Bridging the divide
Conversations lead to collaboration and cooperation
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Spring 2002
14 Articles
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Bridging the divide
Conversations lead to collaboration and cooperation
There are tasks, both large and small, that your school could better accomplish in collaboration with another school or schools. What makes it worth overcoming inertia to find out what they are and to do them? A Teagle Foundation grant program asked that question and points toward some helpful answers.
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Shall we or shan’t we?
Marriage may be in the offing for Oregon schools
Some friendships deepen over time to committed relationship. Schools entering into courtship need to begin with a solid self-understanding, and an eyes-wide-open understanding of what they might gain, and what they might lose, either by merging or staying independent. Western Theological Seminary and Multnomah Biblical Seminary are negotiating a possible union. Their story has lessons…
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Right place, right time
Overnight Duke Divinity School had an unexpected public role
Imagine being a university student who reads an ad in the campus newspaper that’s so inflammatory and outrageous that you feel physically ill. Imagine you become angry enough to protest, demonstrate, occupy academic offices, and risk arrest to express your rejection of this affront to inexpressible core values. Now imagine being that same student and…
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Mind the signs, Moses led the way
Ron Benefiel notes the long-term consequencces of declining seminary-church relationships. Thomas D. Skinner looks to Moses for capital campaign strategies.
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An affiliation renewed — uneasily
Collaboration does not always come without struggle, especially when sensitive issues are raised by the media in the court of public opinion and allegations begin to drive events.
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Answering a call to serve
Tasks facing board members of theological schools can be complex and taxing—not least among which is finding the time to devote to reflection and prayer over their own involvement. Here one trustee shares his insights on his own servant leadership.
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Learning to learn
A review of <i>Schools that Learn</i>
Title: Schools that Learn Author: Peter Senge Publisher: Doubleday
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Losing trust
A review of <i>The Problem of Trust</i>
Title: The Problem of Trust Author: Adam B. Seligman Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reforming voices
A review of <i>The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village</i>
Title: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village Author: Eamon Duffy Publisher: Yale University Press
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Collaborating to change the world
A review of <i>Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor</i>
Title: Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor Author: Tim Berners-Lee Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco
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