125th Anniversary Schedule of Events

Memorial Day Weekend 2019

May 24 | REUNION

PRE-EVENT: DIVINITY SCHOOL AND DDH MINISTRY REUNION
Location     The Divinity School, Swift Hall 

Noon           Lunch, welcome, and check-in

1:30 pm       Multireligious formation as perspective on "public ministry"
Cynthia Lindner, University of Chicago Divinity School

2:15 pm       Response by Rachel Heath, Sarah Lusche, Angela Parkinson, and Viraj Patel

 

THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS BEGIN
Location     Disciples Divinity House

3:30 pm      Open House
Hosted by JoAnne H. Kagiwada & Clark M. Williamson, Honorary Co-Chairs

5:00 pm      Opening Chapel Service, coordinated by Jack Veatch and led by current House Scholars  

5:30 pm      Taco Fiesta

7:15 pm       DDH StoryHour
Rebecca Anderson & Yvonne Gilmore, hosts
Erica Brown, Kristin Dow, Marshall Dunn, Judith Guy, Alexis Kassim, Dennis Landon, Colton Lott, storytellers
Music by Hannah Fitch and Michael Crusen
 

May 25 | GRATEFUL FOR WHAT IS TO COME

8:00 am      Morning prayer, Chapel of the Holy Grail
coordinated by Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson
 

THE WILLIAM HENRY HOOVER LECTURES
Location      The Divinity School, 3rd-floor lecture hall

8:45 am       Welcome and Introductions
Pamela James Jones, presiding   

9:00 am       Grateful for what is to come
Larry D. Bouchard, University of Virginia

9:30 am       Gratitude and timefulness
W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Divinity School
Patricia Duncan, Texas Christian University
Santiago O. Pinon, Texas Christian University

11:00 am     Teaching/learning towards what is to come
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School
Robert M. Franklin, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; President Emeritus, Morehouse College
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago, presiding

12:30 pm     Lunch break 

1:00 pm       Ministry towards what is to come
Sandhya R. Jha, Founder, and Director, Oakland Peace Center
Holly C. McKissick, Founding Minister, Peace Church, a Disciples/UCC Congregation, Kansas City
Ayanna Johnson Watkins, Lead Organizer, Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope (MICAH)
Julian DeShazier, University Church, Chicago, presiding

2:45 pm        In conversation (4 options):
Lee Hull Moses, author and chief of staff, Office of General Minister & President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ);
Vy Nguyen, Executive Director, Week of Compassion;
Garry Sparks, George Mason University;
Heike Springhart & Dagmar Zobel with Doug Collins 

3:30-6:00 pm      Free time
 

CELEBRATION DINNER      

6:00 pm      "Sherry Hour"
Location      The Disciples Divinity House     

7:00 pm       125th Anniversary Dinner
Location      The Quadrangle Club
Drew Powell & Gaylord Yu, Masters of Ceremony
 

May 26 | SENDING FORTH

8:00 am      Morning Prayer, Chapel of the Holy Grail  Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

9:00 am      Coffee and Conversation (2 options)
Accessibility with Paul Steinbrecher, AIA, and Luke Soderstrom;
Braxton D. Shelley, minister, musician, musicologist, Harvard University Department of Music.

CONCLUDING WORSHIP
Location      University Church

10:30 am     Worship with University Church
Teresa Hord Owens, preaching
General Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

A coffee hour following worship marks the end of the 125th Anniversary Celebration.

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AMY A. NORTHCUTT LECTURE & CELEBRATION
Location      Disciples Divinity House

2:30 pm       Coffee

3:00 pm      Welcome - Craig H. Middlebrook with Lei Lei & Henry Middlebrook

3:15 pm        Vision and Grace: Perspectives on leadership
Constance U. Battle, MD, distinguished physician and professor of medicine, former CEO of the Hospital for Sick Children, former president of the American Medical Women's Association; Ronne Hartfield, author, essayist, international museum consultant; former senior executive at The Art Institute of Chicago, former Executive Director of Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education; and JoAnne Kagiwada, as Executive Director of the Legislative Education Committee of the Japanese American Citizens’ League, she helped to ensure passage of a $1.25 billion redress program on behalf of Americans of Japanese ancestry who were unconstitutionally incarcerated in concentration camps by the US government during World War II.

Verity A. Jones, moderating. Former publisher and editor of the award-winning magazine, DisciplesWorld, and past president of the Associated Church Press, she was named a “Woman of Influence” by the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2016.

5:00 pm       The Second Annual Amy A. Northcutt Lecture
The Honorable Betty Sutton, former U.S. Congresswoman from Ohio, 13th Congressional District, 2007-13; former Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway Corporation; former Ohio gubernatorial candidate.

7:00 pm       Dinner