Crossings | Fall 2019

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Crossings

One Man’s Road Tim Dyer’s tough path to the priesthood

Global Reach Dean Richardson joins convening in Brazil

Letter from the Dean — T he V ery R ev . D r . W. M ark R ichardson , P h D President and Dean

This issue of Crossings is full of introductions.

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Dr. Rob Garris, the recently hired managing director of leadership programs at Trinity Church Wall Street, will play an essential role in helping to shape CDSP’s future, and I hope you will take the opportunity to learn more about him in the profile on page 4. Rob earned a PhD in European history from the University of North Carolina in the late 1990s and has been involved in reshaping graduate education programs ever since during stints at Columbia University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and most recently, for the Schwarzman Scholars, a Rhodes Scholars-like program that brings top students to China’s Tsinghua University for graduate studies. Our faculty and staff have already begun working with him, and you will see the fruits of this collaboration in the coming years.

Some of you may already know the Rev. Tim Dyer ’19, who graduated in May from the low-residency program, but his story is a compelling one and we thought it should have a broader audience. A priest in the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Tim overcame addiction, an horrific auto accident and a lack of financial resources to earn his Master of Divinity degree and win the Episcopal Preaching Foundation Award. The dean and faculty present this award to the CDSP student who has demonstrated the greatest improvement and aptitude in preaching. He is exactly the kind of student for whom the low-residence program was designed, and why it continues to flourish and create new leaders for our church. You can learn more about Tim on page 14.

We welcomed 12 new low-residency students to campus for the June intensive, and 14 new residential students earlier this fall. On page 20 we introduce you to two of the new residential students who come to us from very different backgrounds, Catherine Manhardt of the Diocese of Virginia and Sunshine Dulnuan from the Episcopal Church

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of the Philippines. There is no better evidence that CDSP attracts top students from across the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, and the breadth of our student body will continue to expand thanks to our relationship with Trinity Church Wall Street.

We are introducing readers not only to some new people in this issue, but to a new aspect of our identity. As CDSP moves deeper into its relationship with Trinity Church Wall Street, we are becoming increasingly familiar with and involved in its activities. In late October I had the privilege of attending Partners in Leadership: Identifying & Equipping Emerging Leaders, a five-day gathering of some 200 bishops, clergy and lay people from across Latin America and the Caribbean, convened by Trinity in Curitiba, Brazil.

This was the fifth and by far the largest of these gatherings established by the Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, Trinity’s rector, in 2015, and you can read about it on page 8.

I spent most of my time in Brazil meeting church leaders and talking with them about the challenges of theological education in their contexts. At CDSP, we are justifiably proud of our low-residence program and the online classes we offer through the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership, but there is another frontier in theological formation that we are just beginning to contemplate.

In Curitiba I was able to talk with bishops, clergy and lay leaders wrestling with the question of how to educate and form clergy and lay leaders in communities that may not have adequate financial resources and reliable transportation systems, and may lack electricity or access to the internet. I was grateful to be included in these conversations and in a recent gathering in Zambia on asset-based development. CDSP is positioned as never before to make important contributions to theological education across the Anglican Communion, and this can only benefit our students, our faculty and the church whose leaders we are forming.

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Creating a Community

Global Perspective

CDSP’s incoming class is diverse, intellectually curious and “looking for innovative ways to engage with one another.”

Rob Garris brings international experience to a leadership role at Trinity Church Wall Street and CDSP.

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Community News

The Spirit of the South

Thomas Brown and Susan Snook are ordained as bishops, and new alums receive their first calls.

Dean Richardson attends a Trinity-sponsored convening of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Brazil.

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Guided from the Brink

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The Rev. Tim Dyer ’19 overcame addiction and an almost-fatal accident. He now finds himself in the pulpit.

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Balance Sheets and Beyond The benefits of CDSP’s relationship with Trinity Church Wall Street are manifesting themselves in numerous ways.

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Rob Garris with faculty members Li Daokui and Joan Kaufmann at a recent graduation of Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman College. Photo courtesy of Schwarzman Scholars

When Rob Garris graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1998 with his PhD in European history, he decided his future lay not in deeper research in the fields of immigration and urban policy, which were his specialties, but in attempting to reshape the nature of graduate education itself.

“What I wanted was to make graduate education much more relevant to facing the challenges of the world outside the academy, to prepare students better to be active in that world,” he says.

For 21 years he pursued this goal through top-flight universities such as Columbia and Johns Hopkins and well-regarded global education initiatives such as the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference and Research Center before being named in July as managing director of leadership programs at Trinity Church Wall Street. In that position he will oversee CDSP’s transition from a free-standing seminary to part of a global educational leadership institute.

“CDSP is at the heart of the way we are talking about leadership formation for the church and society, not just in the tightly defined sense of the Episcopal Church in North America, but central to how we are thinking about leadership formation for the broader world,” Garris says. “CDSP will be an important part of Trinity’s leadership work, and will play that part not only in North America, but on a global level.”

Garris is well suited to the challenge of leading a global graduate level education initiative, says Xue Lan, dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing. “Rob is a global thinker,” says Xue, who was previously dean of Tsinghua’s School of Public Policy and Management. “He has a natural instinct in really understanding and appreciating differences in culture and background.

He can navigate among different cultures in a very calm and smooth way.”

Xue and Garris worked together in building the Schwarzman Scholars program, an international scholarship program, which is modeled on the Rhodes Scholar program and based at Tsinghua University. According to Schwarzman Scholar materials, the program aims to “bring together the world’s best young minds to explore and understand the economic, political and cultural factors that have contributed to China’s increasing importance as a global power, and to make them more effective as links between China and the rest of the world.”

