Bill J. Leonard Winston-Salem, N.C. — Toward the end of his life, the great dissenter and short-time Baptist Roger Williams (1603-1683) reflected on the founding of Providence Plantation in the American colony of Rhode Island, writing: I desired it might be for a shelter for persons […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — Wake Forest University School of Divinity Assistant Teaching Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology Melva L. Sampson was named to the Brite Divinity School inaugural cohort of the Gongloff Creative Worship and Prophetic Preaching Fellowship, a yearlong fellowship that brings together preacher-practitioners and […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University School of Divinity will host the 2026 Mac Bryan Prophetic Preachers Series on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the historic Wait Chapel on the Reynolda Campus. This year’s program focused on the theme, […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — The Wake Forest University School of Divinity will host the 2026 Margaret A. Steelman Lecture on Thursday, March 19, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Broyhill Auditorium at Farrell Hall. The theme for this year’s lecture is “The Future(s) of Liberation […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — Wake Forest University School of Divinity Assistant Teaching Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology Melva L. Sampson will deliver the 2026 Presbyterian Lectures at Columbia Theological Seminary. The lectures titled, “Digital Insurgent Homiletics: Afro-Womanist-Futurist Strategies for Preaching Liberation,” will explore how preaching […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — Wake Forest University School of Divinity Associate Professor of Religion and Culture Derek Hicks is featured in Emory News for his scholarship at the intersection of Black faith, food, and cultural meaning. Drawing from lived experience, history, and theology, Hicks shows how meals—Sunday […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — Wake Forest University School of Divinity Earley Associate Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, told Sojourners that claims that the U.S. will rule Venezuela after the capture of Maduro and Flores are “extreme extensions of more than a century […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — “The Wake Forest University School of Divinity community remembers the life and witness of the Reverend Dr. Douglass M. Bailey ’60. Doug was a cherished member and dedicated faculty member of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity community. He brought wisdom, compassion, […]
Winston-Salem, N.C. — Wake Forest University School of Divinity will host the 10th Annual John W. Hatch Lecture and Symposium on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year’s […]
Symposium on “The Gift of Hope and the Human Condition” will explore faith, freedom, and the future of American democracy. Winston-Salem, N.C. — Dr. Alton B. Pollard III, the James and Marilyn Dunn Chair in Baptist Studies in the School of Divinity and University Professor […]