People Notes - August 2020

Karilyn Crockett ’06 M.A.R. has been appointed Boston’s first Chief of Equity.

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Javier Viera ’00 S.T.M. has been named President of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, becoming the first non-white president in the seminary’s history.
 
 
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Armando Ghinaglia Socorro ‘18 M.Div. was a member of a Yale Law legal team that successfully challenged termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) before the Supreme Court.
 
 
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Gabrielle Thomas, Lecturer in Early Christianity and Anglican Studies, is co-editor (with Elena Narinskaya) of a new volume titled Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice.
 
 
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Mary Clark Moschella, Roger J. Squire Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, is co-editor (with Lee H. Butler Jr.) of a new volume, The Edward Wimberly Reader: A Black Pastoral Theology.
 
 
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Alisha Lola Jones ’07 M.Div., a professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has published a new book, Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance.
 
 
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James Massa ‘85 M.A.R., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, has been appointed Rector of Saint Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y.
 
 
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Willa Goodfellow ’81 M.Div., an Episcopal priest turned mental-health advocate and author, is publishing a new book, Prozac Monologues: A Voice from the Edge.
 
 

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Dean Hammer ’78 M.A.R. has published a new article on the role of activism for psychologists in a time of heightened distress and trauma.

Learn more. (For full text of the article, contact the author at dhammer@antioch.edu.) 

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Yvonne Lodico ’09 M.A.R., founder of Grace Initiative Global, organized a webinar on the 75th anniversity of the U.N. Charter, featuring Dean Greg Sterling and Senior Associate Dean Jennifer Herdt, that aired on public television.

Watch the program.

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The Association of Theological Schools has given its first Women in Leadership Trailblazer Award, posthumously, to Sallie McFague ’59 B.D.

Learn more (see page 3 of linked newsletter).

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Joan Javier-Duval ’12 M.Div. delivered the sermon at the Sunday Morning Worship of the 2020 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association in June.

Watch/listen to the sermon.

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Anita L. Bradshaw ’91 M.Div. ’93 S.T.M. is now an Associate Conference Minister of the Minnesota Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Learn more about Anita Bradshaw.

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Robert J. Luidens ‘81 M.Div. has published a new book, The Kingdom Will Come Anyway: A Life in the Day of a Pastor.

Learn more.

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Meg Adler ’18 M.A.R. has published a new book, Outside the Lines: A Coloring Book for Rebels.

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Donald J. West ‘67 B.D. has been elected to the Synod of the South Atlantic of the United Presbyterian Church USA. 

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In Memoriam

Rev. Steve Montgomery ‘78 M.Div.

Rev. Ronald Woodruff ’56 M.Div.

Rev. Joseph Peacock ‘54 B.D.

August 10, 2020