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| Liturgy NewsTaize Prayer Service on Thursday, Oct. 17, 5:15 pm.
No Mass on Saturday, Oct. 19, due to the diaconate ordination, to which all are invited at St. Mary’s College Chapel, Moraga, 9:00am
Presider Schedule Week of October 14 - 20
Monday, 10/14: 8:00am Setako
Tuesday, 10/15: 8:00am Otto 5:15pm Murphy
Wednesday, 10/16: 8:00am Seluvannan 5:15pm O'Meara
Thursday, 10/17: 8:00am Vu 5:15pm Warner
Friday, 10/18: 8:00am Nyamayaro 5:15pm Connell |
JST Announcements
- Myers Briggs Workshop: On Wednesday, November 6, 2:00-5:00 in Cardoner, Clare Ronzani will provide a basic interpretation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), focusing on giftedness and areas of potential growth. Time allowing, styles of leadership and implications regarding spirituality will be introduced. Participants are asked to take the MBTI questionnaire before the workshop. (If you have already taken the MBTI and can provide your scores, there is no need to re-take it unless you choose to.) Please register with Mary Beth Lamb, melamb@scu.edu by October 15 and pick up the questionnaire from her office, Room 107.
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Each year, JST awards "Student Development Grant" funding to subsidize students' expenses for participation in a conference or workshop that will further their academic or ministerial formation. To apply, please submit a Student Development Grant Application to Paul Kircher, Assistant Dean of Students, pkircher@scu.edu. Fall Extended Deadline: October 15.
- The Climate Justice Committee is asking that you consider signing the Senate Petition for International Climate Action sponsored by the Catholic Climate Covenant. The time to take action is NOW. The United States must lead on climate action and the US Senate must ensure that we participate in international agreements that seek to prevent the impacts from climate change from doing irreparable harm to our common home and our shared future. Sign in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast we celebrated on Oct. 4.
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Thanks to everyone who has signed up to share their creative soups on Tuesday nights. We now have a full slate of cooks! Check out Vegan Soups Galore, so you can try these soups for yourself and help to ameliorate your carbon footprint.
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JST Events |
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Contemplative Walk
11:30 a.m. Join others to reconnect to the world around us. Check the Magis for specifics each week. In general, those walking meet at the bell and depart at 11:30.
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JST Community Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekly Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekly Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekly Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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Adoration with Benediction
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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Contemplative Walk
11:30 a.m. Join others to reconnect to the world around us. Check the Magis for specifics each week. In general, those walking meet at the bell and depart at 11:30.
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JST Community Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST French Language Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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11th Hour Prayer Service
11 a.m., JST Terrace
We gather in solidarity with the 11th Hour Calling - an interfaith collection of communities across the country who gather at the 11th hour on the 11th day of each month to call attention to the urgency of our ecological crisis. Contact Stephen Szolosi (sszolosi@scu.edu) if you are available to participate.
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JST Student-Led Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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SCU Events |
Miller Center Announcement
Do you know any social entrepreneurs who are working to improve livelihoods and create a path toward self-sufficiency for poor, underserved, or vulnerable communities in the US? Miller Center is currently accepting applications for their GSBI Pathways Out of Poverty US Accelerator program launching January 2020. They are especially looking for profit, nonprofit, or hybrid social enterprises that have been operating within the US for at least one year. You can find more details about the program on their website. Applications are due October 31, so your help in getting the word out in the next few weeks is greatly appreciated.
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Predicting Justice: Optimizing Data in the Criminal Justice System
8am - 4:30 pm, Panelli Courtroom, Charney Hall, SCU
Predicting Justice addresses in four panel discussions the timely issue of how technology and data are being used in our criminal justice system. Presented by the High Tech Law Institute and the Ignatian Center.
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Indigenous People's Day: Honoring Native American Perspectives and Realities
4:00pm-6:30pm, de Saisset Museum
Learn more about environmental concerns and access to natural resources from the perspective of Linda Yamane, Ohlone artist and cultural consultant; Chase Iron Eyes, chief lawyer for Standing Rock; and representatives from the Romero Institute.
