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Remembering Through Ritual: Prof. Abimbola Adelakun on Grief, Memorial, and Memory
In a moving personal essay, Abimbola Adelakun, Associate Professor of Global Christianity, reflects on the experience of remembering her mother and how ritual acts of memorialization reshaped that remembrance over time.Writing with intimacy and care,...
December 29, 2025
Div School Alum Beau Underwood Reviews Prof. William Schultz's 'Jesus Springs'
A recent review by Divinity School alumnus Beau Underwood, MDiv'10, MPP'10, takes up Jesus Springs, the new book by William Schultz, Assistant Professor of American Religions. Published by Word&Way, the review situates Schultz’s work within broader c...
December 26, 2025
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande on her new book for 'The Political Theory Review' Podcast
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, is featured on The Political Theory Review, where she discusses her new book, The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hi...
December 22, 2025
“Our Better Angels”: Reflections on My Years in Swift Hall
Reading the New York Times one evening in late September, I was pleased to see a conversation reported between Peter Wehner and Marilynne Robinson, the great novelist whose protagonist, John Ames of Gilead, has made an indelible impression on readers...
December 17, 2025
Gratitude and Reflection: A Year-End Message from Dean Robinson
As this year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with profound gratitude on all that the Divinity School community has carried and created together. It has been a year marked by genuine joy and real sorrow, by celebration and remembrance, by e...
December 16, 2025
MDiv Lilia Ellis Reviews 'How Ableism Fuels Racism' for Christian Century Magazine
MDiv student Lilia Ellis’ latest contribution to Christian Century magazine is a review of Dr. Lamar Hardwick’s latest book, How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church.“This is a compelling work. In less than 200 page...
December 10, 2025
Prof. Sarah Hammerschlag Explores the Meaning of Jewish Identity in The Point
In a new essay for The Point, Sarah Hammerschlag, John Nuveen Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions, and History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, offers a frank and searching examination of Jewish ident...
December 9, 2025
The Divinity School and the Hebrew Bible: Past, Present, and Future
The study of the Hebrew Bible has a long and storied history at the University of Chicago. The University’s founding president, William Rainey Harper, was a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and an enthusiastic teacher of its text, ideas, and language, sit...
December 1, 2025
Div School at AAR/SBL 2025
Friday, November 21st:Start Time:Speaker:Title:Location:8:30 amNorth American Paul Tillich Society"Tillich and Nature"Sheraton, Hampton (Third Floor) 9:00 amRandall Reed, PhD'05, Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State UniversityPanelist "...
November 18, 2025
Prof. Margaret Mitchell Increases Aid for South Side Amid SNAP Delays
Margaret Mitchell, AM’82, PhD’89, Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Director of the Hyde Park–Kenwood Food Pantry, was featured in The Chicago Maroon discussing the sharp rise in food-...
November 17, 2025