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2015-2016 Student Handbook 27 conferences, and preaching cluster groups where students and non-students alike can hone their preaching skills in a relational setting. Common Ground: The Chapel Gatherings of Denver Seminary Common Ground chapel services are held weekly during the fall and spring semesters. These community gatherings focus on worship, but they also include lectures and special conferences, speakers from within the Denver Seminary community, the Denver area, and from around the world. During these gatherings faculty, staff, students and guests converge to demonstrate the importance of unity by worshiping, learning and praying together. Attendance Requirements Each student pursuing an M.Div. or M.A. degree must attend chapel as part of their program; however, the requirement is different for these two programs, and students are responsible for understanding and fulfilling the expectation for their respective degree program. Students in the D.Min. program and those seeking certification do not have a chapel attendance requirement but are welcome to participate as their schedules allow. Although Student Life maintains records of attendance, each student is responsible to manage their own attendance and manage their time and schedule in order to fulfill their attendance requirement during the course of their program and prior to their graduation. M.Div. Chapel Requirement Students in the Master of Divinity program are required to attend 5 semesters of Common Ground chapel services. (Attending 10 services during a semester fulfills the requirement for one semester.) M.A. Chapel Requirement Students in a Master of Arts program are required to attend 3 semesters of Common Ground chapel services. (Attending 10 services during a semester fulfills the requirement for one semester.) Reporting Attendance At the conclusion of a semester that a student would like to count toward their attendance requirement, they are required to complete the following attendance form. Conferences/Lectureships There is at least one conference or lectureship per semester intended to invite students to consider aspects of Christianity that otherwise might not be brought to their attention. These conferences and lectureships present evangelical leaders who, by knowledge and experience, are able to contribute inspirational stimulation and theological insight. Kent Mathews Endowed Lectureship in Christian Social Ethics The annual Kent Mathews Lectureship addresses the Biblical, theological, and philosophical nature of the Christian's obligations, the personal character dimensions of social ethics, the values reflected in social justice, and the concrete responses to which we are called as followers of Christ.