GARDNER C. TAYLOR LECTURES OCT 7-8

Dr. Valerie Bridgeman, a professor of Hebrew Bible/Homiletics and Worship at Memphis Theological Seminary will be the guest lecture for the 2008 Gardner C. Taylor Lectures

Bridgeman will lead a presentation entitled, “‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’: Biblical Hermeneutics, Womanist Thought, and Resistance Preaching.” Duke Divinity alumnus Dr. J. Donald Ballard, D'66 will also be preaching at a worship service at Goodson Chapel at the Divinity School.

For more info visit: http://www.divinity.duke.edu/news/noteworthy/20081003series

BSU students participate in International ministry awareness.

Thursday, September 25

Service of International Presentations featuring Brazil and Uganda

Tori Butler, Angela MacDonald (BSU members)

Goodson Chapel, 11:25am

International Ministry Awareness Celebration

Tuesday, September 23

Service of International Presentations featuring South Africa and Peru*

Alexis Carter presenting (BSU member)

Goodson Chapel, 11:25am

With Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble

Wednesday September 24

Service of International Presentations featuring Central America and Macedonia

Kamille Williams (BSU member)

Goodson Chapel, 11:25am

RACE: A FACTOR FOR OBAMA?

A new study shows that 1/3 of white Democrats harbor negative attitudes towards blacks. Read the story. http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-obama-race
Photo:www.flickr.com

"I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn't 'fall out in church' as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn't want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals."

Barack Obama
Christianity Today
From an interview by Sarah Pulliam and Ted Olsen

Photos: Zimbio Interactive Magazine
Chicago Tribune:www.swamppolitics.com

EVOLVING

Leslie Nambo shared this picture in a class at Duke Divinity entitled, "Women, Gender, and Theology." I've thought about this photo quite often. Some days I get tired---Some days you get tired---but we can't quit. I borrow from the words of Kamille Williams, a young black female scholar and Duke Divinity colleague:

"No longer are the days of the old slave religion of worshiping secretly in brushharbors in order to worship free from the indoctrinating, repetitive,exegetically incorrect, proof-text of "Slaves obey your masters.." You are now sitting in one of the top theological institutions in the world becoming the next great theological thinkers of all time. SPEAK UP! Bring your perspective to the table. Boldly declare the unique perspectives that you bring. It does not matter if your words are accepted or rejected. "


Kaneasha Shackelford

TRACES OF THE TRADE COMING TO DUKE DIVINITY

For more info about this event, contact Angel Gallardo, BSU Program Chair at gregestate@yahoo.com

Click here to view a clip of this documentary:
http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/view-clips/
Photo: Press Downloads http://www.tracesofthetrade.org

Former BSU member Christian Peele is interviewed by Durham News

Christian Peele, BSU President for 2007-2008, graduates as Duke Divinity's youngest graduate.
Read the story.

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/class_time/story/158943.html

Members of BSU

Wallace Baxter III
President
M.Div 09

Angela MacDonald
Vice President
M. Div 09'

Lyle Pointer
Treasurer
M. Div 09'

Angel Gallardo
Program Chair
M. Div 09'

Kamille Williams
Secretary
M. Div 09'

Tasha Gibson
Co-Chaplain
M. Div 09'

Angela Taylor
Co-Chaplain
M. Div 10'

Boris Bayless
Parliamentarian
M. Div 10'

Kaneasha Shackelford
Historian
M. Div 09'

Hello to all!

The pictures from our Worship service at Mt. Level will be posted soon!

Thanks,
Kaneasha Shackelford
Historian