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In keeping with our theme this edition of Ephesians 4:11-12, our cover invokes an image of Nashotah House’s mission: to raise up faithful servants for service to the church.

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We received a note from the Rev. Francis B. Baltz, ’69, regarding page 30 of our Pentecost issue.

The faculty photo that was included with the In Memoriam article on the Rt. Rev. Arthur Vogel stated it was taken “around 1963.” Fr. Baltz’s email stated in part, “I have seen that photo before and am certain that it was taken while I was a student there between 1966 to 196. Fr. Cross (first man on right of first row) retired when my class graduated in May, 1969. No other faculty members arrived or left during that remarkably stable period of my formation.”

Thank you, Fr. Baltz, for your email and this has been noted in our photo archives.

If you have a comment, reflection or article idea we’d love to hear from you! Please visit us at http://www.nashotah.edu/news and select The Missioner to send us an email update.

The Rev. Andrew Hanyzewski, ’09 Mrs. Jeneen Floyd Associate Editors

MEN AND THE CHURCH: IS THERE A FUTURE?

November 2 - 3, 2012

A conference for clergy, pastors, emerging denominational leaders and individuals who are passionate about men’s ministry in their local church CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday, November 2 4:00pm Registration Opens 6:00pm Steak dinner

This dynamic conference will explore in depth the critical church issue widely referred to as the “missing man” and the impact this decades-long crisis is having on the life of the local church.

Participants will:

7:00pm - 9:00pm Sessions

Gain an understanding of the impact of the “missing man” and the challenge it poses.

Saturday, November 3

Receive clear insight into masculine spirituality.

7:30am Pancake breakfast 8:00am - 12:00pm Sessions 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm - 4:00pm Sessions Nashotah House is pleased to welcome presenters:

From the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida

Learn how to lead the Christian spiritual formation process for men.

Come away with a model and strategy for ministry to men that will work in your church.

Take away practical insights, examples, and implementable programming for your church.

Mr. Jay Crouse

the Rev. Gary Wilde, ’06

After working in the private sector for twenty-five years and in men’s ministry in his own parish, Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota since 1988, Mr. Jay Crouse accepted a call by the Bishop to a full-time men’s ministry position with the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida in September 1999. The vision for this intentional ministry, Episcopal Men’s Ministries (EMM), has been to reach and draw men back into the life of the seventyeight Episcopal Churches in the diocese. This is the first such initiative in any Episcopal diocese in the country.

In 2004, through the leadership of the Bishop, EMM reached beyond the Episcopal denomination and developed and led Equipping The 70 (Luke 10:1). Through the leadership of an ecumenical team over 125 men were graduated from this program and are discipling new men of faith in the region.

Since stepping down as EMM Director in May 2011, Mr. Crouse continues to serve in ministry as a Men’s Ministry Specialist focusing on several strategic projects. He has authored a book to be published in the fall of 2012 entitled, Men and the Church: Is there a Future?

The Rev. Gary Wilde, ’06, has been involved in starting men’s small groups and leading teams for retreat planning for many years. Before entering the Episcopal priesthood in 2006, he was a Methodist minister, a part-time philosophy teacher and served as a staff editor at Cook Communications during the 1980s.

For several decades he continued as editor of David C. Cook’s devotional magazine, The Quiet Hour and Standard Publishing’s devotional magazine, Devotions. As a freelancer, Fr. Wilde spent fifteen years writing, collaborating, and editing books and articles on contract for Christian publishers. Along with serving as senior copy editor for Christianity Today’s Leadership Handbooks of Practical Theology, he is the creator of ChariotVictor’s Encouragers series for men and author-compiler of the Promises to Treasure series for Broadman & Holman.

For more information and to register, please visit www.nashotah.edu.

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A Benedictine Foundation By the Very Rev. Kevin Carroll, ’03

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

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

Listening for God’s Call By the Rev. Steven A. Peay, PhD

Parishes Participate in Expanded Partnership Program: “It’s Easy As 1-2-3!”

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PARTNERS IN MISSION: HISTORIC SEmINARIES ENTER MUTUAL COVENANT

The Right Reverend Edward L. Salmon, Jr., nineteenth Dean and President,

together with the trustees, faculty and student body

cordially invite you to

St. Stephen’s House, Oxford Strengthening The Bonds of Affection A Covenant For Mutual Ministry Nashotah House and St. Stephen’s House will officially enter a formal partnership, working jointly to expand our common heritage as we share the mission of raising up a faithful priesthood for the Church. Unique among seminaries, Nashotah House and St. Stephen’s House share a common history rooted in the Catholic Revival of the nineteenth century and will work together to preserve and expand the legacy entrusted to us.

October 4, 2012 St. Stephen’s House, Oxford 16 Marston Street Oxford, UK RSVP at Give .nashotah.edu

honorary degree for his ten years of service as Dean. A light moment came with the merrymaking surrounding the annual Alumni-Seminarian touch football game; then Evensong and a reception in the Refectory. The evening concluded with a public lecture by Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, who delivered a paper describing his twentyfive years of work on medical ethics.

Dean of Nashotah House Theological Seminary

Thursday was graduation day. An Alumni Requiem Mass was offered at 7:30 AM in the Red Chapel and Commencement took place at St. Jerome Catholic Church at 10:00 AM. Dr. Hauerwas, at the request of the senior class, was the preacher. The 167th graduating class was duly commissioned for ministry or, in some cases, further academic work. “I am excited to graduate and sad to leave this blessed place,” were the words of one seminarian. Honorary degrees were awarded to the Right Reverend Azad Marshall, the Reverend Richard Cornish Martin, the Very Reverend Canon Robert S. Munday and Mr. Mark F. Dwyer.

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On Thursday afternoon, all the committees of the Board of Trustees met in plenary session to receive a nine-month report on the state of the House from me, Mr. Dick Schwaab, Mr. Charleston Wilson, Dean Garwood Anderson and Fr. Steven Peay. Thursday afternoon concluded with Solemn Evensong where I had the opportunity to preach to the graduates and the community.

