DIVINITY SCHOOL

 

FACULTY ACTIVITIES REPORT

 

FOR JULY 1, 2005 TO JUNE 30, 2006

 

 

 

 

I.                Publications, Performances, Exhibits

 

 

Amos, Katherine E.

 

Assisted with five Divinity Student Art exhibitions at the Divinity School.

 

 

Crainshaw, Jill Y.

 

“ ‘Grammar of Justice, Syntax of Mutual Aid’: Creating Storytelling

                                    Communities of Worship.”  Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music,

                                    Preaching, and the Arts 38 (July 2005):  10-16.

 

“Preaching the Lesson for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany.”  Lectionary Homiletics, (September/October 2005).

 

“Preaching the Lesson for the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany.”  Lectionary Homiletics, (September/October 2005).

 

“Preaching the Lesson for Transfiguration Sunday.”  Lectionary Homiletics, September/October 2005).

 

“The Unsaid Sound of God: A Ministry of the Word after the Last Word,” WFUDS Hooding Service, May 2006.

 

“John Paul II and the Quest for Christian Unity,” North Carolina Council of Churches Continuing Education Seminar, Fall 2005.

 

“Run the Walk; Sing the Talk,” Sermon, Parkway United Church of Christ, March 2006.

 

“She Sang,” Sermon for Recognition of 50th Anniversary of Ordination of Women in PCUSA, Highland Presbyterian Church, March 2006.

 

Panel participant, Justice for Women Conference, Moravian Southern Conference, March 2006.

     

“Battling Racism and Sexism in Congregational Ministry,” Presentation for Presbyterian Interracial Dialogue, July 2005.

 

 

Leonard, Bill J.

 

Baptist Principles, Nashville: Baptist Historical Society, 2005.

 

 “Changing a Theology: Baptists, Theology and Globalism, Then and Now,” in Marc A. Jolley editor, Distinctively Baptist: Essays on Baptist History, Mercer University Press, 2005.

 

“Right Man, Wrong Season: The Presidency of Roy Honeycutt,” Review and Expositor (Winter 2005).

 

 

Lipsett, Diane Wudel

 

“Matthew’s Jesus and the Pharisees: The Rhetoric of Social Identification,” and “Guide to a Happy Home” in Teaching the Bible, eds., Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005), 312-313, 381-383.

 

 

Walls, Neal

 

Neal H. Walls, ed., Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East

(Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, [October] 2005).

 

Weber, Samuel F.

 

Monastic Antiphonary, 500 pp.  Prepared for Saint Bernard Abbey, Cullman, Alabama USA (privately printed and distributed)

The Proper of the Mass for All the Sundays of the Liturgical Year, Commissioned by the Diocese of Charleston, SC (privately printed and distributed)

Proper Masses for the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (O.C.D.) (privately printed and distributed)

The Passion of Saint John for Good Friday (privately printed and distributed, performances in three parishes 2006)

The Service of Vespers for the Fourth Sunday of Lent (commissioned by the Diocese of Bridgeport, CT, for the fifth anniversary of the the appointment of the Bishop)

The Service of Vespers for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (commissioned by Prince of Peace Church, Taylors, SC)

The Service of Vespers to begin the Forty Hours Devotion (commissioned by Prince of Peace Church, Taylors, SC)

The Services of Lauds and Vespers for Pentecost Sunday (commissioned by the Research Institute for Catholic Liturgy)

 

 

 

 

 

II.             Papers and Presentations

 

Amos, Katherine

Presentation on “Pathways to Peace” at the North Carolina Annual Meeting of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

 

Coordinated a student presentation of three senior projects for the Spring Meeting of the  Wake Forest University Board of Trustees Divinity School Committee

 

Coordinated a student presentation of three senior projects for the Spring Meeting of the Divinity School Board of Visitors

 

Facilitated a session on faculty issues for the Senior Women Administrators in Theological Education Retreat in  Spring 2006.

 

 

Bailey, Douglass M.

