Campus Ministry Strategy Discussed
Diocesan Press Service. March 7, 1975 [75104]
NEW HARMONY, Ind. -- Fifteen chaplains of Episcopal schools and colleges met here for five days in February to formulate strategy. The art of campus ministry was the major area of discussion, summaries of which will be sent to the nine colleges and thousand schools of the Episcopal system.
Human elements of the educational process were described as a teacher and a student served by administrators who bring them together under circumstances as nearly ideal as possible. The environment on the church-related campus is characterized by tension between Christian commitment and secularism, the latter described as the " invisible religion" of our time. The major tool in the operation is curriculum, which was described as outdated, in that it does not address the primary needs of man or offer answers to the problems which threaten society.
Co-directors of the symposium were the Rev. John Paul Carter and Dr. Arthur. Ben Chitty, heads of the schools and colleges associations. The setting was the historic restoration of the early 19th century Utopian community made famous by the educational experiments of Robert Owen, Scottish industrialist, and his four sons.