MATR Theses Draft Due

4:00 pm

Full examinable draftof MATR theses due in advisors’ offices and Trask Library for those anticipating December 2012 graduation.

2012 Orlando and Rose Costas Lecture

6:15 pm

Location: Wilson Chapel

This year’s speaker is Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary in Denver, CO. The title of his talk will be

“Reconciling Christian Faith and Immigration: Imperative, Discovery, and Challenge.”

Free to the Public

Worship Service with Bishop Yvette Flunder

7:00 pm

Location: Wilson Chapel

Bishop Yvette Flunder, minister at the open and affirming, racially diverse City of Refuge United Church of Christ in San Francisco, will lead a special worship service. Her visit is co-sponsored by the Andover Newton Student Association, the ANTS Baptist Fellowship, BGLANTS, and Myrtle Baptist Church of Newton. For more information, contact Charla Kouadio at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

(Read 2010 profile of Bishop Flunder at Religion Dispatches.)

Columbus Day Observed

9:00 am

Columbus Day observed - No classes, Offices and Library closed; Dining Hall on holiday schedule.
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common art Reception and Auction

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Sarly Interfaith Gallery, Wilson Chapel

The public is invited to view and bid on works produced by homeless and low-income artists through Ecclesia Ministries’ common art program. Ecclesia Ministries is an ecumenical urban “church without a building” that helps transform the lives of Boston’s homeless and low-income persons through a series of weekly church and social service programs. The common art program provides space, materials, and caring support staff to help participants develop their artistic abilities.

65 Years After World War II: A Family Secret

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Location: The Alumni Dining Room at Hebrew College

Contact: RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you would like to attend this program

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute open members seminar.

Presenter Gerald Schneiderman, M.D.; discussants James Herzog, M.D., Joanna Michlic, Ph.D., and Harold Bursztajn, M.D.; introduction by Liza Schneiderman, LICSW. The Andover Newton community is invited to attend.

Community Day

9:00 am

Community Day - No classes, Offices closed. Library open at 5:00 p.m.

Last Day for Submitting Field Education Learning Agreement.

4:00 pm

Last day for submitting Field Education Learning Agreement. Applies to all students in Andover Newton Field Education sites.

Board of Trustees meeting

3:00 pm

Location: Peck Conference Room, Worcester Hall

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Death with Dignity?: A Public Conversation on Massachusetts Ballot Question 2

7:59 pm

Location: Berensen Hall at Hebrew College (Directions)

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Asking difficult questions before the 2012 election

In addition to this year’s hotly contested presidential race and the closely watched Senate race in Massachusetts, voters in the Commonwealth will also be asked to vote on death-with-dignity legislation.

Hebrew College and Andover Newton will present a panel discussion titled “Death with Dignity?: A Public Conversation on Massachusetts Ballot Question 2” starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Berensen Hall at Hebrew College.

The event will be moderated by Dr. Lisa Soleymani Lehmann, director of the Center for Bioethics and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. The panel includes Dr. M.T. Davila, assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, and rabbi Dr. Terry R. Bard, managing editor of the Journal of Pastoral Care Publications Inc.

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Fall Open House

11:45 am

Location: Wilson Chapel*

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 617-831-2430

A full day of presentations and discussions with class visits and campus tours. This is our most informative event of the fall season, with plenty of opportunities to interact with faculty and students.

Creating a Transnational Community

9:00 am

Location: Congregational Church of Needham, 1154 Great Plain Avenue, Needham, MA

The Congregational Church of Needham plans a full day of events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Guatemala Partnership and shine a spotlight on the international Christian community. Events start with a morning forum featuring Paula Worby, associate director of the Multicultural Institute of Berkeley, Calif.; Russ Lohr, director of the Newton Tanzania Collaborative; Jim Wallace, founder of the Cambridge Sister City Project, a partnership with San Jose las Flores, El Salvador; and Clark Taylor, founder of the church’s Guatemala Partnership.

Workshops will follow three tracks: Building a Transnational Community, Promoting Peace and Justice, and Experiencing Our Partner Village. A $15 registration fee includes all events, lunch, and snacks. The day’s concluding event, the Despedida celebration including entertainment and a dessert buffet, runs from 7-9 p.m. and is free to the public.

Walk for Lupus Now

10:00 am

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Andover Newton students are invited to join the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA)’s inaugural Boston Walk for Lupus Now® at the Boston Common on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Organizers expect 600 participants to share in a family-friendly day featuring lupus awareness and education outreach, music, prizes, and other festivities.

