Decatur, GA News

• Decatur, GA News
• CTSeminary: Godspeed to the Class of 2012, and on we go, because commencement means beginning: the Class of 2015 arrives in only a few weeks.
• CTSeminary: God bless you and keep you. God cause God's face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. God lift God's face to you and give you peace.
• CTSeminary: Gearing up for a big 24 hours: starting with tomorrow"s picnic, continuing through baccalaureate & reception, then commencement & reception.
• CTSeminary: The bookstore, still reveling in its new location, now sells drinks & snacks. And this week graduating seniors get a 10% discount on books!
• CTSeminary: Seniors have pretty much finished up, though juniors and middlers are still lurking in the library. Simple carbohydrates are everywhere.
• CTSeminary: @courtnot It's great to re-create! Have a great time at #arw12!
• CTSeminary: The school year's end launches so many beginnings: internships and first calls, weddings and new homes. But first--exams and final papers!
• Decatur Arts Festival 2012
• CTSeminary: senior send-off farewell chapel photos are on our facebook page
• CTSeminary: another great chapel service today--one of farewell to our seniors..hope to have pics soon from @itsthechurch (Dr. Ralph Watkins)
• CTSeminary: Yesterday was Dr. Bartlett's last class. Today, we all finish! Dean Mullen leads "Senior Chapel," then celebratory coffee in the courtyard.
• CTSeminary: great chapel service today...blessing and commissioning of the new SCC leadership
• CTSeminary: Questions like "What are you doing this summer?" or "What are you taking this fall?" are replaced by "Can you believe exams are next week?!"
• CTSeminary: We share coffee hour with delegates from around the globe, here in dialog between the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Vatican.
• CTSeminary: @robjacksoniv @betsyturner Hope to have the service available online soon. In fact, plans are underway for automatic posting of services.
• CTSeminary: Hotlanta is suddenly living up to that nickname. Sandals and shorts, praise for frozen yoghurt and gratitude for all the trees on campus.
• CTSeminary: Cross-dressed seminarians present the Book of Esther in Harrington Auditorium. Political satire on cunning & deliverance. Be there tonight!
• CTSeminary: This is a TEST MESSAGE :: This is a TEST of the e2Campus Messaging System. Please disregard this message. Marty Sadler
• CTSeminary: Under the huge oaks along Kirk Road, the intense indigo of eastern bluebirds and the vivid green of tiny saplings brighten the pine straw.
• CTSeminary: @RobJacksonIV Will look into getting it posted. All are recorded so it shouldn't be a problem!
• CTSeminary: Prof Douglas led chapel service: identity, friendship as modeled by Jesus but shaped by social media. Look up #cts426 for relevant tweets
• CTSeminary: For students, faculty and staff, the Leadership Center's courtyard of tables with big umbrellas is the new place for class, coffee and more.
• CTSeminary: Miniature prayers & scripture verses visible on the quad. Last night's candlelight vigil & today's Forum. Still going to class & studying!
• CTSeminary: God feels so close as CTS students, faculty, staff, trustees, alums and others pray for and talk with each other about life in community.
• CTSeminary: We’re celebrating God’s creation through today’s outdoor chapel and “energy sabbath"—driving less, turning lights off, using less AC, etc.
• CTSeminary: Ordination exams don't happen until August but prep is underway now. Orientation and practice sessions boost readiness as well as tension.
• CTSeminary: Lots of buzz about tonight's 7:30 film ( in Harrington. It integrates faith,ecology & evolution.
• CTSeminary: "Standing in Awe," this year's Colloquium, continues today. Presentations include Bible & Wonder, Ethics & Wonder, and Sacramental Wonder.
• CTSeminary: It's tax season in America, and at CTS, it's also registration season. Rising Seniors registered last week; now it's the Juniors' turn.
• CTSeminary: "There is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice." That sounds like John Calvin was thinking of CTS in springtime!
• CTSeminary: Interfaith Contemplation Conference is happening this weekend @LLatctseminary with special #coleman barks concert
• CTSeminary: Middlers, while still struggling with the title of "rising seniors," are forming chapel teams to plan and lead next year's worship services.
• CTSeminary: Thanks to volunteers, the Clothes Closet (like a re-sale shop where everything is free!) is open for Columbia students and family members.
• Kay Krill, President and CEO of ANN INC., Alum to Speak at Commencement
• CTSeminary: Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! May he be known to all in study of Scripture, breaking of bread, and the fellowship of the journey.
• Southeastern Writing Center Assoc. Names Grant After Cozzens
• CTSeminary: Campus is a little quieter as students slip out for an early start on spring break: the year's holiest week is also a much-needed vacation!
• CTSeminary: Students staying in town during spring break plan to hike Providence Canyon, the "little Grand Canyon," Georgia¹s gorgeous gorge.
• CTSeminary: From Calvin & Hobbes: "The days are just packed." Yep. From John Calvin: "There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God." Yep!
• CTSeminary: Dove Award winner Ginny Owens performs on campus tonight for special guests and seniors.
• CTSeminary: At 5:45, the Broyles Center carillon will play the favorite hymn of Dr. Philips, our 6th president, who died Sunday.
• CTSeminary: Dean Deb Mullen has already been among us for long enough that we can genuinely rejoice in her official installation last night. Praise God.
