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Disciples Divinity House of the Letter from the dean The Board of Trustees’ vision and commitment University of Chicago provided the foundation for this success. And This year, theDDH Bulletin marks LEFT Peggy Stockdale with her mother, Patricia 1156 East 57th St. then there was the theme, gifted to us by Larry Stockdale, husband Michael Heck, sculptor Chicago, Illinois 60637 its own anniversary —its 90th year — Bouchard: “Grateful for what is to come.” We RIchard Hunt, and Dean Kris Culp. with a redesigned look. knew we were planning for what we couldn’t fully 773.643.4411 anticipate, but the theme took on unexpected goodness, the thing that I have enjoyed for ddh.uchicago.edu This issue provides a glimpse of what students resonance and relevance in 2020. Eighteen months so many years is, in fact, an authentic and alumni/ae are pursuing. As students learn ago, he asked, “Especially in days of such local theological reality, and I can enjoy it with- BOARD OF TRUSTEES to interpret ancient texts and ask new questions, and global crisis, anxiety, and suffering, how do out having to do a whole lot more about it April Lewton and as they seek to do justice, care for the bro- President we discern the future, not only with hope, but because I already had some sense of what ken-hearted, foster compassion and mercy, and indeed with gratitude?” This was not only a ques- appreciative awareness is all about. Mareta J. Smith find new ways of sharing bread, they are already Treasurer tion for the anniversary; it will continue to haunt He continued on this theme: Sitting creating new forms of ministry and scholarship. and orient us. here in late fall, in the dark, except for the Pamela James Jones This issue also shows the latest results of the Vice President And, it should. It’s the “us,” the we/DDH, that floodlight on the back of the house, a gibbous accessibility and welcome project. It celebrates Paul A. Steinbrecher is the most haunting. “We” involves collective moon, and a triangle of light beginning its Secretary extraordinary generosity. It sends forth our imagination and action. What can it mean as an approach, it occurs to me to wonder by what talented Associate Dean Yvonne Gilmore to her Joan Bell-Haynes organization and not only as individuals to dis- power we are enabled to sustain loss…. Larry D. Bouchard new work. And, it holds beloved alumni/ae and cern the future with gratitude? How do we foster We need a poet who could tell the look Julian DeShazier friends in memory. the art, the intellectual and spiritual discipline, of St. Louis in April, how the dogwood here Teresa Dulyea-Parker Gratitude was alive among us as we celebrated of greeting the future as a Thou, to use Larry’s is painful, it is so lovely and so brief, and Patricia A. Duncan DDH’s 125th anniversary, which has now concluded. Buber-inspired formulation? These are daunting how its white is whiter on dark days when J. Marshall Dunn We honored friends, ministers, and mentors; we times for institutions in general and for congrega- “Appreciative awareness” it is raining. How the air is clear, having W. Clark Gilpin imagined teaching, learning, and ministry for what tions, denominations, and theological education been washed of all the haze, and the trees Claudia A. Highbaugh is to come; and we prepared for future students. in particular. How do we/DDH not only maintain pop out of their background in that satura- Verity A. Jones A magnificent gift in honor of James E. Stockdale from the former As Chair Chad Martin said, “The level of generosity institutional health, but also gain the perspective tion of light that photographers love and Angela A. Kaufman University Christian Church, Seattle, removed barriers to entry overflowed the goal.” Our goal was to raise $4 that allows imagination to grow and flourish? only approaching darkness brings…. Cynthia G. Lindner million for scholarships and immersive learning, and transformed the courtyard. Another marvelous gift, in memory Allison Lundblad The DDH Bulletin provides one means for We need a poet who could tell what and for accessibility and welcome. We reached Chad H. Martin fostering imagination, critical inquiry, and of Thomas V. Stockdale, provided for a commissioned sculpture we can or need to know about a metaphor Vy T. Nguyen a total of $5,045,800, with roughly half in estate action. It also allows DDH/us to thank you for from nature that is neither trite nor senti- commitments and more than $2 million already by Richard Hunt. On October 24, 2020, in a dedication ceremony María Pérez your interest, participation, and support. that was live-cast, Tom’s daughter, Peggy Stockdale, delivered mental, neither too sweet nor bitter; but David A. Vargas having been received. I hope you have received gathers in itself and for a moment resolves Clark M. Williamson the 125th Anniversary Report. With gratitude, Kristine A. Culp, Dean these remarks. the contradictions that we know, which is Melinda Keenan Wood to say that when April comes to St. Louis Gaylord Yu My father, Tom Stockdale, came to the see, Dad never answered our questions, [or Chicago], I think we’ve all given up on University of Chicago in the 1950s with or least didn’t answer them to my satis- Wordsworth far too soon. STAFF my mother, Pat, to pursue a calling. His faction, which is to say, with a definition Kristine A. Culp theological foundation was building at or an example. Instead, he said, “It’s Dean an early age, often while looking out the a place where you entered in.” Daette G. Lambert window of his well-ordered classroom at Chicago theologians would often Administrator Lee Grammar School in Peoria, Illinois, enter into Dad’s sermons and ministry. In Bruce T. Gumm pondering things like leaves falling from one of his sermons he spoke of apprecia- Building Maintenance trees and being raked into piles, and tive awareness. The biblical text was from Parag M. Shah zinnias that bloom brightly through the Luke 12:27, “Consider the lilies.” Director of Finance fall. He knew that Chicago would be the This business of appreciative awareness Ryan Haefke place where pondering and wonderment Development Assistant that I find myself coming back to, I owe to would be met with deep, rigorous, com- Bernard Eugene Meland who was a profes- passionate scholarship, and with debate BULLETIN sor of constructive theology at Chicago. and analysis that would shape the next Winge Design Studio When I read about appreciative awareness Design forty years of his ministry. in his writings and heard him talk about it, As kids, my sisters and brother and Adam Frieberg a great weight of moral burden fell from I would overhear him talk about the Primary photography my shoulders, and I felt free. I felt like, my Joel Brown “Disciples Divinity House,” which took Editorial assistance me another forty years to figure out. Was RIGHT Richard Hunt, center, with studio it like a frat house? Was it the seminary assistants Eric Stephenson and Gwen Yen Chiu, itself? Was it the admissions office? You after installing the sculpture.

