for ministry and service
The Divinity School recognized the achievements of five of its graduates at a banquet held on Oct. 12 as part of its annual convocation and reunion.
The honored alumni were:
Alumni Award for Distinction in Community Service
Lois Capps, who earned a Master of Arts in Religion degree in 1964, was sworn in as a freshman member of the 105th Congress in 1998, succeeding her late husband, Congressman Walter Capps, in California's 22nd District. Since January 2003 she has served as representative of the newly drawn 23rd District. Both a nursing practitioner and instructor, Capps is the founder and co-chair of the House Nursing Caucus. She also draws on her extensive healthcare background as co-chair of the Congressional Heart and Stroke Coalition, the House Cancer Caucus, the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, the Congressional School Health and Safety Caucus, the Congressional Hearing Health Caucus, and the House Democratic Task Force on Health.
William Sloane Coffin Award for Peace and Justice
Robert A. Evans, who holds both a B.A. (1959) and M.Div. (1963) from Yale, is executive director of the Plowshares Institute, an organization based in Simsbury, Connecticut, that seeks to promote a more just and peaceful world community through research and education, service to developing communities and innovative training in conflict transformation. As executive director, Evans leads intensive traveling seminars in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and conducts national and international seminars on skills training in resolving conflict. He is a senior fellow at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa, and a senior trainer at the Centre for Empowering for Reconciliation and Peace based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Alumni Award for Distinction in Lay Ministry
Christopher R. Glaser '77 M.Div. is the spiritual leader of Midtown Spiritual Community, an interfaith contemplative community in Atlanta, Georgia. He has founded numerous groups devoted to issues affecting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) community, including the predecessor to the GLBT Coalition at Yale; a peer-counseling program at the University of Pennsylvania; Lazarus Project, a "ministry of reconciliation" at the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church; and Presbyterians for Lesbian & Gay Concerns (now More Light Presbyterians). He served on the Task Force to Study Homosexuality of the former United Presbyterian Church. As an openly gay candidate for the ministry, he was denied ordination. His nine books include "Uncommon Calling," "Coming Out as Sacrament" and "Henri's Mantle:
Alumni Award for Distinction in Theological Education
George A. Lindbeck '46 B.D., '55 Ph.D. taught at the Divinity School and in Yale's Department of Religious Studies 1951-1993. He is the author of numerous books, including "The Nature of Doctrine" and, most recently, "The Church in a Postliberal Age." Lindbeck has been very active on the ecumenical front, including service as a delegated observer of the Lutheran World Federation at the Second Vatican Council. He also was a member of the national and international Lutheran/Roman Catholic dialogue groups from their beginnings until his retirement from the Lutheran co-chair of the international group in 1987. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association, and holds seven honorary doctorates from the United States and abroad.
Alumni Award for Distinction in Ordained Ministry
Robert E. Seymour Jr. '48 B.D. is pastor emeritus at Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he served for 30 years. The congregation has been on the front lines in the battle over integration and participation of women in Baptist churches in the South. One of the first African-American interns at Binkley Memorial was James Forbes, now a renowned senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City. After Seymour's retirement in 1988, he founded the Chapel Hill Senior Center. He has written four books: "Whites Only," "Aging Without Apology," "A Village Voice" and "When Life Becomes Worthwhile." He is also a regular columnist for The Chapel Hill News.
T H I S
Lois Capps
Robert A. Evans
Christopher R. Glaser
100 Meditations on Nouwen's Legacy."
George A. Lindbeck
Robert E. Seymour Jr.
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