• CTSeminary: Still recuperating from the weekend! The Middlers' 5K fundraiser in Decatur and a preaching trip to Mississippi's Presbytery of St. Andrew.
• CTSeminary: This year's bizarrely early springtime has brought an extraordinary onslaught of pollen. Despite the sneezing, it's lovely to study outside.
• CTSeminary: Today's 8:30 Theology class is the first ever to meet in Broyles Leadership Center. Tonight's Pastoral Care class will do a "moving ritual."
• CTSeminary: Many students are away, intensifying the sense of suspended animation that colors this week's non-routine of evaluations, exams and papers.
• CTSeminary: The Ides of March, but what have we to beware of? Say those prayers, write those papers, study for those exams. God is good, all the time.
• CTSeminary: Today's Polity midterm is designed to give Presbyterian middlers a realistic rehearsal of the ordination exam many will take next August.
• CTSeminary: CTS library staff are the best! Knowledgeable, helpful, patient, willing to assist with research questions, computer issues, soul searches.
• CTSeminary: Here in the MIDDLE of the semester we get this week of Mid-term exams and Mid-Course Assessments. Find the Middle Way between rest and prep.
• CTSeminary: The new building has a tower; the tower has a carillon; the carillon has a schedule. But it's still so new that a peal of bells startles us.
• CTSeminary: Students in CTS's class on the Book of Esther have a head start appreciating the festival of Purim, celebrated last night through tonight.
• CTSeminary: It's Dedication Day, y'all! Classes won¹t move in for a couple of weeks but today CTS officially dedicates the Broyles Leadership Center.
• CTSeminary: Chapel teams, typically comprised of seniors, design and conduct worship. This week's group is leading us in faithful exploration of doubt.
• CTSeminary: After Greek, MDivs take NT Exegesis; after Hebrew, it's OT Exegesis. Both use biblical language and equip students for the ordination exam.
• CTSeminary: Mid-Course Assessments are coming up. This week, student peers read packets to prep for accompanying Middlers in this discernment process.
• CTSeminary: The CTS Bookstore—yes, an actual place from which to buy actual books—is moving into the new Broyles Leadership Center today. Come visit!
• CTSeminary: When so many seminarians are dressed up, it must be for interviews! Churches come meet with students seeking summer or yearlong internships.
• CTSeminary: Intro to Pastoral Care class finishes a unit on issues related to grief--the ultimate reminder that our task is not to "fix" situations.
• CTSeminary: What an amazing Seminary Weekend! Thanks to all who visited--a promising and unusually numerous group!--and to all who welcomed them to CTS.
• CTSeminary: Prospective students are arriving for Seminary Weekend. They visit classes and dorms, attend chapel, and enjoy Community-Wide Pasta Dinner.
• CTSeminary: Christian Theology class is contemplating the image of the church as the body of Christ: what that means for our ministries and our lives.
• CTSeminary: The Gospel demand for social justice shapes our ecumenical world and gives context to today's talk on "Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions."
• CTSeminary: The too mild winter coaxed blossoms out so early that they fell prey to a February frost. A fresh wave of blooms is now easing that loss.
• CTSeminary: Photojournalist Erin Dunigan's exhibit, "Do You See What I See?," is now in Harrington as Spirit-laced accompaniment to Transfiguration Day.
• CTSeminary: Polity class requires attending a presbytery meeting, so students witnessed Saturday's historic vote.The Exec Presbyter visits class today.
• CTSeminary: The bold finish prepping for tomorrow's ruthless Chili Cook-off & Cookie Bake-off. The fainthearted provide sides. Sign up and bring it on!
• CTSeminary: Lifelong Learning hosts the Sabbath, Study & Service Project for ministers pursuing peer learning. They mix with current students at table.
• CTSeminary: Korean & Korean-American seminarians lead chapel this week. Haunting yet hopeful testimonies linger from yesterday; today features families.
• CTSeminary: A wintry time for looking toward summer: most Juniors look toward Supervised Ministry, Middlers toward CPE, and Seniors toward a first call.
• CTSeminary: Old Testament Exegesis class requires resurrection of the Hebrew we managed to lose between the December final and the start of spring term.
• CTSeminary: Among many eco-friendly attributes of CTS's new "green" Broyles Leadership Center are water fountains designed to refill water bottles. Yea!
• CTSeminary: ASHA-led chapel of heartfelt testimony, joy and song began our marking of Black History Month that also includes Saturday's service project.
• CTSeminary: The drop/add period is over. Now, we just need to acclimate to the new semester¹s schedule. And figure out how to get all the reading done!!
• CTSeminary: CTS Spouses of Seminarians, Women in Ministry, life groups, prayer partners, chapel teams, choirs-‹2 or 3 or more often gather in His name.
• CTSeminary: The move into our new Broyles Leadership Center begins today; tomorrow, the first event in its courtyard--a concert by a choir from Korea.
• CTSeminary: Today" Forum presenter is from the Alliance Theatre, reminding us that preachers need, among other abilities, good public-speaking skills.
• CTSeminary: This unseasonably warm winter means we've become less surprised by early daffodils than by the occasional appearance of a frost-tinged lawn.
• CTSeminary: Our theology prof emailed to suggest we read Calvin and Irenaeus before class starts at 8:30 Monday AM. Oh...school must be back in session!
