Duke Divinity School

www.divinity.duke.edu

By the numbers:

• 527 students from 35 states and eight foreign countries
• 49 faculty

Highlights:

• Pictured at top of page: The school's 53,000-square-foot addition and renovation, including the Westbrook Building and Goodson Chapel, finished spring semester.
• The school expanded promotion of innovative pastoral leadership and pastoral excellence with a $6.7 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant.
• The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life held public conversations on campus and in Chapel Hill to discuss the Terri Schiavo case and living wills.
• A conference on ecologically sound religious buildings, "Holy & Beautiful: Greening Sacred Spaces," drew 125 from across the region.
• The school expanded international ministry and education with the first Visiting Teacher's Program at Renk Bible College in Sudan; a series of Pilgrimages of Pain and Hope in South Africa, Rwanda and Uganda; and continuing individual ministries worldwide.
• Gifts totaled nearly $17 million during the fiscal year.

The Rev. Susan Pendleton Jones celebrates Eucharist at Closing Convocation in Goodson Chapel.

Awards and recognition:

• Ellen Davis, professor of Bible and practical theology, and Richard Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament and Academy of Parish Clergy, 2004 Top Ten Books of the Year for co-editing "The Art of Reading Scripture"
• Amy Laura Hall, assistant professor of theological ethics, residence fellowship to St. Deiniol's Library, Wales
• W. Joseph Mann, adjunct professor in parish work and director of the rural church division of the Duke Endowment, Distinguished Service Award, N.C. Council of Churches
• Richard Payne, director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, Pioneer Award, Operation Rainbow/PUSH

Faculty and staff appointments:

• Randy Maddox of Seattle Pacific University—professor of theology and Wesleyan studies
• L. Edward Phillips of Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary—associate professor of the practice of Christian Worship
• Jo Bailey Wells, former dean of Clare College, Cambridge, England—associate professor of the practice of Christian ministry and Bible and director of Anglican studies
• Sam Wells, former Priest-in-Charge of St. Mark's Church in Cambridge, England—research professor of Christian Ethics in the divinity school and dean of Duke Chapel
• Tammy Williams, former lecturing fellow—assistant professor of theology and black church studies