Herron Keyon Gaston ’14 M.Div. ’15 S.T.M. has joined the YDS admissions staff as Assistant Director of 
Admissions and Recruitment. Gaston also worked in admissions while studying at YDS. Before coming to Yale, the Florida A&M graduate served as legislative analyst in the office of the Florida Governor and in several other policy and government positions. Gaston serves as pastor of Summerfield United Methodist Church in Bridgeport, Conn.
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Mindy Roll ’07 M.Div. has been named winner of the Philip N. Knutson Award for Creativity and Risk-Taking, given by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America at its national staff meeting this summer. Roll is the Lutheran campus pastor at Texas A&M University and Blinn College.
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Robert Laughton ’17 M.Div. is the winner of Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars Student Paper Competition for 2015. Laughton’s award-winning paper explored the prophet Ezekiel and how best to understand him, his prophetic ministry, and the book that bears his name. The award comes with a cash prize and a two-year membership in the AABS.
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Sang Chang ’70 B.D., currently serving as president of the World Council of Churches for Asia, was a featured speaker at a special event in Hiroshima, Japan, to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. As part of a session on “Actions for Nuclear Disarmament Hereafter: War Never Again,” Chang delivered a speech called “What is required of us?” which urged the people of faith to raise their voices for nuclear disarmament.
[Read more and view text of Sang Chang’s address.]
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Peter Panagore ’86 M.Div. has published a new book, titled Heaven Is Beautiful, on his near-death experience and insights on heaven and spirituality.
[Read more on Rev. Panagore and his new book.]
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Donald Capps ’63 B.D. ’65 S.T.M., William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and a prolific scholar of the psychology of religion, has died from injuries sustained in an auto accident in Princeton.