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✽ John Notehelfer announced at our Pacific Southwest Conference annual meeting today that North Park Theological Seminary is opening an extension center in Santa Barbara, California.

✽ The library at Fuller Theological Seminary will become host to a collection of material related to the Jesus People movement of the 1960s and 70s, ~ link

✽ Efrem Smith has been elected as the new superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.

✽ Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon in tomorrow's Washington Post:

The Arizona I've known since moving here from Chicago as a boy is the birthplace of César Chávez; it's a free-thinking, hospitable state capable of balancing great natural beauty and cultures of all sorts. This place we've heard about lately, the Arizona willing to risk economic boycotts and international ridicule in the pursuit of an ugly, discriminatory law? I don't recognize it.

But I do recognize those responsible for this humiliating moment. They are bitter, small-minded and full of hate, and they in no way speak for Arizona. ~ link

✽ The upcoming primary election in Arizona is August 24th. General election is November 2nd.