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THE CLASS OF

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What Our Community is About

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THE CLASS OF 2020: REAL GRADUATES

By Dr. Garwood Anderson

UNTIL NEXT TIME: A REFLECTION ON BEING A GRADUATE IN 2020

By The Rev. Mason Waldhauser, ‘20

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THEN THE WORLD WILL KNOW

By Dr. Jim Watkins

By Marie Griffith

PREPARATION: WHAT OUR COMMUNITY IS ABOUT

By Rebecca Terhune, ‘15

FOLLOWING A CALL TO MINISTERING FOR THE CHRISTIAN ETHIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. ELISABETH RAIN KINCAID

By Rebecca Terhune, ‘15

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THE CLASS OF

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Real

GRADUATES DR. GARWOOD ANDERSON

President & Provost, Professor of New Testament & Greek

Commencement ceremonies are a highlight in

evening of what would have been Commencement,

the life of every academic institution but, if it is

Dawn and I wandered through the student housing

possible, even more so at Nashotah House. I doubt

with gift bags for our graduates – a sincere gesture

there is any seminary that has more graduates

that could hardly make up for the absent pomp and

return for these festivities than ours. And our

circumstance.

graduates go out in style, with a sung High Solemn Mass, three Sacred Ministers, two thurifers – all the trappings. But that celebration is preceded by the Commencement itself, graduates individually kneeling while Latin words are pronounced (or mispronounced, as the case may be – few of our “deans” are Latinists) over them eliciting a proud

But our students did graduate. They did earn their degrees. They are serving in parishes and chaplaincies and in the diverse ministries for which they prepared. The ceremony is delayed, but the service is already begun. Therein lies the greater joy and the bigger accomplishment.

“Placet” (“it is right”) from the assembled faculty,

When we gather in May of 2021, the class of

discipuli returning to their seats as alumni.

2020 (we hope all of them) along with the class of

May 2020 was different.

2021 will share a grander celebration. And like the disciples of Jesus that they are, the class of 2020

As their Greek teacher for most of the past fourteen

will return to tell their stories of “preaching the

years, it especially pleases me to hold that Greek

kingdom of God and healing.” And bread will be

New Testament over their heads. I am tempted to

broken, and loaves will be multiplied, and we

switch out the New Testament for each student:

ourselves will be broken and multiplied and

“A” students get the Greek New Testament; “B”

sent once again.

students get a Greek-English interlinear; the rest get a large-print Living Bible! I resist.

Even as this broken bread was scattered over the

With most institutions of higher education

so let Thy Church be gathered together from the

improvising around the pandemic, we postponed our Commencement exercises to a later date, hoping at first for September 2020, holding out now for a double celebration in May of 2021. I don’t

hills, and was gathered together and became one, ends of the earth into Thy kingdom; for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ forever (Didache 9:4).

think anyone can really appreciate what these kinds of festivities mean to us, individually and corporately, until we’re forced to go without. On the

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Congratulati ons!

THE CLASS OF

ERIN M. DIERICX

Certificate of Anglican Studies

COREY BLAINE FRENCH Master of Pastoral Ministry

EDWARD FRANCIS PATRICK GIBBONS

SONYA ANNA BOYCE

SARA McCRACKEN OXLEY

JOHN FREDERICK TUCKER JR.

EDWARD ALEXANDER FITZHUGH

DAVID BRENT MANLEY

Certificate of Anglican Studies

Master of Pastoral Ministry

Master of Divinity

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Master of Ministry

Master of Pastoral Ministry

Master of Divinity

JENNIFER H. DORSEY Master of Ministry

CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL WRIGHT

Master of Pastoral Ministry

MAUREEN LOUISE MARTIN Master of Divinity

MATTHEW THOMAS ROGERS Master of Divinity

CLIFFORD M. SYNER III Master of Divinity

PETER CHRISTOPHER SCHELLHASE Master of Divinity

MASON MURROW WALDHAUSER Master of Divinity

ELIZABETH BRUMFIELD PAPAZOGLAKIS Doctor of Ministry

2020

LEE RICHARD STAFKI Master of Divinity

SHAWN PATRICK McCAIN Doctor of Ministry

GENE WILTON (TRIPP) PRINCE III Doctor of Ministry

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Until Next Time

A REFLECTION ON BEING A GRADUATE IN 2020 THE REV. MASON WALDHAUSER, ‘20

This year, 2020, has been a strange year for

known that my last mass as a student in St. Mary’s

everyone, and I don’t imagine it was harder for me

Chapel would be my last mass as a student in St.

as a student than it was for most other people. I

Mary’s Chapel, I probably would have cried. So

didn’t have anything big derailed in my life. Things

maybe it was a good thing I didn’t realize it. I’m

felt different but not debilitating or scary. In many

not sure whether to consider my goodbye abrupt

ways, I feel like Nashotah was the most wonderful

or extended, to be honest. I have noticed in the

place one could be for the onset of a pandemic.

two classes before mine that their commencement

The switch to online classes made for a very relaxing way to end my term, believe it or not. It gave me more of an appreciation of Nashotah’s way of life. I didn’t realize how much of my time at seminary had formerly been spent on things that weren’t class. Finals week felt very relaxed

week was very busy, so they ended up saying rather hurried goodbyes to Nashotah House. But for me, I didn’t know I was saying goodbye to the “old

I suppose that graduating during Coronatide added

alumni I knew were feeling when they would say,

to the uncertainty of “life after seminary.” It was

“When I was a student here . . . ” and I think fondly

already difficult to picture what life would be like

about my own three years. I wouldn’t trade them.

as a priest, a non-student, and “an adult.” Going

Even closing out my time with the pandemic, it feels

out into a confused world, it really felt like I was

like I have so much to be thankful for.

commencing into the unknown.

So this goodbye feels more like “until next time.” I

So yes, it was a strange time to graduate. What

certainly feel a sense of open-endedness with my

I lost in being able to say sentimental goodbyes

Nashotah House story, and I wonder if that will ever

was gained in being able to say unhurried, perhaps

change. Part of me hopes not. But the best closure,

more reflective, goodbyes. And I’ve got to be

I think, will be wearing some goofy preaching tabs

honest, I actually really enjoy knowing that I haven’t

and a pink hood and hearing the word “Placet!”

walked and had my commencement ceremony yet. I like having that reason to return to Nashotah House. I like the feeling that there’s still some to move on. My experience of being a Nashotah House seminarian is not one of closure yet, and I am kind of enjoying that.

normal” life there until we had already been online

I am officially a Son of the House. And I have been

for a few weeks. When the quarantine began, we

back already twice to visit as an alumnus. Each

thought we’d be back in chapel by Palm Sunday.

time, when others are talking about their work crews and rota duties, I am reminded that I am

Then again, I could really take my time in leaving.

in my schedule. I went from having to be showered

I stayed on campus much later than I needed to.

and dressed, and in chapel by 7:45 a.m. to logging

More so than saying goodbye to the place, I think

into my class in my apartment at 9:40 a.m. My

I was dragging my feet on saying goodbye to the

Nashotah day was over at 12:30 p.m. rather than

relationships, even though they were spotty and

I was wondering when I visited what it would

4:30 p.m. I never felt pressed for time.

distanced. I think just being on campus together,

feel like to be back, since it is not my home turf

even if we weren’t hanging out, made it feel like

anymore. The “middlers” aren’t middlers anymore,

“we’re all in this together.”

and a third of the people are new faces. They’re

however, didn’t feel straightforward at all. If I had

ascended up into heaven. It was probably like: “These last few years with you have changed me. In

unfinished business there and it’s not yet time

because of how much wide-open space there was

The process of saying goodbye to the House,

It all makes me wonder how Christ felt as he

not a student anymore, and I think of St. Paul’s words to the Galatians, “And now you are no longer slaves, but sons.”

worshiping outside now. Already I get what the

some ways, this feels too abrupt. But I’ll be back.”