• CTSeminary: "Do You See?" exhibit of photojournalist Erin Dunigan opens with reception on tomorrow, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. in the Harrington Center.
• CTSeminary: Dr. David Bartlett is leading a webinar, "Preaching Through Lent," at 2 pm. On campus participants, come to 214 Campbell Hall.
• SOS Storytelling Festival
• CTSeminary: The end of January Term brings reunions as faculty and Middlers return from off-campus study adventures. One week to prep for new classes!
• CTSeminary: Integrations Class (the Class of '12) is leading chapel around the Quad. Innovation, creation, wonder!
• CTSeminary: January Term brings many Advanced Degree students to Columbia. They continue their studies, share their experiences, enrich campus life.
• CTSeminary: Over the next three evenings, the very large class on the Gospel of John will gather for dinner at our hospitable professor's home.
• CTSeminary: The large, longstanding fence has been removed from around the new Leadership Center, revealing a building instead of a construction site!
• CTSeminary: Sponsored by CTS's Korean American Ministries, violinist Jikyung Moon offers a terrific free concert tonight at 7:30 in Harrington Chapel.
• CTSeminary: The required course, Integrations, brings seniors together for January Term amidst studying for ordination exams and looking for a call.
• CTSeminary: Each January Term class takes a turn leading chapel. Advanced and basic degree students worship together then share community coffee break
• CTSeminary: "Explorations," a required alternative-context course, dislocates Middler students to such places as Eastern Europe, Appalachia and Jamaica.
• CTSeminary: Our prayers and thoughts and love are with Dr. Kathleen O'Connor and her family on this day and in this time of "life swallowed up by Life."
• CTSeminary: Yesterday, our chapel's Sending Service launched most Middlers into their January-term Exploration courses. Today, on-campus classes begin.
• CTSeminary: Lessons & Carols in the last week of classes. Final exams and papers coming due. Then at least one student wedding during the holidays!
• CTSeminary: Theology is not only theoretical. While classes include philosophy, there are also practical considerations, like how to talk about evil.
• CTSeminary: What a fabulous banquet! Congrats & thanks to all who created such a fun evening for students, faculty, staff, & family. Now back to work!
• CTSeminary: All dressed-up with someplace to go! Tonight's CTS-wide Christmas banquet is lots of work for the organizers, lots of fun for the attendees.
• CTSeminary: It sure feels like December around here! Temperatures below freezing, creative planning for Lessons & Carols, talk of holidays after exams.
• CTSeminary: Looking beyond the classroom, CTS is again providing Christmas gifts for families in need and collecting paperbacks for prison inmates.
• CTSeminary: With late-semester accumulation of data--Hebrew verbs, history milestones, Old Testament names--students yearn for greater memory capacity!
• CTSeminary: Today's RSVP deadline for the Christmas(!) Banquet adds to the feeling of acceleration toward exams. Meanwhile we grasp at Advent patience.
• CTSeminary: Dense fog deadens sound this morning. Then there is the mental fog of this point in a semester. We are so ready for a break!
• CTSeminary: In chapel, at lunch and finally on the gridiron at 4:00, the Reprobate wear rags and the Elect wear suits for the annual CTS-wide showdown.
• CTSeminary: Even by the standards of this exceptionally vibrant autumn, the sourwood tree by the lamppost near the library is spectacularly lovely.
• CTSeminary: Christina Saj talks at CTS today and at Central Presbyterian tonight about her art exhibit co-hosted by the school and the downtown church.
• CTSeminary: Dr. Azumah's Survey of Islam students visited a mosque, a rabbi will speak to the Song of Songs class. Christians engage a multifaith world.
• CTSeminary: Like so many other communities, CTS is enriched by members of the military, including spouses and chaplains. Prayers for those in uniform.
• CTSeminary: The "essence" of this week' Theology reading is extremely philosophical. That's not by "accident" but students wonder if it's "necessary."
• CTSeminary: A day after Reformation Day and CTS is illustrating its reformed cred by having the Curriculum Review Committee share thoughts at lunch.
• CTSeminary: Classes are back in session and visitors are on their way: prospective students are invited to Seminary Weekend this Friday and Saturday.
• Kiplinger Again Ranks ASC a Best Value Private College
• CTSeminary: CTS is the only seminary with Mid-Course Assessments: mini-communities of profs and peers gathered to affirm, discern with each middler.
• CTSeminary: Some classes have exams, usually taken online. Other classes have big papers due. No classes meet this week, but it's certainly no vacation!
• CTSeminary: Last day of class before midterms! A perfect time to take a deep breath and visit our nearby brothers at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit.
• CTSeminary: The under-construction Vernon S. Broyles, Jr., Leadership Center is looking great. We'll be moved in by spring.
• CTSeminary: Christology class meets at our professor's home for lively, pointed discussion of contemporary theology. And to enjoy home-baked goodies!
• CTSeminary: CTS's choir, directed by two very talented students, welcomes students, staff, faculty and community members. Rehearsals=Tuesdays at 3:00.
• CTSeminary: CTS’s terrific bookstore often features new titles by profs, but today a recent grad has a book signing. Lots of buzz about Bless Her Heart.
• CTSeminary: Students from 6 continents enrich campus, living proof of the diversity of Christ's earthly body. Real Atlanta Tour for them is tomorrow!
