Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook to deliver fourth annual St. Margaret's Lecture at CDSP
Episcopal News Service. August 21, 2007 [082107-04]
The Rev. Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, academic dean at Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be the featured speaker October 12 for the fourth annual St. Margaret's Lecture at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) in Berkeley, California.
The St. Margaret's Lectures, sponsored by Every Voice Network, supports the CDSP's efforts to establish the St. Margaret's Chair for Women and Ministry. This Chair, the first faculty position of its kind in an Episcopal seminary or the Graduate Theological Union, will continue the vision of St. Margaret's House which was founded in Berkeley in 1909 to train women for the church work of the day -- deaconesses and lay church workers. As a permanent faculty position at CDSP focused on women's lay and ordained leadership in the church, St. Margaret's Chair will ensure that the lessons of the ministries of women are not lost to future generations.
Kujawa-Holbrook, an Episcopal priest and the Suzanne Radley Hiatt professor of Feminist Pastoral Theology and Church History at EDS, is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of church history, pastoral theology, anti-racism, congregational development, and youth ministries. She served as chair of the Anti-Racism Committee of the Executive Council for seven years. Her works include: "Seeing God in each Other"; "A House of Prayer for all Peoples: Congregations Building Multiracial Community"; and "Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the Episcopal Church." She just completed "Injustice and the Care of Souls" with Karen B. Montagno.
The gathering, themed "Deeper Joy: Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church," will begin at 10 a.m. in Easton Hall with a panel discussion on ministry followed at 11:30 a.m. by Said Eucharist in All Saints Chapel. The luncheon and lecture will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the CDSP Refectory. The cost for lunch is $15 per person.
For more information, contact the CDSP Advancement Office at 510-204-0755, or email jsalsman@cdsp.edu.