Fac u lt y & S ta ff Faculty News Dr. Scott Bader-Saye, academic dean and professor of Christian ethics and moral theology, presented two talks in October as part of the Distin guished Lecture Series at St. Michael and All Angels in Dallas. The talks were titled “Bonds of Affection in a Culture of Isolation” and “Alone Together: Technology, Youth Culture, and the Church.” He wrote “Bonds of Affection: How do we love when we disagree?” that was published in November in The Christian Century magazine. In December he spoke at St. Paul’s, Waco, on the topic “I am what I fear.” In January he spoke to the Clericus in Victoria, Texas, on the topic, “Discretionary Funds and Endless Need: Exploring the Ethics of Charity.” Also in January, he convened a session at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Chicago, Illinois, on the topic “Loyalty and Law in Islamic and Christian Political Thought: Reappraising a Civic Virtue in Liberal Democracies.” Following that conference, he attended the Council of Deans meeting for the Episcopal seminaries. He will be giving three lectures at Lenoir-Rhyne University and Lutheran Southern Theological Seminary in March on “Guns, Violence, and Fear: A Theological Response to the Idolatry of Security.” Also in March he will give two lectures to an interfaith community organizing group in Edmonton, Alberta, on the topic “Civic Virtue and the Culture of Fear.”
essays for The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2015.
The Rev. Paul Barton, PhD, associate professor of the history of American Christianity and missiology and director of Hispanic Church Studies, was elected vice-president of the Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH), a national organization that supports theological education of Latinos/Hispanics at their October meeting at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He co-sponsored the conference “Crossing the Border: Youth Ministry” at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in November. Hispanic clergy and laity from Austin, Houston and San Antonio were present. Paul served as presider of the conference and moderator of the clergy panel on youth ministry. Paul served as the co-chair of the Evangelical Studies Group at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in November in San Diego. He is scheduled to submit six
Dr. Steve Bishop, professor of Old Testament taught a class at All Saints’, Austin, titled “The Art of Biblical Poetry” and he taught a three-week series at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Austin, on the Book of Daniel and a four-week course at Good Shepherd on the “Strange Story of Balaam.” Bishop taught an adult formation forum at St. David’s, Austin, in February on “Hagar: An Unlikely Matriarch.”
Frederick L. Clement, executive vice president, attended the Batts Morrison Wales & Lee non-profit business officers seminar on accounting, tax and employment law in Orlando in October. In late November, he traveled to San Antonio for the annual conference of chief business officers of the Association of Theological Schools and Colleges. These meetings focused on issues related to the Affordable Care Act, regulatory policy, strategic planning and higher education administration.
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The Rev. Nathan Jennings, PhD, associate professor of Liturgics and Anglican Studies, had his blog “Henri de Lubac and human nature” posted on The Living Church web blog. Nathan references what he learned from focusing on Lubac while teaching the Theology II course at Southwest.
Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, associate professor of church history, served as co-chair of the History of Christianity section overseeing the design and implementation of its panels at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and he was appointed to the steering committee of the Society for the Study of Anglicanism, which meets concurrently with the American Academy of Religion. Dan had a review of David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition printed in