JESSE ZINK ’12 M.Div. is the author of Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of Mission in the Twenty-First Century (Wipf & Stock/Cascade, Mar. 2012). In his years as a young adult missionary of the Episcopal Church, Zink worked in a shantytown community in South Africa, where he worked with patients with HIV/AIDS, ran a micro-credit program, and coached students in a failing school. In Grace at the Garbage Dump, he draws on this experience to deepen our understanding of what "mission" is and means, and how it can be a way to involve the next generation of Christians in the work of the church. DWIGHT ZSCHEILE ’98 M.Div. wrote People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity (Morehouse, May 2012), which addresses the challenge of renewing the Episcopal Church's identity and mission amidst today's dramatically changing context. The book offers a theological vision, patterns for congregational life, and transformational stories of moving beyond the church's establishment posture and legacy toward deeper participation in the Triune God's life and love for the world. Zscheile also edited a volume entitled Cultivating Sent Communities: Missional Spiritual Formation (Eerdmans, 2012), which offers multiple perspectives on how spiritual formation in congregations might be re-envisioned in light of the church's mission identity. Contributors include Dinku Bato, Nancy Going, Scott Hagley, David Hahn,
Allen Hilton, Dirk Lange, Richard Osmer, Christian Scharen, and Zscheile.
From 2011 The following book was originally submitted for inclusion in the YDS authors section of Spectrum 2011 but was inadvertently omitted. RONALD P. BYARS ’62 B.D. is the author of The Sacraments in Biblical Perspective (Westminster John Knox Press, 2011), the third volume in the new series Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church. It explores texts from both Old and New Testaments that may serve as lenses through which to freshly consider Baptism and Eucharist. Drawing from Luther’s famous “flood prayer,” which often serves as a model for the baptismal liturgies of many denominations, the volume sees the creation, the story of Noah, Israel’s exodus through the Red Sea, and the crossing of the Jordan in a light that contributes to our understanding of the multivalent meanings of baptism. Viewing baptism and Eucharist as profoundly eschatological, the book targets those in the practice of ministry, addressing relevant issues such as “open” communion, catechesis, and church unity, as well as sacramental practice, including sacramental witness at the time of death.
BERNARD J. OWENS and Jo Owens welcomed their second child, Graham Jameson, in November 2012. Bernard serves as Rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Greensboro, NC.
Class of 2005
After three great years working at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, KATHRYN REKLIS received her Ph.D. from Yale University in Religious Studies (theology) in May 2012 and began work as assistant professor of modern Protestant theology at Fordham University, also in New York.
“Convocation, a great privilege to attend, seven years out: a jubilee year?” writes JUDITH A. ALLISON. “Grateful for my formation as Christians who bear Good News, sharing leadership, as BDS/YDS taught us.” Since 2007, she has been associate rector for pastoral care, St. Bartholomew’s, San Diego: a border diocese where there are issues of immigrant rights, marked polarity between poverty and great affluence, right/left wings.
TYLER F. WIGG-STEVENSON is pursuing a Th.D. in interdisciplinary theology at the University of Toronto, serving as associate pastor at their church, and Natalie and he walked the Camino de Santiago last summer. In his anti-nuclear NGO capacity, he is planning a delegation of Christian professors to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in summer 2013. His second book will be published next March, The World is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom To Do Good (IVP).
Secretary, Leslie Gesiene Woods leslie.woods@aya.yale.edu
JENNIFER CRESWELL and IAN DOESCHER continue to enjoy Portland, OR with their two sons, Liam and Graham, not to mention their two dogs and eleven chickens. Ian has a book coming out from Quirk Books in 2013, title TBA, but one hint is that the contract involves licensing from Lucasfilm. Having finished his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2011, SUNWOO HWANG started teaching this fall as assis-
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tant professor of Old Testament at Chongshin University in Seoul, Korea. CALLISTA ISABELLE began serving as college chaplain at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA in February 2012. JESSICA D. LAMBERT is still pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jersey City, NJ. “It’s a vibrant, diverse, faithful congregation,” reports Jessica. “I love living and serving in Hudson County. My husband, Nathan Ritter ’04, is associate priest at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield, NJ. We have two adorable children; Theo is almost 4 1/2, and Esther is 2 1/2. They keep us very busy, and sleepy, and happy.” ROBERT LEACOCK is still toiling in the vineyard of school chaplaincy at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, TX, where every day is a gift and ministry is rarely dull. Robert reports, “In August, Stefanie gave birth to our second child, Matilda ‘Matsy’ Jean. She weighed just shy of a half-stone and was a little over a cubit long.” Following a visit to Mysore, India, in 2010, to study Yoga, DARYL MORAZZINI returned to the USA to the start of a divorce.