FACULTY NOTES

MARK BANGERT, John H. Tietjen professor of pastoral ministry: worship and church music, was honored on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his ordination at a special celebration held at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Luke, Chicago, last fall.

RICHARD BLIESE, Augustana Heritage assistant professor of global mission and evangelism, gave a three-day workshop on evangelism in Kentucky, and a presentation at the Lutheran World Federation meeting on mission and Lutheran communion in Winnipeg, Canada, last fall. Also last fall, he hosted a meeting of Lutheran missiologists at the ELCA center. The meeting included missiologists from the eight ELCA seminaries, plus representatives from the ELCA Divisions for Outreach, Global Mission and Congregational Ministries. The meeting was made possible by a Lilly Foundation grant. His article "Convivenz and Globalization: The Church’s Mission Within North America’s Religious Pluralism" appeared in the magazine Mit dem Freden Leben Vol. II, ed. Dieter Becker (Munich: Erlanger Verlag, 2000). Beginning in July, Bliese will be the director of graduate studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He replaces Mark Thomsen, who will be the director of the Chicago Center for Global Ministries beginning in July.

JAMES KENNETH ECHOLS, president, participated in an Association of Theological Schools accreditation visit in Atlanta.

PHILIP HEFNER, professor of systematic theology, appeared in the PBS program, "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" in December. He presented the paper "The Role of Religion and Culture in the Development of Sociality" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science seminar held in Washington, D.C., in January, and presented "Cloning and Animals: Moral and Religious Considerations, at the ELCA Division for Church and Society conference on cloning held in Chicago last fall.

STACY KITAHATA, dean of community, was the bible study leader for the conference Emerging Leaders: Tools and Strategies for Doing Social Justice in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, held in Atlanta last December.

RALPH KLEIN, professor of Old Testament, had several articles published: "Commentaries on Ezra, Nehemiah, and I Esdras" in the Revised Edition of the Harper Collins Bible Commentary; "The Ironic End of Joash in Chronicles" in "For a Later Generation," (Trinity Press International); "Ezekiel in the Twenty-First Century" in "The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropolitical Perspectives;" and "Book of Ezekiel" in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible.

CONNIE KLEINGARTNER, Logos professor of evangelism and church ministries and director of field education, represented the seminary at a meeting of Lutheran missiologists held at the ELCA center last fall. The meeting was hosted by Richard Bliese.

EDGAR KRENTZ, professor of New Testament emeritus, had the article "Meeting Paul Anew: Rereading an Old Friend in a New Age," printed in the Winter 2000 issue of the magazine Dialog.

WALTER MICHEL, professor of Old Testament, wrote a response to "Dabru Emet" that was translated into German, discussed in January at a conference in Bern, Germany, and is being sent to the magazine Evangelische Theologie for publication.

ALBERT "PETE" PERO, professor of systematic theology, was the speaker at the Reformation Day program held at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. While in Atlanta, he was honored by the city "for [the] four decades you have served others according to the teachings of your faith. As a minister, educator and author, you have built bridges of communication that lead to understanding. May God continue to bless you." The citation was signed by the mayor of Atlanta.

RICHARD PERRY, assistant professor of church and society/urban ministry, responded to a paper at the ELCA Division for Church and Society conference on cloning held in Chicago last fall.

DAVID RHOADS, professor of New Testament, was awarded a Lilly Foundation Grant for next year for his project "Celebrating Diversity: A Model for Intercultural Bible Study."

BARBARA ROSSING, associate professor of New Testament, has received a Wabash Grant for her project, "Biblical Landscapes: Ecology and Empire."

CRAIG SATTERLEE, Carlson assistant professor of homiletics, will have his manuscript "Ambrose of Milan’s Method of Mystagogical Preaching," published by Liturgical Press next fall. He is working on a text with Lester Ruth entitled "Creative Preaching on the Sacraments," scheduled for publication in January 2002. He was also the preacher for the ecumenical prayer service for Christian unity sponsored by the Jefferson Park/Portage Ministerial Association, Chicago, in January. He was awarded a $7,500 worship renewal grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship with funds provided by Lilly Endowment. The grant is to conduct a one-year program to equip 10 pastors from congregations of different geographic and ecumenical contexts to creatively preach on worship and sacrament in a way that combines the worshipper’s reflection with biblical stories and images.

VITOR WESTHELLE, professor of systematic theology, had the article "Modernidade, Mito e Religião: Crítica e Reconstrução edas Representações Religiosas" printed in the magazine Numen: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisa da Religião. In addition, the article "Augsburg Confession VII and the Historic Episcopate" appeared in the magazine Dialog (Fall 2000) and "The Noble Tribe of Truth: Etchings on Myth, Language, and Truth Speaking" appeared in "Grundtvig in International Perspective: Studies in the Creativity of Interaction" (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2000).