Keri Anderson (2013) and Kiva Nice-Webb (former resident) co-facilitated Colonization and Christianity, a pro-reconciliation/anti-racism continuing education workshop for the Christian Church in Illinois & Wisconsin this past fall.

W. David Hall (1989) and Kris Culp (1982; dean) have been elected co-presidents of the Association of Disciples for Theological Discussion (ADTD).

Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson (2009) has been awarded a Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Grant for her sabbatical this coming summer; she will visit South Africa, her birthplace, with her children and parents, Tod and Ana Gobledale (1975).

Aaron Smith (2007), co-chair of Alumni/ae Council, has accepted a new call at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, Georgia as Executive Minister for Operations. He starts November 26.

Beau Underwood (2006) senior minister of Allisonville Christian Church in Indianapolis, gave the Perry Gresham Lecture at Central Woodward Christian Church in Troy, Michigan, on Saturday, November 16.

Luther Young (2022) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in Sociology at The Ohio State University on November 13.

A conference on Religion, Social Criticism, and the Moral Imagination, November 11–12, honored Professor Richard B. Miller (former resident) on his retirement from the Divinity School.

Yvonne Gilmore (2001) Vice President and Chief of Staff of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), spoke on Monday evening, November 11, with the Disciples History and Thought seminar about the life, ministry, and vision of Sarah Lue Bostick, also the subject of her upcoming book.

Current Scholar Katie Varon was a youth delegate at the ACT Alliance General Assembly in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in late October. The ACT Alliance was formed by more than 145 churches and organizations from over 120 countries to provide humanitarian aid. The Disciples' Week of Compassion and its Executive Director, Vy Nguyen (2004), work through the alliance. Disciples attendees (l to r): Katie Varon, Caleb Lines, Vy Nguyen, Josh Baird, and Nathan Day Wilson.

Ritch Savin-Williams (1971), Professor Emeritus of Developmental Psychology at Cornell University, spoke on October 28 about his lifelong research on gender and sexuality, particularly the positive experiences of young gay and lesbian persons during a time when studies focused almost entirely on their negative experiences. He also spoke about arriving at the University of Chicago as a Disciple from a small town in Missouri, the supportive environment he found at DDH, and what community life was like in the 1970s, both before and after women were newly admitted as residents. He earned his PhD in Human Development in 1977.