Lauren Winner is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture on Christian thinking in theological seminaries was one of the highlights of “The State of the Evangelical Mind” conference in Indianapolis. First, Winner observed that evangelical...
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Teaching St. Augustine on 9-11-01
Peter Candler was a graduate student at Duke Divinity School on September 11, 2001. He was scheduled to give an 11:00am guest lecture in a theological class on St. Augustine’s City of God. He describes what happened on that day in...
The *The Wall Street Journal* Weighs-In on the Duke Divinity School Controversy
I just came across Peter Berkowitz‘s commentary at The Wall Street Journal on the recent controversy over racial sensitivity training at Duke Divinity School. Also check out the more than 500 comments. I think religious-affiliated institutions, such as Christian colleges and...
Law Professor Jonathan Turley Weighs-In on the Duke Divinity School Case
You see him on CNN, NBC, FOX News, CBS, and other news channels. Now George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley offers his thoughts on the recent controversy at Duke Divinity School. Turley believes that Paul Griffiths, who recently resigned...
Thinking Historically About the Duke Divinity School Controversy
Last night on my train ride home from Philadelphia I got caught up in a Twitter exchange devoted to the recent controversy at Duke Divinity School. If you are not familiar with this case, I have assembled some links here....
*The New York Times* on Paul Griffiths and Duke
Get up to speed here: and here and here. Here is a taste of Anemona Hartocollis’s NYT article: Mr. Schoenfeld said that Duke did not comment on personnel matters, but issued a statement saying that the divinity school “is committed to scholarly excellence...
“Inside Higher Ed” on the Duke Divinity School Controversy
Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports on the controversy at Duke Divinity School surrounding professor Paul Griffith’s opposition to diversity training and the subsequent backlash. Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of Flaherty’s article: Griffiths’s offenses, according to...
Rod Dreher Publishes E-Mails from Duke Divinity School Controversy
You can read them here. Get up to speed here. Some quick thoughts on what I have read: Faculty were invited to attend the Racial Equity Institute training at Duke. They were not forced to attend. Regardless of what one...
What is Going on at Duke Divinity School?
Rod Dreher of The American Conservative and “Benedict Option” fame blogged about this yesterday under the title “Brave Prof Stands Up To Duke Divinity SJWs.” The “brave prof” in question is Catholic theologian and Duke Divinity School faculty member Paul...