Celeste Kennel-Shank named Associated Church Press president
On April 8, Celeste Kennel-Shank, the Century’s former news editor and a current contributing editor to the magazine, was named president of the Associated Church Press.
The ACP, founded in 1916 as the Editorial Council of the Religious Press, is a professional organization committed to excellence in religion journalism as a means of supporting “the life of faith and the Christian community.”
Elected alongside Kennel-Shank as ACP vice president was John Thomas III, editor of the Christian Recorder, the official newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.