One hour workshops/papers on Tuesday 15-16
Rev. Judith L. Stuart with students Liane Marquis & Katherine Clark (USA)
Following The Footsteps of Jesus: Telling Our Stories of Christian Pilgrimage and Witness in The Holy Land
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B4115
About Leaders:
The Rev. Judith Stuart is an Episcopal priest appointed by The Diocese of Massachusetts to serve as University Chaplain at Boston College and Northeastern University. Judith holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University, a Master of Education degree from Boston College and a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Judith was the recipient of the Alison Cheek Prize for Activism and Scholarship in Social Justice and is a member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. Judith's background in health care and administration, and in counseling battered women and children, informs her passion for healing ministry and peace and justice work.
Liane Marquis is a Nominee for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and is the graduate assistant to the chaplain at Boston College and Northeastern University. Liane holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) in English Literature from Northeastern University, and is currently working toward two masters' degrees at Boston College, an M.A. in Mental Health Counseling and an M.A. in Pastoral Ministry. Liane has been working as a photography instructor in Wellesley, MA, and recently spent five weeks working on a photography project with the children at Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem.
Katherine Clark was one of three students in her year accepted into the BA/MSW dual-degree program at Boston College. In May 2009, she will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and in May 2010, a Masters in Clinical Social Work with a concentration in Children, Youth, and Families. She is the Vice President of the Episcopal Chaplaincy of Boston College.
Katherine traveled to Israel and Palestine in January 2008 with the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts on a college pilgrimage. She recently returned to the region, spending a week with children at the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem.
About Workshop: In January 2008, twenty-nine students from the greater Boston area, traveled to Israel and Palestine with the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts and the University Chaplains.
As pilgrims have done for centuries, we visited many of the traditional holy sites, walking and praying in the footsteps of Jesus. During our twelve day journey, we engaged in dialogue with both Israelis and Palestinians, visited agencies promoting peace and justice, participated in home stays in the West Bank, and sought to gain a deeper understanding of the conflict in the region.
This paper and presentation is one way of sharing what we saw, heard, and experienced and how that impacted us as students and Christians.
Bavin John Clarke (AUS)
Unity in Diversity
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B4116
About Leader: Married to Josephine. 4 adult children, 11 grandchildren.
Principal Chaplain, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia.
Academic background includes: Classics, theology, philosophy and education
Ministry background includes: foundation teacher implementing Special Religious Education programme in government secondary schools. Lover of classical music and woodworking.
About Paper: This paper outlines the place of Chaplaincy within QUT by briefly tracing its history with reference to the past 12 years; the deliberate embarking on a multi-faith model and the establishment of significant multi-faith celebrations draws together significant points where co-writers have intersected with Chaplaincy. The narrative is interspersed with theological considerations, social rationales and critical reviews that have guided our activities and reflections on outcomes as well as responses to those critical moments when tragedy strikes the campus community.
Explanations of the social, theological, cultural and historical considerations underpinning our modelling of chaplaincy in the context of a large, secular, relatively new and dynamic institution are also given.
Fr. Claude Grenache, A.A. & Rev. Katrina Agard (USA)
Bentley Multi-Faith Chaplaincy
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B3109
About Leaders: Fr. Claude is the director of the Spiritual Life Center and the advisor to the Catholic community at Bentley College. He lives in Brighton at the Assumptionist Center with 10 other members of his congregation. Fr. Cladue has served in Quebec, New York City, and at Assumption College.
About Workshop: Bentley is a business college located in Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) which is about 20 minutes outside of Boston. Our population is 4000 undergraduates, 1500 graduates and 12 PHD. candidates.
Our Spiritual Life Center consists of six advisors from the following faith traditions: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu. Our workshop will focus on our ministry in a multi-faith/ ecumenical community within a competitive business school. In our ministry, we are often called on to guide students, faculty, and staff as they seek to balance their faith lives in a business-centered world. As the world gets consistently "flatter" due to the technology, it is important to equip our students with the skills necessary to navigate in a pluralistic society.We have been congratulated on several occasions for the way we model ecumenical and interfaith friendship and dialogue. Our work with students has produced similar effects by bringing students from a variety of faith traditions to collaborate in social and community events. This didn't happen overnight. It takes much work and communication.
