are unable to turn Africa into Wisconsin as I don’t think they’d want the snow, but we can indeed replicate it by training those who will become the teachers and the directors of priestly formation. Over the years we have trained some. One of our Master of Theological Studies (MTS) students, the Rev. Andrew Sumani, is now the Principal of the College for Christian Ministries in the diocese of Southern Malawi, and there are more.

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How do we accomplish this task? By raising funds. The African students who have received degrees from Nashotah House have either found sponsors in Africa or in the United States to financially assist them. The resources available to us are extremely limited and that is why I am writing this—to appeal to the hearts of those who believe in the Macedonian call, and have a love for Christ’s Church — join us in helping today.

Paul left for Macedonia trusting God to guide and uphold him; that the mission would succeed. It is clear that if we are to live out the spirit of Kemper and Breck, we must do the same. We seek to give each African student who applies to us a full tuition scholarship. We ask only that they pay their room, board, fees and cover their personal expenses. Full tuition for a two-year Master of Theological Studies that amounts to $30,000. Their room and board and expenses would come to approximately $20,000.

Will you help us to “come over and help”? Listen to what the Archdeacon, now a Doctor of Ministry, wrote about Nashotah House, after reflecting on Jaroslav Pelikan’s (19232006) definition of tradition as “the living faith of the dead” contrasted with traditionalism as “the dead faith of the living”: Did I find formation in the years of my research and living sessions in Nashotah House? I did; I feel fulfilled and do honestly live in thanksgiving to God for the missional Vision and goal which still strives to forming leaders in the Anglican Tradition since its 1842 founding. Memory of life and ministry of beloved Bishop Kemper will endure forever. I give thanks to God for the gift of the internet world to this generation. May it interest you to know that my more than 15 years frustration in searching for a graduate level Seminary where I can pursue an advance pastoral formation research with strong, deepening Anglican appeal, would have remained unabated but for that day my web search results opened to me the ancient gate to this Mission House in the American Countryside community—Nashotah in Wisconsin State.

The formative and impacting experience gained by my contact with Nashotah House is not just of the exposure to the beauty of intentional blend of faith in the Word of God aptly expressed in the liturgical context and distinctive of the Benedictine tradition of the Anglican way of being Christian, I was excited to meet people, in both the faculty, staff and students, who truly love and cherished the presence of all others like ourselves from African.

In many ways it was proved to me that members of Nashotah household do honestly live out their understanding that Christianity is all about building relationship bridges shown in the way they worked to meet the needs of one another especially the international African children of the Household.

In no way does it ever cross my mind to think that my preference of Nashotah House Doctor of Ministry degree for which I left my doctor of philosophy program in Nigeria after writing the comprehensive Examination, was ever anything to regret. It is simply that doctoral level researches to which I was exposed before coming to the Nashotah House in 2011 never satisfied my curiosity to deepen my understanding of the beauty of Anglican historical and spiritual heritage as well as learning of the best and most effective way of doing the ministry of my call as an Anglican Priest of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion.

My honest reply to both my nephew and cousin in-law who asked to know the way in which the knowledge acquired through studying in Nashotah House Theological Seminary will enhance my ministry now that I have returned to Nigeria, is where I’d like to end. I simply said to them my exposure to both the ministry formative content and method inculcated in me a proudly sense as one having and knowing the right faculty from where to draw in the course ministering in that part of the vine yard in which it pleased the Almighty God to place me.

I value to know that I eventually graduated ‘A Son of the House!’

May God Bless THIS HOUSE, its students, staff, able dean and faculty, Board and Benefactors.

Like every other Alumnus, I promise never to cease in praying for THIS HOUSE. Indeed, we have our African call—please help us answer.

Please contact the Rev. Noah Lawson, ’14 in the Advancement Department at 262-646-6500 for details on how you can help us bring African students for training to Nashotah House.

Floreat, Nashotah.

The Rev. Steven A. Peay, PhD, is Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Homiletics and Church History at Nashotah House Theological Seminary.

His publications include the editing of four books, articles and reviews in The International Congregational Journal, The Catholic Historical Review, The Congregationalist, a reference article in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism and theological commentaries on the Triduum Psalmody in Feasting on the Word (year A).

The Doctor Of Ministry (DMin) at Nashotah House

Faithful Ministry Practice To enhance your study and practice of ministry is the primary purpose of the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. As a professional degree, the DMin deepens the understanding of ministry through biblical, historical and theological reflection in dialogue with the concrete realities of ministry.

Building upon the MDiv degree, the DMin emphasizes theory with practice to advance the faithful ministry of the Church. The significance of continuing education for the clergy cannot be underestimated.

“According to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research in Connecticut, a turn-around for a local struggling congregation relies mostly on the leadership and tenure of the local pastor,” says the Rev. Jack Gabig, PhD, Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Nashotah House.

At New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Reggie Ogea, Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs and Professor of Leadership and Pastoral Ministry and Dr. Bill Day, Associate Director of the Leavell Center for Evangelism and Church Health Gurney Professor of Evangelism and Church Health, recently presented their multi-year research project on church growth. They presented their study, “Critical Factors in Congregational Revitalization,” at the Association of Doctor of Ministry Educators 28

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Conference, 2014. There, they related interviews and surveys of nearly 90,000 congregations regarding growth/decline and revitalization issues.

“What they found was significant: the number one issue facing congregations is - conflict resolution,” says Fr. Gabig who attended the conference, representing Nashotah House. “For revitalization to occur, the leadership must identify conflict activators, stop the bleeding and eliminate destructive conflict. Another significant factor longevity of leadership.”

The research revealed the average pastorate is four years in the United States; however, Dr. Ogea and Dr. Day noted that five years in one church is required to see stability and significant impact on revitalization. Five-to-20 years in the pastorate is likely to find a healthy, growing church. Past 20 years, the pastorate tends to level off and begin decline.

“The way to keep the church revitalized is through prayer and healthy leadership,” says Fr. Gabig. “Understanding a healthy sense of urgency—being proactive rather than reactive, having the skills to navigate change, strategic vision, establishing core values and ministry priorities, setting goals and action plans.”

The DMin course curriculum features focus areas in liturgy, spirituality, biblical exposition—both biblical

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exegesis and homiletics—and congregational development. Students choose one of these as a concentration for their coursework and final Project.

Integrating the academic learning experience with personal ministry while demonstrating how the student’s understanding of ministry has been enhanced for the benefit of the Church— this is the focus of the DMin program.

Concerning his time of study and formation at Nashotah House, current DMin student, the Rev. Eugene W. “Tripp” Prince III, Christ Church, Plano, TX, says, “When I reflect upon my experience at the House, my thoughts turn to Archbishop Michael Ramsey. As I consider his vision of priestly ministry as “being with God with the people on your heart,” I realize how my time at the House has allowed me to further this vision in my own vocation and ministry. As simple as it may seem, this fundamental truth is so easily lost or neglected in the daily concerns of parish life. While I have found my courses at Nashotah House to be academically rigorous and intellectually stimulating, I value my time there primarily because it is a place where, above all else, I know I am with God. In fact, I know of no other theological institution that so fully lives into this commitment to behold God and be transformed by him in worship and prayer, and it is for this reason that I chose the House for my continued priestly formation.”

The DMin program at Nashotah House exists to form academically grounded, reflective practitioners to serve as ministry experts at the front line of ministry in order to affect the revitalization of congregations and ministries.

Consider today the areas of coursework concentration and dissertation/project work: __ Biblical Exposition An interdisciplinary approach, includes biblical exegesis and homiletics. __ Liturgy One of the historic strengths of Nashotah House is providing opportunities for persons in ministerial leadership to reflect upon the rich history of Christian worship, enhancing the congregational experience of worship in the contemporary Church. __ Ascetical Theology (Christian Spirituality) Encourages a deeper and dynamic understanding of Christian spiritual traditions, the history and literature of Christian spirituality and the process of spiritual formation. __ Congregational Development Provides opportunities for persons in ministry to study and enhance their capacity for leading congregations in growth as faith communities while reaching out to persons in the wider community with love and compassion.

For more information about the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Nashotah House, please visit: http://www.nashotah.edu/ academics/degree-programs/dmin/ For more research on church growth, revitalization and leadership resources, please visit: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/

Michaelmas 2014

The House Welcomes Liturgics Professor

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he House welcomes the Rev. Matthew S. C. Olver as Teaching Fellow in Liturgics. He is married to Kristen and they have two children, Claire (8) and Isaac (6).

