Until the world is different
David struck Goliath down on his first try and was celebrated in victory. That’s a nice way for the story to end but it’s important to remember that he took five stones with him. He understood that sometimes your faith has to endure a failure. All his hope can’t go into one stone. He’s going to have to keep throwing them until the world is different.
Alexis Vaughan, 2024 Convocation Address
A vocation in education. On Monday, October 13, Claudia Highbaugh, Trustee and former Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life, Connecticut College, presented Vocational Changes, Educational Challenges. Before her talk, the House gathered for pizza and pie in the backyard, enjoying the mild fall weather.
Salvage Poetics. Sheila Jelen, Professor of Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture and the History of Judaism; Director of Master's Studies, the Divinity School, the University of Chicago, will give next Monday's Forum, on October 20: ‘Gathering the Fragments’: A Variation on Salvage Poetics."
Compassion and recovery. On October 6, Grace Dearhamer and Katie Varon reported on their summer internship in which they learned about long-term disaster recovery efforts alongside the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP). Vy Nguyen, Executive Director of Week of Compassion, joined them.
The Autumn quarter opened on September 29. Classes began that day and DDH's Monday programs started that evening. Find the calendar of events here, and plan to enjoy forums, chapel services, and Disciples History and Thought.
First the desks, and then the students began to arrive as DDH prepares for a new year. New Student Orientation begins September 21. New students moved into DDH beginning Friday, September 19, as the final work to complete the renovation winds up.
Incoming Scholars, fall 2025. Clockwise from the top left, they are: Ella Johnson (MDiv), Brandon Roberts (MA), Annika Fuller (MDiv), Allison Nash (MDiv), Fiyori Kidane (MDiv), and Hayden Skaggs (MDiv). Learn more about them. They join nine returning Scholars and twelve other new or returning residents, all of whom will be studying in the Divinity School.
