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2026-2027 PhD, MDiv, Masters Application

Prof. Angie Heo for the Chicago Reader | The scent of resurrection

"Craft in the Fullest Sense" | Prof. Angie Heo's 2026 Convocation Address

Pop Religion | Prof. Abimbola Adelakun on Is God Is, Destiny, Sin, and the Religious Imagination of Black Rage |

What to read during summer 2026 | University of Chicago News

Divinity School Honors 2026 Student Prize Winners | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Video | Swift Hall at 100: A Century of Religious Scholarship and the Road Ahead

The Flight of American Christianity | Swift 100 Faculty Reflection

Please play this syllabus | "Gaming the Gods" w. Marshall Cunningham

A Place Like No Other | Swift 100 Faculty Reflection from Dan Arnold

If This, Then What: Russell Johnson Wins Swogger Award for Classroom Teaching | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Exacting and Invested: Jeffrey Stackert Honored for PhD Teaching and Mentoring | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Creating Conditions for Discovery: Ryan Coyne Wins Quantrell Award | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Prof. Marshall Cunningham on Donald Trump’s Golden Statue - Newsweek

Joy, Rest, and the Work of Ethics | Swift 100 Faculty Reflection

Kirsten Macfarlane Awarded Selma V. Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of Ideas

The Necessity of Islamic Philosophy | Prof. Raissa de Rande w. Arc Magazine

The moral injury of spectator violence | The Christian Century

Divinity School Launches Certificate in Chaplaincy for MDiv Students | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Exploring the Worlds of the Religions | William Schwieker's Swift 100 Faculty Reflection

Preparing Scholars to Teach: Inside the Colman Pedagogical Fellowship

Talking to God, Talking About Religion | 2026 Alum of the Year Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

RSVP to Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Alum of the Year Keynote | May 1

Turning on the Mind: Harville Hendrix, AM'65, PhD'71, on Chicago, Critical Thinking, and the Origins of Imago Therapy | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Menachem Kipnis -Edited by Prof. Sheila. Jelen

Choosing Swift Again and Again | Sarah Hammerschlag's Swift 100 Faculty Reflection

Becoming Neighbors by Amar D. Peterman

God and bitcoin: Why some Christians pitch crypto at church

One Year of 'Criteria' | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Oscars Week: Outside of History: 'Marty Supreme' and the American Dream

Oscars Week: The Not-So-Monstrous History Behind Frankenstein

Tough-Minded, Tender-Hearted | Prof. Dwight N. Hopkins' Swift 100 Faculty Reflection

Oscars Week: Souls, fandom and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

Prof. Kristine Culp's Bethany College Founder's Day Address

How Colorado Springs became an evangelical mecca | University of Chicago News

Hunger and Thirst: Embodied Religion in The Testament of Ann Lee | Pop Religion

If Not Here, Where? | Prof. Carolina López-Ruiz reflects on Swift Hall's centennial.

The 5 Unofficial Love Languages - Emily D. Crews for The New York Times

Hospitality as a Moral Practice | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Swift Hall and the Good Life | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Cynthia Lindner for 'The Christian Century'

Prof. Will Schultz on Colorado Public Radio

Terrorism in Nigeria: Aftermath of Christmas Day Bombings

Golems, Angels and AI: What non-humans teach us about humanity

Emily D. Crews on Etsy Witches

“Our Better Angels”: Reflections on My Years in Swift Hall | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Abimbola Adelakun writes about grief and memory on the 25th anniversary of her mother's passing.

Alum Beau Underwood Reviews Prof. Schultz's 'Jesus Springs'

The Divinity School and the Hebrew Bible: Past, Present, and Future | The University of Chicago Divinity School by Prof. Jeffrey Stackert

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande on her new book for 'The Political Theory Review' Podcast

Gratitude and Reflection: A Year-End Message from Dean Robinson | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Signs of Election by Prof. Sarah Hammerschlag | The Point Magazine

Div School Guide to AAR/SBL 2025

Celebrating The Pearlsong Through Scholarship and Song | Center for the Study of World Religions

Tony Banout, PhD'12,Free speech expert to deliver Presidential Lecture

Prof. Kirsten Macfarlane Wins Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Christian Century's review of Alum Robert Baird's debut novel

Alum Stephen Post discusses his upcoming book on the Mind Matters Podcast

The Inverse Wisdom of a Second-Century Martyr | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Register to attend New Directions in Salvage Poetics, Nov. 3-4

100 years of Swift Hall in 10 objects | University of Chicago News

Read Professors Erin Galgay Walsh and Marshall Cunningham's Relgion News Service op-ed: "In the Bible's immigrant story, a model for humanizing the vulnerable"

'Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City by Prof. William J. Schultz

TIME100 Next 2025 | Marshall Hatch Jr., MDiv'17,AM'17

RSVP to Daniel Holz's Nuveen lecture: "Reflections on the Beginning and End of Everything"

MDiv Student Lilia Ellis on loving they enemy for 'The Christian Century'

Marshall Cunningham on Religion in Grand Theft Auto

Grace Rotermund's E-Catalogue: Medieval Text Manuscripts

Denbō- Transmitting the Dharma | The University of Chicago Divinity School

Prof. Will Schultz on American Pentecostalism for 99% Invisible Podcast

Faculty Book Release: The Politics of Islamic Ethics by Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande

Prof. Anne Carr, the ‘founding mother’ of Catholic feminism in academia

Prof. Christian Wedemeyer on the Dalai Lama for The New York Post

Prof. Laurie Zoloth on Gene Editing Tech for Bloomberg

Criteria: Convocation 2025 Edition

Walton Yan, Relgious Studies Major of Class of 2025 reflects on the many roads to Convocation

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts

Sacred Grounds, Gospel Sounds RSVP

Prof. Zoloth on ethics of gene-therapy for NPR

The Marty Center's Emily Crews on the fate of Pope Leo's Childhood Home and Church for The Chicago Tribune

Divinity School Dean James T. Robinson on the New Pope's South Side Chicago Roots

Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh on CBS Chicago: A theological perspective on Pope Leo XIV and his ascendancy

2025 Alum of the Year Address: Dr. Paul Pribbenow delivers "Wrestling with Angels: Higher Education Leadership in a Moral Key."

Dr. Emilie Townes named 2025 Alumni Award honoree

2025 MDiv Senior Presentations

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

【Colman Program】 Religion, Journalism, and Narrative Non-Fiction: A Career Conversation with Claire Hoffman

【Colman Program】 Giving Up Control: Managing Freewheeling Discussions and Assessing Learning

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

Christine Trotter, PhD'21 among 2025 Lautenschlaeger Awardees

UChicago Giving Day 2025

From Trump To $JESUS Coin: Spreading The Theology Of Crypto

NPR's Scott Simon reads from Prof. Martin Marty's 'A Cry of Absence'

Prof. Sarah Fredericks at the Goshen College Conference on Religion and Science

Martin E. Marty, ‘most influential interpreter of religion’ in U.S., 1928-2025

Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network

Cited in HuffPost: 'Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools'

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Dean's Forum with Sheila Jelen

UChicago fourth-year student Francesco Rahe named 2025 Rhodes Scholar

Updated Course Catalog for 2024-2025

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