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Markey Women in Ministry Speaker Series: Edwina Gateley
7pm; Music Recital Hall, SCU
The Rev. Francis L. Markey Women in Ministry Speaker Series presents “A Journey of Faith and Ministry from the African Bush to the Bars and Brothels of the City” with poet, theologian, artist, writer, missionary, and minister, Edwina Gateley. This event will take place at SCU, but JST will also livestream the presentation in Manresa.
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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
5:00pm; Adobe Lodge, SCU
Join the Ignatian Center’s Bannan Forum for a conversation with Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. A public reception will follow the lecture.
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Ignatian Educational Practices for Today
11:30am-1:00pm, Mission Room, Benson Memorial Center, SCU
Join the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education for a workshop on teaching, the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, and contemporary higher education with Fr. Jose Mesa, S.J., the Ignatian Pedagogy Faculty Fellow at Loyola University Chicago.
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Dan Hoyle's Border People
7:00, Fess Parker Studio Theater, SCU
Based on conversations and interviews from the South Bronx housing projects courtyards, Refugee Safe Houses on the Northern Border with Canada, and travels along the Southwestern Border and into Mexico. Eleven monologues of people who live on or across borders both geographic and cultural, an intimate, raw, poignant, funny look at the borders we all negotiate in our everyday lives. View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnjxaACgLjU
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GTU News and Events |
GTU Library Workshops
The GTU Library hosts workshops throughout the semester on Zotero (a free citation management program), Biblical exegesis, finding primary resources, and doing library research from a distance. Click here for the schedule.
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"Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land"
8pm; UCB Zellerbach Hall, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA
A majestic stone wall carved with fossils of sea lilies overlooks a sand-dusted stage, where eight dancers from this internationally renowned butoh company enter into a sublime dialogue with gravity. Meguri is a meditative visual poem by Ushio Amagatsu, Sankai Juku’s acclaimed artistic director, that reflects on the passage of time through imagery and movement inspired by the ebb and flow of water, and the cycle of the earth’s seasons.
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Women's Studies in Religion Seminar with Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems, PhD
6pm; Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Renowned biblical scholar, academic administrator, ordained minister, and womanist wisdom griot will be in the Bay Area and has agreed to gather for a reflective conversation especially with GTU female students as well as female community practitioners in ministry. Join us for this insightful and rare opportunity! Space is limited.
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CPE Day at the GTU
1:30-3:30pm; CDSP, Dennison Common Room, 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley
All those interested in Clinical Pastoral Education are welcome and encouraged to attend. Representatives from ACPE-certified CPE programs throughout the greater Bay Area will be available to share information regarding each ACPE center and the CPE educational process. For more information, please speak with your Field Education representative and visit the ACPE website at www.acpe.edu.
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Lunch & Learn in the Sukkah
12:30pm; 2465 Le Conte Avenue Berkeley
Bring your lunch and join us for food and learning together in the Sukkah! Sitting in the CJS sukkah together, we will learn selected biblical, mystical, and contemporary Jewish sources, reflecting upon what we know about emunah and its shadows. There might be some singing. Rabbi Dorothy Richman serves as the rabbi of Makor Or: Jewish Meditation Center and is a founding faculty member of the new Romemu Yeshiva, joining intensive spiritual study and practice.
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Inauguration of Rabbi President Daniel Lehmann
5:30pm; International House at UC Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
The GTU community will celebrate the inauguration of Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann as the Eighth President of the Graduate Theological Union. Those wishing to attend must register here by Monday, September 30. A reception will follow.
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The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashenazic Jews in Eastern Europe: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe -- the Beginnings
7pm, CDSP, Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he taught in the departments of Linguistics and of German, Russian and East European Studies. Please join us for the first of three lectures given by Moshe Taube in this year's Taubman Lecture Series.
