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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

William Clair Turner Jr., James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Preaching at Duke Divinity School, died on July 26 at the age of 78.

Fons Vitae organized this interdisciplinary seminar, bringing together medical students, health care professionals, bioethics experts, and other scholars to explore the medical, ethical, and theological dimensions of modern reproductive medicine.

Elliot Krause's field education placement is L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities share life together, envisioning a world where those with disability are known as indispensable parts of God’s creation.

Professor Ha's work will investigate ways to connect the Provost’s Initiative on Pluralism, Free Inquiry, and Belonging with other Duke programs that aim to reinvigorate thought and debate about “the big questions."

Libba McCluskey, MDiv ‘29, is part of Duke Divinity School's student pastor program, which allows certain United Methodist students serving local congregations to fulfill their field education requirements through their pastoral appointments.

Faith & Leadership, the online offering of Duke Divinity School's Forum for Congregational Life, has won a total of five awards, including two first-place awards.

From biblical scholarship and theology to poetry, ethics, preaching, and public life, Duke Divinity School faculty continue to publish work that speaks to the church and the world.

For Shirlye Grandy, MDiv ‘27, field education has become a place where her own story of transformation informs her ministry with others.

For student Reagan Kelly, field education has provided opportunities for her to practice ministry in tangible ways—showing her what ministry actually feels like in practice.

Authored by TMC alumni Hima Bindu Thota, Clark Howell, and John Dortch, alongside TMC affiliate faculty member Ryan Antiel, this paper reimagines surgical practice through the lens of the Sabbath, offering a theological counter to medicine’s fixation on efficiency. It invites clinicians to recover a sense of sacred time and moral formation that restores presence, dignity, and the practice of healing.

The service honored five women who earned the Certificate of Achievement in Theological Education, studying theology, religion, and ethics alongside residential Duke Divinity students.

At its Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation Program celebration luncheon, the Center for Reconciliation honored 34 participants who completed one of two certificate programs designed to equip Christian leaders to navigate conflict.

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.

Duke Divinity School celebrated over 150 graduating students at the 2026 Baccalaureate Service on May 9 in Duke Chapel. Other events included Closing Convocation, an academic awards ceremony, and Graduate Cross services.

From first-generation scholars and international students to second-career ministers and hybrid learners balancing full-time work, our graduates share how they have been shaped to serve in churches, nonprofits, classrooms, and communities around the world.