Fr. Olver will teach Liturgy 501 and 601, two required courses for students seeking their MDiv degrees. These courses cover the history of Christian worship and liturgy in both the wider Christian and more specifically Anglican traditions, as well as the particularities of our current Prayer Book and the manner in which it is to be celebrated. His doctoral studies are in systematic theology, with a focus in liturgics and liturgical theology, at Marquette University. Fr. Olver holds a BA in English Literature, Wheaton College, 2001, and MDiv from Duke University Divinity School, magna cum laude, 2005.

He was Assistant Rector for Liturgy and Adult Formation, Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, 2006-2013. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the US (ARCUSA), which recently published their latest agreed statement, “Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment.”

His recent publications include, “Documented Ecumenism: Why the Anglican Covenant is the Hope for Anglicanism and its Ecumenical Calling,” in Pro Communione: Theological Essays on the Anglican Covenant, ed. Benjamin M. Guyer, Pickwick Publications/Wipf and Stock, 2012 and a review of The Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church: A History by Joseph F. Kelly (Liturgical Press), “The Living Church”, June 17, 2012, pp 25-26. Fr. Olver contributed a lengthly submission to the Anglican Communion’s Covenant Design Group, November 2008 entitled, “The Ecumenical Burden of a Covenanted Future.”

Currently, Fr. Olver is working on a number of projects. One is a priest’s manual in the Dearmer tradition for the 1979 BCP that also offers historical background, supplemental digital materials and an extensive glossary to enable easy use of other older manuals, such as Ritual Notes. As of this writing, he is completing several articles: one on Satan in the New Testament and another on the liturgical theology of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI (which will be presented at Mundelein Seminary in Fall, 2014, at a conference entitled “The Nouvelle Theologie, Ressourcement, and Contemporary Theology”).

Further, he is working on a critical engagement with Louis-Marie Chauvet’s work on symbolic exchange and his analysis of Eucharistic Prayer II in the current Roman sacramentary.

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2014 Fiscal Year Giving Report

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he Office of Institutional Advancement is pleased to submit to you the 2014 Fiscal Year Giving Report. Over the next several pages you will find the names of individuals, churches, dioceses, and organizations who have supported Nashotah House financially over the last fiscal year (July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014). This year’s giving report demonstrates the diversity, depth and breadth of the House’s stakeholder groups as well as the high degree of faithful stewardship exercised by them.

There is no gift too small or sacrifice of resources too great. The mission of the House to provide the next generation of faithful priests and lay leaders to the Church has been made possible because of the generous response of these benefactors and the blessing of Almighty God. It is the deep desire of Nashotah House to duly acknowledge and celebrate these gifts.

Many of the House’s supporters will be familiar with the Nashotah House Prayer. One of the petitions made is, “Open, O Lord, the hearts and hands of thy people, that they may be ready to give and glad to distribute to our necessities. Bless the founders and benefactors of this House, and recompense them with the riches of thy everlasting kingdom, for Jesus’ sake. Amen.” The individuals, churches, dioceses, and organizations listed in this report are an answer to this petition. We here at the House continue to pray that our benefactors would be blessed by God as a result of their faithfulness and generosity.

On behalf of the students, faculty, staff, administration, and trustees of Nashotah House I say thank you.

The Rev. Noah Lawson, ’14 Director of Annual Giving Office of Institutional Advancement Nashotah House Theological Seminary

Constrained by the undying love of Christ to love the immortal souls of our fellow beings– let us be ready for the privilege, if it is ever conferred, to scatter the precious seed on every field–to erect the banner of the cross on every mountain. Bishop Jackson Kemper, 1841 As an heir of the Oxford Movement and inspired by Jackson Kemper, the First Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Nashotah House exists to form persons for ministry in the breadth of the Catholic Tradition, for the Episcopal Church, the wider Anglican Communion, and our Ecumenical Partners, thus continuing to serve our historic role as “The Mission”, empowering the Church for the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Jackson Kemper Annual Fund, the cornerstone of our annual fundraising and the springboard for expanding the

legacy entrusted to us. The dollars raised help us to support our budget and strengthen our programs. The Jackson Kemper Annual Fund allows Nashotah House to expand scholarship offerings, attract the best faculty, enhance our learning environment and improve campus life in a host of ways. The annual fund enables us to bridge the sizeable gap between tuition revenue and the actual operating expenses of the House. Gifts to the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund provide flexible and immediate use dollars, allowing us to respond to our needs and to pursue unexpected opportunities.

Parishes and Dioceses

Parishes contributing 1, 2 or 3 percent of their net operating budget annually to Nashotah House represent almost 50% of our annual gifts. These gifts are partnerships, given and received in a spirit of mutual encouragement and thanksgiving for one another.

Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Anonymous Diocese of Albany Diocese of Central Florida Diocese of Fredericton Diocese of Western Louisiana Dubose Scholarship Fund Episcopal Diocese of Arizona Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida Episcopal Diocese of Springfield Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa 32

Fresno, CA Greenwich, NY Orlando, FL Fredericton, NB Alexandria, LA Lake Charles, LA Phoenix, AZ Eau Claire, WI Appleton, WI Fort Worth, TX Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis, MN Raleigh, NC Fargo, ND South Bend, IN Philadelphia, PA Charleston, SC Sioux Falls, SD Parrish, FL Springfield, IL Nashville, TN Alexandria, LA Tulsa, OK

All Saints Ashmont All Saints Church All Saints Church All Saints’ Episcopal Church American Lutheran Church Anglican Church Of The Good Samaritan Ascension Episcopal Church Cathedral Church Of The Advent Christ Church Christ Church Christ Church Anglican Mission Christ Church I. U. Parish Christ Church Midland Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ the King Lutheran Church Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church

Gifts Received Fiscal Year 2014 (July 1-2013-June 30, 2014)

Boston, MA Winter Park, FL Woodbridge, VA Lakeland, FL De Smet, SD St. John’s, NL Portland, OR Birmingham, AL Warrenton, VA Bradenton, FL Lemoore, CA Worton, MD Midlnad, TX Greenwich, CT Accokeek, MD San Antonio, TX Deposit, NY Schenectady, NY Delavan, WI La Crosse, WI St. Joseph, LA De Soto, IL East Peoria, IL Benbrook, TX

Church of the Advent Church of the Cross Church Of The Holy Communion Church of the Holy Faith Endowment Church of the Redeemer Church of the Transfiguration Emmanuel Episcopal Church Emmanuel Episcopal Church Episcopal Church of the Ascension Episcopal Church of the Messiah Good Shepherd Anglican Church Grace Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Holy Comforter Episcopal Chapel Holy Cross Anglican Church Holy Innocents Episcopal Church Holy Trinity Parish Jesus the Good Shepherd Anglican Church Messiah Episcopal Church New Grace Church New Wine Anglican Mission Saint Matthew’s Parish St. Alban’s Episcopal Church St. Alban’s Episcopal Church St. Andrew’s Anglican Church St. Andrews Church St. Anne Episcopal Church St. Anne’s Episcopal Church St. Barnabas Parish Church St. Bride’s Episcopal Church St. Columba’s Church St. David of Wales Episcopal Church St. David’s Episcopal Church St. George’s Episcopal Church St. Gregory’s Church St. Helena’s Episcopal Church St. James Episcopal Church St. James’ Episcopal Church St. James’ Episcopal Church St. John the Evangelist Church St. John’s Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. John’s Episcopal Church of Florence St. Johns’ Episcopal Church St. Laurence Episcopal Church St. Luke’s Anglican Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Parish St. Martin’s Church St. Martin’s Episcopal Church St. Martin’s Episcopal Church St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church St. Michael’s Episcopal Church St. Michaels Anglican Church St. Olaf’s Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Anglican Church

Denver, CO Hopkins, MN Charleston, SC Santa Fe, NM Sarasota, FL Mountain Grove, MO Rapid City, SD Orlando, FL Pittsburgh, PA Winter Garden, FL Granbury, TX Pittsburgh, PA Sheboygan, WI Oxford, MA Menomonie, WI Old Saybrook, CT Lecompte, LA Brookfield, WI Como, MS Hillsdale, MI Henderson, NV Saint Paul, MN Fleming Island, FL Flint, MI Fort Motte, SC Spirit Lake, IA Kingstree, SC Lewis Center, OH Boca Grande, FL Crystal River, FL Morrison, IL Nassau, Paradise Island Chesapeake, VA Fresno, CA Denton, TX West Seneca, NY Nashville, TN Mansfield, TX Beaufort, SC Goose Creek, SC Fort Yates, ND Oskaloosa, IA Stockton, CA Savannah, GA Sturgis, MI Springfield, MO Fort Worth, TX Florence, SC Lancaster, OH Southlake, TX La Crescenta, CA Billings, MT Baton Rouge, LA Cypress Mill, TX Manchester, MO Arlington, TX Waupaca, WI Beaver Dam, WI Coleman, TX Howe, IN Monroeville, PA Houston, TX Richmond, VA Lakewood Ranch, FL Franklin, LA Abingdon, MD Salamanca, NY Bonita Springs, FL Burlington, NJ Amityville, NY Bloomington, IL Richmond, VA Charleston, SC Okauchee, WI Amherst, WI Visalia, CA

