For reconsidering the relationship between disability and spirituality, Georgetown University Professor of Jewish Studies Rabbi Julia Watts Belser will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Religion, the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced Thursday.
With dozens of family, friends, faculty, staff, students and PC(USA) representatives on hand in Caldwell Chapel to wish him their best, the Rev. Dr. Andrew Pomerville was inaugurated and installed Friday as the 11th president and professor of Practical Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
How do we really know God cares when Black people are still getting killed? How long do we have to wait for God’s justice?
Hearing her son ask those questions and seeing Black Lives Matter protests erupt nationwide after George Floyd’s death in 2020 led theologian the Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas to write “Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter.” On Friday she was named winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for the book’s ideas.
A scholar who explained how Japanese American Buddhists remained true to their faith even after being forced into U.S. detention camps during World War II has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
