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100 years of Swift Hall in 10 objects
How does one celebrate a 100th birthday? For a human or Galapagos tortoise, a centennial celebration would likely include a birthday cake heavy with candles or becoming a first-time mother. This year, Swift Hall, home of the University of Chicago Div...
October 13, 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
Prof. William J. Schultz Publishes 'Jesus Springs'
Assistant Professor of American Religions William J. Schultz's new book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City (Chapel Hill, October 2025), was published this week on Oct. 7.In Jesus Springs, William J. Schultz traces...
October 7, 2025
Div School Alum and Lecturer Marshall Hatch Jr. Named Among 2025 Time100 Next
Divinity School alum and lecturer, Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr., MDiv'17, AM'17, was named among Time Magazine's "2025 Time100 Most Influential Rising Stars."The Reverend Al Sharpton writes of Hatch: "I have watched the Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr. grow up, h...
September 30, 2025
Swift 100: Celebrating a Century of Swift Hall
This academic year, the University of Chicago Divinity School launches Swift 100, a year-long celebration marking the centennial of Swift Hall. Since opening its doors in 1925, Swift Hall has been the academic and spiritual home of the Divinity Schoo...
September 24, 2025
Swift Hall Among 30 New Sites in the 2025 Open House Chicago Festival
The Open House Chicago Festival, hosted by Chicago Architecture Center is marking its 15th year in Chicago. The annual free event showcases the city’s well-known architecture, highlighting culturally, historically, and architecturally significant sit...
September 19, 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
Laurie Zoloth on Porcine Organ Transplants for the New York Times
Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, was quoted in a New York Times piece entitled Pig Organ Transplants May Pose a Dilemma for Some Jews and Muslims.“It’s the ‘yuck factor’ — something we call moral repugnance in bioet...
September 16, 2025
MDiv Student, Lilia Ellis, on 'Loving Thy Enemy' for 'The Christian Century'
"'Do not rejoice when your enemies fall,' says Proverbs—but it takes on a life of its own in the faceless social media hive mind. Like contagion, righteous anger moves in groups. It only takes a critical mass of people to give permission for antisoci...
September 12, 2025
Marquis Who's Who Honors Apryl Renee Brown for Expertise in Religion, Public Health and Health Care
Apryl Renee Brown, current MDiv student, has been included in the Marquis Who’s Who. Brown also holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Ross University and a Master’s in Public Health from Tulane University. In 2024, she was named a fellow at the Inst...
September 11, 2025