2 3 NEWS IN Dad loved, embraced, and enabled appre- along with the “Seattle Stockdales” to see the ■■■ BRIEF ciative awareness through his ministry in the project take shape. That’s where angels, art, Liv Gibbons (2008) has way he opened the churches and communities and Chicago came together. I asked if they been serving as Associate he served to the arts and their creators, their would like to have a sculpture in the courtyard, Pastor of Pioneer United ■■■ admirers, and, most importantly, the people and something angel-like, in Tom’s memory. Her Methodist Church in Walla On October 31, Reformation places whose lives were enriched and ennobled eyes lit up. Walla, Washington. because the arts had touched someone’s life The name Richard Hunt rose early. Not Day, former resident Hannah who in turn wanted to touch another’s. only were both he and my dad born in the ■■■ Campbell Gustafson was A DDH Forum on October 18 ordained to the ministry in Since my father’s death in 2016, and proba- Depression, raised in central Illinois, and had on “Social Work and Minis- the United Church of Christ. bly for a while before, the “Midwest Stockdales” significant experience in Chicago, Richard’s try in the Age of COVID” She is Associate Chaplain have been seeking to memorialize him in a way work embodied appreciative awareness, featured panelists John for Christian and Interfaith that symbolized his love of theology, poetry, wonderment, and transcendence. I think my Dungan (1987), Disaster Life at Carleton College. She and the arts, and of the people who have appre- dad would have really liked Richard. I know Program Specialist, Ameri- also continues part-time as ciative awareness of redemptive grace. We were he would love his Lincoln Park studio and can Red Cross, Kirksville, Outreach Coordinator at looking for an angel. Dad loved angels. being remembered in this space he loved. Missouri; John Cheadle Plymouth Congregational Kris Culp called me about a year and a half In this courtyard and with the installation ago and told me about the courtyard project in of this exciting new sculpture, we hope that Rich (2001), Health Minister Church in Minneapolis. ABOVE Constance Battle converses with Jim Stockdale honor of Jim Stockdale that was bequeathed by everyone who sits in or walks through this Trustee transitions and Co-Executive Director, Cynthia Lindner (1978; at the October 2016 meeting. Patchwork Central, Evans- trustee) preached. the church that my dad’s older brother served space will take time to wonder, appreciate, in Seattle for over twenty-five years. We came and perhaps find their own way to “enter in” Honoring the service of Constance ville, Indiana; and Ayanna ■■■ to the House’s 125th Anniversary Celebration this space. ✜ Battle, a sage and pioneering Allen Harris, who recently stepped down as Johnson Watkins (2000), regional minister in the Capital Area, concluded In November, Ryan Haefke physician, Allen Harris, and María Lead Organizer, Memphis his service as an ex officio member in October. began a new part-time Interfaith Coalition for Action Pérez; welcoming Tish Duncan A mentor and role model to students, he infused position as Development and Hope (MICAH). Cynthia and Vy Nguyen. camaraderie and brought the perspective of Assistant. He brings a Lindner (1978; trustee) regional ministry to trustee deliberations. He background in nonprofit moderated the forum. Constance Urciolo Battle became acquainted spoke at DDH’s June 2019 Convocation. work as well as an under- with DDH through alumnus Arthur A. Azlein. ■■■ graduate major in finance From 1973–95, she served as Chief Executive María Pérez will conclude her term in December. and accounting. He also Officer and Medical Director of the Hospital for She is a Lecturer in the Department of World serves as a Resident Head Sick Children in Washington, DC. They became Languages and Cultures at Chapman Univer- in the University’s Housing good friends when he chaired the hospital’s sity. She is the former chair of the Board of System. board as the minister of the nearby Michigan Directors of the DOM and Global Ministries and

Park Christian Church. a former moderator of Obra Hispana and ■■■ First elected to the Board of Trustees in of GLAD (now the Disciples LGBT+ Alliance). Vy Nguyen (2004; Trustee) New LED lighting in the Common Room remedies low-light conditions while adding 2003, she served through 2019. A distinguished was the preacher for the beauty and energy efficiency. physician, nonprofit executive, and professor TERMS BEGAN IN JANUARY 2020 NAPAD Convocation on of medicine, she chaired the Scholarship November 7, with the theme, ‘‘ Committee and brought keen insight to board Tish Duncan is Assistant Professor of Religion “Resilient Faith.” He is To make a building accessible is not just to discussions. A Roman Catholic laywoman from at Texas Christian University. She is a New Executive Director for the allow people to come in; it could require a Maryland, she sometimes framed her contribu- Testament scholar, widely admired teacher, Week of Compassion. change in its design to make that welcom- tions as being from an outsider, but, in fact, she ordained Disciples minister, and the author of Novel Hermeneutics in the Greek Pseudo- ing intention a reality. Such ramps should became central to the work of DDH’s Board. Bonnie (1978) and Clementine Romance. She and her husband, be two-way ramps, that is, ramps that will Dr. Battle attended Trinity College and the Mark Miller-McLemore invite (and even force) us to move out of George Washington University (GW) School Brandon Cline, are both MDiv and PhD alums. (1975), with their two dogs, our traditions and routine, so that we may of Medicine and Health Science. In 1986 she Vy Nguyen is Executive Director of the Week have taken up RV life. begin seeking for, meeting, and welcoming was named president of the American Medical of Compassion, the Disciples relief, refugee, those new persons we want to serve, not Women’s Association, and was recognized as ■■■ and development mission fund. He brings after they come here and knock at our a Washingtonian of the Year in 1994. She has experience in building global and ecumenical W. David Hall (1989) doors, but in midst of their circumstances, served as the chief executive for the National partnerships among churches, volunteers, co-edited the volume, their struggles, their dreams, and the Museum of Women in the Arts and for the NIH and nonprofit organizations. An MDiv alumnus Dietrich Bonhoeffer, experience of life they are coming from. Foundation. From 2003–18, she was a member and an ordained Disciples minister, he and Theology, and Political of the faculty of GW’s School of Public Health his family live in Alameda, California. ✜ Resistance (Lexington David A. Vargas and Health Services. She received numerous Books, June 2020), with MORE NEWS on Facebook and For the Board of Trustees meeting teaching awards and edited the textbook, our website: ddh.uchicago.edu Lori Brandt Hale. October 26, 2019 Essentials of Public Health Biology (2009).