Keynote Speaker at National Urban Ministry Conference: “The City of God for American Cities,” Washington, D.C.  (June ‘05)

 

Keynote Speaker for Moravian Church, Pre-Synod, Southern Province, USA

 

Crainshaw, Jill Y.

“Gender, Violence, and Liturgy: Some Considerations,” North American Academy of Liturgy, January 2006.

 

Leonard, Bill J.

Group facilitator, Wabash Center Discussion on Church-based Colleges and Universities, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, November 2005.

 

Walls, Neal

Chair of the one “Israelite Religion in Its West Asian Environment” session for the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (Nov 19, 2005)

 

 

 

 

 

 

III.           Editorships, Offices, and Consultancies

 

Amos, Katherine

Member of the Women in Leadership in Theological Education Advisory Committee for the Association of Theological School in the United States and Canada.

 

One member of a three member consulting team to the “Institute of Church Life” at the University of Notre Dame (three day site visit)

 

Consultant to Inter-American Adventist Theological Seminary in Miami, Florida on their ATS Self-Study  (4 days consulting time at various days during the year, including a site visit)

 

Consultant to Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio on their extension education and Distance Education program (1 day of consulting time, including a review of an accreditation proposal and telephone time with the Seminary President and staff); 

 

Consultant to Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, NC concerning their extension education program (4 hours of consulting time, including a meeting with the Seminary President and telephone consultation with his staff)

 

Consultant to Central Baptist Theological Seminary concerning their degree programs, ATS self-study, and their extension education program (one hour of consulting time via telephone conversation with the Seminary President and the Academic Dean).

 

 

Bailey, Douglass M.

Workshop and Preaching; Centenary United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC (3 workshops)

Workshop and Preaching; Centenary United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC  (2 Adult Forums)

Workshop and Preaching; Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina; Columbia, SC

Workshop and Preaching; St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC

Workshop and Preaching; St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA

Workshop and Preaching; United Congregational Church, Bridgeport, CT

Workshop and Preaching; Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, NC

Workshop and Preaching; Emmanuel Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC

Workshop and Preaching; Pre-Synod Keynote Speaker, Southern Province, Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, NC

 

 

Crainshaw, Jill Y.

Delegate for Seminars, North American Academy of Liturgy

 

½ day Parkway United Church of Christ

 

Center for Congregational Health—various resume consulting

 

 

 

Leonard, Bill J.

Editorial Board, Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health

 

Lipsett, Diane Wudel

Editorial board member, Perspectives in Religious Studies

 

Weber, Samuel F.

Editorial Board of Antiphon, Journal of the Catholic Society for Liturgy

 

Diocese of Charleston, advisor to the Bishop and Office of Divine Worship (8 hrs)

Research Institute for Catholic Liturgy, advisor

 

Regional Coordinator, Southeast region of the Society of Biblical Studies, term of office: 2003-2009

 

Member, Council of Regional Coordinators, Society of Biblical Studies, 2003-2009

 

Walls, Neal

Chair of the “Israelite Religion in Its West Asian Environment” section for the Society of Biblical Literature in 2005. Member of the steering committee through 2006.

 

Co-chair of a new Society of Biblical Literature consultation, “The Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory,” 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

IV.           External Grants Received

 

 

 

Bailey, Douglass, M.

Topic:

Multicultural Immersion Course and Wake Forest University Divinity School

Agency:

Tudor-Jones

$ Requested:

$10,000

$  Funded:

$10,000

 

Crainshaw, Jill Y.

Topic:

 

Bridging Faith Communities

Agency:

 

Jessie Ball DuPont

$  Requested:

 

150,000

$  Funded:

 

150,000

 

Leonard, Bill J.

 

Topic:

Fierce Landscapes

Agency:

Appalachian Ministries Education Resource Center

$  Requested:

10,000

$  Funded:

10,000

 

 

 

Topic:

Baptists’ Bible

Agency:

Louisville Institute for the Study of American Protestantism

$  Requested:

35,000

$  Funded:

35,000

 

           

V.              Awards for Distinguished Teaching, Research, or Professional Activities

 

(none)