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Faculty and Staff NewsThe Rev. Dr. Jessica June Davis joins the staff in July as the new Dean of Students at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Reporting to the President, Dr. Davis will direct all student affairs including recruitment, retention, student housing, student counseling and financial aid. Dr. Davis has a Bachelor of Arts from Franklin and Marshall College, a Master of Divinity in Social Ethics and Philosophical Theology from Boston University, a Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law, a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary, and is a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Administration from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The Rev. Dr. Willard W. C. Ashley has been appointed as Director of Supervised Ministry and Associate Professor of Practical Theology at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Accountable to the Dean of the Seminary, Dr. Ashley will administer the seminary’s Supervised Ministry Program and as a member of the faculty will assume responsibility for providing instruction in supervision courses, publish new research, and work within the faculty’s administrative duties. He joins our staff in July. Dr. Ashley, a native of Harlem, N.Y., holds a Bachelor of Arts from Montclair State University, a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Doctor of Ministry from Andover Newton Theological School. He also has graduate certificates in Psychotherapy, and in Marriage and Family Therapy from Blanton Peale Graduate Institute in New York. Dr. Ashley has been named to the 2009 edition of Who's Who in America and his book, Disaster Spiritual Care, is being marketed in both religious and social service agency circles. The Rev. Dr. Beth Tanner, chair of the Admissions Committee and Associate Professor of Old Testament, has published a new book The Psalms for Today, (Westminster Press). She has just completed a three unit Bible Study on Micah 6:8 with the Rev. Joyce MacKichan-Walker. The study, requested by the PCUSA General Assembly, is with Westminster/John Knox Press and is an Internet Based Bible Study Program for Churches available by download from the Thoughtful Christian Website. The Rev. Dr. Hak Joon Lee, Associate Professor of Ethics and Community, published a book titled We Will Get to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King, Jr's Communal Political Spirituality! It is included in the "Breakfast with the Authors" program of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Atlanta, 2008. Proceeds from the sale of the book help underwrite the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship for Peace and Justice. He recently spoke at the 2008 Annual CPAAM meeting (a gathering of Pacific and Asian Americans in the Reformed Church in America) at the Shin Kwang Church of New York in Bayside, NY in May. The Rev. Dr. John Coakley accompanied The Rev. Dr. Lee and the President, Richard Mouw, of Fuller Seminary to inaugurate the First Annual Horace Underwood Symposium at the Saemoonan Church in Seoul. This honored the memory of The Rev. Dr. Horace Underwood (class of 1884). They also visited the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Changsin, and Seoul Jangsin University. In addition, The Rev. Coakley gave a paper on the early biographical traditions about Francis of Assissis at the Sewanee Medieval Studies Conference in April at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. The Rev. Dr. Rothney Tshaka, NBTS Global Scholar from South Africa, and The Rev. Dr. Warren Dennis will lead a Urban Ministry Concentration and Global Scholar Initiative to Cape Town, South Africa in January. This ten day seminar will focus on the South African Post Apartheid Theology and Ministry. Lynn Berg, librarian in charge of technical services at Gardner Sage Library, will be presenting a paper on The Importance of Names and Naming in Religion, Literature, and Librarianship at the annual conference of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) in Ottawa on Saturday, June 28, 2008. Dr. Mark Kraai, Director of Supervised Ministry and Professor of Practical Theology, will retire in May. A donation to the Seminary's Reformed Church Center will be made in his name to establish a series of Mark Kraai Lectures. Anyone who wishes to participate in this effort to honor Mark's extraordinary contribution to the RCA, and to the Seminary, should make a check payable to New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Be sure to note on the check that the donation is to help underwrite the Reformed Church Center's Mark Kraai Lectures. The Rev. Dr. Allan Janssen, Affiliate Faculty Theological Studies, recently participated in a Reformed Church Center program on Classis and Presbytery in the 21st Century: Problem or Possibility. Dr. Leon va den Broeke of the Protestant Church of the Netherlands, the Dr. Craig van Gelder of the Christian Reformed Church in North America and Luther Seminary, Dr. Allan Janssen of the Reformed Church in America, Dr. Joseph Small Director of Theology, Worship and Education for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Dr. Robert Vosloo of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa all spoke on the topic of the pros and cons of the presbyterial-synodical forms of church government. He will also lead the International Summer School at Hydepark Theological Seminary in Doorn, the Netherlands. The focus of this year’s school will be on the work of mid-twentieth century Dutch theologian A.A. van Ruler. The Rev. Dr. Carlos Wilton, adjunct professor in Presbyterian studies at NBTS, is listed as author of the week by CSS Publishing. His book Lectionary Preaching Workbook is a helpful tool for those in ministry. He is coordinator of the writing team for the online preaching resource The Immediate Word (www.sermonsuite.com), and is also author of three books on sermon resources based on the Revised Common Lectionary. |
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