Martin Doblmeier, founder of Journey Films, won a Gabriel Award for his documentary An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story.
The Gabriel Awards, sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communications Arts Professionals, honor work in radio, television, new media, and film. An American Conscience, which has been airing on PBS stations across the country, won in the category of television documentary.
Theresa F. Latini has been named the first president of United Lutheran Seminary, with campuses at Gettysburg and Philadelphia.
She begins her tenure July 1, the inauguration of United Lutheran Seminary, a consolidation of two seminaries, both affiliated with the 3.8-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ULS’s predecessor institutions date back to 1826, making it the ELCA’s oldest seminary.
In Körmend, a Hungarian town of 12,000 people about 160 miles and two train rides from Budapest, the community has been split by the decision of Zoltán Németh, the local Catholic parish priest, to shelter asylum seekers.
The refugee issue is a heated one in Hungary, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government taking an increasingly hostile line against those seeking asylum in the country. In April the Hungarian authorities announced the detention of all asylum seekers, and state news outlets push a steady stream of xenophobic stories.
Linda A. Livingstone has been named president of Baylor University, beginning June 1. She will be the first woman to to head the Christian institution in Waco, Texas, founded by Baptists.
Livingstone is currently dean of the school of business at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Among her previous positions, she taught at Baylor as part of the business faculty from 1991 to 2002.