The Right Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr.

ith the arrival of our incoming class and the official start of the Michaelmas term last week, I began looking to the future actually by reflecting upon our recent past, particularly back to the events surrounding the close of the Easter term. As one term ends and leads to another new one, it is helpful for me to look back before looking completely forward. This is how we get a sense of where we truly are going and what it will look like when we arrive. What follows, then, is my own way of looking forward by looking back.

I recall that Memorial Day weekend came on the heels of Commencement Week at the House in May. After the departing class and our guests left on Friday, I found myself reflecting during a quiet moment of thanksgiving on the banks of Upper Nashotah Lake. This break from the hustle and bustle provided an opportunity for me to give renewed thanks to God for the many souls who have made it possible for us to have this precious land for our heritage. It was the appropriate setting to reflect about all that had happened at the House over the last few days and months.

On Wednesday, there had been the Alumni Mass in St. Mary’s Chapel. Then the delicious luncheon at the Golden Mast, followed by an address given by Fr. Robert Munday, to whom the House awarded an

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On Friday morning, the Board met and took the following actions: 1. Elected the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins as Chairman; re-elected the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman as Vice Chairman; elected the Rev. Canon R. Brien Koehler as Secretary, and; re-elected Mr. Dick Schwaab as Treasurer.

2. Elected to the Board, the Rev. Edward T. Kelaher and Mr. Idris G. Reid, and; re-elected to the Board, the Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan, the Rev. Canon R. Brien Koehler, and the Rev. Ralph T. Walker.

3. Tenure was awarded to Dr. Garwood P. Anderson and the Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Holtzen.

Dean Anderson remarked in our discussion that the morale of the faculty has never been higher. The same is true for the student body. At the end of the meeting, the Board charged me to implement the requests of the Association of Theological Schools in relationship to our accreditation: 1. Long-range planning concerning each constituency, measuring academic goals, and; 2. Serious financial development to assure the longterm viability of Nashotah House.

A progress report will be given at the Board meeting in October. We began serious development and seminary advancement with the hiring of Mr. Charleston Wilson, in January to oversee that department. As a result, we have a new web page, dozens of initiatives are underway and our list of contacts, half of which were out of date, has been completely corrected. We are reaching more people than ever before, sharing with them our exciting work of changing the world one priest at a time.

The Jackson Kemper Annual Fund was announced

“...we have the opportunity to make a seismic difference by building upon the deep foundation begun by Bishop Kemper, James Lloyd Breck and other pioneers who, 170 years ago this month, sat down on these very same shores and looked back in order to look forward...”

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over the summer as the cornerstone of our annual fundraising and the springboard for expanding the legacy entrusted to us. In 1842, Bishop Jackson Kemper said, “Can we not then as individuals, and especially as parishes however poor, do more for the cause of Christ and his church than we have ever done before?” The Jackson Kemper Annual Fund enables us to continue this legacy by empowering the ministry of the House to raise up priests by closing the sizeable gap between tuition revenue and operating expenses.

Taking the opportunity to look back in order to look forward reminds us that in the uncertain times before us, we have the opportunity to make a seismic difference by building upon the deep foundation begun by Bishop Kemper, James Lloyd Breck and other pioneers who, 170 years ago this month, sat down on these very same shores and looked back in order to look forward: and look at what they did!

I ask you, therefore, to join me in looking back – not in nostalgia – but in giving thanks for the past so that we may move boldly into the future.

Yours in Christ,

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FACULTY Announcements

RETIREMENT

Dr. Garwood P. Anderson Professor of New Testament and Greek Director of Distance Learning Programs The Rev. Thomas L. Holtzen, ’03 Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology Director of STM Program

Garwood Anderson, PhD and the Rev. Thomas Holtzen, PhD were granted tenure and promoted to full professor by the Board of Trustees at their meeting in May. The Board took its action with the view that tenure speaks to the desire to have the right people with the right talents as part of the long-term life of a school. Fr. Holtzen and Dr. Anderson are certainly the sort of professors Nashotah House wants to have as part of the excellent formation team it has assembled.

The Rev. Daniel A. Westberg Professor of Ethics and Moral Theology

The Rev. Daniel Westberg, DPhil conceived the “Justification in Anglican Life and Thought” conference, which was then brought to execution under the expert guidance of Garwood Anderson, PhD and Mr. Tony Bleything. In April, Nashotah House faculty members Frs. Westberg, Holtzen, Peay and Dr. Anderson, joined world-renowned scholars the Rev. Ephraim Radner, PhD, the Rt. Rev. C. FitzSimmons Allison, PhD, and David Steinmetz, ThD, in presenting papers for the conference.

Fr. Westberg is now working on editing the papers – including those from the October, 2011 portion of the conference – for publication.

The Rev. Canon J. Douglas McGlynn Professor of Homiletics

The Rev. Canon J. Douglas McGlynn announced his retirement, effective July 31. Fr. McGlynn served the faculty for nine years in the concentrations of Pastoral Ministry and Homiletics. He also functioned as Director of Field Education, Academic Dean and Seminary Sub-Dean during his tenure. Fr. McGlynn will long be remembered as a dynamic, practical and popular professor. He and his wife Ana now reside in Springfield, Missouri where Fr. McGlynn has taken the rectorship of a new parish.

New appointment

The Rev. Steven A. Peay Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Associate Professor of Homiletics and Church History

The Rev. Steven Peay, PhD has taken on appointment as Associate Professor of Homiletics and Church History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He is replacing Dr. Garwood Anderson who, after a productive three-year tenure as Academic Dean, will be devoting more time to teaching, research and directing the Hybrid Distance Program. Fr. Peay served as Academic Dean and also taught Homiletics at Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA, so the new duties are actually rather familiar to him. He has taken the WWII saying “Keep Calm and Carry On” as the motto for his tenure, combined with the Latin phrase “Floreat Nashotah” – Let Nashotah Flourish!

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The Rev. Calvin Lane, ’11 Affiliate Professor of Church History

The Rev. Thomas Buchan Associate Professor of Church History

Mr. Travis Bott Adjunct Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew

The Rev. Calvin Lane has been given the status of Affiliate Professor of Church History. Fr. Lane, a recent graduate of the House, is priest-in-charge of St. Mary’s Parish, Franklin, LA and teaches in the Hybrid Distance Program.