Until then.

The Rev. Mason Waldhauser, ’20, is a newly ordained priest in the Anglican Province of America, serving as curate of St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Denver, Colorado. He grew up a Baptist before discovering Anglicanism when he was seventeen. He became an Anglo-Catholic at Pusey House, Oxford, while studying abroad during college, working on his B.A. in philosophy from Eastern University. After graduating, he went straight to Nashotah House, where, during his residential M.Div, he found his passion for the spiritual life. Now as a curate, he seeks to form his parishioners in the life of prayer and by the Word and Sacraments to bring souls into conscious union with God and to realize this more and more in his own life. But the rest of the time, he’s journaling somewhere in a hammock, dabbling in random reading interests, and playing golf.

“I think just being

“What I lost in being

on campus together,

able to say sentimental

even if we weren’t

goodbyes was gained

hanging out, made it

in being able to say

feel like ‘we’re all in

unurried, perhaps more

this together.’”

reflective, goodbyes.”

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Interior of St. Michael’s by the Sea

A PROVIDENTIAL

DEVELOPMENT: The Bible & Theology in Color DR. JIM WATKINS

The difference between mere serendipity and divine grace is not always easy to discern.

However, God’s provision at Nashotah House this summer was abundantly clear. When we experience grace given in the right way and at the right time, we are called to witness to God’s goodness. I am excited to share this story.

“We are willing to take on hard

For more than a year, Nashotah House had

American, Asian American, and Latino/a American

been planning to host a course called The

Christians to the body of Christ.

Bible & Theology in Color taught by Dr. Esau McCaulley (‘13). Dr. McCaulley is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews under the supervision of N.T. Wright.

Although the relationship between race and Christianity has long been an important academic topic, no one knew that the cultural conversation about race in the United States would reach such a fever pitch in the summer of 2020.

The Bible & Theology in Color assumes that the kingdom of God will consist of people of every tribe, tongue, and nation offering their gifts to the one true God and king (Rev 7:9). One aspect of these gifts will be the unique testimony each culture and ethnic group gives to the work of God in their midst. Telling that story need not wait for the new heavens and new earth! This course is an introduction to the unique contributions of African

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While The Bible & Theology in Color was under development, Nashotah House launched a new online course platform for The Chapter.

This exciting initiative promised to open new ways for Nashotah House to fulfill its mission to train men and women for lay and ordained ministries, empowering the church to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. By offering online course material for free, Nashotah House could place powerful, gospel-centered resources into the hands of

things. We know the incredible privilege that we have as a parish in an affluent neighborhood in San Diego, and it is not lost on us that so many of the people who are part of these protests do not share those privileges. And there

parishes.

was a deep conviction that the

Nashotah House recorded Dr. McCaulley’s course

church must be in the debate.”

The Bible & Theology in Color as its first free online course. We wanted to offer parishes a high quality and trusted resource on a topic that had become so divisive. We hoped that The Bible & Theology in Color would meet a real and tangible need.

ERICA MARTIN

SENIOR WARDEN, ST. MICHAEL’S

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As we prepared to launch this course, St. Michael’s

When Fr. Stambaugh took the idea of sponsoring

by the Sea, an historic Episcopal church in

Dr. McCaulley’s course to the vestry, they were

Carlsbad, California, offered to partner with us. St.

in agreement. Erica Martin, Senior Warden of

Michael’s is an affluent, predominately white parish

St. Michael’s, said that the vestry, “had a robust

of about 300 members that has served Carlsbad

discussion, but there was a general feeling that

for over 120 years. Although its proximity to several

we need to do something to directly respond to

military bases brings people to St. Michael’s

the movement going on around us. We are willing

from all over the country, it is a largely mono-

to take on hard things. We know the incredible

cultural church. Fr. Doran Stambaugh, rector of

privilege that we have as a parish in an affluent

St. Michael’s by the Sea, was looking for a way to

neighborhood in San Diego, and it is not lost on us

respond to a culture wrestling with race. He says,

that so many of the people who are part of these

“In the midst of the 2020 social upheaval around

protests do not share those privileges. And there

racial injustice, I felt strongly compelled to do

was a deep conviction that the church must be in

something as a parish community. But what to do?!

the debate.”

Fr. McCaulley’s Nashotah House summer course was truly a providential development.” What they could do was become the official sponsor for The

Bible & Theology in Color.

St. Michael’s did not merely want a resource for themselves. They wanted to serve a greater purpose. Fr. Stambaugh says, “Our support of Nashotah House in general, and this course in

particular, is one small way we hope can make

California is exciting. Who’s to say it can’t happen

a difference for the good of the wider church

anywhere else in the world!

and Kingdom of God.” Because of their support, parishes around the world have access to over 16 hours of excellent lectures and supporting materials, such as a bibliography of suggested reading, quizzes, and course outlines.

In addition to supporting the course financially, St. Michael’s also implemented the course in their parish. A team, led by Fr. Stambaugh, watched all of Dr. McCaulley’s lectures and discussed a strategy for bringing the material to their parishioners.

On Sept. 13, St. Michael’s hosted its first Zoom meeting to discuss The Bible & Theology in

Color. The group met for about one hour. To prepare for the Zoom meeting, attendees were directed to access the course materials on The Chapter. In the Zoom meeting, Fr. Stambaugh opened with a prayer and explanation of key terms.

He then showed about 25 minutes of the first lecture, and a panel of nine people representative of the entire parish responded. During the panel discussion, Zoom’s chat feature is disabled and individual mics are muted. This helps the group stay focused on the topic, but attendees are encouraged to submit questions through St. Michael’s website and the panel addresses those questions at the next Zoom meeting. They plan to continue meeting in this way at least until January, perhaps until Lent.

On average, 30 people attend these meetings, and

Silverio Gonzalez, a St. Michael’s parishioner, says that going through The Bible & Theology

in Color with his church community has been a powerful and hopeful experience. He arrived at St. Michael’s after leaving predominately white Evangelical spaces that minimized racial injustices.

As a black Christian, he says that “This course, while intellectually stimulating and theologically insightful, can help you to provide pastoral care to people like me, people who feel like outcasts in society, people who feel invisible when we are inconvenient and tokenized when it’s time to show the diversity of the parish to attract younger families.” Gonzalez is encouraged that his church is honestly wrestling with issues of race, and he hopes other pastors will consider using the course in their parishes.

Some parishes may feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of material provided in The Bible

& Theology in Color and by its high academic level. Churches may be looking for an “easy” way to engage our cultural moment, but, as Erica Martin points out, “I do not think there is an easy way to address the complex and controversial issues that are being raised in our country. For those, like myself, who don’t really know how to do that and who are struggling to understand, this is a tool.

