People Notes - May 2023

Authored by Ray Waddle, the new YDS history book “This Grand Errand” won top prize for non-fiction at the annual Church Press Awards. The Divinity School’s theological journal Reflections—edited by Waddle—was also a prize-winner.

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YDS Professor Michal Beth Dinkler gave the annual Weltin Lecture at Washington University in St. Louis, titled, “The Wild Edges of Character: Creation in the Gospel of Luke.”

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The Rev. Dr. Stephen G. Ray ’93 M.Div., ’00 Ph.D. has accepted the call to be the 29th Senior Minister of United Church on the Green in New Haven.

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Meredith Barges ’23 M.Div. was honored at Yale’s annual Sustainability Awards for her work leading policy research into bird-friendly building design.

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Jon Ort ‘24 M.Div. and Sarah Neumann ‘24 M.Div. are among the 14 seminary students chosen for the 2023 Seminary Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).

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Apelu Poe ’86 S.T.M. has published a new book, The Hidden Secrets of the Master’s Mind: How You Can Live with God’s Time.

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Antonio Vargas ’25 M.Div. has won the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Daniel and Earlene Vestal Scholarship.

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May 8, 2023