Church Divinity School of the Pacific : 2001 Seminar

Institution Name: Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Address:
2451 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709-1211

Phone: 510-204-0700

Key Contacts:
Linda L. Clader, Associate Professor of Homiletics
Arthur G. Holder, Dean of Academic Affairs
Lizette Larson-Miller, Associate Professor of Liturgical Leadership
Donn F. Morgan, President and Dean
Russell G. Moy, Assistant Professor of Christian Education
Louis Weil, James F. Hodges Professor of Liturgics

CDSP used the Seminar grant to change its current “ethos of interaction,” which bombards faculty with multiple expectations and does not allow them to work effectively. The intention of the project was to “identify, assess, and transform the patterns of interaction among students, staff, and faculty in order to make our life together more congruent with our mission to provide academic excellence; to encourage and facilitate spiritual growth; and to honor the diversity of all God’s people.” The outcomes directly to related to the Lexington project were (1) faculty retreats designed to help faculty reflect imaginatively on their life together; (2) the development of a new M.Div. curriculum that emphasized integration, Anglican identity, and formation for ministry; (3) the identification and codification of faculty expectations; (4) renewed commitment by faculty to address their own spiritual and physical health; (5) more conscious emphasis on a variety of student formational activities, such as class weekends, coffee hour, and the place of seminary worship, and (6) recognition that attention to the whole of life—not just tasks but the way faculty and students integrate work, play, worship, community involvement, and solitude—is the foundation for ministry.