Presiding Bishop at Nashotah House praises seminary for making ministers for Jesus Movement

From The Episcopal Church-

 “It is good to be here.”

A throwaway cliché in most speeches, but spoken Sept. 28 by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry as the fall sun was setting at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, there was reason enough for his audience of 150 or so people to believe he was being sincere.

For starters, Curry was in Nashotah to receive the seminary’s Ramsey Award, named after Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974. Bishop Daniel Martins of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, who serves as Nashotah House’s board chairman, presented the award to Curry for “his eloquent, inspiring preaching to refocus church discourse in a Christo-centric manner.”

Martins also noted Curry’s “tireless efforts seeking reconciliation in Christ’s broken body from his first days of ordained ministry all the way to his service now as presiding bishop,” adding that Curry’s “work to promote growth in racial equality, educational development, social justice and humanitarian outreach are equally noteworthy.”

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Nashotah dean among Episcopal bishops who agree to sanctions

From Milwaukee-

Retired Episcopal Bishop Edward L. Salmon, now dean of the Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Waukesha County, is among nine bishops who have agreed to sanctions for their part in supporting breakaway congregations in lawsuits over church assets.

Salmon came to Nashotah House in 2011, after retiring as bishop of the church's South Carolina Diocese. He was unavailable for comment on Friday.

According to Religion News Service:

Under the terms of the agreement, the nine bishops “express regret for any harm” to the Dioceses of Quincy (Ill.) and Fort Worth (Texas) as a result of their actions, which included filing amicus briefs that were sympathetic with the breakaway groups.

The bishops also pledged to stop supporting breakaway groups in court cases, at least until the church’s General Convention addresses the matter in 2015. They also agree to help defray costs incurred by the church in reaching the accord.

The accord is billed as an outcome of “conciliation,” which is a step in the church disciplinary process. But tensions remain unresolved.

Conciliation “doesn’t achieve full reconciliation,” said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. “It is a step in that direction.”

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Nashotah House seminary to get a new president

From Milwaukee-

There is a certain rhythm to life at Nashotah House Theological Seminary that has remained unchanged over the last century or so.

Seminarians shuttle between the stone buildings, some in the long, black cassocks of the clergy. Their days begin and end in prayer and ancient chant in the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin. And they live and work in community, in keeping with the Benedictine spirituality of their founders.

But much is new on the grounds of this Episcopal seminary on the shores of Upper Nashotah Lake that has prepared students in the church's Anglo-Catholic tradition for nearly 170 years. Enrollment is up, driven in part by a distance-learning program that draws students from around the world. The school has christened a new $1.6 million building, its first in 20 years.

And, this week, Nashotah House will install a new dean and president, the Right Rev. Edward Salmon. A retired South Carolina bishop, Salmon will have to balance the school's traditional mission against shifting economic and technological forces, and lead it at a time of great division within the Anglican Communion.

"Our vision is to continue to do, impressively and strongly, what we've done for 170 years," said Salmon, a longtime Nashotah House trustee, who will be installed during a convocation Friday - where former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey is scheduled to speak.

"Sometimes institutions are buffeted by external circumstances," Salmon said. "Our call, regardless of those circumstances, is to raise up a strong priesthood for the church."

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Former Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Nashotah House

From Milwaukee-

The former Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. George Leonard Carey, will visit the Episcopal Nashotah House Theological Seminary this fall, speaking at its convocation Oct. 28 and the installation service of its new dean and president, the Rev. Edward Salmon, on Oct. 27.

Carey served as the spiritual leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans from 1991 to 2002. Described by Nashotah House as a "faithful teacher and spirited defender of Biblical and orthodox Christianity," Carey was known for his emphases on evangelism and interfaith efforts. But he was also considered controversial by many. He oversaw the church's transition to allowing women priests and managed the dissent that followed, has spoken out against the ordination of openly gay and lesbian priests and in support of immigration limits in England.

Nashotah House is one of 11 Episcopal seminaries in the country. More information about the school is available at www.nashotah.edu.

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Nashotah House announces honorary degree recipients

From Episcopal Life Online-

Anglican Bishop and theologian Michael Nazir-Ali is due to receive an honorary degree May 20 from Nashotah House during the Episcopal church-affiliated seminary's 165th commencement.
Nazir-Ali, who will also be the commencement speaker, was bishop of Rochester, England, before resigning last year. He is now president of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy, and Dialogue.

Diocese of Qu'Appelle (Canada) Bishop Gregory K. Kerr-Wilson will also be awarded a doctor of divinity degree along with Nazir-Ali. The seminary will confer the doctor of humane letters degree on Edwina Thomas, who served for 20 years as director of SOMA-USA, a branch of an international Anglican organization devoted to short-term missions.

Nazir-Ali was reported to have been a leading candidate to become Archbishop of Canterbury when Rowan Williams was appointed. He was one of about 230 Anglican Communion bishops who boycotted the 2008 Lambeth Conference of bishops in Canterbury, England. Prior to the start of the conference, he told the Birmingham Post, a British newspaper, that his difficulty with attending the conference centered on "being in eucharistic fellowship with and teaching the common faith alongside those who have ordained a person to be bishop whose style of life is contrary to the unanimous teaching of the Bible and of the church down the ages." Nazir-Ali was referring to the Episcopal Church's approval of the Diocese of New Hampshire's election and ordination of Gene Robinson as its bishop in 2003.

Nazir-Ali currently serves as visiting professor of theology and religious studies in the University of Greenwich and on the faculty of the London School of Theology.

Twenty-two graduates will receive earned degrees and diplomas during the exercises that will be held at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

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Fire Destroys Historic Seminary Building

An overnight fire in Waukesha County leaves nothing but a pile of rubble behind at a historic building.

Nobody was hurt, but the structure, part of the Nashotah Episcopal Seminary, was destroyed.
The fire broke out around 12:30 a.m. Friday morning.

The two-story house was engulfed in fire.

Investigators said that nobody currently lives in this house, a historic building set in the heart of the Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary.

The seminary was founded in 1842. It covers 365 acres of land, nestled along the shore of upper Nashotah Lake.

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