4 5 NEWS IN Martin Family endows Board. A graduate of Texas Christian University ■■■ BRIEF with an MBA from Stanford University and Jack Veatch (2019) is scholarship now a CFO of a software company, he brought now the minister of the The Martin family has experienced financial and executive expertise to the Board Evergreen, Colorado, ■■■ Christian Church. He the impact of graduates firsthand. The of Trustees’ work. Over the last twenty years, Former resident he has served as its treasurer, president, and, completed studies at the Braxton Shelley’s article, family has endowed a scholarship to most recently, chair of the 125th Anniversary Ecumenical Institute of “Analyzing Gospel,” was foster leadership and teaching that Celebration and Campaign. Crista Martin’s the World Council of Churches in Bossey, awarded the American will enrich congregational ministry. passion has animated the family’s commitment Switzerland, in January. Musicological Society’s to women in ministry, congregations, and intel- Alfred Einstein Award, and got to know Jerry Martin, a Disciples minister, ligent leadership. ■■■ he was recently awarded the House and its students when he chaired This summer, the scholarship that was Congratulations to the Jaap Kunst Prize by the Illinois–Wisconsin Region’s Commission on begun more than twenty years ago reached full the Society for Ethno- Ministry. Donna Martin, a community college Bethany Watkins Lowery funding with a $250,000 endowment. Three (2006) and Joe Zielinski musicology. teacher and lay leader, especially appreciated generations of the Martin family joined the on the birth of Caton Luka the women graduates she met in the wider Zielinski on July 21. ■■■ church. An inheritance from her parents, Roy Board of Trustees remotely in October to cele- Cynthia Lindner (1978; brate the scholarship. Its first recipient is Joel D. and Mary Zoe Heath, allowed them to start ■■■ trustee) writes regularly the Martin Family Scholarship. Brown, a PhD candidate in Religions in the events at the House and at regional and general for Sightings, a publication Their son, Chad Martin, became a trustee Americas. He studies how leaders of Black A lasting legacy assemblies. of the Marty Center of after serving with Kris Culp on the Administra- Chicago congregations shaped the Social Most recently, another grant from the Oreon the University of Chicago tive Committee of the denomination’s General Gospel movement. ✜ At the end of November, Yvonne Divinity School. In her Gilmore concluded her work as E. Scott Foundation has allowed her to partner October column, “The Associate Dean to take on a new with Sandhya Jha for a new project entitled, “Living Justice: An Anti-Racism Practicum.” Precariousness of Care,” challenge and opportunity in the she observed, “Attending An epic hymn Her passion for music and education converged These substantive initiatives have shaped the to each other and our at Michigan Park, where she built the ministry Disciples of Christ. We are already House and its future. communities is costly, A new fund pays tribute to of music for several decades. She was a music missing her style, spark, humor, “For the last seven years, it has been my great honor to serve as Associate Dean,” she messy, exhausting— Teresa M. Gilmore and to the teacher in the DC Public School System for over insight, and vision. and vital.” thirty years, and co-directed the Region V Chil- commented. “Furthering the pioneering educa- enduring power of sacred music, dren’s Chorus. Since Autumn 2013, Yvonne T. Gilmore has tional work and mission of Disciples Divinity arts innovation, and courageous She raised three children, Pamela, David, invested intellect and imagination in DDH as House in collaboration with Dean Culp, the Lowell Handy (1979) has congregations. and Kesha, and, in time, grandchildren and its associate dean. She fostered conversation, Board of Trustees, staff, students, alumni/ae, published Josiah: From great-grandchildren. Teresa Gilmore was, in her shared worship, and inquiry as she collabo- and friends has been my daily privilege and joy. Improbable Stories to The family of Teresa Marlene Gilmore granddaughter’s inimitable phrasing: rated with students to arrange chapel services Partnering with emerging scholars, ministers, Inventive Historiography and ‘thought leaders’ at DDH to activate theo- (1933–2010), a music educator and grand- a church charter of the gospel of better not and Monday programs. She multiplied grati- (Equinox, 2020). The pro- logical imagination, and working to launch and mother of Yvonne T. Gilmore, has joined more, better living not more stuff, better eating tude as she worked with younger alumni/ae duction of the volume, lead the Constructive Theologies Project have together to create the fund and to celebrate not more food, better rising for we are all phoe- and donors and with her own family to bring “extends backward to his been rare gifts to me. I am grateful for the DDH’s 125 years. nix … / she outgrew straight lines before I ever the Teresa M. Gilmore Fund into being. She has days at Disciples House enduring cloud of witness and inquiry, baptismal Teresa Gilmore grew up in Coffeyville, learned to describe them / she was an epic invited critical thinking and vision for the DDH and owes much to support audacity, capacious hope, and creativity that Kansas, and attended the University of Kansas, hymn sung in rounds worth repeating. ✜ community and the wider church. from scholars who were Assata Gilmore, former receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Music Edu- The Constructive Theologies Project gath- I’ve encountered at our ‘House.’” residents there then and Monday dinner crew cation in 1955. In 1956, she married Wilfred ered emerging Disciples theological thinkers On December 1 she became Interim Execu- have remained friends.” and daughter of Yvonne Gilmore and moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where from across the US and Canada. It received tive Secretary of the National Convocation and A copy of the book has Gilmore (2001), was elect- he was serving in the Air Force. They relocated grant support from the Oreon E. Scott Founda- National Missionary Convention, which are been given to DDH’s ed President of Purdue to Washington, DC. Soon after their arrival, tion and Reconciliation Ministries. She part- historic Black Disciples organizations, and Herbert L. Willett Library. Student Government for she met Arthur A. Azlein, a pastor who was nered with Cynthia Lindner and the Divinity Associate General Minister and President of the 2020–21. She is the first introducing himself door-to-door in their neigh- School to sponsor several alumni/ae retreats. Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). ■■■ African American female borhood, and joined the new Michigan Park She worked with numerous Disciples organiza- Even as we celebrate this important new Marshall Dunn (1965; to serve in this role at Christian Church. Mr. Azlein, a DDH alumnus, tions as an anti-racism trainer, and has been a work, we know she will always be a DDH alumna. trustee) serves on the Purdue University. was a fellow Kansan. featured preacher and speaker at many events. In that sense, and surely in many other ways, Response Team of the Mrs. Gilmore was among the first African She and alumna Rebecca Anderson devel- she will always be part of “the House.” She has General Commission on American members of the congregation, and oped several “DDH StoryHour” events. She immeasurably enriched the work of DDH and Ministry of the Christian MORE NEWS on Facebook and became the director of the senior choir and a shared her artistry in spoken word performance, its alumni/ae and students. ✜ Church (Disciples of Christ). our website: ddh.uchicago.edu member of the Christian Women’s Fellowship. and also shared in organizing and emceeing

