Wednesday, April 20, 2022

From Austin Seminary: "Installation of The Reverend Carolyn Helsel"

DATE CORRECTION: Please join us TODAY, April 21, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. (CDT) as Dr. Carolyn Browning Helsel is installed as Associate Professor in The Blair R. Monie Distinguished Chair of Homiletics in Shelton Chapel on the Austin Seminary campus.

The service will also be live-streamed at 5:00 p.m. today at this link:

The link to the service:
Meeting ID: 913 5408 5914
Passcode: 203561




You are invited to attend the Installation of The Reverend Carolyn Helsel as Professor in The Blair R. Monie Distinguished Chair in Homiletics

The installation of a faculty member into a named chair is an important occasion in the life of the Austin Seminary community. It recognizes a faculty member’s distinctive contributions to a field of study, the importance of that field of study for theological education, and the Seminary’s affirmation of that faculty member as a scholar and teacher of the church.

Please join us on April 22, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. (CDT) as Professor Carolyn Browning Helsel is installed as Professor in The Blair R. Monie Distinguished Chair of Pastoral Ministry and Leadership in Shelton Chapel on the Austin Seminary campus. The service will also be live-streamed.

The link to the service:
Carolyn Helsel's Chairing
Meeting ID: 913 5408 5914
Passcode: 203561

The Reverend Dr. Carolyn Helsel joined the faculty of Austin Seminary in 2015. She is the first professor to be installed into the Monie Chair.

The author or co-author of five books, Dr. Helsel has been a faculty advisor to the Truth and Reconciliation Oral History Project of the United States Christian Leadership Organization since 2015. She is ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Designed to enable the study and teaching of preaching, The Blair R. Monie Distinguished Chair of Homiletics was established in 2002 with a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wright of Dallas, Texas, to honor the retirement of the long-time pastor of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church.



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