Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Emma Jordan-Simpson named president of Auburn Seminary
Emma Jordan-Simpson has been named the next president of Auburn Seminary....
Albert Raboteau Jr., influential Black religion scholar, dies at 78
Albert Raboteau Jr., the “godfather of Afro-Religious studies,” died from complications related to Lewy body dementia on September 18. He was 78.
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Dillard University professor Mona Lisa Saloy named poet laureate in Louisiana
Mona Lisa Saloy, an English professor at the historically Black, United Methodist and United Church of Christ affiliated Dillard University, has been named poet laureate for the state of Louisiana....
Terumi Echols named head of InterVarsity Press
Terumi Echols, a former publisher of Christianity Today, has been named president and publisher of InterVarsity Press....
Karen Mosby promoted to dean of student life at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Karen Mosby has been promoted to dean of student life at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Since 2019, she has served as the seminary’s student chaplain, a role she will continue.
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Edgardo Colón-Emeric begins tenure as dean of Duke Divinity School
Edgardo Colón-Emeric began his tenure as the dean of Duke Divinity School on July 1. He was appointed to a two-year term.
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An introduction to Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Michelle Duster situates her influential great-grandmother in the history of Black life in America.
Head of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church dies at 74
Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, died on July 12 at the age of 74. He had been undergoing cancer treatment for the last two years.
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Green burial as an act of faith
A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.
In Nashville, an eventful annual meeting for Southern Baptists
More than 15,000 Southern Baptist Convention leaders and pastors gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, June 15–16 for the first annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination since the ...
Mennonites launch new peace center in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Peace Center in Brooklyn, New York, officially opened on June 19 with hot dogs and Icees at a stoop-side cookout.
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E. Anne Henning Byfield begins tenure as head of AME church
Elizabeth Anne Henning Byfield began her tenure as president of the African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops on June 15....
Vashti McKenzie, first woman bishop in AME church, to retire in July
Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the first woman to be elected as a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, will retire from active ministry at the AME general conference in July....
Lenny Duncan joins Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Lenny Duncan, a queer, Black pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is joining Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary as a public theologian to help develop a two-year certificati...
Chanequa Walker-Barnes joins Columbia Theological Seminary
Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling.
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MC USA publishes ‘defund the police’ curriculum
Mennonite Church USA, the largest Mennonite denomination in the United States, has published a free, nine-week study program aimed at helping people think creatively about what it means to defund t...
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.
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Lil Nas X music video revives 'satanic panic'
Just before Easter, rapper Lil Nas X revived a bit of the “satanic panic” of the 1980s with the release of the music video for his song “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” which is rife with satani...
Martina Kopeckà named goodwill ambassador for Czech Republic
Martina Viktorie Kopecká, a 34-year-old priest in the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, has been named a goodwill ambassador by the Czech Republic’s minister of foreign affairs.
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Presbyterian Historial Society begins work on Katie Geneva Cannon digitial archive
The Presbyterian Historical Society has embarked on a collaborative effort to create a digital archive of more than 1,600 pages of womanist theologian Katie Geneva Cannon’s personal records.
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