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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
NPR's Scott Simon reads from Prof. Martin Marty's 'A Cry of Absence'
NPR's Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition, posted on his X account a taped reading from Prof. Martin E. Marty's 1983 book on grief, A Cry of Absence. "Martin was a member of the clergy, of course, and had specific religious beliefs, but I think thes...
March 5, 2025
Martin E. Marty, ‘most influential interpreter of religion’ in U.S., 1928-2025
UChicago theologian and historian helped shape the field and public understanding of religionThroughout his distinguished career, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus and the Rev. Dr. Martin E. Marty was one of the country’s foremost theologians and ...
February 27, 2025
Sightings on Religion News Service: Reincarnating religion: Are the nones all that different from their parents?
A recent piece for The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion Sightings column was picked up by Religion News Service. The article, entitled "Reincarnating religion: Are the nones all that different from their parents?" by Steve...
February 18, 2025
Moroccan Press Covers Divinity School Event Feat. Sheikh Muhammad Fawzi Al-Karkari
Several Moroccan media outlets, including NadorCity.com, published pieces describing the recent visit of Sheikh Muhammad Fawzi Al-Karkari to Swift Hall, home of the University of Chicago Divinity School, to speak with alum and author of the recent bo...
February 11, 2025
Aaron Hollander, PhD18, Appointed First Lay Executive Director of the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute
Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute (GEII), a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, has promoted Aaron Hollander, PhD'18 to be its new Executive Director.Hollander is the first lay director in GEII’s 58-year history. He succe...
February 5, 2025
A Vigil of Voices: The Martin Marty Center and the Divinity School Connect to Community Through Dr. King's Speeches
“We are not only living in a time of cataclysmic change – we live in an era in which human rights is a central world issue. The shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy,” recited Curtis Evans, assistant professor ...
January 24, 2025
In their 90s, Sisters of Mercy have spent their lives fighting for immigrant justice. And they’re not stopping now.
In a piece by Nell Salzman of the Chicago Tribune, entitled: "In their 90s, Sisters of Mercy have spent their lives fighting for immigrant justice. And they’re not stopping now," Emily Crews,PhD, executive director of the Martin Marty Center for the ...
January 21, 2025
As Trump returns, be a Martin Marty, not a Billy Graham
Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times dedicated his Sunday, January 19, 2025 column to the legacy of Professor Emeritus Martin Marty, writing: Marty warned against acting as the “servant of a God of prey whose goal it is to annex and enslave.”He re...
January 21, 2025
Prof. Brook Ziporyn appeared on the Chinese television program “Meeting Civilization”
Prof. Brook Ziporyn appeared on the Chinese television program “Meeting Civilization” (translated) on Jan. 11. The show explores exchange and mutual learning among the Chinese and the world, including the universal wisdom of the 'Daodejing.' https://...
January 17, 2025