wfn.org | Digby named Bossey Scholar

["Disciples Off. of Communication"<wshuffit@oc.disciples.org>]

Date: June 9, 1999
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
E-mail: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org

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	INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- A Brite Divinity School 
seminarian has been named the 1999 Disciples 
Bossey Scholar. 

	The board of the Council on Christian Unity has 
chosen Nathan T. Digby, Oklahoma City, Okla., to 
receive a full scholarship to the Graduate School 
of Ecumenical Studies at Bossey Ecumenical 
Institute, Celigny, Switzerland.  Digby will 
attend a September to December session entitled 
"Christians in a Religiously Plural World: 
Challenge and Opportunity."

	The Council on Christian Unity invited all 
Disciples seminaries and seminary houses to make 
nominations for the annual Bossey scholarship. 
Digby was one of "four excellent nominations" 
according to CCU President Robert K. Welsh. 

	The Disciples seminarian, a 1996 graduate of 
Disciples-related Texas Christian University, has 
a  diverse family and educational background.  
Two adoptive siblings are African-American.  One 
is Native American.  In his undergraduate work 
Digby studied international politics, 
communication and Spanish. He helped organize 
multicultural awareness and dialogue programs at 
TCU.  In addition, he studied at the University 
of the Americas in Mexico, participated in a 
mission trip to Honduras, and spent a year as a 
volunteer teacher at a Tecolete, Mexico, 
orphanage.  

	In his application for the endowed annual 
scholarship, Digby said, "I have come to believe 
that the gospel calls us to be both Christian and 
ecumenical.  The richness of God's creation is 
not experienced completely except in community, 
where different persons struggle together to 
understand both themselves and God."  

	Welsh, also moderator of the board of the 
Ecumenical Institute, said, "The graduate school 
is of particular interest in that it will focus 
on how Christians live in an interfaith world.  
That challenge is clearly a major issue as we 
look to the 21st century.

	"We're delighted that Nathan has been selected 
for this scholarship.  The task of ecumenical 
formation for the next generation of leaders is 
crucial for the future of the whole movement 
toward Christian unity," said Welsh.  

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