St. Paul’s Catholic Church St. Paul’s Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Ashippun St. Peter & St. Paul’s Women’s Club St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church St. Peter’s Anglican Church St. Peter’s Episcopal Church St. Peter’s Episcopal Church St. Philip’s Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church Fifth Avenue St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church The Anglican Cathedral of the Epiphany The Church of the Holy Nativity Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Truro Anglican Church

Genesee Depot, WI Mancos, CO Schenectady, NY Oconomowoc, WI Arlington, TX Arlington, TX Tallahassee, FL Columbia, TN Fort Atkinson, WI Coalinga, CA Horseshoe Bend, AR Hobart, IN Oak Ridge, TN Cincinnati, OH Billings, MT Sanford, NC Morris, IL New York, NY Alexandria, LA Columbia, SC Plano, TX Logansport, IN Oshkosh, WI Deridder, LA Platteville, WI Fairfax, VA

The spiritual rhythm of Nashotah House doesn’t just impact the students, it influences and changes the entire family. The whole family experiences the holiness of the place. At once we felt welcomed and this continued for our entire stay.

The Rev. Meghan Farr, ’13, Curate of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Gladstone, NJ

The Annual Fund Giving Societies The Annual Giving Societies represent extraordinary annual gifts, ranging from $10,000 - $100,000.

They include:

Society

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The Bishop Jackson Kemper Visionary Society The James Lloyd Breck Sustainers Society The John Henry Hobart, Jr. Pioneer Society The James DeKoven Discovery Society The William Henry Adams Explorer Society Anonymous CDR Frank E. Braden Church of the Redeemer Gay and Stanley Gaines Hamilton Roddis Foundation, Inc. Mr. Sam Head

$100,000+ $75,000 – $100,000 $50,000 - $75,000 $25,000 - $50,000 $10,000 - $25,000

Sarasota, FL Sarasota, FL Palm Beach, FL Madison, WI Columbia, SC

Mr. and Mrs. Terry J. Kohler Mrs. Mary B. Langenberg Mr. Ralph S. Major Mr. Albert O. Nicholas St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church Fifth Avenue

Sheboygan, WI Saint Louis, MO Sarasota, FL Chenequa, WI New York, NY

Dean’s Fellow Dean’s Fellows contribute between $5,000 - $10,000 annually, affirming that no other seminary better forms priests and lay leaders for service on the modern frontier than Nashotah House.

Anonymous The Rev. Henry E. Avent Mr. Eugene J. Cole Mr. Jeffrey W. Hayes Mr. Richard J. Mammana The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins Mr. David R. Pitts The Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon

Charleston, SC Stafford, VA Longwood, FL New Haven, CT Springfield, IL Baton Rouge, LA Nashotah, WI

Miss Lillian T. Savage Mr. Marvin C. Schuette Mr. Richard L. Schwaab Mr. A. G. Shilling Mr. James F. Sloan St. Laurence Episcopal Church St. Martin’s Episcopal Church The Honorable George H. Walker, III

Aliso Viejo, CA Wausau, WI Nashotah, WI Springfield, NJ Cape Coral, FL Southlake, TX Houston, TX Saint Louis, MO

Dean’s Executive Committee Those contributing between $2,500 - $5,000 become members of the Dean’s Executive Committee, joining others who have provided significant support for the work of the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund.

Anonymous The Rev. Francis B. Baltz The Rev. Sarah L. Bronos Cathedral Church Of The Advent The Rev. Philip J. Cunningham The Rev. Margaret W. Lee GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

Marietta, GA Orlando, FL Birmingham, AL Oconomowoc, WI Moline, IL

The Rev. Andrew C. Mead Mr. R. Nielsen Miss Phoebe M. Pettingell St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Mrs. Katharine L. Vogel

Narragansett, RI Madison, WI Providence, RI Cypress Mill, TX Kansas City, MO

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I have a sense that maybe Nashotah House, like the Irish in the Dark Ages, is called to hang on to certain things which other bits of the tradition have been thrown away.

House Commencement Address, May 18, 2006 N.T. Wright Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews Scotland

We will be knocked around, no doubt about it, both outside the Church and within it. But if you remained fastened to that shore, all will be well.

Know how important your ministries are, how much in God’s providence what you do matters, and that the God who has his hand on you is a God whose promises never fail.

The Rt. Rev. Anthony J. Burton, Rector of the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, TX and a sometime Bishop of Saskatchewan.

Dean’s Cabinet Donors who contribute between $1,000 - $2,500 are enrolled as members of the Dean’s Cabinet, reflecting their substantial commitment to the mission of the House.

All Saints’ Episcopal Church Anonymous The Rev. Canon William E. Blewett The Rt. Rev. Greg O. Brewer The Rev. Canon Robert J. Brown Dr. James Busby Christ Church Midland Christ Episcopal Church Christ the King Lutheran Church Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church The Rev. William Christian Church Of The Holy Communion Community Foundation Of The Great River Bend Mr. Philip L. Conover The Rev. Canon George F. Dettwiller The Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan The Rev. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan Emil Ewald Foundation, Inc. Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida The Very Rev. Gus L. Franklin Grace Episcopal Church Mr. Thomas A. Gresik The Rev. Benjamin D. Hankinson Hayssen Family Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Shelley E. Hendershot Henry C., Eva M., Robert H., & Jack J. Gillo Charitable Fund Mr. Richard H. Hinchcliff The Rev. Dr. Joseph I. Hunt Mr. Allan E. Iding The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker Mrs. Beverly P. Joutras Dr. Sarah H. Karlowicz The Rev. Canon Arthur K. D. Kephart The Rev. Canon Robert B. Koehler The Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence Lorraine Mulberger Foundation, Inc. The Rt. Rev. William H. Love The Rt. Rev. Edward H. MacBurney Mr. Charles K. Marshall Mr. David E. Mason Mr. A. Keith McDowell Mr. Donald W. Meinig The Rev. Dr. William C. Miller GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

Lakeland, FL Flower Mound, TX Orlando, FL Ripon, WI Charlestown, MA Midlnad, TX San Antonio, TX De Soto, IL Benbrook, TX Mount Pleasant, SC Charleston, SC Bettendorf, IA Sarasota, FL Nashville, TN Pittsburgh, PA Hagerstown, MD Oconomowoc, WI Parrish, FL Springfield, IL Sheboygan, WI Granger, IN Mt. Vernon, IL Sheboygan, WI Newark, DE Milwaukee, WI McLean, VA Wauwatosa, WI Fort Worth, TX Northfield, IL Macomb, IL Appleton, WI San Antonio, TX Charleston, SC Delafield, WI Greenwich, NY Bettendorf, IA Charleston, SC Northfield, IL Park Ridge, IL Syracuse, NY Olathe, KS

Mr. Robert S. Neale Mrs. Mary A. Neuses The Rev. Dennis R. Odekirk The Rt. Rev. Donald J. Parsons The Rev. Canon George E. Pence The Rev. Canon Gregg L. Riley The Very Rev. Fredrick A. Robinson Mr. Alexander K. Rogers The Rev. Zeke L. Rogers Mrs. Brenda W. Rotzoll Mr. Edward M. Simmons The Rev. Dr. Theodore F. Sirotko Dr. Jan D. Smith St. Alban’s Episcopal Church St. Anne’s Episcopal Church St. Bride’s Episcopal Church St. Columba’s Church St. David of Wales Episcopal Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church St. Peter’s Episcopal Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church Mrs. Pamela L. Storch The Very Rev. Richard A. Swan Mr. James F. Sweeney The Rev. Warren Tanghe Truro Anglican Church The Rev. Larry E. Valentine The Very Rev. Marshall J. Vang Virginia Crouse Charitable Trust Dr. David A. Williamson Mr. Randy Winn The Rev. Robert L. Woodbury The Rev. Arthur E. Woolley

Hollywood, FL Kohler, WI San Luis Obispo, CA Peoria, IL Edwardsville, IL Monroe, LA Sarasota, FL Ridgecrest, CA Arlington, TX Baraboo, WI Charleston, SC Whitehall, MI Pittsburgh, PA Spirit Lake, IA Morrison, IL Chesapeake, VA Fresno, CA Denton, TX Baton Rouge, LA Arlington, TX Burlington, NJ Abingdon, MD Arlington, TX Fort Atkinson, WI Morris, IL Washington, DC Decatur, IL Wilton, CA Baltimore, MD Fairfax, VA Saratoga Springs, NY Cleveland, OH Denton, TX Mount Vernon, IL Whitefish Bay, WI Lake Ridge, VA

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Nashotah House began as a place of vision and it remains a place of vision.

