THE DIVINITY SCHOOL at WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
At its annual meeting June 8, the Baptist History and Heritage Society will present its most prestigious award, the 2007 W. O. Carver Distinguished Service Award, to Bill J. Leonard, dean and professor of church history at the Wake Forest University Divinity School.
The North Carolina Schweitzer Fellows Program, a program of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and the Wake Forest University Divinity School is proud to announce John Lawrence, a first year Divinity student, as a 2007-2008 North Carolina Fellow.
When Dr. Carlton T. Mitchell retired after 33 years as a professor of religion at Wake Forest University, his family knew exactly how to honor him. They established the Dr. Carlton Mitchell and Miriam Mitchell Scholarship Fund to benefit students in the Divinity School. Recently, Dr. Mitchell established a charitable gift annuity that will eventually be added to the scholarship.
To better prepare ministers who are often asked to respond to the mental and emotional as well as spiritual needs of church and community members, Wake Forest University has established a new dual degree program.
Read more about the dual degreeFor everyone who has sat through a history class or read a historical book and was tempted to stereotype all historians as dusty, dry and humorless ...meet Bill Leonard. Baptists Today editor John Pierce visited with Leonard last fall in his office behind Wait Chapel on the university campus. This conversation is adapted from that interview.
First year student Cameron Mason (M.Div '09), has recently been named a Congregational Fellow by the Fund for Theological Education (FTE). The Fellowship will provide her with significant financial support, which will be matched by her home congregation, Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
The Divinity School of Wake Forest University is pleased to announce that John Cobb and Marjorie Suchocki will be the Steelman Lecturers for 2006. The Steelman Lectures are a core component of our program in public theology, which brings theological resources to the broader community.
Robert Seymour, known for his commitment to racial integration in the '60s and his prolific involvement in Baptist life, has founded with his wife the Pearl and Robert Seymour Scholarship Fund.
Bill J. Leonard, dean of the Divinity School, was a guest June 19 on "The NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer to discuss challenges facing organized religion in the United States. He used recent Episcopal and Southern Baptist elections as a backdrop.
View the video clipSeveral awards for academic achievement and community involvement were presented to graduating thirty three students during the Divinity School's Commencement ceremony on May 15, 2006.
Read about Senior ProjectsA new essay from J. Andrew Daugherty, a Mdiv 2003 graduate, examines the Baptist relationship with church and state separation. This editorial was originally published in Baptist Today, May 2006.
Dr. Walter Harrelson, delivers Broach Lecture titled, "The Ecumenical Witness of Christians in Israel and Palestine Today" for the Ecumenical Institution April 25, 2006 at 7:00 pm at St. John's Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC.
See the flier [PDF | 20kB]Richard Gene Puckett and Robbie Lynn Puckett of Raleigh have established the Thomas Meredith Divinity Scholarship Fund in the Wake Forest University Divinity School to support women entering the ministry and to honor an early leader among Baptists in North Carolina.
Bill Moyers, a broadcast journalist, former public official and Baptist minister, will speak at the Wake Forest University Divinity School's chapel service at 11 a.m. March 14 in the university's Wait Chapel. The event is free and intended for members of the Wake Forest community.
Read the SpeechReligious environmentalist and philosopher Roger Gottlieb is leading the course "Religion, Ecology and Religious Environmentalism" in the Wake Forest University Divinity School at a time when many diverse religious groups are acknowledging the importance of addressing environmental crises like global warming and pollution.
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