The University of Mainz has awarded its prestigious Gutenberg Research Award to two members of the YDS faculty: Adela Yarbro Collins, Buckingham Professor Emerita of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, and John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism & Interpretation.
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A youth education program launched by Herron Gaston ’14 M.Div. at the church he pastors in Bridgeport, Conn., was the subject of a News 12 segment and was heralded in an official citation issued by the Connecticut General Assembly.
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Neichelle Guidry ’10 M.Div. has been appointed Dean of the Chapel of Spelman College.
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he TSAI Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale featured the work undertaken by Heaven Berbane ‘18 M.Div. to explore new social solutions in Kenya.
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Susan Meier ‘77 M.Div. is retiring as Presbyter for Common Life with the Maumee Valley Presbytery, for which she has overseen 68 churches in northwestern Ohio and southern Michigan for the past eight-plus years.
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Ginger Gaines-Cirelli ‘92 M.Div. was honored recently in the Washington Women Of Excellence Awards.
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Jeff Matsler ’15 S.T.M. was recently featured in the alumni magazine of Southern Methodist University for his work with veterans recovering from moral injury.