Danielle Cox (2012) is now the Transitional Minister at First Christian Church in Texas City, Texas. She was ordained June 25, 2016, at First Christian Church, Houston.

Allison Lundblad (2012) has been called to the Christian Church of Arlington Heights, Illinois (CCAH), as its minister beginning September 1. She is currently completing a year as a resident chaplain at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Best wishes to Allie and to the good people of CCAH.

Garry Sparks (2001) has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Scholarly Transitions Grant for 2016-2018. Working with the American Philosophical Society, he and three other scholars in Guatemala, Germany, and the U.S. will produce the first full and critical translation of volume one of the 1554 Theologia Indorum ("Theology of the Indians").

Santiago Piñón Jr. (1998) has published The Ivory Tower and the Sword: Francisco Vitoria Confronts the Emperor.

Congratulations to Brandon Cline (1999) who received his PhD in Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago on August 26, 2016. Brandon is Senior Major Gifts Officer at Brite Divinity School. 

Ana Gobledale (1975) together with Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson (2009) and others (possibly you?!) has launched a a website for progressive liturgy called Worship Words. She extends an invitation to browse and to contribute to the site. "All of us who write for worship are part of ‘the modern liturgical movement’ which is usually considered to stretch from 1600 to 2000. Let’s extend that movement into the 21st century and around the globe!"

Garry Sparks (2001) has written “How ’Bout Them Sapotes: Mendicant Translations and Maya Corrections in Early Indigenous Theologies,” CR: The New Centennial Review 16, no. 1 (Spring 2016). He has also been awarded a 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer research grant for his study of a sixteenth-century priest’s notebook written in Mayan languages and currently held at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Timothy Lee (1986) is now the moderator of the North American Pacific Asian Disciples; John Roh (1983) concluded his term as moderator at the NAPAD Convocation in early August.

Laura Hollinger Antonelli (2001) has been called to serve First United Methodist Church of Glen Ellyn, Illinois as Director of Student Ministries beginning August 1.

We extend sympathy to the Genung family on the death of Frances U. Genung. She died May 18 in Claremont, California. She was 97. Raised in Ohio, Frances Ulrich received her BA from Oberlin College in 1939. While earning her MA in Religious Education from Chicago Theological Seminary, she met and married University of Chicago seminarian and DDH Scholar Dan B. Genung (1938). They would raise four children and share sixty-five years of life and work before Mr. Genung’s death in 2008. After graduation, the Genungs were called by the Christian Missionary Society to Disciples facilities in south central Los Angeles that had been vacated when its previous congregants, Japanese American citizens, were confined in detention camps during the war. They established the All Peoples Christian Church and Center in 1942, creating childcare and youth programs and building a racially diverse congregation. Frances began a 25-year career as an elementary school teacher while continuing ministry with Dan at Oceanside First Christian Church (1956-64), Foothill Christian Church (1964-70), and Mount Hollywood Congregational Church UCC (1970-84). She is survived by her children, David, Linda (McKown), Carol (Wilson), Bruce; ten grandchildren; five great grandchildren; and four great great grandchildren. A celebration of her life was held July 9 at Pilgrim Place.