Calendar of Events

Spring quarter 2025

Monday, March 24
6:00 pm           Welcome back dinner
7:00 pm           House meeting

Monday, March 31
6:00 pm    Dinner
7:00 pm    Disciples History and Thought: W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology, The Divinity School.

Monday, April 7
6:00 pm     Chapel: Morganne Talley, DDH Scholar and MDiv student
6:45 pm     Dinner
Graduates meet for Convocation planning after dinner

Monday, April 14
6:00 pm     Dinner
7:00 pm     Senior Ministry Presentation: Already Enough: Countering Achievement Culture in the Creative Writing Classroom.
Kylie Winger, DDH Scholar.

Monday, April 21
6:00 pm     Dinner
7:00 pm     Senior Ministry Presentation: Trauma-informed Kids’ Ministry. Morganne Talley, DDH Scholar.

Friday-Saturday, April 25-26
Board of Trustees Meeting

Monday, April 28
6:00 pm     Dinner
7:00 pm     Senior Ministry Presentation: What Hospital Chaplaincy Can Learn from the Art, Theory, and Practice of Improvisation. Marissa Ilnitzki, DDH Scholar and MDiv/MSW dual degree student.

Monday, May 5
6:00 pm     Chapel: Nate Travis, Blakemore Scholar and MDiv student
6:30 pm     Dinner
7:15 pm      Senior Ministry Presentation: Whose Table? Which Ethics? Food and Eating as Ethical Practice. Nate Travis.

Monday, May 12
6:00 pm     Dinner
7:00 pm     TBD

Wednesday, May 14
11:00 am     Senior Ministry Presentation: Reading Among Reeds: Interpreting Scripture in a Post-Industrial Ecology. Justin Carlson, MDiv student and DDH Scholar, at Big Marsh Park, 11559 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago.

Friday, May 16
5:00 pm     Senior Ministry Presentation: Judging Faithfully: Law and Moral Conviction in the Federal Judiciary. Tyler Ashman, resident and MDiv/JD dual degree student, in the Lecture Hall (third floor) at Swift Hall.

Monday, May 19
6:00 pm     Dinner
7:00 pm     Forum: What Theology and Religious Studies Contribute to Medical Education. Mark Lambert, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Bioethics, Des Moines University; alumnus.

Monday, May 26
Memorial Day cookout (finals week begins)

Saturday, May 31
1:00 pm     Ordination of Virginia White, DDH Scholar and PhD Candidate in Religious Ethics, in Chapel of the Holy Grail, with reception to follow

Friday, June 6
A Convocation Celebrating the Graduates and DDH’s 130th Academic Year
from 3:30   Food on the grill and beverages to share.
6:00 pm     Convocation Service: Sandhya Rani Jha, Trustee and alumna, speaking. 
afterward:  Dessert and toasts on the patio.

Upcoming events

July 12-15, 2025
General Assembly of the Christian Church, Memphis - Registration
July 15 - DDH Luncheon at General Assembly

September 12-14, 2025
Board of Trustees retreat, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

September 29, 2025
Autumn quarter begins