Congratulations to the five (5) 2025 Grawemeyer Award winners. The Grawemeyer Awards recognize highly constructive ideas with world changing potential and thatâs certainly true of the ideas that will be honored on Thursday, April 10. During the week of April 7, the award recipients will give a public presentation. The University of Louisville and Louisville […]
Georgetown professorâs book, Loving Our Own Bones, inspires reappraisal of disabilityBy: Grawemeyer Awards, University of Louisville 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 today. Not only […]
UofL, seminary name 2024 Grawemeyer Award winners By Denise Fitzpatrick The University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced 2024 recipients of five, $100,000 Grawemeyer Awards Dec. 4-8, 2023. UofL presents the annual prizes in music, world order, psychology, education and religion and gives the religion prize jointly with the seminary. All of the […]
Scholar focusing on Godâs human qualities wins 2024 religion prizeBy Denise Fitzpatrick God gets angry. God gets jealous. God hates, regrets and learns. Theologians often dismiss those depictions of God in the Bible because they seem to clash with Godâs image as an all-loving being, but an Episcopal priest with a different view has received […]
Yale Divinity School Professor Willie James Jennings will give Oxford Universityâs Bampton Lectures for 2023âthe first African American tapped for the 243-year-old lecture series and one of the few Americans ever to earn the distinction. Jennings, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, will give the lectures at Oxfordâs University Church on May 23 […]
Renewed faith will help Black lives matter, says 2023 religion award winner by Denise Fitzpatrick How do we really know God cares when Black people are still getting killed? How long do we have to wait for Godâs justice? Hearing her son ask those questions and seeing Black Lives Matter protests erupt nationwide after George […]
Due to COVID-19 the 2020 Grawemeyer events scheduled for the week of April 13 including the Banquet and Ceremony have been postponed. We hope to hold the events in the fall and once new dates have been decided an announcement will be made. If there are any questions, please email Charlie Leonard at charlie.leonard@louisville.edu
The winners of the 2019 Grawemeyer Awards will soon head to Louisville to present their award-winning ideas. All presentations are free and open to the public. Here’s the schedule: April 9, 1 p.m. Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph Ideas Improving World Order Award recipients, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium April 9, […]
James H. Cone, winner of the 2018 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, died on April 28. He was 79. Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary President Michael Jinkins sent out the following message to the seminary community: Dear friends, I am deeply saddened to relay the news from President Serene Jones of Union Seminary, New York, that Dr. James […]