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Alumni Features & Spotlight | News

Teaching and Contemplation

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in writing to his students in his Sermons on the Song of Songs, urged them not to strive for the “knowledge which puffed them up” but for the love “which builds up.”[1]  Bernard taught that knowledge, without love, was vanit...

May 21, 2025
Donald Trump standing on a stage with his mouth open. A background reads "bitcoin2024)

Faculty | Divinity in the News | News

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
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News | Faculty News & Spotlight | Divinity in the News

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
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News | Divinity in the News | Faculty News & Spotlight

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
New World screwworm larvae use tusklike mandibles to consume the flesh of warm-blooded animals, causing infections that can be fatal to the host.

Faculty | News

Journal 'Science' Publishes Paper Co-Authored By Prof. Zoloth

On May 15, The journal Science published an article co-authored by Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, entitled “Deliberate extinction by genome modification: An ethical challenge.”Read the full article here....

May 15, 2025
Book cover featuring stained glass American flag with the title Baptizing America, How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism

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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
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News | Faculty News & Spotlight

Prof. Schweiker Delivers Keynote at Yale Divinity School Conference on AI and Humanity

William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Professor of Theological Ethics, gave the keynote speech at the Yale Divinity School “AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT” conference last month. His talk on his recent ...

May 14, 2025
Laura Mathews, left, and Antoinette Nuzzo visit the former St. Mary of the Assumption Church at the corner of South Leyden Avenue and East 137th Street on May 8, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

News | Divinity in the News | Marty Center News

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
Pope Leo XIV speaking to the public for the first time.

News | Divinity in the News | Faculty

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
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News | Divinity in the News

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
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