It feels like the way to begin to understand each other. Whatever path you choose, it will take time.”

already the course is bearing fruit for St. Michael’s.

If your parish is struggling to talk about race, this

According to Fr. Stambaugh, “Every Sunday

is a great place to start. There are many ways to

different light bulbs are going off in people’s minds,

customize The Bible & Theology in Color

in the same way that they went off for me my first

to fit the needs of your community. The Bible &

time through the course. The panelist discussion

Theology in Color will open your heart and mind to voices of diverse traditions all proclaiming the gospel that Jesus Christ is Lord. What do you have to lose? Soak it in, and see where God leads you. Z

is very rich, often personal, and even vulnerable.

There’s an overall air of gratitude for the openness and candor.” Learning that a Nashotah House education can challenge and stretch a parish in St. Michael’s by the Sea “Bible & Theology in Color” planning committee on a Zoom meeting

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THEN THE WORLD

WILL KNOW MARIE GRIFFITH

I believe that. I’ve always believed that. The

learn what it meant to a black man. This happened

question then is this: Do I live like I believe it?

throughout the course. We gained different

The class has changed me deeply in a variety of ways, and I believe there are more changes to come.

In addition to my own study, I’ve learned about God and the Bible mostly through white male pastors and scholars. This gave me a limited view of God and His Kingdom. I did not do this on purpose, but I

“We have a

didn’t do the work of looking for and learning from a

responsibility to

diverse group of theologians, authors, and pastors.

pay attention, to listen, and learn from our brothers & sisters. We

hearts toward the brokenness of the world or the broken ones in it.”

I found out about The Bible & Theology

my white evangelical world is, and The Color of

in Color course in the middle of reading The Color of Compromise (2019) by Jemar Tisby and participating in the Facebook study group with Tisby and the Witness, a Black Christian collective that engages issues of religion, race, justice, and culture from a biblical perspective.

Compromise opened my eyes to my ignorance and

When I learned the free course offered “the

history, and hear what they had to say to the church.

opportunity to study the history and theological insights of the Black Church, Latino/a Protestantism, and Asian American Christians and learn what these insights have to teach us about the present moment,” I signed up. The present moment was heavy and confusing for me, a white woman who has been around or in the church my entire life. Only in the last several years have I realized how narrow-minded

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my failure to love all my siblings well.

I knew my black and brown brothers and sisters were feeling a weight and a pain I could never know, and I wanted to learn from them. The course promised to help me appreciate their insights, their

As we began the course, Dr. McCaulley asked that we engage with humility and invited us into a lifetime of study. His claim is this: the Bible contains the story of God bringing glory to himself by creating a diverse group of people and bringing them into a community centered around him and rooted in the good creation he has made.

words of Jesus because we read the interpretation of them from a non-white scholar. One of our assignments included a lecture by James Cone (1938-2018), the founder of black liberation theology, and professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Cone spoke boldly and truthfully. I heard the pain of oppression and a passionate call to resistance. We read J. Doetis Roberts, Jonathan Y. Tan, Robert Chao Romero, and participated in roundtable discussions

I thought I cared and loved my black and brown

on Womanist perspective. All are enlightening. I

brothers and sisters well enough. But how can

wonder now what other treasures I’ve missed in

I love them well when I don’t know them? How

the Bible due to my failure to learn from people

can I know them when I’m not listening to them or

different from me.

learning from them?

can’t harden our

perspectives on a Bible story or a Psalm or the

I’m in awe that the most oppressed people trusted

Over and over again, God tells his people to

Jesus even though those in authority over them

remember. We can’t remember what we haven’t

distorted the teaching of the Gospel. Jesus is to my

learned. So, we pay attention. We listen with

black and brown brothers and sisters something he

curiosity and humility. We learn their stories. Dr.

isn’t to me. Something more vital. As I learn from

Diane Langberg says it this way, “Teach me what it

them, I know Jesus better and I have a clearer view

is like to be you.”

of God and the Kingdom.

The more I learn, the more I hear their pain and

This class opened my eyes to ways in which I need

their cries for justice. I believe them, and I believe

to be more intentional in how I practice my faith.

their pain. When we’ve learned from them, we can

What we believe matters, and how we live it out

remember together. Though remembering can be

matters. People are looking for someone to help

painful, remembering well and honestly builds our

them make sense of what is happening in the world.

faith, grows our patience, gives us courage and hope, and enlarges our hearts so that we look on others with compassion.

We have a responsibility to pay attention, to listen, and learn from our brothers and sisters. We can’t harden our hearts toward the brokenness of the

“We need all cultures throughout time to help us

world or the broken ones in it. We must work with

discern the mind of Christ,” said Dr. McCaulley.

them toward justice in a Christian way. At the least,

Reading black and brown theologians taught me a

this means calling injustice by its name.

truer and fuller gospel. In one of the first lessons, Dr. McCaulley reminded us of the blessing of Ephraim and Mannasah. I’ve read this plenty of times, but it was necessary and important that I

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Audrey reading during morning chapel

Preparation: What Our

COMMUNITY

Is About

An Interview with Julia Hendrix & Audrey Sutton, Seniors at Nashotah House

REBECCA TERHUNE, ‘15

Describe what it’s like to enter your senior year at Nashotah House, in the middle of a global pandemic, living on campus with your respective families. Did you have any expectations of what the coming year might be?

AUDREY: The transition, in a way, crept up on me. I was prepared, but not cognizant of really becoming a senior, much less the person leading Student Commons. It does feel organic, but I am sure that is part of my personality; I have always found myself in places of leadership before I notice that I am leading. This experience has pieces of experience that will be valuable in parish ministry, and I really do love this community. Having the opportunity to serve and be involved has been really enjoyable.

I can see how your position has been exhausting for sure! I think I feel a deeper sense of anxiety, if I had to name a feeling. Oh, we are ALL SO GRATEFUL to be attending Chapel again! [During the spring and into the summer, chapel attendance, like everything else during the “shutdown,” had to be done online.] I remember holding back tears that first morning at Chapel on the Garth – what a gift we have to be able to worship during this pandemic!

It has been a wild ride through 2020, to be sure!

I think having to minister and worship (and live in community) during this time is really adding to our “tool boxes” and shaping us for the new landscape we will find ourselves in after graduation. I have a calmer sense of preparedness than I did last year

Both Nashotah House seniors, Julia Hendrix is a candidate for holy orders in the diocese of Fond du Lac, and Audrey Sutton is a postulant for holy orders in the diocese of Dallas. Both are pursuing their M.Div. degree and sat (socially distanced) with The Chapter coordinator Rebecca Terhune (MTS, ‘15) to talk about their spiritual and intellectual formation at Nashotah House, the community life at the seminary, and the challenges of becoming confident leaders in Christ’s church.

and have an idea of who I may be as a minister in the midst of a pandemic.

ministry made everything that much more difficult.

These days at Nashotah we have what I refer to as pop-up church – we pop up all the chairs and the altar area out on the Garth for each service and then we take it all down again. It can be very physically tiring and, on top of all the other things sacristans are supposed to take care of, it gets to be much more intensive than in previous years. But we are grateful to have any services at all!

