In 2017, alumna Rebecca Anderson (2007) and Vince Amlin, Divinity School MDiv classmates, co-founded Gilead, an emergent church on the north side of Chicago. Three students came to DDH from Gilead and many imaginations have been catalyzed by its practice and vision. In January, Gilead voted to close after eight years of ministry. Anderson and Amlin reflect: We ultimately believe that closing Gilead is an act of hope and defiance... We think this is an opportunity for Gilead to go out as we meant to go on: with joy and with faith that God has more for us beyond this present moment. Its last service will be May 4. Anderson and Amlin will continue as co-pastors of Bethany UCC in Chicago. 

Alexa Dava (2020), who serves as the Project Officer for Human Dignity and Reproductive Health with the World Council of Churches (WCC), was in New York attending the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Judith Guy Thomas (2013) will help resource a virtual workshop sponsored by NBA, Designing Your Mental Health Sunday on March 27 at 1:00pm CT.

Congratulations to Nathan Travis, DDH Scholar and third year MDiv, who has accepted an offer to the PhD program in Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He will study Pragmatist and eco-feminist approaches to food ethics.

Congratulations to Kevin Poe, DDH Scholar and MA student, who has been accepted to pursue his doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in South Asian Religions. He plans to study lived narrative ethics through the lens of northern Indian pilgrimage sites.

Congratulations to Muhammad Hassan, AMRS student and resident, who will be continuing next fall in the PhD program at the Divinity School in Religion of the Americas, studying histories of American Christian missionaries in the Middle East.

"A spiderweb is strong yet flexible; it can withstand pressure without breaking. ... nobody benefits from a faith that’s so rigid that one doubt will bring down everything." Morganne Talley, DDH Scholar and third-year MDiv, has published a book review for the Christian Century on Meredith Miller's Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From.

Ethan Yu, resident and first year MA student, presented a paper in March at the annual conference for LACK, an organization promoting Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and German idealism, held at Otterbein College in Ohio. His paper was titled, “Transcending Transcendence through the Signifier: The Lacanian Theology of Mari Ruti." The keynote speaker was Slavoj Žižek.

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 and DDH Scholar, 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.