Fr. Lane is a fine scholar and outstanding teacher and Nashotah House is pleased to welcome him to this special status with the faculty.

The Rev. Thomas Buchan joined the faculty as Associate Professor of Church History, taking up the courses previously taught by Fr. Peay.

Fr. Buchan has been affiliated with Nashotah House through his teaching in the Hybrid Distance Program and comes to us with proven experience as a scholar and teacher. A priest of the Diocese of Central Florida, Fr. Buchan will be a welcome addition to the faculty.

Nashotah House is pleased to welcome Mr. Travis Bott as resident Adjunct Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew.

Mr. Bott completed his undergraduate work at Multnomah University, an MA in Semitic studies at UW-Madison, and an MTS degree at Duke. He is a candidate for the PhD at Emory University, scheduled to defend his dissertation sometime this autumn. Mr. Bott comes highly recommended. We welcome him, his wife, Jill, and their two young sons to the Nashotah community.

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he 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church was held July 5 – 12 in Indianapolis, Indiana. General Convention, held every three years, is a gathering of representatives from each diocese under the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies whose purpose is to conduct the business of the Episcopal Church on a national level. In attendance representing the House were the Rt. Rev. Edward Salmon, Jr., Dean and President, the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, ’89, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, Mr. Charleston Wilson, ’13, on behalf of the Office of Development and Church Relations, and rising senior seminarians Mr. Jason Murbarger, ’13, and Ms. Jane Burkett, ’13. In celebration of MICHAELMAS 2012

170 years of training priests and lay leaders for service in the Episcopal Church, Nashotah House was pleased to sponsor the General Convention issue of The Living Church as well as their daily Convention publications which were distributed to all attendees. Also in thanksgiving for 170 years of service to the Church, Nashotah House hosted a dinner for friends of the House attending General Convention on the evening of July 10. “It is no small occasion to celebrate the 170th anniversary of any organization,” said Charleston Wilson, “so when you consider that we have been raising up faithful priests and lay leaders for service in the Episcopal Church for almost two hundred years, it is only natural we celebrate this milestone with our brothers and sisters at Convention.”

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Mr. Charleston David Wilson, ’13

The Office of Development & Church Relations

When St. Paul reminded the faithful at Ephesus that “grace was given to each” expressly so that the Church is edified, he was equipping the saints for the work of ministry. When St. Gregory the Great sent Augustine to Canterbury in 597, he equipped the saints for the work of ministry. When the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, Jackson Kemper, perceived a need for a “mission to the western reaches” and subsequently founded Nashotah House, he equipped the saints for the work of ministry. When you pray for and support Nashotah House, you are actively and intimately equipping the saints for the work of ministry. Indeed, precisely and only because of your prayers and support, this month marks 170 years of equipping the saints for ministry as we continue raising up a faithful priesthood for the Church.

It must also be said that equipping saints for the work of ministry is actually – despite the tendency to make it cumbersome, complex and cutting-edge – pretty simple and absolutely timeless. In fact, it requires the same things St. Paul needed in the first century; namely, we need prayers and resources. Together these form the keystone of the arch that is the mission of Nashotah House.

Bishop Kemper felt the same way. “I perceive much cause to bless God and take courage,” remarked Bishop Kemper in the early days, “for I fully believe, that, with divine blessing, we are laying a deep and permanent foundation on which the Church of the living God will be gloriously established.” 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.

Bishop Kemper was no dreamy idealist, however. He completely understood the then-young seminary’s very real need for financial assistance and sound financial management in order to build and expand its mission. “I now call upon all who have been baptized in the faith,” spoke Bishop Kemper 1859, “to exert your best efforts to contribute freely and largely.”

Following St. Paul and Bishop Kemper, we pray that YOU will keep on equipping the saints for the work of ministry, giving us the tools necessary to do what we have always done. By “giving largely and freely” to the fund that bears his name, the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund, we will do more than we ever yet have done!

Will you, dear reader, partner with us in this exciting adventure?

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Partnership Program : “It’s Easy As 1-2-3!”

To join Grace Episcopal Church and others from across the Church in greatly expanding our mission of changing the world one priest at a time, please visit give.nashotah.edu to determine which category of annual giving is best for your parishes.

Mr. Charleston David Wilson, ’13

The Office of Development & Church Relations

Parish giving has long accounted for the bulk of our giving receipts over the years. We are and will remain deeply humbled and mightily empowered by these recurring gifts. We simply could not continue to raise up dynamic leadership for the Church without our faithful parish partners! Parish giving, it must be said, goes right to the heart of what it means to be in a strategic partnership with us as we seek new ways to do what we have always done; namely, raise up a faithful priesthood for the Church.

In April, however, we were approached by two alumni rectors who asked us to seriously consider revamping the parish giving structure, expanding, if we could, the ways parishes could partner with us based on their respective size. This led to the totally redesigned initiative, “Parish Giving: It’s Easy As 1-2-3,” which is a giving structure that allows parishes to contribute 1, 2 or even 3 percent MICHAELMAS 2012

of their net operating budget while fostering increased interaction with the House’s many ministries along the way.

One of the very first parishes to participate in this latest initiative is our long-time partner Grace Episcopal Church, Sheboygan, Wisconsin which recently celebrated 165 years of ministering together with Nashotah House. “Parishes are canonically required to support theological education, but more importantly are called to commit to the training and formation of clergy who will advance the mission of the Church,” said the Rev. Karl Schaffenburg, ’06, and rector of Grace Episcopal Church. “In committing to further support of the House, Grace hopes to testify to the reality that raising up new clergy contributes to the overall life of the Church for the long term,” Father Schaffenburg continued, “and the extra percentage in giving is ‘seed for fertile ground, to bear fruit thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold’” (Mk. 4:8).

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Student Feature

Teaching to Pastor The Rev. Jill Stellman, ’12

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have always had a great respect for chaplains. It seems to me that they have the hardest job of all clergy.

They have pulled out the most difficult part of ministry, that of being “pastors and teachers,” and they do that exclusively.

