Duke Divinity School
After traditionalist churches left, UMC may be more — not less — diverse
By Yonat Shimron — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — Even after the departures, 24% of North Carolina clergy remaining in the denomination disagree with allowing LGBTQ people to get married and ordained within the denomination.
A memoir explores a shattering childhood and narrow escape
By Yonat Shimron — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — 'Between Two Trailers' is part of a growing genre describing in harrowing detail the abuse and neglect of parents caught in a maze of mental illness and religion.
Conservative Christians just lost their scholarly trump card on same-sex relationships
By Jonathan Merritt — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — Theologian Richard Hays' reversal comes at a bad time for those who oppose accepting LGBTQ Christians.
Fuller Theological Seminary names first Black president
By Yonat Shimron — September 13, 2022
(RNS) — David Emmanuel Goatley, an associate dean at Duke Divinity School, will replace Mark Labberton, who announced he was stepping down from the Pasadena, California, seminary last year.
The ‘thousand points of light’ switcheroo
By Amy Laura Hall — July 20, 2022
(RNS) — How conservatives made social welfare the province of private faith.
New book examines the religious lives of people without homes
By Yonat Shimron — January 14, 2022
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Susan Dunlap's 'Shelter Theology' describes the faith of people living in a homeless shelter, many of whom believe God guides and blesses them.
Kate Bowler wants to take down the self-help enterprise
By Yonat Shimron — November 4, 2021
(RNS) — Her new book, ‘No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear),’ is a broadside against a culture obsessed with the power of positive thinking.
J. Dana Trent turns her drug-dealing childhood into a podcast about poverty and faith
By Yonat Shimron — September 24, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Breaking Good,’ a four-part podcast, tells a complex story of a dysfunctional churchgoing family living in a fading railroad town beset by poverty, addiction and mental illness.
In a new documentary, Will Willimon puts his preaching toolbox to the test
By Yonat Shimron — June 23, 2021
(RNS) — In ‘A Will to Preach,’ one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, according to a Baylor University survey, shows how a master craftsman approaches the task.
New book explores how Desmond Tutu’s Christian mysticism helped unite a nation
By Yonat Shimron — April 14, 2021
(RNS) — In his new book, ‘Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor,’ Michael Battle delves into the ways Tutu’s religious formation shaped a vision that helped topple apartheid and unite a riven nation.
Duke Divinity School dean tapped as Belmont University president
By Yonat Shimron — February 1, 2021
(RNS) — L. Gregory Jones, longtime dean of Duke Divinity School, will become the new president of Nashville's booming, nondenominational Belmont University.
For many schools, the Master of Divinity degree is moving online for good
By Yonat Shimron — January 26, 2021
(RNS) — Duke Divinity School will begin offering a hybrid Master of Divinity degree with online classes and one-week in-person intensives — cementing what has become a growing trend among most free-standing seminaries.
Rev. Gil Caldwell, United Methodist civil rights and gay rights activist, dead at 86
By Adelle M. Banks — September 8, 2020
(RNS) — Caldwell said his application to Duke Divinity School was rejected in the mid-1950s because of his race. He visited the campus some 60 years later.
‘Racialized policing’ program takes faith leaders from grief to action
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 2020
(RNS) — As the White House and Congress debate nationwide actions, participants say they have come away from their studies with determination to push for change in their communities.
Vanier is gone, but his Christian model for living alongside the disabled takes root
By Yonat Shimron — May 30, 2019
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (RNS) — Jean Vanier’s core principle of 'Eat together, pray together, celebrate together' forms the basis for Friendship House, where students share living space with people with disabilities.
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