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Faculty News

Austin Seminary graduating senior Chelsea McCutchin has been selected to receive the 2018 Chidester Preaching Award. The $5000 prize is made possible by a gift from First Presbyterian Church in Malvern, Arkansas.

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary will hold commencement exercises on Sunday, May 20, at 2:30 p.m. at University Presbyterian Church, Austin. The class of 2018 consists of thirty-five students in four programs: the Master of Divinity, the Master of Arts, the Master of Arts in Ministry Practice, and the Doctor of Ministry. The Reverend Dr. Carlos Emilio Ham-Stanard (DMin'99) rector (president) of Seminario Evangélico de Teologia (SET) in Matanzas, Cuba, will deliver the Commencement Address.

The Reverend Dr. Margaret Aymer has been promoted to full professor and appointed to The First Presbyterian Church, Shreveport, D. Thomason Chair of New Testament Studies. A Service of Inauguration and Installation will take place on Tuesday, November 7, at 4:00 p.m. in Shelton Chapel; Austin Seminary Board Chair Archer Frierson will preside.

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the selection of twelve area pastors for the 2017 Fellowships in Pastoral Leadership for Public Life. These twelve pastors, selected from diverse traditions and perspectives, will be invited in their time as Fellows to the intersection of the Good News and the Common Good, stretching their vision, their capacities, and their confidence as public leaders.

New Testament Professor Margaret Aymer is one of six African American women in theological education profiled in a story on NBC news. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/six-black-women-center-gravity-theological-education-n780101

In Friday's Lifestyle Section, Professor Whit Bodman writes in the Austin American Statesman newspaper about bringing our own faith to interfaith conversations

President Wardlaw informs the Seminary community of the recent cancer diagnosis for Zbinden Professor Blair Monie.

PLPL Fellows for exceptional pastors. Nominations open now for 2017-19 cohort.

Austin Seminary is included in the second cohort of the Green Seminary initiative.

The 2020 Vision Team is being led by Co-Moderators Bernadette Coffee, a ruling elder from the Presbytery of Tres Rios, and Lisa Juica Perkins, admissions associate for ecclesial partnerships and a teaching elder from the Presbytery of Grace.

Alex Pappas, an inquirer under the care of Grace Presbytery, has received the Grace Presbytery Fellowship to fund her full seminary costs as she pursues a Master of Divinity degree at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

The scholarship is for students from the United States who show promise for church leadership to attend the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland.

Are outward professions of faith like those expressed by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio more likely or less likely to make you want to support a presidential candidate? Professor Cynthia Rigby and colleagues discuss in the Dallas Morning News.