Religion briefs for March 2

Allen Chapel AME Church will present a tribute banquet honoring Dr. Charles A. Tollett Sr. at 7:30 p.m. March 9 at the Marriott Hotel, 3233 Northwest Expressway. The event is titled “Amazing Grace.” Bishop Samuel L. Green Sr., presiding prelate of the 12th Episcopal District of the AME Church, will be guest speaker. The Rev. Charles Martin, pastor of Integrity's Voice of Victory Choice, will play saxophone and vocalist and Allen Chapel member LaDawna Miller will perform. Tickets to the black-tie event are $60 and sponsor tables start at $500. Proceeds will be donated to the Allen Chapel Foundation of Oklahoma City. For more information, call 388-2862 or 879-3870.

TULSA — The Rev. Nancy Claire Pittman, Ph.D., will be the new dean of Phillips Theological Seminary, the school recently announced. Gary Peluso-Verdend, the seminary's president, said the current dean, Don A. Pittman, Ph.D., will retire July 31.

“When we considered Nancy's significant contributions to the seminary in revising two degree programs, her scholarship, her service to the church and the community, her institutional citizenship, and her reputation as a preacher and workshop leader among the Disciples of Christ, we concluded that Nancy was the right candidate,” Peluso-Verdend said in a prepared statement.

Currently, Pittman is director of the seminary's Doctor of Ministry Program.