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SEMINARY IN THE CITY He was the commencement speaker for St. Mary’s School of Extended Education in Moraga, Calif. This summer he taught preaching courses at the Claremont School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union, and a course on African American spirituality at Fuller Theological Seminary. Smith will be the keynote speaker for the American Baptist Churches of Oregon Annual Gathering in Bend in October. The theme will be "Celebrate!… Making A Difference."
Tseng recently published an article on "Trans-Pacific Transpositions: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese North American Protestantism since 1965." The essay is included in Routledge’s forthcoming "Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America," co-edited by Dr. Paul Spickard and Dr. Jane Iwamura. This summer Tseng hosted a workgroup on "Lived Theology and Race" at ABSW and the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a participant in the "Religion and Public Life in Pacific and Asian North America" conference at Berkeley. In September, Tseng will speak at the Chinese Christians for Justice conference in Los Angeles. He will also present a paper on "Asian American Theology in the 20th Century" at the L.A. Asian American Leadership Consultation in San Diego. Dr. LeAnn Flesher, associate professor of Old Testament, had three articles accepted for print by the IVP Women's Commentary. Her topics included "Job," "Lamentations," and "Foreign and Foreignness." Lamentations was also the topic of a five-week adult forum series Flesher led last spring at First Baptist Church, Alameda, Calif. Dr. James Chuck, professor of theology and church ministry, preached this summer at Chinese Congregational Church in San Francisco. He also led a retreat for the Chinese Community Church in Berkeley. Laura B. Keller, a senior M.Div. student, received the Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarship. She was one of four GTU students to receive this award. Cummings, who serves on the General Board for ABC/USA, represented the denomination at a meeting of the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches. Hall taught in the summer D.Min. program at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Her weeklong seminar was titled "Conversations About Worship." The Rev. Desmond Hoffmeister, dean of community life and director of the newly established Global Prophetic Network, preached at First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix, Ariz., for its General Mission Weekend in August.
All of the ABSW faculty attended a planning retreat with the faculty of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver August 16-19. The retreat focused on future collaboration between the two seminaries and the ABC/Rocky Mountains regarding theological education events in the Rocky Mountain region. |
Dr.
J. Alfred Smith Jr., professor of preaching, received the National
Kappa Alpha Community Service Award in June. Smith is the senior
pastor of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland.
Dr.
Tim Tseng, associate professor of American religious history,
was elected president of Christians Supporting Community Organizing.
The four-year-old national organization promotes faith-based community
organizing among Evangelical, Holiness and Pentecostal churches.
As president, Tseng will guide CSCO through its next organizational
phase so that it can become more involved with education, training,
and providing resources to its member churches.
Susan
Criscione, a joint M.A./M.Div. student, received this year’s
Christian Community Credit Union’s Focus on the Future Scholarship.
Criscione spent six weeks in Costa Rica this summer learning and
serving with Baptist leaders and social justice ministries.
Dr.
George Cummings, academic dean and professor of theology, was
a featured preacher at the American Baptist Biennial in June in
Providence, R.I. Also in June, Cummings spoke at the Center for
Urban Theological Studies and New Covenant Church in Philadelphia.
Dr.
Nancy Hall, director and associate professor of supervised field
education, was a worship leader at the American Baptist Biennial.
Hall led the opening night hymn-sing: "God’s Story, Our
Song: Ten Historic Hymns Cherished by Baptists."
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