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Vol. 87, No. 2 DDH Bulletin Fall 2017 Terri Owens elected GMP A heritage of strength and action In a quiet and determined way, Katherine A. Dey established two scholarships at the Disciples Divinity House. Through them, she sought to pass a heritage of strength and action to next generations of ministers and leaders. She died on October 5 in Ar- lington, Virginia. She was 96. A lifetime member of the Chris- tian Church, Ms. Dey was elected the first female board chair of the Capi- Alumna Teresa Hord Owens was elected as the General Minister and President of tal Area and served as one of the first the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada by an two female elders at Wilson Boule- overwhelming majority at General Assembly on July 9. She is the first African-Amer- vard Christian Church in Arlington. ican woman to lead a mainline US denomination; she succeeds Sharon Watkins. She later joined the First Christian Church of Falls Church, Virginia. We are the Americas She established the M. Elizabeth Dey Scholarship in 1979 to remember Distinguished Alumna Address her beloved grandmother, “Mom.” By Daisy L. Machado She saw the opportunity to remember The Alumni/ae Council presented the Latino/a faculty members; for advanc- her in a way that reflected “her life, Distinguished Alumna Award to Daisy ing the historical and conceptual study her concern for others, her religious L. Machado on July 11. Ms. Machado of borderlands; and for courageous ded- convictions and insight into human is Professor of Church History at Union ication to those who are forgotten and nature, and what she meant to me.” Theological Seminary. She earned her pushed aside, to Las Desaperacidas.” A second scholarship, the Drum PhD in 1996 from the University of I am deeply honored to be the and Tenant Scholarship, fulfilled her Chicago Divinity School as a Disciples recipient of this year’s Distinguished friend Florence Drum’s desire to hon- Divinity House Scholar. Alumna Award. I am aware of the or her own mother, Eleanor Tenant. The award commends her:“For ex- cloud of witnesses that surround this All four women—Katherine and Eliza- cellence in teaching in and beyond the event today and of the colleagues who beth Dey, Flo Drum and Eleanor Ten- classroom; for tenacious, transformative went before me, so let me say to all ant—were “doers” associated with the leadership in theological education; for who made it possible for me to stand Wilson Boulevard Christian Church. inspiring and guiding emerging scholars, before you, ¡muchas gracias! DDH alumnus M. Ray Schultz was especially through the Hispanic Theo- Since this award recognizes “the the pastor of the church during a for- logical Initiative; for wise advocacy for varied forms of service and ministry” mative period. (continued on page 5) (continued on next page) 2

Divinity School honors Toulouse THE DISCIPLES DIVINITY HOUSE Mark G. Toulouse, historian of Chris- of the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO tianity and leader in theological edu- cation, has been named the Divinity 1156 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 School Alumnus of the Year for 2018. 773.643.4411 He received his PhD in the History of ddh.uchicago.edu Christianity in 1984. From 2009 until his retirement Dean Kristine A. Culp this spring, Mr. Toulouse was Prin- Associate Dean Yvonne T. Gilmore cipal and Professor of the History of Administrator Marsha G.-H. Peeler Assistant Administrator Daette Lambert Christianity of Emmanuel College at Director of Finance Parag Shah the University of Toronto as Princi- pal. Under his leadership, Emmanuel Board of Trustees introduced several new academic pro- President Lee Hull Moses grams and created Muslim and Bud- Vice President Pamela James Jones Secretary Paul A. Steinbrecher The Al- dhist Studies programs. For the prior Most recently, he co-authored Treasurer Mareta J. Smith twenty-three years, he served at Brite tars Where We Worship: The Religious Divinity School, including eleven Significance of Popular Culture (2016). Constance U. Battle JoAnne H. Kagiwada years as Dean and then Executive An ordained minister of the Larry D. Bouchard Michael E. Karunas Vice-President. He previously taught Christian Church (Disciples of Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson Angela A. Kaufman at Phillips Theological Seminary. Christ), Mr. Toulouse regularly He has written or edited ten speaks to audiences about North Julian DeShazier April J. Lewton books, including the popular text, American Christianity, Disciples his- Teresa Dulyea-Parker Cynthia G. Lindner Joined in Discipleship: The Shaping of tory and theology, religion and pub- J. Marshall Dunn Chad E. Martin Contemporary Disciples Identity (1992 lic life, and theological education. W. Clark Gilpin James E. Stockdale and 1997); Walter Scott: A Nineteenth- The Alumnus of the Year lecture will Allen V. Harris David A. Vargas Century Evangelical (1999); and the be given at the Divinity School on Claudia A. Highbaugh Clark M. Williamson God in Public April 19, 2018. award-winning (2006). Verity A. Jones Gaylord Yu

Strength and action very clear and strong and she was al- aged fighter aircraft. In 1948, she re- (continued from previous page) ways concerned for others,” Katherine turned to Arlington and began her recalled. “She could really cook old 32-year service with the Department Born March 21, 1921, Kather- fashioned meals and never got flapped of Defense, National Security Agency, ine Dey and her sister Frances were over the number at their table.… She retiring in 1980. raised by their paternal grandparents, loved the Lord and His church and no In 1983, she became a volunteer M. Elizabeth and Edward S. Dey. Her one could do anything to hurt those if driver for the Arlington chapter of grandmother was one of the founders she could prevent it.” the American Red Cross; three years of the Wilson Boulevard Christian In 1942 Ms. Dey moved to Jack- later, she became volunteer Transpor- Church. “Her religious beliefs were sonville, Florida. For two and a half tation Coordinator, continuing for years, she worked as a Class A Welder over 10 years. In recognition of her ex- at the St. John’s River Shipbuilding emplary volunteer service, Katherine Company, where 61 Liberty Ships were was awarded the first Chapter Board built and launched. “That tour was Chairman’s “Inspiration Award” in the hardest work I ever have done,” 1994. In 2010, she was recognized she later wrote. “But I truly wanted to for 27 years and 23,375 hours of vol- help my country and all the men had unteer service to the Arlington Red to go to war...and I thought building Cross Chapter. Liberty Ships would be great!” Ms. Dey is survived by loving When the contract completed, cousins and devoted friends who cher- she went to work as an aircraft me- ish her legacy of humor, generosity, chanic for a year at the Jacksonville and faith. Her sister, Frances, prede- Naval Air Base, repairing war-dam- ceased her. 3 Gavel passed from Hull Moses to Lewton Lee Hull Moses will conclude her ser- (2005). She is a regu- vice as President of the Board of Trust- lar contributor to the ees and her membership on the Board Christian Century on December 30. She has served three magazine. years as President, leading with insight The gavel passes and grace. Prior to that she served to April J. Lewton, as Vice President and Secretary. An alumna and Vice alumna who received her MDiv from President of Devel- the Divinity School in 2004, she was opment and Market- first elected a trustee in 2007. She will ing at the National continue on DDH’s 125th Anniver- Benevolent Associa- sary Committee. tion (NBA). She was Lee Hull Moses is the