• CTSeminary: With a 3D version of Rev. Smyth's 19th-c portrait helping to mark the 100th Smyth Lecture, 3D glasses have unexpectedly appeared on campus.
• CTSeminary: Hand-sanitizer dispensers are helpful--use them!--and CTS folks also get discounted membership at the local hospital's Wellness Center.
• CTSeminary: Plan now to attend the Smyth Lecture series this Tuesday-Thursday at 10:00AM. Dr. Rod Hunter speaks on personal commitment and ministry.
• CTSeminary: Community coffee break follows each morning's chapel; the soundtrack for the former is often under-breath humming of hymns from the latter.
• CTSeminary: CTS's student population is big enough that most classes include new colleagues; small enough that most folks seen on the Quad are familiar.
• CTSeminary: Yesterday's chance to lunch with CTS trustees left students newly inspired and grateful. Sometimes the cloud of witnesses is very close.
• CTSeminary: Live Virtual Booth today, Oct 4, live chat between 10am-8pm EST #seminary #exploring #calling #serving #transformation
• CTSeminary: Our assignment for Song of Songs class is to write an original love poem using literary techniques of ancient mid-eastern poetry. Pass-fail!
• CTSeminary: The weekend brought October with cooler temperatures but sunny skies. Now on campus: some sweaters, some boots, some classes held outside.
• CTSeminary: Come check out our Live Virtual Booth Oct. 4th. see the link for more info!
• CTSeminary: Thinking Man's Tavern = site of the Fridays-at-4:00 informal gatherings of the Fellowship for Theological Discussion. Eat, drink & be smart.
• CTSeminary: Mid-Course Assessment (not necessarily the same as "mid-course correction!") prompts Middlers to take stock. Self-profiles are due tomorrow!
• CTSeminary: The reading! 100s of pages that eyes must consume, brains process, and mouths respond to in seminars. Writing papers is almost a relief.
• CTSeminary: Bright flowerbeds in front of the library are in constant motion as countless butterflies, big and small, enjoy this remnant of summer.
• CTSeminary: Co-teaching the yearlong Christian Theology course, two professors delight in not always seeing eye to eye. There's not one right answer.
• CTSeminary: CTS's Women in Ministry group looks beyond seminary to "True Life" situations of, well, women in ministry! First meeting at 1:00 tomorrow.
• CTSeminary: Flashcards reappear: Greek school has ended but Hebrew class is in session.The mantra has become, "English is hard; Hebrew is easier."
• Walk of Heroes 5-K
• CTSeminary: Cooler, wetter weather. Persimmons, pecans first leaves on the ground. Students in the library or still tossing Frisbees in the rain.
• CTSeminary: 6:30 today was the first Early Morning Prayer with CTS's Asian Student Association. Join any Tuesday-Friday AM in Harrington Auditorium.
• CTSeminary: Berakot RaŒananot ("green blessings") on today's lunch of the SAGE (Shaping Attention to God's Earth) ecology group. 12:30, Ellis Room.
• CTSeminary: Early prep for our community picnic featuring the student jazz band... See you there at 6!
• CTSeminary: New profs/new courses! Dr. Azumah (World Christianity): survey of Islam; Dr. Watkins (Evangelism/Church Growth): young adults & digital age.
• CTSeminary: A special lunch and a dessert reception at the President¹s home welcome international students, each of whom has an American host student.
• CTSeminary: First full week of classes. Books bought, work-study started, schedules not yet familiar routine. For some of us, first Hebrew quiz!
• Talya Trudell Joins Agnes Scott as New Softball Coach
• Back to School for Decatur - Bus Schedules, Lunch Menus, School Supplies and more
• Celebrate July 4th With Parade, Concert And Fireworks
• CTSeminary: Please help fund student scholarships and operations next year! Give online now to the Annual Fund!
• CTSeminary: Walter Brueggemann, live at 2 EST on NPR's "On Being."
• CTSeminary: Summer means beginnings, too. This summer, Dr. John Azumah joins CTS as Associate Professor of World Christianity.
• CTSeminary: Final papers. Final study groups. Final exams. Final work-study hours. Final prayer groups. Final parties. It¹s finally the end of the year!
• CTSeminary: Today, 10:30 a.m., at Community Coffee break, we honor Mama C, aka Ms. C, aka Carolyn Jordan, who is retiring after graduation next week.
• CTSeminary: Liturgical dance choir in chapel tomorrow, Thurs, May 5, Harrington Ctr.
• CTSeminary: Mama C hosts her last Late Night Breakfast tonight, 10-10:30 in the refectory. Free if you're on the meal plan; otherwise $4.
• CTSeminary: Energy Sabbath today. We try to minimize our use of electrical and fossil-fueled energy. Chapel outdoors. Meet @ new residence hall, 10am.
• CTSeminary: All CTS women are invited to Women In Ministry's service of celebration for graduating women, Mon, May 1, 7pm, Prof. Beth Johnson's home.
• CTSeminary: For the past two days, alumni/ae and other special guests have flocked to campus for Colloquium presentations and parties. A family reunion.
• CTSeminary: For today's Forum, CTS's Society for Mission Inquiry hosts "How We Talk About Africa," on the complexity of that continent's many cultures.
• CTSeminary: Our common refrain: "It feels like everything is due right now!" Papers, sermons, applications, registrations. Trying to focus on Holy Week.
