VOCARE to call a monthly newsletter with news and opportunities from Field Education and Contextual Learning for PSR students and community members FIELD ED 101: Q&A EVENT ursday, March 10, 12:45pm-1:45pm, Mudd 100 March 2016 LIKE US, TAG US, TWEET US Field Education and Contextual Learning launched a Facebook page in order to facilitate news of interest to you. We will be posting Field Ed, leadership development and job opportunities as well as sharing PSR students’ immersive experiences. facebook.com/psrfielded Tag your PSR immersive moments, whether at a local Field Ed site, as part of a distance or classroom course, or an out of country Immersion. It’s a great way to share and stay connected. Use the hashtag #psrimmersion on twitter.com/psrberkeley or instagram.com/ Do Field Education requirements have you befuddled? Are you wondering what sort of placements are close to campus or if you are eligible to receive a stipend? Are you still browsing the PSR website for the Placement Confirmation form? Are you unsure why you need a Placement Confirmation form? en come to our informal Field Ed Q&A this coming ursday, March 10 in Mudd 100. Bring your lunch and plenty of questions. is orientation is for all students potentially enrolling in Field Education or Social Change Field Work courses next academic year. e Office of Field Education will publish all approved FE sites to its PSR website page: psr.edu/field-education/. e listings will contain received site descriptions from congregations, agencies, and organizations that were invited to mentor PSR students. Sites were chosen your intake interviews with the Field Education Office, in order to better match student’s vocational goals with potential placement sites. After reviewing the site descriptions and choosing opportunities of interest, students are encouraged to contact site mentors and schedule interviews to discern a good fit for you and the placement community. All students planning to enroll in Field Education or Field Work classes next academic year should plan to come to the Field Ed 101: Q&A event to receive further details about this process, and to learn about all required forms and deadlines. 2016-17 FIELD ED OPPORTUNITIES GO LIVE Tuesday, March 8
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VOCAREto call
a monthly newsletter with news and opportunities from Field Education and Contextual Learning for PSR students and community members
FIELD ED 101: Q&A EVENTThursday, March 10, 12:45pm-1:45pm, Mudd 100
March 2016
LIKE US, TAG US, TWEET US Field Education and Contextual Learning launched a Facebook page in order to facilitate news of interest to you. We will be posting Field Ed, leadership development and job opportunities as well as sharing PSR students’ immersive experiences.facebook.com/psrfielded
Tag your PSR immersive moments, whether at a local Field Ed site, as part of a distance or classroom course, or an out of country Immersion. It’s a great way to share and stay connected. Use the hashtag #psrimmersion on twitter.com/psrberkeley or instagram.com/
Do Field Education requirements have you befuddled? Are you wondering what sort of placements are close to campus or if you are eligible to receive a stipend? Are you still browsing the PSR website for the Placement Confirmation form? Are you unsure why you need a Placement Confirmation form?
Then come to our informal Field Ed Q&A this coming Thursday, March 10 in Mudd 100. Bring your lunch and plenty of questions. This orientation is for all students potentially enrolling in Field Education or Social Change Field Work courses next academic year.
The Office of Field Education will publish all approved FE sites to its PSR website page: psr.edu/field-education/. The listings will contain received site descriptions from congregations, agencies, and organizations that were invited to mentor PSR students. Sites were chosen your intake interviews with the Field Education Office, in order to better match student’s vocational goals with potential placement sites. After reviewing the site descriptions and choosing opportunities of interest, students are encouraged to contact site mentors and schedule interviews to discern a good fit for you and the placement community. All students planning to enroll in Field Education or Field Work classes next academic year should plan to come to the Field Ed 101: Q&A event to receive further details about this process, and to learn about all required forms and deadlines.
2016-17 FIELD ED OPPORTUNITIES GO LIVETuesday, March 8
Immersive Learning at PSR Includes:• local, national and international immersion courses taught by PSR faculty and community partners;• classroom and online courses in every discipline that incorporate contextual immersion components;• learning from other students, faculty, staff, GTU schools and centers;• spiritual and leadership formation events with communities, denominational and multi faith networks;• self-designed immersion courses;• experiential research for course projects and papers; • Field Education placements for MDiv and MTS students;• semester long Social Change Field Work for MAST and Certificate of Spirituality and Social Change students.
