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. 

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.