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Conference: New Religions @ the GTU: Theories, Practices, People
8:30am - 5:30pm, Dinner Board Room, GTU Library
Speakers will explore themes including but not limited to: innovation and creativity within established traditions; authority and authenticity in new religions, appropriation as a transcultural practice and its criticisms; the encounter between new religions and science; and new religions in the post secular age.
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The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashenazic Jews in Eastern Europe: Translations from Hebrew in Russia in the 13th-15th Centuries CE: by Converts?
7pm, CDSP, Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he taught in the departments of Linguistics and of German, Russian and East European Studies. Please join us for the second of three lectures given by Moshe Taube in this year's Taubman Lecture Series.
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The Cultural Legacy of the Pre-Ashenazic Jews in Eastern Europe: Translations from Hebrew in Russia in the Second Half of the 15th Century and the Heresy of the Judaizers
7pm, CDSP, Easton Hall, 2401 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, where he taught in the departments of Linguistics and of German, Russian and East European Studies. Please join us for the second of three lectures given by Moshe Taube in this year's Taubman Lecture Series.
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"And He Called the Name of that Place Bethel" (Genesis 28: 19): Historical-Geography and Archaeology of the Sanctuary of Bethel
12:30pm, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue
Aharon Tavger, senior staff member in the Tel Burna Archaeological Project, will present a new archaeological study which contains an historical-geographical analysis of the sources that speak on Bethel, and a new archaeological excavation that may have solved the question of the location of the sanctuary. Lunch provided.
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Women's Studies in Religion: Art and Discussion Group
12:30pm - 2:00pm, Doug Adams Gallery, 2465 LeConte
The GTU Women’s Studies in Religion program is hosting a series that will involve art-making and discussion, led by skilled facilitator, Karen Sjoholm. No art experience/skill whatsoever required! The focus is on finding balance in our busy lives and forming community with other students. This series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts & Religion. All are welcome, regardless of gender identity or expression. To RSVP, write to wsr@ses.gtu.edu.
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Community Events and Announcements |
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Pax Christi Northern California Annual Assembly
9am-3pm; Newman Hall-Holy Spirit Parish, 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA
Marie Dennis will give her keynote address on how various nonviolent approaches can effectively transform conflict, and how the institutional Catholic Church can foster peaceful solutions by adopting active nonviolence as its Gospel-based default approach.
This event is free, but donations are appreciated. Lunch: $10.
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Mental Health 101 for Clergy: Early Signs and Symptoms
5:00-8:00, First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland
This workshop aims to start to address the needs of clergy and lay leaders in Alameda County better serve their congregants. County Supervisor Keith Carson has partnered with Alameda County Behavioral Health to provide an introduction to early signs and symptoms of mental illness experienced by individuals as well as the impact of complex trauma on the lives of individuals, families, and communities.
This workshop is for clergy and lay leaders of all faiths. Dinner will be provided.
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Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians
7:30-9:30pm, Soda Center, Moraga Room; Saint Mary's College, Moraga
Theologian Austen Hartke, a 2019 Bush Foundation Fellow, shares one Christian's experience and theological reflections on his faith and the Holy Scriptures as a transgender man.
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Prison Abolition, and a Mule
4:10pm, Bancroft Hotel, Great Hall, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Professor Paul Butler of Georgetown University Law Center will discuss the failures of the prison system and the possibilities for reform. He will suggest what would replace prisons, how people who cause harm could be dealt with in the absence of incarceration, and why abolition would make everyone safer and our society more just.
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Food Legacy in the Atlantic World
4:00pm, International House, Chevron Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
Judith Carney, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss how slaves introduced foods previously grown in Africa to the Americas. She draws attention to the significance of Africa’s food crops as a crucial underpinning of the transatlantic commerce in human beings, the slave ship as a means of conveying African crops to the Americas, and the enslaved as active participants in establishing African foodstaples on their subsistence plots and in the foodways of former plantation societies.
