Tableaux (Fall 2012)

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Acknowledging that the proclamation of the Word—the preaching event—isn’t limited to speech alone, Angela embodies the Word and paints the Word in her worshiping life.

joins her in the classroom when she teaches seminary students how to live into their callings. To this day, Angela’s most meaningful academic experience is the theological pedagogy internship Graham Walker arranged with Tina Pippin at Agnes Scott College. What she learned about libertory pedagogy and trusting her gifts and personality has not only aided her as a professor, but also as preacher. On a weekly basis Angela finds herself preaching from the pulpit, teaching in the seminary classroom, painting or showing her work in galleries, and dancing in the grips of God’s liberating joy. In each of these places she knows she is not alone, but that a community of colleagues, professors, mentors, and friends stand alongside of her. In each of these places, the people that make up McAfee School of Theology are there, too. For this, she could not be more grateful.


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