Holy Week and Easter at Duke Chapel | Duke University Chapel duke.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from duke.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The timing couldn’t be more perfect. This year’s Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies speaker is Lise Grande, president and CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace. Her in-person
Duke Event Calendar duke.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from duke.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Around lunchtime on a recent Wednesday, as students, staff and faculty hustled to class or appointments, a few dozen Duke community members spread out amid the pews of Goodson Chapel to savor the sound of the Ciompi Quartet. As the four faculty members in the Quartet played selections from composers Carlos Chávez and Silverstre Revueltas, the sound of the quartet’s cello, viola and violins filled the space and felt as warm and illuminating as the sunshine that poured through the windows.
The interior of Goodson Chapel at Duke Divinity School. (Photo by Bluedog423 via Creative Commons license)
Logan Lawrence had already been accepted to Duke Divinity School when she heard that the school would also be offering a mostly online version of the three-year master of divinity program beginning this fall.
She immediately called to ask if she could switch her enrollment to the so-called hybrid program, which will require only one week of in-person classes each semester.
Lawrence, 20, who works as a youth pastor at a United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, is engaged to a man serving in the US Army.