Ronald Byars ’62 B.D., Professor Emeritus of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary, has published a new book, Finding Our Balance: Repositioning Mainstream Protestantism (Cascade Press, 2015).
Lois Capps ’64 M.A.R., longtime Democratic congresswoman from California, announced she will not seek a 10th term.
As a volunteer in the SCOPE Project (“Summer Community Organization and Political Education”) during the mid-‘60s height of the civil rights movement, Richard Hutch ’70 B.D. engaged in a massive voter registration drive throughout the South. Now a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, Hutch recounted those experiences a half-century later in lectures at his university and Gettysburg College, his undergraduate alma mater.
Adam Eckhart ’01 M.Div. was installed as Senior Pastor at First United Church of Christ in Milford, Ct., where he served as Associate for many years.
Martha Smalley, special collections librarian and curator of the Day Missions Collection at the Divinity Library, was featured in a New Haven Independent article for her special exhibit on religion and the environment.