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Alumni News | News | Divinity in the News

Elizabeth Goudy, MDV95 Leads Radically Inclusive Ministry

The Brown and White, a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania news outlet, published a story entitled "Lehigh Valley church practices 'radical inclusivity.'"The story profiles The Metropolitan Community Church of Lehigh Valley, led by Rev. Elizabeth Goudy, MDV'...

April 25, 2025
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Robert Franklin, PhD85, Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Robert Franklin, PhD'85, was named to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Franklin is the James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and senior advisor to Emory's president.“Dr. F...

April 24, 2025
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Brian Albert Gerrish, Renowned Theologian and Scholar of Reformed Thought, 1931–2025​

Brian Albert Gerrish, a distinguished theologian and the John Nuveen Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, passed away in Mechanicsville, Virginia, on April 14, 2025, at the age of 93.​     Born in the United Kingdom in 193...

April 21, 2025
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Wendy Doniger on Horses for the New York Review of Books

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions, authored an essay for The New York Review of Books, April 10, 2025, issue, entitled “The Rise and Fall of Warhorses.” A follow-up Q&A with editor Nawal ...

April 21, 2025
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Religious Studies Minor Awarded 'Projects for Peace' Grant

Anthony Calixto, a 2025 Public Policy major with minors in Quantitative Social Analysis and Religious Studies, has been awarded a 2025 Projects for Peace Grant of $10,000. Calixto’s project, “Mentorship Program for Community Peace,” will be implement...

April 9, 2025
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Critical Terms, Critical Times: Charting the Next Chapter of Religious Studies at the Future of the Study of Religion Conference

“The Future of the Study of Religions" conference held in Swift Hall on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park Campus on Monday, March 31, seemed to embrace the tension of the spring season in the Midwest; of the liminal space both the weather and the...

April 3, 2025
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Prof. Laurie Zoloth Featured in 'University of Chicago Magazine' Article on Medical Ethics

The Spring 2025 issue of The University of Chicago Magazine features a story about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and its work bridging clinical practice and ethical inquiry, entitled The Heart of the Matter. Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E...

April 3, 2025
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Hans-Josef Klauck, Leading Scholar of the New Testament and Early Christianity, 1946–2025

The University of Chicago Divinity School mourns the passing of Hans-Josef Klauck, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, who died on March 27, 2025, in Munich, Germany. A towering figure in bibl...

April 3, 2025
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Paul Pribbenow Named The University of Chicago Divinity School’s 2025 Alum of the Year

The University of Chicago Divinity School is proud to announce that Paul Pribbenow, AM’79, PhD’93, president of Augsburg University, has been named the 2025 Alum of the Year. This honor recognizes Pribbenow’s distinguished career in higher education,...

April 1, 2025
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Alumna Named Among Winners of 2025 Lautenschlaeger Award

Christine Trotter, PhD’21, is among the 2025 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise winners. Her award-winning book, Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric: 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, 1 Thessalonians, and Hebrews, was published...

March 26, 2025
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