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SEMINARY IN THE CITY
Zingkhai has been the recovery program manager for CityTeam Ministries in San Francisco since 2003. He leads support groups and provides one-on-one counseling for alcoholics and addicts. His wife, Khan Lolly, graduated from ABSW last year. The workshops on drug addiction and HIV/AIDS were a blessing, Zingkhai wrote in an e-mail to the seminary community following his return from Nagaland, a state in northeast India. "I came to learn from the questions and answers how village people are so ignorant about this issue, living in shame when they find out they have this disease … and the churches do not have any idea of how to reach out to them. I am praying with Khan that God would allow us to travel home each year and give training/educate our people on this matter." Dr. Peter Yuichi Clark, assistant professor of pastoral care, led a workshop on cultural diversity issues in spiritual care at John Muir Medical Center in Concord, Calif., in March. He is copresenting a workshop titled "Spiritual Care with Angry Persons: Buddhist and Christian Approaches" at the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) annual meeting in Atlanta in May. Last October, Clark presented a workshop on "Spirituality and Aging in Asian American Populations" at the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. His essay "Biblical Themes for Pastoral Care Revisited: An Asian American Re-reading of a Classic Pastoral Care Text" will be published in the journal Pastoral Psychology later this year. Dr. Judy Yates Siker, associate professor of New Testament, preached at the Conference Eucharist held in January at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley. Dr. Marian Ronan, associate professor of contemporary theology and religion, published a review of Cleophus J. LaRue's This Is My Story: Testimonies and Sermons of Black Women in Ministry (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2005) in the latest edition of Living Pulpit (January-March 2006). She also contributed an article to the Summer 2005 edition of U.S. Catholic Historian on "A Sliver of Dry Land: Reconfigurations of Catholicism in the Works of Mary Gordon."
Hall represented the seminary at the annual meeting of American Baptist Churches of Wisconsin last October. Dr. Tim Tseng, associate professor of American religious history and director of the Asian American Center, is a recipient of the Association of Theological Schools Lilly Theological Scholar Grant for his project "Persistent Witness: A Documentary History of Asian Protestants in the North American Diaspora." The project will begin this summer.
He served on a panel in October at the Graduate Theological Union on "Katrina and the Continuing Crisis of Working Poverty." Smith and the Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, a seminary trustee, were among five outstanding black leaders honored at the annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference held in February in Jacksonville, Fla. |
Senior Jonathan Zingkhai returned to his native Nagaland in
January to lead workshops on
drug addiction and HIV/AIDS at a
conference that drew more than
2,000 people from 37 churches. 
Dr. Nancy Hall, director of continuing education and associate
professor of ministry, will have five prayers published in the
forthcoming Reinventing Worship (Judson Press, 2006), edited
by Brad Berglund. The book will also include several prayers
from ABSW alums. 
Dr. J. Alfred Smith Sr., professor of preaching and church
ministries, was a guest speaker at the University of Chicago
Divinity School last November during a weeklong conference
that convened leading black theologians
to discuss the future of the African
American church.
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