Dawn Araujo-Hawkins

“This is not a Bible just for Mennonites,” says Anabaptism at 500 project director John...

Womanist theologian Yolanda Pierce will be the next dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. Pierce, a Century columnist, is currently the dean at Howard Divinity School—the first woman to lead the 153-year old  institution. Her research focuses on...

Yolanda Pierce named dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School

Historian Timothy S. Lee will be the next general editor of the Journal of Discipliana, the scholarly journal of study for the Disciples of Christ and the broader Stone-Campbell movement. Lee will take over from Mark Toulouse who helped relaunch the...

Historian Timothy S. Lee will be the next general editor of the Journal of Discipliana, the scholarly journal of study for the Disciples of Christ and the broader Stone-Campbell movement. Lee will take over from Mark Toulouse who helped relaunch the...

Letta Cartlidge created a group for missionary kids who’d attended her boarding school in Jos, Nigeria. The stories of abuse poured in.

Delores Williams, one of the founders of womanist theology, died on November 17 at the age of 88. Williams, a Presbyterian, taught theology at Union Theological Seminary for 13 years until her retirement in 2004. Before that, she taught at the historically Black Fisk University in Nashville. In 1993, Williams published her seminal book Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, which compares the plight of Black women in the United States to that of Hagar in the Bible—forced…

Delores Williams, one of the founders of womanist theology, died on November 17 at the age of 88.  Williams, a Presbyterian, taught theology at Union Theological Seminary for 13 years until her retirement in 2004. Before that, she taught at the...

A new movie about legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is now streaming on Hulu.  Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story stars Grammy Award-winning jazz and R&B artist Ledisi and covers five decades of Jackson’s life—highlighting both her...

A new movie about legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is now streaming on Hulu. Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story stars Grammy Award-winning jazz and R&B artist Ledisi and covers five decades of Jackson’s life—highlighting both her personal faith and her more public role in the civil rights movement. Jackson, who would go on to perform at Carnegie Hall, President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, first started singing at a Baptist church in New Orl…

William Bergkamp has been named the interim chief executive officer of Friend­ship Press, which supports the National Council of Churches and publishes the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Bergkamp comes to Friendship Press after...

Peter Mageto has been elected vice chancellor of Africa University, the Pan-African, United Methodist–affiliated school in Zimbabwe. A Kenyan, Mageto will be the first non-Zimbabwean to lead the university. Mageto, who was selected from among...

Gospel singer LaShun Pace died March 21 at age 60. Her family told local news outlets in Atlanta that the singer had been on renal dialysis for five years and died of organ failure. Pace began her music career in the 1970s, first as a solo artist...

Clifton Daniel III, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, has an­nounced his resignation, effective June 30, after five years of leadership. According to his resignation letter, Dan­iel’s appointment was always...

Religious historian and Muslim womanist Debra Majeed died on March 20 from complications following surgery. She was 68. Before becoming a full-time scholar, Majeed served as a United Methodist minister. She converted to Islam in 1998 while...

Iliesa Naivalu, general secretary of the Methodist Church of Fiji, died on Decem­ber 17, 2021, at the Colonial War Memo­ri­al Hospital in Suva following a brief period of illness. Naivalu was known for his work in promoting Chris­tian unity...

Menstruation supplies are expensive—and stigmatized. So many people just go without.

Bryan Massingale accepted the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice from the Paulist Center on November 13. Mas­sin­gale, a Catholic priest and theological ethicist, was given the award for his work toward justice and inclusion for Black and LGBTQ...

Religions for Peace’s deputy secretary general, Kyo­ichi Sugino, has resigned his position to take on the role of president of Gakurin Seminary, a lay Buddhist training institution in Tokyo. Sugino served in leadership at Religions for Peace for...

Religions for Peace’s deputy secretary general, Kyo­ichi Sugino, has resigned his position to take on the role of president of Gakurin Seminary, a lay Buddhist training institution in Tokyo. Sugino served in leadership at Religions for Peace for...