IMMERSIONS2016 Summer
ENGAGING COMMUNITIES OF LIBERATIONCuernavaca, Mexico; August 2016 Faculty: • Rev. Dr. Justin Tanis, Managing Director, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Ministry
(CLGS)• Rev. Dr. Karen Oliveto, Pastor, Glide SF
Contextual Learning at PSR and CLGS will again partner with CETLALIC, a Spanish language school with deep progressive roots and a passion for a liberating pedagogy. This two week immersion will include language study for ministry and will engage liberation theologies, base communities, women’s groups, LGBTQ communities, and social justice advocates. This immersion will now be offered each summer through partnerships with PSR, CLGS, Glide Church, and Cathedral of Hope.Interest Session to be announced soon
IMMIGRATION/REFUGEE CRISIS, RELIGION, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATEParis, France; July 11 - 22, 2016Faculty: • Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, PSR President; Instructor of Homiletics; Immigrant Rights
Activist • Dr. Hatem Bazian, Zaytuna Co-Founder and Faculty; Zaytuna College Faculty; Near Eastern
and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; Director, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project
• Dr. Karla Suomala Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaism, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa; Interfaith Dialogue, Advocacy, and Research
This course, open to all students and community members of any institution, addresses the on-going global migration and refugee crisis. Participants will analyze the causes and consequences of the movement of immigrants & refugees into Europe and the US and explore ways in which sacred texts and narratives from Islam, Judaism, and Christianity can help inform and reframe the conversation about immigration.
At present, the number of people that are on the move from their homeland as immigrants or refugees number over 50 million. The visible movement of peoples across national boundaries in search of economic opportunities and higher standards of living, and away from conflict zones, persecution, and violence has transformed countries in Europe and North America. As a result of this massive human movement, the emerging of multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious societies are becoming a daily norm and with it rising tensions that problematizes and seeks to exclude immigrants and refugees on some marked, constructed or imagined difference
Applications: irdproject.com/franceFor more info see: psr.edu/july-11-paris-immersion-immigration-the-refugee-crisis/ or email [email protected].
PEGGY MCINTOSH AND FRIENDS / SEED (SEEKING EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND DIVERSITY) Join feminist and anti-racist activist, Dr. Peggy McIntosh, in conversation with Victor Lewis and Hugh Vasquez of the groundbreaking film, The Color of Fear, Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks, professor at Santa Rosa Community College and SEED co-director, and Gail Cruise-Roberson of the SEED lead team. Peggy will take questions from the audience about her seminal work on white privilege, phase theory of social change and feminism. This is a fundraiser for The Peggy McIntosh Fund for Educational Equity & Social Justice. This event will be held at First Congregational Church of Oakland. For more information and to register: brownpapertickets.com/event/2483639
March 11-12 First Congregational Church, Oakland
GOOD FRIDAY – EMPIRE AND THE CROSS: SOWING THE SEEDS OF HOPE At the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, Rev. Deborah Lee, Senior Program Director of Immigration with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, will preach on the anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Romero. Carla DeSola. will lead Liturgial Dance. Gather at Vasco and Patterson Pass Roads in Livermore at 6:45am, worship at 7:00am, followed by procession, Stations of the Cross, and nonviolent acts of witness. Subsequent gathering at Asbury UMC. Sponsored by Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and Livermore Conversion Project.
March 25, 6:45am Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory
SAN FRANCISCO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION CENTER (SFCAPC) Information Session for those who would like to volunteer in the following positions: Telephone Counselor, Children’s Playroom Caregiver, Kid’s Turn Workshop Assistant, Family Dinner Volunteer, Special Event & Office Volunteer. For more information visit sfcapc.org
April 65:00pmSan Francisco
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP TRAINING/STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT The 2016 Student Christian Movement-USA Leadership Training Program will be held in Minneapolis, MN from March 31st to April 3rd. Register here
March 31 – April 3, Minneapolis, MN
IF THE SHU FITS: VOICES FROM SOLITARY CONFINEMENTuesday, March 8, 5:30-7pm, PSR Chapel. This dramatic reading, performed by PSR students and faculty, lifts up voices of people experiencing the torture of solitary confinement here in California. This project is coordinated by current PSR Field Ed student, Nikki Hunt, as part of her placement with American Friends Service Committee.
INTERFAITH MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN INTEGRITY Interfaith Vigils to support immigrant detainees are held on the first Saturdays of every month from 11am-12pm at West County Detention Facility, 5555 Giant Highway, Richmond. We invite you to join our vigils each month as we gather to pray and bear witness to the pain, suffering, and separation of immigrant detainees, and to call for real and immediate immigration reform. We invite you to join us to pray, sing, and act for just immigration solutions. Please bring a noisemaker for our sacred Moment of Noise–where we let the detainees know that we have not forgotten the 150-300 detainees held in Richmond.
