 Mentoring the Newest Ministers
*.pdf
The
Lilly Endowment, Inc.’s grants for residencies in pastoral
ministry have paired recent seminary graduates with large
congregations to provide mentoring in parish ministry.
by Barbara A. Chaapel
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 Tackling Triumphalism: PTS Alums Mount Grassroots
Effort to Cure Anti-Semitism
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Two PTS alumni/ae
in Nashville, Tennessee, initiated dialogue between Christians,
Jews, and Muslims in the wake of 9/11, and found themselves
confronting anti-Semitism.
by Ray Waddle
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 Rooted in African Soil: Diaspora Scholars
Explore Religion and Poverty
*.pdf
PTS’s Peter Paris has a
dream: to create
a community of African, African American, and African
Caribbean religion scholars to study their common roots in
Africa.
by Barbara A. Chaapel
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 Sabbath Renewal: Lilly Endowment and PTS
Help Pastors and Churches Learn How to Keep the Fourth
Commandment
*.pdfA recent Lilly grant is supporting PTS in
helping pastors and their congregations take sabbath-keeping
seriously.
by Lisa Maguire Hess
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 Faith for the
Journey
*.pdf
PTS alum Amy Mendez was born in Guatemala, discovered the
Presbyterian Church while living in California, came East to
Princeton, and now loves pastoring a growing Hispanic church in New
York City. "I love the unpredictables of being a pastor," she says.
by Barbara A. Chaapel
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 Drumbeat for a Dream
*.pdf
Jay Gardner wanted the kids in his neighborhood in West
Philadelphia to discover classical music. So the associate pastor of
White Rock Baptist Church invited members of the Philadelphia
Orchestra to the church's after-school program--and they came!
by Barbara A. Chaapel
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 Called Out of Kenya
*.pdf
Growing up in
Nyeri, on the slopes of snowcapped Mount Kenya, Edward Buri had seen snow
from a distance, but nothing like the blanket of white that coated
Princeton’s campus this winter. “
People
kept saying it was coming,” he remembers, grinning, “but when it did, I
was completely amazed, like, wow. What is this? I saw people playing in it
but I didn’t think it was something to be touched. Honestly, I thought,
‘Those people are messing it up; they should just let it be....’”
By Erika Marksbury
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 Love
Letters
in Shades of Punk
*.pdf
Aaron Anastasi
has been asked not to wear his lip ring when he leads worship. Some
people, he’s told, might find it a distraction. But the M.Div. middler’s
ministry is to those who wouldn’t, those who see it and are intrigued that
someone who looks like him (and like them) also loves the church.
By Erika Marksbury
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