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LTS Allies

May 18, 2013 marked another graduation day at Lancaster Theological Seminary, as well as the end(?) of the LTS Allies website.

While the Facebook fan page still exists and the seminary’s DSpace server still hosts a range of lectures and sermons from the event variously known as GLBT Week, LGBT Week, and Queer Week, the scanned copies of items found in the LTS physical archives are no longer available.

The Allies site was a labor of love whose time (at least for now) has passed.  As I prepare for my qualifying exams, I am no longer able to be primary curator and technical support.

However, should anyone at the seminary wish to revive the site in the future, I did make an archival copy that can be resurrected with hosting and the domain registration.

 

image of the first LTS Allies logo
The first LTS Allies logo

2006-2009 Annual Life Lessons!

scribeI am pleased to report that my Annual Life Lessons have, at long last, been caught up.  I’ve not spent much time writing on this section of the site since I started seminary.

Years 2006-2008 will primarily outline papers written while in seminary, but beginning with 2009, there is again reflection on things that have happened throughout the year.  Take some time and check them out…

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The Politics of Safe Space

safe space symbolThis week at my seminary was LGBT Week.  It’s a 10-year-old tradition that has brought a lot of good to our campus, raising awareness and creating a space in which people can talk and share ideas.  I’m proud of my seminary for being open to the possibilities that this week can provide.

I was gone to the AAR annual meeting at the beginning of the week, but when I arrived at work on Wednesday morning, I was greeted by stickers that had been applied to both of the front doors of the library building, declaring the entire building a safe space.  You can click on the image to the right to see the entire text.

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How Richard Elliott Friedman Re-Wrote My Bible

Another reason I eventually chose to attend seminary can be traced back to the Documentary Hypothesis.  I didn’t know back then that that is what it is called.  But the popular work of Richard Elliott Friedman changed my world in 2001.

I had only been back in church for about a year and was a member of a congregation that highly valued Bible study and daily Bible reading as a form of personal devotion.   I was reading whatever I could get my hands on.  I picked up a copy of Who Wrote the Bible? and, as it turned out, I got more than I had bargained for.

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Thinking about Friendship

friends

Like many seminarians coming to the end of their studies, I’ve been reevaluating a lot of areas of my life.  What will I study next?  Where will I live?  Should I move from my current apartment or stay for a year as I prepare to apply for doctoral programs?  Is there a current call on my life?  But among the complex issues that have been coming up again and again as of late, the topic of friendship has been at the fore.

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