Until the world is different
David struck Goliath down on his first try and was celebrated in victory. That’s a nice way for the story to end but it’s important to remember that he took five stones with him. He understood that sometimes your faith has to endure a failure. All his hope can’t go into one stone. He’s going to have to keep throwing them until the world is different.
Alexis Vaughan, 2024 Convocation Address
PhD-bound. Congratulations to 2025 graduates Nate Travis, Muhammad Hassan, and Kevin Poe, who have accepted offers to study at the University of Oregon (Philosophy and Ecology), the University of Chicago Divinity School (Religions in the Americas), and University of California-Santa Barbara (South Asian Religions).
Leaning into spring. Spring quarter began and Monday Dinners resumed on March 24. On March 31, for the final Disciples History and Thought Seminar of the academic year, Clark Gilpin invites students to envision the Disciples' unfinished contribution to “a fragmented world.”
Sandhya Jha will speak at Convocation on June 6, which marks the close of DDH's 130th academic year and celebrates its graduates. An alumna, trustee, and founder of the Oakland Peace Center, Jha published a fifth book, Rebels, Despots, and Saints, in 2023. Festivities begin with a cookout, followed by the Convocation service at 6:00 pm, and concluding with toasts and dessert on the patio.
How can a 1928 Gothic building be readied for a future that is beyond present imagining? How can this old House provide for forms of learning and ministry that we cannot yet glimpse? To catalyze student living and learning for the next one hundred years, the Board of Trustees has chartered a design and construction team that has expertise with historic buildings and an imagination of future possibilities. Construction begins this summer.
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Distinguished Alumnus Award. The Alumni/ae Council will present the award to J. Marshall Dunn on July 15 at DDH's luncheon at the General Assembly in Memphis. Dunn served University Christian Church near the University of Maryland for 31 years, leading its vibrant multi-racial community in worship and in outreach to neighbors in need. Read the full news release here.
The Alumni/ae Council welcomes the class of 2025-28: Mark Miller-McLemore (1975) taught leadership and ministry at Vanderbilt Divinity School for 25 years and served as the dean of DDH-Vandy. Andrew Packman (2009) is a theological ethicist and an assistant professor at United Theological Seminary the Twin Cities. Sarah Zuniga (2018) is an associate minister of Allisonville Christian Church in Indianapolis and co-moderates the Disciples Peace Fellowship. Read about the Council's work.