I had had very little experience with that aspect of ministry when I entered Nashotah House, at least formally, so it was with a great deal of trepidation that I approached my CPE experience at St. Camillus, a stepped-care retirement community in Milwaukee. I was anxious, wondering if I would be able to be a very good pastor to those in the community.

I was assigned to a unit that contained residents on opposite ends of the dementia spectrum. One part of the unit contained residents with mild dementia and the other part of the unit contained residents with advanced dementia, many of whom did not communicate verbally at all. I wondered how I could be a pastor to those who could not speak. I prayed every day that God would help me. He did.

One of the first things I learned was that sometimes the most important way a person can be a pastor is by just being there, what is called the ministry of presence. There was a resident in the advanced dementia unit who was often in her own world, talking to people that weren’t there. One day I decided to try and enter her world and be there with her.

It was one of the most fun experiences I had that summer. I’m not sure where we were or what exactly we were doing, but we were having a lot of fun doing it! At one point she looked at me with a kind of clarity I had not seen before, nor did I see again, reached out and touched my face and said, “You’re so good!” It was a moment of fellowship in the truest sense of the word, which I will never forget.

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expected, and I wondered how I could be a teacher to those who might not remember what they were taught, or to those who had so much more life experience than I did. There were a wide variety of life experiences represented in the residents – an engineer, a beer truck delivery driver, a factory worker, women who worked raising children, and so on.

They had all experienced great loss in their lives as well. Many of the residents grieved children or spouses that they had lost. Many grieved for their former homes and/or friends that had moved far away or that had died. They had a vast array of experience, and they were often willing to share that experience with me, and I often felt as if they taught me a great deal more than I taught them.

But after interacting with the residents for a while, I learned that even after a life of experience, people still have questions regarding the most basic aspects of their faith, and that was what I could teach them. There was one woman, one of the few people I have known that I could comfortably describe as a spitfire, who gave me a great opportunity for teaching one day. We were discussing the depiction of Jesus on a poster that was displayed in the common area of the unit, where St. Camillus was holding Jesus’ body after the crucifixion. (The poster represented the Order’s care for the sick, and the concept that through that care, NASHOTAH.EDU

they care for Jesus, as it says in Matthew 25:34-40). She felt that Jesus looked too fragile and “messed up.” I told her that I thought that was to remind us how much Jesus had suffered for us, and she turned to me and said, in her typically blunt fashion, “But why would he do that?” I told her it was so that we could be close to God again. After she had thought about this for a few minutes, she asked what was probably the most profound question that I heard all summer: “But what did he do with his life?” I gave her what might be called a Gospel Elevator Speech – the Gospel summarized in 30 seconds or less.

Her question reverberated with me, though, and continues to do so. It is something that we need to remind ourselves of as often as possible – what it is that Jesus did with His life, and all for us. And then we need to turn the question around, and ask ourselves how we will use the gifts God has given us, ask ourselves what we are going to do with our lives, because of what Jesus did with His. The Rev. Jill Stellman, ’12, was ordained Deacon on June 2, 2012, by the Rt. Rev. William H. Love, ’91, Diocese of Albany. She is curate at The Cathedral of All Saints, 62 South Swan Street, Albany, NY 12210, and working in communications for the Albany Diocese. Jill is married to her husband Paul Androski.

GATHERING CRUMBS Under Thy Table: the 350th Anniversary of the BCP Nashotah House Theological Seminary will conclude its fivepart series of sermons and events in commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer with these two guest preachers:

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The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill Rector, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee 5:00 p.m. Solemn Eucharist & Sermon 6:00 p.m. Champagne Toast and Rare Book Display

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The Rev. Andrew S. Meade, DD, OBE Rector, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 5:00 p.m. Solemn Eucharist & Sermon 6:00 p.m. Champagne Toast and Rare Book Display The direct influence of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer upon global Anglicanism can hardly be overstated. Even today, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer remains the official prayer book of the Church of England and is the authoritative standard for most provinces of the Anglican Communion. Its most MICHAELMAS 2012

unforgettable cadences have sustained and guided countless generations of Christians in their pilgrimages, particularly at life’s most memorable moments – at baptisms, marriages, and at life’s end. It is currently available in more than 150 languages and is in use in at least 50 countries.

“Its enduring richness and vitality remains fundamental to our Anglican identity,” comments the Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr., Dean and President of Nashotah House, “because its prose is thoroughly biblical, its structure gives glory to God and its theological splendor lies in its affirmation that only through the acknowledgment that God was in Christ reconciling the world can we come to know the grace and peace of God that passes all understanding.” It is with a spirit of thanksgiving that Nashotah House commemorates the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

All events have been open to the public, free of charge and include displays of original manuscripts of the Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, 1559 and 1662) and other historic Anglican texts from the Walter S. Underwood Prayer Book Collection, the centerpiece of the Frances Donaldson Library’s rare manuscript collection.

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The Tuckers to Tallahassee Mr. Forrest Tucker, ’13

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year ago this Memorial Day weekend I began an internship that Nashotah House deems important for priestly formation. This internship is called TPP, which stands for Teaching Parishes Program.

This is my experience…

Early in the morning the day after graduation 2011, my four children, my newly pregnant wife and myself piled into our minivan for the 1200-mile trek down to Tallahassee, Florida for my ten week internship at Saint Peter’s Anglican Church.

Saint Peter’s has a robust and time honed internship program that requires its summer seminarians to: Teach an eight week adult formation course Preach at mid-week and Sunday services Serve in various roles in the Eucharist (lay servers, vergers etc.)

Be present at all weekly staff meetings Meet weekly for a reading course with Fr. Michael Petty (head of spiritual formation and the summer seminarian program) Meet weekly with various ministry department heads (such as Children’s Ministry, Welcome and New Member Ministry, etc.)

Meet weekly with your personal supervising priest I was also active in the life and various ministries of the parish through the development of a learning serving covenant.

If this sounds insanely busy for someone to fulfill, believe me it was!

From the perspective of my children, this was a move to a new home (our second in less than a year as we had just finished our junior year at Nashotah House), but what a great home it was! A member of the parish generously put us up in their three bedroom, two-bath guesthouse complete with central air, cable TV, playground, trampoline and access to their in-ground pool.

