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Moroccan Press Covers Divinity School Event Feat. Sheikh Muhammad Fawzi Al-Karkari
Several Moroccan media outlets, including NadorCity.com, published pieces describing the recent visit of Sheikh Muhammad Fawzi Al-Karkari to Swift Hall, home of the University of Chicago Divinity School, to speak with alum and author of the recent bo...
February 11, 2025
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A Vigil of Voices: The Martin Marty Center and the Divinity School Connect to Community Through Dr. King's Speeches
“We are not only living in a time of cataclysmic change – we live in an era in which human rights is a central world issue. The shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy,” recited Curtis Evans, assistant professor ...
January 24, 2025
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In their 90s, Sisters of Mercy have spent their lives fighting for immigrant justice. And they’re not stopping now.
In a piece by Nell Salzman of the Chicago Tribune, entitled: "In their 90s, Sisters of Mercy have spent their lives fighting for immigrant justice. And they’re not stopping now," Emily Crews,PhD, executive director of the Martin Marty Center for the ...
January 21, 2025
![A picture of Martin Marty in a three piece suit with bowtie, in a library. The caption reads: Martin Marty in 2017. The University of Chicago religious scholar, 96, believes faith should bring people together, not drive them apart. “Nothing is more important than to keep the richness of our pluralism alive,” he wrote, words more true now than ever.Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times](/sites/default/files/styles/news_listing_featured_image/public/2025-01/martin_marty.jpg?itok=7dKKH7lV)
As Trump returns, be a Martin Marty, not a Billy Graham
Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times dedicated his Sunday, January 19, 2025 column to the legacy of Professor Emeritus Martin Marty, writing: Marty warned against acting as the “servant of a God of prey whose goal it is to annex and enslave.”He re...
January 21, 2025
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Prof. Brook Ziporyn appeared on the Chinese television program “Meeting Civilization”
Prof. Brook Ziporyn appeared on the Chinese television program “Meeting Civilization” (translated) on Jan. 11. The show explores exchange and mutual learning among the Chinese and the world, including the universal wisdom of the 'Daodejing.' https://...
January 17, 2025
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Alumni Profile of Kaleb Nyquist (MDiv’19, MPP’19)
An Alumni Profile of Kaleb Nyquist (MDiv’19, MPP’19) is featured on the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy website....
November 25, 2024
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Student News: Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
Rachel Abdoler, a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship....
November 25, 2024
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Sheila E. Jelen writes an Article for Falsettos
Sheila E. Jelen, Professor of Religion, Literature and Visual Culture and History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, wrote an article for the current Court Theater production, Falsettos....
November 25, 2024
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Paul Mendes-Flohr (1941-2024)
Dear Divinity School community,I write with the sad news that our beloved colleague and dear friend Paul Mendes-Flohr, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought in the Divinity School and College, passed away Octob...