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August 17, 2026
Duke Divinity Announces Art and Architecture Tour to Celebrate Centennial
The self-guided multimedia tour of the school’s architecture and artwork includes thirteen stops on new artwork and the history of the school’s buildings narrated by faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines and departments.
August 13, 2026
Duke Divinity Installs Replica of Angels Unawares to Commemorate 100 Years
The 6-foot replica of Timothy Schmalz’s sculpture will serve as a "visual prayer" and an image of hope, ministry, and care for the world.
August 11, 2026
Memorial Service for William C. Turner Jr. Held in Duke Chapel
Mourners from the Duke and Durham communities gathered with clergy, scholars, civic leaders, and the Turner family at a memorial service in Duke Chapel for Divinity professor emeritus the Rev. Dr. William C. Turner Jr.

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August 13, 2026
Community Formed One Conversation at a Time
Lipe Leadership Fellow Daniel Phebus, M.Div. '27, spent his summer immersed in nearly every aspect of church life at Boone United Methodist Church, from worship and pastoral care to community engagement and leadership.
August 6, 2026
Beauty, the Site of Mercy
Comment Magazine
Physician and Duke Divinity alumnus Brewer Eberly interviews Professor Natalie Carnes about art, suffering, and medicine as part of a seminar series offered by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative.
July 28, 2026
Finding Authentic Church Community Around the Table
For Savannah Smith, a Rural Ministry Fellow pursuing a Master of Divinity (’27), her field education journey led to a small rural congregation where she could dive right into the community.

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May 22, 2026
The Limits of Burnout and the Work of Health Care
Church Life Journal
In this essay, TMC co-director Warren Kinghorn critiques the language of “burnout,” arguing that it reflects a mechanistic view of clinicians shaped by systems of efficiency and productivity. Drawing on Aquinas, he instead commends a recovery of the contemplative life as essential for sustaining the work of health care and reorienting it toward love, wonder, and the pursuit of the good.
October 14, 2025
The Council of Nicaea’s Lessons for Today
Faith & Leadership
Reflecting on the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Dean Edgardo Colón-Emeric points to how the making of the creed can guide Christians today.
May 6, 2025
Do Not Harm Yourself, for We Are All Here
Christianity Today
Paul’s cry to the Philippian jailer is a model for the church to respond to suicide in an America plagued by deaths of despair.

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DIVINITY Magazine

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Spring 2026
Volume: 24
Issue Number: 1

Latest Faculty Books

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Preaching and Catholic Social Teaching: Visions of the Reign of God
Sing Many Names: Scriptural Images for God in Hymnody
Zebulon M. Highben
Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump
Amy Laura Hall
Joyful, Anyway
Kate Bowler

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Faithful Practice & Public Witness: Hybrid Certificate in Theology in Health Care
Join a vibrant community committed to seeing health care through the lens of Christian thought and practice.
Project BRI(DDD)GE
Project BRI(DDD)GE (Building Relationships In Durham through Duke Divinity Graduate Education) is a pre-orientation pilgrimage for entering students (residential and hybrid) that seeks to nurture a deep sense of place and cultivate lasting relationships within and beyond Duke Divinity School.
Kate Bowler is over being grateful all the time
MPR News
Bowler says on the "Big Books and Bold Ideas" podcast that it’s become a new form of toxic positivity that if you list enough things, you can stack up everything you are grateful for and then determine to be happy.

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