Alumni News
David W. Scott (STH'07, GRS'13) publishes new book
Find out more about David Scott's new book, Mission as Globalization: Methodists in Southeast Asia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
About the book: "Through an examination of Methodist mission to Southeast Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, this broad-ranging book unites the history of globalization with the history of Christian mission and the history of Southeast Asia. The book explores the international connections forged by the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Malaysia Mission between 1885 and 1915, putting them in the context of a wave of globalization that was sweeping the world at that time, including significant developments in Southeast Asia."
Program / Shelter Director or Supervisor in Lowell, MA
A nonprofit providing meals, emergency shelter, and transitional as well as supportive housing has partnered with NonProfit People Search (formerly Nonprofit People & Systems) to locate a Program / Shelter Director or Supervisor in northeastern MA.
Title: Program / Shelter Director or Supervisor
Org Type: Human Services
Location: Northeastern MA
Opportunity:
Are you program professional with 5 or more years of experience seeking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of homeless and disadvantaged men and women at an organization that understands the importance of work / life balance?
In this leadership role you will supervise the day to day operations for a continuum of housing and related services including street outreach, triage services, emergency beds, a healthcare and day program component, community meals, housing placement and case management. You will provide direct supervision to the program management team to evaluate and ensure best in class service delivery, accurate and timely data collection, proper retention and review, and on-time reporting for all funders. You will also provide budget oversite including staffing, facilities, meals, and associated expenses and play a key role in motivating your team to work toward reducing shelter stays and stabilizing housing placements.
Qualifications:
The position requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of programmatic experience (disadvantaged populations preferred). Your experience should be coupled with a collaborative management style based on open, transparent, continual communication, sharing, and inclusive decision-making.
How to Apply:
By applying, you are only sharing your resume with NonProfit People Search, not the hiring organization. Your information is never shared with our client without your permission. If selected, you will be given full disclosure about the position/organization, allowing you to decide whether or not you wish to proceed. All applications are 100% confidential.
Send a resume and cover letter to: hr@nppsearch.com or search for our position at www.nonprofitjobmarket.org.
You will find the announcement here: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/hGm2smZSKNH4/
Erika Stalcup (GRS '16)
The Rev. Erika Stalcup (GRS '16, Ph.D.) is an ordained deacon serving as pastor of Eglise Evangélique Méthodiste in Lausanne, Switzerland. The United Methodist News Service wrote an article about her. Read the article now.
Spiritual Enrichment Coordinator, Jamaica Plain, Ma
Spiritual Enrichment Coordinator, Jamaica Plain, Ma
The Spiritual Enrichment Coordinator plans and leads the spiritual enrichment programming. He/she creates beneficial, engaging, age-appropriate Bible classes and coordinates Christian-based services at the Home, such as Sunday worship services and holiday celebrations. The Spiritual Enrichment Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the activities of volunteers from local churches, parishes and schools. He/she will also be available for spiritual counseling throughout the day.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title, but additional responsibilities may be required. Employees are expected to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
Corporate Travel Specialist, Dallas, Tx
Corporate Travel Specialist, Dallas, Tx
Savoya’s mission is to be the world’s safest, most reliable ground transportation solution. We are relentless in our pursuit of excellence, and diligently seek out new opportunities to further enhance the service experience we deliver to our customers. Client safety is our top priority, and everything we do cascades from a “safety first” mentality.
Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity
Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professorship of Divinity
The Faculty of Divinity at Harvard University intends to make a tenured appointment to the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professorship of Divinity. We seek a scholar whose work addresses issues of contemporary Christian morality, ethics, and values within the context of global religious pluralism and diversity. Candidates may work in any discipline or field that engages such issues constructively, including those in the humanities and social sciences. Candidates must be able to contribute to the design and teaching of a curriculum in religion, ethics, and politics. They should employ forms of analysis that address race, gender, sexuality, and social location.
Chalice Press Publishes "Through the Valley" by Pat Reyes (STH'11)
From the book's publicity website:
"A narrative approach to Christian vocational discernment, Through the Valley explores the journey to non-traditional Christian ministry through personal narrative. The book tells the story about a Christian educator from a marginalized community. The story explores how he was transformed through work in the fields, the trauma experienced at home, and in a gang infested community, and how I was saved by the grace of Christians who acted on their faith. It is the narrative of a young person who was saved by his Grandma, robed clergy, educators, friends, neighbors, family, all of who act as the voice of God calling me to new life. More importantly, the author, through his own narrative, calls the faithful into a listening presence asking questions such as “where was God’s voice” when these events occurred. This vocational journey shows the divine grace that can be found when one stops to question, turns to wonder, and listens for the soft whisper or the healing touch of the divine in the midst and aftermath of trauma and violence. Vocation, as it is imagined through this narrative, is shown as a way of telling one’s own narrative in communion with God’s grace, negotiating the tension between pain and healing, between self and others, between the violent waters in the void and the calm that is God’s voice calling out to us.
The reader will come to hear a story about the struggle of Christians of color and epistemic privilege and ethno-centrism experienced in the church and theological education. It’s a story about how a Grandmother, a Christian Brother, an interfaith partner, and a best friend calling the author to life. The reader will wrestle with theological and vocational literature that provides the redemptive gloss of a tradition that seeks the resurrection on Sunday, long before it has struggled with the violence of Good Friday and the confusion of Holy Saturday. The reader will walk with a mixed-race individual, who belongs to all of his communities, and at the same time belongs to none of them. It is in this in-between space that the voice of God is spoken, the question of living into God’s call, and prophetically announcing one’s presence as a prophet of God, that this particular narrative approach to vocational discernment rests. The goal is that through these stories and embodied experiences, that the reader is inspired to hear God’s call."
Walter Fluker (GRS'88), The Ground Has Shifted
Walter Fluker published The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America.
NYU Press describes the book: "If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the U.S. will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church’s very identity?
In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately and thoroughly discusses the historical and current role of the black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. He offers instead a larger, global vision for the black church that focuses on young black men and other disenfranchised groups who have been left behind in a world of globalized capital.
Lyrically written with an emphasis on the dynamic and fluid movement of life itself, Fluker argues that the church must find new ways to use race as an emancipatory instrument if it is to remain central in black life, and he points the way for a new generation of church leaders, scholars and activists to reclaim the black church’s historical identity and to turn to the task of infusing character, civility, and a sense of community among its congregants."
Music Director, Osterville, Ma
Osterville, MA, Music Director
The Director of Music will promote the spiritual life of the congregation through the music ministry. Selected by the Pastor and Staff Parish Relations Committee, the Director reports to the Pastor and is responsible for the development, oversight, and direction of the church’s high quality, diverse music program. This program will include many genres of church music including traditional, classical, and contemporary and support the new two-service “Vision” of our church.
William Bobby McClain (STH '62, STH '77) helped celebrate the new civil rights trail dedicated in Anniston, AL
William Bobby McClain (STH '62, STH '77) helped celebrate the new civil rights trail dedicated in Anniston, AL. Over one thousand people attended the dedication. The trail commemorates sites in the city's historic black churches, neighborhoods and business district, but also its most notorious moments, such as the beating of the Freedom Riders in 1961 and the 1965 murder of Willie Brewster.
You can read Reverend Dr. McClain's keynote address, How Far the Promised Land?
You can also read news coverage of the dedication.