Now entering its fourth year, the scholars initiative was founded with a gift from Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder, chairman and chief executive of The Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm. “Rob played a large role in developing the reputation we have already built, in particular with leading universities around the world,” Xue says.

“Some people are good at implementing things, and some people are good at coming up with ideas. He has an unusual combination of both.”

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“The commitment of the faculty to the holistic education and formation of their students is extraordinary.”

— Dr. Rob Garris

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Garris brings a particular philosophy to his work in higher education. “I like to couple two things that are in tension with each other, and I think you have to honor both in order to do a good job building something new,” he says. “You have to have a bold and transformative vision that is about creating fundamental systemic change, and yet at the same time you need to invest significant time in talking to all of the stakeholders who will be involved in or affected by that strategic change.

You have to understand their motives and concerns, what’s been done in the past on the topic, what worked about it, what didn’t work, so you don’t engage in the folly that so many interventions do of recreating the errors of the past.”

In his new position, he says, he is looking forward to taking Trinity’s global network and CDSP’s “deep experience of theological education” and “melding together the remarkable intellectual assets of these two institutions.”

The Very Rev. Dr. Mark Richardson, CDSP’s president and dean, welcomed Garris’s appointment.

“He has a strong sense of the academic world and its rhythms,” Richardson says. “This will be helpful to Trinity as it expands further into leadership formation through theological education.”

CDSP’s faculty first met Garris at a retreat in late August, and Richardson says they found him “a substantive conversation partner.”

“He has a calm presence, and exudes both confidence and warmth,” Richardson says. “He is quickly building strong connections with people both at Trinity and at CDSP.” For his part, Garris has been deeply impressed by CDSP’s sense of community. “There is a strong sense of community among the faculty, a strong sense of community among the students, and a strong sense of community between the faculty

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and the students,” he says. “It really stands out.

“The commitment of the faculty to the holistic education and formation of their students is extraordinary. The faculty think together about how they create a unified program of formation.”

The new managing director also made note of the faculty’s commitment to inclusiveness and social justice. He said it would “always be an important contribution of CDSP to Trinity’s expanding work in leadership formation around the world.”

Garris is not new to working for change in an Episcopal institution. He was confirmed at St. John’s Cathedral in Jacksonville in the Diocese of Florida, where he sang in the choir and served as an acolyte. He remembers the church of his youth as “very engaged in exploring LGBT issues and programs for the homeless.” While at the University of North Carolina in the early 1990s, he served for three years as co-president of the North Carolina chapter of Integrity, an organization founded in the mid-1970s to work toward the full inclusion of LGBT people in the Episcopal Church.

He says Trinity’s decision to focus significant

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Rob’s part to explore this.”

Garris does not foresee dramatic changes on the near horizon for CDSP. “There will be noticeable changes, but they will be in the context of the CDSP we know now, deepening and building on their existing work in leadership formation” he says. The seminary will be better able to attend to needs in scholarship support for students, faculty recruitment, and improvement of the physical space.

Over time, however, the seminary will explore “a different way to engage in the world on a global level.”

“Some leadership programs are very craft- and skills-oriented and focus almost entirely on very practical skills like public speaking, budget and financial issues,” Garris says. “Those are important, but I don’t think leadership development is just about skills and craft.

resources on leadership development emerged from a “listening tour” led by the Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, the church’s rector, that included extensive conversations with partners and other opinion leaders across the global Anglican Communion. “Leadership emerged in those conversations as a consistent theme, as a need in the U.S. church and the global church,” Garris says. Now Trinity is sharing its vision of how to cultivate leadership with many of these same partners.

formation outside of degree-granting programs.”

“We are very intentionally in a listening phase, talking to important actors in leadership formation in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas,” he says. “CDSP is an essential contributor to the Trinity Leadership Institute. Other actors will take a variety of forms. There may be other seminaries in the mix, and there may be other partners some from the secular world, working in leadership

Still, he says, certain emphases in Trinity and CDSP’s plans are becoming evident. “We are looking toward building relationships with the University of California, Berkeley, and with the international aspects of the Graduate Theological Union and its doctoral program,” Richardson says.

“There are a wealth of opportunities for deeper relationships with Korean and Southeast Asian students and scholars, and I see an eagerness on

The ways in which these new relationships might transform CDSP are not yet clear, and Richardson says that is understandable. “I think they are doing careful groundwork because they realize any facilities plan or master plan would depend on exactly what we want to do together. Developing the programmatic dimensions too quickly could be not helpful, but hurtful.”

“There is a higher, more inspirational way of thinking that is a potential sweet spot for seminaries. They are places where people work through the difficult task of understanding and articulating their faith and values and linking those to skills they need to be effective in the world. But then, the question is, how do you carry that forward? How can you share that inspiration with other people to build up a team that can make a difference in the world?”

Church leaders, he says, not only need to acquire a diverse set of skills, but to weave them into a single garment. “Whatever your skills, the real challenge is how do you integrate them with your faith and values, so they are not separate, so they aren’t seen as an add-on, but an integral part of the way you create change in the world.”

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Bishop Griselda Delgado del Caprio of Cuba. Photo by James Melchiorre

Five years ago, Trinity Church Wall Street planted a seed, and if the evidence of a recent gathering in Curitiba, Brazil, is any indication, a garden has taken root.

Some 200 bishops, clergy and lay leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean met in the south Brazilian city of 1.9 million people in late October for five days of sharing stories, discussing needs, deepening relationships and worshiping God with festive delight.

Bishops from across the region were invited to the gathering, says the Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, strategic clergy for global initiatives and director of core values at Trinity, on one condition: that they bring a clergy member and a lay person with them. The result was the largest meeting in the event’s fiveyear history.

