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“Our Better Angels”: Reflections on My Years in Swift Hall
Reading the New York Times one evening in late September, I was pleased to see a conversation reported between Peter Wehner and Marilynne Robinson, the great novelist whose protagonist, John Ames of Gilead, has made an indelible impression on readers...
December 17, 2025
Gratitude and Reflection: A Year-End Message from Dean Robinson
As this year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with profound gratitude on all that the Divinity School community has carried and created together. It has been a year marked by genuine joy and real sorrow, by celebration and remembrance, by e...
December 16, 2025
MDiv Lilia Ellis Reviews 'How Ableism Fuels Racism' for Christian Century Magazine
MDiv student Lilia Ellis’ latest contribution to Christian Century magazine is a review of Dr. Lamar Hardwick’s latest book, How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church.“This is a compelling work. In less than 200 page...
December 10, 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
Div School at AAR/SBL 2025
Friday, November 21st:Start Time:Speaker:Title:Location:8:30 amNorth American Paul Tillich Society"Tillich and Nature"Sheraton, Hampton (Third Floor) 9:00 amRandall Reed, PhD'05, Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State UniversityPanelist "...
November 18, 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