• Decatur Earth Day Festival
• Make Music with the Earth- Rattles and Ocarinas
• CTSeminary: Online registration for fall courses. Summer internships for current juniors and middlers. And seeking a first call for graduating seniors.
• CTSeminary: Green Chapel in the Green Quad: this week's chapel planning team is taking us outside for Creation-mindful worship in the glories of spring.
• CTSeminary: You can tell which students used spring break to get ahead in schoolwork and which students went to the beach. And it's not just the suntan.
• CTSeminary: For many Columbia students, a defining course is the immersion experience of Alternative Context for Ministry. Orientation meeting is today.
• CTSeminary: The haze of spring break is behind us and the school year¹s finale is before us: finals, baccalaureate and graduation are suddenly soon!
• CTSeminary: Tonight, AIB-TV, 6 p.m., see interview with CTS Admissions Director Monica Wedlock + students Leigh Campbell Taylor and Melanie Johnson.
• CTSeminary: Two faculty members receive research grants from the Association for Theological Schools.
• CTSeminary: Preaching students have all preached. Students of Romans have all dined at Dr. Bartlett's home. A great semester! Time for spring break!!
• CTSeminary: Pink dogwood, white dogwood, purple tulips, yellow daffodils, the suddenly lush green grass. Appropriately, our spring break is next week.
• CTSeminary: Inspiring women and men devoted to education and the church--our trustees--lunched with students yesterday, meeting with faculty today.
• CTSeminary: Columbia profs with recently published books include Bill Brown, Kim Long & George Stroup. The library is displaying titles by 16 CTS grads.
• CTSeminary: Race day is tomorrow! CTS Middlers are fundraising to support the Decatur Education Foundation's 5K Tour deCatur. Come cheer on the runners!
• CTSeminary: The gift of live-given by God to us each day-is ours to share through our lives, ministries and, yes, today's blood drive in the Ellis Room.
• CTSeminary: Environment, economics and faith meet dance, song and story tonight at 7:00 in Harrington. Free performance art! "Leaps and Bounds"! Come
• CTSeminary: In our week without classes, the pointillist effect of tiny green leaves gave way to the yellow haze of pine pollen, the hum of bumblebees.
• CTSeminary: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Celebrations are not likely until exams are finished.
• New Permanent Exhibit Honors Agnes Scott’s Heritage
• CTSeminary: Rain and the dark morning of early Daylight Saving Time give today a Lenten look. Perfect for midterms and the Ides of March.
• CTSeminary: Our prayers remain with the people of Japan. Prayers lifted for healing, for comfort and strength in distress, for hope and joy in miracles.
• CTSeminary: Unbelievably, it's time for midterms! No classes next week, just exams and papers and assessments. Catching up. Maybe some getting ahead?
• CTSeminary: Students who drive to campus might use their cars as a locker, a study, a meeting hall, and sometimes even a lunchroom.
• CTSeminary: Ash Wednesday. Lent begins with recollection of last year¹s Palm Sunday. 10:00 worship in Campbell Hall Chapel includes imposition of ashes.
• CTSeminary: The 2011 Certificate in Spiritual Formation Pilgrimage to the Holy Land is finishing orientation before tomorrow¹s departure. Godspeed!
• CTSeminary: An unwelcome cold snap sends us all rummaging again for jackets and scarves.The flipflops will have to wait just a little longer.
• CTSeminary: Tonight at 7:00 is Game Night in the NRH. A spades tournament is the main event. Or bring your favorite board game. Don't study: hang out!
• CTSeminary: The best defense against the construction noise is to tune your ears to the birdsong. There's a noticeable increase in both sorts of sound.
• CTSeminary: SM210 interviews had most juniors and middlers all dressed up. Now it's a springtime wait to learn about summer positions. Not much longer.
• CTSeminary: Campus trees wait to see which one will break the visual silence by bursting into bloom. Camellias in front of Campbell Hall aren¹t so shy.
• CTSeminary: Chapel services this week: celebrating Christ's light, recognizing the darkness life presents, asking how we can be light in the darkness.
• CTSeminary: Some began with Greek last summer, did NT Exegesis in fall & now take NT Survey. Those who began with Hebrew last fall, do OT Exegesis now.
• CTSeminary: Dr. Skip Johnson will lead the March 4-5 Youth Ministry course, Know Where to Turn When Youth Turn to You. Hurry: registration ends today.
• CTSeminary: This Odd & Wonderous Calling (what it's really like to be in ministry). April 25-26.
• CTSeminary: "Dislocation" sites for student preaching groups: county jail, a local ER, and the State Capitol. Class materials: a Bible & parking fare.
• CTSeminary: Prospective students arrive Friday! CTS folks: gather for Saturday AM coffee & Saturday PM (reserve today) pasta dinner/ice-cream "social."
• CTSeminary: Cramming 2,000 years into a one-semester Church History course, Dr. Ward is known for mnemonics. Yesterday, class enacted monastic silence.
• CTSeminary: Tomorrow, 4:30, Lifelong Learning hosts a chat with S3 participants (Sabbath, Study, Service) about options for learning AFTER graduation.
• CTSeminary: God is Looking for Leaders: That's the theme of Seminary Weekend for prospective students, 2/25-27. It¹s free but registration ends today!
• CTSeminary: Tonight! The exceptional JahngShin Concert Choir from Seoul, Korea, will perform at 7:30 in Columbia Presbyterian Church. Everyone welcome!
