News Brief
Episcopal News Service. May 1, 1980 [80156]
In April, 14 alumni from the Episcopal Church's theological seminary, Bexley Hall -- a part of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer consortium here -- participated in the Rossiter Scholar Program. The 12 male and two female graduates engaged in individual study on topics of their choosing, in dialogue with students and faculty of the three schools, and in two lectures by Roman Catholic Johannine scholar Raymond E. Brown and Yale Divinity School professor Henri Nouwen. Some of the alumni studied practical topics (such as church growth, renewal, models for lay ministry training) while others chose more academic topics such as Bonhoeffer, the Christology of John, and the theology of Charles Williams.
The board of trustees of the Episcopal Church's National Institute for Lay Training has announced the selection of Anne McGlinchey as its new director, succeeding Patricia Page who will become associate professor of education and director of continuing education at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif., in August. McGlinchey is at present co-director of Project Work, Inc., a clearing house and technical assistance group working with cooperative places in New York City. She is also coordinator and counselor in Women's Survival Space, a shelter program for women in Brooklyn.
The Rt. Rev. Manassas Kuria has been elected Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Kenya, succeeding the Most Rev. Festo H. Olang who has resigned. He was consecrated Assistant Bishop of Nakuru in 1970 and was appointed bishop of the diocese in 1976. Nakuru is one of seven dioceses in the Province of Kenya.
Louis E. Traycik, prosecuting attorney for Ogemaw County, Mich., has been elected president of the Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen. The 32-year-old Traycik succeeds the Rev. Carroll E. Simcox of Hendersonville, N. C., retired editor of The Living Church. The group was formed in 1973 by leaders of 15 church-related organizations and publications during the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Louisville, Ky. It sponsored the 1977 St. Louis Congress of Concerned Churchmen, out of which developed what is now the Anglican Catholic Church. Mrs. Dorothy A. Faber, Austin, Tex., editor of The Christian Challenge, was elected secretary, and Capt. Walter Swindells, Eureka Springs, Ark., managing editor of The Anglican Digest, will be treasurer.
Christian education leaders from 11 of the 13 dioceses of Province III of the Episcopal Church met here in April to consider their concerns and programs. The Rev. Fred Howard of the national office of Christian education spoke to the group on the program and resources of his office. Small groups discussed the national program and made suggestions in the plenary sessions about application at the provincial and diocesan levels. Two of the diocesan teams present shared information about their programs. Leaders of the conference were the Rev. Nathan Baxter and Mrs. Dorothy Watt, Regional Religious Education Coordinators of Province III. The group will meet here again next Oct. 27-28.