6 7 NEWS IN as a recipient of an Edgar DeWitt Jones ■■■ BRIEF Scholarship. Joshua Menke, former resident and 2018 MDiv Emily Springer, a second-year MDiv student, graduate, was ordained is the Drum and Tenant Scholar. Gilead Church to the ministry of Word and is her field education site. Katherine A. Dey Sacrament in the Evangelical created this scholarship to remember dear ■■■ Lutheran Church in America friends and the M. Elizabeth Dey scholarship Liberating Love (Chalice by the Northern Texas- to remember her grandmother, and she pro- Press) by Sandhya Jha Northern Louisiana Synod vided for final gifts from her estate in 2017. (2001) provides 365 “love on July 2. He has been notes from God” which PhD candidate Joel Brown is the inaugural called as Associate Pastor connect daily life with “the Martin Family Scholar (see related article, p. 6). of Trinity Presbyterian Bible’s many stories of This spring he will teach a course in the College, Church, Southlake, Texas. imperfect people facing “Race and Religion in Chicago,” as the recipient ■■■ real challenges.” of the Divinity School’s Alma Wilson Teaching Stephanie Paulsell’s ■■■ Fellowship. He is now assisting DDH with pub- lications and programs. (1985) book, Religion Brandon Cline (1999) has Around Virginia Woolf, was published Petition and The Henry Barton Robison Scholarship published by Pennsylvania Performance in Ancient ■■■■■■ remembers an early DDH graduate and State University Press in Rome: The Apologies of biblical scholar. Its recipient is Paige Spencer, late 2019. It examines ELEVEN ADDITIONAL STUDENTS RECEIVED Justin Martyr (Gorgias a second-year MA student of the Bible and of the Christian Church Foundation, held dual religious ideas that hover Promise and SPECIAL RECOGNITION Press, 2020). achievement early Christianity. degrees himself—a MA and a JD. around Woolf’s writings The Edward Scribner Ames Scholarship for high and also a kind of religious ■■■ The Rolland and Laura Frances Sheafor Third-year MDiv student Sarah Zuniga is the academic achievement has been awarded to work that her own reading Disciples Divinity House Scholars Scholarship has been awarded to MDiv stu- recipient of the M. Ray and Phyllis Schultz Joshua J. Patty became Mark Lambert, a PhD candidate in Theology. and writing did. are able to immerse themselves dent Hiatt Allen. A dual degree student, he is Scholarship which recognizes promise for con- Regional Minister and He is also the recipient of a Louisville Institute studying at the Harris School of Public Policy gregational ministry. She works as a digital ■■■ President of the Christian in learning without incurring Dissertation Fellowship for his dissertation, this year. Mr. Sheafor, who was the president content specialist at Crossroads Antiracism Church in the Upper Mid- significant debt. Regular awards “The Sacramental Sickness: The Aesthetic A new book by Garry of Church Extension and one of the founders Organizing and Training. west on October 1. He provide for full tuition, housing, Interplay between Leprosy and the Eucharist Sparks (2001), Rewriting had been Senior Minister and stipendiary support for MDiv in Historical Theology.” Last year, Aneesah Ettress became the inau- Maya Religion: Domingo of Eastgate Christian gural recipient of the Dr. Geunhee and Mrs. de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Church in Independence, and MA students. Eighteen The W. Barnett Blakemore Scholarship for Geunsoon Yu Scholarship, which recognizes Intellectuals, and the Missouri. individuals have been named ecumenical vision and academic achievement high promise for innovative pastoral and Theologia Indorum, was DDH Scholars for 2020–21. has been awarded to Benny VanDerburgh, a intellectual leadership, especially within multi- published by the Univer- second-year MDiv student, DDH librarian, and cultural contexts. Now a third-year MDiv stu- sity Press of Colorado in First-year MDiv student Alexa Dava has co-convener of Open Space, a weekly ritual dent, she studies how museum spaces and March. He was awarded been named the William N. Weaver Entering gathering for students at the Divinity School. Black art can serve “sacred attunement.” an American Academy of Scholar. She is part of the leadership team Religion Collaborative at Gilead Church, where alumna Rebecca The Alumni/ae Council selected PhD student ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP International Research Anderson is the founding co-pastor. A graduate Rachel Abdoler to be this year’s William Daniel RECOGNITION Grant for 2020. of Wheaton College, she had been a parent Cobb Alumni/ae Scholar. She studies the History educator at a Chicago nonprofit. of Christianity, focusing on the late medieval Five additional individuals have been named Copto-Islamic milieu, and passed her qualifying Disciples Divinity House Scholars for 2020–21: First-year MDiv student Ainsley Grey is the Congratulations to exams in November. Monica Carmean, Andrew Packman, Hyein Richard and Ayanna Oreon E. Scott Entering Scholar. Mr. Scott was Park, Luke Soderstrom, and Virginia White. Johnson Watkins (2000) a Disciples businessman and philanthropist Landon Wilcox, a second-year MDiv student on the birth of Nia Ann. from St. Louis. Ms. Grey is also a Missourian; and Head Resident, is the Bernard F. and Benny VanDerburgh and Aneesah Ettress Her parents and big sister her home church is First Christian Church in Annie Mae Cooke Scholar. The scholarship are recipients of Walker Ministerial Scholar- think she is “glorious.” Jefferson City, where Beau Underwood is was established by a spirited lay woman from ships for 2020–21. The award, administered pastor. She is a 2020 graduate of Carthage Houston who prized excellence in ministry. by Brite Divinity School, recognizes outstand- College, where she majored in Asian Studies ing promise in ministry, particularly in the and studied in Japan. A former HELM Fellow, Second-year MDiv student Ross Allen is the area of preaching. ✜ she was to have been an XPLOR resident this M. Elizabeth Dey Scholar. LaSalle Street Church MORE NEWS on Facebook and year—before the pandemic accelerated her is his field education site. In addition, he was our website: ddh.uchicago.edu plans to study at Chicago. honored by Central Woodward Christian Church

