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Rev. Alex C. Gallimore Named Baylor School Chaplain Friday, May 7, 2021
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Following a national search, Baylor School has named Rev. Alex C. Gallimore as the school’s new chaplain.
Rev. Gallimore is replacing Rev. Dan Scott, who retires this year after serving as chaplain from 2004-2021 and as interim chaplain from 2003-2004.
“I am honored to serve as chaplain to a diverse community with a historic commitment to making a positive difference in the world,” said Rev. Gallimore.
Assistant Headmaster Shaw Wilson 84, who led the search committee, said, “Baylor’s faith statement reads, ‘We believe that faith is central to every person’s life and that the study of religion is an essential part of a complete education.’ To that end, Baylor’s chaplain must be able to work with a large and diverse school community and serve as the school’s primary spiritual guide. The chaplain develops the school’s chapel programming and contr
Wake Forest University will rename a campus building in an attempt to reckon with an institutional history that stretches back to before the Civil War and includes slavery.
The university announced Friday that it will give Wingate Hall a new name: May 7, 1860 Hall. That s the date when it sold 16 enslaved persons at auction to benefit the school.
But the adjacent Wait Chapel will keep its name, Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch wrote in a message to campus Friday. Both buildings are named for past Wake Forest presidents, both of whom owned slaves who worked at the school and helped build it.
Photograph of Michael Potts by Evgenia Eliseeva; Photograph of Memorial Church courtesy of Wikimedia/
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Potts, an Episcopal priest (he was an officer in the U.S. Navy and a college administrator before being ordained) who earned his undergraduate degree in English from Notre Dame, is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School (M.Div. ’08) and earned a Ph.D. in the study of religion in 2013. He has been a member of the faculty since then. As a scholar, he has used literature and literary theory to analyze Christian ethical and sacramental practices. He is writing a book about forgiveness.
According to the University announcement, Potts opted for conscientious-objector status after his naval service, and delivered a well-known Veterans Day sermon in 2019 that put the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border into the context of his own experience as the son of a Japanese woman who was raised during the American occupation of that country. His wife, Colette, is a family
Rollins receives $6 million grant from Gilead’s HIV initiative
Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health has announced a $6 million grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc. over three years to continue to build the capacity of organizations working on the frontlines of the HIV crisis in communities across the Southern United States.
Emory will serve as one of four Gilead COMPASS coordinating centers alongside the Southern AIDS Coalition, the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, and Wake Forest School of Divinity to provide direct support to local community organizations to help mitigate the HIV epidemic in the South.
This is part of a second wave of funding from Gilead, manufacturer of antiretroviral therapies for HIV/AIDS. Emory’s COMPASS coordinating center has directly distributed more than $4.3 million to 104 community organizations, and is directed by Neena Smith-Bankhead, director of capacity building and community engagement. More information here.