My junior year was hard – for both personal reasons and adjustment-to-seminary reasons. You and I were two of four women on campus when the campus had not had women in several years. I think it was an adjustment, too, for some of the other students.

Middler year was just crazy for me – working in the sacristy, my SPM (Supervised Practice of Ministry), I became a grandmother. But I think, as with a lot of seminarians, I felt like I was home – I had gotten over the “drinking from the fire hose” stage of my junior year. And my senior year, thus far, being Senior Sacristan, looking forward to my transitional diaconate, GOEs, etc. I’m still going full boar.

All of this is to say – Nashotah PREPARES you!

“This is a beautiful

Would you say you

day, because of our Benedictine focus (work crew),

place of higher education

feel prepared for

because of the intensity of our studies, because of

what we

the incredible support the Nashotah community

may face?

has provided for me and my family, I really think

the opportunity to live in community.”

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COVID, as I am sure for everyone doing any kind of

Because we’re required to attend chapel twice a

that gives every person

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last school year was fine – that is until COVID hit.

JULIA: The transition to being Senior Sacristan during

that I am prepared to go out into the world. And I think that’s what everyone who goes to seminary wants, right?

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Audrey with friends on campus

PREPARATION continued from page 17

AUDREY: Real Preparation, for sure! I feel like

is simply not the current reality of Nashotah. This

way we can avoid one

“Now, more than ever,

Junior year was especially difficult and formative

is a beautiful place of higher education that gives

another for long. And

for me. I had the heartache of experiencing raw

every person the opportunity to live in community.

now, more than ever,

we need to be sending

misogyny and the gift of healing through a series of

Pax Nashotah is alive and well here . . . so many

we need to be sending

situations. The support I found through professors

of us hold different theological perspectives, yet we

out priests who will be

able to navigate the

and administration merged with the efforts of my

share a genuine love and affection for one another.

able to navigate the

divides in our country.

diocese and my own drive for reconciliation. These

Trying to explain this can be challenging sometimes.

divides in our country. I

are real-life situations we, as women, will face the

Changing history can be hard.

think Nashotah equips

I think Nashotah

rest of our lives in our call and vocation. Combine this with the season of CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) and WHAM! Nashotah has provided the tools, and the Lord has shaped and refined, and I am humbled and in awe at the creation I am being formed into these past three years. I feel exceptionally close to each and every person in our class as a result of everything we have gone through, the good and the (not really so) bad! I

been God-led and absolutely prepared me to step into the role of Senior Student. I love this place and the people so dearly, and have great joy in serving them while having a venue to exercise my gifts.

not as concerned. I think that for me, the idea that something that I found not to be true. Yes, we are

have taken away from Nashotah House, what

Anglo-Catholic, but you will find all sorts who live

would it be?

here on campus – conservative theologically, but

AUDREY: PREPARATION! I feel confident and

remarkable! I give thanks to God and those that

ready to face so many different situations, and the

helped me get here – this is a gift I will treasure

education to inform (and support) how I navigate

the rest of my life. Each of the steps (forward and

said situations.

JULIA: Preparation too – it’s not just that we have not just that we live in community together (which we do!) – we have all of this and our “real” lives, all of this and our studies. We have truly lived a life in which we are not just tested in our classrooms, but

What is a unique

equips us for that.”

JULIA HENDRIX

success that you have personally experienced at Nashotah House, something that challenged you in your leadership skills, that you can now see in looking back how God was stretching you and teaching you through the

very liberal politically, and vice-versa. Diversity is

experience.

truly the word I’m looking for. Nashotah is much

AUDREY: Reconciliation. True friendship. Love when

more diverse than people think it is.

an opportunity to “teach someone a lesson” could have been tempting. Understanding the feelings

When you return home, and people ask you about

of those that have experienced bias, watching

Nashotah House, are there any misconceptions

professors treat students with dignity, even when

that you sometimes find yourself correcting?

it was undeserving, the list goes on. I have seen,

AUDREY: See the above comment! I am TEC, and my best friend at Nashotah House is with ACNA. Those of us who don’t agree theologically still have

and have chosen, how to live with integrity, grit, and love. Like Mary, I will try to always choose the better portion; Nashotah has helped show me how.

deep meaningful relationships with each other. We

JULIA: At the beginning of this school year, one of

care for one another and express the true meaning

my closest friends came up to me and said, “Stop.”

truly prepared!

of Christian love and community. It makes me sad

“Stop, what?” I asked. He said, “Stop worrying.”

when people don’t (or won’t) see this.

I said, “What are you talking about?” “You, Julie,

Describe a challenge in your experience here that

JULIA: I agree with Audrey – my best friends are an

is unique to Nashotah House.

ACNA student and two TEC students. We all really

also having to face situations in our community and in our families that challenge us. We are

AUDREY: The rumors! I have heard so many people tell me what Nashotah is like, some that have never been here. Most rumors surround how Nashotah views/treats women. I know that much of the history at the root of these rumors may hold true (and there are alumni who hold to theological perspectives respectfully and others that exploit their misogyny and gender bias like a new sports car), but this Julia gives a reading during morning chapel

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the House (my dad is a son of the House), I was

If you had only one word that describes what you

so much chapel experience (which we do!) – it’s

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rumors, but I think because I am also a sprout of

Nashotah only took in conservative students was

agree with you: the education I have received is

back!) that I have taken in my formation here, has

JULIA: I had also heard about the Nashotah

us for that.

out priests who will be

don’t see eye-to-eye on theological issues. You would think that the ACNA student and I are more at odds, when really it is with my TEC brother – he and I have a wonderful friendship, but sometimes we really don’t agree on theological issues! And as Audrey says, this is what our community is about.

We at Nashotah have to learn to love each other despite our differences – we really don’t get the option of choosing not to – because there is no

are fine – you are doing a great job; stop worrying about yourself – you are good at what you’re doing – stop worrying!” I needed that – I needed someone, like my friend, to pull me aside and talk to me honestly. I don’t know, and maybe it’s just me, but I think the Holy Spirit often talks to us through other people – especially when we’re not listening – and just having my friend pull me to my senses was a gift. It was a gift of friendship that he was able to talk to me honestly; it was a gift that I needed to hear. And it’s not the only time that continued on page 23 VOL. 34 NO. 2

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STUDENTS & ACADEMICS

Following a Call M I N I S T to

for the

Dr. Kincaid with her husband, Thomas, and children, Sam and Mary Clare

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Christian Ethic

An Interview with Dr. Elisabeth Rain Kincaid

REBECCA TERHUNE, ‘15 Dr. Kincaid is assistant professor of Christian ethics & moral theology at Nashotah House.

She serves as the vice president for the Board of Trustees of the Anglican Theological Review and as a board member of the Fellowship for Protestant Ethicists. She holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. She is currently at work on a monograph retrieving the theological jurisprudence of Francisco Suárez, SJ for contemporary application. Dr. Kincaid is married to The Rev. Thomas Kincaid, and they are parents to two children.

Rebecca Terhune sat down with Dr. Kincaid to discuss her journey and experiences ministering in today’s Christian world.

and to work for the common good. Upon returning

their faith could shape their careers as lawyers or

to Dallas, I began to prayerfully consider what God

business people and, specifically, give them unique

was calling me to do with my career and began a

opportunities to work for justice and the common

long vocational journey which eventually landed me

good. During this period, I learned to depend on

here, at Nashotah House.