“These gatherings are almost like a Pentecostal moment,” Bozzuti-Jones says. “We hear each other speaking in English and Portuguese and Spanish.

The gift of this particular conference, I would say, is that for many of these people, especially the lay people, it is the first chance for them to come together with other like-minded lay people and clergy and have meaningful discussions. They were making connections in ways they hadn’t had the opportunity to do before.”

The Very Rev. W. Mark Richardson, CDSP’s dean and president, was one of several guests at the gathering, along with several members of African churches in the Anglican Communion and members of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s staff.

“The Latin American and Caribbean church has a role and a voice and a place in the Anglican Communion, and at Trinity we are trying to amplify that voice.”

— The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones

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“As part of Trinity’s family, CDSP has a role to play in gatherings like these,” Richardson says. “I was there to take part in between the lines of the meeting, at meals and social time, walking from one event to another to have conversations with bishops and leaders and people who are influential in higher

Dean Mark Richardson greets other conference participants at the Catedral Anglicana de São Tiago. Photo by James Melchiorre

education. I was there basically to build connections with people, to get us started with face-to-face connections that will lead to different kinds of exchanges.”

The meeting in Curitiba marked the second time Trinity’s Latin American-Caribbean gathering has been hosted in Brazil since the Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, Trinity’s rector, instituted these events in 2015. Bozzuti-Jones described Lupfer’s ongoing support as “priceless.” The inaugural meeting convened in São Paulo, Brazil, and drew 25 people. Subsequent gatherings were held in Panama City, Panama; Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Cartagena, Colombia. Next year’s meeting will take place in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

“Trinity has had a long history of involvement with the churches in Africa,” Bozzuti-Jones says. “That experience has taught us a lot about the needs of the churches throughout the world.

“The Latin American and Caribbean church has a role and a voice and a place in the Anglican Communion, and at Trinity we are trying to amplify that voice. We are trying to encourage the church across this region to speak out, to play a role in determining where the church needs to be and where the church needs to go.”

The gathering, October 24-29, was organized around five themes: What is leadership?

What is Anglican leadership? Identifying emerging leaders; Equipping and networking emerging leaders; and How do you plan

and implement strategic directions? Each day began with morning prayer and included bible study, small group work, panel discussions on a wide range of topics, fellowship time and a Eucharist.

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“In the worship experience, we wanted to treasure the reality of who we are as people of faith in Christ within, as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry would say, the Jesus Movement,” Bozzuti-Jones says. “When the Brazilians do their liturgy, it is festive … and the Mexicans and the church of the West Indies bring their music and their flavor. There is a tremendous amount of energy that calls people to celebrate the diversity within the room and just be caught up in this wonderful sense of awe and of being on this journey together.”

asked us to

This year, for the first time, the program featured a keynote speaker. Attendees heard twice from Dr. Damaris De Jesús-Carrasquillo of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, a clinical psychologist and organizational development consultant. She provided participants with an overview of the field of leadership development and some insight on what sorts of leadership might be most effective in their current contexts.

to Jesus as the

pay attention to the roles of women and lay people in the Latin American and Caribbean context, and to pay attention exemplar of leadership.”

— The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones

“She asked us to pay attention to the roles of women and lay people in the Latin American and Caribbean context, and to pay attention to Jesus as the exemplar of leadership,” Bozzuti-Jones says.

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on the faculty at the University of Puerto Rico, represented the Episcopal Church last year at the 62nd session of United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

“Whatever we learn at these conferences gives us the opportunity to plan for the next conference,” Bozzuti-Jones says. “We also visit and take along members of our grantmaking department. We are also giving folks the opportunity to talk about their financial needs, to talk about the needs of the church, so on many levels by listening to each other and being present to each other we are finding new ways of being together, responding together, learning together.”

As at any conference, “there is a sort of sub-conference that goes on with so much talking and sharing,” Bozzuti-Jones says. Curitiba was no exception, and Richardson, who described himself as “culturally naïve” about much of Latin America and the Caribbean, says he found this part of the gathering especially rewarding.

“I wanted to learn about their contexts and how their contexts are changing,” says Richardson, who hosted Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio of Cuba at lunch in Berkeley this spring. “If you think about the shifts going on in our own context, such as new gender relationships in leadership roles, some shifts going on in terms of delegated leadership, you have to assume that people in other contexts are also in the midst of cultural shifts.”

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Bozzuti-Jones says just such shifts were evident in Curitiba. “Brazil and Cuba have active bishops who are women. That is sending a message loud and clear to the rest of the church,” he says. “Then if you look at issues of social justice, you see that the churches in Jamaica and Brazil and Cuba are right at the front. They are the leaders.”

Cultivating women’s leadership and the leadership of the laity were recurring themes at the gathering, as were seminary formation and what the meeting program described as “leadership formation in non-seminary and online settings.”

Bozzuti-Jones says there is an increasing sense among Latin American and Caribbean leaders that “how we do seminary will have to change,” and that a combination of local formation and online instruction might be worth closer examination.

The situation faced by Bishop Benito Juárez Martinez and Bishop Coadjutor Julio Cesar Martin of the Diocese of Southeastern Mexico was illustrative, he says.

“They have six priests and it can take five hours for them to drive from their homes to visit one of the parishes,” Bozzuti-Jones says. “When you think about seminary formation and training, having to leave a family to go somewhere else and study, that presents huge challenges of its own.

“They have had to rethink the model of whether somebody leaves his or her family. And on top of that, many priests don’t get paid. Seminary as we understand it oftentimes doesn’t work in Latin American and Caribbean context. So we have to ask, what kind of formation is needed in that kind of a context when a priest has to have two or three jobs in addition to his or her work on Sunday?”