8 9 travel, prioritizing FaceTiming, House programming ¥ October 24 | We dedicate this house and worshipping virtually. goes virtual for Monday The courtyard is dedicated in honor of long- May these everyday practices nights with “sherry hour” time trustee James E. Stockdale, thanks to be a demonstration of our love on Zoom and prayers a magnificent gift from the former University and concern for the most by students. Christian Church in Seattle. An ingenious design vulnerable. — From a prayer by provides barrier-free access to the first floor and Chapel of the Holy Ellie Leech and Victoria Wick ¥ April 24–25 Grail, and creates a space of respite and welcome. At its first-ever remote ¥ April 6 meeting, the Board of Trustees As the spring quarter begins, underscores its support for Monday chapel services, students during the pandemic. ¥ June 30 ¥ November 2 dinners, and programs have It decides to proceed with The University announces a Yvonne Gilmore preaches, 2020 been suspended. DDH’s phase two of the accessibility hybrid plan for remote and “Complicate our lineage, physical offices are closed project to address low-light in-person academic instruction limn the actual, and transform for the time being. Yet, conditions on the first floor. for the autumn quarter. The the landscape,” on the eve A YEAR LIKE learning and community will DDH building remains closed of the election. After the continue in new forms and ¥June 8 to all but residents, staff, and service, students, alums, NO OTHER with special care. We open ourselves to You as contractors. and friends join a virtual followers terrified of going any- ¥ October 10 “Yvonnefest” to celebrate her where but forward. Instill in us ¥ September and her contributions as Approximately 40% of Ellie Leech’s ordination the confidence and fortitude June 12 Associate Dean. Two new House Scholars, service is held outdoors at the usual number of students we need to answer these calls Alexa Dava and Ainsley Gray, the Christian Church of continue living at DDH from You with integrity…. May CONGRATULATIONS, and two new interfaith Arlington Heights with Allie we work to do so much more YVONNEFEST! while the State of Illinois GRADUATES! residents, Shradha Jain and Lundblad presiding. materially beyond naming rac- shelters in place. DDH’s 125th academic year Emily King, are welcomed. ¥ March 2 ism as demonic. Help us act ¥ November ends with an online fanfare for ¥ October 23 Hyein Park leads a forum on authentically to heal relation- The Flying Chalices, Ross Allen the graduates, Kate Gerike, A sculpture commissioned in her dissertation research ships where they feel impossi- and Emily King, combine their Kevin Gregory, Savannah memory of Thomas V. Stockdale entitled, “Love and Liberation bly strained. Help us be the voices to record soulful har STORY Gross, and House Scholar is installed in the courtyard. It is in Women Mystics: A Christian- church. — From a prayer by monies for online chapel Victoria Wick. created by renowned sculptor TELLING Buddhist Dialogue.” Benny VanDerburgh services. 40% Gerike and Wick are honored Richard Hunt. by the Divinity School as the ¥ April 6 | Sarah Zuniga voiced this prayer: recipients of the John Gray ¥ October 5 CAMPAIGN SUCCESS ¥ January 27 The phrases “social distancing” and “alone together” Rhind Award for excellence in academic and professional DDH’s 126th academic year “The generous response have become household mantras for many. And for DDH gathers for dinner by training and promise of convenes online, with overflowed the goal,” many others, they remain a privilege. Creator God, chef Luke Joyner and a forum, significant contribution to Santiago Piñón preaching the 125th Anniversary Chair I pray that we, as a House community, now more than “Theology by storytelling,” public ministry. opening chapel service. Chad Martin announces. featuring Tim Kim, Virginia ever, continue to ask this question—What is to come? White, Rebecca Anderson, and Campaign commitments Julian DeShazier. totaled $5,045,800, ¥ June 4 | An essay by Aneesah Ettress, “We Need Art to Help Us exceeding the ¥ November 28 $4 million goal. ¥ February 3 and 17 Heal, Now More than Ever,” offers an invitation to process pain and The House marks Advent with ¥ March 12 Professor Clark Gilpin leads experience healing in the contemplation of contemporary Black candle-lighting and carols, the Disciples History and University of Chicago art. It appears in the June 4 issue of Sightings on the protests in $5,045,800 followed by a virtual holiday Thought Seminar. President Robert J. Zimmer response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, celebration featuring a ginger- announces a transition to and other unarmed Black Americans, along with a letter from “Grateful,” our 125th Anniver- bread decorating contest. Peace, remote learning for the spring Sightings editor Joel Brown. sary Report, tells stories of hope, love, and joy to all! quarter in response to generosity and dedication— the spread of the and shows the results of the coronavirus. campaign and the students who benefit. ¥ March 15

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DDH_Campaign_Booklet_PRESS_V3.indd 1 12/19/20 10:47 PM Finding peace when ■■■ part of our daily language to reach those others. A deeper relationship and understanding rely on the grace and love of God. you are one Of course, the simple answer is God. who have differing views and opinions than And so, maybe our good friend Augus- I am reminded of the words of the African ourselves. tine is correct after all. We are bound to of the pieces bishop, “You have made us for yourself, O Too often, this henotheism, at both continue our restlessness until we find rest Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests the national and the individual moral level, COVER STORY, CONTINUED in God. in you.” But, as much as I love Augustine, is quick to embrace falsehood, violence, this answer can be simplistic. We know, all triumphalism, and exclusion. In contrast to henotheism, Niebuhr turns ■■■ too well, how Christianity has been used to to the idea of a radical monotheism. It is justify all kinds of violence, starting with I am reminded of another time when the couches. We would recall Monday dinners “radical” because its center of value is the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the world seemed chaotic. Faith seemed to be Living Justice: and the various cooks who shared their art. neither a finite society “nor the principles justification for slavery in the United States, waning. Those who were faithful were put Instead, most of us are sitting hundreds of of such society but the principle of being white supremacy as it was taught and to death. Even in the church, faithlessness An Anti-Racist Practicum miles away. Or, at the very least, six feet itself.” He writes, “It is the confidence that preached from the pulpit in the name of was found. Greed prevailed, and egoism apart from one another. Yes, we are living whatever is, is good because it exists as Directed by Yvonne Gilmore and Sandhya Jha, this project eugenics, to the current immigration policies was prevalent. Few, if any, found rest in God. in strange times. one thing among the many which all have that separate children from their parents Those who were able to remain true to their equips leaders and communities to move beyond echoing During this pandemic, we have experi- their origin and their being in the