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Creating Conditions for Discovery: Ryan Coyne Wins Quantrell Award
For Ryan Coyne, Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology and in the College, teaching begins not with delivering knowledge, but with creating the conditions for discovery. “Above all, I want the course material to come alive fo...
May 18, 2026
When a Golden Statue Makes Biblical News
When a 22-foot golden statue of President Donald Trump was unveiled at Trump National Doral Miami last month, the internet quickly reached for a biblical comparison: the golden calf of Exodus. Marshall Cunningham, Assistant Instructional Professor of...
May 13, 2026
Kirsten Macfarlane Awarded Selma V. Forkosch Prize
Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History, has been awarded the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas over the past year.The annual prize recogni...
May 6, 2026
Joy, Rest, and the Work of Ethics
Professor Sarah E. Fredericks examines climate change, moral emotion, and the expanding horizons of religious ethics at Swift Hall. Looking back to the 1967 volume of Criterion celebrating the centennial of the Divinity School, I recognize that the f...
May 1, 2026
Exploring the Worlds of the Religions
"The creation of the universe operates on the principle that Intellect (Reason) prevails over Necessity not by force, but by persuasion."—Plato, Timaeus My first encounter with Chicago as an adult came late at night, driving over the Skyway, up from ...
April 22, 2026
Preparing Scholars to Teach: Inside the Colman Pedagogical Fellowship
Assistant Dean of Students Nathan Hardy, when planning for the next workshop of the Colman Program, said his philosophy centered around a quote he once heard Professor Margaret Mitchell, Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testamen...
April 22, 2026
Talking to God, Talking About Religion
A Conversation with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Alum of the Year 2026 “It’s a big project for us to figure out how to listen to each other, isn’t it?” For Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, JD’76, PhD’93, this observation names a central problem at the hear...
April 21, 2026
Prof. Doostdar Examines Media, Power, and the War on Iran
In a recent segment for Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post, Alireza Doostdar, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion, contextualizes escalating tensions around the war on Iran within a broader geopolitical frame.Doostdar...
April 19, 2026
UChicago Leadership Q&A Series: James T. Robinson, Dean of the Divinity School
Originally published on the UChicago IntranetJames T. Robinson has served as dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School since 2022, but he has been an integral part of UChicago for more than two decades.Robinson joined the Divinity School in 2...
April 17, 2026
Divinity School Launches Certificate in Chaplaincy for MDiv Students
The University of Chicago Divinity School now offers a certificate in chaplaincy, available to all current Master of Divinity students. Modeled after UChicago’s interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP) certificat...
April 17, 2026