People Notes - September 2020

Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes ‘18 M.Div. was featured by Forbes magazine for her work at the intersection of strategy and faith leadership.

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Willie James Jennings, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, has published a new book, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging.

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Mesha Arant ‘15 M.Div. has been selected for the Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Fellowship.

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Laura Kisthardt ’20 M.Div., a YDS alum and Andover Newton diploma recipient, was featured at the United Church of Christ news site for her research on clergy response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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W. Franklyn Richardson ’90 M.A.R. has published a new memoir, Witness to Grace: A Testimony of Favor.

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Antipas Harris ’02 S.T.M. has published a new book, Is Christianity the White Man’s Religion? How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color

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Tom Busteed ’18 M.Div. is the new pastor of Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Whitehall, Pa.

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Phyllis J. Leopold ’85 M.Div. has been appointed the new pastor of United Methodist Church of Darien, Ct.

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Shannon Buckmaster ‘05 M.Div. has been appointed Economic Health Manager for the City of Newberg, Ore.

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Hope Andersen ’86 M.A.R. has published a new memoir, How to Remodel a Life.

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Erika Helgen, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Christianity, has published a new book, Religious Conflict in Brazil.

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Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, lecturers and research scholars at YDS and the Yale School of the Environment, are co-editors (with Sam Mickey) of a new volume, Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing.

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In Memoriam

To read recent YDS alumni/ae obituaries, visit the new Memoriam page at our our alumni website. You may also use the page to submit obituaries.

September 9, 2020