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Walton Yan, AB'25, Religious Studies Major, Featured in UChicago News
UChicago News recently published their annual piece featuring upcoming graduates, "Class of 2025 reflects on the many roads to Convocation." This year's round-up featured Walton Yan, a triple major in Religious Studies, Germanic Studies, and Art Hist...
June 4, 2025
Fr. David Tracy remembered as theologian who wanted the church to speak to the world
Catherine Odell wrote an obituary memorializing Prof. David Tracy for The National Catholic Reporter quoting the University of Chicago obituary and Prof. Ryan Coyne: "'Ryan Coyne, associate professor of philosophy of religions and theology at the Div...
May 31, 2025
Prof. Zoloth Member of Conference Calling For Moratorium on Human Genome Editing
Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, was among leaders from scientific, biotech, patient, religious, bioethics, and policy communities that convened in Washington, DC, in March, to reaffirm the urgent need for responsib...
May 27, 2025
Professor Doostdar on Divine Encounters with AI for Rolling Stone
Alireza Doostdar, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religions, spoke to Rolling Stone magazine for their story "People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts," by Miles Klee. "That said,...
May 25, 2025
Professors Arnold and Stackert Appointed to Named Faculty Chairs
The University of Chicago Board of Trustees has confirmed Daniel Arnold as the John Henry Barrows Professor of Philosophy of Religions and Jeffrey Stackert as the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible. The Divinity School celebrates these fac...
May 23, 2025
Prof. Zoloth Named to Georgetown-Lancet Commission on Faith, Trust, and Health
Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, has been named to the new Georgetown-Lancet Commission on Faith, Trust, and Health. The commission will explore how the interplay across these spheres can improve health outcomes and...
May 22, 2025
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
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
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
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