ANTS Student E-News Thursday, March 15, 2007
NEW
- Student Association Election Results
- Time to Sign up for Community Day
- SUGAR TALKS: An Interactive Exploration of Sugar's Bitter Aftertaste
- Tenth International Symposium on Business and Spirituality - March 23
- New Courses in Summer Session
- Meet the Walkers! And Join Them!
REVIEW
- Light Shining in the Darkness Empowering Congregations to Effectively Address Violence Against Women
- Special Thanks from the Office of Admissions!
- Commencement Speaker
- Baptist Fellowship Sponsored Spring Retreat - Deadline Approaching!
- Summer Session Registration
- Student Association Town Hall Meeting
- March 23: ANTS Multicultural Festival!
- Library Book Sale
- Academic Calendar Update: Summer Registration
- New Library Hours and Policy on Children
- Put Your Faith Into Action - April 14, 2007
- PEACE WEEK 2007
- Creating Healing Connections in Faith Communities - March 21, 2007
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Student Association Election Results
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The results for the online election to fulfill the terms of office for the remainder of the 2006-07 academic year are in.
Vice President: Jason Boyd - 29 votes
Secretary: Chris Findlay - 28 votes
29 students voted
Congratulations to our new Vice President and Secretary!
Len Hayward
SA President and Chair of the Elections
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Time to Sign up for Community Day
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Its time to sign up for participation in this Spring's 2007 Andover Newton and Hebrew College Community Day of Service and Reflection on Racism and Inter-faith Relationships.
On March 27, 2007 ANTS will partner with Hebrew College for a joint Spring Community Day. In partnership, Andover Newton and Hebrew college will venture forth into a day of active community service, reflection on the effects of racism as a community, and the importance of building interfaith relationships.
All Community service events will take place rain or shine. Sites will be announced and assigned as they become available. All classes are canceled on Community Day and full participation in the events are expected.
Lunch will be provided so bring your smiles, your sweat, and put your faith into action with one another in community
But please e-mail your intent to participate as soon as possible - beginning today - so that preparation for the amount of lunches needed can be made.
Please e-mail Nancy Nienhuis to register for assignment at a community site (to be announced).
For further questions contact Greg Mobley at gmobley@ants.edu
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SUGAR TALKS: An Interactive Exploration of Sugar's Bitter Aftertaste
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Monday, March 19th
7pm to 9 pm
Peck Room
Join us while we explore the past and present injustices perpetrated by Big Sugar - an industry more powerful than you might imagine. Come learn about Big Sugar's connection to:
-the slave trade
-modern-day human rights abuses
-environmental destruction
-the obesity epidemic
-government corruption
Learn how we can make a difference.
We hope to see you there!
*Presented by members of the "Justice Matters" class
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Tenth International Symposium on Business and Spirituality - March 23
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March 23, 2007
at Babson College
This event will inspire you, challenge you, and help you to build your business based on your values. Please join us if you want to:
-Make a positive impact on the local and global community, and actively contribute to the greater good.
-Create corporate cultures that engage all stakeholders in open-hearted dialogue embracing the diversity of ideas, beliefs, faiths, and backgrounds.
-Foster integrity and honesty by modeling congruent and principled leadership.
-Rejoice in the beauty of the moment, revel in life, celebrate growth and learning, reflect on discoveries, rise to challenges, and appreciate fun and humor.
The symposium seeks to join with others in living these ideals, and welcomes support and partnership with individuals and organizations who share these values.
The Tenth International Symposium will again feature several successful business leaders who will share the knowledge they've gained and the lessons they've learned as they've taken their deepest values to work and succeeded in changing our world through their business.
Keynote speakers: Tom and Kate Chappell, founders of Tom's of Maine
Our featured speakers include:
Aaron Feuerstein, owner and CEO of Maldin Mills
Frances Moore Lapp*, noted author and activist
David Korten, author and engaged citizen
J. Robert Ouimet,chairman and CEO of Holding O.C.B. Inc. and Ouimet-Tomasso Inc.
Linda Ferguson, president and owner of New Paradigms Alliance, Inc.
