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Professor Doostdar on Divine Encounters with AI for Rolling Stone
Alireza Doostdar, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religions, spoke to Rolling Stone magazine for their story "People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts," by Miles Klee. "That said,...
May 25, 2025
Christianity Today Quotes Professor William Schultz
In a piece for Christianity Today titled, The Gospel of $TRUMP, William Schultz, Assistant Professor of American Religions at the Divinity School comments on the allure of President Trump's cryptocurrency: “I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘This will t...
May 21, 2025
David Tracy, 86, Theologian Who Rejected Rome’s Supremacy, Dies
The New York Times published an obituary remembering Prof David Tracy on May 16, 2025. Author Trip Gabriel writes: "The Rev. David Tracy, a leading liberal Catholic theologian who open-sourced his understanding of God, borrowing from Jews, Buddhists ...
May 16, 2025
Prof. Zoloth Quoted in NPR Bioethics Story
Laurie Zoloth, the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Relgion and Ethics, was called upon as a bioethics expert for an NPR story about a promising genetic treatment tailor-made for a baby born with a rare disorder."'Many ethical issues were indeed clear...
May 16, 2025
Marty Center Executive Director Emily Crews on Pope Leo's Childhood Church for the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune interviewed Emily Crews, executive director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Study of Religion for a piece entitled, "How the new Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church in Chicago fell into disrepair — and what may lie ahead.""E...
May 10, 2025
Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh for Newsweek on Financial Headwinds Facing New Pope
Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, was cited in a Newsweek story about the financial headwinds facing the new Pope entitled "Pope Leo XIV Faces Financial Headache as New Catholic Church Leader.""Th...
May 9, 2025
Dean James T. Robinson in Vanity Fair on the New Pope's South Side Chicago Roots
Dean James T. Robinson was quoted in a Vanity Fair piece entitled "Even Cubs Fans Are Excited About Da Pope, a Sox Fan and Chicago’s Hometown Hero.""Those Chicago roots could give Prevost a 'unique perspective,' said James Robinson, dean of the Unive...
May 9, 2025
Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh on CBS News Giving Perspective on New Pope
CBS News Chicago interviewed Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, to gain a theological perspective on the election of the new Pope Leo XIV. Watch the clip below: ...
May 8, 2025
Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh for the Independent on Pope Leo, XIV
The Independent published a piece entitled "The Pope with a ‘twinkle in his eye’: Former protégé describes the American set to lead the Catholic Church," citing Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. "...
May 8, 2025
PhD Op-Ed on Pope Francis Published by Religion News Service
PhD candidate Ranana Dine's op-ed Pope Francis' simple funeral choices set a moral standard also reflected in Judaism was published by Religion News Service. Dine writes: "As a Jew reading about Pope Francis’ funeral wishes, the precedent set by Gaml...
April 28, 2025