Three to Guide Triennial Program
Episcopal News Service. August 20, 1981 [81223]
NEW YORK -- The executive committee of the Triennial Committee has announced the major speakers fo the 1982 Triennial Meeting of the Women of the Episcopal Church.
The theme for this meeting, "Go Forth Into the World," will focus on three issues facing the Church and the world: Spirituality, Family, and Environment, during the Sept. 5 to 14 meeting in New Orleans.
The Rev. Tilden H. Edwards, Jr., executive director, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, has been chosen to lead workshops on Spirituality. Edwards completed his undergraduate work at Stanford University, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and S.T.B. from Harvard Divinity School. In addition he received a Certificate of Anglican Studies from the Episcopal Theological (now Divinity) School and a Ph.D. in the area of spiritual theology from the Union Graduate School.
His former experience in the Church has been varied, ranging from associate rector of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Parish, Washington, D.C., where he was a member of a team ministry for five years, to director of the Washington Urban Training Program and executive director of the Metropolitan Ecumenical Training Center. He has participated in retreats in a variety of monastic communities and has led retreats, and spiritual growth and meditation groups. He conducted a special research project on the spiritual growth experiences and values of laity in 1973.
His more recent publications include Spiritual Friend (Paulist Press, 1980), Living Simply Through the Day (Paulist Press, 1977), "Spiritual Formation in Theological Schools," a two-year research report published in Theological Education, Dec. 1980, and All God's Children (Abingdon Press' "Journey in Faith" series) due for publication, winter, 1982.
Leading the Triennial Meeting in the area of Family will be the Rev. Dr. John H. Westerhoff III. Westerhoff is an Episcopal priest at the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, N.C., and professor of Practical Theology at the Duke University Divinity School, where he has taught catechetics, liturgics and ascetics since 1973.
Westerhoff earned his graduate degrees in theology, anthropology and education from Harvard and Columbia Universities. He spent eight years in the parish and eight years as a denominational educational officer with the United Church of Christ. He has taught at Harvard and Fordham Universities, Boston College, the University of the South, Princeton and Union Theological Seminary and has lectured throughout the world.
Author of numerous books and articles, his most recent are Will Our Children Have Faith?, Bringing Up Children in the Christian Faith, Inner Growth/Outer Change, Christian Believing, Liturgy and Learning Through the Life Cycle, and A Faithful Church: Issues in the History of Catechesis. In addition, he is editor of Religious Education, an international, ecumenical, scholarly journal.
Environment, the third area of the Triennial Meeting, will be led by Dean Herbert O'Driscoll of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, B.C. O'Driscoll was born in Ireland and educated at Middleton College and University of Trinity College, Dublin. He was named a Gold Medalist in Oratory by the University Philosophical Society and in 1981 received a Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) from Vancouver School of Theology.
Since his ordination in 1953 he has served as staff member at Monkstown Parish Church, Dublin and Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa. He was rector of the Parish of Huntley, Diocese of Ottawa, and rector of the Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Ottawa.
O'Driscoll is a member of the Long Range Planning Committee, Anglican Church of Canada, and has been involved in adult education, seminars, retreats, and parish and diocesan conferences. He is author of The Unshakeable Kingdom, For All Seasons, A Certain Life, Portrait of a Woman, and Alleluia. He has contributed hymns to many publications, including The Royal School of Church Music, Anglican Church of Canada, United Church of Canada, United Church of Christ, U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in Canada, and 'The Hymn,' a publication of the Hymn Society of America.
Additionally, he has been a scriptwriter for radio and television. He did television scripts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Thomas Becket, Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Church in Hong Kong and "The Nativity."