3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (269+ words) The University of Chicago Divinity School Jeffrey Stackert's Summer Reading Picks The Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible recommends a novel set in a research lab and a murder mystery with roots in Swift Hall, in UChicago News's annual list…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (168+ words) "I heard that the University of Chicago has a nice divinity school," she recalled, "and that's how I ended up here." She completed her first hospital chaplaincy internship while earning her master's and came away certain of her direction. Her…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (214+ words) What does it mean to live well in the face of climate change? At first glance, the question can seem beside the point. When confronted with evidence of a warming planet and its consequences for ecosystems and communities, turning inward…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (352+ words) Quick: Name the most accomplished fictional scholar to teach at Swift Hall. The easy answer is Franz Bibfeldt, that spoof of academic faddishness and triviality. But I'd like to suggest another name: Homer Wilson, professor of the psychology of religion,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (834+ words) The University of Chicago Divinity School On the "Advantages of Marginality" in Swift Hall By Sheila E. Jelen, Director of MA/AMRS Studies, Professor of Religion, Literature and Visual Culture and History of Judaism | June 2, 2026 Sheila Jelen on Dvora Baron, the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (938+ words) Nothing is Final The University of Chicago Divinity School By Anand Venkatkrishnan, Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia | June 1, 2026 On South Asian religion, postcolonial critique, and the future of the field It is difficult to imagine…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (329+ words) Class begins with a final cutscene." Projected on a large screen, a student guides a cloaked figure toward a beam of light atop a distant mountain. Trudging through blinding snow, the figure falls to its knees, unable to continue." Then,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (243+ words) The University of Chicago Divinity School - kirsten macfarlane receives 2026 sofcb best essay award Kirsten Macfarlane Receives 2026 So FCB Best Essay Award Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (458+ words) Swift Hall is a place where students in Room 403, with its impressive collection of ancient Christian bas-reliefs, are as likely as not to be discussing China's Tian-tai tradition of Buddhist thought, Sun Ra's Afrofuturism, American pragmatism, or Arabic poetry. It's…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (432+ words) Jeffrey Stackert, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Divinity School and in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and in the College, approaches teaching with a principle that might seem counterintuitive: rigor is a form of…...