Emilie M. Townes (former resident) has been reappointed for a second five-year term as dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where she is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.

Patricia Duncan (1999) is the author of Novel Hermeneutics in the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Romance (Mohr Siebeck). She examines the fourth-century Christian novel, traditionally known as the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, to offer a revised, esoteric vision of the origins of Christianity. 

Benjamin J. Dueholm (former DDH chef) has authored, Sacred Signposts: Words, Water, and Other Acts of Resistance, to be released on July 10 by Wm. B. Eerdmans. 

Congratulations to Mark Miller-McLemore (1978) who is retiring on June 30th after 23 years as Dean of the Disciples Divinity House at Vanderbilt! 

Alexis Kassim (2009) will be installed as Associate Pastor of Little River United Church of Christ in Annandale, Virginia, on Sunday, June 3. 

In February, the Journal of Religious Ethics published “Maya Moral and Ritual Discourse: Dialogical Groundings for Consuetudinary Law” by Garry Sparks (2001). (Journal of Religious Ethics 46, no. 1 (March 2018): 88-123)

Congratulations to current House Scholar Joel Brown, who passed his doctoral examinations on May 11. 

Teresa Hord Owens (1999), General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was awarded an honorary doctorate by Lynchburg College on May 11. She was the speaker for their Baccalaureate service, during which the degree was awarded.

Congratulations to Elsa Marty (former resident) and Matt Veligdan, who were married on May 12!

Yvonne Gilmore (2001), Associate Dean, was the Baccalaureate speaker at Eureka College on May 4.