MDiv alumna Laura Jean Torgerson (2002) successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the Graduate Theological Union. It considers Nicaraguan Pentecostal Biblical Interpretation.

Congratulations to 2021 MDiv graduate Aneesah Ettress (2019) who was ordained on June 26th by the Central Rocky Mountain Region at Evergreen Christian Church, Colorado. Jack Veatch (2017) and Joan Bell-Haynes (1995; trustee) presided, and Yvonne Gilmore (2001) preached.

Aneesah also became the Academic Engagement Coordinator in the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art.

Chris Dorsey (2001), formerly president of Higher Education and Leadership Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has been called as the next president of Disciples Home Missions

Ayanna Johnson Watkins (2000) gave remarks in the Chapel of the Holy Grail at the Alums and Friends Gathering in June of 2022. Titled "Elbows Deep," Ayanna asked "How, in the midst of this suffering, can we still find goodness, joy, hope, life?"

Yvonne Gilmore (2001) gave the convocation remarks, titled "Extending Exodus" to close DDH's 127th academic year. Yvonne exhorted the graduates to re-read religion and "make the exodus movement legible."

Andrew Langford (2007) was ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament in the ELCA on May 21. He serves Emmaus Lutheran Church in Eugene, Oregon, with spouse Rachel Langford.

Visiting Scholar Kimberly Redding spoke on April 25 about her current research on Japanese Americans in Chicago in the post World War II period, "One more heave"...: Chicago's United Methodist Ministries and Japanese Americans. She is Associate Professor of History at Carroll University---and a DDH resident for 2021-22. DDH is  grateful for the many gifts and graces she brings to the community.

Doug Collins (2013) is a 2022 recipient of Eureka College’s Outstanding New Alumni award. He is the Senior Minister of First Christian Church in Tacoma, Washington.

In memoriam: Estelle V. O'Connor. Mrs. O'Connor served as DDH's Administrator from 1971 until her retirement in 1990. She died on April 24; she was 94. As administrator, she gave crucial oversight to DDH's building, accounts, and the flow of daily life. She worked closely with Deans Blakemore, Browning, and Gilpin. Clark Gilpin commented, "A loyal and dear member of the Disciples House community, she brought a lively energy to work with her each and every day." We remember Mrs. O'Connor with fondness and gratitude, and extend sympathy to her family.

The Disciples Divinity House is saddened to learn of the death of Ron Eslinger (1964).

Ron died April 17, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. He was 79.

Ron received a DMin from the University of Chicago and was ordained in the United Church of Christ in 1969 and worked the next forty years in service to parishioners, congregations, and communities at many levels, first in New York, then on to Michigan, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Iowa. He was an associate Conference minister in Kansas-Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, Conference minister in Illinois South from the mid-1990s until 2002, and associate Conference minister in Iowa from 2005 until his retirement in 2009. Ron worked to manifest racial and social justice and to encourage stewardship for creation.

Ron is survived by his children, Evan Eslinger (Carrie Robertson) and Elise Eslinger (Don Perkins); by a brother, Gerald Eslinger (Carolyn Eslinger), and sister, Janet (Eslinger) Graham; and by three grandchildren (Addison, Mackenzie, and Zachary Perkins) and ten nieces and nephews.