We found that this pool was a huge blessing through the long hot Floridian summer!

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My wife enjoyed the central air as she worked hard to survive the heat and humidity while in the first trimester of her pregnancy.

For the three seminarians down there for the summer (myself and one each from Duke and Trinity), we hit the ground running and didn’t seem to slow down for the entire ten weeks.

One of the greatest benefits of this internship to me was, confirming in yet another way my call to parish ministry, and also in showing me the value of the classes that I had taken in my junior year.

While I found many of my classes in seminary interesting, many of them I found difficult to draw a direct line from what I was learning to its usefulness in a parish setting. However in all the busyness of this internship I soon began to find many connections with those classes.

For instance, while teaching, I found myself giving answers to questions that I hadn’t known before taking and participating in the course work of my junior year. I found myself able to enter into conversations that I would have avoided because I didn’t know anything or very little about subjects like ecumenism or St. Thomas’ Summa.

Some of the things I treasure most from the whole TPP experience last summer are: An increased confidence that when I am teaching a class, I have something of value to say. This was my first experience in teaching in an adult education program. Fortunately I had two very experienced members of campus ministries on my lay teaching committee who were not hesitant to speak to me and help me to learn how to be a better communicator and teacher.

A personal understanding that even when my seminary classes don’t make sense to me, they are part of a time honored process of formation that the faculty of the House has developed for turning out the best trained and prepared priests possible.

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which God has called me and my family, and no matter how difficult it gets, the Holy Spirit will be there to guide us.

The incredible love of a congregation poured out so generously on my family and me with VBS (Vacation Bible School) and Music Camp for the children, countless meals, a day at the Gulf to play in the warm water in addition to the complimentary housing for the summer. We were also informed the day we left that we now had a new home and should consider ourselves a part of this great church family for the rest of our lives.

Not only is this experience important for those in formation but also it is very important for churches to be involved. I would encourage all parish priests, vestry members, and members of congregations out there that aren’t connected to Nashotah House through a summer internship program to contact the House and see how you might start. I believe that the Teaching Parishes Program can breathe life into a seminarian, refreshing them to finish a complex three-year process. It can also bring new life and vitality to a parish as well.

Mr. Forrest Tucker, ’13, is a senior and comes to Nashotah House from Spokane,WA through Western Anglicans, ACNA. His sending parish is Christ the King Anglican Church. Forrest is in residence at the House with his wife Rebekah and their five children Timothy, David, Noelle, Anastasia, and Mary.

Spend Epiphany Term Abroad in Norwich!

January 3 – 14, 2013

Norwich Past, Present and Future: The Anglican Cathedral in Lived Experience a 3-credit elective course*

Hosted by

Frs. Arnold Klukas and Steven Peay of Nashotah House and Canon Precentor Jeremy Haselock of Norwich Cathedral

This hands-on course will expose its participants to the living traditions of the Church of England, and in particular the life and ministry of Norwich Cathedral.

The Tour

With the cathedral as our “base of operations” we will visit historical sites associated with significant events in the Christian history of England, from the Anglo-Saxon martyrdom of King Edmund, through the Norman rebuilding of Norwich Cathedral and the Gothic mysticism of Julian of

Norwich, to the palpable effects of the Reformation and the growth of the ‘nonconformist” Congregationalists, Baptists, and Methodists. We will also interview and have fellowship with people—both clergy and laity, “conformist” and “nonconformist”—and become involved in the ministries of the Norwich area churches. There will also be time set aside for more personal interests.

Preparation

All participants will read a common set of materials to provide background

and allow for common discussion of the people, events, and sites that we encounter. Each participant will also be responsible for one aspect of our common learning, as well as pursuing an individual project with the guidance of the instructors.

Note: Members of the Ramsey Society, friends of Nashotah, and students who wish to audit the course are welcome to apply. If accepted, they will also be asked to complete the required readings and participate in all the communal activities.

Tentative Schedule Jan. 3 Leave Milwaukee airport for Heathrow airport, London, UK Jan. 4 Tour central London, including St. Paul’s Cathedral and the British Museum Jan. 5 Day-trip to Canterbury City and Cathedral Jan. 6 High Mass at All Saints’ or Low Service at All Souls’; train to Norwich Jan. 7 Orientation at Norwich Cathedral and the walled city and its 100+ churches Jan. 8 Medieval Piety—monks & nuns, burgers & peasants, nobles & mystics Jan. 9 From Reformation [BCP 1549] to Restoration [BCP 1662] Jan. 10 Non-Conformists & Recusants, Evangelicals & Anglo-Catholics Jan. 11 Ministry today in city & countryside; problems, paradoxes & possibilities Jan. 12 Pilgrimage to Walsingham and its environs Jan. 13 Full day of participating in services at the Cathedral; final dinner Jan. 14 Train to London and flight from Heathrow to Milwaukee

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*For credit or audit; MDiv, Anglican Studies or Advanced degree credit possible; DMin credit for Liturgy or Ascetical Theology Concentration.

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Meditation

Listening for God’s Call

The Reverend Steven A. Peay, PhD

Associate Professor of Homiletics and Church History Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers; to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.

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aul writes to the Ephesians describing how God is at work forming the Body of Christ, building up His people, the Church and does so describing them as “gifts.”

It is important for us to think about what Paul says in light of THE priestly ministry, that of Jesus. It is only in the Good Shepherd, in the One who was the ultimate gift to us, that those called to various ways of service, to receive and exercise these gifts, can understand who they are or what they’re about.

Jesus utters the words, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. . . .For God sent his Son into the world. . . .so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God.” Jesus’ ministry is not self-initiated, but comes from and depends upon God. The ministry of Jesus is, ultimately, the doing of the Father’s will. The role of the community is, thus, subordinate to the initiative of the Father. In short,

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God calls and the community merely commissions. Franciscan Father Kenan Osborne, in his history of ordained ministry in the Roman Catholic Church comments: . . . .it is evident that Jesus has not been selected by the community to enter into his ministry. The Jewish community did not elect him for this, nor did his own disciples choose him. Even the Twelve did not choose Jesus. The ministry of Jesus is not community-initiated nor communityordained. It is completely from the Father. So, too, Christian ministry is not initiated by the community, nor, in its deepest sense, ordained by the community. God initiates and ordains to the ministry.

