Congratulations to the Upcoming Graduating Class of Spring 2019
- Adam Barnett
- Chad Benkert
- Kevin Blue
- Diane Borden
- Benjamin Bruckner
- Troy Cady
- Aaron Foster
- Meztli Gonzalez Flores
- Charles Johnson
- Fanchon Kelley
- Trishia Kholodenko
- John Kim
- Bum Yong Kim
- Kathryn Larson
- Dawn Lauber
- Philip Lawton
- Jeremy Leib
- Denise McKinney
- Madeline Roos
- Elizabeth Rutherford
- Stephen Schreiber
- Donghan Peter Shin
- Joseph Snedden
- Nicolas Tobin
- Baily Warman Manwatkar
- Benjamin Wickstrom
- Emily Wickstrom
Keep these important dates on your calendar
- May 8th: Study Day: No Classes – Pizza Study Break
- May 9th-10th: Exam Days
- May 10th: End of Semester & Baccalaureate
- May 11th: Seminary Commencement
- June 3-15: June Intensives
Women in Ministry Study Day Yoga
Come to breathe deeply, stretch sore muscles, and calm the mind so that you can focus on the last of your semester’s work. Yoga with Deb Auger (not just your dean of students – but newly certified yoga instructor!) will begin tomorrow (May 8th) at 9:30am in Olsson Lounge and will be followed by brunch snacks before we send you back to books and computers. Please bring a yoga mat if have one, but we will supply extra ones.
Chicago Premiere of Mary Magdalene at the Gene Siskel Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center (located at 164 N. State St.) will present the Chicago premiere of MARY MAGDALENE (May 3-9 only), shining the spotlight on women in early Christianity. Long featured in a perennial supporting role in film and literature on the life of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, a Biblical and historical enigma often falsely labeled as a prostitute, here gets the spotlight in a visually entrancing film that grants her equality and personhood. Young and unmarried in the small fishing village of Magdala, Mary (Mara) is loved for her gentle nature but regarded as strange for her dreamy introverted ways. Rejecting the marriage her father has arranged for her, and enduring a violent exorcism as a result, she finds solace in the words of the nomadic firebrand teacher Jesus (Phoenix), who is passing through. Impulsively she joins his ragtag band of male followers. An intimate but chaste friendship evolves between Mary–the one who sees, listens, and intuitively understands–and Jesus, while director Davis juggles the jealousy and varying ambitions of the men, including Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Judas (Rahim), whose personal and political agendas may spell dire trouble their leader. Tickets: $12/general admission; $7/students; $6/Film Center members. For more information please visit the website: http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/mary-magdalene
2019 Fall Registration is Open
Don’t forget to register for the 2019 Fall courses. If you need assistance with registration you can contact academic services at semacademicserv@northpark.edu.
Commencement Volunteers Needed
We are quickly approaching the end of the academic year and are planning commencement events. If you are available to either help with the graduation luncheon on May 10 or serve as an usher during the commencement service on May 11, please let Emily Wagner know. If you are a scholarship student, these are both great opportunities to get hours.
What’s With the Door?
The theme of the senior retreat held last weekend at Covenant Harbor had the theme of לֶךְ-לְךָ –Lech Lecha – To Go Forth. This theme was expounded, reflected upon and inscribed on the door that currently resides in the Deans’ Lounge. We extend an invitation to all graduating students and every community member to contribute to the theme and write a blessing, word of encouragement or scripture verse on the Graduation Door as a gift to our graduates as they go forth to serve. There are sharpies next to the door for this purpose. Thank you for helping us send our graduates forth in joy and care!