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ABOUT HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
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THE PURSUIT OF ADVANCED EDUCATION:
A FULL-TIME PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
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Since earning my Master of Divinity, my calling and vocation
have taken me into Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE);
police chaplaincy in the Atlanta Police Department; Biblical
Studies instructor of both Old and New Testament at the
Westminster Schools (Atlanta); counseling in a mental health
center (Sumter, SC); and to full-time pastorates in South
Carolina, Virginia and presently, North Carolina.
Over the course of my career in ministry, I felt the need
and desire to re-tool and re-equip myself for service in the
present age.
By Rev. Dr. Clay L. Barrow
IT WAS JUST FIVE WORDS
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I remember sitting in a one-week intensive class, watching
a video by photographer Dewitt Jones. He talked about
his travels for National Geographic and how the scenes he
captured and the people he met impacted his perspective on
the world.
Jones talked about an interview with a life-seasoned woman
known for her weaving. When he asked her what she
thought about when she was weaving, the five words came.
Five words that have stayed with me and changed me.
When I weave, I weave.
By Rev. Kristina “Kris” Mares
JUSTICE, RELEVANCE AND AUTHENTICITY 6
“Social relevance” serves as a holy grail for those whose
careers depend on the ability to identify current patterns of
thinking and spot contemporary cultural trends. Success
follows, conventional wisdom holds, the politician, recording
artist, filmmaker, or company that can locate, commodify
and project “social relevance.”
In North America, where persons continue to move
increasingly toward secularism — including the millennial
generation with its well-documented disinterest in
institutionalized religion — the ongoing, anxiety-ridden
search for new expressions of the Christian faith and ways of
“being church” is well into its third decade.
By Trevor Eppehimer, Ph.D.
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HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
MISSION STATEMENT 7
NeighborHOOD. SisterHOOD.
BrotherHOOD. We are HOOD. 8
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