Registration Fees:
Price: $95 by March 1, $125 after March 1
SBN Members: $75 by March 1, $105 after March 1
Cosponsored by:
Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, MA
Hebrew College, Brookline, MA
...and others
More information and registration:
http://www3.babson.edu/Events/spiritualityandbusiness/Event-Overview.cfm
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New Courses in Summer Session
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The following new courses will be available during summer session:
NEWT746J
Theological Themes and Human Dilemmas in Film
Herzog
The course will view about 10 movies, attending to how they communicate their message as well as what they communicate. The seminar will enable the viewer to become more adept at "reading" cinema and appreciating its special strengths.
June 11-15, June 18-22
1-4 p.m.
WCHR 717J
[WCHR/GCIM]North American Contributions to World Christianity: A Survey
Jeyaraj
Andover Newton Theological School has 200 years of mission history. Graduates of our school were involved not only in "Home Mission," but also in "Foreign Mission." Some of them played a pioneer role in promoting Protestant Christianity in several countries including Myanmar, Turkey, Hawaii, and the like where their legacy continues to live on in many different forms. Soon numerous North American mission agencies were formed; their representatives served in almost every known country of the world. The history and the outcome of these missionaries are both praised and severely critiqued. This course, therefore, surveys various theological and ideological motifs for North American missionaries, the methods of their missionary work, the outcomes of their labor, and the future prospects of cross-cultural missionary engagements.
May 29-June 1, June 4-8
9:00 a.m. - Noon
HIST 776J
Christian Understandings of the Holocaust
Barnett/Erickson
This seminar will explore Christian understandings of the Holocaust and the relevance of the Holocaust for Jewish-Christian relations.
The course will be taught by Robert Erickson, Chair of the History Department at Pacific Lutheran University and the author of Theologians Under Hitler. Dr. Vicki Barnett is Director of Church Relations at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
June 11-15 ; 9-noon; 1-4 pm (all day)
Check out all course listings online at:
http://www.ants.edu/academics/courses/index.htm
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Meet the Walkers! And Join Them!
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Monday, March 19th at 1pm come find out about the Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue with ANTS Ecology Minister, Cristina Cabrera, on Sturtevant Hall 3rd Floor - Ecology Minsitry Office.
The Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue starts in Northampton and finishes in Boston starting Friday, March 16 and ending Saturday, March 24, 2007. Andover-Newton will be hosting the walkers on Thursday, March 22nd and we will be offering an evening of worship and lecture with Dr. Roger Gottlieb. Join the walkers for the last leg of the walk or for the Saturday rally in Boston.
If you are interested but can't make it to Monday's info/coordination meeting with Cristina Cabrera, please email her at ccabrera@jackconway.com or call her at 617-872-8275 (cell)
Additional Walk Info:
For the walk schedule, please check out
http://www.climatewalk.org/schedule.htm
For March 22nd program at ANTS, please see below:
ARRIVAL HOST SITE NIGHT 7, Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Road, Newton, MA: Approximately 4 PM
POTLUCK MEAL PROVIDED (for walkers lodging for the night only): 6 PM.
Generously provided by Newton Highlands Congregational Church.
EVENING WORSHIP/MEDITATION: 7:00 PM
EVENING PROGRAM: 7:30 PM: A Path Beyond Faith and Despair: Religion, Environmental Crisis, and Spiritual Life, Roger Gottlieb (users.wpi.edu/~gottlieb), PhD, Professor of Philosophy and author of many books including A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet*s Future and This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, and Environment.
Location: Andover Newton Theological School (www.ants.edu), Stoddard Hall (next to new chapel under construction far end of campus).
