New York seminary sells Desmond Tutu Center: The Church of England Newspaper, September 23, 2012 p 6. September 26, 2012
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The Desmond Tutu Center at the General Theological Seminary in New York
The Episcopal Church’s General Theological Seminary (GTS) in New York has sold the bulk of its Desmond Tutu Center to hotel developers. On 13 Sept 2012 GTS president the Rev. Lang Lowery announced that the “hotel” portion of the Tutu Center, consisting of 60 guestrooms, had been sold to The Brodsky Organization for use as a commercial hotel. The seminary’s refectory, two conference spaces and some smaller rooms housed in the Tutu Center will remain with the school.
The sale is part of the 194-year old school’s Plan to Choose Life programme to eliminate debt. Funds from real estate sales have enabled it to rebuild its endowment, refurbish student accommodation and hire three new instructors.
“I have been privileged to serve in this time of amazing turnaround for General Seminary,” said President Lowrey,who added “We just need to remember that the Seminary is by no means fully self-sufficient financially. We must increase the endowment, and we still have a material way to go to reach a balanced budget.”
First printed in The Church of England Newspaper.
Anglo-Catholic seminaries to ink mission agreement: The Church of England Newspaper, September 20, 2012. September 22, 2012
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Two Anglo-Catholic seminaries will sign a covenant next month in Oxford to strengthen the Catholic witness in the Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church’s sole Anglo-Catholic seminary, Nashotah House in Wisconsin, and St. Stephen’s House in Oxford on 4 Oct 2012 will endorse “Strengthening the Bonds of Affection: A Mutual Covenant for Ministry” that pledges the schools to a programme of mutual ministry.
The schools will adopt a joint mission statement, create a seminarian exchange programme and coordinate their academic priorities. “Both St. Stephen’s House and Nashotah House share a common and rich ancestry, emerging from the Catholic Revival of the nineteenth century,” said the Bishop Edward L. Salmon, Jr., Nashotah House dean, “and by working together we can be a monumental blessing to our church and to our world.”
The Rev. Canon Robin Ward, principal of St. Stephen’s House noted “St. Stephen’s House and Nashotah House are the preeminent Anglo-Catholic seminaries serving the Anglican Communion today, and affirming our common heritage while seeking new ways to expand our vision together will plant seeds that, by God’s grace, will produce fruit – fifty, sixty and even a hundred fold.”
First printed in The Church of England Newspaper.
Wycliffe Hall principal out: Anglican Ink, May 24, 2012 May 24, 2012
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Dr. Richard Turnbull
The Principal of one of the Church of England’s leading evangelical theological colleges has taken a leave of absence. While this week’s announcement by the Wycliffe Hall council that Dr. Richard Turnbull’s duties would be assumed by Vice-Principal Simon Vibert follows reports of discord within the school, Anglican Ink has been told the principal’s departure is not related to the wider Anglican Communion’s political wars.
The last six years have been difficult for the school, Anglican Ink was told, and concerns over leadership style and management – not churchmanship – had led to this announcement.
Founded in 1877 to train Anglican clergy, Wycliffe Hall is a permanent private hall of Oxford University, that been able to matriculate its own theology students as members of the university since 1996. Among its former members are Lord Coggan, the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. N.T. Wright the former Bishop of Durham, and the Rev. Nicky Gumbel of Alpha Course fame.
Read it all in Anglican Ink.
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