God in new ways, as I was responsible for raising all of my own salary and ministry expenses, as well

REBECCA: Describe a bit about how you are able

as working to establish a completely new ministry

to look back on God’s guidance and provision, and

on SMU’s campus. Looking back, I feel incredibly

what were some of the next steps on the path?

blessed that so many wonderful friends and

ELISABETH: After working for several more years in the law and business world, I left to

REBECCA: How would you describe your Christian

given the chance to help train young Indian lawyers

faith and God’s call in your life?

in basic trial techniques. These lawyers were using

ELISABETH: Although I grew up in a Christian family and have always considered my Christian faith important in my life, it wasn’t until a service trip to India with a group of Christian lawyers that I began to consider how my faith might inform my professional vocation as well as my personal life. At that time, I was a young associate at a large Dallas law firm, working as a white-collar criminal defense and securities litigation attorney. On this trip, I was

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their legal training to advocate for children who had been trafficked into brothels. Because of a provision in India’s laws, these lawyers were able to bring private actions to enforce the laws on behalf of victims against brothel owners and sex traffickers.

While I provided legal training for the lawyers, they expanded my understanding of my faith. All of them were pursuing a potentially dangerous and definitely self-sacrificial career path because they believed that God called His people to advocate for justice

enter campus ministry – specifically, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s campus ministry for law and graduate business students. I wanted to share

supporters stepped up around me to support this new ministry in miraculous ways.

REBECCA: What were some challenges you faced in campus ministry?

what I had learned about God’s love for justice

ELISABETH: While I loved the pastoral aspect of

with these students, hoping that understanding

this work and found that my experience in law and

this would transform their sense of their vocations

business gave special insight into the challenges

as lawyers and business people, just as it had

and opportunities that the students would face, I

transformed mine. As a graduate campus minister,

realized that I lacked the proper training to provide

I led small groups, brought in speakers, and

a solid theological foundation. In order to achieve

organized service projects and community events.

this, I began to take courses toward a Master’s

All of these events were designed to help these

in Theology, while continuing with my campus

students begin to engage with the question of how

ministry work.

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FOLLOWING A CALL . . . continued from page 25

REBECCA: Was this a season of determining a call

particular challenging

“I hope to emphasize to

has happened – Audrey just today said something

to further ministry and teaching?

situation. We develop

students that living a life

similar to me – she said, “Your voice matters.” It’s

some of these habits

of discipleship to Christ is

ELISABETH: Combining pastoral work with graduate students and intellectual work in theology helped me determine the next stage in my vocational journey. I realized that pursuing an academic career in teaching theology would enable me even more directly to continue to train students in how God’s call to pursue justice and the common good should inform their vocations. I also realized that pursuing an academic career could provide me an opportunity to train leaders within the church, who could work with their congregations to advance these same goals. This refined sense of my vocation led me to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame.

REBECCA: What are your current research interests? How do these and your past professional experience inform the courses you teach at Nashotah House?

through our own natural capacities

not simply about having

willing to speak the truth when you need to hear it. _____

and others by God’s

the right moral answers,

grace. By including

but rather about becoming

discussion of virtue

people formed in the image

Episcopalian. Her father is a priest and a son of

and likeness of Christ.”

the House. Julia graduated from Carroll University

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with a law degree from the D.C. School of Law, in

ethics in Nashotah House’s Moral Theology classes, I hope to emphasize for students that

living a life of discipleship to Christ is not simply about having the right moral answers, but rather about becoming people formed in the image and likeness of Christ. Looking back, I can see that many of my questions in my professional work and in campus ministry centered around these ideas of personal growth and development in Christ. I’m excited to continue building on the legacy of Fr. Daniel Westberg, my predecessor at Nashotah, in

ELISABETH: Currently, I write and research on a

bringing these types of ethical discussions into the

number of topics, including virtue ethics, natural

classroom. One of the most important texts which

law, work and vocation, and the intersection of law,

students read in Foundations of Moral Theology

business, and theology. My teaching is especially

is his wonderful final work, Renewing Moral

informed by Christian virtue ethics, which is

Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character,

based on the belief that each person is capable

and Grace. I heard a lot about Nashotah House

of developing certain habits or dispositions which

from Fr. Westberg, and it is an honor to be

direct him or her to the proper actions for each

following in his footsteps.

I’ve also enjoyed having the opportunity to draw on my professional background and other research interests in developing new summer ethics electives for Nashotah House. Last summer, I had a wonderful experience teaching on the Christian tradition of justice and the common good. This coming summer, I’m excited to draw on both my professional and ministerial experience, as well as my research in professional ethics, and teach another elective on the connection between the professions, the parish, and moral theology. Z

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nice to be surrounded by loving friends who are

Julia Hendrix grew up in North Central Wisconsin in the Diocese of Fond du Lac. She is a life-long

in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and then graduated Julia sings with the choir

Washington, D.C., an historically black university.

She served as a lawyer for women, children, and prisoners dying of HIV/AIDS, and also worked on immigration issues on Capitol Hill. Julia then obtained a Masters in Education. She and her husband, who works for the U.S. Agency for International Development, have lived in seven different countries, all in Latin America and Africa, where they raised their three children who are now all adults. While overseas, she taught high school English, history, and psychology. She is a proud grandmother of the most adorable 19-month-old.

Audrey Sutton is a native Texan who dreams of the warm air on the coldest Wisconsin days; she will return to the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas after graduation. Before seminary, Audrey worked in youth ministry for many years while multitasking as a full-time mom. She lives with Randall, her husband of 11 years, their two outgoing daughters, and two cuddly cats. She and her family love to draw and paint when indoors and explore, swim, and hike when outdoors. Z

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the white Christian is my brother, and precisely because he is my brother or she is my sister, there are some things they need to do for other members of their family.”

In John 17, Jesus prays, “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – I in them and you in me – so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

Marie Griffith is a mother, an author, and outdoor lover.

She works as the accounting manager for a commercial general contractor. She serves the church through her writing, teaching, mentoring, and occasional speaking.

She writes on her blog Live Like It Matters. Currently, she is involved in deeper biblical study on women and the church. Not to be confused with a study of women in the church, but a study of women and a study on the church. In her spare time, you can find her outdoors. She has enjoyed hiking and backpacking in places such as the Bankhead National Forest, the Appalachian Trail, the Emigrant Wilderness and Roosevelt National Forest. She and her youngest daughter reside in Hartselle, Alabama.

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JACK FRANICEVICH In the world of Christian higher education, it seems

of the church’s commemoration of the martyrs in

everyone and their mother produces devotional

the first few days of Christmastide: “We celebrate

material of some kind for Advent. Meanwhile, from

God’s gift of his Son and, thereby, our salvation on

his tenth-century BC rocking chair, our brother,

Christmas Day but then we are thrown the next day

Qoheleth, cackles, “Of making many books, there is

into the martyrdom of St. Stephen and, perhaps

no end” (Eccl. 12:12). But the great teacher raises

even more tragically, into the deaths of the Holy

his right hand to bless the enterprise anyway:

Innocents on December 28. Why such a macabre

“Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy

turn after such joyous celebration?” Four days

might” (Eccl. 9:10).

later, The Rev. Dr. James B. Lemler (’76) offers a

This year, Nashotah House’s hand has found to make a book, and we’ve doneth it with our might.

