Two YDS graduates named to presidential advisory council
Sharon E. Watkins ’84MDiv, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Fred Davie ’82MDiv, president of Public/Private Ventures, have been named to President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The YDS alumni are among 25 faith and community leaders appointed to the council. The council is envisioned as a resource for nonprofits and community organizations, both secular and faith-based, that are looking for ways to make a bigger impact in their communities.
Scholar in Christian art awarded Guggenheim
Jaime Lara ’90STM, lecturer in Christian art and architecture at the Institute of Sacred Music and YDS, has been named a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for next year. Lara, whose recent research has focused on the Andes and the iconography of St. Francis that developed there in the sixteenth century, has chosen as his fellowship topic Flying Francis: Catastrophes, Insurrections, and Art in the Colonial Andes. "By graphically presenting St. Francis as the bellicose Angel of the Apocalypse, the Franciscans were able to assert their unique privileges, chastise their rivals, and rechannel native agitation," said Lara. "The iconography that I have documented and photographed has no precedent in European art, but rather is exclusive to Latin America."
Spring issue of Reflections prompts call for renewed anti-nuclear engagement by churches
Publication of the spring issue of Reflections magazine prompted National Council of Churches general secretary Michael Kinnamon to call "with urgency" for renewed engagement by the churches in efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons. Kinnamon made his remarks at a May 12 New York City reception launching the spring issue, which is devoted entirely to the subject of faith and nuclear weapons. Pointing to "the call found in the pages of this magazine," Kinnamon said, "This evening I pledge to you to raise this call with urgency within the National Council of Churches community, beginning this weekend with our governing board, and toward that end I've asked that a box of the journals be shipped and given out to all of the leaders of the National Council governing board." With 35 member communions representing some 45 million adherents nationwide, the NCC is the country's preeminent ecumenical organization.
Harold W. Attridge named first Henry L. Slack Dean
The Yale Corporation at its April meeting confirmed the appointment of Harold W. Attridge as the first Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School. The new endowed deanship was created through a $5 million gift from Robert L. McNeil Jr. ’36, honoring his grandfather, an 1877 graduate of the Divinity School. Henry Levi Slack is remembered as an influential minister in Connecticut and a leader of the Congregational Church. Attridge, currently serving his second term as dean, said, "Naming the deanship in memory of the Reverend Henry L. Slack, who devoted his life to pastoral ministry, reminds us of the core mission of the school, to educate the dedicated pastors who will lead the church in the next generation."
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