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Talking to God, Talking About Religion
A Conversation with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Alum of the Year 2026 “It’s a big project for us to figure out how to listen to each other, isn’t it?” For Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, JD’76, PhD’93, this observation names a central problem at the hear...
April 21, 2026
Turning on the Mind: Harville Hendrix, AM'65, PhD'71, on Chicago, Critical Thinking, and the Origins of Imago Therapy
When Harville Hendrix, AM'65, PhD'71, arrived at the University of Chicago Divinity School, he imagined a life in scholarship and ministry. But the intellectual culture he encountered in Swift Hall, one shaped by rigorous attention to method, interdi...
March 25, 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
Teaching and Contemplation
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in writing to his students in his Sermons on the Song of Songs, urged them not to strive for the “knowledge which puffed them up” but for the love “which builds up.”[1] Bernard taught that knowledge, without love, was vanit...
May 21, 2025
“A Little Education Goes a Long Way”: Emilie Townes in Conversation
The bluster of early May in Hyde Park didn’t dim the joy Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes, AB’77, AM’79, DMN’82, felt upon returning to Chicago to receive a 2025 University of Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.“Here, I learned the value of bein...
May 6, 2025
Paul Pribbenow Named The University of Chicago Divinity School’s 2025 Alum of the Year
The University of Chicago Divinity School is proud to announce that Paul Pribbenow, AM’79, PhD’93, president of Augsburg University, has been named the 2025 Alum of the Year. This honor recognizes Pribbenow’s distinguished career in higher education,...
April 1, 2025
Tahera Qutbuddin to deliver Nuveen Lecture
Early Islamic Oration: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ritual....
September 12, 2022
Zegarra-Medina Awarded
Alumnus awarded 2021 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise...
January 11, 2022
Electronic resources for alumni
Increased access to electronic resources in the academic study of religion. ...
January 11, 2022