Late-breaking Announcements for the seminary community from this week's assembly.

For more information on any campus happenings contact seminary@etss.edu

News and Photo Archives -- 2007-08 academic year -- 2006-07 academic year -- 2005-06 academic year -- 2004-05 academic year -- 2003-04 academic year -- 2002-03 academic year

ETSS Alums -- New website for receiving a permanent ETSS email address so you can maintain it and hook up with fellow grads who are registered users.

John Hines Day October 4 at ETSS
Hines founded the Seminary of the Southwest

News of 2008-09 Academic Year

Nancy Springer-Baldwin leads new seminary initiatives -- The veteran seminary administrator named Executive Director of Communication and Branding.

Register now for Fall Term of Online School in Spirituality and Mission -- Interested in the Desert Mothers, ever-pressing Consumerism or Faith Themes in Murder Mysteries? More Details.
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What the World Eats -- Photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith S’Aluisio traveled to 24 countries to see how globalization, migration and rising affluence are affecting the diets of communities around the globe. Each chapter of their book – Hungry Planet: What the World Eats – features a portrait of a family, photographed alongside a week’s worth of groceries.
Range of one week’s expense – $500 to $1.23.

ETSS and low student debt -- ETSS believes that preparing for ministry in the Episcopal Church should not result in massive student debt. The Seminary of the Southwest graduates students with among the lowest educational debt.

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Selected Spring 2008 Semester News

Commencement May 12 & 13 at Seminary of the Southwest -- Forty-one seminarians will graduate and two women will receive honorary doctoral degrees at Commencement.

Charlie Cook announces retirement -- The Rev. Charles James Cook, Professor of Pastoral Theology and member of the ETSS Class of 1974, will retire on December 31, 2008. Charlie has taught at the Seminary of the Southwest since 1984.

"Adolescence – Understanding Insanity!" -- An opportunity for lay professionals and volunteers who work with teenagers in churches, schools and other settings to audit this MAC evening course May 26 through June 27.

Death of a seminarian -- Peter Attwell, a MAPM middler, died on April 1, 2008, following a courageous nine-year battle against cancer.

Lenten Intergenerational Service features Stations of the Cross -- Seminary kids drew and then took turns saying the Stations of the Cross on campus. The evening concluded with decorating and filling bags to distribute to the homeless in Austin.

Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor presents 2008 Harvey Lecture March 3 -- Taylor, renowned preacher, author and teacher, will explore "Sabbath: Self-Care or the Mending of the World?" at 6:30pm in Knapp Auditorium.

Inaugural Bishop Claude Payne Lecture and Celebration of four ETSS graduates -- The Rev. Canon Dr. Samuel Wells, dean of the Duke University Chapel, will present the first Payne Lecture on Feb. 14 as the seminary celebrates the recent conscecration of four of its graduates as bishops the day before. Details

Rather House Renovation -- Follow the renovation and expansion of Rather House into the Scott Field Bailey Center at Rather House in photos.

Rather House update -- Recent gifts have drawn the seminary closer to completing fund raising for the $3.6 million renovation of Rather House into an administrative center -- The Scott Field Bailey Center at Rather House.