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Stevens began her day long before breakfast. She stays over every Wednesday night at Renewal House, a shelter in Roxbury for battered women, providing counselling and advocacy for women at the shelter. The work fulfills the MDiv requirement of two years of field education. In addition to her Div School responsibilities, she is director of a Quaker summer work-camp for 15-17 year olds called Tamarack Farm, located near Philadelphia...
...counselor at the camp this summer, fitting her into a morning's schedule which is extraordinarily heavy even for her. "I never have the time to study," she says, wistfully. By 10 a.m. Stevens is on her way to her first class of the day, a discussion group (the Div School's equivalent to section) for "Introduction to the New Testament." She is cross-registered for this course at the Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) located just beyond Radcliffe Yard. The next 50 minutes are devoted to close textual exegesis of several New Testament passages on dominance hierarchies--the relations...
...called inclusive language in their lectures, reflecting the view that any god who is addressed as "He" cannot be meaningful for all people. Consequently, professors use words like "Godself" to replace "He" and "the Nurturer" to replace "the Father." As one student observes, "It's very uncool at the Div School not to use inclusive language...
Calling the endowment a "major initiative by a denominational group to sponsor a non-denominational school." Divinity School Dean Erik Rupp said "we would love to see all the other denominational groups we educate take similar steps." The Div School presently serves 46 denominations...
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1952-1956. HOUSE AFFILIATION: Eliot. DEGREES: A. B., 1956; M. DIV. (General Theological Seminary), 1959; M. ED. (Boston Coll...