One—the and place them in detention centers. How faith often experienced great suffering. enced a sense of restlessness. Something principle of being which is also the principle the call to justice to active learning in relation with others then do we respond to the restlessness? After addressing the seven churches, that just doesn’t feel right is suddenly more of value.” that charts a course of action. My response begins with radical mono- the Alpha and Omega turns the author’s obvious than before. Many of us have been Niebuhr points beyond henotheism, but theism, as found in H. Richard Niebuhr, attention to the heavenly realm. While the confined to our homes, once a place of rest we are still left begging for the language to As calls for justice reverberate but then it moves to the work of Gustavo world is in chaos, filled with restlessness, and recuperation. Now this restlessness has address God in the midst of our restlessness. across the land, situated amidst a Gutierrez, the father of liberation theology. the scene is quite different from the per- invaded our most intimate spaces as we Gutierrez argues that the book of Job pandemic and in urgent appeals for Niebuhr argues that all people are spective of God: worry about internet connections, the next teaches Christians how to speak of God in active learning in relation to black Zoom meeting, the next business meeting. directed at something. He refers to these the midst of suffering. Its purpose is not to Day and night without ceasing they sing, and brown bodies, the Living Justice Our private and public selves have been directions as forms of faith, and he dis- make sense of suffering, or what I have “Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God the Almighty, practicum seeks to interrogate, invaded. Our mental health begins to be cusses henotheism, polytheism, and called restlessness. Instead, it puts suffer- who was and is and is to come.” And when- identify, and activate ways to institu- challenged. We see the dwindling savings monotheism. Henotheism takes the shape ing and restlessness in perspective in light ever the living creatures give glory and tionalize justice by mining and con- account because we have been furloughed. of a closed society or a faith that is social of God. Dehumanization must be under- honor and thanks to the one who is seated necting the lived theology of trans- in nature. It is the appeal to one particular stood in light of the love of Christ. on the throne, who lives forever and ever, formative leaders. It responds to the We see the rise of domestic violence Sandhya Jha because the pressure and stress of the god from among the many. It can take the In his book, On Job, Gutierrez asks us the twenty-four elders fall before the one seismic shift in attention to policing who is seated on the throne and worship the pandemic is ever present and very real. form of nationalism, a love of country and to identify how suffering is often due to and race as well as to the ongoing of Christ). Project directors Gilmore one who lives forever and ever; they cast The discrepancies that were present are all that it stands for. The henotheism that structural and systemic dimensions in Latin commitment of the Christian Church and Jha are core AR/PR trainers for their crowns before the throne, singing, suddenly tenfold as People of Color are Niebuhr has in mind provides a mode by America. He critiques those who believe (Disciples of Christ) to build an Reconciliation Ministries. Through “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to affected more than ever, with Hispanics which we can distinguish between us and they know the mind of God. “What God is anti-racist, pro-reconciling church. the Living Justice practicum, they receive glory and honor and power, for you and African Americans disproportionately them. When allegiances are drawn to be criticizing here is every theology that pre- How can we clarify and deepen join their expertise with that of created all things, and by your will they being affected due to their positions being exclusive in nature, henotheism prevails. sumes to pigeonhole the divine action in our ritual and liturgical practices other Disciples practitioner-scholar- existed and were created” (Rev. 4:8b-11). classified as “essential.” Essential becomes On the personal level, the distinction history and gives the illusory impression beyond marches and candlelight activists, Laura Jean Torgerson, the category of those who must continue to between us and them takes the form of of knowing it in advance.” Let us search for God, for only then do vigils? What does solidarity mean Santiago Piñón, Dave Bell, and expose themselves to a virus that has no moralism. For example, radical pro-life That we are in the midst of suffering gives we find rest.✜ theologically, and how do Disciples Ayanna Johnson Watkins, to develop vaccine. Essential, to many, becomes a groups that maintain a strong moralistic insight into the pain and suffering that from diverse communities practice a next generation of pedagogical ticket to the cemetery. stance against abortion all in the name of others have and continue to experience. it with integrity? Living Justice: An approaches and resources. The restlessness goes to our very being, life. This stance adopts the language of the Gutierrez writes, “To go out of himself and That we are in the Anti-Racist Practicum is compelled The practicum is divided into but also beyond. It is reflective in the rest- biblical faith and uses notions such as love help other sufferers (without waiting until midst of suffering gives by these questions and animated three distinct five-week sessions. lessness of our society. We see the protests of God, love of neighbor, and love of life. his own problems are first resolved) is to by DDH’s longstanding commitment Twenty-nine individuals completed led by Black Lives Matter, and the counter There is also a henotheism of the left. find a way to God.” insight into the pain to the preparation of visionary min- the fall session, which concluded protests of Blue Lives Matter or All Lives The problem is not with the values and This focus does not provide answers, isters and teachers. It is supported on December 8. Registration for the Matter. We see the western forests turn to morals themselves, but rather that the left rather it turns to a God of love and grace. and suffering that others by a grant from the Oreon E. Scott winter session, which runs from ashes. We are out of names to give to hurri- has abandoned the religious language This approach calls Christians to search for have and continue Foundation. February 2–March 2, is open now. ✜ canes. Restlessness is all around us. What found in the biblical text. Love of God, love God by taking into account the suffering The project’s focus is to develop then can we do? How do we respond? of neighbor, and love of life should become and pain of others and by sharing life with to experience. scholar-practitioner-activist leaders to critically advance the anti-racist/ Go to ddh.uchicago.edu/community/ pro-reconciling (AR/PR) imperatives living-justice for registration and of the Christian Church (Disciples more information.

