Download or read book Staying One, Remaining Open written by James Barney Hawkins and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To honor the deanship of his predecessor, Martha J. Horne, Ian S. Markham, dean of Virginia Theological Seminary, challenged his faculty colleagues to reflect on living with a divided mind, where learning and living go hand in hand with diversity, division, protracted discussions, and lasting disagreements. Faculty members discuss God's mission for the Church as it worships and finds its life in prayer; and as it opens the Bible and finds not one voice but many as it interprets and preaches the Holy Scriptures of the Christian Church. These are the reflections of a community, which works to remain one and to remain open.