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Light Shining in the Darkness Empowering Congregations to Effectively Address Violence Against Women
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"The number of reported incidents of domestic violence and the brutality of individual attacks has been growing steadily for a decade. Occurrences jumped nearly 50 percent between 1997 and 2006, with the largest increase – 15 percent – recorded between 2005 and last year, according to data from the Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and sexual assault." (Burlington Free Press, Feb. 4, 2007)
This and other recent articles in the Burlington Free Press have raised awareness of the prevalence of violence against women in Vermont. Marie Bean, Christina Findlay and Nicole Polycrones, Master of Divinity students at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA, have created a retreat for pastors and lay-persons from Vermont and New Hampshire to explore how their congregations and communities can become involved on the grassroots level and make a difference for those in their own communities.
Bean, Findlay and Polycrones are members of Dr. Nancy Nienhuis' Justice Matters course at Andover Newton Theological School and decided to create a retreat focused on violence against women as a project for that class. Bean and Findlay, residents of Vermont, were very moved by the brutal death of Michelle Gardner-Quinn last fall. The brutality of this crime following several other deadly acts of violence against women came as a shock to both of them. After further research into the incidence of domestic violence in Vermont, they, with Polycrones, decided to offer this opportunity.
Plans are to present a program that would give clergy and lay-persons the tools they would need to go back to their congregations and communities and:
o Raise the issue of violence against women in their worship practices;
o Recognize the flags that indicate abuse may be happening;
o Know what can and cannot be done in abusive situations;
o Be able to create a process within their churches to nurture and heal survivors, family members and communities of violence against women.
The retreat will be held at the Atkinson Retreat Center in Newbury, VT on Saturday, March 24, 2007 . Registration begins at 9:30 AM. At 10 AM a panel will present information on various aspects of violence against women. After lunch break-out sessions will explore tools available to pastors and laypersons. The panel consists of:
o Judy Szeg, Domestic and Sexual Violence Specialist for Safeline, Inc.
o Stephen McArthur, Activist & Educator on Domestic Violence,
o Tracy Penfield of SafeArt,
o Gyla Dziobek of Department for Children and Families
o Rev. Sue Marie Baskette, pastor of Bakersfield UCC and UVM Chaplin
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A continental breakfast and light lunch will be provided.
The retreat is open to anyone who wishes to learn more about what they can do to effectively address violence against women. There is a registration fee of $15 before March 17. Registration after March 17 will be $20. The fee covers the cost of the meals and. materials.
For a brochure or more information, call 617-527-1318 or 802-482-6414 or
Email: cfindlayvt@ants.edu, or marieszack@earthlink.net
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Special Thanks from the Office of Admissions!
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There were 43 of them all together, and they came from far and wide: Texas and Maine, Georgia and Maryland, Cambridge and Framingham. One was born in England, another in Korea. Some are just finishing college; others are currently working as teachers, health care administrators, IT consultants, or full-time parents. They came from thirteen different faith traditions: they included Roman Catholics, Baptists, Mennonites, Episcopalians, Muslims, Presbyterians, and members of the UCC and UUA. They came with spouses, partners, families, friends, and pastors; five of them traveled together on Morehouse College's annual "Seminary Swing."
But despite all their differences, they had one thing in common: all had heard a call, and all wondered if it would bring them to Andover Newton. This year's Conference on Ministries aimed to help all these prospective students begin to discern whether seminary – and ANTS in particular – would be in their future.
The Admissions Office sends an enormous THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the conference a success. Students, faculty, and staff volunteered their time and offered their expertise in so many ways, from facilitating discussion groups to speaking on panels to washing towels to passing out keys. Your energy and enthusiasm made the weekend great, and we are very thankful for your participation. We hope the presence of these starry-eyed prospective students helped remind you of the reasons you first chose to come to Andover Newton, and we hope that as you met and welcomed them, you made new friends. Thanks again for all your help.