Ministry, then, is in response to God’s call and gift.

Jesus’ ministry is one of service, as he himself says in Luke’s Gospel (22:27), “But I am among you as one who serves.” In John’s Gospel the Incarnate Logos girds himself with a towel and washes the disciples’ feet prior to the institution of the Eucharist (John 13:120). Jesus demonstrates himself to be a person of service and those who accept his invitation to follow are, in turn, to become persons of service themselves.

The implications of this understanding for Christian ministry are nicely put by Osborne: Service for Jesus was a commitment, to God and to neighbor. So, too, Christian service today is a commitment, and for a particularized and authorized ministry it means that a person makes a public commitment, that is, the commitment is publicly known and the minister himself or herself is in this ministerial respect no longer a private individual but a public person.

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Those who answer the call to ministry also become public persons, that is, the ministry is not something personally possessed. Truly, the priest is one who is for others at every level.

Mark says that Jesus “came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God” (1:14b).

Those words also become descriptive of Jesus’ ministry; it was a ministry of proclamation. First, Joachim Jeremias points out, it was a proclamation of the return of the quenched Spirit: In the time of the patriarchs, all pious and upright men had the Spirit of God. When Israel committed sin with the golden calf, God limited the Spirit to chosen men, prophets, high priests and kings. With the death of the last writing prophets, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachai, the spirit was quenched because of the sin of Israel. After that time, it was believed, God spoke only through the echo of his voice, a poor substitute.

With the coming of Jesus the quenching of the Spirit is overcome. The Spirit “overshadows” Mary at the bodily conception of the Logos and is present throughout the life and ministry of Jesus. Following the Resurrection, Jesus breathes forth the Spirit upon the disciples and they are empowered for ministry. As Osborne says, “We no longer hear an echo of God’s voice, the poor substitute; we hear the very Spirit of God crying ‘Abba! Father!’ in the depths of our being.”

So, God continues to call, to prepare and to empower His people for service.

The Spirit has been sent forth so that we might hear what God has for us and then do the work that we’re given to do. Just as we pray at the end of each Eucharistic celebration, “And now, Father, send us out to do the work you have given us to do, to love and serve you as faithful

Truly, the priest

is one who is for others at every level witnesses of Christ our Lord.” We do that work knowing that we’re not just doing it because we thought it up, or because we want to, but because God has called us to it and given us the ability to do it.

We can’t take up the work, can’t progress on the journey, until we’ve heard the voice of the One who calls us to start.

Nowhere is this better described than in John Bunyan’s THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: There stood a man who could look no way but downwards, with a muckrake in his hand. There stood also one over his head with a celestial crown in his hand, and he proffered him that crown for his muckrake; but the man did neither look up nor regard, but raked to himself the straws, the small sticks, and the dust of the floor.

Are we so focused on ourselves and our little daily tasks that we are missing the gift, the celestial crown God has for us? There are, without question, many ministries and many gifts, but there is only one Lord and only One who calls.

The best way that we can prepare for the journey, give ourselves to God’s service is by asking: are we listening, deeply, to the voice of the Spirit? Are we opening ourselves for the word that Isaiah heard, “Whom shall we send and who will go for us?” Are we looking down, or up?

Are we willing to respond as freely and as fully as God calls us? The call may well not be to ordained ministry, but it could be to support one who is. It could be that we are simply called to give more of ourselves, our time, our talent, and our treasure within Christ’s Body. We will only discover what God has for us if we listen for God’s call and accept the gift.

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Introducing

Nashotah House at 170: Introducing the Bishop Jackson Kemper Annual Fund Joining Bishop Kemper in giving expression to his desire of raising up a faithful priesthood for the Church we have established the Jackson Kemper Annual Fund, the cornerstone of our annual fundraising for expanding the legacy entrusted to us. Following Bishop Kemper’s appeal to “give freely and largely,” will you help us do more than we “ever yet have done”? Your tax deductible gift affirms Bishop Kemper’s missionary vision and ensures that we shall continue to spread mightily the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people.

Nashotah House Theological Seminary The Office of Development & Church Relations

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

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Golden Monks Jon Jenkins (captain), ’06 Alan Horton, ’11 Aaron Zook, ’12 Jake Richards Matthew Canter, ’11 Jonathan Kanary, ’11

Black Monks Jason Murbarger (captain), ’13 Tyler Blanski, ’14 Denys Scully Noah Lawson, ’14 Ben Hankinson, ’14 Evan Simington, ’13 Ben Jefferies, ’14

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On behalf of the Alumni (“Golden Monks”) Football Team, I want to thank the student body (“Black Monks”) for a most enjoyable and challenging game. Our numbers were few, but the spirit of the game was high. I loved the true sportsmanship that was shared, and the new relationships formed on the field. I’m most proud of the few, so very few, of the alumni that came out to play, and managed to tie the student body (28-28) on the field.

Believe me when I say I am proud of that achievement. I praise God that no permanent injuries were incurred, and after a year of icing our sore knees, backs, and elbows, we shall look forward to playing again next year.

Blessings to all, The Rev. Jon C. Jenkins, SSC, ’06 Captain of the Alumni (“Golden Monks”) Team Secretary of the Nashotah House Alumni Association

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF MINISTRY: Miss. Sarah Otten

Along with the 125 alumni and guests attending the annual Alumni Banquet at the Golden Mast, four very special guests joined us as well. The Rev. John W. Biggs, the Rev. Canon Robert G. Carroon, the Rev. Dr. M. Fred Himmerich, and the Rev. Canon Nelson B. Skinner graduated from Nashotah House, class of 1962. These class members returned to campus to rekindle friendships, partake in long-standing reunion traditions, and leave behind a lasting legacy for the next generation of Nashotah House graduates.

