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
Coming up: DDH Scholar Marissa Ilnitzki (MDiv/MSW) will lead a contemplative chapel service on Monday, November 4, the evening before Election Day. Incorporating simple Taizé chants, readings about wisdom, and her own meditation, the service will offer a time of silence, of listening, of asking, of being still and being together.
Announcing the 2024 Entering Disciples Divinity House Scholars. Pictured here, from left to right, they are: Emma Yeager, Katie Varon, Grace Dearhamer, Isabelle Garcia, and Hart Lang. Learn more about them.
Rachel Abdoler, DDH Scholar and a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship to support her research. The award will underwrite six months of work in the collections of the Vatican library in Rome and a library in Cairo, Egypt, on Christian texts written in Arabic.
2024 DDH Scholars. Sixteen individuals have been named Disciples Divinity House Scholars for the 2024-25 academic year. Several are recipients of named scholarships. Read the announcement and learn about them.
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Heidi Haverkamp preached on the spiritual practice of friendship for the opening chapel service of the academic year, October 7. Students planned the service which included a litany for beginning the year.
In memoriam. Chuck Blaisdell's intelligence, leadership, and camaraderie graced the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--from regions and congregations, to theological education and general ministries. He was a current Alumni/ae Council member. A service will be held November 2.