If you go to NashotahChapter.com/Advent and submit your email address, the first email you receive every morning will be a reflection on the

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Creation. Where else are you going to find content like this?

Boersma’s piece, “Homelessness in Advent,”

engages the season of waiting, with which we need

written for the First Sunday of Advent and released

help, but also engages the following festal season,

on November 29, 2020, all the way through to the

with which we also need help. The church calendar

Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, 2021, for

continues, and so does ours.

which The Rev. Dr. Oliver O’Donovan wrote a piece called “The Baptism of Christ.”

I just looked at the table of

Other calendars stop keeping time, as much of the world does, after Christmas Day. Nashotah’s Advent + Christmastide project presses through the twelve days of Christmas to the

We are already in the middle of producing our Lent + Eastertide devotional. This one will span fifty-five days, beginning with Shrove Tuesday on February 16, 2021, and running through the octave of Easter on April 11. Read to the end to learn how to preorder print copies of Lent + Eastertide.

Epiphany.

OUR CONTRIBUTORS REPRESENT THE BREADTH OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

On the second day of Christmas, for example, The

The team whose job it was to recruit contributors

Rev. Dr. Greg Peters reflects on the strangeness

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in awe.”

unironically, and even beautifully taking the sixth

day’s lectionary readings, beginning with Dr. Hans

complete, my colleagues and

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was split down the middle: two TEC and two ACNA.

Several contributors examined the Greek grammar

This wasn’t by design – just a natural consequence

and vocabulary behind their assigned Scripture

of forming any kind of team at Nashotah House.

texts. Others commented on the lectionary texts

Within our office walls, and over group email, we asked questions like, “Do you think we could get ___ to write for us?” and “Who on campus is in contact with ___?” And then, far more often than not, the celebratory, “Guys, we got ___! What day should we put them on?” The very few authors who declined our invitations only did so because they were too busy, and they pledged to write for the forthcoming Lent + Eastertide collection.

When all the pieces were in place and the book was complete, my colleagues and I just looked at the table of contents and shook our heads in awe.

Within one week of each other you’ll find bishops from three Anglican denominations (TEC, ACNA, APA). Back-to-back are two associate priests at Anglo-Catholic churches belonging to two different denominations (APA, ACC). Over the span of three days, we’ve got contributions from an Episcopal priest, an Episcopal canon, and an Episcopal bishop. You’ll hear from two scholars in the Church of England and a classical elementary school teacher serving in Hawaii, thirteen professors, five canons, four postulants, three reformed Anglican church planters, two popular podcasters, and a partridge. . .

Lent + Eastertide has already received contributions from friends of the House serving as

alongside St. Athanasius and Christina Rosetti; popular music and seasonal hymns; stories from ministry and stories from their childhoods; reflections on doctrine and reflections on the calendar. Some of the posts are rhapsodically devotional, others are tersely critical. Some linger in the world of Scripture, others bring the texts to bear on our manifold social issues.What holds the volume together is neither a denominational affiliation nor a devotional theme, but an attention to the Scriptures and a commitment to the calendar.

We only intended to produce Advent + Christmastide digitally, but we were so excited about what it had become over the course of production that we made a late decision to do a limited print run. Our office made phone calls to over one hundred of our partnering churches to offer boxes of twenty-five books free of charge.

For the churches who wanted more, we were able to provide extra copies for less than they cost.

Meanwhile, the digital version remains free online.

This February, Nashotah House would love to get a copy of Lent + Eastertide into your hands before Shrove Tuesday at “less-than-cost.” If you’d like to order one, a couple, or a couple hundred, contact us at chapter@nashotah.edu or at 262-646-6530 by Friday, January 15, 2021, so we can get them to you in time.

clergy in Mexico, Pakistan, Honduras, South Africa, and the Anglican Church in Kenya.

WHAT HOLDS THE VOLUME TOGETHER? Other Advent devotional literature is united around a seasonal theme, like “O Come, Let Us Adore Him” or “Advent During a Pandemic,” but we didn’t go that route this time.

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ORDINATIONS & APPOINTMENTS THE REV. JACOB W. DELL, ’08, was appointed Vicar at St. Peter’s, Lithgow, NY. [photo 1] THE REV. MEGHAN DOW FARR, ’13,

accepted a call to serve as Priest-in-Charge of The Northern Highlands Benefice, a group of four Episcopal churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire, WI. [photo 2]

THE REV. EDWARD FITZHUGH, ’20,

accepted a call to serve as Curate of St. Vincent’s Cathedral, Bedford, TX. [photo 3]

THE REV. JOSEPH FRANCIS, SSC, ’18, was elected as the Eighth Rector of the Church of St. Alban the Martyr, in Arlington, TX, a parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (ACNA). He was instituted on October 15 by the Rt. Rev. Ryan.

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THE REV. BENJAMIN HANKINSON, ’13,

was appointed Rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Edwardsville, IL. [photo 5]

THE REV. JULIA ROANE HENDRIX, ’21, was

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THE REV. MARCUS KAISER, ’09, was

appointed Dean of St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Tallahassee, FL. [photo 6]

THE REV. DAVID BRENT MANLEY, ’21, was

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THE REV. RANDOLPH LUCAS, ’18, was

ordained priest on March 22, 2020, by The Rt. Rev. William H. Love, at the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, NY. He is also presently serving as Priest-in-Charge at The Church of St. Mark the Evangelist, Philmont, NY. [photo 7]

THE REV. MAUREEN MARTIN, ’20, accepted a call to serve as Priest-in-Charge of St. James Episcopal Church, West Bend, WI. [photo 8] THE REV. JEROME PETER MOLITOR, ’21, was ordained as transitional Deacon, The Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, WI. THE REV. COOPER WISE MORELOCK, ’17,

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THE REV. FABIEN PERING, ’18, was appointed Rector of Christ the King Anglican Church, in Ridgecrest, CA. THE REV. AARON PROSSER, ’13, was

appointed Rector of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Pittsburgh, PA. [photo 10]

THE REV. ALEXANDER R. PRYOR, ’14, was appointed Rector of St. John’s Anglican Church, Fort Smith, in the Diocese of the Arctic of the Anglican Church of Canada.

