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Prof. Sarah Hammerschlag Explores the Meaning of Jewish Identity in The Point
In a new essay for The Point, Sarah Hammerschlag, John Nuveen Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions, and History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, offers a frank and searching examination of Jewish ident...
December 9, 2025
The Divinity School and the Hebrew Bible: Past, Present, and Future
The study of the Hebrew Bible has a long and storied history at the University of Chicago. The University’s founding president, William Rainey Harper, was a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and an enthusiastic teacher of its text, ideas, and language, sit...
December 1, 2025
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
Professor Erin Galgay Walsh Celebrates "The Pearlsong" Book Release
On October 20, Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, was one of three experts to address guests during "The Pearlsong" book release event held at Harvard Divinity School. “Whether one has knowledge of...
November 13, 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
Swift Hall at 100
It is a joy, and truly a privilege, to see so many gathered to celebrate one hundred years of Swift Hall, the beloved and enduring home of the University of Chicago Divinity School.Before I begin, I want to offer a word of gratitude to President Paul...
November 10, 2025
Prof. Kirsten Macfarlane Wins Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize
The University of Chicago Divinity School congratulates Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History, whose book Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Oxford University Pre...
November 4, 2025
Professor Schultz tells how Colorado Springs became ‘evangelical Vatican’
Professor William J. Schultz and his new book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City were mentioned in an article entitled, "Historian tells how Colorado Springs became ‘evangelical Vatican’"."'Worship attendance soar...
October 20, 2025
Aims of a Divinity Education: A Life of Inquiry in Our Time
Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature; Associate Faculty, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, delivered these remarks during the Divinity School's 2025 Welcome Ceremony on September 26, 2025.First, I wa...
October 8, 2025
Marshall Cunningham Talks Grand Theft Auto and his course 'Gaming the Gods' with Canadian Talk Show Host
Grand Theft Auto isn’t the first place you’d expect to find religious tropes… but “Jesus Saves” checkpoints, cults, morality systems...they’re all there. On this episode of The Last Show with David Cooper, Marshall Cunningham, Assistant Instructio...
September 17, 2025