A 2022 essay by Mark Lambert (2011) for Sightings, "Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools," was quoted in a Huffington Post article in relation to comments made by the nominee for US Secretary of Education.

On February 21, Emma Yeager (current MA student) presented a paper at the fifth annual Yale Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology. She considered ancient theological perspectives on ecological preservation from the medieval north.

Gilead has voted to end its ministry after eight years on the North Side of Chicago. The "storytelling bar church," was an experiment in radical hospitality co-founded in 2017 by Rebecca Anderson (2007) and Vince Amlin, Divinity School MDiv classmates. Three students came to DDH from Gilead and many imaginations have been catalyzed by its practice and vision. The last service will be Saturday, April 19. Anderson and Amlin continue as co-pastors of Bethany UCC in Chicago.

Mark Toulouse (1977) was serving as a member of the Disciples-ELCA Bilateral Dialogue at the time of his death. Kris Culp (1982; dean), who is the Disciples representative to the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC, joined their meeting on February 21 to present a paper on creeds and affirmations of faith. The Disciples-ELCA discussion anticipates the upcoming World Conference on Faith and Order, Nicaea 2025. See the joint Disciples-ELCA news release.

Bethany Lowery (2006) has begun a three-year program towards an MFA in fiction-writing at Butler University in Indianapolis. As part of her studies, she works on the staff of Booth, Butler's literary magazine.

Mark Miller-McLemore (1978), Andrew Packman (2009), and Sarah Zuniga (2018) have begun service on the Alumni/ae Council as members of the class of 2025-28.

Time, karma, and narrative in Northern Indian Buddhist and Hindu pilgrimage was the theme of a Forum by Kevin Poe on February 10. A DDH Scholar and MA student, he studied Sanskrit in Pune, India, this summer and conducted interviews at Buddhist and Hindu religious sites in Northern India, such as Bodh Gaya, Varanasi, and Sarnath.

Bonnie Miller-McLemore (1978) will be at DDH on Monday night, February 24, 2025 to talk about her new book, Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling (OUP). Drawing on memoirs, biographies, and fiction, she guides the reader through six dilemmas one may face throughout life, from missed or conflicted callings to unexpected or relinquished passions.

Current resident Lilia Ellis reviewed Norman Wirzba, Love's Braided Dance, in the January 2025 issue of The Christian Century. She is conducting her MDiv field education with the magazine.

Sympathy to Laird Thomason (1962) on the death of his spouse, Evelyn Kay Betts Thomason. She died January 15 at the age of 82. She practiced law in Maryland. They were married for more than sixty years.