BRAMWELL RICHARDS, ’18, was ordained to the Diaconate in the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee, WI, on June 21, 2020. [photo 11]

THE REV. MATTHEW ROGERS, ’20, was

ordained August 15 at St. Laurence Church in Southlake, TX. [photo 12]

THE VENERABLE REV. DR. SCOTT SEELY, ’18, was elected Suffragan Bishop of Cana West Diocese (U.S.) Church of Nigeria. [photo 13]

THE REV. CHRISTIAN SENYONI, ’13, accepted

a call to serve as Associate Rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Collierville, TN. [photo 14]

THE REV. CLIFF SYNER, ’20, was ordained to

the priesthood on September 13 by Archbishop Foley Beach at Anglican Church of the Redeemer in Chattanooga, TN. [photo 15]

THE REV. MASON WALDHAUSER, ’20, serves as curate of St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Denver, CO. [photo 16] THE REV. SAM WILGUS, ’17, was appointed Rector of St. Francis Anglican Church, Willow Park, TX. [photo 17]

THE REV. CLINT WILSON, ’13, was appointed Rector of St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Louisville, KY. [photo 18]

THE REV. CHARLESTON WILSON, ’12, was

appointed Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Sarasota, FL, on September 8, 2020. [photo 19]

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NOTIFICATIONS OF DEATH THE REV. NEAL HULCE DOW, ’64, honorary

priest at St. Michael and All Angels’ Church, Denver, CO, died on May 18, 2020. Fr. Dow graduated from Nashotah House in 1964 with a Master of Divinity degree. He was made a Deacon

by Bishop John P. Craine, sometime Bishop of Indianapolis, on June 17, 1964, and ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Donald H.V. Hallock, sometime Bishop of Milwaukee, on December 21, 1964. Fr. Dow served in the Dioceses of Milwaukee and Colorado, retiring from the Church of Saint Stephen, Protomartyr, Aurora, CO, in 1985. He and Margery, his wife of almost 68 years, settled at St. Michael’s following retirement. Fr. Dow was active as an honorary throughout the latter half of Fr. Ralph Walker’s incumbency (1975-2012) into the beginning of Fr. R. Trent Fraser’s incumbency (2013) at St Michael’s. Fr. Dow is remembered as a man of good humor and kindness, and he will be missed. [photo 20]

M. JOHN DYRUD, of Wilmette, IL, passed away

peacefully on Sept. 13, 2020, at age 84. John was born on Sept. 17, 1935, to Martinus and Blanche Dyrud and was the oldest of their three sons.

He grew up in Prairie du Chien, WI, graduated from Campion Jesuit High School and Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, and for over 30 years lived and worked in the Winnetka/Wilmette area of IL. Together with his late wife Suzy Mead Dyrud, who passed away in 2011, John pursued his interests in history as an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution (President of the Illinois Chapter and Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars).

John was an important benefactor and friend of the House for many years. He funded many recent projects, including the renovation of Lambeth West and the vesting room, and others involving masonry, landscaping, bathroom updates, etc. He also frequented used book sales and donated hundreds of books to the on-campus library. [photo 21]

THE VERY REV. EDWIN A. NORRIS, JR., a

former trustee of Nashotah House, died June 25, 2020, in Mesquite, TX. Edwin was born September 4,1929, in Akron, OH. While serving in the army during the Korean War, he rediscovered his religious roots and became intimately involved in the Episcopal Church. After graduating from the University of Denver, he entered St. Gregory’s Benedictine Monastery in Three Rivers, MI. He was sent to finish his priestly studies at Nashotah House, after which he was ordained at Three

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Rivers. A violist by avocation, he played for many years in both the Irving New Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra.

He was deeply compassionate and socially conscious, as reflected in his marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, AL. He is survived by several brothers and his best friend of many years, The Rev. Canon George W. Monroe. [photo 22]

THE VERY REV. DR. STEVEN PEAY, DeanPresident of Nashotah House (2014-2017), died August 31, 2020. Fr. Peay began his career at Nashotah House as adjunct professor of Church History in 2008. He joined the regular faculty in 2010. His orders were received by the Episcopal Diocese of Albany. He served as Director of Field Education in 2011, became the Academic Dean in 2012, and was elected Dean-President in 2014, taking office in February 2015. He stepped down, for reasons of health, in August 2017, taking appointment as Research Professor of Homiletics and Church History. He was named DeanPresident Emeritus by the Board that same year.

He is preceded in death by his parents Willard and Doris (nee Furnish) Peay. He is survived by his wife Julie (nee Frankwick), stepsons Jeremy Strandt and Matthew Strandt, family, friends, and colleagues.

Steve was a native of Indianapolis, IN, and did his undergraduate work in Church History at Greenville College and his studies in philosophy at St. Meinrad Seminary College. He entered the novitiate of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, PA, and, after professing vows as a Benedictine monk, did his studies for the priesthood there, earning the M.A. in Systematic Theology and M.Div. from Saint Vincent Seminary. Steve was ordained to the priesthood in 1982. He did additional studies in Classical Rhetoric/Communication at the University of Pittsburgh (M.A.) and earned his Ph.D. at St. Louis University in Historical Theology. He returned to the monastery where he served as Assistant and then Master of Ceremonies for seven years. He joined the faculty of Saint Vincent Seminary as assistant professor of Homiletics and Historical Theology; serving as the school’s Academic Dean for five years.

He eventually left monastic life, and the Roman Church, serving Congregational Churches in Wisconsin from 1995 until 2010.

Steve had a long-standing interest in the study of academic dress, which led him to join the Burgon Society. He was elected a fellow of the society in 2018 for his work on the development of academic dress at Nashotah House. It was published

as “Appropriate Hoods: The Development of Academic Dress at Nashotah House Theological Seminary” in Transactions of the Burgon Society (2018).

Steve joined the staff of the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Milwaukee as Associate Dean on September 1, 2018. He directed the Cathedral Institute and developed programming in spiritual formation. He was elected and installed as Canon Residentiary in October 2018. He was appointed Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Milwaukee in December 2019.

Fr. Peay published articles and book chapters on the history and practice of preaching, congregationalism, and Nashotah House and its relationship with the Oneida Indians (published in The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church: A Chain Linking Two Traditions, Indiana University Press, 2019), and Benedictine spirituality. [photo 23]

THE RT. REV. ROBERT REED SHAHAN, PH.D., D.D., ’73, died on August 14, 2020, in

KS. Bishop Shahan served as the fourth bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona. He was born on October 18, 1939, in Elkhart, KS, and graduated from Nashotah House with an M.Div. degree.

Bishop Shahan was a graduate of the University of Kansas and held a master’s degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University.

In 1979, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in organizational development from Northwestern University. In 1994, SeaburyWestern Theological Seminary awarded Bishop Shahan the Doctor of Divinity degree.

Bishop Shahan entered seminary at Nashotah House in 1970, and received his M.Div. degree in 1973. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1973 and served several parishes, a seminary, and a day school as vicar of St. Alban’s Church, Muskegon, MI (1973-1975); assistant dean for student services and administration, and assistant professor of church administration and preaching at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (19751981); priest-in-charge at St. Francis Church, Chicago (1976-1981); rector of St. Thaddeus

Church and president of Mead Hall Episcopal School in Aiken, SC (1981-1984); and dean of Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KS (1984-1992).

He was ordained and consecrated a bishop of the Episcopal Church in AZ on October 3, 1992, and became Bishop of Arizona on December 9, 1992.

After his time as the Bishop of Arizona, he and his wife, Mary Carol, retired to Lenexa, KS. Bishop Shahan served on two national boards for the Episcopal Church: the Audit Committee and the General Convention’s Standing Committee for Program, Budget, and Finance. He also was chosen to serve as one of five Episcopal bishops on a November 1994 pilgrimage for unity to Canterbury and Rome, which included special meetings with Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey and Pope John Paul II. He is survived by his wife, Mary Carol, two daughters, Sarah and Susannah, and several grandchildren. [photo 24]

THE REV. JOHN GAGE SHAVER, ’75, retired Episcopal priest, died May 31, 2020, in Wilmette, IL. Born in Wayzata, MN, John graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in journalism. While in school, he wrote for the student newspaper. Upon graduation, he wrote for the Minneapolis Star and the Milwaukee Journal. John was called to the priesthood and graduated from Nashotah House. He presided at various churches in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, in addition to providing ministry in the Milwaukee County Jail System.