Volunteer opportunities include morning setup, route guidance and crowd control, water and refreshments station, t-shirt and prizes station, registrations and money collection, cleanup and breakdown, and assisting LFA stuff. All volunteers must be age 14 or older. Walk teams, sponsors, and fundraisers are also needed for the event.

Check-in begins at 10 a.m., and the walk begins at 11:00 a.m.

Registration for Winter Session Begins

8:59 am

October 22 - November 2, Tuesday - Friday

Registration for Winter Session courses, after which a $175 late fee will apply. Full payment of tuition and fees is due by the first day of class. No refunds will be given after the first day of class.

CIRCLE Interfaith Choir

4:45 pm - 6:45 pm

Location: TBA

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Does sweet music thrill your soul? Come sing with the CIRCLE interfaith choir!

Our first meetings are Oct. 23 and Nov. 14. Thereafter, we’ll meet every other week—although if you are unable to come to every meeting, do not let that deter you from coming to those that you can make it to!

Contact Vera Broekhuysen if you think you would be interested in joining.

The CIRCLE choir is a non-auditioned choir that does not depend on musical literacy or prior choral experience. We meet a couple of times a month to share, and study together, repertoire from our sacred music traditions. All participants are encouraged to bring music that speaks to them, to teach it to the group, and to lead discussions around it. Starting from points of similarity—musical similarity, a common text, such as a psalm, or a shared topical theme, such as thanksgiving—we explore our aesthetic and emotional and theological reactions to hearing, and then participating in, music of other faith traditions as well as our own. We begin the year by establishing our comfort zone, boundaries, tenets, and trust as a group, and then work to investigate and sometimes challenge ourselves and our reactions. Musical conversation sparks and encapsulates theological conversation. The CIRCLE choir sings and leads workshops at CIRCLE events throughout the school year.

Special prayer service

12:00 pm

Location: Wilson Chapel

A gathering to pray for all survivors of assault. Regular community worship at 1 p.m. will proceed as scheduled.

Vigil for Victims, Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

6:30 pm - 7:15 pm

Location: Shrewsbury, MA

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The Andover Newton community is invited to attend and participate in a vigil on the Shrewsbury town common to honor victims and survivors of intimate partner violence. The vigil is supported and organized by ADVISE (Against Domestic Violence in Shrewsbury Education project) and Saheli (Support for South Asian Women).

ADVISE has been working in the greater Shrewsbury area for the past 15 years to increase education, awareness, and support for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Saheli is a Boston and mid-state organization that assists South Asian women in many areas, including domestic violence.

BPSI Scientific Meeting

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Topic: “Is There Such a Psychic Constellation as a Negative Therapeutic Reaction?” Presenter Paul Ornstein, M.D., and Discussant James Frosch, M.D.  Presented by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Andover Newton community invited.

Retirement reception for Dr. William Herzog

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Wilson Chapel

Come celebrate the career of Dr. William R. Herzog II, who retired from Andover Newton at the end of the spring 2012 semester after nearly 40 years of teaching in a career that spanned four different seminaries. He served Andover Newton as Professor of New Testament Interpretation until his retirement, and from 2007-10 served as Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs.

Pre-Election Forum

7:00 pm

Location: Wilson Chapel

Andover Newton and Hebrew College present a dialogue titled “Keeping the Faith: A Public Conversation on Mormonism in American Political Life.” Participants are Clayton Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Dr. Cristine Hutchison-Jones, a cultural and intellectual historian of religion in the United States who is administrative coordinator for the provost at Harvard University.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Pastoral Counseling for LGBT Youth & Their Families

8:30 am

Location: Bentley College, Waltham, MA

Andover Newton Theological School is co-sponsoring a conference focusing on the role of religious professionals in fostering family acceptance of LGBT people, supporting congregants and building safe, welcoming and supportive communities for LGBT people and allies.

The event is presented by Greater Boston PFLAG, cosponsored by the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, and sponsored and recommended by the Open and Affirming ministry team at the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Activities run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, at Bentley College in Waltham. To learn more, visit the Greater Boston PFLAG site, send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or call 781-891-5966.

Halloween Party

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Sturtevant Hall

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Student Life Chairperson

The Student Association invites you to have a frighteningly good time on Halloween!

The SA-sponsored Halloween party is open to all and will be held in our new student center (in Sturtevant Hall). If you’re on campus, join us for snacks, fun, and general Halloween awesomeness—and if you have a costume, wear it!

Hope to see you there!