Senior elected to the Board Minister of the First Christian of Trustees in 2010, Church of Greensboro, North Caro- and has served as the lina. She was an invaluable mentor to chair of the Development Committee Continuing members of the Ex- Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson and Judith for the past two years. ecutive Committee are Vice President Guy, who completed full-time intern- An ordained Disciples minister Pamela James Jones, a professor at ships in Greensboro while they were and 2007 MDiv graduate of the Divin- Central Michigan University, an DDH Scholars. She is the author of ity School, Ms. Lewton is known for MDiv and PhD graduate of the Divin- several books: More than Enough: Liv- her leadership in the general, region- ity School, and a former DDH resi- ing Abundantly in a Culture of Excess al, and local church. She is the former dent; Secretary Paul Steinbrecher, an (2016), Hopes and Fears: Everyday Moderator of the North American architect with Interactive Design Ar- Theology for New Parents and Other Pacific Asian Disciples (NAPAD) and chitects (IDEA) in Chicago; and Trea- Tired, Anxious People with Bromleigh has served on the General Board of surer Mareta Smith, a Kansas City- McCleneghan (2012), and The Gifts the Christian Church and its Admin- based attorney. of Gilead with Amy Lignitz Harken istrative Committee. New Alumni/ae Council officers CTP video asks, and members elected “What is Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson and Alexis January. Elected to a term beginning reconciliation?” Vaughan Kassim are the newly elected in 2019 were Ken Brooker Langston, president and vice president of the McKinna Daugherty, and Ayanna A new video considers reconciliation, Alumni/ae Council. Knowing the Johnson Watkins. Continuing mem- theology, and race. It was filmed by the value of working together from their bers are Chuck Blaisdell, Erica Brown, members of the Constructive Theolo- student days (both are members of Don Burk, Doug Job, Santiago Piñón, gies Project (CTP), a group of young the 2009 entering class), they have and Beau Underwood. adult Disciples thought leaders from adopted a shared approach to Coun- Special thanks to immediate past across the United States and Canada, cil leadership. Kansas City area new president Lindy Wood and to outgo- when they convened this summer in church pastor Kristin Johnson Dow is ing members Vy Nguyen, Brent Reyn- Indianapolis on the campus of Al- the secretary. olds, and Nancy TannerThies for their lisonville Christian Church and Igle- The Council consists of twelve outstanding service. sia Cristiana Casa del Alfarero. members who are elected to four-year The Council works to enhance Watch the video and learn more terms. The officers and new members relations among alumni/ae and to at constructivetheologies.org, the were elected at the Disciples Divinity connect alums with current House CTP blog. The project, directed by House luncheon at General Assem- Scholars. It selects the recipient of the Yvonne Gilmore, is supported by a bly. Dennis Landon, Joy Omslaer, and Distinguished Alumna/us Award and grant from the Oreon E. Scott Foun- Allie Lundblad will begin service in helps to shape various initiatives. dation and by DDH. 4 Awards recognize promise and achievement Disciples Divinity House Scholars ar. Last year, she furthered her under- by Katherine Dey, was awarded to receive tuition, stipend, and housing standing of nonprofit organizations MA student Shelly Tilton. A former support. Eleven named scholarship and engaged in theological reflection associate minister of Saguaro Chris- awards, plus several outside awards, through a full-time internship spon- tian Church in Tucson and an MDiv provide additional recognition and sored by DDH with Week of Com- graduate of Vanderbilt, she is pursu- support for House Scholars. passion, the Disciples disaster relief ing questions about sacredness, aes- The Edward Scribner Ames Schol- and humanitarian assistance program thetics, philosophy, and religion. She arship for high academic achievement fund, and with the Oakland Peace coordinates chapel services at DDH. was awarded to Andrew Packman, a Center. The Henry Barton Robison Schol- PhD candidate in Theology and MDiv The Bernard F. and Annie Mae arship has been awarded to Andrew graduate. His dissertation, entitled Cooke Scholarship, established by a Langford, a PhD candidate in Bible “When I want to do what is good, evil spirited lay woman from Houston and an AM alumnus. He focuses on lies close at hand”: A Theological Inqui- who prized excellence in ministry, the New Testament and Early Chris- ry into Moral Motivation, Affectivity, was awarded to Jack Veatch. His ex- tian Literature. In October, he suc- and the Recalcitrance of American Rac- periences include campus ministry cessfully completed the review of ism, explores why racism has proven at Ohio State, participating in the his dissertation entitled, Diagnosing so recalcitrant to moral suasion and National Benevolent Association’s Deviance: Pathology and Polemic in political subversion. He serves on the XPLOR program, and counseling at the Pastoral Epistles. For the past two leadership team of the Constructive Camp Christian in Ohio. He is com- summers, he has taught “History and Theologies Project. pleting his field education at Ellis Av- Religion of Early Christianity” at Pep- The William Barnett Blakemore enue Church in Chicago. perdine University. Scholarship, which recognizes academ- Devon Crawford received the M. Hannah Fitch was awarded the ic promise and ecumenical vision, was Elizabeth Dey Scholarship, which was M. Ray and Phyllis Schultz Scholarship, awarded to MDiv student Jonathan established by Katherine Dey in mem- which recognizes high promise for Cahill. A travel grant from DDH ory of her grandmother. During the congregational ministry. She is Vice and support from Global Ministries 2016-17 academic year, he served as President of the Divinity Students As- enabled him to go to the Democratic a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow sociation and Director of Alternative Republic of Congo this summer to at the NAACP’s offices in Baltimore, Worship at LaSalle Street Church in study “partnership” as viewed by the which allowed him to consider “what Chicago. Her MDiv thesis explores Disciples of Christ in the Congo and 21st century advocacy must look like Hildegard of Bingen as theologian enacted with Disciples in the US and for the millennial generation.” He is and composer. Canada. completing his field education at Trin- Burton Guion was awarded the The Alumni/ae Council selected ity United Church of Christ. Rolland and Laura Frances Sheafor MDiv student Virginia White as the The Florence Drum and Eleanor Scholarship. A graduate of Drury Uni- William Daniel Cobb Alumni/ae Schol- Tenant Scholarship, also established (continued on next page) 5 Machado address Entering Scholars (continued from page 1) I’d like to share with you a bit of the story of my journey that has led me to this place. To share our stories is to build bridges, as Chérie Moraga, Chi- cana writer and activist, reminds us. So let me begin: I was born in Cuba, raised in New York City, more specifi- cally in “Crooklyn” as Spike Lee has called that large and interesting bor- ough. I am not part of the first great wave of Cuban refugees that began ar- riving in the early 1960s at the port of a then small insignificant south- (l to r) Luke Soderstrom, Victoria Wick, and Rachel Abdoler. ern city called Miami. My father and Three individuals were named enter- to become a Disciples House Scholar mother did not flee Castro but fled ing Disciples Divinity House Scholars this year—and he was also elected poverty and unemployment and