A new book by Ritch Savin-Williams (1971), Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, & Nonbinary Youth, was released in paperback on September 21, 2023, by New York University Press. He presented findings from the research for the book to a high school group in South Korea and, in a series of four talks sponsored in large part by the US Ambassador to Sweden, to an audience of researchers and community activists in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.

On September 17, alumnus and 2022 PhD graduate Joel Brown (2014) was officially installed as President of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. The service took place at the historic Old Meetinghouse in Bethany, West Virginia—the church of one of the founders, Alexander Campbell.

Participating were representatives of the three streams of the Stone-Campbell movement and from congregations, regions, general ministries, and higher education. These included GMP Terri Hord Owens, who preached on "Reconstructing memory"; the presidents emeriti of DCHS, Peter Morgan and Rick Lowery; Lance Pape; Katie Hays; Erin James-Brown; and Joel's parents, Mara and Craig Brown. Kris Culp offered "A word from the academy," which incorporated comments from Joel's dissertation advisor, Curtis Evans.

Bonnie Miller-McLemore (1978), having retired from Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Dept of Religion in 2020 as E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Emerita after thirty-five years of teaching (twenty-five at Vanderbilt) and finished her two-year research faculty appointment in 2022, along with her husband Mark Miller-McLemore (1978) who also retired from teaching in 2020 and from his position as dean of DDH Vanderbilt in 2019, moved this past spring to Evergreen, Colorado to be closer to their three sons and their families.

Bonnie is still writing, she has a book coming out in early 2024 with Oxford University Press, "Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling." She loves having more time for hiking and grandparenting her three grandsons under three, with another grandchild on the way in 2024.

Marshall Dunn (1965)  has been named Minister Emeritus of University Christian Church, College Park, Maryland, and was installed November 19. The Board of Directors and Board of Elders unanimously affirmed the decision celebrating Marshall's decades of helping and serving others through his work at University Christian Church, camps, ecumenical ministries, and the regional and general church.

Chuck Blaisdell 's (1976) review of former General Minister and President John O. Humbert's memoirs, Claiming A Legacy, was recently published by Discipliana, the online journal of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. You can read the article here.

Katherine Raley Alexander (2008) defended her Doctor of Ministry project with Lexington Theological Seminary in July. Titled, "The Framework of Our Lives: Building Capacity for Awareness and Critique of Neoliberalism to Realize the Vision of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Georgetown, Kentucky," advised by Joe Blosser (2005) with Kristel Clayville (2001) also on her committee. She will receive the DMin degree in June 2024.

Ross Allen (2019) continues his work at The Christian Century, becoming a contributing editor for the magazine. His first inclusion in the masthead will be in the September 2023 edition. He writes, "Publications like The Century are needed now more than ever. We’re in a period where the church—especially in the Protestant mainline—is struggling to adapt and define itself amidst unprecedented change. Robust, thoughtful dialogue is essential to the work of envisioning and embodying the future to which God is leading. I am grateful that I get the chance to be part of this fantastic organization and foster that dialogue."

Ellie Leech (2019) will act as a Spiritual Friend at the Evolving Faith Conference, which is taking place Oct 13-14 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Evolving Faith "exists to cultivate love and hope in the wilderness, pointing fellow wanderers and misfits to God as we embody resurrection for the sake of the world."

Andrew Packman (2009) recently began a new role as Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics and Formation at United Theological Seminary, where he served as a Louisville Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow. 
 

Alexis Vaughan's (2009) review of Simran Jeet Singh's book The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Trasnform Your Life was published in the July 2023 edition of The Christian Century.