Duke Divinity School will hold its 2021 Closing Convocation online with Luke Powery, dean of Duke University Chapel and associate professor of homiletics at the school, preaching. L. Gregory Jones, dean of the Divinity School and the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Distinguished Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry, will be announcing student awards.

Edgardo Colón-Emeric, Irene and William McCutchen Associate Professor of Reconciliation and Theology and the associate dean for Academic Formation, and the Rev. Meghan Benson, school chaplain, will offer a prayer of blessing/commissioning over Dean Jones, who is leaving the school to become president of Belmont University.   

The event will be streamed live on the Duke Divinity School YouTube channel.