gov- for the 2017-18 year. They join four- president of the House Council. An ernment repression. And like the teen returning scholars. MDiv graduate of Western Theologi- millions of immigrants from Europe Rachel Abdoler has entered the cal Seminary who serves part-time as before them, they believed that in the PhD program in the History of Chris- an assistant to HELM President Chris United States life would be different tianity to study late medieval Chris- Dorsey, Mr. Soderstrom plans to pur- and perhaps even better. tian texts written in Arabic in areas sue PhD work in theology. I am also not Roman Catholic. surrounding Palestine and Syria—a Victoria Wick enters the MDiv I am a second-generation Protestant. time and place in which Islam was program. After graduation from St. My parents chose to leave the Roman reaching mature formulation and John’s College in Annapolis in 2015, Catholic tradition and became Prot- wider influence. Her particular in- she joined the college’s staff as Stu- estants, specifically Pentecostals, as a terest is how “these now ‘Arabized’ dent Services Coordinator and Sum- result of the great waves of missionary Christians conceived of and adapted mer Academy Co-Director. Her home work done by many North American to their thoroughly Islamicized envi- church is Christian Temple in Balti- denominations in the Caribbean ronment.” An MDiv graduate, she more. She explains, “I want to culti- throughout the early to mid-twentieth formerly interned with Congregation vate communities that delight in God century. They represent that early gen- Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis. and in life. I believe this is done by eration of new “converts” to Protes- Luke Soderstrom was just join- enjoying the relationships we have tantism becoming part of what many ing a Disciples congregation in with one another, by sharing our awe missionaries called the “spiritual har- Michigan when he began his MA of the created world, by daringly fac- vest” that resulted from the great mis- studies last year. He became eligible ing life’s hardships and vulnerable sionary enterprise that began in Puerto moments.” (continued on next page ) Named awards Doctoral Fellowships. Joel Brown, a Finally, Colton Lott is the recipi- (continued from previous page) PhD student in Religions in America, ent of the Granville and Erline Walker versity who brought experience in in- edits the Religion & Culture Forum Ministerial Scholarship, which is associ- tentional communities of service and for the Divinity School’s Martin Mar- ated with University Christian Church action, he is interested in public theol- ty Center. Hyein Park is a PhD stu- in Fort Worth and recognizes promise ogy and social transformation. dent in Theology; Ms. Park and Mr. for preaching and ministry, and of a This year’s Oreon E. Scott En- Brown, are both studying for PhD Phillips University Legacy Foundation tering Scholar is Luke Soderstrom, qualifying examinations this year. Seminary Scholarship. His MDiv thesis and the William N. Weaver Entering Mark Lambert, also a PhD student is entitled, “A Theological Explora- Scholar is Rachel Abdoler (see “New in Theology, passed his exams in No- tion of the So-Called ‘Dying Church.’” Scholars”). vember; he studies medieval attitudes He is DDH’s Head Resident. Ms. Abdoler and three additional about leprosy and addresses the ongo- students receive University of Chicago ing stigmatization of illness. 6 church bodies in the United States) However, I have always ministered live where church membership has be- in the margins of my denomination. come extremely fluid. So, even though That is because I have always min- I profess to belong to a U.S. denomi- istered in an urban context, which is national body, I was not born in the not the place where Disciples were United States. Even though I claim formed or where they have historically the Christian Church as my religious served. I have ministered to the eco- home, I was not raised a Disciples. nomically disadvantaged and neglect- As a matter of fact, my father’s ed communities of Latinos in Span- mother practiced santería, which is ish Harlem, New York, in Bushwick, Machado address the modern-day Cuban expression Brooklyn, in southeast Houston, and (continued from previous page) of the ancient Yoruba religion of the in the north side of Fort Worth, Tex- Rico in 1899 right after the Spanish- West African slaves who were brought as—all places that have been historical- American War. But there is more. to the Caribbean in the sixteenth and ly marginalized in our denomination I was ordained in 1981 in the seventeenth centuries (which I think and have been mostly invisible despite Christian Church (Disciples of complicates the current mainline in- their demographic reality. Christ), where I have belonged since terreligious dialogue that does not My ministry has taken place 1972. Through the decades, I have include or even consider Afro-Carib- amongst people, many of whom did actively participated in that commu- bean and other indigenous religions). not speak English; some who lived nity called the Latino or Hispanic I have taught at two Disciples on public assistance, received food Disciples, and I consider the Disciples seminaries and served as academic stamps, had children who belonged of Christ to symbolize my denomina- dean in one of them. Through the to urban gangs, had family members tional identity. years, I have served as a member of var- who were victims of urban crime. Yet I am also representative of ious national and regional boards of Many could not read; others were con- the ever changing and diverse world the Christian Church and even man- sidered “illegal” by the federal govern- in which the Disciples (and all other aged to preach at a General Assembly. ment; some were migrant farm work-

Daisy Machado, Spelunker southern New Mexico, I know first- An introduction by Santiago Piñón, Alumni/ae Council member and hand the wonderful and beautiful Carlsbad Caverns in the Chihuahua Assistant Professor of Religion, Texas Christian University desert at the Guadalupe mountains. Me da un gran orgullo de introducir a University of Chicago in the History Over 120 miles of caves have been ex- la Dr. Daisy Machado, mi mentora y of Christianity. plored and mapped. The person who amiga. It gives me a great honor to Dr. Machado was the first Direc- does that is known as a spelunker. introduce Rev. Dr. Daisy Machado tor of the Hispanic Theological Initia- A spelunker goes into uncharted as the recipient of the Distinguished tive, a multi-million dollar initiative territory and can only see as far as Alumna Award. She is Professor of funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the beam from the flashlight reaches. Church History at Union Theologi- which seeks to increase the number of There are no maps for the spelunker as cal Seminary, where she also served as Latinos/as faculty in religious studies. she is in the process of producing the academic dean. She is the first Latina to direct the map. They have no idea where they Her life has embraced momen- Hispanic Summer Program. Through are going, nor do they know if anyone tous occasions, such as we have expe- it, Dr. Machado is involved in healing will follow. A spelunker simply goes rienced at this General Assembly with the divisions and misunderstandings without knowing where they will end. the election of our new General Min- within the Hispanic community, as People prefer trailblazer because it ister and President, Rev. Teresa Hord well as healing the rift between His- sounds sexier. Nonetheless, Dr. Mach- Owens. At this moment, we celebrate panics and non-Hispanics. ado is a spelunker. She goes before another momentous occasion. These momentous occasions have others. She draws a map. And leaves it Dr. Machado is the first La- inspired many to characterize her as a for others to follow. A spelunker never tina to be ordained in the Chris- trailblazer. A trailblazer is someone worries if others will follow the map. tian Church (Disciples of Christ). who goes into a wilderness in order to They simply move forward and keep She is the first US Latina Protestant mark a trail. But we should recognize mapping. to receive a PhD in the study of re- her for what she truly is: a spelunker. I want you to know, Dr. Macha- ligion, which she received from the Having grown up in Texas and in do, that your spelunking has not been 7