The challenge of local formation is complicated by the tiny Anglican presence in much of Latin America and the Caribbean. “The Anglican emphasis on both/and can get lost as people try to mimic what is happening in the Roman Catholic church and mimic what is happening in the Pentecostal church,” Bozzuti-Jones says.

“We are still thinking these things through.”

Bishop Martin, who preached at the closing Eucharist, sees seminarian exchange programs as a possibility.

“Many dioceses could send their seminarians to this diocese for a different experience,” he says. “Especially if you want to have a sense of other spiritualities.

“There is a limitless wealth of possibility for ministry among Spanish-speaking people. Many priests can come over here to get accustomed to the mores and the Latin mindset. Like a field trip, a kind of training.”

admit that we need to learn from each other and to look at ourselves in the mirror that is the life of the other …

For almost 20 years, beginning in the mid-1980s, CDSP sent students to spend a summer in the Diocese of Panama as part of a program founded by the Rev. Dr. John Kater, professor emeritus of ministry development.

Richardson says he believes such programs are likely to play an important role in CDSP’s future.

“If we divest ourselves of our need to be right and we humble ourselves at the feet of our almighty God and open our hearts to the unconditional love of God, and open our souls, minds and bodies to the renewing healing in Christ through the Holy Spirit, we will be able to listen to each other and to the richness of our experiences and to the many gifts by the Holy Spirit,” he said.

“I can imagine our students visiting South America, South India or elsewhere as part of their program,” he says of the potential for expanding global partnerships. “It’s almost like a test of their capacity to lead in the U.S. because adaptive contextual work is one measure of capacity for leadership.”

Richardson says he is eager to carry the work of the conference forward.

He attended a Trinity-sponsored convening of Anglican leaders in Zambia in early November, and the Rev. Dr. Susanna Singer, associate professor of ministry development, is scheduled to attend a gathering in the Caribbean in the spring.

In his closing sermon, Martin summed up the spirit of the gathering.

“For me a lot of this has to do with preparing CDSP as a context for international intensives,” Richardson says.

“We are preparing ourselves to be a host and to learn from those who pass through our doors.”

“Each one of us has something the others need to hear afresh,” he said.

“We need to be humble enough to

“If you look at issues of social justice, you see that the churches in Jamaica and Brazil and Cuba are right at the front.”

— The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-jones

The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones celebrates the Eucharist at the closing service. Photo by James Melchiorre

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Tim Dyer ’19 already knew a great deal about the power of Christian community before he stepped foot on CDSP’s campus.

A host of life challenges, including a near-death experience in 2012, threatened to thwart Dyer’s dream of attending seminary. Not only did he overcome these challenges, he brought what he learned from them to his studies and his ministry.

Dyer currently serves as associate vicar at Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church in Warren, Pennsylvania, and St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, where he has deep roots.

“My family generally didn’t attend church until I was about 12 years old,” Dyer says. “My dad was an alcoholic, and as part of his recovery he started to attend St. Francis.”

Photo: President Mark Richardson presents Tim Dyer with the Episcopal Preaching Foundation Award at CDSP’s graduation in May.

Dyer served as acolyte and was involved in many aspects of parish life until he graduated from high school. Then he headed off on a journey that began with Marine Corps boot camp, and took some agonizing twists and turns before leading him back to two small communities on the edge of the Allegheny National Forest about 50 miles southeast of Erie.

“My story may seem extraordinary, but I think every one of us has an extraordinary journey, and I think it’s important to recognize struggles in ourselves and in others,” he says.

“And in doing so, we recognize Christ in one another.”

In addition to serving two congregations, Dyer has encouraged interfaith dialogue in rural Warren County and its environs, founding the Children of Abraham Project in 2012.

At commencement in May, he was given the Episcopal Preaching Foundation Award, which is presented to the CDSP student who has demonstrated the greatest improvement and aptitude in preaching. The prize, which is sponsored by the foundation, is awarded by the dean and faculty.

“When they called my name I couldn’t believe it,” Dyer says. “And then to hear that the person selected for that award is one that is selected by the faculty — I was blown away. I am so humbled.”

severely injured his knee. “And the only thing the Marine Corps would give me for that was Motrin, which didn’t cut it,” he explains.

One night, Dyer met a woman at a bar, and told her about his pain. “And she said, ‘I’ve got something that will take care of that,’” Dyer recalls. “And she pulled out this little baggie. It had crystal meth in it. So she and I became an item, and I started doing crystal meth.”

By the time Dyer quit using methamphetamines, the formerly strapping Marine weighed just 145 pounds. “There was nothing left of me,” he says. “I had OD’ed a couple times. I had come to the realization that doing these drugs was killing me.”

Even after getting clean, Dyer remained distant from his family while living in Sacramento. “I was too embarrassed to go home,” he says. His parents, meanwhile, had remained heavily involved in their parish and in the diocese, and had been praying that he would come home and find his way back to God. “That took quite a while,” Dyer says.

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His return was set in motion by a phone call from his mother telling him his father had suffered a heart attack and might not survive.

Dyer couldn’t afford a bus ticket, but his

Finding his way back to church not only gave Dyer purpose and direction, it may well have saved his life.

After graduating from basic training in 1985, Dyer was stationed in Rota, Spain, when his longtime girlfriend broke up with him, unmooring him in new and unfamiliar surroundings. “Being away from my church, I felt that I had no foundation,” he says.

“I felt very much like the prodigal son.

It was overwhelming,

Looking for a way to numb the pain, Dyer turned to alcohol. “I stayed drunk for most of the time I was there,” he says. “It was nothing for me on a day off to get a bottle of Jim Beam in the morning, drink that and then go out that night and party. It was a pretty low time. I was angry at God, I blamed God for it.