-- Peg Carroll, Darrick Jackson, Carol Hayward, and Liddy Gerchman Barlow
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Commencement Speaker
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Good people:
We have confirmed Rev. Dr. Nancy S.Taylor as our commencement speaker for 2007. As you know Nancy was the Conference Minister for the UCC in Massachusetts and is currently the Senior Minister of old South Church. She is also a member of the Andover Newton Board of Trustees. Nancy is an outspoken and prophetic voice in New England and the nation on issues of social justice.
In 2005 the congregation of the Old South Church in Boston, a towering architectural landmark in Copley Square and one of the nation's most historic churches, elected Rev. Dr. Nancy S. Taylor, to be its twentieth senior minister. She is the first woman senior minister in the 335-year history of the church, which was founded in 1669.
Taylor, 48, has served since 2001 as the Minister and President of the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC, based in Framingham. Old South Church, founded in 1669 and located at the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth Streets, has about 500 members from Boston and the Greater Boston area. Old South is an Open and Affirming congregation. The United Church of Christ (UCC) is the largest Protestant denomination in Massachusetts with nearly 100,000 members in 425 churches. The roots of the UCC, which was formed in 1957, go back to the Puritans and Pilgrims who founded the state. Nationally, the UCC includes 6,100 congregations and 1.4 million members. Taylor served nationally as moderator of the General Synod of the United Church of Christ from 1999 - 2001.
Taylor has served churches in Oxford County, Maine; in Hartford, Conn.; and in Boise, Idaho. In Idaho, she received the Hewlett-Packard Award for Distinguished Leadership in Human Rights in 1999 for her work in co-founding two organizations, Idaho Voices of Faith for Human Rights and the Idaho Human Rights Education Center.
In Massachusetts, she was instrumental in the creation of a new state law that mandates clergy to report suspected child abuse. She also played a significant role in establishing an ongoing interfaith dialogue between Christian and Jewish leaders following the events of 9/11. Under her leadership, the Massachusetts Conference was host sponsor for the October 2003 visit to Boston harbor of the Freedom Schooner Amistad, which celebrates a turning point in the movement to abolish slavery--the US Supreme Court's 1841 decision awarding freedom to 53 Africans who had been kidnapped to be sold as slaves.
Under her supervision, the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC published a revised manual for church renewal and growth and secured a $1.5 million grant from the Lily Endowment for a five-year program, "Developing and Sustaining Pastoral Excellence." Taylor, who is from Long Island, New York, graduated in 1974 from Emma Willard School and in 1978 from Macalester College. She holds a master of divinity degree from Yale and a doctor of ministry degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary. She was ordained into the United Church of Christ in Northfield, MA, where she was the chaplain intern at the Northfield Mount Hermon School. She was married to the Rev. Peter Southwell-Sander, who passed away in 2006.
The history of Old South Church includes the names of Benjamin Franklin, revolutionary patriot Samuel Adams, judge and diarist Samuel Sewall and America's first black poet Phillis Wheatley. The Old South Meeting House in downtown Boston, its home from 1730 to 1875, was a center of revolutionary activity in the struggle for liberty from the British, including the famous Boston Tea Party. Since the 1970s, the church has been particularly active in Boston housing issues and helped fund the start of the Tent City Corporation which built mixed income housing next to Copley Place.
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Baptist Fellowship Sponsored Spring Retreat - Deadline Approaching!
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April 13-15
4pm Friday - 4pm Sunday
Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA
Deadline approaching for retreat reservations.
Final reminder - The Baptist Fellowship is sponsoring a spring retreat, OPEN TO ALL, at Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA. This should be a relaxing time after the Easter week busyness. $60 per night, includes all meals. Make your reservations today - deposit required by March 23rd. Scholarships available. Contact Carol Hayward, chayward@ants.edu
Contact: Carol Hayward
Email: chayward@ants.edu
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Summer Session Registration - Updated
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Summer Registration start on Monday, March 19.