congregations ment scholar at Vanderbilt University, occupied build- has described this reality of Latinx ings that were life in the United States as being “the abandoned by eternal Other.” The Latinx commu- Euro-American nity in this country is both citizen and Disciples congre- foreigner, it has been conquered and gations who want- colonized. The Latinx community in ed desperately the United States is an imagined com- to leave commu- munity, and by this I mean a commu- nities that were nity that has been created or imagined changing racially by those outside our community. and ethnically. Let me provide a perfect example Having giv- of what I am saying: The term “His- Alumni/ae Council President Lindy Wood and Dean Culp en you this brief panic” as a racial category was devel- present the award to Daisy Machado glimpse into my oped in the 1970s for purposes of ers; some came to this country fleeing journey let me ask you a question: What the census. It is a political creation, a the Contra Wars in Central America does my story tell you about me and way to describe difference in race and in the 1980s; most lived on salaries my community? If you have listened culture. Prior to the invention of the that were well below the poverty level. carefully you will have noticed that term “Hispanic” all persons living in The congregations I have served the history I shared with you is about the United States who came from a struggled to keep open their doors, belonging and not belonging, about Spanish-language culture/nation were not because they were “dying” or los- centers and margins, about national categorized as “Caucasian.” But now ing members, but because the income identity and national rejection, about all this has changed and as a result of levels of the people were not always how others see me and my community the creation of this new category by sufficient to cover the expenses of and how they interpret our existence. the federal government the only place an inner-city church. Most of these Fernando Segovia, New Testa- in the world where “Hispanics” exist (continued on next page) in vain. Women and men, young and reading in all my courses. Your corre- you. There, you will see many people old, look to you and the maps that lation between the unnamed woman who are benefitting from your map- you are drawing in order to gain some of Judges 19 and Elena, a real person ping. We are following the paths that kind of direction for our own agendas who has had her nose cut off and was you have laid out before us. in both academia and ministry. Spe- raped repeatedly, shows us how we In one of my favorite poems, Ode, lunkers never know who is reading can use the biblical text to address real Arthur O’Shaughnessy writes, “We are their maps, but on this momentous life situations. the music-makers / And we are the occasion we want you to know there Your projects such as God Behind dreamers of dreams.” On this momen- is a great cloud of witnesses who has Bars, which examines the religious tous occasion, I want you to know that recognized your maps. realities of Latina and African Ameri- you are the music-maker. You are the It is because of you and your can women inmates, motivates us to Dreamer of Dreams. It is because of work that so many of us have direc- seek justice and minister to those who this that the Alumni/ae Council of the tion. Your book, Of Borders and are forgotten. Disciples Divinity House of the Uni- Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, And, your praxis is clearly evident versity of Chicago has recognized you, 1888-1945, demonstrates the impor- by the fact that every place you have Dr. Daisy Machado, with the Distin- tance of reaching across differences as lived, you have started a Disciples con- guished Alumna Award. we allow ourselves to be influenced by gregation—and each remains vibrant others. even after you leave. As a friend of Your chapter, “The Unnamed mine stated, “Her testimony is as im- Woman: Justice, Feminists and the portant as her scholarship.” You pro- Undocumented Woman,” in A Read- duce works that are not only scholarly er of Latina Feminist Theology, which in nature, but also practical, in that you co-edited, has influenced count- you address real life situations. less students and professors. I know On this momentous occasion, this to be a fact because every semes- I ask that our spelunker pause for a ter I assign your chapter as required moment. Turn your attention behind 8 Machado address nity through education which means to the reality of mulatez as a racial (continued from previous page) that to value and promote inclusivity, category not yet understood in the is in the United States. diversity, and hospitality are ultimate- discourse on race that goes on in this And so, while it is true that Latinx ly issues of justice and stewardship. country; it is intimately connected to are a mosaic of pigmentation and ra- The pressing need to fully engage the critical examination of the true cial mestizaje, while it is true that there and to include the Latinx reality in meaning of citizenship and the protec- is a distinctiveness to our cultures, the work we do whether in the con- tion such citizenship offers. once we enter the shores of this na- gregation, or in a national/regional This makes the Latinx scholar a tion we are imagined by the dominant office, or in a seminary classroom, re- border crosser, moving between the culture in particular ways that make quires that we make some conscious demands of her/his scholarship and us into an undefined mass—cactus or shifts. One has to do with how we talk the need to acknowledge and articu- palm tree, we are all the same. about race, which must now mean to late the faith of our people, a deep and As a result, while the history of talk about more than just the black vibrant faith that has sustained and the Latinx community is in many ways and white racial dichotomy that has nurtured our communities despite similar to the story of all immigrants, become normative but is useful given the history of colonization, despite it is also very different in particular the great diversity of the nation. the poverty, despite the marginaliza- ways. In reality, Latinx never stopped What this also means is that to tion, despite the racism, despite the being “foreign” to the Euro-American talk about nationhood and citizen- violence, despite the imposed status citizens of this nation and this was ship now requires that we also analyze of alien/other. made remarkably clear during this last how the Latinx community has been I am glad to report that there presidential campaign. historically imagined by the dominant are now several generations of Latinx It is this very paradox of belong- culture as foreign or marginal and scholars in theology who are claiming ing yet not really belonging where the thereby made invisible while being this voice as they share their experi- history of Latinx can begin to be un- exploited for its labor. And we must ence and the faith journey of their derstood, not just nationally but also also consider