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Revealing the Children of God, weekend retreat at Four Springs Seminars
Nov. 8 - Nov. 10, 14598 Sheveland Road, Middletown, CA
Weekend Retreat facilitated by Timothy Locke and Sonya Milton.Focus: how might we think in a new way about including ourselves and others as children of God?
$275 for meals and double occupancy lodging with shared bath. Discount of $25 for registrations received by Oct. 29. Need-based financial assistance is available.
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Job Announcements and More |
Call for Proposals: An Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators Workshop - NEW!!
This workshop to be held July 3-5, 2020 at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, seeks materials and presentations for an interdisciplinary workshop that will address the following question: how can educators, activists, and community leaders help students navigate the emotional impacts of ecological degradation and social injustice in the age of climate disruption? The aim of this workshop is to develop a practical toolkit for educators, students and activists across disciplines and professions, with potential emphasis on pedagogical applications, curricular implications, and even co-curricular connections (counseling and wellness, student life, etc). Successful applicants will receive travel support plus accommodation during the workshop. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 18, 2019. Please visit this page for more information.
Complimentary Commonweal Subscription
Students (or anyone who has graduated in the past three years) can subscribe for free to Commonweal at www.cwlmag.org/freestudent. There are no strings attached to these free one-year student subscriptions! It's all made possible by many generous donors who want to make sure that students have access to Commonweal.
FASPE Fellowship, Summer of 2020
FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work. Each year, FASPE Seminary awards fellowships to 14 to 16 individuals pursuing, or recent graduates of, graduate-level religious training at divinity schools, seminaries, chaplaincy programs or other related institutions. Fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, where they visit key sites of Nazi history and participate in daily seminars led by specialized faculty. The program couples the power of place with academic rigor and many informal opportunities for creative exchange. 2020 FASPE Seminary Program Dates: June 12, 2020 – June 26, 2020 (Program starts on the evening of June 12) Deadline to apply: December 30, 2019.
For more information about the program, see https://www.faspe-ethics.org/seminary/.
To apply, see https://www.faspe-ethics.org/how-to-apply/.
Louisville Institute Fellowships
The Louisville Institute offers fellowships for doctoral study and dissertation work. The Dissertation Fellowship (DF) programs offers up to ten $25,000 grants to support the final year of Ph.D. or Th.D. dissertation writing. Preference given to students engaged in research pertaining to North American Christianity, especially projects related to Institute mission priorities. Apply by February 1, 2020.
The Doctoral Fellowship (DOC) program encourages current Ph.D./Th.D. students to consider theological education as their vocation. The Institute awards up to ten two-year Doctoral Fellowships of $2,000 per year. In addition, Fellows constitute a peer learning cohort that meets six times over a two year period. Apply by March 1, 2020.
For more information and to apply, see the Louisville Institute site.
Fall Instructor Position with Xceptional Prep
Test preparation instructor positions are available starting in October for GRE, SAT and/or ACT classroom based prep classes. These are part-time positions in San Jose, Berkeley, and San Francisco with pay of up to $45 per hour. For more information and how to apply, click here.
Web Designer
The Ignatian Way MAP is a new website in process, applying the teachings of Ignatius Loyola to guide and support people in educational, career, ministry and retirement transitions. The project needs a student employee with web design/development capabilities and not necessarily formal training. Employee would contribute to a unique web resource for career/work/retirement planning and spiritual exploration with an emphasis on Ignatian spirituality. A number of web pages have been developed but need “repair” and renovation. New pages need to be developed. The objective of the project is to complete a prototype for the website/resource as a “platform” for research which would lead to funding and full development of the project. For more information and how to apply, see Web Designer, Ignatian Way MAP.
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JST students Ellen Jewett, Eddie Ngo, S.J., and Sebastian Budinich lead procession during Prayer Service, Welcoming All as Christ, as part of the SCU Presidential Inauguration events. Photo by SCU Photographer. |
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