I can’t tell you how many times I cursed him out.”

Two years later, Dyer was transferred to Twentynine Palms, California, where he

the way they welcomed me back.”

— Tim Dyer

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“They sat my parents and Noreen down around Christmastime and told them I had a 20 percent chance of living. And they asked parents sent him money and his boss at Rent-A-Center chipped in the rest.

“He didn’t loan it to me,” Dyer says.

“He gave me that money. And I got on a bus and came home. I felt very much like the prodigal son. It was overwhelming, the way they welcomed me back.”

Once he settled back into life in

Pennsylvania, Dyer reconnected with Noreen Jones, the first woman he had ever dated. They married in 2001.

“We went to the priest at St. Francis, Mother Marilyn Thorssen,” Dyer says.

“We’d only been in there a couple times, and I asked her how much the church charges for someone to get married there. And she said, ‘Well it’s interesting you ask that question,

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if they were prepared for me to die. They were not expecting me to pull through.”

— Tim Dyer

because if you’re not a member it’s $500, but if you are a member, free.’ So we became members.”

The Dyers become involved in the life of the parish, and when Thorssen was diagnosed with cancer, Tim found himself filling a leadership role that continued after her death.

“It was several years before they got another priest,” Dyer says. “And it seemed that no matter what Sunday it was, it was always Deacon Michael Bauschard and I serving together at the altar.”

Eventually, Dyer told Bauschard he was feeling a call to ordained ministry. “He looked at me and said, ‘What’s taken you so long to tell me?’” Dyer remembers. “It was something that he saw in me.” After entering the ordination process, Dyer learned he needed to get a bachelor’s degree, and he enrolled as an online student at Clarion University in western Pennsylvania in 2008.

His life was back on track, and then it wasn’t.

On a November morning in 2012, Dyer was on his way to work, when a car traveling in the opposite direction hit a deer, launching it into the air, and through Dyer’s windshield.

The deer’s body struck him in the face. “The next thing I know, my truck is bouncing around,” he says. “I thought I was going through a field, but I was going down into a ditch and into a creek. My jaw was hanging to the side. My arm didn’t work.”

Dyer was airlifted to a hospital in Erie, and as he was being wheeled into the hospital, he caught a glimpse of himself on a reflective surface. “My face was nothing but blood,” he says. “They wound up totaling my truck not because of the damage, but because there was so much blood inside the truck it was a biohazard.” Even with the extent of his injuries, Dyer spent just a week in the hospital before being discharged.

Soon after arriving home, however, he collapsed on the floor and was sent back to

the hospital, where he was diagnosed with endocarditis – an infection of the lining of the heart. “My body was shutting down,” he says. “They sat my parents and Noreen down around Christmastime and told them I had a 20 percent chance of living. And they asked if they were prepared for me to die. They were not expecting me to pull through.”

Photo: Noreen Jones Dyer, Tim Dyer and Bishop Sean Rowe at commencement in May.

The most difficult challenges he faced were not physical. “Not being able to breathe, that’s a horrific feeling,” he says. “Not knowing where your loved ones are or what’s going on, that’s a horrific feeling. But the worst feeling that I had was that I had no connection with God. That was the most frightening thing in the world. I had no sense of spirituality. The words Jesus said on the cross, ‘Why have you forsaken me?’ Boy that just rung home with me, that feeling of abandonment.”

Heavily medicated, Dyer could not read and turn to things in which he usually found reassurance, such as the Book of Common Prayer. “And that’s where I learned what it really meant to be in a Christian community,” he says. “It was the diocese, the people that came to visit me, the people that prayed for me who got me through. It’s still very powerful.

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“As it turns out, I beat the odds. It took a lot.

I had to learn to walk again, I had to learn to talk and eat. I had to rely on this community.

I had to have faith and trust in God in Jesus Christ and the love that these people have.

My wife supported me. The diocese supported me. Bishop Sean [Rowe of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania] supported me.”

After he was discharged from rehabilitation, Dyer graduated cum laude from Clarion with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and a minor in psychology. He tried returning to work, but was physically unable to do jobs he’d done in the past. “The only thing I could

“As it turns out, I beat the odds. It took a lot. I had to learn to walk again, I had to learn to talk and eat. I had to rely on this community. I had to have faith and trust in God in Jesus Christ and the love that these people have.”

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find around here was $9 an hour and for someone that owned their house, you just can’t do it,” he says.

“So I owe it to Bishop Sean and the diocese for thinking outside the box and offering me an opportunity that normally isn’t presented to someone being sent to seminary. I was allowed to work as clergy for the church while working toward my degree.”

When it came time to consider a seminary, Dyer felt CDSP was the natural choice. “CDSP was offering a low-residency program, which to me is also thinking outside the box,” he says. “The traditional setup for going to seminary, spending the time there, it doesn’t function for everybody.” Having studied online for his undergraduate degree, “the sense of community that developed online at CDSP was very familiar.”

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The lingering effects of the accident made life on campus a challenge during summer and January intensives. “It actually hindered me from doing things with people,” he remembers. “People liked to get out and hike around the area. Well, it kicked my butt walking back up from Euclid [Avenue]. And then being there with my heart condition, it’s difficult to eat healthy. So, my past experiences influenced how I was at CDSP, even getting to class was challenging with all the stairs.”

Dyer was particularly grateful for the support he received from faculty members who were aware of at least some pieces of his past struggles and current condition. “I have abiding respect and love for the concern [academic dean] Ruth Meyers showed,” he says. “Susanna Singer was my adviser. She knew quite a bit and was

very caring. Andrew Hybl went out of his way to ensure that room accommodations for me were on the first floor, which was a huge help.”