and ask why still today communities as an integral part of within our own denominational his- this community rarely sits at the table their academic work and of their con- tory. It is also where we need to begin where structural/institutional deci- tribution to the academy. We claim our analysis of what this paradox im- sions are made. this right because we understand that plies for the future of the twenty-first if the theological education found century United States and for us here We are more than in our seminaries has as its goal to today, what this means for the Chris- illegals and political exiles... prepare students to live, to teach, to tian Church (Disciples of Christ), as We are the Americas. minister in a diverse and multicul- well as for our Disciples seminaries tural world, then the experience, and Disciples-related colleges and uni- worldview, and faith journey of over versities. I suppose it is this very marginal 57 million Latinx cannot be ignored This analysis is crucial for our reality that makes it necessary for or kept in the cubby hole designated denominational and our educational Latinx living in the U.S. to engage in for “special problems courses.” leaders for the following important daily border crossings. This is not only I truly believe that the Latinx reasons: 1) because a seminary-trained how we learn to survive but also how community of the twenty-first century Latinx pastor will bring to the congre- we are able to be who we really are and is in a very unique place in its histori- gation a social capital that will help this is because these border crossings cal journey. We are no longer a people those congregants to better under- are not only about geography, but are who do not know and so we are using stand the culture and society in which also about language, culture, race, and the learnings from our collective jour- they live ultimately benefiting the religion. ney to begin to imagine ourselves. wider community; 2) because if we as Because the work of Latinx theol- If knowledge is indeed power, Disciples pastors and educators are to ogy understands the diversity of our and history, as historian Joyce Appleby provide a serious response to the real- communities as normative and as an says, “exercises that power by awaken- ity of the Latinx presence throughout asset, our theological task is one that ing curiosity, stretching imagination, this country and in our denomina- must seek to balance reason or skill deepening appreciation, and compli- tion, we cannot ignore the pressing development and social justice—it is cating one’s sense of the possible,” need for seminary trained ministerial faith and it is praxis. And this faith then the Latinx community is boldly leaders for that community; 3) Disci- and praxis are intimately connected taking possession of that knowledge ples-related colleges and seminaries to the economic deprivation found in of who we are as a people by recover- our barrios; it is intimately connected have been called to serve the commu- (continued on page 11) 9

Sandhya R. Jha Annual Report: Alexis and Jacob Kassim Michael K. Kinnamon and A recognition of generosity Mardine Davis Robert C.N. Kispert The Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago is deeply grateful Edward H. and Mary Ruth†Kolbe for gifts received from the following individuals, churches, and foundations Mark and Daette Lambert between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. In memory of Betty A. Culp Annual gifts from individuals totaled $86,641.58. Additional annu- Donald A. and Joyce Leak al support of $41,652 came from the Disciples Mission Fund, Christian Timothy S. and Yeahwa C. Lee Church (Disciples of Christ). Contributions from foundations and corpora- Jeffrey S. and Paula R. Lindner tions totaled $15,600, and additional gifts from churches totaled $8,562.77. Colton D. Lott Contributions to permanent funds totaled $110,339.20 last year. In memory of Betty A. Culp These gifts are a reflection of the remarkable lives, visionary leaders, Bethany Watkins Lowery partnerships, and sustained commitments to theological education that acti- Cynthia R. McCrae vate and extend the ethos of Disciples Divinity House. These generous gifts Katy L. McFall and David E. Cobb Bonnie and Mark Miller-McLemore help to foster excellence in ministry, leadership, and scholarship. * Yvonne Gilmore, Associate Dean Vy and Linh Nguyen Amy A. Northcutt† and Craig Middlebrook Kay Lynn Northcutt Trustees B. Ernest and Judy C. O’Donnell Constance U. Battle Kenneth T. and Rory G. Osborne and Charles Steerman* Emily H. Brooker Langston Stephanie Paulsell and Kevin Madigan Larry Bouchard and Peggy Galloway Erica L. Brown Samuel C. and Mary C. Pearson Julian and Mallory DeShazier Frank Burch Brown Don A. and Nancy C. Pittman J. Marshall and Barbara J. Dunn* Harold G. Brown and Alberta Z. Brown G. Philip and Loris Points W. Clark and Nancy Gilpin Fund, CCF Thomas H. and Jane Quigley Claudia A. Highbaugh Peter D. and Carol Browning Robert G. Sulanke Fund, CCF Lee Hull Moses and Robert Moses* Browning Family Fund Katherine M. Raley Pamela and Theodore Jones Donald V. and Margaret C. Burk Laura Jennison Reed and Joshua C. Reed Verity Jones and William S. Wagnon Lee A. and Margaret G. Crawford John E. and Amy Cheadle Rich JoAnne H. Kagiwada William E. and Patricia V. Crowl John D. and Sook-Ja Roh David T. and JoAnne H. Kagiwada Fund In memory of Barbara Williamson, Rolland and Laura Frances Sheafor Michael E. Karunas Barbara and Clark Williamson Fund Fund, CCF Angela Kaufman and Jack Poehlman* R. Danielle Cox Richard E. and Marcia D. Starkey April Lewton and Garry G. Sparks* Kristine A. Culp Michael K. Stone and Patricia Perry Cynthia G. Lindner John C. W. Curry Bradford T. Stull and Maggie Kim In memory of Betty Culp McKinna R. Daugherty Michael and Rebecca Swartzentruber Chad H. and Crista Martin Kent and Janice Dorsey Nancy L. and Roger E. TannerThies Jerry and Donna Martin Family Patricia Duncan and Brandon Cline Laird A. and Evelyn B. Thomason Scholarship Fund Kerry Waller Dueholm and Laura Jean Torgerson and Mareta J. Smith Ben Dueholm Timothy Donaghy Paul A. Steinbrecher* Jennifer Jesse and Rev. John Dungan Beau T. Underwood and James E. and Patricia G. Stockdale Stephen C. and Clara I. Duvall Casey Osterkamp David A. and Aida M. Vargas Adam Frieberg and Heidi Haverkamp Shawn Van Dyke Clark M. Williamson Liv Gibbons and Elijah Buck Stanley L. and Deborah Van Etten Barbara and Clark Williamson Fund Ryan and Greta Gilbert Norman A. and Katharine M. Wells Melinda K. and Lanny Wood Yvonne T. Gilmore* Robert L. and Eunice Welsh Gaylord Yu* In memory of Betty A. Culp Raymond B. and Lois R. Williams Ana and Tod Gobledale Robert and Juli Wilson-Black Alumni/ae Brian W. and Claudia E. Grant Roger R. and Barbara Adams Marvin Hardy Griffith † Amy and Roger Bertschausen Elizabeth H. Guonjian and Deceased * Charles and Barbara Blaisdell Joseph S. Pettit Gift in honor of the 25th anniversary Robert L. and Ann K. Bromley Lowell K. Handy of the deanship of Kristine A. Culp 10

