Alumni/ae Publications
Dr. Bary R. Fleet (STH’86) Publishes Move Into Your Magnificence: 101 Invitations to a Life of Passion and Joy
Dr. Bary R. Fleet (STH’86) published Move Into Your Magnificence: 101 Invitations to a Life of Passion and Joy. The book overview states: At age 68, Dr. Bary Fleet went from being the athlete nobody wanted in gym class to the athlete everybody wants to be like. That year, Bary—who had been told he wasn’t […]
Dr. Richard Paul Olson (STH ’72) Publishes The Grandparent Vocation: Wisdom, Legacies, and Spiritual Growth
Dr. Richard Paul Olson (STH ’72) published The Grandparent Vocation: Wisdom, Legacies, and Spiritual Growth. The book overview states: Many grandparents experience a surge of joy with the birth or adoption of a grandchild. For years afterward, time together is eagerly coveted, pictures are treasured and displayed, and multiple gifts along with various kinds of […]
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling (STH ‘04) Starts New Podcast: Thursdays at the Table
Alumni and current STH Dean’s Advisory Board member Bishop LaTrelle Easterling has started a new podcast Thursdays at the Table. New episodes are on the first Thursdays of each month. In the first episode of Thursdays at the Table, “The Courage of our Voice,” three leaders in The United Methodist Church talk about racism and […]
The Rev. Dr. Carlton R. “Sam” Young (STH ‘53) Publishes His Autobiography: I’ll Sing On
This was originally published by UM News on January 13, 2023 and can be found here. Excerpt from the article: Nonagenarians are an integral part of our society. As I write this, news has broken about the deaths of legendary journalist Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict XVI at 93 and 95 years of age, […]
Anastasia Kidd (STH ’04, ’18) Publishes Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation
Anastasia Kidd (STH ’04, ’18) published Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation. The book overview states: Anti-Fatness Affects Us All Whether your body is small or large, aged or young, disabled or abled, toned or soft, lithe or stiff—or somewhere in-between—anti-fatness affects us all, because it is intended to. Fat Church critiques anti-fat prejudice and […]
Chasity Jones (STH’22) Publishes Black Gold: The Road to Black Infinity
Chasity Jones (STH’ 22) published Black Gold: The Road to Black Infinity on December 1, 2022. The book overview states: The project is a collection of poems during a period of liberation and the beginning of a process called decolonizing my mind (bell hooks, Sisters in the Yam). As a southern belle from Bible Belt […]
Dr. Shelly Matthews (STH ’87) Co-edited Race and Biblical Studies: Antiracism Pedagogy for the Classroom
Dr. Shelly Matthews (STH ’87) co-edited Race and Biblical Studies: Antiracism Pedagogy for the Classroom published October 2022. The book overview states: The biblical studies classroom can be a site of personal and social transformation. To make it a space for positive change, the contributors to this volume question and reevaluate traditional teaching practices […]
Dr. Yara Gonzalez-Justiniano (STH’14,’19) Publishes Book: Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica
Dr. Yara Gonzalez-Justiniano (STH’14, ’19) published Centering Hope as Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica on Septermer 23, 2022. The overview of the book states: Where is the hope? What does it look like? Is the Christian church providing a hope that materializes in the grounding of people’s thriving? These questions posed the catalysts of […]
Dr. Stephanie A. Budwey (STH’04,’12) Publishes “Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology”
Dr. Stephanie A. Budwey’s (STH’04,’12) new book Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology is published by Routledge and will be available August 25, 2022. This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all […]
Dr. Benjamin Chicka (STH’08) Publishes Two Books, Praised by Professors Wesley J. Wildman and Robert C. Neville
Playing as Others: Theology and Ethical Responsibility in Video Games No contemporary form of pop culture has as large a social impact as video games, an entertainment industry whose yearly revenues continue to rise. Gamergate rocked the gaming industry when isolated incidents of male gamers threatening female game developers and critics grew into a sustained […]