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Mark Kelly Tyler leads Black History Month chapel
Dr. Mark Kelly Tyler, pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, will preach at the Feb. 21 chapel service at Methodist Theological School in Ohio. The service, to be held at 11:30 a.m. in the Alford Centrum, is part of the school’s celebration of Black History Month. Members of the public are welcome to attend.

Williams lecturer looks at “Interreligious Outsiders”
Writer, scholar and activist Monica A. Coleman will deliver two Williams Institute lectures Feb. 28 and 29 on the MTSO campus. Coleman is associate professor of constructive theology and African American religions at Claremont School of Theology in southern California, where she also serves as co-director of Claremont’s Center for Process Studies. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Doing church in three different contexts
Dynamic leaders of a rural church, an inner-city church and a church in a shopping mall offer their wisdom at the 2012 Mission and Evangelism Institute. Registration is now open for this year’s event, scheduled for March 19 and 20.

MTSO awarded Science and Religion Library
The International Society for Science & Religion has selected MTSO as one of just 150 ISSR Library awardees around the world. At no cost to the school, the ISSR is providing MTSO’s Dickhaut Library with 224 volumes, spanning subject areas from ecology to cosmology to bioethics.

A fitting memorial: The Allen Ingram Scholarship
Allen Ingram (M.Div. ’08) and his family were deeply grateful for the financial support of others as he earned his MTSO degree. After he died suddenly in May, Anita, Ann Marie and Erin Ingram moved quickly to support future students by establishing a scholarship in his honor.

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