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In the News:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
February 8, 2010
Candler is highlighted in this article about Atlanta’s theological schools; Dean Love comments.
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Emory Report
December 7, 2009
Candler alum Lyn Pace 02T, chaplain at Oxford College, is profiled in “Setting the pace of pastoral care.”
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UM Reporter
December 4, 2009
Candler’s bishop-in-residence, Woodie White, says that military chaplains are pastors first and foremost and their congregations are some of the most unique—and challenging—in the world.
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Christianity Today
December 3, 2009
“Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral” by Thomas Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler, was reviewed.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution November 24
Candler professor Luke Timothy Johnson is quoted in Rev. Patricia Templeton’s op-ed piece, “Rhetoric of hate dehumanizes fellow citizens, harms debate.”
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UM Reporter
November 19, 2009
Bishop-in-Residence Woodie White writes that “blessings happen when love comes to us again.”
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UM Reporter
November 5, 2009
Candler’s bishop-in-residence, Woodie White, reminds us to “focus on good news.”
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UMNS
November 5, 2009
Dr. Russell E. Richey, W.R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History at Candler, is part of The United Methodist Church's Committee on Faith and Order, which is working to articulate the denomination's theology.
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UMNS
November 4, 2009
Candler alum and UM Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster 73T 82T has been elected the next president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops. Goodpaster's 2-year term will begin in May 2010.
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Chronicle of a Death We Can’t Accept
October 31, 2009
Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler, is the author of “Accompany Them With Singing: The Christian Funeral.” He wrote an op-ed piece for the Times on how “our death rituals have become downsized, inwardly directed, static and, as a result, spiritually and culturally impoverished.”
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King’s Daughter to Lead Civil Rights Group
October 30, 2009
Commenting on the election of Bernice King as the next president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, The Rev. Teresa Fry Brown, director of the Black Church Studies program at Candler, said King’s election marks a significant change in the role of women in the SCLC.
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UM News Service
October 14, 2009
Bishop Eugene M. Frank, the eldest United Methodist bishop, died October 13 at the age of 101. Frank was visiting professor at Candler from 1977–1980, and the Eugene and Wilma Frank Scholarship at Candler was established in honor of the bishop and his wife. The scholarship provides full tuition for qualifying UM students at Candler who are preparing for ordained ministry in the Kansas or Missouri Annual Conferences of the UMC.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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October 3, 2009
Schools such as Emory University are seeing phenomenal growth in downloads. Emory offers the Dalai Lama's lectures, as well as a rich selection of teaching by staff from its Candler School of Theology and the Center for the Study of Law and Religion.
The Christian Century
October 6, 2009
An excerpt from the new book by Candler’s Bandy Professor of Preaching Thomas Long appears as the article “The good funeral:
Recovering Christian practices.”
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Anderson Independent
September 25, 2009
Dr. Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, who presented the lecture “A Raid on the Inarticulate: How the Bible Tells the Truth Poetically” at Central Presbyterian Church, was the subject of this article.
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“Have You Got Good Religion?"
A Womanist Query of Spiritual But Not Religious
The annual Anna Julia Cooper Lecture sponsored by the Black Church Studies Program will be February 10 at 11:00 a.m. in CST 252. This year's speaker is the Rev. Dr. Donna Allen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a founder and pastor of New Revelation Community Church in Oakland, California. Her topic is "Have You Got Good Religion? A Womanist Query of Spiritual But Not Religious."
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Vatican official to visit Candler
Public address on March 2
Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will visit Candler February 28-March 4, 2010. An eminent theologian and leader in ecumenical initiatives of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Kasper will give a public address on March 2 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. Admission to the address is free, but tickets are required; pre-register for tickets at http://www.emory.edu/events/tickets/.
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Newsom receives honorary doctorate, elected president of SBL
Dr. Carol Newsom, Charles Howard Candler professor of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on Nov. 12, and in the same month was elected president-elect of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL).
The Copenhagen faculty selected Newsom to receive the honorary doctorate in acknowledgment of her body of academic work. The invitation to receive the degree noted her accomplishments in Old Testament theology and her “innovative” work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, some 900 ancient texts discovered in caves near Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. As part of her doctoral work, Newsom transcribed, translated and wrote a commentary on a set of texts called the “Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice.”
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Smith wins child advocacy award
Dr. Luther Smith, professor of church and community at Candler, received the Big Voice for Children Award from Voices for Georgia’s Children, an independent policy and children’s advocacy group.
Smith received the award in November in recognition of his work as an advocate for children, which includes founding and leading the Interfaith Children’s Movement (ICM), an organization he founded in 2001. Smith was one of seven award recipients; others included Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and The Junior League of Atlanta.
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Candler Students Work Globally for International Relief and Development
Candler received a grant from International Relief and Development, Inc. to send seven student interns to service sites in the Republic of Georgia, Mozambique, Indonesia, and IRD headquarters in Washington, D.C. this summer. Six Candler students and one student from Emory's Rollins School of Public Health have now completed their assignments on a broad range of issues, including democracy and governance, HIV/AIDS, and community development.
Visit the Blog for postings from all the interns »
Professor Emeritus Gordon Thompson Dies
Dr. Gordon G. Thompson, Genevieve Sewell Shatford Emeritus Professor of Homiletics at Candler School of Theology died Friday, August 21, 2009, at the age of 91. Funeral services were held on Sunday, August 30 at First United Methodist Church of Marietta with Dr. Sam Matthews, Dr. Sam Storey, Sr., Bishop L. Bevel Jones III, and former Georgia Supreme Court Justice Conley Ingram officiating.
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Abbington Presents Paper at International Music Conference
James Abbington, associate professor of church music and worship at Candler, presented a paper for the 25th International Association of Hymnological Research Conference, July 26-31, in Kamien Slaski, Poland.
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Candler Student Wins Research Award
The United Methodist Commission on Archives and History has awarded Candler student Anne P. Wheeler the John Harrison Ness Memorial Award for her paper entitled, “The Music of the Early 19th Century Camp Meeting: Song in Service to Evangelistic Revival.”
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Candler Students Win National Fellowships
Four Candler School of Theology students have won prestigious national fellowships from The Fund for Theological Education (FTE). Third-year master of divinity student Christina Repoley was named a 2009 FTE Ministry Fellow, incoming master of divinity students Kimberly Jenne and Jason Myers were named 2009 FTE Congregational Fellows, and incoming master of divinity student Leah Lyman was named a 2009 FTE Volunteers Exploring Vocation Fellow.
Read more about Candler's Fellowship Winners »
Dean Love addresses UMC Annual Conferences
Candler’s Dean Jan Love brought greetings to a number of Annual Conferences of The United Methodist Church throughout the month of June. Watch a video of Dean Love’s presentation to the North Georgia Annual Conference on June 18, or read the report and view the accompanying slides.
Candler Receives $4.5 Million for Ph.D. Program
Candler School of Theology has received a $4.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue building the doctoral program in religious practices and practical theology.
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