Registration materials for SUMMER 2007 are now available on the ANTS web site at:
http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/SU07reg.pdf
http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/SU07pay.pdf
Add/Drop Form
http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/06-07AddDrop.pdf
Summer 2007 Course list
http://www.ants.edu/academics/courses/index.htm
Directions for registration are embedded within the various forms themselves. Please read carefully and refer to the online catalog (http://www.ants.edu/catalog) for clarification when appropriate.
Students who are interested in commuter housing should mail the form to the Attention
of Amelia O'Dowd, Housing Coordinator:
http://www.ants.edu/student/housing/index.htm
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Student Association Town Hall Meeting
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With Dean Herzog and Dean Nienhuis
March 28th
Noon
Noyes
Dean Bill Herzog and Dean Nancy Nienhuis will be joining us for a Town Meeting in Upper Noyes, Wednesday, March 28th, Noon - 1 PM. This is your chance to bring questions, concerns or suggestions to Bill or Nancy on any topic.
Please bring your lunch and join us!
Any questions about the meeting, please contact the SA Exec (SA@ants.edu).
Contact: SA Exec
Email: SA@ants.edu
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March 23: ANTS Multicultural Festival!
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Dear ANTS Community,
I am writing to invite you to once again participate in a "Multicultural Festival" at ANTS. You may recall that last year we did this in January. This year we will be doing it on Friday, March 23, at 6:30 pm in the Peck Room. I hope that many of you will once again participate. Mangyang Imsong is helping me organize this, and it will be co-sponsored by the ANTS international students and my office.
Last year was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is ANTS! Many of you shared something and it was a great evening for everyone. I hope you will be able to do so again. We want to celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from. This will be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring something that reflects some component of your heritage. I will also supply food through my office so if you don't have time to cook, come anyway! We will have plenty.
If you would like to present something from your background (poem, music, whatever) please let me know and we'll add you to the program. In any case, I hope all of you will come!
I look forward to hearing from you,
Nancy
Dr. Nancy Nienhuis
Dean of Students and Community Life
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Library Book Sale
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Beginning March 12, the Library will have an ongoing booksale shelf on the main level.
Stop by any time to check out what's available.
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BTI Newsletter Available - March 13, 2006
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The March 13, 2006 issue of the BTI Newsletter and back issues are available on-line at
http://www.bostontheological.org/publications/weekly_newsletter.htm
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New Library Hours and Policy on Children
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Beginning March 11, the Library will add Sunday night hours to the academic session weekly schedule. Sunday hours will be 6:00-10:00 p.m.
The Library policy on children in the library has been revised. The formal policy is posted below:
The Trask Library welcomes children into the library. However, we want to insure that all children are safe while in the library and that all ANTS community members who are working in the library are able to do the work they need to do in an atmosphere conducive to studying and research. Toward that end we require that parents with children comply with the following guidelines:
* Children must be with parents at all times—high school age children of ANTS students do not need to be accompanied by a parent.
* Infants are welcome but we ask that if your child is crying you take the child across to Sturtevant Lounge until they can settle down and thus reenter the library.
* Children are welcome to do quiet table work with a parent, but children may not play in the library (on the stairs, in the stacks, and so forth).
* Any toys that make noise when used should not be brought into the library.
If a parent is unable to comply with these guidelines the following will happen:
* After consultation with the library staff, Dean of Students Nancy Nienhuis will contact you to inform you that you will need to forfeit your child's library privilege for the remainder of an academic year (you will receive a "second chance" the following academic year). This means that you will no longer be allowed to have your child accompany you into the library.
* A parent whose children have their privileges forfeited two years in a row will be unable to renew those privileges.
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Put Your Faith Into Action
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On Saturday, April 14, a group of ANTS students, faculty, staff, family, and friends will join together to put our faith into action! Please join us to help work on a Habitat for Humanity home currently under construction in Lawrence, MA.
