Pasadena, California, United States - Fuller Theological Seminary Newsletter for Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Pasadena, California, United States - Fuller Theological Seminary Newsletter for Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Making an Exponential Difference...

Vocatio Scholarship: A New Scholarship for New, Full-Time MDiv Students

With our redesigned MDiv program launching this Fall, Fuller is excited to offer a new Vocatio Scholarship to all qualified incoming MDiv students for the upcoming academic year. This three-year scholarship — for new, full-time students who start the MDiv in Fall, Winter, or Spring Quarter of 2014-15 — will assist you in your stewardship of God’s resources as you engage in the equipping you need to pursue your unique vocational call.
The term Vocatio — with Latin roots that mean “calling” — points to the strong emphasis of the reshaped MDiv on helping you discern and prepare for your God-given calling, whether that is professional ministry or any other vocation. The new Vocatio Scholarship reinforces Fuller’s commitment to offer you sustainable, affordable theological education that will equip you to make an exponential difference for Jesus in an ever-changing world. 
To find out more about Fuller’s redesigned MDiv program and the Vocatio Scholarship, check out these webpages or contact the Office of Admissions at admissions@fuller.edu, 1.800.2.FULLER or 626.584.5400.
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Theology Week: April 29 – May 3

 

Join us in Pasadena for Theology Week from Tuesday, April 29 through Saturday, May 3. The conference and lecture series will feature distinguished scholar N.T. Wright, renowned Professor of New Testament at the University of St. Andrews, and this year’s guest speaker for the School of Theology’s Payton Lectures, Miroslav Volf, celebrated theologian and professor in Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.
Bringing these brilliant theological minds together is Fuller’s President, Mark Labberton, with a free public dialogue on “The Future of the Church.” For more information, check out www.fuller.edu/theologyweek. Note that registration is required for the N.T. Wright conference.
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The Brehm Center: Engaging Arts and Culture in Jesus’ Name

Recognizing that God is the original artist and Creator, Fuller’s Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts works to revitalize the church and culture through the arts — engaging expert faculty, world-class artists, and visiting scholars to investigate the theory and practice of art as ministry.
Sometimes described as an “evangelical think tank,” the Brehm Center and its initiatives sponsor research, community outreach, and integrated education in worship, theology, and the arts. The Brehm Center does not operate as a separate school at Fuller. Rather, a Brehm Center Emphasis can be pursued in tandem with any current Fuller Seminary degree program in the schools of Theology, Psychology, or Intercultural Studies.
Learn more about the Brehm Center and check out the Brehm Experience, a new “Digital Magazine” that highlights amazing and thoughtful work from artists, theologians, creators, church leaders, and others exploring significant questions we all ask.
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A Meditation for the Easter Season
In the busyness of our lives it is too easy to overlook the importance — and true meaning — of the deep hope Easter holds for us. Whether this season has been a time of sorrow or pain, or one of eager anticipation and joy, we invite you to prayerfully reflect on the hope Easter brings to all of us as--President Mark Labberton's meditation reveals.

THE TURNING POINT, NOT THE FINALE

A Meditation for Easter and Holy Week by President Mark Labberton

Easter Reflection
Any given day can provide many with more than enough reasons for discouragement and defeat-reasons within and all around us. Sometimes these are temporary circumstances. But other times, we face chronic factors that seem to have no horizon of change or hope.
We cannot overstate the goodness and faithfulness of our Lord in Easter, but we can misstate it. I have heard some Easter sermons that leave the impression that the resurrection of our Lord is like a spiritual sleight of hand, like the proverbial rabbit out of a hat, from death comes life. Or Easter can sometimes sound like a magical spot-remover that erases everything from sin to pain to death-a topical application without depth or substance. Or it may seem to be a well-intended fantasy, like the thought that computers would lead to a paperless world.
The deep work of Holy Week-from Palm Sunday to Good Friday, and culminating on Easter-is in fact an unexpected and unparalleled surprise. Easter announces nothing less than the start of God's work of re-creation when the firstborn of all creation becomes the firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:15-18), and God's new creation begins. This universe-altering act outstrips our categories and our language. It's the decisive but not final act in God's work of making all things new (2 Corinthians 5:17). It's the turning point, not the finale.
In our world of chronic need-injustice, sorrow, suffering, confusion, and death-Easter is the best possible news. The resurrection is not a trick, not a kind of magic, not a fantasy. It is the beginning of God's new reality that we can trust and anticipate, that by the Spirit we can experience, and that this side of glory we can see, but we see through a glass darkly. It is the ground of our hope.
I love the triumph and victory of Easter music and its grand resolved chords. That is part of Easter. So too is the importance of some minor chords, some unresolved pieces that signal our hope is born in a real world, not yet fully transformed, but one that, because of Easter, will one day be made fully right.
May the Risen Christ mean we can live in hope for our world and for ourselves.
Photo by Matt Lumpkin (MDiv '11)

Upcoming Events 

Prospective Student Events in Pasadena, CA
•Prospective Student Evening Visit
April 21, 2014
•Payton Lectures 2014
April 30 - May 1, 2014
•2014 N. T. Wright Conference
May 1–3, 2014
•Prospective Student Day Visit
May 16, 2014
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Upcoming Deadlines

•Early Consideration Deadline for DMiss Fall 2014 Cohort
April 18, 2014
•Early Deadline for the MAGL Fall 2014 Cohort
April 25, 2014
•Deadline for Most Master's-Level Programs for Summer 2014
May 16, 2014
•Extended Deadline for MS in Marital and Family Therapy for Fall 2014 (Fuller Arizona campus only)
June 1, 2014
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