Friends Hubert G. Locke* Jim and Lois Whitaker Tom R. Akers Jerry D. and Donna H. Martin Deborrah and Johnny Wray Don and Peggy Allan Jerry and Donna Martin Family Geunhee and Geunsoon Yu James Allan and Michele Bagby Scholarship Fund Manuel and Elizabeth Zaby Ron Allen and Richard J. and Mary S. Martin Linda McKiernan-Allen* In memory of George Seaton to the Bequests Mark Anderson W. Barnett Blakemore Fund Mildred Holzhausen estate Thomas W. Andrews Martin E. and Harriet J. Marty Frances Ulrich Genung estate P.V. and J.E. Autrey Donald H. and Ann McCord Ruth M. Wollesen estate William and Patricia Crowl Fund Jerry D. and Ginny McCoy C. William and Laura Bailey Donna McDonald Churches Arvil Bass Holly C. McKissick and Joe Hatley* Austin Boulevard Christian Church Ken and Sara F. Bigger Ron McNeill Legacy Fund, CCF Ben Bohren* Dorothy Messenger†* Bethany Christian Church, Sherry D. Bouchard John M. and Geraldine C. Miller* Fort Washington, MD In honor of the Larry Bouchard family Bill and Pat Nottingham Christian Church Capital Area Karen R. Brown Estelle V. O’Connor Christian Church Foundation, Inc. Wallace Bubar and Gabriele K. Albrecht Frances E. Oney Disciples Mission Fund Ann W. Burns Thelma Vaden Northcutt Fund Irving Park Christian Church Fund, CCF Jane Cahill Bonnie and Irami Osei-Frimpong John and Barbara Cheadle Willemien Otten and Derk Jansen Foundations and Amos and Linda Chenoweth Marsha G.-H. and Walter Peeler Organizations Ann C. Cole and Caroline Jackson Larry R. and Kathy Pepper Microsoft Matching Gifts program In honor of Katherine Dey to the Damaris Peters Pike Omega Chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity M. Elizabeth Dey Fund In memory of Eugene H. Peters Oreon E. Scott Foundation Robert W. and Elizabeth Crowe James H. and Carol J. Pinson Terry and Ann Daniel James L. and Peggy Powell Gifts given in memory of Lee and Aloma Dew Paul and Abigail Pribbenow Amy Northcutt to the Katherine A. Dey† Kate Raun Amy A. Northcutt Fund M. Elizabeth Dey Fund James A. Rurak (through November 2017) Drum and Tenant Fund Corrine Sampson Nancy Alcade John L. and Patricia A. Dreibelbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso Anonymous James O. and Jeanne Scott Duke Elizabeth Schmidkunz and Glen Gibbons Constance Battle and Charles Steerman Paul and Nancy Durance William Schweiker Bruce S. and Fredericka N. Berger Bruce and Helen Ervin Parag and Jayshree Shah Joseph A. Bessler John R. and Marilyn L. Foulkes In memory of Betty A. Culp Scott C. Binde Fuller Family Fund, CCF Kathryn F. Sherman Paul and Susan Blackman Ronald and Judith Gano Martha Shine Larry Bouchard and Peggy Galloway Kesha Gilmore and Mark Rich Christine and Thomas Siegfried Susan M. Brook and Robert Johnson Neil and Belinda Gilpin Nathan S. and Karen L. Smith Cecil E. and Shirley M. Brownlee Nancy Godlewski Garry and Pam Sparks Donald J. Camp Cliff and Louise Greaves Patricia A. Stockdale Karen Cochran Carlson Louise G. Griffin Jack and Pat Sturgeon Royal W. Carson, III Eddie E. Griffin William Tabbernee Christine A. West Cataldo Arthur A. and Susan Hanna Albert M. Tannler Chamber of Marine Commerce, Ronne Hartfield Barbara J. Turner Ottawa, Ontario Sharon Hoff Benedict Varnum Pamela J. L. Commerford Irene Van Boskirk Lou M. and Pamela E. Vovk Karen S. and Robert L. Cowden Effie Jack Thelma Vaden Northcutt Fund Melissa H. Cragin William and Deborah Jennison Leila Ward Kristine A. Culp Thomas and Evelyn Jensen Charles and Jane Watkins Robert L. and Beverly S. Dahlin Sunil K. and Janette C. Jha Evelyn N. Watkins Mary Lynn Dell and David J. Ray and Cynthia Johnson In memory of Rolland and Vandermeulen James and Peggy Langford Laura Frances Sheafor Nancy E. Doellgast Adelle E. Lemon Karin Weaver Marvourneen K. Dolor Ralph E. Lindner Fund, CCF William N. Weaver Fund Ann R. Dominick (continued on next page) 11

Mrs. Harl Dubben Friends from the National Science Machado address Ann Dunkin Foundation, Division of (continued from page 8) Leroy J. Essig Information Systems Clifford and Teresa K. Essig Paula M. Noonan and Thomas A. Duval ing the diversity of the history of both Carol Eyermann The O’Leary Family Americas, the one to the North and Fednav Limited, Montreal, Quebec Kathie L. Olsen the one to the South. This recovery is Matthew Fletcher Frances E. Oney really about the issue of power, the im- Dru Foster Douglas R. and Kimberly S. Owen portant power to imagine ourselves, Melisa Freilino Jessica L. Owens the power to name and define our- Ana and Tod Gobledale Joy E. Pasquariello selves, the power to embrace diversity Rhonda Godwin Stephen W. A. Pierson as a gift and not a deficit. Mark S. Grossman Gerri Ratliff By daring to free ourselves from The Haensel Family Thomas Rayburn the restrictions imposed by the ideo- John Lindsey Hagood John R. and Carol N. Rice logical imperatives of an idealized Chris Halka Dean and Allison May Rosen history which has imagined us as the G. Kay Lehman and Michael S. Hassell Alexis G. and Christine Duerksen Sant eternal outsiders, we will be able to Diane M. and M. Scott Hedden Kyle J. and Charlene D. Savage overcome one of the most daunting Eugene F. and Doretta G. Hubbard Gary Scavongelli hurdles of our journey as Latinx liv- Christopher Hegedus and Mary E. Schmiedel and Jeff Gordon ing in the U.S. By daring to imagine Heather Ireland William R. and Lisa R. Slater George Hutchison Sylvia J. Spengler ourselves and refuse to be imagined by The Interlake Steamship Company The St. Lawrence Seaway Management the dominant group, we will have con- Caitlin Jacobs Corporation tributed to our own liberation and we Franklin Johnson David M. Stonner will have begun to establish a founda- Verity Jones and William S. Wagnon Beth Strausser tion upon which the coming genera- Catherine Joyce Stuart H. and Penelope W. Theis tions of Latinx will build their identity Deneb Karentz Lorne and Anne Thomas and claim their self-worth. Andy Klenklen and Kirk Bellman Joanne Tornow It is this theological task that David L. and Krista L. Knight US Great Lakes Shipping Association drives me, this is what fills my heart, Michael F. and Elizabeth B. Kolmstetter Lou M. and Pamela E. Vovk and this is what keeps me doing what Fae L. Korsmo Worldwide Assurance for Employees of I have done for over thirty years and Brent and Julie A. Kuenzler Public Agencies (WAEPA), Board will continue to do whether in an Carrie LaVigne of Directors and Staff inner-city church or in a seminary Lincoln Ballston, LLC classroom or as I am now doing as the Robert C. Lockerman Gifts given in memory of director of the Hispanic Summer Pro- Chad and Liza Lorenz Marjorie Thomas to the gram. The Lutheran Church of the Robert A. and Marjorie M. Yes, there is still a long road ahead Reformation, Washington DC Thomas Fund and I hope to continue to contribute John H. Lynskey (through November 2017) and to collaborate with the many Harold R. Mace Rosemary Blakemore colleagues and friends in the Latinx Kristen Martin Ann W. Burns Elizabeth J. McDermott Bi Hoa Caldwell communities around this nation who Danny L. McDonald Constance J. Cogley are raising their voices to say: We are Gail C. McDonald Gary D. and Chris Huff more than illegals and political exiles. Ashley McGowan Lynn Huff We will no longer remain invisible. Cynthia E. McGowan Max and Peggy Jenkins We are the Americas. In our veins can Bob and Fern Melton Donald A. and Joyce Leak be found the blood of people of all James F. Meyer Linda Parkhurst Orantes the colors and races of the Americas. Craig H. Middlebrook Lester D. Palmer We will not be defined as marginal, as Victor S. and Harriet E. Middlebrook Thomas H. and Jane Quigley other, as foreigner. Javier Miranda Randolph E. and Barbara M. Schnabel ¡Nosotros también somos Ameri- The Morris Family Ila B. Bovee and Kathryn Thomas canos! [We too are Americans.] Mary Moses Lois B. Van Etten We are the Americas. Nancy Trench’s Smoke Alarm Friends Hugh and Barbara Wilson (Milissa Gofourth, Cindy Finkle, Brandon Merritt, Linda Jaco) 12 2017-18 Disciples The Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe Society Scholars Established in 1994, the Sutcliffe Society recognizes individuals who ensure the Rachel Elizabeth Abdoler mission of Disciples Divinity House by providing for a gift through their estate. It PhD, History of Christianity is named in tribute to the woman whose vision and gifts built the original endow- Joel Alan Brown ment, furnished the building, and completed the chapel. The Society encourages PhD, Religions in America others to follow her example and honors those who carry forward the tradition of Jonathan Hamilton Cahill vision and action. MDiv Polly Scribner Ames† Devon Jerome Crawford Arthur A. and Norma Jane Azlein† MDiv John R.