• CTSeminary: Please pray for presbyteries as they vote on Amendment 10A. This amendment is the topic of Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. Forum in the Ellis Room.
• CTSeminary: Reserve your place for tomorrow's lunch-in-the-library on Resources for Funerals and Weddings. It¹s not rocket science--it's people¹s lives.
• CTSeminary: Instead of a valentine, here's a reminder that tomorrow is the last day for churches to register for CTS's March 4 Call Fair. We want you!
• CTSeminary: Leadership Center construction has closed a campus parking lot. Who knew seminary would entail relearning how to parallel park on a street?
• CTSeminary: Thursday, 2/10, noon @ Manuel's Tavern: Dr. Braverman, author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews & the Search for Peace in the Holy Land
• CTSeminary: CTS marks the King James Bible’s 400th birthday with Central Presbyterian’s exhibit on the handwritten and illuminated St. John’s Bible.
• CTSeminary: Some classes assign "prayer partners." This not about best friends. This is about each of us knowing we are lifted in prayer. It¹s a gift.
• CTSeminary: Spring Semester Week 2. Our old online admin system is being replaced by CAMS.Students, faculty, staff and gremlins are all figuring it out.
• CTSeminary: Today, the Fellowship for Theological Discussion considers Guns-in-Worship: how we view citizenship & rights in light of Christian identity.
• CTSeminary: Intro to Preaching students are readily identified by the oversized sketchbooks they carry with them. Their charge is: "pay attention."
• CTSeminary: Today is the Ground Blessing for our new Leadership Center. Right now, it's a no-parking zone. Once it's built, it'll bless the community.
• CTSeminary: Our Creator¹s creative spark found ample outlet this afternoon as both the choir and the liturgical dance troupe get back into rehearsal.
• CTSeminary: CTS's Class of 2013 feels more at home as spring semester starts. Joining churches instead of visiting, getting seminary babies baptized!
• CTSeminary: And so January Term comes to a close. No class next week BUT ordination exams are the 28th and 29th. Blessings to all preparing for those!
• Agnes Scott Students More Academically Engaged than Peers at Other Colleges, Says Survey
• CTSeminary: Great book for all (required for Dr. Long's DMin course on liturgical language): Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies.
• CTSeminary: Tentative sunshine makes daily progress against shoveled heaps of dirty slush. Snow-shocked Atlanta is eager for warmth to prevail at last.
• CTSeminary: The seminary¹s resident population temporarily includes D. Min and D. ED. Min students who are on campus for January classes. Welcome!
• CTSeminary: Brilliant sunlight melted the snow a bit. Cold nights refroze it to yield a smooth, blindingly reflective surface. Bizarrely beautiful.
• CTSeminary: Classes are finally underway, at least for students and faculty who can get to campus. Much of Atlanta is still as paralyzed as icy Narnia.
• CTSeminary: Amidst snowmen and sledding, prayers rise for the victims of the Tucson shooting. O, Prince of Peace, make us instruments of your peace!
• CTSeminary: Snow day! Later in the term it could have helped us catch up on work. Today it¹s only proof that this campus is gorgeous in all weather.
• CTSeminary: Snow! Classes are cancelled and administrative offices are closed today (Monday, January 10).
• CTSeminary: Middler students, accompanied by intrepid professors, are off campus for January¹s experiential Alternative Context exploration classes.
• Hospice Companion Volunteers Needed
• CTSeminary: Weee¹re back! Some classes are starting now; some start next week. This is January Term: one course concentrated into just about two weeks.
• CTSeminary: Fuzzy socks, long underwear, red plaid robe, striped sweatpants, green hoodie: maybe why the faculty wants students to take exams from home!
• CTSeminary: Final classes today! Then final exams, final papers, and finally home for the holidays. Thanks to professors for salting it all with grace.
• CTSeminary: Kwanzaa celebration right now in Harrington Chapel. Sponsored by the African-Heritage Seminarians Association (AHSA).
• CTSeminary: Dr. Kathleen O¹Connor retires after class today. She is an academic and community-building wonder, an intellectual and spiritual gift to us.
• CTSeminary: Service of Lessons and Carols this morning proves that this school is packed with talent.
• CTSeminary: Gifts for needy sisters and brothers in Christ are due tomorrow: towels, games, clothes for kids and their moms. MARTA cards are good, too.
• Citizen police academies help public understand what men and women in blue do
• The cost of doing business in DeKalb may rise next year
• CTSeminary: A chili cook-off may not be a classic Advent tradition but it suits chilly weather. And tomorrow's feast also has the campus tree lighting.
• DeKalb’s Morehouse men receive national science awards
• Lithonia residents say food bandit slides under police radar
• CTSeminary: Reconciling Old Testament scholarship with personal beliefs is the topic for tonight's roundtable with professors in Harrington Chapel.
• CTSeminary: Today's community coffee break doubled as a special Eat-Cake-with-the-Dean event to welcome Dr. Deborah Mullen as our new Dean of Faculty!
• CTSeminary: After the first actual break in this semester, we enter the home stretch. Two more weeks of class, then exams and final papers are due.
