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Student News

Perkins student Wallace Wyatt, III recently enjoyed a high point in his work with the nonprofit After-School All-Stars (ASAS) North Texas. After the school that housed the program was demolished in the recent tornados, Executive Director Marissa Castro Mikoy called on Wyatt to help the organization present its story at the Dallas Influencers in Sports and Entertainment (DISE) Fast Pitch 2019 competition. Mikoy and Wyatt’s presentation was a winner and earned ASAS the top award of $20,000 from DISE and an additional $5,000 for the People’s Choice Award. Event sponsors and speakers included Troy Aikman, Jennifer Sampson with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and Corby Davidson of Sportsradio 1310/ 96.7 FM The Ticket.

Watch the video here — look for a quick shot of Mikoy and Wyatt winning at 1:10 in!

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Faculty Publications

A listing of Perkins faculty publications for 2019-20 is now available. Download A Selection of Publications by the Perkins School of Theology Faculty here.

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Rising

By Hal Recinos, Professor of Church and Society

From his forthcoming work, The Coming Day (Wipf and Stock)

we are splinters from
heaven, fragments of
divine love, beautiful
and varied dark bodies
made at the beginning
of time by God. we are
the night in the desert
with toddlers afraid, the
eyes watchful of clouds
that rush across borders,
the public square, the market,
the cemeteries, the jails,
and the poor you will see
in the great house beyond
stars. we are the hungry,
the lame, the naked, the sick,
the women, the widows, the
Gay and the unnamed leaving
Christ speechless in church.
we are the ruins of conquest,
the blood on your flag, the
Virgin de Guadalupe, the
tale of climate change and
the loud screams you hear in
your heads, the malls, the raids,
the streets and inside those fancy
flat screen TVs. we are the people
too black, too brown, too red, too
yellow, too weak, too small, and
too poor to be alive say the White
hooded loud voices euphoric
with idiocy—yet we rise on
these forbidden streets!!

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Faculty Books

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William J. Abraham
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volumes I, II and III

Oxford University Press (2019)

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O. Wesley Allen, Jr.
The Preacher’s Bible Handbook

Westminster John Knox (2019)

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O. Wesley Allen, Jr.
Protestant Worship: A Practical Introduction for Worship Planners and Leaders

Abingdon (2019)

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D. Stephen Long
Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World

New Room Books (2019)

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D. Stephen Long
Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics: On Loving Enemies

Fortress Academics (2018)

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Harold J. Recinos
After Eden

Resource Publications (2018)

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Harold J. Recinos
Stony the Road

Resource Publications (2019)

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Alumni/ae Update

Kim Cape

The Rev. Dr. Kim Cape. Photo courtesy of United Methodist Insight.

Rev. Dr. Kim Cape (M.Div.’79, D.Min.’03) General Secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church, has announced that she will retire later this year.  She spent 43 years under appointment with The United Methodist Church and the last eight of those at the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM).

“I am well aware that my retirement coincides with a major period of upheaval for The United Methodist Church,” she said. “I would not be able to leave if I did not have total confidence in the leadership team we’ve put together. They are outstanding. Through them, I believe we’ve assembled the vehicle that can carry the freight of our ministry forward.”

 

Cheryl Ann Scramuzza

Cheryl Ann Scramuzza (M.Div., ’18) was ordained in the The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest.  The ordination service was held May 19 at Northway Christian Church in Dallas.

 

Obituaries

Rev. John C. Johnson

The Rev. John C. Johnson (M. Th., ’50) passed away May 21.  A World War II veteran, retired USAF major, retired professor, and beloved father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Johnson celebrated his 95th birthday on Easter Sunday. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Helen M. Johnson.  He served in the Army during WWII in the 20th Armored Division and received a Bronze Star, then completed his undergraduate degree at Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth. Following his graduation from Perkins, he was assigned to churches in New Mexico. In 1952, he entered the U.S. Air Force and served as a Chaplain for about 20 years in many countries and states. After retirement, he served many rural churches as pastor until age 90. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Methodist Children’s Home or your favorite charity.

 

Glenn Alvin Chambers

Glenn Alvin Chambers (M.Div., ’59) died on May 27 at the Hutchinson Hospice House in Hutchinson, Kan. Chambers served churches in Texas and in Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado. He served in many leadership roles in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church including chairman of the conference Board of Trustees, chairman of the conference Council on Finance and Administration and District Superintendent of the Pueblo district. Glenn taught at Denver University’s Iliff School of Theology, was a 32nd degree Mason and was involved in a variety of volunteer organizations during his life.  He is survived by his wife Melinda, daughter and son-in-law Deborah and Dieter Martin, son and daughter-in-law Christopher and Ashley Chambers, seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. The funeral service was held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hutchinson on June 4. Memorials may be given to the Sterling United Methodist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church or an organization of donors’ choice in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling.

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River Calling ©

A poem by Hal Recinos from his forthcoming ninth collection of poetry, Cornered by Darkness; expected publication in late 2020.

 

we know the way to the

river that takes us down the

 

lanes with names nailed to

trees, past the children

 

born without faces who die

young and the baskets filled

 

with unblessed ashes left to

watery eyes. we know the

 

way to the river beneath the

fixed northern star, long ago

 

crossed in the company of

priests, where relatives often

 

disappear, mothers cross to

be detained and infants taken

 

cry their last breath. we know

the way to the river, the many

 

faces it kindly bathes, English-

speaking neighbors who do not

 

wish a fence, and the rooster’s

early morning crowing on old

 

unamerican earth. we know

the way to the river with the

 

slippery banks, the places that

beg us to wade across and take

 

an afterlife chance. we know the

way to the river that smiles at the

 

sound of our saintly names and

we come to her one part ill to

heal.

h.j. Recinos