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September 2, 2026
Professor Anathea Portier-Young Joins Ivy+ Leadership Program
Duke Faculty Advancement
Portier-Young joins other Duke faculty and colleagues from across Ivy+ institutions to develop leadership strategies, exchange perspectives, and explore opportunities and challenges facing higher education today.
September 1, 2026
Duke Divinity Celebrates Centennial Year at Opening Convocation
Duke Divinity School welcomed 251 new students at Opening Convocation in the start of its centennial year.
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.

Feature Stories

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September 3, 2026
Project TURN: Voices from the NCCIW Women's Prison
Part of Duke Divinity School's Prison Studies Program, Project TURN brings incarcerated students into classes with Divinity School students and faculty. We interviewed incarcerated students to hear about how the program has impacted them.
August 27, 2026
Thinking With the Past: A Q&A With Polly Ha
Duke Faculty Advancement
Professor Ha, a 2026-27 Provost Faculty Fellow, traces her fascination with intellectual history to an unexpected discovery as an undergraduate: a hidden world of dissent, forbidden manuscripts, and the birth of independence.
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.

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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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Thursday, September 3, 2026
Religion News Service
Thursday, September 3, 2026
AP News
Monday, August 31, 2026
The Christian Century

DIVINITY Magazine

DIVINITY magazine represents the engagement of Duke Divinity School with important topics and invites friends, supporters, alumni, and others in our community to participate in the story of what is happening here.
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Spring 2026
Volume: 24
Issue Number: 1

Latest Faculty Books

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Latine Theology: An Introduction
Daniel Castelo
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

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Finding Jesus in Prison
Duke Divinity School's Prison Studies Program gives students the opportunity to engage with people in prison and the system that imprisons them in the context of theological education and formation for ministry. Hear from faculty, staff, and students about how Duke's Prison Ministry Program has been transformational in their relationship with God.
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.

Faith & Leadership

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Dean's Reports

Our annual Dean's Report and Highlights Report covers the year's highlights in news, events, fundraising, and more.