12 13 University). He entered the University of Church, now Journey of Faith Christian mental health issues. She received commen- ■■■ Chicago as a Disciples Divinity House Scholar Church. For forty years, until his retirement dations from the California Assembly and Marilyn Jean Cook Partin, widow of Harry IN in 1953, and received his BD. Ordained in the City of Berkeley for her work. in 1995, he led the congregation. He also B. Partin (1947), died at home in Durham, 1956, he served Disciples and UCC congre- gave leadership to the Michigan region, and The Lemons were life partners in working North Carolina, on February 26. She was MEMO gations in Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska, directed forty family camps. for justice and peace. They were recognized 95. Born in Davenport, Iowa, she graduated including many intentional interims. In the 1960s, he served as a member with the Disciples Peace Fellowship’s Witt from the Baptist Missionary Training School Community involvement was an import- and chairperson of the Ann Arbor Human Wittcamper Award and the Northern Califor- in Chicago in 1948. (Later she earned an RIAM ant part of Bob’s ministry. One highlight was Relations Commission, the Ann Arbor Police nia Region’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award. MSW from UNC–Chapel Hill.) In 1949, she being a police chaplain in Lincoln, Nebraska. Community Relations Commission, and the Adelle was a feminist who was active in the married Mr. Partin. They lived in Chicago, He served on social welfare boards and Civil Rights Coordinating Council. He was civil rights movement and other movements California, England, and Switzerland, where ■■■ developed the first Head Start and Day Care involved in the Vietnam War Peace move- for social justice. She was a strong supporter he served with the World Council of Churches, Robert Searle Bates (1950) died on December program in the nation in Louisiana, Missouri. ment and in early efforts for gay rights and of DDH. “Her super-power was loving people before moving to Durham in 1964, when he 8 in Indianapolis. He was 92. A graduate of He wrote curriculum for CE:SA, a multi-denom- AIDS patients. He was a member of the Dis- enthusiastically and unconditionally.” joined the faculty at Duke University to teach Hiram College, where his grandfather had inational project, and was president of the ciples Peace Fellowship, and he and Barbara A memorial service will be held in History of Religions. He died in 2008. been president, he entered the University Congress of Disciples Clergy. More recently, were founders and later staff members of Oakland in early 2022—email AdelleERL@ Affectionately known as “Cookie,” she of Chicago as a Disciples Divinity House he was chairman of the Linn County Board of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice in gmail.com for notification. was a tireless advocate for families in crisis, Scholar in 1950. He earned BD, MA, and Public Welfare and of the Democratic Caucus Ann Arbor. She directed a Disciples program the elderly, the homeless, the mentally ill, PhD degrees. In 1957, he married Margaret in Cedar Rapids, and he was involved in the of reconciliation between the people of ■■■ and countless others in distress. As Director Sue Gillespie, and they went to India as mis- Inter-Religious Council. A member of the Sierra Vietnam and the US beginning in 1980. He of Volunteers and Resources for the Durham George was a band member of Copperfield, John Emory McCaw (1939), who had been sion co-workers, appointed by the United Club, he did several work projects in California coordinated the local CROP Hunger Walk. County Department of Social Services, she and later joined Louisville Brass & Electric DDH’s oldest living alumnus, died on June 29 Christian Missionary Society. They worked and Utah. He played flute and piccolo, enjoyed He was preceded in death by Barbara shaped many programs, including the Emer- (LB&E). He is survived by his wife Marsha, in Des Moines, Iowa. He was 104. alongside student Christian movements in theater, and was a voracious reader. in 2014 and their son Robby. He is survived gency Energy Fund, Retired Seniors Volunteer daughter Kirstin, and extended family. He was born March 3, 1917, to C.C. and Bangalore and Sri Lanka and taught at Leo- In 1981, he married Ann Seibold Stewart, by his children, Barbara, Rusty, and Kit, Program (RSVP), the Elder Neighbor/Elder Mildred McCaw in the small river town of nard Theological College in north central who survives him. They traveled internation- four grandchildren, and many others “who Advocacy Program, and Share Your Christmas. ■■■ Lomax, Illinois. He graduated from Drake India. They returned to the US in 1970, first ally and to all fifty states, often camping in called him theirs.” A memorial service was held at Pilgrim University before entering the Divinity School Richard E. Starkey (1954) died on April 20, to Chicago and then to Indianapolis, where the early years. He is also survived by the United Church of Christ in Durham, where as a Disciples Divinity House Scholar in in Massachusetts. He was 88. A graduate he would become the Area Executive for East children of his first marriage, Delores, Jean- she was a member for over fifty years; senior ■■■ 1939 and earning a BD degree. He was later of Drake University, he earned his BD as Asia and the Pacific with Global Ministries. nette, David, and Tim; by Ann’s children, David minister Melinda K. Wood, a DDH alumna a Fellow at Union Theological Seminary and a House Scholar in 1964. He also earned Bob Bates’s earliest years were lived in and Christine; and by extended family. Elaine A. Giermak (1995), a teacher of English and trustee, presided. was awarded an honorary doctorate degree an MS in Library Science from Simmons Nanjing, China, where his father, Miner and wife of Frank Hoss (1960), died in Urbana, Illinois, on April 20. She was 75. She was a by Christian Theological Seminary in Indiana- College. He was predeceased by his wife, Searle Bates, taught history at the University ■■■ polis. In 1942, he married Maxine Mae ■■■ Marcia Damon Starkey, in June 2018. of Nanking. He left Nanjing at age 12 with his cherished sixth-grade teacher at Campus Russell M. Fuller (1948), died at home in Gambs, a concert pianist and music educator. mother and brother before Japanese troops Middle School for Girls in Urbana, part of a George W. Shields III (1977) died on Ann Arbor, Michigan, on January 15, 2020. They would share seventy years of marriage ■■■ invaded China in 1937. His father, together distinguished fifty-year career at middle and August 13 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was He was 95. For his entire life, he worked for before her death in 2013. with fourteen others formed the International high schools, and community colleges. 