“I’d like to see food waste being addressed more aggressively,” said Bob Shaver ‘06 M.A.R. who was recently profiled in the Indianapolis Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” series,
“One of the business ideas that I’m working on…relates to creating more of a market for this ‘secondary’ food to prevent waste and provide better access to low-income populations to fruits and vegetables.” Online, February 1.
“Why did I have to be someone’s sister or daughter or wife for this to count as repugnant behavior?” asks Cathleen Chopra-McGowan ’12 M.A.R. in “This is my body: one woman’s thoughts on unwanted attention,” “Was simply being a person not enough of a reason to treat this act as abhorrent?” Online on U.S. Catholic, January 2014.
Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology Bryan Spinks has recently published Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day (SCM Press, 2014). The book studies the history and theology of the Eucharist is aimed at undergraduate and graduate theology students, clergy, and theologically literate laity.
“William (Bill) Engels Wimer, III ‘44 M.Div., a retired minister in the United Church of Christ, passed away Jan. 14, 2014. He was 96 years old and celebrated in late December his 70th wedding anniversary with his beloved wife, Alice. The couple met in 1942 when they both were students at Yale Divinity School and were married a year later.” Online on Keys News, January 20.
Margaret A. Brown ‘58 B.D. of Norwalk, CT died on January 3. She was an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and taught religion and philosophy at Norwalk Community Technical College for 25 years. Online on Norwalk (CT) Daily Voice, January 27.
“That faint humming sound you’ve heard recently is the scholarly world of the Bible and archaeology abuzz over the discovery of the oldest known Mesopotamian version of the famous Flood story,” wrote associate professor of Old Testament Joel Baden, “A British scholar has found that a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from what is now Iraq contains a story similar to the biblical account of Noah’s Ark.” Online on CNN.com, January 28.
On January 31, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology John Hare gave a lecture entitled “On Being a CHRISTIAN Professor” at the Symposium, an annual event at Purdue University.
Mount Nittany Health has named the Margaret “Peggy” Lindsey ‘85 M.Div. as chaplain in the pastoral care department for Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, PA.
“Bishop Franklin Delton Turner, 80, of Elkins Park, the first African American to become a bishop suffragan, or auxiliary bishop, of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, of prostate cancer at his home. As a member of the executive council of Berkeley Divinity School, Bishop Turner advocated for recruitment of black leaders into the ministry. He also founded the Organization of Black Episcopal Seminarians.” Online on Philly News, January 8.
The First Congregational Church of Barkhamsted announced this week that Susan Wyman ‘80 M.Div. of Pleasant Valley will act as Interim minister for the church until a decision is made for the settled pastor. Online on Litchfield County (CT) Times, January 30.