Dyer says what he learned in classes was complementary to his hard-won life lessons. “I do have all these life experiences,” he says. “Well, Ruth’s classes on liturgy gave me resources I’m able to pull on to celebrate or mark things like that, these changes in life.”

CDSP’s place within the Graduate Theological Union was particularly valuable to him, he says. “A couple of the last courses I took were through Starr King School for Ministry, and there were people with huge differences of belief,” he says. “And to be able to communicate and validate their opinions even though I may not believe them or endorse them … you still find the common thread that connects it.

“The sabbath class with Naomi Seidman (at the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies) was incredible.

We went to a Jewish synagogue for sabbath, and it was one of the most powerful spiritual experiences I had at CDSP. Just hearing the ancient language mixed with modern music, it seemed to open a portal between worlds. It was incredible.”

He attributes his success to his community in Northwestern Pennsylvania and the community at CDSP. “These professors, they cared. Everyone along this path, I’m grateful for them.

My journey is a community. I came from roots that you would never consider being a priest. Yeah, I had work to do, but it was community that helped me, all the communities I encountered during my journey.”

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Photo: At Dyer’s ordination to the priesthood in 2016, members of the congregation at Trinity Memorial, Warren were invited to come forward for a blessing by their new priest. Photo by Megin Sewak

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ou would never consider being a priest. Yeah, I had work

e, all the communities I encountered during my journey.”

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DIVING RIGHT IN CDSP’s diverse new class arrived in Berkeley from far and wide, eager to create a supportive community and broaden their understanding of the church.

Every incoming seminary class is different, says the Rev. Andrew Hybl '12, dean of students, at CDSP, and that includes the class of 2022.

by Mary Frances Schjonberg '00, '11

Ten of the incoming students are beginning their Master of Divinity studies and four are pursuing the Master of Theological Studies. They come from as far as the Philippines and Washington, D.C., and as near as the Diocese of Los Angeles.

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“From Day One in orientation, this particular group of residential students identified what they’re craving. The reason they chose to come to a residential seminary is to be in close community with others who are in theological education,” he says.

“I am humbled by the incoming class because that is exactly what I hope to see from future leaders in the Episcopal Church,” he says. “They are proactive and looking for innovative ways to engage with one another.”

The 14 new students have already identified and created opportunities for additional worship and formation, Hybl says, planning both social and liturgical activities. Those include daily morning and evening prayer services and compline on Wednesday nights.

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The class is diverse racially, ethnically, economically and culturally, as well as in age, gender and gender identity and expression.

“I think it’s partly their difference that draws them together,” Hybl says. “There’s a healthy sense of curiosity within the community to learn more about people who have different lived experiences from them.”

Crossings recently spoke with two of the students, Sunshine Dulnuan from the Diocese of North Central Philippines and Catherine Marnhardt from the Diocese of Washington.

“TO THINK AND TO QUESTION” The saint whom history has given the nickname of Doubting Thomas is Sunshine Dulnuan’s role model, not for his doubt, but for his honesty and courage “to ask the very human question” of how Jesus could have risen from the dead.

Dulnuan, who has come to CDSP from the Diocese of North Central Philippines, knows that many Christians have questions. Her goal as a future teacher is to encourage them to

“I will be able to share the … critical and engaging method of doing theology, not only just absorbing things from the book ... ” — Sunshine Dulnuan

ask their questions and explore their faith.

“In most places that I’ve visited in the Philippines, theology is viewed as some sort of catechism that you can’t question,” she says.

“That’s why it’s kind of a challenge for me right now to encourage people, especially seminarians that I will teach in the future, to think and question the faith because that’s the only way for us to be sure and to be deeply rooted in our faith.”

First-year students Matthew Bryner (left) and Holly Quarles (right) chat with thirdyear student Ingrid Jacobson.

Dulnuan holds a bachelor of theology degree from St. Andrew’s Theological Seminary in the Quezon City area of Manila. A candidate for a Master of Theological Studies degree, she is in the school’s faculty development program. CDSP offered her a scholarship to help her prepare to return to St. Andrew’s Church Divinity School of the Pacific • Fall 2019 C R O S S I N G S

and teach systematic theology.

Hearing the viewpoints of western Christians in her classes at CDSP and in the Graduate Theological Union is giving her a different perspective on theologians she studied at St. Andrew’s, Dulnuan says. “There’s an inner conversation going on within me, within the Asian in me, and the things that I’m learning.”

Those conversations will help her deepen her teaching at St. Andrew’s, Dulnuan predicts. “I will be able to share the kind of critical and engaging method of doing theology, not only just absorbing things from the book but engaging the text and the authors themselves.”

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Dulnuan is not the first scholar from St. Andrew’s to come to CDSP. The Rev. Marjorie Angadol Buslig graduated in May with a master’s in theological studies. She now teaches at the Anglican seminary. They are the two most recent examples of a long-standing partnership between the two schools.

NO SENSE IN SILOS The chance to study at a seminary whose curriculum is “oriented towards preparing students to lead in the church as it can be, or that it might be, instead of the church as it is now” drew Catherine Manhardt from Washington, D.C. to CDSP’s campus on the other side of the country.

Being back in school for the first time in eight years is an adjustment for Manhardt, who graduated from American University and worked for a lobbying firm for two and a half years before becoming the parish administrator at Church of the Epiphany in downtown D.C. “I feel like I’m still trying to get my feet under me a bit,” she says. “I appreciate the academic experience I’ve had so far. Our classes are engaging and challenging. I feel like I’m learning a lot, and I am very grateful

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“As our church continues to change ... it doesn’t seem to make sense to silo ourselves anymore.”

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for the student community here.”