• Holiday shoppers may reach point of no return
• Despite period of misfortune, Decatur resident says she has much to be thankful for
• Retailers optimistic as holiday shopping season kicks off on Black Friday
• Thanksgiving family traditions run far and wide
• Police identify suspect in death of pro wrestler
• Reward offered in Sneiderman killing
• Agnes Scott Receives $1M Pledge for Faculty Support
• Recycling company turning cooking grease into biodiesel
• Mother determined to turn tragedy into triumph
• Sheriff gives Thanksgiving turkeys to seniors
• CTSeminary: Classes are winding down as students (and faculty) head for home, family, turkey and the trimmings. Traveling mercies to all!
• CTSeminary: Alumni Relations offers a trip this weekend to visit Mississippi churches, preaching and sharing our seminary experiences and sense of call.
• Jimmy Webb to Perform at Agnes Scott
• Second suspect arrested in connection with 2008 killing
• Man killed in Dunwoody outside school
• CTSeminary: Game Day! In epic co-ed football, The Reprobate, clad in ragged black, hope finally to beat The Elect, who wear suits and white dresses.
• Supermodel Cindy Crawford visits Children’s hospital patients
• Hosea feed the hungry faces greater challenges in down economy
• Former police chief dies after extended illness
• CTSeminary: This morning¹s Clinical Pastoral Education forum introduces students to representatives from local sites where we might serve as interns.
• School facilities assessments: Clarkston High kitchen, special needs class inadequate
• Residents vote to expand Chamblee boundaries
• CTSeminary: The New Residence Hall, our "green" dorm with LEED Gold Certification, offers a workout room, plus areas perfect for indoor-outdoor parties.
• CTSeminary: Classes manage to be conceptual education and professional training and pastoral care and worship experiences. Such amazing professors.
• CTSeminary: Recruitment is underway for the CTS Annual Elect vs. Reprobate flag football game. Perhaps we should all pray for the referees.
• New Joint Program with Georgia Tech Encourages Women to Pursue Business Careers
• Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet to Speak at Agnes Scott
• Voters show incumbents’ connections with community matters
• Atlanta VA Medical Center doctor honored for excellence
• Long, church respond to allegations against New Birth pastor
• CTSeminary: Squirrels seem especially reckless at this time of year, preoccupied by the need to horde. Hungry hawks turn that to their own advantage.
• Fashion, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons introduces a graduated look to DeKalb
• CTSeminary: Appointments with advisers, reading lists on the website. Registration is underway for spring semester as well as intensive January term.
• Documentarian Ruth Leitman to Screen New Film on Immigration at Agnes Scott
• CTSeminary: Weekend weather proclaimed November, even a splash of sleet on Friday. Scarves, hats, jackets. Get your CTS sweatshirt in the bookstore!
• CTSeminary: Prospective students are on campus for a weekend themed around "What is God Calling You to Do?" Always an interesting question to ask!
• CTSeminary: CTS loves company! Also here today, the President's Advisory Council and a group from First Pres, Cartersville, GA. All friends of Columbia!
• The Essence of cooking: More to come from 12-year-old chef after cookoff win
• Flat Rock walks the walk to preserve slave cemetery
• CTSeminary: While theologians may debate the question of "election," today we all need to vote. Polls are open from 7:00 to 7:00.
• CTSeminary: Meetings about Supervised Ministry introduce Columbia¹s required opportunities to work as student pastors in churches, hospitals or prisons.
• CTSeminary: In early fall we had the chance to join small "Life Groups," students, faculty, and staff meeting weekly, holding each other in prayer.
• CTSeminary: In tonight¹s Intro to Worship class, we actually get to practice the baptismal words & actions. Hands-on learning. Bring a doll or a friend.
• Fund Honors English Professor Who Influenced Generations of Students
• CTSeminary: At the liturgical dance choir¹s first session, we planned worship leadership for Advent. A startling reminder of how quickly seasons pass.
• Bagley Named President of Georgia Library Association
• CTSeminary: The 3-day Smyth Lectures presents Dr. Warren Carter on ³Faces of Empire, Facing Empire: Negotiating the Roman Empire in the New Testament.²
• Agnes Scott Partners on $1.7 Million Grant to Enhance Neuroscience Education
• CTSeminary: Against brilliant blue of sky, a V of geese flies south (from Atlanta?). Against perennial green of magnolias, other trees turn red.
• Students’ Summer Trip to Benin Creates Strong Connections
• CTSeminary: Computers disseminate lecture notes, facilitate class discussions, receive papers, and sometimes swallow homework. Remember: "Jesus saves."
• Agnes Scott Diverting More Than 60 Percent of Waste from Landfills
• CTSeminary: 60+ students headed downtown to Central Presbyterian to hear NYC artist Laurie Wohl talk about her work on display at the church. Very cool.
• Immigration Scholar to Deliver Gladden Lecture
• CTSeminary: Ross Reddick demystifies Twitter: Wednesday, Oct. 20, 12:30-1:15, in the library. “New twitter,” #hashtagging, 3rd-party clients, and more!
• Agnes Scott to Host Volleyball Championship
• CTSeminary: Christian educators are on campus for a conference on "brain research and spirituality." One more example of the variety that is Columbia.
• Respected Public Health Expert to Speak at Agnes Scott
• CTSeminary: Gently provocative, eye-opening worship led by visiting scholar Rev. Dr. Riad Kassis and guest musician Izdihar Eshak, both from Lebanon.