In this workshop, we will attempt to share our personal stories of how we did this. We will also share ways with our colleagues as to how they can foster their own interfaith/ecumenical relationships within their settings. We will cover the potential set backs, and offer concrete suggestions.
Seija Frears (UK)
International Students & the Leeds Universites Chaplaincy
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B3110
About Leader: I am a deaconess and come originally from Finland. I have worked in different countries in Asia, in the Middle East and in Europe. Currently I work as an International Students Chaplain in Leeds Universities Chaplaincy. I would like to know about the work among international students in other countries.
About Workshop: The Universities Chaplaincy in Leeds is regularly filled with international students from all faiths. They might be taking part in a quiz, a barn dance or a karaoke night; celebrating Easter or Chinese New Year or watching the chaplains themselves perform a play called 'Culture Shock Comedy Drama'. Throw in a couple of Bible study courses and a handful of other ingredients and what do you get? Come along and see how we work and tell us how you work and hopefully take fresh ideas away!
Mikko Peura (FIN)
Northern lights. Living colours on Finnish spiritual map
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B3111
About Leader: Director of the Finnish Retreat Association, Lutheran rev., supervisor, working as family counselor 1977-2003
About Workshop: Workshop will describe some characteristics of Finnish (mostly Lutheran) spirituality, and then focus on retreat movement, proceeding to present situation with a wish to feature some aspects as far as young people are concerned. And, of course, there will space for questions rising during the workshop.
Rev. Dr. L. Lang Brownlee (USA)
'Walking The Walk of Faith: The Practice of Pilgrimage Lighting the Way'
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B3117
About Leader: Lang is a United Methodist minister with local church pastoral experience and academic teaching experience. His doctorate is in Religious and Theological Studies. He has been in university chaplaincy for seven years. He and Jeanne, his wife, are parents to two grown boys. And Lang likes to walk!
About Workshop: The use of Christian pilgrimage as a concept and practice connects university students to a deeper sense of the 'walk' of faith. This presentation will examine the use of 'pilgrimage' to strengthen campus ministry opportunities and understanding for growth in spiritual formation, social justice awareness, and Christian service commitments.
Pilgrimage can help illumine these aspects of the Christian way as it enables persons to truly 'walk' the Way of Christ. Campus ministry benefits from employing the practice of pilgrimage, because campus ministry itself is a pilgrimage on the way.
Rev. Paul Verhoef (CAN)
Re-membering Ethics and Epistemology in the University
- Learning to Know and to Love at the Same Time
Tuesday 15-16, Room LS B4113
About Leader: Paul is one of the newer chaplains at the University of Calgary and within his Christian denomination. He comes with a deep passion to foster the connection between faith and academic life, both among the faculty and the student communities. In his work, he walks alongside of friends to encourage a wholeness in life and love, in vocation and passion - all in the midst of learning communities.
About Paper: In this paper, Paul takes a look at the way of knowing fostered in the University setting, and finds it lacking in human relevance because it lacks intimacy. The divide between knowledge and passion, between knowing and loving, has left many a student and professor disenchanted. Students leave University in search of 'meaning' and professors teach without any intimate passion or care. The task before University chaplains is to help the community of learning to rediscover how to know and to love at the same time. To find a way forward, we delve into the Hebrew way of knowing found in the stories of Genesis, learn from the covenant epistemology of Jesus' life, and listen to some modern prophets (Simone Weil, U2, Magnolia, Walker Pearcey and others).
Nobu T. Imaizumi (JPN)
Theological Need for a Constitutional Amendment on the Declaration of Independence
Tuesday 15-16, Room RH B4114
About leader: Professor, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
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