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Marty Center Executive Director on 'Unofficial Love Languages' for the New York Times
In a piece for Valentine's Day, the New York Times polled experts about 'unofficial love languages.'Emily D. Crews, Executive Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, weighed in, sharing a personal anecdote: "For ...
February 16, 2026
Doctoral Student Kari Martin Explores the Meaning of Solitude at the Art Institute of Chicago
Doctoral student Kari Martin represented the Divinity School at UChicago Grad's annual Research Speaks event, held this year at the Art Institute of Chicago. Research Speaks provides graduate students with the opportunity to translate their research ...
February 12, 2026
Hospitality as a Moral Practice
How Divinity School training in ethics shapes Katherine Sturgill, MA’16’s approach to pleasure, labor, and care in Chicago’s restaurant world.For Katherine Sturgill, MA’16, considering pleasure a moral category is part of her day-to-day calling. As t...
February 11, 2026
Swift Hall and the Good Life
Swift Hall has been at the forefront of the study of religious ethics since it began welcoming students for classes in 1926. Scholars as influential and innovative as Richard B. Miller, Jean Bethke Elshtain, James Gustafson, and William Schweiker hav...
February 6, 2026
Exploring Christian Nationalism at the 2026 Global Christianity Conference
The Global Christianity Conference concluded at the Divinity School on Friday, January 30. Centered on the theme “Christianity, Nationalism, and Ideology in a Globalized World,” the three-day event brought together scholars from Africa, Europe, Asia,...
February 4, 2026
Feeling Our Way Through Climate Change
In a new essay for The Christian Century, Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies and Clinical Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Care, reflects on the emotional and spiritual dimensions of living in a climate-changed world and the pastor...
February 4, 2026
From Chicago to the World: Endowing Hindu Studies at the Divinity School
When Amod and Ratna Choudhary decided to invest in the future of religious studies, the future they imagined centered on access to serious academic scholarship and teaching on the core texts of Hinduism—a tradition that has provided the couple with a...
January 28, 2026
Performance is What Makes Religion Matter
The discourse on the imbrication of religion and theatre/performance was built around the studies of ritual and drama. From the Passion Plays to Indian Sanskrit, Balinese Legong, Egyptian ritual drama, Greek tragedies, medieval morality plays, Japane...
January 28, 2026
Professor William Schultz Discusses "Jesus Springs" at Dean’s Forum
On Monday, Assistant Professor of American Religions William Schultz presented at a Dean’s Forum on his new book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City (University of North Carolina Press, 2025). The event featured re...
January 28, 2026
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through Community and Continuity: 8 Hours of His Speeches
On Tuesday, January 20, the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School hosted the third annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Reading event at Swift Hall. The event included a conti...
January 26, 2026