That adjustment is also cushioned, Manhardt notes with a chuckle, by the prospect of living in the beauty of the Bay Area for three years.

Manhardt would like to return to ministry in the Diocese of Washington, her sponsoring diocese, but she wanted to broaden her experience of the Episcopal Church. “So, I thought that it might be interesting to take three years and go and see what the Episcopal Church looks like someplace else,” she says.

She is keeping an open mind about her future ministry, partly because it is rare that an incoming seminarian can know what the needs of her sponsoring diocese will be by the time she graduates. “I want to learn and experience as much as I can while I’m in seminary without limiting myself and missing out on opportunities,” Manhardt says.

Some of those opportunities are made possible by CDSP’s connections

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with the other seminaries and academic centers that make up the GTU. Those connections are important because “as our church continues to change and adjust to the context that we now occupy in 2019 and beyond, it doesn’t seem to make sense to silo ourselves anymore in our dioceses, our regions, even in our denominations.”

Because Manhardt thinks the traditional models of church, such as a priest for every parish, may not be viable as the church moves into the future, she wants to spend her time at CDSP exploring how the Episcopal Church can adapt to the changing needs of society, how congregations can reconnect with the communities they serve, and how clergy can help to form lay leaders in their ministry.

The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg ’00, a longtime reporter and editor with Episcopal News Service, served on CDSP’s Board of Trustees and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2011.

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COMMUNITY NEWS Photo by Richard Wheeler

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COMMENCEMENT RECAP On May 24, CDSP gained 31 new alums, including 19 who were awarded the Master of Divinity degree and others who received the Master of Theological Studies, Certificate of Anglican Studies, Certificate of Theological Studies, Certificate of Study and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in cooperation with the Graduate Theological Union.

At commencement, Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows '97; West/ Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation Co-chair and Executive Director Ernesto Cortés, Jr.; and House of Deputies President Gay Clark Jennings received honorary degrees.

ALUMNI NEWS The Rev. LaClaire Atkins '19 is Bishop’s Society Curate at St. Andrew’s in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Rev. Ricardo Avila '10 is rector of St. Luke's in Los Gatos, California, after four years at St. Luke's, Long Beach. He and his husband, William, live in San Mateo.

The Rev. Kathleen Bean CAS '16 is associate rector at St. Thomas in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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The Rt. Rev. Thomas Brown '97 was ordained and consecrated tenth bishop of the Diocese of Maine on June 22.

The Rev. Michael Coburn '19 is deacon at Holy Cross in Edgewood, New Mexico.

The Rev. Shanna Hawks '19 is curate at All Saints’ in Richland, Washington.

The Rev. Phil Hooper '19 is curate at Trinity in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Rev. Mia Kano '19 is assistant rector for youth and family at St. Andrew's in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

The Rev. Daniel Kline CAS '19 is assistant rector at St. Paul's Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He and the Rev. Jessie Thompson '19 were married on June 29.

The Rev. Aaron Klinefelter '19 is associate rector at Trinity in Menlo Park, California.

The Rev. Alex Leach '19 is curate at St. Martin's in Davis, California.

He has been awarded an Episcopal Evangelism Society Grant for a Christian camp at Burning Man, an arts and alternative living event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

The Rev. Alison Lee '19 is priestin-charge at St. Andrew's in Nogales, Arizona.

Angela Lerena CAS '19 is diocesan administrator and bishop’s executive assistant for the Diocese of San Joaquin. Upon her ordination this month, she will become curate at St. James Cathedral in Fresno, California.

Judith F. Lyons ’19 is associate for spiritual care and the arts at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Palos Verdes, California. In March, she created a special liturgy, titled “Through the Eyes of Mary,” for the closing of a photography exhibit, titled “Our Sister’s Keeper,” at the Cathedral Center of the Diocese of Los Angeles.

The Rev. Julia McCray-Goldsmith CAS '14 is priest-in-charge at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California.

The Rev. Kathleen Moore '19 is deacon at St. James in Arlington, Vermont.

Daniel Pinell '19 will become a resident at Grace in Ocala, Florida, in January. The parish’s residency program is a training program similar to a curacy.

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The Rev. Sarah Kye Price '19 is priest associate at St. Mark's in Richmond, Virginia.

Ed Stewart '19 is senior director of academic administration at Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California.

The Rev. Brian Rallison '18 is rector at the Episcopal Churches of Grace Church and the Incarnation & Holy Innocents St. Paul's in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Rt. Rev. Susan Brown Snook '03 was ordained and consecrated fifth bishop of the Diocese of San Diego on June 15.

The Rev. Sarah Thomas '19 is curate at Trinity in Santa Barbara.

The Rev. Jessie Thompson CAS '19 is deacon-in-charge at St. James in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, and St. John the Evangelist in Essington, Pennsylvania. She and the Rev. Daniel Kline '19 were married on June 29.

The Rev. Liz Tichenor MDiv '12, MA '13 became rector of Church of the Resurrection in Pleasant Hill, California, in November.

The Rev. Mary Robinson White '94 is priest-in-partnership at St. James in Arlington, Vermont. She was previously rector of St. Andrew's in Albany, New York.

The Rev. Nikky Wood '18 was ordained to the priesthood on November 30 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California.

FACULTY NEWS Jamie Apgar contributed the chapter “How to Sing like Angels: Isaiah, Ignatius of Antioch, and Protestant Worship in England,” in “Music, Myth, and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” ed. Katherine Butler and Samantha Bassler (Boydell & Brewer, 2019).

Assistant Professor Julián Andrés González Holguín gave a lecture titled "Pedagogy, Racism and Biblical Studies" at Fuller Theological Seminary on October 24. In early October, he also gave a keynote address at the Episcopal Preaching Foundation Vancouver Conference on "Preaching the Hebrew Text and the Old Testament."

