Global Relationships in Asia and England enrich the CDSP experience Like any good CDSP alum, Archbishop Paul Kwong is ready to make the case for why the years that he spent on the seminary’s campus in Berkeley were absolutely the best years to be there.
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“But I shouldn’t,” he says. He is, after all, the primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (the Anglican Church in Hong Kong) and chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, two roles that require significant diplomatic skills, and to spend political capital arguing the superiority of the experience enjoyed by the Class of 1982 would be imprudent. So, having casually spoken the phrase “golden era,” he returns to the question at hand, which is how he sees his alma mater’s place in the Anglican Communion. “CDSP has always been a very important theological college located on the Pacific Rim,” he says. “It doesn’t simply serve the people in the United States, but also serves people in other parts of the world, in particular, Asia. “And I welcome and support
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Spring 2019 • Church Divinity School of the Pacific