• Agnes Scott Receives Grant to Study Attention and Will Power
• CTSeminary: "i thank You God for most this amazing day" ‹it¹s easy to imagine ee cummings writing that on one of these gorgeous fall days at Columbia!
• Kiplinger Ranks Agnes Scott a “Best Value”
• CTSeminary: Yep, it's midterm week. The library, marking Theological Libraries Month, is giving out candy and offering coffee at 7:30 in the evening.
• CTSeminary: To cool off from warm weather or to chill out from exam pressure, students can swim at Agnes Scott College just up the road from Columbia.
• CTSeminary: Unlike summer Greek School, fall semester brings multiple midterms. Finish one and the next one looms. Relentlessly, they keep coming...
• Jury finds Yancey guilty of murder
• CTSeminary: Who would expect that celebrating Reformation Sunday would kick off with Friday night's Monster Mash cookout, costume party, and dance?
• CTSeminary: Scripture Reading Practicum is required for all MDiv students. Small groups convene in one of the campus chapels or even out in the quad.
• CTSeminary: It's All Saints' Day. There are the saints whom we might read about and then there are the saints whom we knew, whom we miss, whom we love.
• CTSeminary: Current art shows and exhibits include "Icon to Iconic," "Pilgrimage" and works from La Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana.
• Code enforcement division fights numbers game
• Southern ghost tour scares up some family fun
• Congressional forum continues without Congressman Johnson
• Yancey trial: Judge dismisses motion to acquit
• Yancey trial: Jury deliberation resumes Monday
• Decatur spreads the wealth with one-time tax credit
• Dunwoody Music Festival expected to draw 25,000
• Changing attitudes and choosing loopholes may help to keep kids in school
• Federal grant provides Doraville with new officers  
• School board candidates weigh in on how they would get system back on track
• First of its kind: Dunwoody police unveil new alert system
• Missing boy found safe
• School system close to choosing search firm
• County cleanup effort kicks off on Flat Shoals Parkway
• Expert: Long must try case in court, public
• Court system budget cuts could be costly
• Police search for runaway
• Charges dropped in strip club killing
• Wine shop a welcome addition to downtown Avondale Estates
• Federal grant funds agency’s innovative HIV testing methods
• Study shapes plan for redevelopment of GM plant
• New school board candidates press for change
• Opinions vary after Long addresses lawsuits
• Glenwood Road residents march to stop crime
• Stone Mountain football player prevents theft
• Bishop Long breaks his silence
• School system hires auditor to help restore credibility
• Fourth lawsuit filed against Bishop Eddie Long
• Doraville considers massage parlor ordinance
• Third lawsuit filed against New Birth pastor Eddie Long
• Lawsuit accuses Bishop Eddie Long of sexual coercion
• Voice of a generation: 12-year-old spreading her message of peace
• Death of 12-year-old ruled homicide
• Interim superintendent tells chamber audience that school system must change public perception
• Local artists selected from hundreds for Atlanta Arts Festival
• Mix, weigh, pay concept puts customers in charge
• In outcry over sidewalk, Doraville officials urge patience before judgment
• 6-AAAA showdown: Playoff edge at stake for Southwest, Marist
• Lithonia rallies to beat Miller Grove in 3 OTs
• Labor Day finds many in DeKalb still looking for jobs
• Suspect in Decatur strip club killing in custody
• Man killed in shooting at apartment complex
• Chamblee-based vet clinic provides low-cost pet care to low-income population
• UNDER PRESSURE : As school system struggles with scandals, outside groups look to influence
• Keyes Fleming makes quick departure from DA position to take EPA post
• CEO Burrell Ellis nominates Richard Stogner for COO post
• UPDATE: Missing Dunwoody teenager returns home
• Some statewide races have clear victors, other go down to wire
• Handwriting expert used in Dunwoody killings case
• Dunwoody mulls creating fire department
• Missing teen sought by police
• Experience prevails in state House and Senate races
• Johnson to face Carter in November election
• Watson takes county commission district 7 race
• Stopping the summer brain drain
• Joe Orton's Loot
• Annie Jr - Performance
• Host an Exchange Student & Make a Difference in a Young Person's Life
• There may still be time to use your 2008 Flexible Spending
• DeKalb Career Center Job Fair
• Atlanta Military.com Career Fair
• Georgia Literary Festival
• Seven Tips to Having a Healthy Computer
• Seven Tips to Having a Healthy Computer
• Cowgirls
• Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks By Richard Alfieri
• Glorious By Peter Quilter
• Waiting For Oprah By Mary Miller
• All American Open Jam
• All American Open Jam
• Songwriter's Acoustic Open Mic
• All American Open Jam with special guest Blake Rainey
• All American Open Jam with special guest Arlington Priest
• Songwriter's Acoustic Open Mic
• Cowboy Envy
• David McMillin,Guggenheim Grotto And Kyle Riabko
• Cd Release
• Adrianne,Stephanie Callahan And Sarah Peacock
• An Evening With Dougie MacLean
• An Evening With Dougie MacLean
• Songwriter's Acoustic Open Mic
• Garrison Starr,Jen Foster And Katy Bowser
• Malcolm Holcombe,Jan Smith (from Virginia),Rebecca Hall And Ken Anderson
• Over the Wires Reunion Night
• Explore Georgia: Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History
• Breakfast With Santa
• Wine Tasting Festival

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