Steve Montgomery ’78 M.Div. is retiring as pastor of Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis. At his final service as pastor, his congregation surprised him with the singing of a new hymn composed by YDS Professor Emeritus Thomas Troeger.
Read more in the Daily Memphian.
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Three YDS students traveled to Oxford with Michal Beth Dinkler, Associate Professor of New Testament, earlier this semester to present their research at an Oxford-Yale Graduate Conference on “Ethical Reading: Exemplarity.”
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Blair Nelsen ’19 M.A.R. won a student photo competition sponsored by Yale’s Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
Read the story and see Blair Nelsen’s winning photo.
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James Keane ’91 M.Div. has been appointed Director of Educational Services for the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers, North American Province.
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Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, both senior lecturers and research scholars at YDS and co-directors of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, are receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
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Deanna Thompson ‘92 M.A.R. has been appointed Founding Director of the the new Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
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James White ’62 B.D. has published a new book, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania: A Preacher’s Adventures and Reflections.
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Nathan Phinney ’97 M.A.R. has been appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at Northwestern College in Iowa.
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YDS Professor Bruce Gordon is receiving an honorary doctorate from his undergraduate alma mater, the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Incoming student Ora Weinbach has been selected for the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, a program for leadership development for Jewish professionals in graduate school.
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Lucas Braley ’16 M.A.R. has published a new novel under the pen name L. Farnsworth Colson. The book is titled In the Shadow of Prometheus (The Ring Saga).
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