About the Theme Year

Through honest sharing of our traditions, respectful conversations about our hopes and dreams, and a willingness to see one another as part of the solution and not just sources of threat, spiritualities can point us toward a just and sustainable global community. In this convocation series, the Drury community is introduced to representatives from diverse spiritual traditions. Issues of morality and social justice are explored, questions of ultimate meaning are discussed, and a vision of peaceful co-existence is lifted up.

Convocation is a tradition that has driven the Drury University community to think critically, discuss openly, and learn unequivocally for more than 60 years. Since the beginning of the new millennium, each Convo series has maintained a particular theme and has drawn nation's leading scientists, authors, historians, sociologists, theologians and lecturers to the Drury campus.