A century and a half ago, beginning a place to train mission priests out on the frontier must have seemed avant garde and even foolhardy. Today the House’s vision of forming men and women in traditional values, informed by the faith of the centuries before, equipped for modern ministry may seem equally foolhardy. True discipleship always confounds the expected.

Nashotah House continues to be a place of quiet devotion, sound scholarship and vibrant faith, a safe place for all in the Anglican Communion to explore and deepen vocation. It is, as it always has been, a gift to the Church.

The Rev. Anthony Clavier

Nashotah House Heritage Club Those giving between $500 – and $1,000 annually are enrolled as members of the Nashotah House Heritage Club, a dedicated group of men and women, lay and ordained, who make sizeable annual gifts to the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund.

All Saints Church Mr. David Anderson Anonymous The Rev. John F. Armstrong Ascension Episcopal Church Mr. Kevin J. Babb The Rev. Daniel L. Banner The Rev. Canon Matthew S. Borden Mrs. Nancy H. Boyle The Rev. Robert G. Browning Ms. Jane A. Burkett Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Church of the Holy Faith Endowment The Rev. Canon Frank H. Clark Mrs. Judith A. Cook Mrs. Margaret S. Dahlman The Rev. Dennis L. Day Mr. James M. Dixon Mrs. Lynn A. Douthitt The Rev. Henry L. Doyle The Rev. John R. Edwards Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina Mr. Daniel C. Ewing Mr. C. R. Foltz The Rev. Robert J. Gearhart Grace Episcopal Church The Rt. Rev. Richard F. Grein The Rev. James H. Hall Dr. John W. Hayden Ms. Lois E. Hill Holy Innocents Episcopal Church The Rev. Donald R. Hughes The Rev. Canon Charles B. King Mr. Kenneth W. Kuehn 38

Winter Park, FL Eureka, MO Nashotah, WI Portland, OR Edwardsville, IL Quincy, IL Ottawa, ON Arlington, VA Fort Myers, FL Panama City Beach, FL St. Joseph, LA La Crosse, WI Delavan, WI Accokeek, MD Santa Fe, NM Peoria, AZ Brownsville, WI Milwaukee, WI Fairhope, AL Mountain Brook, AL Tulsa, OK Faribault, MN La Mesa, CA Raleigh, NC Fort Wayne, IN Bonita Springs, FL Syracuse, NE Old Saybrook, CT New York, NY Hermitage, TN La Crosse, WI Peoria, IL Como, MS Boerne, TX Albany, NY Mequon, WI

Mr. Robert M. Kunes Dr. Bruce A. Larson Mr. Dennis J. Mahoney The Rev. Richard C. Martin Mr. John C. Metcalf The Rev. William H. Minnis The Rt. Rev. James W. Montgomery Ms. Nancy G. Morgan The Rev. J. R. Patston The Rev. Frederick C. Philputt The Rev. Warren C. Platt The Rt. Rev. Clarence C. Pope The Rev. Canon Phillip J. Rapp Mr. Thomas E. Rector The Rev. John W. Riegel The Rev. Christopher Rodriguez The Rev. H. Stewart Ross Saint Matthew’s Parish Mr. David L. Shanks The Rt. Rev. Dabney T. Smith Dr. Wallace H. Spaulding St. Alban’s Episcopal Church St. George’s Episcopal Church St. Gregory’s Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Anglican Church St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Ashippun The Rev. James L. Steele The Church of the Holy Nativity Dr. Ned A. Underwood The Rev. Susan G. Waldron Mr. Arthur J. Wedemeyer Mrs. Jane R. Will The Rev. Charleston D. Wilson

Gifts Received Fiscal Year 2014 (July 1-2013-June 30, 2014)

Charleston, SC Los Angeles, CA San Bernardino, CA Durham, NC Madison, WI Centennial, CO Chicago, IL Chevy Chase, MD Valparaiso, IN Dallas, TX New York, NY Baton Rouge, LA Clifton, VA Milwaukee, WI Bailey Island, ME Vero Beach, FL Everett, WA Fort Motte, SC Oconomowoc, WI Parrish, FL Arlington, VA Kingstree, SC Nashville, TN Mansfield, TX Manchester, MO Beaver Dam, WI Salamanca, NY Bonita Springs, FL Visalia, CA Oconomowoc, WI Morris, IL Plano, TX Warren, OH Hadley, NY Sun City, AZ Milwaukee, WI Sarasota, FL

Nashotah House Guardian’s Circle By their faithful watchfulness, those contributing $250 - $500 annually are enrolled in the Nashotah House Guardian’s Circle.

The Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman The Rt. Rev. James M. Adams Anonymous Mrs. Barbara Sperry Bearden Professor Richard S. Carnell The Rev. Canon Charles E. Cason Christ Episcopal Church Ms. Jacque A. Easter Mr. William P. Gagin Good Shepherd Anglican Church Grace Episcopal Church The Rev. Canon John H. Heidt Dr. Cynthia A. Hill The Rev. John M. Himes Mrs. Jane B. Hoffman Mr. John P. Holmes Holy Comforter Episcopal Chapel The Rev. Canon Richard A. Kallenberg Mr. Albert P. Keller The Rev. Canon Dr. Bruce E. LeBarron The Rev. Dr. James B. Lemler The Rev. Philip I. Livingston Mr. J. Carleton MacNeil Mr. William Moore The Rev. Carl E. Mosley The Rev. James D. Moyer The Ven. Dr. Calvin Myles The Rev. Herman Page Mrs. Kathy F. Powell The Rev. Robert G. Preston The Rev. Donne E. Puckle The Rev. William F. Radant Mr. Franklin Reinauer Mr. David R. Richard Mr. Gordon F. Robinson The Rev. M. Dow Sanderson Mr. Douglas A. Sarcia GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

Keller, TX La Crosse, WI Baton Rouge, LA New York, NY Oshkosh, WI Greenwich, CT Spencer, IA Kohler, WI Granbury, TX Pittsburgh, PA Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX Marshall, TX Barrington, IL Midland, TX Lecompte, LA Elkhart, IN Washington, UT Salina, KS Greenwich, CT Monterey, CA Zirconia, NC North Palm Beach, FL Ocean City, MD Orefield, PA El Paso, TX Topeka, KS Arlington, TX Hallandale Beach, FL Sierra Vista, AZ Manitowish Waters, WI New York, NY Melrose, MA Bloomfield, CT Charleston, SC Chester Springs, PA

Mr. Ryan M. Schwarz The Honorable Robert W. Scott The Rev. Deacon Marlyne J. Seymour Mr. Dwight R. Shackelford Mr. Gaylord G. Smith The Honorable Leslie C. Smith The Rt. Rev. Michael G. Smith Society of the Transfiguration St. John’s Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. Martin’s Church St. Martin’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Olaf’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Mr. Robert F. Strother Mr. John Thienes Trinity Episcopal Church Mr. David C. Underwood Ms. Linda Weaver Mr. Ralph A. Webb The Rev. Edwin C. Webster Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program The Rev. Stephen S.P. Wlosinski

Washington, DC Gibbstown, NJ Elkhorn, WI Sarasota, FL Shawnee Msn, KS Fairacres, NM Fargo, ND Cincinnati, OH Savannah, GA Sturgis, MI Monroeville, PA Richmond, VA Franklin, LA Amherst, WI Oak Ridge, TN Hobart, IN Cincinnati, OH Billings, MT Lewisville, TX Newberg, OR Logansport, IN Virginia Beach, VA La Crosse, WI Fairfax Station, VA Eros, LA Princeton, NJ Duluth, MN

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Our vision is to continue to do, impressively and strongly, what we’ve done for 170 years. Our call, regardless of those circumstances, is to raise up a strong priesthood for the church.

The Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr. Dean and President of Nashotah House

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When I stop and think about it, I am amazed by how Nashotah House continues to influence the Church with orthodox teaching. Students come to the House and the leave as priests grounded in the Catholic tradition of Anglicanism. They, in turn, teach the people in their congregations the Catholic faith, who then pass that faith along to their children.