It was a privilege to have these men of the class of 1962 return to Nashotah

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House. Mr. Charleston Wilson, ’13, from the Office of Development & Church Relations commented, “What a joy it was for Nashotah House to welcome home some of her most faithful alumni and to commemorate 50 years of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with all people.”

Everything we do, the reunion included, is for the betterment of our students’ educational experience and, simply put, we could not do it without your support. We thank the alumni of 1962, celebrating their 50th reunion. It was a blessing for them and us as they were able to be together and celebrate this milestone of mission.

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Nashotah House: Formation with Information Alumni Corner

the Rev. Patrick Edwards, ’11

Contemplating the question of how an institution equips Christians for the building up of the Body of Christ, one is confronted with the issue of right methodology: “Is there an ideal way to ‘equip the saints’?”

Content, perspective, and focus on ministry and instruction are incongruously both enduring and fashionable among our seminaries; they share vast similarities along with many superficial distinctions. In an era when our bishops are questioning why there should exist such a plethora of seminaries when the resources of the Church are so strained and the need for efficiency and elimination of luxury are so necessary for missions, the question becomes important both for effective instruction as for our fiduciary responsibility.

In the sea of graduate schools of theology that constitutes our seminaries, Nashotah House exists as a unique fount of Christian ministers. There priests are both informed through its brilliant, innovative, and passionate faculty while they are formed through the ancient school of Christian ministry born in the monastic traditions of the Church.

Far from being an anachronism or a spiritual self-indulgence or vanity, the Benedictine lifestyle and community which Nashotah House utilizes were envisioned by the seminary’s founders, as it was by Saint Benedict, as a means for framing a “school for the Lord’s service” (Regula Benedicti, Prol. 45). This is still true today, and constitutes the Hallmark of the Nashotah experience and instruction. It is what makes Nashotah House unique, but also effective and authentic.

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While not deprecating the quality and character of its instruction, Nashotah House’s greatest and most distinctive attribute is its formation of the priest. The life of communal prayer, study, labor and community all come to reshape the Christian into an excellently tooled and tempered instrument in the hands of God. The daily regimen acts as The Rev. Patrick Edwards, ’11, is priest-in-charge of St. a mold to conform the individual Margaret’s Episcopal Church to the likeness of Christ. Not into in Baton Rouge, Louisiana identical or conformist archetype, and a History of Religion but into what the Spirit crafts that instructor at Episcopal minister into becoming: the imago School, also in Baton Rouge. dei which is their gift and particular charism for the Body of Christ.

It brings those called by the Spirit into ministry and conforms them into willing, humble, and eager ministers. It adjusts personal agendas, motivations, and ego into zeal for the Kingdom of God, love for His people, and eagerness for service. It continues after graduation to be a wellspring of strength and support to its alumni, providing renewal and resources for the hard and often lonely work of parish ministry.

The House equips her saints for the work of ministry by giving them minds, hearts, and wills bent towards those of God. I thank God for what was accomplished there in me.

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Alumni Feature

A Benedictine

Foundation The Very Reverend Kevin Carroll, ’03

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he Rule of St. Benedict begins, “Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart.” As I reflect on my time at Nashotah House, and how it equipped me for ministry, the word that springs to my lips is “Benedictine.”

The three principal spiritual elements of Benedictine life are obedience, stability and conversion of life. As we lived the Benedictine experience at Nashotah through a balance of work, study, worship and fellowship, I learned invaluable lessons that have served me well as a parish priest and cathedral dean.

“Obedience” derives from the Latin word oboedire, which means to listen.

Obedience, to Benedict, was an openness to listen to and respond to one another, especially to those in authority over us. I came to the House after a successful career in construction. A friend once asked me what I did in my capacity as a construction manager. I told them, “I make people do what I want them to do, when I want them to do it.” I had spent 20 years insisting that people listen to me.

What I learned at Nashotah was that to be an effective priest you had to learn to listen to others—truly listen. Whether it was a professor, a dean or a fellow seminarian, re-learning to listen to what others had to say, actively and without judgment, was a fundamental piece of formation.

I also had to re-think my methods for dealing with people. Whether it was time spent as a “dish scholar,” helping on work crew, or submitting my 40 year-old will to the whims of a 25 year-old chapel scholar, Nashotah helped me reformulate my model of leadership from a CEO in a board room to Jesus on his knees, washing his disciples’ feet.

Stability is another Benedictine charism that is at the heart of community. Stability is the idea that when you live in community, you must surrender yourself to the fact that you will inevitably spend much time with people or practices that you do not like or with which you do not agree with. I bristled at being told what to wear, when

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to be places and how to worship. Even harder sometimes was to work and study in close quarters with people with whom I disagreed on some relatively important issues, such as the role of women, and gays and lesbians in the church.

It was the idea of stability—that we were all there for the long haul and we better get used it—that turned potentially difficult situations into times of grace. Life at Nashotah taught me that we are all made in the image and likeness of God; and that image is inconceivably and mysteriously diverse. By working and studying and praying in community—day in and day out—it became easier to see that reflection of the driving image in everyone.

The third key element of Benedictine spirituality is conversion of life. Just as works are the fruit of a Christian life lived well, conversion of life stems from a life spent submitting to obedience and stability.

As we listen to each other and to God, and as we spend time in community, we grow and mature into the potential that God sees in us. One’s jagged edges become smooth.

I had and still have the highest regard for the faculty of the House. Through my ministry here in the Diocese of Milwaukee I have the occasion to work with some of my former professors. In fact, my professor of Church Music, Joseph Kucharski, is now my organist. It is truly a privilege to be a colleague of men who taught me and helped prepare me for ministry. The academic component of Nashotah was intense, deep and meaningful. It ignited a thirst for knowledge that had lain dormant for many years.

Yet, it was the Benedictine communal life at Nashotah House that really helped prepare me for life as a parish priest. The community helped me incorporate the ideas of obedience, stability and conversion of life into my church life and my personal life. It also helped me understand that in order to be an effective priest I had to keep my personal life, spiritual life and professional life in balance.

Obedience has helped form my prayer life. The Anglican rhythm of Morning

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Prayer and Evening Prayer, under-girded by the Eucharist, is necessary to sustain the spiritual life of all Anglican Christians, and especially clergy.

