Congratulations to House Scholar Hyein Park, who passed her PhD exminations in November. She is a student in the Theology Area.

Santiago Piñón (1998) presented “The God Who Fails Los Desaparecidos: A Political Theology of Migration” at the Divinity School conference on Political Theology, November 7-9.

Sarah West (1994) was installed as Senior Minister of First Christian Church, Wadsworth, Ohio on Sunday, October 21.

Kristin Van Heyningen (1995) became Chaplain for Mayo Hospice in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in October.

In October, current scholar Hannah Fitch and her mother, Karen Merrick, Senior Minister of First Christian Church, Peoria, made a pilgrimage to sites in Germany associated with the twelfth-century Benedictine abbess, theologian, composer, and polymath Hildegard of Bingen.

Rebecca Anderson (2007) curated a Story Hour at the Regional Assembly of the Christian Church in Illinois and Wisconsin in October. Yvonne Gilmore (2001; associate dean), Judith Guy (2013), and current scholars Sarah Zuniga and Hiatt Allen were among the story tellers.

Tabitha Isner (2005) was featured in the October 17 New York Times Magazine article, “Struggling to Bring the ‘Blue Wave’ to Deep Red Alabama.” It portrays her as pursuing “a calling to be in the race,” even if a win was “nearly impossible.” Against formidable odds, she garnered 38.5% of the vote for the Alabama 2nd Congressional race.

Michael Karunas (1995; trustee) performed the Gospel of Mark at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on October 14.

Yvonne Gilmore (2001; associate dean) and Sandhya Jha (2001) were the keynote speakers for the 2018 Capital Area Regional Assembly.

Sympathy to Irami and Bonnie Osei-Frimpong (2005) on the death of her father, David William Carenen, on September 13, 2018.