Ayanna Johnson Watkins (2000) has been named the first lead organizer of MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope), a new “coalition of faith-based and community organizations joining together to give a more powerful voice for issues of justice in Memphis.” She has been Director of the National Benevolent Association’s Incubate Initiative.

Congratulations to PhD student Andrew Packman and Sarah Rohde on the birth of Owen Pete Rohde Packman on December 9.

Tish Duncan (1999), Assistant Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, was ordained in TCU's Robert Carr Chapel in early December 2018. 

Sympathy to Sandhya Jha (2001) and her mother, Janette Jha, on the death of her father, Sunil Jha, in Annapolis, Maryland, on December 1. Dr. Jha, who was born in 1936 in the village of Tildanga, India, became one of the world’s foremost noise and vibration specialists and was uniformly admired for his generous, intelligent, and gentle humanity.

Congratulations to Bethany Watkins Lowery (2006) and Joseph Zielinski who were married at Central Christian Church in Indianapolis on December 1. Jordan Berry (2005) was a member of the wedding party.

On November 19, Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson (2009) became Minister of First Congregational Church of Loveland, Colorado.

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.