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Prof. Margaret Mitchell Increases Aid for South Side Amid SNAP Delays
Margaret Mitchell, AM’82, PhD’89, Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Director of the Hyde Park–Kenwood Food Pantry, was featured in The Chicago Maroon discussing the sharp rise in food-...
November 17, 2025
Tony Banout, PhD'12, Delivers Clark University 2025 Presidential Lecture: "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Free Speech?"
On the evening of Monday, November 10, Tony Banout, PhD '12, delivered the 2025 Presidential Lecture at Clark University. As the inaugural Executive Director of the University of Chicago's Forum for Free Inquiry & Expression, he has consistently show...
November 10, 2025
Alum's Debut Novel, 'The Nimbus,' Reviewed by Christian Century
A review of Div School alum, Robert P. Baird's, AM’03, PhD’10, debut novel, The Nimbus, was recently published on The Christian Century. "This is, in other words, a scholarly novel, possibly to a fault. I felt at times that Baird, whose PhD is from t...
November 4, 2025
Pure Unlimited Love: Faith, Freedom, and the Path to Peace
Div School alum, Stephen Post, AM'79, PhD'83, was featured on the Mind Matters podcast in discussion with Dr. Michael Egnor. "We must approach every person with gentleness, dignity, and faith that love can awaken the divine within them," Post conclud...
October 30, 2025
Alumnus Book wins Associated Church Press and Religion Communicators Council Awards
Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism (Chalice Press, 2024), co-authored by Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood, MDV’10, MPP’10, won the Associated Church Press’ Award of Excellence on May 2, 2025. The authors als...
May 15, 2025
Alumna Prof. Anna Peterson Publishes Op-Ed in the New York Times
Anna Peterson, AM'87, PhD'91, Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times entitled "Did One of My Students Hate Me Enough to Lie to Get Me in Trouble?"Peterson writes: "Far worse than the fear of investig...
May 7, 2025
Alumna Lea Schweitz Shares a Playful Approach to End of Life Planning
A feature story from Religion News Service sheds light on Lea Schweitz, AM'00, PhD'08 and her Substack, Playdates with Death, an online, end-of-life planning community.Schweitz began this work, which has expanded into a monthly digital support group ...
May 6, 2025
Elizabeth Goudy, MDV95 Leads Radically Inclusive Ministry
The Brown and White, a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania news outlet, published a story entitled "Lehigh Valley church practices 'radical inclusivity.'"The story profiles The Metropolitan Community Church of Lehigh Valley, led by Rev. Elizabeth Goudy, MDV'...
April 25, 2025
Robert Franklin, PhD85, Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Robert Franklin, PhD'85, was named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Franklin is the James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and senior advisor to Emory's president.“Dr. F...
April 24, 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