69. An expert on the thought of Charles Maris Ann Bailey Walters (1981) died peace and justice. “We find it impossible to He returned to his undergraduate alma Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, which A graduate of Northern Illinois University Hartshorne and the analytic tradition of November 20 in Indiana. She was 80. An describe the exponential power that Russell mater to become a member of faculty in 1950. protected thousands of Chinese civilians and of the University of Chicago with a Mas- process philosophy, he was Professor advocate and activist for women’s rights, and Barbara Fuller generated in our local and He led its Bible College to full accreditation while bearing witness to the atrocities by ter’s degree in English, she returned to the Emeritus of Philosophy and Environmental she was an ordained Disciples minister. global community. Their example inspired as Drake Divinity School (now defunct) as its Japanese soldiers which resulted in the University to pursue the MDiv degree at the Studies and former University Distin- She served as a pastor and chaplain all who knew them,” the local Ann Arbor dean. He received numerous recognitions massacre of 300,000 civilians and the rape Divinity School as a Disciples Divinity House guished Professor at Kentucky State throughout her career, including at paper observed. from Drake, including its Centennial Award, of thousands of women and girls. Their scholar in 1995. Elaine and Frank partnered in University, where he served for fifteen Hendricks Regional Health as a Hospice/ Russell Fuller was born in Kansas City, Dawson Award, Alumni Distinguished Service heroism and courage (together with others the ministry at Hope United Church of Christ years as Chair of Literature, Languages, Hospital Chaplain. Out of an awareness of Missouri, on February 23, 1924. Following Award, and the Drake Medal of Service. His including Disciples Lewis Smythe, Minnie near Armstrong, Illinois. They shared a love and Philosophy, and as interim Dean of the the importance of recognizing grief for service in the Navy, he received an AB from leadership to other organizations included Vautrin, and Robert McCallum) is memorial- of travel and learning. She is survived by her College of Arts and Sciences. Later, he infants who died at birth, she helped to the University of Michigan. He and fellow the Des Moines School Board, a mayoral ized in the Nanjing Massacre Museum. In husband, her sisters, nieces, and nephews. taught at the University of Louisville in establish a memorial in a park in Avon, Michigan graduate Barbara Stauffer mar- commission, Wakonda Christian Church, 2008, Bob and Sue Bates, with their daugh- the Comparative Humanities PhD Program Indiana. She led grief groups and helped ried in 1948. That fall, both began studies the regional and general church, and the and the Department of Philosophy. ters and grandchildren, returned to Nanjing ■■■ establish a Walk to Remember, a national to pray for peace, celebrate Bob’s 80th at the Divinity School, where he entered establishment of the Des Moines Pastoral He received the MA (1974) and PhD observance of infant loss awareness. Adelle E. Lemon, widow of Robert Lemon birthday, and to visit the museum. as a Disciples Divinity House Scholar Counseling Center. (1981) from the University of Chicago as A graduate of Eastern Illinois Univer- (1944), died on March 7 in hospice care. She Sue Bates died in March 2019. They are and earned his BD degree and she would He enjoyed beekeeping, gardening, fishing, a Disciples Divinity House Scholar. He was sity, she attended the Divinity School as was 92. Adelle Ringstrom married Robert survived by daughters Karen and Kristin, earn a Master’s degree. In those years, and writing two novels, newspaper editorials, the author of numerous articles and co- a Disciples Divinity House Scholar before Lemon in 1950. He died in 2007. They had and by extended family. DDH did not grant funding to women; in and many letters. In 2013, he established the author of the recently published, The Mind earning her MDiv from Christian Theological later years, Barbara claimed her rightful four children, David, Nancy, Mary, and John and Maxine McCaw Scholarship Fund of Charles Hartshorne, which provides “an Seminary in 1985. She is survived by her place as an alumna. Both later served on Jennifer (formerly John), who survive them. for Prophetic Living, Teaching and Preaching, updated, wide-ranging, and sustained ■■■ spouse, Ross Walters, and their children, the Alumni/ae Council. In 1961 the family moved to the Bay Area. an endowed scholarship for seminarians critical overview of Hartshorne’s thinking, Richard, Michael, Amy, Matthew, and Robert L. Bromley (1953) died on May 2 in He was ordained in 1951 and served She worked at the American Red Cross in which is administered by the College of the kind of project not seen since [fellow Rebecca, and extended family. ✜ Marion, Iowa, under hospice care. He was pastorates in Chicago and Tucson. The Berkeley, where she founded and directed Regional Ministers. He is survived by three DDH alumnus] Eugene Peters’ landmark 89. Born and raised in Palo Alto, California, Fullers returned to Ann Arbor in 1955, when the Creative Living Center, a community- children, Milva Lou, Maxhn, and Janine, and study half a century ago.” he graduated from Chapman College (now he became pastor of Memorial Christian based program for adults dealing with extended family. An accomplished singer and musician,

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WE DEDICATE THIS HOUSE— To the glory of God and the honor of Jesus Christ our Lord; to worship and adoration, to prayer and praise.

To the joy of comradeship in a great cause; to the searching mind and the understanding heart, to a faith that is not blind and a hope that hath foundations.

To quickened response with those who are burdened by poverty, beset by temptation, or shadowed by grief.

To the enhancement of all life by the enrichment of art, through eloquence and song, through poetry and drama, through music and architecture.

To the feeding of souls that hunger for beauty, the guidance of those who seek truth, the satisfaction of those who thirst for God.

To a ministry to those who shall minister the things of the Kingdom of God. AMEN.

Adapted from the dedication of the building, October 21, 1928, and of the chapel, October 26, 1930, and affirmed on October 24, 2020.