Stability has helped form my relationship with the church. I was ordained in 2003, at the beginning of a tense period in the life of the Episcopal Church. My formation at Nashotah helped me understand that living a vowed life of a priest with integrity entailed conforming and obedience to the doctrine, discipline and worship of the church—all of them, not just the ones I agree with. Stability also meant that I had to learn to live with people and ideas that I did not share.

Conversion of life helps me see God’s hand in creation. The idea that humanity is created in the image and likeness of God is most fully manifested in a community of Christian faithful--be it a congregation, a denomination or the universal church.

No one single person or point of view can represent the imago Dei, but, a diverse and faithful community can help weave a tapestry portraying the power of God to a world that is thirsty for it.

As a priest I see it as one of my principal roles to help build up the community of the parish—and by extension, the diocese and the broader church. It is my hope and prayer those who find themselves there find the comfort, guidance and solace in the uniquely Benedictine life of Nashotah House.

It is this confidence in the power of community that makes this my favorite closing sentences to the Offices: Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever.

The Very Reverend Kevin Carroll, ’03, is the dean of All Saints Cathedral in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is married to the Honorable Jane Carroll, Milwaukee County Circuit Court. They have two children, Madeline and Patrick.

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Ordinations and Appointments The Rev. James Brzezinski, ’12, was ordained Deacon on May 26, 2012, by the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, Diocese of Southwest Florida.

The Rev. Dr. Mark L. Cannaday, ’08, was ordained Deacon on May 29, 2012, by the Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, Diocese of Fort Worth.

The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough III, ’79, was ordained Deacon on May 29, 2012, by the Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, Diocese of Fort Worth.

The Rev. Charles A. Hough IV, ’07, was ordained Deacon on May 29, 2012, by the Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, Diocese of Fort Worth.

The Rev. Moses Kaser Htaw, ’11, was ordained Deacon on April 8, 2012, by the Most. Rev. Stephen T. Myant, Diocese of Yangon and Primate of the Church of the Province of Myanmar. He is teaching Anglicanism and Liturgics at Holy Cross Theological College, No. 104, Inya Road University P.O. 11041, Yangon, Myanmar. He is also serving as liturgical officer of Holy Cross Church and serving as Chaplain to the Archbishop based at Holy Trinity Cathedral.

The Rev. Timothy P. Perkins, ’89, was ordained Deacon on May 29, 2012, by the Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, Diocese of Fort Worth.

The Rev. Mark Ricker, ’12, was ordained Deacon on May 26, 2012, by the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, Diocese of Southwest Florida.

The Very Rev. Christopher C. Stainbrook, ’04, was ordained Deacon on May 29, 2012, by the Most Rev. Kevin W. Vann, Diocese of Fort Worth.

The Rev. Jill Stellman, ’12, was ordained Deacon on June 2, 2012, by the Rt. Rev. William H. Love ’91, Diocese of Albany. She is curate at The Cathedral of All Saints, 62 South Swan Street, Albany, NY 12210, and working in communications for the Albany Diocese.

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Notification of Death The Rev. Ronald R. Baskin, ’89, died March 12, 2012, age 84.

The Rev. Warren T. Ernest, ’58, died February 9, 2012, age 79.

The Rev. Dr. Ira Lincoln Fetterhoff, ’54, died March 25, 2011, age 82.

The Rev. Vernon Myers, ’02, died January 21, 2012, age 88.

The Rev. Lloyd D. Seatvet, ’74, died February 1, 2012, age 81.

The Rev. Frederick Thomas VanderPoel, died January 30, 2012, age 86.

The Rev. Arthur Matthew Wolsoncroft III, ’87, died May 28, 2012, age 79.

The Rev. Christopher B. Young, ’92, died June 25, 2011, age 81.

Retirements The Rev. Peter Lyle Ingeman, ’87, retired as Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Valdosta, GA.

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The Reverend Thomas L. Holtzen, PhD, ’03

Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology

So what are we doing at Nashotah House? A student has never asked me that question! The question I am asked with some frequency is, “Why don’t we have a class on _____?” (you fill in the blank). In response, I have answered that at Nashotah House we are building a foundation. We are masons or bricklayers who are building the foundation of a theological house. The foundations of each student will all look pretty much the same by the time you graduate. However, the theological houses that each student builds on the foundation may look very different in the end. When you leave here you can go to a conference and you can be exposed to the latest trends in ministry. However, here at Nashotah House we are building a foundation for a lifetime of ministry.

I must admit that I can only speak to what I think that I am doing. Other professors may have something slightly different in mind. But what we do in the classroom as different professors is shaped by the courses that we teach.

Our classical curriculum means that students all get their fair share of Greek and Hebrew, Patristic, Medieval, and yes, even some Modern Theology! They all take classes on Pastoral Ministry. They take classes on how to make a joyful noise unto the Lord (although some, such as myself, continue to struggle with this!). They all learn their Church History, Ethics, Ascetical Theology, and Liturgics. In fact for those students in the MDiv program, most of the courses a matriculating class takes will all be with the same fellow students.

Every student gets the same foundation.

This is important. As St. Paul said, “And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ” (Eph 4:11-15).

If every student has the same foundation then they will have the tools for the “work of ministry” and “for the building up the body of Christ.” Moreover they will “no longer be children” in their faith, “tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.” Instead they will be capable of “speaking the truth in love” so that they may “grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.” This is after all what Christ has called us to do.

When I wake in the morning, I look forward each day to the work that God has given me to do. I cannot imagine life without teaching. I cannot imagine life without being at the House where we integrate classroom teaching into our daily life and work. Scripture says “there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot” (Eccl 3:22). It is a great joy for me to teach at Nashotah House, a joy I look forward to each day. I feel very blessed by God to be a professor at Nashotah House.

Being a mason or bricklayer who builds foundations is not glamorous work. It is hard, dirty, and at times difficult work.

Yet it is, above all, a good and blessed work, one that I am privileged to be part of at Nashotah House.

If every student has the same foundation then they will have the tools for the ‘work of ministry’ and ‘for the building up the body of Christ’

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