Haverkamp to DDH as program director, writer-in-residence
Heidi Haverkamp will join DDH's full-time staff as Program Director, Writer-in-Residence, and Assistant Administrator beginning on July 8 and continuing through summer 2025.
Haverkamp is a 2006 MDiv graduate of the Divinity School and the author of five books, including Everyday Connections: Reflections and Practices for Year C (2021) // Year A (2022) // Year B (2023) and Holy Solitude (2017). She is an award-winning contributor to the Christian Century, a spiritual director and retreat leader, an Episcopal priest, and a former parish rector in Bolingbrook and Chicago. She writes an occasional newsletter, Letters from a Part-time Hermit. She grew up in Hyde Park and has recently returned to the area.
As Writer-in-Residence, she will pursue her own writing, offering an example of scholarly inquiry and writing as spiritual practices and creating opportunities to support student writing. As Program Director and Assistant Administrator, she will attend to the flow of life through the building and help to interpret DDH through various media. She will oversee Monday dinners and work with students and the dean to enrich worship, the arts, critical inquiry, and theological dialogue through Monday programs.
She won’t actually live in the building during the fifteen-month "residency," but she will attend to the daily commerce at DDH as a physical place, ethos, student residence, and educational institution. Through ongoing student interactions, her lived example of being a writer, and programmatic initiatives, she will help to build community capacity for living, learning, thinking, worshipping, and working together.