† and Julia P. Bean Hannah Elizabeth Fitch Miriam Bellville† MDiv Don S. and Carol L. Browning† Burton Dale Guion Benjamin F. † and Ann W. Burns MDiv L. Del and Ann† Butterfield Cheryl Payne Jackson Gene R. Cleveland† MDiv Annie Mae Cooke† Mark Michael Lambert Robert W. and Elizabeth Crowe PhD, Theology William E. and Patricia V. Crowl Andrew Mark Langford Kristine A. Culp PhD, Bible Katherine A. Dey† Colton Dean Lott Burrus Dickinson† MDiv J. Marshall and Barbara J. Dunn Andrew Michael Packman F. McDonald and Jean Ervin† PhD, Theology Malcolm S. and Ruth M. Ferguson† Hye In Park Samuel F. Freeman, Jr.† PhD, Theology Dan and Frances U. Genung † Luke Edward Soderstrom W. Clark and Nancy Gilpin Marjorie Powell† MA Elizabeth H. Guonjian and Thomas and Jane Quigley Shelly Lynn Tilton Joseph S. Pettit Jack V. and June E. Reeve† MA John W. Harms† Lester and Mary Catherine Jack Paul Veatch Harvey C. and Ruth S. Hartling† Rickman† MDiv Isabelle Havens† Paula K. Ritchie Virginia Johnston White Wilbur S. Hogevoll† Carl B.† and Esther L. Robinson MDiv Mildred Holzhausen† Edward M. and Charlotte Romine† Victoria Rose Wick Dorothy Hunter† Melvin Ray and Phyllis Ann Schultz† MDiv Lewis G. Joachim† Wayne A. and Geneve R. Selsor† JoAnne H. Kagiwada Rolland H. and Laura Frances Leslie L. and Elizabeth M. Kingsbury† Sheafor† Residents Maurice F. Knott† George W. and Marsha Shields Travis Bryan Edward H. and Mary Ruth Kolbe † Ellen M. and Clyde Curry Smith† Drew Chaboyer Ned R. † and Sibyl M. Lavengood Thomas V.† and Patricia A. Stockdale Nadan Cho Ralph E. Lindner† James E. and Patricia G. Stockdale Kate Gerike C. Harvey and May Sweet Lord† Robert and Frances Sulanke† Savannah Gross Frank C. and Winifred A. Mabee† Charles H. Swift, Jr.† Joshua Menke John and Maxine† McCaw Marlin E.† and Janice I. Thomas Yanjie Niu Holly McKissick Robert A. and Marjorie M. Thomas† Ra’idah Noohu Bonnie J. and Mark Miller-McLemore Joseph J. and Irene Van Boskirk† Uk Ryel K. Everett and Virginia L. Munson† Paul G. and Ruth S. Wassenich† David Soper Kay L. Northcutt Woodrow W. and Marie Wasson† B. Ernest and Judy C. O’Donnell Norman A. and Katharine M. Wells Angela E. Pfile and Douglas Job John Norton and Grace Williams† Leverne and Rolland G.† Pfile Ruth M. Wollesen† 13 Permanent Funds The following represent gifts to the endowment fund or to build, furnish, or renovate the building of $10,000 or more ($5,000 or more before 1975). These gifts sustain the mission of the Disciples Divinity House. We are deeply grateful for the faithfulness and foresight of these donors. S. F. and Mary Elizabeth Freeman, Sr., Fund 1998 Endowment Funds Barbara and Clark Williamson Fund 1998 Year established Lloyd V. and Vera G. Channels Memorial Fund 1999 Ellen M. Thomas Fund 1901 Jerry and Donna Martin Family Scholarship Fund 1999 Old Endowment Fund 1906 Jo M. and Rebecca M. Riley Fund 1999 R. A. Long 1906 Arthur A. and Norma Jane Azlein 2000 Ella L. Ford 1906 Mable Topping and Samuel F. Freeman, Jr., Fund 2000 Nell B. Ford Torrey 1906 Clyde Curry and Ellen M. Smith 2002 Stella D. Ford Schlottman 1906 Charles H. Swift, Jr. 2003 W. S. Brannum 1906 P. Hunter Beckelhymer Fund 2003 E. MacDonald Bowman 1906 Robert and Frances Sulanke 2004 New Endowment Fund 1913 Bernard F. and Annie Mae Cooke Scholarship 2004 Philip H. Gray 1913 Orchard Street Christian Church Ministerial 2004 Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe 1930 Education Fund William Henry Hoover Lecture Fund 1945 G. L. Andy and Dorothy Coffman Messenger Fund 2005 Lizzie K. Schermerhorn Memorial Fund 1949 Lewis G. Joachim 2005 Harry R. Moore 1958 The Baringer-Butterfield Fund 2005 Arthur Burton Keller Memorial Fund 1964 Norman A. and Katherine M. Wells 2005 Samuel M. Jasper 1968 John and Maxine McCaw 2010 Hugh T. Morrison 1973 Rolland G. and Leverne B. Pfile Fund 2011 W. Barnett Blakemore Scholarship Fund 1975 William E. and Patricia V. Crowl Fund 2015 Henry Barton Robison Scholarship 1979 Woodrow W. and Marie T. Wasson 2015 Edward Scribner Ames Scholarship 1979 Kristine A. Culp Fund 2017 M. Elizabeth Dey Scholarship 1979 Amy A. Northcutt Fund 2017 Melvin Ray and Phyllis Ann Schultz Scholarship 1982 Drum and Tenant Scholarship 1983 Oreon E. Scott Entering Scholarship 1987 William N. Weaver Entering Scholarship 1987 William F. Rothenburger Memorial Scholarship Fund 1987 Illinois-Wisconsin Scholarship Fund 1989

Established as part of the Centennial Endowment 1993-96 John R. and Julia P. Bean Fund The Browning Family Fund David and Margie Bryan Fund Solomon and Victoria David Fund H. Robert Gemmer Fund Gordon W. and Anne Hoerner Hagberg Fund Wilbur S. and Marcia Hogevoll K. Barton Hunter Fund David T. and JoAnne H. Kagiwada Fund Clarence E. Lemmon Fund Building Funds Frank and Winnie Mabee Fund Year established Eugene May Fund Myrtilla A. Colbert Jones 1923 Lotus M. McLemore Fund William Darnell MacClintock 1923 Chester I. and Lois Miller Fund Samuel Sweeny MacClintock 1923 Thelma Vaden Northcutt Fund William Henry Hoover 1923 Kunihiko and Rebecca Onishi Fund Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe 1928 Jack V. and June E. Reeve Illinois-Wisconsin Capital Funds Appeal 1965 Dennis and Mary Lou Savage Fund Burrus Dickinson 1992 Rolland H. and Laura Frances Sheafor Scholarship Fund L. Del and Ann Butterfield 1994 James E. and Patricia G. Stockdale Hoover Foundation 1995 Robert A. and Marjorie M. Thomas Herbert L. Willett, III 1995 Paul G. and Ruth S. Wassenich Fund Chapel 75th Anniversary Renewal 2005 John Norton and Grace Lord Williams Fund Capital Area Library Refurbishment 2009 14 Divinity School and a former resident In Memoriam and organist at the Disciples Divinity John “Jack” Wesley Divine House. From 1967-89 he served as the died August 18. He was 82. organist-choirmaster of St. Paul’s by Born in Perry, Oklahoma, his the Sea Episcopal Church in Chapel ministry began in 1957 and includ- Hill. He was a distinguished piano ed a long career as a chaplain in teacher. Mr. Johnson is survived by the Veterans Administration. He his sister, Gwen Finlayson, and a host served on the Lansing, Kansas, City of family and friends. Council and ran for the Kansas After college, they moved to State Senate and the Kansas House. Mary Ruth Kolbe, wife of alumnus Chicago, where G.L. entered the He received a BA from Phillips Edward H. Kolbe, died on March 27 University of Chicago as a Disciples University and a BD from Phillips in Arlington, Texas. She was 79. Divinity House Scholar. She was Theological Seminary. He met Mary Ruth was born December employed at the International his first wife, Wendy Matson, at 24, 1937, in Seymour, Indiana. She Council of Religious Education. Her Phillips, and they were married in received a Bachelor’s degree in nurs- responsibilities included meeting 1959. They traveled through Europe, ing from Indiana University, and a arrangements for scholars working and served together at a camp for Master’s degree in nursing from the on the Revised Standard Version of displaced Hungarian women in University of Nebraska. She taught the Bible. In My Faith Journey, she Austria. He studied at the Graduate nursing on the community college explains how their Chicago experi- School of Ecumenical Studies in and university level in Indianapolis, ence “opened up whole new worlds.” Bossey, Switzerland. He entered the Indiana; Warrensburg, Missouri; Their first full-time pastorate was University of Chicago Divinity School Lincoln, Nebraska; Corvallis, Oregon; at