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After the Bombings: Abimbola Adelakun on Terrorism, Strategy, and the Limits of Force
In a recent opinion column for Punch Nigeria, Abimbola Adelakun, Associate Professor of Global Christianity, reflects on the aftermath of Christmas Day airstrikes carried out against alleged terrorist targets in northwest Nigeria.While the strikes we...
January 9, 2026
Remembering Through Ritual: Prof. Abimbola Adelakun on Grief, Memorial, and Memory
In a moving personal essay, Abimbola Adelakun, Associate Professor of Global Christianity, reflects on the experience of remembering her mother and how ritual acts of memorialization reshaped that remembrance over time.Writing with intimacy and care,...
December 29, 2025
Div School Alum Beau Underwood Reviews Prof. William Schultz's 'Jesus Springs'
A recent review by Divinity School alumnus Beau Underwood, MDiv'10, MPP'10, takes up Jesus Springs, the new book by William Schultz, Assistant Professor of American Religions. Published by Word&Way, the review situates Schultz’s work within broader c...
December 26, 2025
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande on her new book for 'The Political Theory Review' Podcast
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, is featured on The Political Theory Review, where she discusses her new book, The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hi...
December 22, 2025
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