First Saturdays of the month, 11am-12pm, Richmond
WHAT A MUSLIM WISHES CHRISTIANS KNEW ABOUT ISLAM Islamic Networks Group Content Director, Ameena Jandali, will present her reflections on “What a Muslim Wishes Christians Knew about Islam” at Piedmont Community Church.
3RD ANNUAL CARING FOR THE HUMAN SPIRIT CONFERENCE The HealthCare Chaplaincy Network is pleased to announce our 3rd annual Caring for the Human Spirit Conference. This one-of-a-kind, event will be held in San Diego, on April 11 - 13, 2016 and will draw an international, multi-disciplinary audience on-site and via webinar. For more information and registration: healthcarechaplaincy.org/conference.html
April 11-13 San Diego, CA
April 3, 5:00pm Piedmont, CA
REMEMBERING MY FATHER ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL: AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSANNAH HESCHELProf. Naomi Seidman (Center for Jewish Studies) will conduct an interview with Susannah Heschel about the life and legacy of her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel. Rabbi Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, philosopher, and Civil Rights activist who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 13, 5pm, Dinner Board Room, GTU
“BEARING WITNESS” STREET RETREAT Leaving home and begging for livelihood are spiritual practices with deep significance in the earliest days of the Buddhist movement. “Bearing witness” to homelessness for four days and three nights is a way to explore this tradition in our world today. Led by Zen Priest Joshin Byrnes of Upaya Zen Center (Santa Fe) and the Zen Peacemaker Order, we will live on the streets of San Francisco with no resources other than our own true nature. We will beg for money, find places to get food, shelter, and use the bathroom. Each day we will engage in meditation, ceremony and council circle. By bearing witness to homelessness, we begin to see our prejudices and boundaries directly and to recognize our common humanness. It is a way to experience our interconnection and allow for the possibility of loving action to arise out of intimacy. To register or for more information contact [email protected], call 505/986-8518, or visit our website www.upaya.org/programs/
2016 EARL LECTUREA lifelong environmentalist, Annie Leonard is currently the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA. She has over 25 years experience investigating, organizing and communicating about the environmental and social impacts of all our stuff: where it comes from, what it is made out of, and where it goes after we get rid of it. Her 2007 online film, “The Story of Stuff,” has been viewed over 40 million times making it the most watched online environmental film to date. In 2010, she authored a book of the same title which takes a deeper dive into the issues in the film.
at Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709
The New Story of Work will bring together organizers, business and faith leaders, activists, and scholars to explore and strategize around the meaning of work and the significance of labor today.
Politics, Spirituality, and LaborTHE NEW STORY OF WORK:
IGNITEInstitute
2016 BOSWELL LECTURE
Join Pacific School of Religion’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry for the Ninth Annual Boswell Lecture, delivered by Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, on April 21, 2016.
The Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, a distinguished scholar and leader in theological education, is dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is also the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society. Townes’ broad areas of expertise include Christian ethics, cultural theory and studies, postmodernism and social postmodernism. She has been a pioneering scholar in womanist theology, and is the author of the groundbreaking book Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil.
6:30pm, April 21, 2016 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION
1798 SCENIC AVE., BERKELEY, CA
REV. DR. EMILIE M. TOWNES
APRIL 21-24
A National Gathering for Black Queer Theology
City of Refuge United Church of Christ
Oakland, California
more information:
www.soulsafire.org
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry’s African-American Roundtable and Many Voices are pleased to host the fifth Souls a’ Fire Conference, focused on the next generation of Black Queer Theology. We are continuing the rich tradition of encouraging our young scholars in their current work, as well as learning from seasoned theologians and preachers as they explore the intersections of African-American culture, the church, and LGBTQ identities. It also promises to be a time of retreat and inspiration through ritual, praise and worship.
The CLGS Ninth Annual Boswell Lecture will kick off this year’s Souls a’ Fire conference. Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, will deliver this year’s Boswell Lecture on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 6:30pm in the Pacific School of Religion Chapel. The Souls a’ Fire 5 Conference is an annual gathering for Black Queer Theology and will take place at City of Refuge UCC in Oakland, CA. For more information and tickets: soulsafire.org
Sustainability expert Annie Leonard (Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and creator of the Story of Stuff ) will deliver the 2016 Earl Lecture as part of the New Story of Work conference. More information and registration: igniteatpsr.com/work/
Earl Lecture:Annie LeonardApril 15, 7pm
Boswell Lecture:Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, April 21, 6:30pm
MINISTRY/JOB OPPORTUNITIESThe office of Field Education continually updates both job announcements and Field Education opportunities. Look for these recent listings, among others, at this link.