Canyon, Texas, where they began as a Disciples Divinity House Scholar and retired from Tarrant County serving in the fall of 1939 and where in 1961, completing the MA in 1965. College in 2002. She also worked as their daughter, Myrna (Ranney), was He traveled to Mississippi to a director of nurses in nursing homes. born. Two more Texas pastorates join the clergy march from Selma In Warrensburg, she helped to followed, and the birth of their two to Montgomery on “Turnaround start a Planned Parenthood clinic; sons, MacDiarmid and Scribner, Tuesday” in 1965. From 1965-72, he in Bedford, Indiana, she helped to at Denton. They served in Peoria, served as minister of the Community start a Girls Club. She was an active Illinois and then in Oklahoma at Church of Gurnee, Illinois. In 1970, member of the Christian Church First Christian in Stillwater, Disciples he was appointed as a staff chaplain at (Disciples of Christ) her entire life, Christian Church in Bartlesville, and the VA Hospital in Chicago. most recently, of First Christian First Christian, Woodward. She was In 1973, Jack Divine married Church in Arlington. also employed for 28 years in the Anne Frances Benjamin; they would She is survived by her husband; accounting field. share 44 years of marriage. They their children, Ruth Cooper (Brian), She was active in all phases of moved to Danville, Illinois, where he Charles Thornton-Kolbe (Jennifer), church life. She was moderator of was a chaplain at the VA Hospital. and Tom (Laura Salem); six grand- the Oklahoma region from 1982-84, From 1978 until his retirement in children; a brother and two sisters. president of the Oklahoma Christian 1996, he served as a chaplain and Together, the Kolbes supported the Women’s Fellowship, and an elder chief of chaplains for the Veteran mission of the Disciples Divinity and elder emerita. She taught church Administration Medical Center in House. A generous gift in her mem- school classes with all ages, led retreats Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a long- ory ensures that their support will and numerous workshops, and spoke time member of the First Christian continue for future generations. in churches across Oklahoma. Church of Leavenworth, and also Dorothy Messenger was pre- served it as an associate pastor. Dorothy Coffman Messenger died on deceased by her husband, to whom A lover of sports, conversation, November 5 in Edmond, Oklahoma. she had been married for almost 67 and good stories, he is survived by his She was 102. years. In 2005, she created the G.L. wife; his children, Jennifer (Laureen Born March 4, 1915, in Dallas, “Andy” and Dorothy Coffman France), Mary (Greg Myers), and John Texas, she attended Texas Christian Messenger Fund at the Disciples Wesley “Sean” (Deb Malmon); and University, where she met G.L. Divinity House. She is survived by her four grandchildren. “Andy” Messenger. They were mar- daughter and two sons, and by numer- ried August 27, 1936, and both grad- ous grandchildren, great-grandchil- James Dwight (Jim) Johnson died uated from TCU in 1937. She earned dren, and great-great-grandchildren. on August 11 at Carolina Meadows the Bachelor of Science Degree in A memorial service was held on in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He Business. November 16 at Southern Hills was 85. He was an alumnus of the Christian Church in Edmond. 15

Life Project Capstone Conference, Joan Bell-Haynes (1995) participated News August 4-6, at the University of Chicago. in the dedication of the Disciples of Find more news and more details at Christ Historical Society’s recently ddh.uchicago.edu and on Facebook Former resident Darryl Dale-Ferguson reinstalled Oscar Haynes Exhibit on and current Scholar Andrew Packman African American Disciples of Christ. Congratulations to Rachel Abdoler each gave “night talks” as part of the (current Scholar) and Matt Brothers, Enhancing Life Project Conference on Tabitha Isner (2005) has launched a who were married September 30 in August 4 in Chicago. campaign to become the Democratic Providence, Rhode Island. nominee for Alabama’s 2nd J. Kwest, aka Julian DeShazier (trustee), Congressional District. The election is More than 200 people gathered on July performed at Wrigley Field for HBCU Day, September 29. November 6, 2018. 11 to hear true stories told live during General Assembly. Co-sponsored by Spencer Dew (1998) spoke at a DDH DDH, DDH@Vandy, and Week of forum about his research on “Aliite” Compassion, the event was curated by religious communities in October. Rebecca Anderson (2007) and hosted by Yvonne Gilmore (2001). Pictured Sympathy to Kerry Waller Dueholm below, Michael Karunas (1995; trustee). (2000) and Ben Dueholm on the death of Kerry’s mother, Kathy Waller on September 30. Sandhya Jha (2001) has written Transforming Communities: How Jeremy Fuzy (2012), a religion journal- People Like You are Transforming Their ist, returned to the Divinity School Neighborhoods (Chalice Press). October 27 to participate in a panel on education about religion beyond Trustee JoAnne Kagiwada’s life, work, academia. and activism are featured in “The Extra Ordinary Case of JoAnne Kagiwada” by Yvonne Gilmore (2001; associate dean) Sarah D. Park in Inheritance magazine. On November 26, First Christian preached and led a workshop on “The Church of Colorado Springs honored Practice of Testimony” on September Alexis Vaughan Kassim (2009) is now Chuck Blaisdell (1976) on his retire- 24 at First Christian Church, Jefferson Associate Pastor of Little River United ment as Senior Minister. He is starting City, Missouri, where Beau Underwood Church of Christ in Annandale, a congregational consulting business, (2006) is the senior minister. The event Virginia. www.growagain.net. was part of a series funded by a grant from the Calvin Institute of Worship. Allie Lundblad (2012) preached for Joe Blosser (2005) received tenure DDH’s opening chapel service on at High Point University in North Sympathy to Nancy and Clark Gilpin October 2. Carolina, where he is the Robert G. (1970; trustee; former dean) on the Culp, Jr. Director of Service Learning. death of Clark’s mother, Jo Ann Gilpin, Daisy Machado (1989) gave the 2017 in Tulsa on October 3. She was 94. She Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt Divinity Kristel Clayville (2001) is Visiting was a Christian educator and church School on October 27-28. Assistant Professor of Religion at leader. Eureka College and a fellow at the Ritch Savin-Williams (1971) is the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Judith Guy (2013) was installed as the author of Mostly Straight: Sexual Ethics at the University of Chicago. pastor of Mackinaw (Illinois) Christian Fluidity among Men, published by Church on November 4. Cynthia Harvard University Press in November. First Christian Church of Texas City, Lindner (1978; trustee) preached. Texas, was among churches affected Former resident Braxton Shelley was by Hurricane Harvey. Pastor Danielle featured in a Harvard Gazette article, Cox (2012) and the church are working “Giving Harvard a little more groove.” closely with Week of Compassion to be a local base for volunteer response. In September, Melinda Keenan Wood (1997) became Senior Minister of Kris Culp (1982; dean) was one of 35 Pilgrim United Church of Christ in international scholars who presented Durham, North Carolina. their research results at the Enhancing 16 Disciples Divinity House 1156 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Non-Profit Org. http://ddh.uchicago.edu Presorted Standard ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 1904 Chicago, Illinois

Disciples Divinity House students and alumni/ae in service, leadership, and partnership at the 2017 General Assembly