Congratulations to Our Newly Ordained Clergy!
At the Ordination Ceremony
April 25, 2009
Ordinands, Faculty and Co-Directors.
Front row: Ordinands Rev. Jennifer Howard, Rev. Sharon Luther, and Rev. Dr. Jim Christiansen. Middle row: Rev. Dr. Gina Rose Halpern, (Founding Director); Ordinands Rev. Dr. Patricia Stamm and Rev. Sharon Leman, and Rev. Dr. Megan Wagner (Faculty). Back row: Pollyanna Bush (Faculty), Rev. Jan Thomas (Co-Director), and Hana Matt and Dr. Diane Johnson (Faculty). Photo by Kathie McCutcheon.
Altar and the front of the church: the Ordinands' processional candles; a Tibetan gong from the 1700s (gift from a previous Ordinand group); bowl from the Assisi conference at which the Peace Seeds / interfaith prayers for peace were launched; and the ChI Hand, artwork by Rev. Dr. Gina Rose Halpern.
Rev. Sharon Grace Luther (center), with Co-Director Rev. Jan Thomas (left) and Founding Director Rev. Dr. Gina Rose Halpern (right).
"We hear a surging inside our chests,
an agreement we made in eternity...
The sky itself reels with love.
There is one being inside all of us,
one peace."
(Rumi) (1)
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NOTES
1. Rumi: Bridge to the Soul—Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart, Newly Translated Poems to Commemorate Rumi’s 800th Birthday, tr. Coleman Barks (New York, HarperOne, 2007).