The Rev. T.L. Holtzen, PhD, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Nashotah House

Additional Individual Gifts to the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund The Rev. Keith J. Acker The Rev. Canon Charles G. Ackerson The Rev. Frank G. Adams Mr. George M. Ahrens Mr. Comer Alden Mr. Maxwell Aley The Rev. Charles R. Allison Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Anonymous Mr. John R. C. Armstrong The Rev. Canon John G. B. Andrew The Rev. Robert O. Baker Mrs. Mary R. Ballinger II Dr. James E. Bardenwerper Ms. Virginia S. Barnard Dr. Craig L. Bartos Mr. James H. Bathurst The Rev. Dwayne R. Bauman The Rev. Lawrence D. Bausch Mrs. Judith A. Bay Benedictines of Christ the King The Rev. Gerald L. Bennett Mr. H.J. Bergami Mrs. Anna K. Bertsch Mr. Richard A. Best Ms. Collie Bettivia The Rev. Marjorie S. Bevans The Rev. James C. Biegler The Rev. Deacon Virginia L. Bird Ms. Judy Bland Mr. A. Hugo Blankingship Mr. Macon Boddy Mrs. Patsy Borie Mr. William Bowen The Rev. Thomas D. Bowers Mr. Harry L. Bowman Mrs. Alice M. Breaker Mrs. Mary A. Bridges Dr. Willis E. Brown Mr. Robert H. Brown Mrs. June M. Brown The Rev. Byron H. Brown The Rev. Dr. Allen W. Brown The Rev. Royce W. Brown The Rev. Samuel J. Browne GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

Alpine, CA Mastic Beach, NY Chestertown, MD Rosemount, PA New Braunfels, TX Paonia, CO Naples, FL Fresno, CA Washington, IL New York, NY Bradenton, FL St. Louis, MO Brookfield, WI Fort Myers, FL Onalaska, WI Woodbury, NJ Tunas, MO San Diego, CA Delafield, WI Chicago, IL Bradenton, FL Bedford, TX Melbourne, FL Washington, DC Two Rivers, WI Parkersburg, WV Westchester, IL Rapid City, SD McAllen, TX Fairfax, VA Henrietta, TX Baton Rouge, LA Lemoore, CA Morehead City, NC Clermont, FL Milwaukee, WI Morris, IL San Antonio, TX Thousand Oaks, CA Gary, IN Cape Coral, FL Casper, WY Lake Park, FL

Mr. Barney D. Bruce Mr. Douglas Buchanan Mr. David M. Bull The Rev. Norman C. Burke The Very Rev. Kevin C. Carroll The Rev. W. Michael Cassell The Rev. Charles Y. Chan Mr. Thomas C. Chester Christ Church I. U. Parish Church of the Transfiguration The Rev. Forrest B. Clark Ms. Maggie Clyma The Rev. Christopher G. Colby The Rev. Anson D. Cole Ms. Kristin Colligan Mr. John T. Conner Mr. David N. Corbin Mr. Harry A. Cotesworth The Rev. Robert P. Coval Mr. Duane E. Crabtree The Very Rev. William A. Crary Mr. John L. Crouse Miss Meredith Cunningham Dr. Enold H. Dahlquist Mr. Joseph L. Dalferes The Rev. Richard R. Daly Mr. Michael David COL James W. Davis Mr. Maclin P. Davis Mr. Richard H. Dean Mrs. Elizabeth K. Dean Mrs. Barbara A. DeArmey Mr. Stephen M. DeGolier Mrs. Virginia R. DeGolier Mr. Ronald J. Denman The Rev. Jay Denne The Venerable Shawn W. Denney Mr. Albert C. Dennler The Rev. William D. Dennler The Rev. Canon Dr. Robert F. DeWolfe Mr. Peter Dexter Jean M. Dibenedetto Ms. Janice Dickerson The Rev. Arthur C. Dilg Diocese of Fredericton

Salem, IL Bishop, CA Alva, FL Strawberry, AZ Wauwatosa, WI Delray Beach, FL Sisseton, SD Fort Myers, FL Worton, MD Mountain Grove, MO San Antonio, TX Pass Christian, MS Akron, OH Fairfax, VA Naples, FL Highlands Ranch, CO Bluffton, SC Ellwood City, PA Arlington, MA Grapevine, TX Sarasota, FL Oconomowoc, WI Chepachet, RI Baton Rouge, LA Chicago, IL Evanston, IL Fredericksburg, VA Nashville, TN Mequon, WI Mequon, WI Pewaukee, WI Rochelle, IL Madison, WI San Juan Capistrano, CA Sioux City, IA Springfield, IL Kingwood, TX Nashville, TN Tyler, TX Sidney, OH Baton Rouge, LA Lincoln, IL Indiana, PA Fredericton, NB

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Ms. Kathryn S. Dunlap ECW - St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church Mr. Dennis T. Edmon Mrs. Maria T. Ehrenberger Mr. Thomas W. Ehrmann The Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Eich The Rev. Charles D. Ellestad Mrs. Diane C. Ellis Mr. William Emanuelson Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire Mr. Kenneth Faulkner The Rev. W. Thomas Fitzgerald Mrs. Rosalind Fitzpatrick The Rt. Rev. Robert L. Fitzpatrick Mr. Thomas G. Flowers The Rev. Michael T. Flynn Ms. Lucille B. Foust Mr. Graydon C. Fox Mr. James R. Fox Mr. Harold L. Freeman The Rev. Jay S. Friberg Mr. Leonard H. Fuller The Rev. Dr. Reginald H. Fuller Miss Cecille R. Gallant Ms. Mary E. Gaul The Rev. Andrew R. Gentry Ms. Edra Lynn George The Honorable Stuart Gerson Mr. Perry Gervais The Rev. Dr. Irene M. Gifford-Cole Mrs. Eugenia K. Glasser Dr. J. Temple Goodman The Rev. Harrington M. Gordon The Rt. Rev. Francis C. Gray Mr. Justin A. Green Mr. Earl Greenberg Mrs. Jeannette B. Gregory Ms. Jennette Gregory Mr. William Gretz The Rev. Walter J. Griesmeyer The Rev. Gary A. Grindeland Mr. Daniel Gross Mrs. Mary D. Guill Mr. Douglas W. Haag The Rev. Gene M. Haddock The Rev. Kent L. Haley Mr. James G. Hallwas 44

Sarasota, FL Morris, IL Baton Rouge, LA Green Bay, WI Brookfield, WI Florence, AL Frankfort, KY Reno, NV Pewaukee, WI Eau Claire, WI Baraboo, WI Lakemont, GA Garden City, NY Honolulu, HI Nashotah, WI Camarillo, CA Fort Myers, FL White Pigeon, MI Richardson, TX Sarasota, FL Jacksonville, FL Corsicana, TX Fort Wayne, IN Concord, NH Asheville, NC Bedford, PA Washington, DC Johns Island, SC Qualicum Beach, BC Sarasota, FL Abingdon, VA Warwick, RI South Bend, IN Memphis, TN Middleton, WI Tavares, FL Tomahawk, WI Lake Bluff, IL Crete, IL Bayonne, NJ Solomons, MD Dresden, TN Hartland, WI Denison, TX Keizer, OR Antioch, IL

Mr. Eric D. Hamburg Mr. Donald L. Hamlin Mrs. Jeanette V. Hansen The Rev. Dr. Leander S. Harding COL Myron Harrington Mr. John W. Hart Mr. J. Michael Hartenstine Mr. Michael W. Hatch Mrs. Sally Hatfield Mr. John W. Hausmann The Rev. Walter W. Head Mr. Alan L. Heatherington The Rev. U. Dean Hekel The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson Mr. Jimmy Henry Mr. William L. Herrera The Rev. Gary D. Hill The Rev. John B. Hills The Rev. Dr. M. Fred Himmerich Mr. Wayne Hinds Dr. Edith J. Ho The Rev. Robert B. Hoekstra Dr. Barbara Holliman Mr. Winston Hollister Dr. Michael W. Howell Ms. Edith B. Howson Ms. Jean C. Huismann The Rt. Rev. Donald M. Hultstrand Mr. Lewis S. Huntley Mrs. Laura E. Hutton The Rev. Peter L. Ingeman Mr. Marcus A. Ingram Mr. Donald Ishler Mr. Peter K. Jackson The Rt. Rev. Russell E. Jacobus Mrs. Julianne P. James The Rev. Canon Richard K. Janke The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Jenson Jesus the Good Shepherd Anglican Church Mr. Jeremy T. Johnson Mrs. Gayle Johnson Mrs. Josephine G. Johnson Marylin Jones Dr. Dudley D. Jones The Rev. Canon James A. Kaestner The Rev. Marcus A. Kaiser Mr. David A. Kalvelage

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Baraboo, WI Essex Junction, VT Excelsior Springs, MO Catskill, NY Charleston, SC Cary, NC Sarasota, FL Milwaukee, WI Athens, GA Mequon, WI Shelbyville, KY Libertyville, IL Madison, WI Mt. Dora, FL Early, TX Dallas, TX Dallas, TX Grand Haven, MI Milwaukee, WI Turlock, CA Newton Center, MA Chippewa Falls, WI Florence, SC Nashotah, WI St Petersburg, FL Dallas, TX Huntley, IL Greenville, SC Newark, IL Bellingham, WA Valdosta, GA Palm Harbor, FL Houston, TX Sturgis, MI Appleton, WI Oconomowoc, WI Princeton, NJ Henderson, NV Galesburg, IL Shorewood, WI Frederick, IL Rapid City, SD Mansfield, TX Oconomowoc, WI Sumter, SC Pewaukee, WI

The phrase that keeps coming up when friends ask us about our first visit to Nashotah House is, ‘We knew it would be awesome, we just didn’t know it would be this awesome.’ We had heard from several reputable sources about the glories of the House, but it really is a place that has to be experienced firsthand. We were so impressed by its charm, hospitality, devotion to worship and scholarship, commitment to the service of the Church, that we knew right away it was the place for us.

Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Pollock, ’17, Dallas, TX

The Rev. Charles F. Keen Mr. Raymond R. Kemp The Rev. Christopher J. Keough Mrs. Marcia J. Kiefe Mrs. Marion T. Kincaid The Rev. Jacob Knee Mrs. Rosanne L. Knight Danielle Kohler Mr. Edmund E. Kopietz Mr. Charles J. Larson Mrs. Catherine De Launay Hazlett The Rev. Gary E. A. Lawler Mr. Philip W. Le Quesne The Rev. Robert E. Lebron Mr. C. Nicholas Lee The Rt. Rev. Edwin M. Leidel Mr. Oscar T. Leverenz The Rev. Dr. John Linebarger Miss Kerri J. Lintott Mr. Roy Llamas Ms. Jeannine Loncsar The Rev. Robert C. Lord Mr. Robert D. Love Mr. David Lovett The Rev. Melvin L. Low Mr. Frederick R. Luedke Mr. Robert D. Mac Ewen The Rev. Ross J. Mack Mrs. Helen E. Mackie Mr. Robert J. Madalon Mr. Raymond E. Malecek The Rev. Carl D. Mann Mr. Calvin J. Marquis Mr. Karl E. Marsh The Rt. Rev. Brian R. Marsh MAJ Donald R. Marshall The Rev. James E. Marshall Mr. James E. Masters Mrs. J. T. May The Rev. Donald B. McAlister Mrs. Donna J. McCarthy The Rev. Donald P. McConnell Ms. Helen O. McDowell Mr. Paul W. McKee Mrs. Helen E. McKinstry The Rev. William D. McLean Dr. Robert T. Mead Ms. Virginia M. Miller Mrs. Margaret R. Mills Dr. George E. Mims The Rev. Joseph A. Minnis The Rev. Dr. Melvin A. Miritz Mr. Ralph E. Modjeska The Rev. Canon Edward R. Monk Ms. Jane Monroe LTC M. Gardner Moody The Rev. Rodney A. Moore Mrs. Mary K. Moritz Mrs. Rosalee Morris Shirley B. Morse Mr. Walter H. Morton The Rev. Kell Morton The Rev. Michael D. Moyer The Rev. John H. Munson The Rev. Jason A. Murbarger Mr. William P. Murchison Mrs. Rose M. Murdock Mrs. Evelyn M. Napoli Mr. Umberto L. Napolitano The Rev. John A. Needham The Rev. James R. Neill Dr. Isaac R. Nettey New Grace Church Mrs. Barbara N. Nichols-Rubin Mr. Richard Niehuesen The Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer 46

Sunnyvale, TX Columbus, OH Hartland, WI Potomac Falls, VA Bloomington, MN Billings, MT Loveland, CO Minneapolis, MN Amherst, WI Long Beach, CA Morrison, IL Newton Center, MA Janesville, WI Longmont, CO Glendale, WI Fayetteville, AR Albuquerque, NM Milwaukee, WI Dallas, TX Milwaukee, WI Winter Park, FL New Berlin, WI Saint Marys, GA Plainfield, IN Hartland, WI Sheboygan Falls, WI Valparaiso, IN Haines City, FL Baraboo, WI Wood Dale, IL Spirit Lake, IA Sarasota, FL Suttons Bay, MI Belchertown, MA Dallas, TX Silvis, IL Dallas, TX Greensboro, AL Athens, GA Galesburg, IL Garland, TX Chevy Chase, MD Washington, DC Marble Falls, TX Sarasota, FL Burlington, NJ Fairway, KS Cold Spring, NY Mobile, AL Boulder Junction, WI Racine, WI Hartland, WI Corsicana, TX San Antonio, TX Leetsdale, PA Aurora, CO Brownsdale, MN Mishawaka, IN Brant Lake, NY New York, NY Pottstown, PA Berlin, MD Burkburnett, TX Vero Beach, FL Dallas, TX Logansport, IN Mobile, AL Oconomowoc, WI Houston, TX Seneca, SC Stow, OH Fleming Island, FL Prairie Village, KS Fond Du Lac, WI Baltimore, MD

The Rev. James D. Nilon The Rev. Stephen C. Norcross Ms. Virginia Northen-Cole The Rev. John A. O’Brien The Rev. Edward N. Oathout The Rev. John B. Pahls Mr. W. M. Parker Mrs. Margaret Parkinson Dr. Mary M. Parsons Dr. Rebecca J. Parsons Mr. Stephen Parsons Mr. Roger Van Patten Mrs. Maxine E. Peacock The Rev. Dr. Langdon Pegram Ms. Sue Ann Peterson The Rev. John M. Phelps The Rev. Canon Nelson W. Pinder Mr. John Pisarkiewicz Mr. Douglass J. Post The Rev. William V. Powell The Very Rev. Peter J. Powell Mrs. Dawn J. Preisler The Rev. Richard A. Pugliese Ms. Linda L. Pullins The Rev. George W. Pursley The Rev. James L. Ragsdale The Rev. John W. Raish Ms. Carolyn M. Rauschert (Rybak) The Rev. Fred L. Raybourn Mr. Richard A. Raymaker Mr. Seth Raymond The Rev. Craig A. Reed The Rev. Harold V. Reed Mr. James S. Reeve Mr. Idris G. Reid The Rev. Daniel S. Repp Mr. Richard C. Reul Mr. Omar Reyes Dr. Robert E. Rhea The Rev. Dr. William P. Rhett Mr. Charles M. Rice The Rev. Jeff R. Richardson Mr. David G. Risto Mr. C. Joseph Roberts Mrs. Betty Ann Roberts-Punko Mr. Robert A. Robinson Ms. Jordan C. Robinson The Rt. Rev. John H. Rodgers Ms. Suzy Ruhe The Rev. Canon Stephen H. Schaitberger SCHENCK SC Mr. Charles Schlegel Mrs. Mary L. Schmidt Mrs. Carol L. Schott The Rev. D. Robert Seay Mr. John F. Seeboth The Venerable Donald A. Seeks The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Seney Mr. Roger D. Senn The Rev. Christian Senyoni The Rev. Dr. Federico Serra-Lima Miss Ann Sewell Mr. Karl O. Sharp The Most Rev. Dr. Lawrence L. Shaver The Rev. Canon Timothy J. Shaw Mr. Edson P. Sheppard Dr. David G. Sherwood The Rt. Rev. Harry W. Shipps Ms. Margaret A. Shirley Ms. Karen J. Shoemaker Mr. Thomas L. Shriner Mr. James P. Siepmann The Rev. James M. Sigler Mr. John M. Simpson Mr. Stephen J. Sirotko Dr. William D. Smith

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Sarasota, FL Portland, OR Washington, DC Appleton, WI Colorado Springs, CO Little Rock, AR Bloomington, IL Park City, UT Seattle, WA Orford, NH Antioch, IL Waukesha, WI New Brighton, PA Farmersville, CA Arlington, TX Orlando, FL Fairhope, AL Bernardsville, NJ Stillwater, OK Chicago, IL Davis, CA West Glover, VT Altona, IL Lancaster, OH Aurora, CO Shreveport, LA Tomahawk, WI Bellevue, NE Nashotah, WI Whitefish Bay, WI Carrollton, TX Schenectady, NY Muskego, WI Fort Lauderdale, FL Middlebury, IN Delafield, WI S. Hamilton, MA Franklin, TN Charleston, SC Saint Louis, MO Kingstree, SC Lake Geneva, WI Monroe, LA Brookfield, WI Bristol, RI Mukwonago, WI Cranberry Twp, PA Oakland, CA Brainerd, MN Appleton, WI Sunbury, PA Aurora, CO Waukesha, WI Lindenhurst, IL Pewaukee, WI Reedley, CA Mancos, CO Milwaukee, WI Jamestown, ND Old Chatham, NY Mason City, IA Minneapolis, MN Valparaiso, IN Winter Haven, FL Lake Leelanau, MI Delafield, WI Savannah, GA Lunenburg, NS Denver, CO Milwaukee, WI Oconomowoc, WI Wimberley, TX Webster, NY Whitehall, MI Oconomowoc, WI

Maintaining a community formed by the concepts of ora et labora—prayer and work—and lex orandi, lex credenda, the law of prayer is the law of belief.

