Ken Kline (1979) has returned to the Chicago area and will be installed as Senior Minister of St. John's UCC in Mokena on September 23rd.

Adam Frieberg (2006) is now a PhD candidate in the Northern Illinois University Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences.  Frieberg's proposed dissertation, "Spatial Analysis of Historical Consolidation of U.S. Mainline Protestant Churches," develops a method of spatial analysis and dataset to account for congregational-level changes to the U.S. religious landscape. 

David Vargas (trustee; 1971) was honored with the Somos Uno award at the Obra Hispana assembly in July.

Brandon Cline (1999) will begin teaching as head Latinist at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas next month. 

Joshua Menke (former resident) was among the 13 seminarians selected to travel to Berlin and Poland and participate in the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) program this year. 

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.