Wake Forest School of Divinity Archive

Lovefeast draws more than 2,000

December 6, 2010

Following a tradition started by a student in 1965, more than 2,000 people gathered for the annual Christmas Lovefeast and Candlelight Service in Wait Chapel Sunday night. Chaplain Tim Auman led the service, which featured a message by Gail R. O’Day, dean of the School of Divinity.

Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, University Announcements

Lovefeast: A Wake Forest tradition

December 1, 2010

The 46th annual Christmas Lovefeast and Candlelight Service — the largest single lovefeast in North America — will be held Sunday in Wait Chapel. The service is free and open to the public. The service will include a message by Gail R. O’Day, dean of the School of Divinity.

Categories: Arts & Culture, Happening at Wake, University Announcements

Interfaith cooperation

November 5, 2010

Sophomore Mojeeb Nazeri (center) attends a rally during the Interfaith Youth Corps Leadership Institute..

Three Wake Forest students -- a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian -- recently joined other college students from diverse faiths and beliefs in Washington, D.C., to attend a White House training aimed at making interfaith cooperation a priority on campuses.

Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements

Rogers: A tradition of religious liberty

August 12, 2010

The Divinity School’s Melissa Rogers writes that the controversial decision to allow an Islamic center near Ground Zero is a sign of America’s strength and the country’s “tradition of religious liberty.”

Categories: University Announcements

New divinity school dean named

April 29, 2010

Gail R. O'Day, a respected New Testament scholar and currently senior associate dean at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, has been named dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.

Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements