And the Winner Is…Jerome Baggett for the Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award

Jerome P. Baggett, Associate Professor of Religion and Society, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and visiting professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley

“My goal is to get students out of my classroom and into the Bay Area ‘religious classroom’ to experience a diversity of lived religions.”

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Spring Currents is here!

Currents presents the news, people, and progress of the Graduate Theological Union. Currents is distributed to alumni, faculty, students, staff, and friends of the GTU.

We Heard You!

We’ve made some changes to Currents based on what you, our readers, told us in a November 2007 survey.

Our new format features a more colorful 8-12 pages, printed in mid-April and mid-October. You asked for and we’re going to give you stories — about alumni, current students, faculty, cutting-edge scholarship, research, and new books written by GTU faculty and alumni. The mail and email versions will point you to even more information, accessible at www.gtu.edu.

Papal Mass to Include GTU Student’s Songs

Congratulations Ricky Manalo!

Choristers in the April 17 Papal Mass at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. will sing two songs by GTU Ph.D. student Ricky Manalo. Manalo’s compositions, “Come, O Spirit of God” and “Pange Lingua,” will be featured in the prelude and communion.

Earlier this year, Manalo won an ecumenical hymn competition for the song, "That All May Be One." Choristers sang another of his songs, "Ang Katawan Ni Kristo" (Filipino for "The Body of Christ") at the closing Eucharist of the February 2008 Los Angeles Religious Education Conference.

Manalo is a Teagle-Wabash scholar in GTU’s Preparing Future Faculty Project, a year-long training funded by the Teagle Foundation and Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. Besides developing students’ practical teaching skills, the project aims to learn how faculty can best mentor future teachers to develop their sense of vocation and help them bring meaning and value into liberal arts classrooms.

The April 17 Papal mass begins at 10:00 a.m. EST. This mass and full coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to America is available on EWTN via satellite and cable.