On January 29, Israel Galindo (Israel Galindo) presented "Leading through Change and Transition" at the Bowen Center's Faith Leadership Conference. thebowencenter.org

Mindy McGarrah Sharp has been awarded a Wabash grant entitled "Teaching and Learning Deep Listening." This March-October 2024 grant will support both her sabbatical writing and the development of a new Fall 2024 course. wabashcenter.wabash.edu

On February 22, Mitzi Smith delivered a public lecture entitled "Womanist Critical Inquiry: Interpreting Jesus and Justice" for Brite Divinity School's Stalcup School of Theology for the Laity. brite.edu/stalcup

William Yoo published a chapter titled "Western Colonialism and Christian Mission" in Uncovering the Pearl: The Hidden Story of Christianity in Asia (edited by Amos Yong, Mark A. Lamport, and Timothy T.N. Lim). wipfandstock.com/9781666728996/…

Congratulations to Chanequa Walker-Barnes (@drchanequa), whose book Sacred Self-Care was chosen as a 2024 All Church Read for the United Church of Christ.  ucc.org/join-the-movem…

Congratulations to Jake Myers (Jake Myers), Columbia's newly inaugurated Wade P. Huie, Jr. Associate Professor of Homiletics! Dr. Myers gave his inaugural lecture on March 20. ctsnet.edu/academics/myer…

Ralph Watkins served as artist in residence at the 2024 Pride in the Pews Symposium at Spelman College in February. prideinthepews.com/symposium

Brennan Breed presented a public lecture at Duke Divinity School on March 22 entitled, "Disruptive Innovations within an Ancient Faith: The Transformation of the Early Hellenistic Jewish Imagination."

Congratulations to Kelly Campbell, who received a second $30,000 Theological Librarian Leadership Intergenerational Mentoring Cluster grant from the Wabash Center for 2024-2025.

Jeffery Tribble was appointed to serve as the Dean for the South Atlantic Episcopal District Conference Course of Studies for Conference Year 2023-2024.

Bill Brown led a Macedonian Ministry's clergy retreat on Biblical Aesthetics for Ministry in Green Valley, Arizona on April 11-13.

Mitzi Smith was selected as a participant of the Wabash 2024 creative writing roundtable entitled 2024 Breaking the Academic Mold: Liberating the Powerful, Personal Voice Inside You. wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/works…

Tim Hartman published a blog post entitled "A Heavenly Banquet Table: Imagining Barth's Universal Atonement and Election… without Salvation" on the "God Here & Now" substack hosted by the Barth Center at Princeton Seminary. barthcenter.substack.com/p/a-heavenly-b…

Ralph Watkins was elected vice chair of the Society for Photographic Education's southeast chapter during the SPE national meeting in March. spenational.org/chapters/south…

Mark Douglas was nominated to chair the Banking and Governance subcommittee of the Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) committee of the PC(USA). presbyterianmission.org/ministries/mrt…

Nicole Symmonds published "Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' Is a Requiem and a Resuscitation of a Genre" in National Catholic Reporter on April 6, 2024. ncronline.org/culture/beyonc…

In April, Martha Moore-Keish published a blog through the Wabash Center entitled "The Challenges of Teaching and Learning about Israel/Palestine after October 7." This blog includes voices of students in the January CTS travel seminar to NYC and DC. wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2024/04/the-ch…

On March 15, Chanequa Walker-Barnes was a keynote speaker at the RISE Together in Ministry conference in Atlanta, GA. utsnyc.edu/life/institute…

Bill Brown delivered a paper titled "The Aesthetics of Torah in the Psalms" at a biblical aesthetics conference held at Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany on June 3, 2024.

From June 4 to 7, Kelly Campbell attended the Forum for Asian Theological Librarians Workshop and Consultation in Selangor, Malaysia. While there, she delivered a keynote presentation entitled, "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Digital Libraries."