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He describes it this way: "It was a long, long road trip. By luck of the scheduling, we pulled into Trinity Lutheran Seminary on Thursday afternoon. So one of my first experiences of Trinity was the Bexley Hall Common Meal, which is prepared and served by Bexley Hall students and faculty every Thursday night for everyone at both Trinity and Bexley.Join us on September 25-27 for Bexley and Trinity days, our annual community gathering and continuing education series.
September 25: Tuesday evening provides an opportunity to get to know each other, gather for evening worship and talk with Roger Ferlo, president of Bexley Hall and Seabury Western Theological Seminary, and Tom Ferguson, dean of Bexley Hall.
September 26: Embracing the Other: An Interacctive Conference and Retreat
Join Christopher D. Hofer, rector of the Church of St. Jude in Wantagh, New York, for a day of workshop sessions, worship and free time. The day concludes with a festive dinner and a presentation by President Roger Ferlo. Learn more and register online for the September 26 retreat and dinner.
September 27: On September 25, Trinity Lutheran Seminary announced that Professor James H. Cone would not travel to Columbus to deliver the Trinity Days lecture as scheduled. Read the announcement and plans for an alternative forum on the Trinity website.
Having worked at a seminary for almost a decade, I have long since learned that seminary life does not shut down between May graduation and the Tuesday after Labor Day. This was especially true for me this summer, as I began my work as president of the new federation uniting Bexley Hall to Seabury Western Seminary.
On a weekend in late May, the Rev. Roger Ferlo and his wife Anne Harlan, a book artist, left their stately home on the campus of the largest and wealthiest seminary in the Anglican Communion to go apartment hunting in Chicago.
Two months earlier, Ferlo, associate dean and Director of the Institute for Christian Formation and Leadership at Virginia Theological Seminary, had been named president of Bexley Hall and Seabury Western Seminaries. Since late March, he’d been wrapping up his old job while taking on some of the responsibilities of his new one. Now it was time to focus entirely on the work ahead: bringing to life the innovative federation formed by the Episcopal Church’s two Midwestern seminaries.
On March 27, the Seabury and Bexley Boards of Trustees announced that they have unanimously voted to federate and to elect the Rev. Roger Albert Ferlo, Ph.D., D.D., currently of Virginia Theological Seminary, as the Federation’s first president.
Dean Tom Ferguson writes in the Washington Post about Archbishop Rowan Williams' retirement:
"Dr. Williams will leave behind a complex legacy. His efforts to try to hold the worldwide Anglican Communion together have had mixed results."
When Mary Carson was growing up, she never entertained the idea of going to seminary or becoming a priest. "In fact, as a teenager, that was the only thing I said I never would do," said the Rev. Mary Carson, a 1992 Master of Divinity graduate of Bexley. "One of the critical things to know is that my father was an ordained minister and went to Bexley (he received his master of divinity from Bexley Hall in Gambier), but that was not the reason I chose Bexley or the ministry."
It was a love of music, and eventually church music, that led her to Bexley Hall in Rochester, New York, when the seminary started a new program with the Eastman School of Music. Carson's father, the Rev. John G. Carson, who died in 2007, served as a priest in the Diocese of Southern Ohio for over 50 years.
"My time spent at Bexley was a great time of life," said Carson, who for two years has served as interim rector at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Lorain, Ohio. "I loved the community in the seminary and especially appreciated the ecumenical nature of Bexley, which was even more ecumenical then.
Speaking in Cleveland on March 14 -- Today's c
hurch and world require leaders who can facilitate adaptive change and inspire people to cultivate new consciousness, conscience and competence. This workshop, led by prominent leadership author and consultant Sharon Daloz Parks, will draw on the insights of adaptive leadership guru Ronald Heifetz and others to consider how we form the inner lives of leaders, what it means to practice authority, and how we cultivate the arts of leadership on the edge.
Whether you are an emerging or established leader, lay or ordained, working in the institutional church or beyond--this workshop will inspire you to reassess and re-imagine the good that can come from your leadership and the change you want to create.
This event is sponsored by the Bexley Hall and Seabury Partnership for Lifelong Learning. Read an interview with Daloz Parks, and learn more and register for the Cleveland event at St. Paul's Episcopal in Cleveland Heights and the Chicago event at Park Ridge Community Church.
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