SOUTHWEST ALUMNI
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Information on this page is here to keep Southwest alumni informed about upcoming events and seminary news, as well as the availability of valuable services Southwest provides to its alumni. Additionally, alumni can use this page to stay in touch with the seminary via the contact information at the bottom of this page. Please be sure to keep Southwest informed of any changes to your contact information, changes in employment or interesting information and developments in your life.
NEWS
2010 Blandy Lectures – September 21 & 22
This year’s Blandy Lectures will feature Jeff Sharlet, the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, co-author of the experimental travelogue Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, and co-editor of Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith. The best-selling author is also an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Dartmouth College and a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone. You can find out more about Jeff and his work by visiting www.jeffsharlet.com.
The Rev. Dr. Raymond W. Pickett, long-time seminary faculty member, will be awarded this year’s Durstan R McDonald Teaching Award. More information and details regarding activities surrounding this year’s lectures will be disseminated over the summer. Please watch for email communications and visit this space for updates.
Seminary of the Southwest Online School for Spirituality and Mission – Fall 2010 Courses
Courses are open for enrollment and run from September 13 to October 29, 2010. Each course counts for 20 hours of Continuing Education Units. Southwest’s own Dr. Scott Bader-Saye, Jones Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology, will be teaching one of the courses, entitled Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear. Click the link above to learn about other online offerings.
The Rt. Rev J. Scott Mayer, MDiv ’92, Awarded Honorary Degree
J. Scott Mayer, Bishop of the Diocese of Northwest Texas and Seminary of the Southwest graduate, was awarded an honorary doctorate at the seminary commencement ceremony in May.
The Rev. Dr. James ‘Jay’ B. Magness, MDiv ’77, Bishop Suffragan elect of Federal Ministries
Jay Magness, currently the Canon for Mission Diocesan Administration for the Diocese of Southern Virginia, will be ordained as Bishop of Federal Ministries on June 19, 2010. The position of Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries, formally known in the Constitution of The Episcopal Church as the Bishop Suffragan for the Armed Forces, includes not only the pastoral care and oversight for armed forces chaplains, military personnel and families, but also oversight of federal hospitals, prisons, and correctional facilities, as well as the Eucharistic communities related to military installations
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The Rev. Dr. David E. Bailey, DTS ’79, Bishop elect of Navajoland
David Bailey, currently serving as the executive officer, canon to the ordinary, and deployment officer in the Diocese of Utah, will be ordained and consecrated as Bishop of Navajoland on August 7, 2010. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori plans to preside over the service.
SERVICES for ALUMNI
Personalized Seminary of the Southwest Alumni Email Accounts
Seminary of the Southwest is proud to offer permanent alum.ssw.edu email addresses powered by Google to all alumni. You may use your alumni address( your.name@alum.ssw.edu) as your main mailbox or have Southwest mail forwarded to your Hotmail, Yahoo or other email address. To sign up for your own Southwest alumni email account send a message to Adrian Matthys at amatthys@ssw.edu. You will receive a message containing instructions on how to log into your account within 48 hours.
Online Research Tools Through Booher Library
ATLAS Full-Text Plus online journal research tools are now available to all Southwest alumni. Simply click on the link above to email the library for access.
CONTACT SEMINARY OF THE SOUTWEST
Adrian Matthys
Director of Annual Giving & Alumni Relations
Seminary of the Southwest
501 East 32nd Street
Austin, Texas 78705
Office Phone - 512.439.0333
Mobile - 512.917.9618
Email - amatthys@ssw.edu
Fax - 512.472.3098
