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spring 2014 President
features
Theodore J. Wardlaw
Money & Faith 8 God’s extravagant economy
Board of Trustees
Thomas L. Are Jr., Chair Karen C. Anderson Claudia Carroll Elizabeth Christian Joseph J. Clifford James G. Cooper Marvin L. Cooper James B. Crawley Katherine Cummings (MDiv’05) Consuelo Donahue (MDiv’96) Jackson Farrow Jr. G. Archer Frierson II Richard D. Gillham Walter Harris Jr. John Hartman Rhashell Hunter Roy M. Kim James H. Lee (MDiv’00) Michael L. Lindvall Jennifer L. Lord Lyndon L. Olson Jr. B. W. Payne David Peeples Jeffrey Kyle Richard Lana Russell James C. Shaw Lita Simpson Anne Vickery Stevenson Karl Brian Travis John L. Van Osdall Sallie Sampsell Watson (MDiv’87) Carlton Wilde Jr. Elizabeth Currie Williams Hugh Williamson III
Volume 129 | Number 2
Money, Christian materialism, and gifts By David Hadley Jensen
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Generational generosity
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Blest be the ties that bind
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Tackling the last taboo
By Melissa Wiginton
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An open letter to our grandchildren
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By Karl Travis
By Bill Cotman
By Mary Lois and Sloan Leonard & departments
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seminary & church
3
twenty-seventh & speedway
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live & learn
Trustees Emeriti Stephen A. Matthews John McCoy (MDiv’63) Max Sherman Louis Zbinden
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faculty news & notes
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alumni news & notes
25
teaching & ministry
ASA Board
Leanne Thompson (MDiv’06), President Dieter Heinzl (MDiv’98), Vice President Karen Greif (MDiv’92, DMin’06), Secretary Valerie Bridgeman (MDiv’90), Past President Barrett Abernethy (MDiv’13) Andy Blair (MDiv’89) Timothy Blodgett (MDiv’07) Jeff Cranton (MDiv’99) Ann Herlin (MDiv’01) Sandra Kern (MDiv’93) Andrew Parnell (MDiv’05) Matt Miles (MDiv’99) Tamara Strehli (MDiv’05) Kristy Vits (MDiv’98) Michael Waschevski (DMin’03)
Windows is published three times each year by Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Editor Randal Whittington
Contributors
Jeannine Caracciollo Lemuel García-Arroyo Gary Mathews Kristy Sorensen Adam Sweeney Melissa Wiginton
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