People Notes - February 2024

Almeda Wright, Associate Professor of Religious Education, has published a new book, Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change.

Learn more.

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Darrell Wesley ’01 S.T.M. is the new pastor of First United Methodist Church in Redlands, Calif.—the first African American pastor in the church’s 157-year history. In addition, he is the author of a recently published book, Toward a Postmodern Ethic of Radical Freedom: Cornel West and Michel Foucault in Discursive Dialogue.

Learn more about his pastoral appointment here and his book here.

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Mary Clark Moschella, Roger J. Squire Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, has published a new article in the Christian Century, “Teaching Ministry Students to Ask Beautiful Questions.”

Read the piece.

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Rita Ferrone ’83 M.Div. has published a new book, Pastoral Guide to Pope Francis’s Desiderio Desideravi.

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Rahel Menkonnen has joined the YDS staff as the new Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

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Patricia Gallagher ‘89 M.Div. has published a new book, God’s Hidden Places.

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February 8, 2024