Pacific School of Religion

Andrea Bieler, professor of Christian worship at PSR, and Luise Schottrof, of the University of Kassel in Germany, have written a book based on an intense dialogue they shared while co-teaching a class called “Eucharist as Holy Eating” at PSR and the GTU. “In these classes we have met students from Korea, Taiwan, Uganda, Kenya, and the United States who have shared tremendous insights about the question of how to life a Eucharistic life,” they write in the introduction to their award-wining book, The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread and Resurrection (Fortress Press, 2007). Here we present selections from the introduction outlining the book and from chapter four, “The Body Politics of Eucharist.”

Archie Smith is James and Clarice Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling, Jr. and gave this sermon on Good Friday at McGee Avenue Baptist Church.

The Strategic Plan, 2005–2010, adopted in January 2005 by the Board of Trustees, has as one of its goals dismantling racism and building cross-cultural competence: "PSR will equip leaders with the values, skills, and commitment to cross-cultural competency necessary to build anti-racist institutions and dismantle systemic racism in society, and model this commitment and work in its own campus community." The story below provides a look at where PSR stands in relation to the goal of dismantling racism. The other featured story details the contextual learning experience of three students as they work to build cross-cultural competence.