LEADING/TEACHING/PREACHING CALENDARAll current PSR students—especially those enrolled in Field Ed—are invited to share with us times that they are scheduled to lead/teach/preach. Please add your scheduled appearances so that the PSR community might support you with prayer and/or presence. Add your times to our new Google doc at this link: http://tinyurl.com/psrpreachingcal so that we can then upload your times to the PSR website.
March 13 Blyth Barnow, Preaching, Open Door UMC, Richmond, 10:00am
March 20• Tara Limbaugh, Preaching, Mission Bay Community
Church, San Francisco, 5:00pm• Jessica McFarland, Preaching, Tapestry Ministries
(DOC), Berkeley, 5:00pm• Tom Emanuel and Aaron Eaves, Palm Sunday
Musical Drama, Mira Vista United Church of Christ, El Cerrito, 12:00pm
March 25• Sonny Graves, Good Friday Preaching, First
Congregational Church of Berkeley, 7:30pm
March 27• Sonny Graves, Easter Sunrise Service, First
Congregational Church of Berkeley, 6:00am• Gyu-Hyun Kim, Preaching, Clovis-Fresno Korean
UMC, Clovis, 12:30pm
April 3• Joshua Sulaiman, Preaching, Campbell United
Congregations• Assistant Minister for Congregational Life @ UU Congregation of Davis, CA• Senior Pastor @ La Cañada Congregational Church, La Cañada Flintridge, CA• Pulpit Supply & Worship Consultant @ UU Community of Lake County, CA• Organist @ First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco, CA• Summer Youth Minister @ UCC/DOC partnering congregations in Las Vegas, NV• Associate Minister @ Naples United Church of Christ, FL• Director of Youth Ministries @ Mount Tamalpais UMC, Mill Valley, CA• Pastor @ Old South Union Church, Weymouth, MA• Minister @ First Plymouth Church, Lincoln, NE
Community Agencies• Summer Internship @ Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry,
Berkeley, CA• Interfaith Internship @ Coalition of Welcoming Congregations in the Bay Area• Continuing Care Retirement Community Chaplain @ Episcopal Senior Communities,
Walnut Creek, CA• Program Coordinator @ Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME), Oakland, CA• Executive Assistant @ California Childcare Resource & Referral Network, San Francisco, CA• Executive Director @ Borderlinks, Tucson, AZ• CPE opportunities @ San Francisco Night Ministry, Sutter Health, Alta Bates, and more• Program Developer @ Thrive East Bay, Oakland/Bay Area, CA• Office and Operations Assistant @ Wilderness Torah, Berkeley, CA• Campus Engagement Manager @ Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, IL
Are you interested in connecting with or learning about a particular denomination? Our offices maintain contact with several denominational representatives for students. Find their contact info and denominational happenings here:
Montgomery Hall #212 (SFTS)105 Seminary RoadSan Anselmo, CA 94960Laura Jean Torgerson (Student Rep) [email protected]
162nd CCNC-N ANNUAL GATHERING, FEATURING REV. DR. MICHAEL KINNAMONThe theme for the 2016 Gathering will be “NEXT.” As in, what’s next? How do we vision mission for a church that continues to move forward into a world that is rapidly changing and creating new opportunities for growth and mission? Arden Christian Church in Sacramento will be hosting. More information and registration details
April 8-9, Arden Christian Church, Sacramento, CA
EARLY BIRD RATE FOR MCC GENERAL CONFERENCEThe Early Bird rate for General Conference is about to expire. Check out the website for conference events, including classes (like MCC Poli-ty) required by everyone’s MAP! http://emerge.mccchurch.org/
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTContact: Rev. Diane Weible510/[email protected]
UCC-NCNC ANNUAL GATHERINGRace, racial justice, and dismantling racism will be the focus of NCNC’s 2016 Annual Gathering, June 16 – 19, at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park. Our theme — “Have You Seen Your Neighbor?” — is drawn from I John 4: 7 – 21, our focus Bible text for the event. For more info and to register click here
June 16 – 19, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
UNITED METHODIST CHURCHContact: Rev. Diana [email protected] may contact Diana for Tuesday meetings
BROWN BAG LUNCH: REV. GREG BERGQUESTRev. Greg Bergquist will join us at our Brown Bag lunch. Greg is our Conference Superintendent for Leadership Development and he is a delegate to General Conference 2016 which will be held in Portland in May. Greg has compiled the petitions regarding LGBTQ issues which will come before General Conference. Save the date: Tuesday, April 12 for our last Brown Bag Gathering of the semester.