Adjunct Professor Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero is assistant professor of worship and liturgy at United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia and Gettysburg. He concluded his teaching at CDSP during the 2019 summer intensive.

Assistant Professor Scott MacDougall has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies at the University of Durham for a three-year period beginning October 1. His recent publications include “An Overview and Critical Appreciation of Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, Volume 1: The Doctrine

of God,” Anglican Theological Review 101 (2019), and “Bodily Communions: An Eschatological Proposal for Addressing the Christian Body Problem,” Dialog 57 (2018).

Caroline McCall is working with colleagues at other Episcopal seminaries on an Episcopal Church Foundation project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, on developing financial literacy during seminary.

A delegation from Nanjing Theological Seminary visited CDSP on October 14 for conversations with the Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer of Trinity Church Wall Street, President Richardson, and other leaders about possible faculty and student exchanges between the two schools.

Academic Dean Ruth Meyers's latest book, "Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God's People, Going Out in God's Name," has been published in Chinese. The Chinese edition of the book was translated

by Connie Au and published by the Chinese Christian Literature Council. Professor Meyers has edited an issue of Liturgy, the journal of the Liturgical Conference, on new marriage rites for the Episcopal Church. The issue also includes an article by former adjunct professor Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero on Lutheran wedding rites, and one by Chun Wai Lam DMin '13 on new wedding rites in the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (Hong Kong Anglican Church). During the spring semester, Professor Meyers was on sabbatical and, with the support of a Conant Grant, studied worship in culturally diverse and multiracial congregations in the Episcopal Church.

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On October 11, residential students participated in a day-long race and reconciliation workshop with leaders from the Kaleidoscope Institute.

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STUDENT NEWS The Rev. Anthony Jones '20 is assisting priest at St. Augustine's in Brooklyn, New York. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 14 at Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York.

Liz Milner, a CAS student, became executive director at CIC Ministries in Santa Clara County, California, on June 1. CIC provides chaplaincy services within the county jails, ministering to about 3,500 men and women, and 150 youths.

IN MEMORIAM Arthur Chun Toy, husband of the Rev. Fran Toy '84, '96, died on April 15. A memorial service took place at St. John’s in Oakland, California, on June 8.

Kay Bishop, a former trustee and longtime friend of CDSP, died on April 7. A service was held May 31 at St. Luke’s, San Francisco, and a graveside service was held on June 14 at the family plot in City View Cemetery in Salem, Oregon.

Bishop Martín Barahona D.D. '17, former archbishop of the Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central de America, died on March 27. In 2010, Barahona, a staunch advocate for human rights, survived an assassination attempt.

Shortly afterward, he said, “I have learned several things from this – that I love my people more and more, I won’t stop being a bishop, and I love God.”

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The Reverend Dr. William S. Pregnall D.D. '90, president and dean of CDSP from 1981-1989, died on March 15 at his home in Virginia. He was 87. Pregnall held an MDiv from Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and a DMin from the University of the South and served in the Dioceses of South Carolina, West Virginia, Washington and Louisiana. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Joye; two children; and six grandchildren. A son, Marshall, died in 2016.

The Rev. Canon Randolf J. Rice '72, died on September 27 in San Jose, Costa Rica.

The Rev. Arlen Towers '64 died on September 28.

The Bottom Line is Better, and That’s Not All We’re doing the work necessary to ensure CDSP’s growth By

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Some of the benefits of CDSP’s new relationship with Trinity Church Wall Street are showing up on our budget sheets — and elsewhere.

We finished fiscal year 2019 with a surplus, and our audit for that period was clean. Both the Fall 2019 budget and proposed budget for calendar year 2020 include increased spending for new staff and faculty positions, increased scholarship assistance and improved employee health benefits.

Both of these budgets are balanced.

We have begun making capital improvements to our aging structures, while planning future projects. New boilers are being installed in Parsons Hall, and fire and life safety studies are underway for work that will be completed in 2020 and 2021.

Our accreditation body, the Association of Theological Schools, has not only approved our change in governance, but at a recent focused visit noted the positive impact our relationship with Trinity has had on our financial well-being.

These achievements are tangible examples of the stabilization and strengthening of CDSP’s financial position. We anticipate that we will continue this period of equilibrium and

slow growth for the next few years, while work on strategic plans and a master plan for the campus are created. So much of this work is unseen by the general public, and even by our students. Yet, it is the foundational work necessary for CDSP’s future growth, and I find this progress very exciting.

Our first six months under the Trinity umbrella have been a busy and productive time. Both institutions recognized early on that we had to be sensitive to, and cognizant of, the cultural differences between CDSP and Trinity. As part of this process, a Steering Committee has been created made up of the leadership teams from both organizations. The Steering Committee collaborates on exploring topics brought to it by working groups dealing with issues that include academics, communications, community life, finance, and infrastructure.

The Steering Committee meets twice a month and brings matters that require decisions to the executive team of the Steering Committee. That team is made up of CDSP’s president and dean, and two members of Trinity’s leadership team. They make decisions on matters that do not require Board of Trustees approval. The Executive Team reports directly to the Board of Trustees, a governance structure like CDSP’s prior model.

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As part of our integration into Trinity, CDSP’s human resources and payroll needs are now provided by Trinity.

Our employees receive health benefits under Trinity’s plans, which are more robust and generous than we could provide when we were an independent entity.

We have made large strides this past half year as we collaborate and work together. There are many new and exciting things being worked on, and we look forward to sharing information about those soon. CDSP is on a trajectory toward becoming an even more influential and important center for theological education and formation, and will continue to be a place that makes all our alums and friends proud to have continued this journey with us.

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