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Dr. Peter S. Williamson, Adam Cardinal Maida Chair in Sacred Scripture, convened an initial organizational meeting of the Barnabas Almsgiving Fund, April 2. He spoke at: the 2012 Convention of the National Association of Diaconate Directors, “Forming Deacons for the Ministry of the Word in Light of Verbum Domini,” Woodbury, New York, April 25; the Ann Arbor chapter of Legatus, “Saint Paul’s Advice to the Rich—It’s Not What You Think,” May 16; the year-end dinner of the Catholic Biblical School of Michigan, “Go into All the World and Proclaim the Gospel,” Livonia, MI, May 24. He was interviewed on “The Catholics Next Door,” a syndicated Catholic radio program, May 16. He taught a course on the Synoptic Gospels and a workshop on “Evangelization in Acts and Paul,” the National Seminary of the Catholic Church of China, Beijing, June 5-22; attended the Applied Biblical Studies Conference, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, and presented workshops on “How to Build Up the Church, Ephesians 4:1-16” and “Living as Children of light in a World of Darkness, Ephesians 5:3-20,” July 25-27; and attended the annual meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association, Notre Dame University, where he co-chaired a continuing seminar on “Verbum Domini and the New Evangelization” with Bishop Michael Byrnes and presented “Biblical Orientations for the New Evangelization,” co-authored with Dr. Mary Healy, July 28-31.