Brokenleg named head of Native Ministries at VST.REV. MARTIN BROKENLEG was appointed last June as Director of the Native Ministries Programs and Professor of First Nations Ministry and Theology at the Vancouver School of Theology History The Vancouver School of Theology was established in 1971, as an amalgamation of the Anglican Theological College (ATC) and Union College of British Columbia (UCBC), affiliated with the United Church of Canada. (VST)--the first aboriginal person to hold the position. Mr. Brokenleg has degrees From South Dakota State University South Dakota State University, at Brookings; land-grant support; coeducational; chartered 1883 as Dakota Agricultural College, opened 1884. In 1907 it became South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and in 1964 its present name was adopted. in communications and religion, the Episcopal Divinity School Episcopal Divinity School, or EDS, is an Episcopal seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offering Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Theological Studies, and Doctor of Ministry degrees. and from the University of South Dakota Nomenclature
He was ordained in the United States in 1971. He is a Rosebud Sioux from South Dakota. Before joining VST, Mr. Brokenleg was professor of Native American studies Native American Studies is an academic discipline that studies the experience of people of Native American ancestry in America. Closely related to other Ethnic studies disciplines such as African American studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies, Native American at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, teaching Lakota studies and religion. He has crafted a model of youth empowerment called the Circle of Courage, which includes Four core values: belonging, mastery, independence and generosity. At VST, he has run the Native Ministries summer school--the only time all year when students in the Master of Divinity Noun 1. Master of Divinity - a master's degree in religion MDiv master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree by-Extension Program attend sessions on campus. He hopes to maintain the program as it is but would like to shift the focus slightly to urban areas, "where a large number of aboriginal people are now living." He would also like to encourage aboriginal youth to take up theological studies. "Currently most of the students taking the course are in their 40s. I would like to educate people under 20 to 30 years in theological life," said Mr. Brokenleg. He sees the involvement of youth in the program as part of indigenous Anglicans' quest to fulfil the covenant signed by aboriginal and non-aboriginal Anglicans 10 years ago which stipulated that native Anglicans would form "a new, self-determining community within the Anglican Church of Canada." |
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