Nashotah House is truly a special

place, both for its valuable spiritual foundations and its supportive

community. I could not be more

pleased with the education and

formation that our seminarians

receive from the superb faculty and staff. It is my first choice

when recommending a place for a

comprehensive, traditional seminary education. It is also a refuge when I need time for my own spiritual reflection.

The Right Rev. Council Nedd II Presiding Bishop The Episcopal Missionary Church

The Venerable Edwin B. Smith Mrs. Lillian A. Spangenberg The Rev. Robert H. Speer St. David’s Episcopal Church St. James’ Episcopal Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. Johns’ Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Church St. Mark’s Episcopal Parish St. Paul’s Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Episcopal Church St. Peter & St. Paul’s Women’s Club St. Peter’s Episcopal Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Ms. Miriam K. Stauff Mrs. Ann Stephenson-Moe Mr. Charles A. Stewart Mr. Collis C. Stewart Mr. John C. Street Ms. Nancy S. Streufert Mrs. Laura P. Stucker Mr. Harwood N. Sturtevant Mr. Jerry K. Sutton Mr. Robert R. Swanson The Rev. R. L. Swope Mrs. Martha H. Taylor Ms. Phyllis M. Teets Mr. Benjamin L. Ten Eyck Mr. Richard C. Thalleen Mr. Francis R. Thompson The Rev. Edgar A. Thompson The Rev. James Thompson Mrs. Virginia L. Tisdall Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Mr. Charles A. Trost The Very Rev. Gene R. Tucker Mr. Charles W. Tuttle Ms. Shirley M. Tyler Mr. Tommy M. Valentine Mrs. Diane C. Valentine Mr. William Vincent Mrs. Theresa L. Viton Dr. John N. Vogel Ms. Lynn Waedekin Mr. Franklin E. Walbrink The Rev. Donald N. Warner Mr. Joseph E. Warren The Rev. Thomas Warren Mr. James R. Wartinbee Mr. Richard M. Watson Ms. Ann Webster A. Weisz COL James R. Wells Mrs. Ruth W. Wengrovius The Rev. William V. Wetzel Mr. Peter C. White The Rev. Elijah B. White The Rev. Konrad S. White The Rev. Ronald E. White Mr. Jeffrey P. Wieland The Rev. Francis E. Williams The Rev. Robert H. Williams Dr. Frederick Williford The Rev. H. David Wilson The Rev. David F. With Dr. James F. Witten Mr. Michael Wood Mr. W. Steven Woodward The Rev. Canon Benjamin R. Wright Mr. Rowe C. Zehms The Rev. Canon C. William Ziegenfuss Mr. Donald S. Zuber Mrs. Martha A. Zuelke GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

Oshkosh, WI Stevens Point, WI Baltimore, MD West Seneca, NY Oskaloosa, IA Springfield, MO Lancaster, OH Waupaca, WI Coleman, TX Howe, IN Schenectady, NY Mancos, CO Arlington, TX Columbia, TN Horseshoe Bend, AR Wauwatosa, WI Sarasota, FL Watertown, NY Williams Bay, WI Madison, WI Eureka, CA Baton Rouge, LA Springfield, MO Richardson, TX Naples, FL Trinidad, CO Sarasota, FL Milwaukee, WI St. Helena, SC Jacksonville, FL Des Moines, IA Pahrump, NV Midlothian, VA Fort Myers, FL Oshkosh, WI Deridder, LA Nashville, TN Mt. Vernon, IL Colusa, CA North Fort Myers, FL Suamico, WI Emporia, KS Macomb, IL Oswego, IL Menomonee Falls, WI Delafield, WI Minneapolis, MN Littleton, CO Chicago, IL Kinston, NC Waukesha, WI Georgetown, OH Bethesda, MD Gladstone, NJ Boynton Beach, FL Golden, CO Portland, OR Bellingham, WA Leesburg, VA Savannah, GA Fort Worth, TX Edwardsville, IL Las Cruces, NM West Plains, MO Saint Simons Island, GA Franklin, TN Lake Quivira, KS Corsicana, TX Whitestone, NY Chester Springs, PA Beaver, PA Cedar Rapids, IA New Orleans, LA Baton Rouge, LA Port Vincent, LA

Adams Hall Dr. Garwood Anderson Anonymous The Rev. Mark Evans Mr. Eugene Evans Mr. G. Thomas Graves The Rev. Thomas Holtzen The Rev. Canon Robert Koehler The Rt. Rev. Donald Parsons The Rev. Dr. Steven Peay The Rt. Rev. Edward Salmon Mr. Richard Schwaab The Rev. Daniel Westberg

Oconomowoc, WI Lincoln, IL Clear Lake, IA Dallas, TX Delafield, WI San Antonio, TX Peoria, IL Wauwatosa, WI Nashotah, WI Nashotah, WI Nashotah, WI

Bequests The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Comfort Gordon G. Gaul The Rev. Deacon Mary-Frances Jones The Rev. and Mrs. Mitchell M. Keppler Sr. The Rev. John B. Pahls Jr. STM The Rev. H. Stewart Ross Dr. John M. Schroeder The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Whipple

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Bishop Parsons Scholarship Fund The Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman Mr. George A. Adams Ms. Margaret P. Albert All Saints Ashmont All Saints Church American Lutheran Church Anglican Church Of The Good Samaritan Anonymous Auto Tag of America, Inc Mr. Albert H. Bachman Mr. Daniel Bachman Ms. Kathryn J. Ballard Mr. Harry Belin COL Robert S. Bell Mr. Donald L. Bengtson Ms. Cynthia K. Black Mrs. Shirley J. Bowen Mr. William Bowen Mr. E. Clark Bowerman Mr. Timothy Bowers The Rev. David A. Brown The Rev. Canon Charles E. Cason Mrs. Lydia M. Castaneda Mrs. Georgina Castro-Freitas Christ Church Christ Church Christ Church Anglican Mission Christ Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church 50

Keller, TX Toccoa, GA Slidell, LA Boston, MA Woodbridge, VA De Smet, SD St. John’s, NL Bradenton, FL Southampton, PA Levittown, PA Los Angeles, CA Potomac, MD Myrtle Beach, SC Lemoore, CA Racine, WI Lemoore, CA Lemoore, CA Dousman, WI Hanford, CA Woodlake, CA Oshkosh, WI Woodlake, CA Lemoore, CA Warrenton, VA Bradenton, FL Lemoore, CA Schenectady, NY Deposit, NY East Peoria, IL

Ms. Sharleen D. Christian Church of the Advent Church of the Cross Church of the Redeemer Ms. Christine Copeland Ms. Jennie A. Czahor Mr. F. Corby Dale Mr. Kevin Daley Mrs. Tracy Dallen Ms. Claire Danell Daughters of the King Mr. Mark Dawson The Rev. C. Larry Day Ms. Melanie Delaney Mr. Lionel Delaware Mr. Edward Dias The Rev. Karl Dietze Diocese of Albany Diocese of Central Florida Diocese of Western Louisiana Mr. Kinloch F. Dunlap ECW - Diocese of Albany Emmanuel Episcopal Church Emmanuel Episcopal Church Ms. Connie L. Emrich Episcopal Church of the Ascension Episcopal Church of the Messiah Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Episcopal Diocese of Arizona Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire

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Dartmouth, MA Denver, CO Hopkins, MN Sarasota, FL Myrtle Beach, SC Gurnee, IL Lemoore, CA New York, NY Delafield, WI Hanford, CA Nashotah, WI Odessa, TX Montrose, CO Nashotah, WI Lemoore, CA Westport, MA Bakersfield, CA Greenwich, NY Orlando, FL Alexandria, LA Toccoa, GA Greenwich, NY Rapid City, SD Orlando, FL Marietta, GA Pittsburgh, PA Winter Garden, FL Ruston, LA Phoenix, AZ Eau Claire, WI

We have known the seminarian whom we helped to support for many years. His father was a priest, and it was a blessing to be able to give to him from our resources. Nashotah House turns out fine priests and we think so highly of the education they receive.

Mr. and Mrs. Corby and Betty Dale Founding members of Christ Church, Lemoore, CA, and friends of the House.

Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida Episcopal Diocese of Springfield Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana Mr. Jacob J. Evans Fred & Don Giacomazzi Farms Fred Davis Memorial Foundation Ms. Karen D. Frey Dubose Scholarship Fund George Mercer, Jr. Memorial School of Theology Mr. Nicola S. Gigliotti Mr. Danny D. Gilmore Ms. Janice Glasser The Rev. Austin L. Goggans Jesus the Good Shepherd Anglican Church Mrs. Eleanor H. Gorin Grace Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church North Dakota Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star Grand Chapter of Missouri Order of the Eastern Star Ms. Rachael A. Gregory

Appleton, WI Fort Worth, TX Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis, MN Fargo, ND South Bend, IN Philadelphia, PA Charleston, SC Sioux Falls, SD Parrish, FL Springfield, IL Nashville, TN Alexandria, LA Ballston Lake, NY Hanford, CA Miami, FL Corcoran, CA Lake Charles, LA Garden City, NY Bradenton, FL Hanford, CA Durham, NC Rome, GA Henderson, NV Louisville, KY Oxford, MA Menomonie, WI Northwood, ND Columbia, MO Waukegan, IL

Mr. Donald J. Griffin Ms. Julie K. Griffiths Mr. Clay S. Groefsema Mrs. Mary D. Guill Mr. Randy S. Hammon Ms. Edith Hart Harold A. Hay Mr. Donald J. Hendrickson Mr. Michael Henry Joseph E. Hiler Mr. David M. Hilgeman Ms. Judy K. Hill Ms. Barbara W. Holladay Ms. Bonnie Holsonbake Holy Cross Anglican Church Holy Trinity Parish Ms. Clair Hough Jackson Kemper Foundation Mr. Joe N. Jarrett Mr. David T. Jeanson The Rev. Paul F. Jefferies Mr. Edward Johnson Mr. Matthew Jordan Dr. Sarah H. Karlowicz Mr. Matthew B. Kemp Erik and Kristie Hansen Family Trust The Rev. Dr. Lewis C. Lane Mr. Daniel Lemieux The Venerable Frances G. Levy Mr. Sidney O. Lionberger The Rev. Philip I. Livingston Lorraine Mulberger Foundation, Inc. Ms. Diane B. Loseth Mr. Jim Maciel Ms. Tamra Mack Mr. Mike MacMillan Mr. Montelle Mansfield Ms. Carol Marshall Ms. Adriane D. Martin Ms. Ann Martin Ms. Gloria McDonell Mr. Michael Mcfarland Mr. Albert Meisenbach Messiah Episcopal Church Mr. David Mitchell The Rev. William M. Murphy New Wine Anglican Mission Dr. Robert E. Nordberg Michael Oldham Mr. David Oliver Mr. Jesse Palmer The Rt. Rev. Donald J. Parsons Mr. David A. Patton Mr. Dennis Pedersen Mr. James C. Peelgren Ms. Sue Ann Peterson Mr. Michael Pipkin Mr. Denis Possing Mr. Virgil Powell Mr. James R. Prosser Mr. Edward C. Radzik Mr. Robert T. Radzik The Rev. Dr. Roger W. Raskopf The Rev. Jack W. Reeves Mr. James E. Reiff The Rev. Harry A. Reis Mr. Timothy L. Revious The Rev. Charlotte D. Rhodes Mr. David A. Ridgeway Mr. Michael S. Robinson Ms. Alberta Rodriguez Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa Ms. Suzy Ruhe Ryan Foundation Mr. Randal Savaglio Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara 52

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Mr. Steven B. Schoonderwoerd The Rev. Thomas R. Schulze Ms. Beverly Scott Ms. Dolores B. Seidel Collin G. Setterberg Mr. Dwight R. Shackelford Mr. Henry B. Shirley Ms. Amy Shroff Ms. Catherine R. Siegel Mr. Robert Sippel Mr. Frank Sloan DCW of S. Carolina Periodical Club St. Andrew’s Anglican Church St. Anne Episcopal Church St. Barnabas Parish Church St. Helena’s Episcopal Church St. James Episcopal Church St. James’ Episcopal Church St. John the Evangelist Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. John’s Episcopal Church St. John’s Episcopal Church of Florence St. John’s Lutheran Church, Women St. Luke’s Anglican Church St. Luke’s Episcopal Church St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Mary’s Episcopal Church St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church St. Michael’s Episcopal Church St. Michaels Anglican Church St. Paul’s by-the-Lake Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Catholic Church St. Peter’s Anglican Church St. Peter’s Episcopal Church St. Peter’s Episcopal Church St. Philip’s Church St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Mr. Doug Stebbins Steven Paul Designs, LLC Sunshine State Tag Agency The Rev. Warren Tanghe Mr. A. Glenn Terhune The Anglican Cathedral of the Epiphany The Anglican Foundation of Stockton The Domestic & Foreign Missionary SocietyEpiscopal Church The Society for the Increase of the Ministry Mr. Robert U. Thomason The Rev. Edgar A. Thompson The Rev. Marcia A. Tremmel Trinity Church ECW Trinity Episcopal Church Mr. Jeff Valek The Rev. Lance S. Wallace Ms. Elizabeth T. Walsh The Rt. Rev. William C. Wantland The Rev. Dr. Joseph B. Webb Mr. Loy C. Wedderburn Ms. Leona Whidholm Mr. Michael J. Williams The Rev. Jane Williams Mrs. Theresa J. Wilson The Rev. H. David Wilson Mr. David R. Wlaschin Mr. Bill Woolley Ms. Lois Wynne Mr. Tom A. Zentz CPT Harry J. Zinser Mr. Peter Ziss

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Ordinations The Rev. John Frederick David Armstrong, ’15 Ordained to the diaconate May 31, 2014, the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle, Peoria, IL, by the Rt. Rev. William H. Ilgenfritz, Diocese of All Saints.

The Rev. Robert O. Baker, ’14 Ordained to the diaconate June 29, 2014, Christ Episcopal Church, Bradenton, FL, by the Rt. Rev. Dabney Smith, Diocese of Southwest Florida.

The Rev. Cynthia Bisser, ’14 Ordained to the priesthood, June 22, 2014, Immanuel Lutheran Church of Flatville, Thomasboro, IL, by Bishop John Bradosky, North American Lutheran Church.

The Rev. Rick Hartley Ordained to the priesthood March 25, 2014, the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, Nashotah House Theological Seminary by the Most Rev. Robert Duncan, Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.

The Rev. Lisa J. Hinkle, ’14 Ordained to the diaconate May 24, 2014, Cathedral Church of St.Luke, Orlando, by the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.

The Rev. Benjamin Hankinson, ’14 Ordained to the priesthood August 1, 2014, Trinity Episcopal Church, Mt. Vernon, IL, by the Rt. Rev. Daniel L. Martins, Bishop of Springfield.

The Rev. Benjamin P. Jeffries, ’14 Ordained to the diaconate March 26, 2014, St. Michael’s Anglican Church, Nashotah, WI, by the Most Rev. Robert Duncan, Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.

The Rev. Gabriel Morrow, ’14 Ordained to the diaconate May 31, 2014, the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, NY, by the Rt. Rev. William Love, Diocese of Albany. Dcn. Morrow serves as Curate to St. Peter’s Cathedral, Helena, MT. The Rev. William Matthews, ’14 Ordained to the diaconate May 24, 2014, Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Orlando, by the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.

The Rev. Nanette Mueller, ’13 GIVE.NASHOTAH.EDU

Ordained April 4, 2014, as Hispanic Mission Priest at Resurrection Anglican Church on the Gulf, Long Beach, MS, by the Most Rev. Russell McClanahan.

The Rev. Tanya Scheff, ’14 Ordained to the diaconate May 24, 2014, Cathedral Church of St.Luke, Orlando, by the Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. Dcn. Scheff serves as deacon-incharge Trinity Episcopal Church, Michigan City, IN. The Rev. Robert Nelson Smith, ’09 Named by the St. Francis Community Services, Salina, KS, July 7, 2014, as the child and family services provider’s sixth President and CEO. Ordained to the priesthood in 2011, for the last three years, he has served as associate rector to four churches that form the LaSalle County, IL Episcopal Ministry within the Diocese of Chicago.

The Rev. Charleston D. Wilson, ’13 Joined The Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota, FL, as Priest Associate, Evangelism and Outreach, May 10, 2014.

NOTIFICATION OF DEATH The Rev. Alan Arnold, ’79, passed away May 2, 2014.

The Rev. David Squire Belding, Sr., ’81, passed away April 16, 2014.

The Rev. Keith Roderick, ’86, passed away March 11, 2014.

Editors’ Notes The editors apologize for the misprint of the final paragraph of the article entitled, “James Lloyd Breck: A Life of Mission Beyond Nashotah,” found on p. 15 of The Missioner, Pentecost 2014 issue, Vol. 30, No. 4. This paragraph is incorrect. The article’s final paragraph is found immediately preceding. We apologize for the confusion.

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