You do not need to have any construction experience. The tasks we perform could vary from using hammers and nails to painting and cleaning. You must be at least 16 years old. Tools are provided.
We will also have a brief presentation about affordable housing and its affect on low-income families, especially children. We plan to visit a Habitat homeowner family for a brief discussion with them about how having a safe place to live has changed their lives.
The Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity affiliate is a faith-based organization located in Lawrence, MA, and has built more than 55 homes in the last 17 years, mostly in Haverhill and Lawrence. The Habitat program is not a "hand out" but a "hand up" to low-income families who buy their homes at no profit and finance their mortgages with no interest. The families also work at least 500 hours on their homes as "sweat equity."
Come join us for a wonderfully fulfilling experience and an opportunity to learn more about the needs of our sisters and brothers. It's a great chance to reflect and learn – and put your faith into action!
Habitat for Humanity Building Day
Saturday, April 14
8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Lawrence, MA (details to follow)
We will try to arrange car pools depending upon response
Please contact Julia Steer to sign up Jsteer45@comcast.net
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PEACE WEEK 2007
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Peace Week Activities
Thursday, March 15th
12-2:00pm - "Dialogue regarding Military Chaplains coming to ANTS" - Give yourselves the opportunity to talk about this issue that has generated so much discussion on campus. - Upper Noyes
2:30-3:45pm - President Nick Carter—"A Walk Toward Peace" - Come listen to Nick Carter discuss his own spiritual journey on the road to Peace.—President's House
5-6:00pm - "Veterans For Peace" - Eric Wasileski - President of the Wally Nelson Chapter of Veterans For Peace, talks about what it means to be a veteran of a foreign war, a war protestor and a propagator of peace. - Small Dining Room
6-8:00pm - JOTH - "Let The Spirit Move For Peace" - We will gather to move and groove. No experience necessary. Just an open heart and willing spirit. Come wearing comfortable clothes. - Upper Noyes
7-10:00pm - Art Night - The Art of Peace. Weekly Art Night will be offering the opportunity for you to express your vision of Peace with the visual arts. - Meeting House
Friday, March 16th
6-7:00pm - We'll provide the pizza, you bring your drink of choice, to celebrate the week before we settle in to watch the movie (or just come for fellowship if you've already seen it.) - Sturtevant
7-9:00pm - "An Inconvenient Truth" - DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT THE FIRST TIME? Come see the movie that has transformed a movement and will transform you too. - Sturtevant
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Creating Healing Connections in Faith Communities - March 21, 2007
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A Day on the Hill
Wednesday March 21, 2007
9:00 -3:15
Peck Conference Room
Worcester Hall
A health and healing ministry was an integral part of the early Christian church. Wholistic care was a prevalent practice. Over the centuries with the explosion of medical and scientific knowledge, faith communities deferred to the medical profession as being the more qualified to address issues related to physical and mental health. Faith communities reserved spiritual care as their domain. Within recent decades, both medicine and faith communities have come to realize the benefits of a mutual partnership with integrated care. This alliance yields better results in healing and in the prevention of disease.
Come and join us to find out how your faith community can strengthen the healing connections in your health ministry.
Cost for the day, including lunch is $35. Fee for students is $25. Register with Jennifer Shaw at jshaw@ants.edu or call 617 964 1100 ext. 228. Mail checks payable to ANTS to Jennifer Shaw, Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Rd, Newton Centre, MA 02459
Presenters:
Dr. Sophia Harrell, Acting Director Congregational Health Ministry Program
Professor Brita Gill-Austern, Austin Philip Guiles Professor of Psychology and Pastoral Care, Director of Program in Faith, Health and Spirituality
Kathleen Zagata, RN, MS Health Minister, First Congregational Church of Winchester
Julianna Donofrio, Heather Lucas, Nalysnyk Yaroslav, Jan Whitten, Panelist. all students enrolled in program
More info: http://www.ants.edu/community/events/2007/032107healing.pdf
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