The Rev. Shaver was preceded in death (by two months) by his beloved wife of 56 years, Virginia “Ginger” Shaver (nee Fry). Devoted father of Meredith Wodrich, Elizabeth (Abel Nazara) Shaver, Jonathan (Christina) Shaver, and Nicholas (Kristin) Shaver; loving grandfather (“Poppie”) of Gage and Neeve Wodrich, and Evan, Tyler, Isaac, Daniel, and Camille Shaver; dear brother of Carol (Al) Crossman and Nancy (“Woody”) Clookie, and son of the late John Howard Shaver and Caroline Gage Shaver. [photo 25]

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CAMPUS ALUM MARRIES The Rev. Susan (Waldron) Troiano, M.Div. `08, is happy to share the joyous news of her marriage to James Vincent Troiano on December 29, 2019, at St. Peter ’s Episcopal Church, with The Rev. Paul Hartt, Rector, officiating and The Rt. Rev. William Love, Bishop of Albany, offering the Nuptial Blessing. Mother Sue serves as Associate Rector at St. Peter ’s Episcopal Church in Albany, NY.

ALUM CELEBRATES 50 YEARS Congratulations to Canon George Stamm, `70, who celebrated his Golden Jubilee (50 years a priest) on November 28. Canon Stamm was ordained at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Clear Lake, WI, Diocese of Eau Claire, on November 28, 1970. He was ordained by Bishop Stanley Atkins (Bishop Atkins’ first ordination).

Fr. Olver Attends Presentations

Fr. Matthew S.C. Olver attended “Divine Visitation: The Prayer Book’s Theology of Sickness and Plague” at “In Time of Plague and Sickness,” the 2020 Conference of the Prayer Book Society, UK on September 5.

This conference was presented via YouTube.

Fr. Olver also convened a webinar jointly sponsored by the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes (CEEP), the Anglican Theological Review, and Nashotah House titled, “The Role of Liturgy and Music in Formation,” and gave a presentation titled, “The Loss of Ritual in COVID-tide,” on August 20. A print version is available in Covenant (September 1, 2020) and is also available on YouTube.

2020 FELLOWS CLASS NAMED The Episcopal Church Foundation has named the 2020 Fellows class and includes The Rev. Hannah Armidon.

Currently in the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, Mother Hannah and her husband, Robert, were residents at Nashotah House, where Robert is completing his M.Div. in 2021.

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Jonathan Jameson, `19, and his band, Delta Spirit released the new album What is There in September. Jameson was also featured on the October 7, 2020, episode of The Sacristy podcast. Both the hosts of The Sacristy are Sons of the House.

DR. KINCAID Dr. Elisabeth Rain Kincaid was recently elected to serve as the Vice President of the Corporation of the Anglican Theological Review. The Anglican Theological Review is the “unofficial” journal of the Episcopal and Anglican seminaries in the United States and Canada. It recently began its second century of publishing theological reflection in the Anglican tradition. Congratulations, Dr. Kincaid!

Congratulations to the Williams Family!

On April 10, Emilie and Geoffrey Williams welcomed a baby boy, Peter Grafton Williams. He was baptized outside the chapel at Nashotah House on Wednesday, August 5. Peter joins big brother Ellis.

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CAMPUS Faculty Publishing News The Rev. Travis Bott, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Old Testament & Hebrew

The Rev. Thomas L. Holtzen, Ph.D. Professor of Historical & Systematic Theology

His forthcoming book Praise and Metonymy in the Psalms will be published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht at the end of 2020. Fr. Bott’s recent sabbatical project and second book, Reflections of Genesis in the Book of Ruth, will be published

by Baker Academic in 2021. Fr. Bott received a Conant Trust Grant for his sabbatical leave during the 2019–2020 academic year. He and his family lived in Virginia and carried out research at The University of Virginia and The Center for Christian Study.

Received the Conant Grant of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society for creating a course on the spirituality of minimalism. The proposed course is titled The Spirituality of Minimalism: Exploring the Intersection of Spirituality and Minimalism through Apophatic Theology and Ultralight Backpacking. This is a grant request for the development of an innovative seminary course on the spirituality of minimalism.

The proposed course has been approved by the Provost to be taught during the summer residential session of 2021.

Fr. Holtzen plans to develop this course during his Fall 2020 sabbatical from Nashotah House, where he has taught Historical and Systematic Theology for the last 17 years.

Student feedback will be included in his report to the Conant Fund. The grant request covers the costs for a three-day trek that will be part of the curriculum: ultralight backpacking equipment for students’ use, trail fees (Ice Age Trail), and a stipend for a colleague who will assist in leading the trek.

The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Liturgics & Pastoral Theology; Director of St. Mary’s Chapel Book review: From Easter to Holy Week: The Paschal Mystery and Liturgical Renewal in the Twentieth Century by Laura E. Moore, Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, Volume: 5.

(Leiden: Brill, 2020), Ecclesiology, 16, no.3 (2020), 409-411.

Fr. Olver has several publications forthcoming, including, from the Task Force on Liturgical and Prayer Book Revision (TFLPBR), “Containing the Uncontainable: An Analysis of Expansive Liturgical Language in the Episcopal Church, 19872018,” Anglican Theological Review.

Fr. Olver delivered a paper titled “When Praying Does Not Shape Believing: Ambrose and Chrysostom as Test Cases for the Tension between Liturgy and Theology,” at the XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford. The paper has been accepted in Studia Patristica, forthcoming.

As a contributor to the fourth revised edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Fr. Olver has completed work on a range of articles on various liturgical matters. The publication is due Summer 2020, Andrew Louth, ed. Further publications include “A Classification of a Liturgy’s Use of Scripture: A Proposal,” Studia Liturgica, (2019), vol. 49, no. 2, 220-45.

In the near future, Fr. Olver also anticipates the publication of his paper, “Jewish Roots of Christian Worship: Its Most Missed and Misunderstood Legacy,” in The Jewish Roots of Christianity, ed. Gerald R. McDermott (Lexham Books, 2020).

The paper was delivered at the second Annual Anglican Theology Conference Jewish Roots of Christianity hosted by Beeson Divinity School.

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Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, J.D., Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Ethics & Moral Theology Received a three year Christ and Being Human Pedagogy Fellowship through the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.

The Pedagogy of Christ and Being Human project is aimed at evaluating and developing the existing version of the course as taught by Miroslav Volf and Drew Collins at Yale Divinity School, but it is also intended to produce key insights and constructive feedback about its structure and potential for dissemination and proliferation in a broader network of Christian higher educational institutions. Her article titled “Professional Ethics and the Recovery of Virtue” in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics Vol. 40, issue 1 (Spring/ Summer 2020) will be published this summer. Dr. Kincaid was also jointly awarded a Conant Grant of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society with the Rev. Ross Kane of Virginia Theological Seminary. The grant will provide funding for Dr. Kincaid and Fr. Kane to develop a course on Anglican Social Justice in a world-wide perspective for masters and doctoral level students. The course will be a joint offering of Nashotah House Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary.

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