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We sat down for an interview with Kevin Hart, the newly appointed Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School, who also has a secondary appointment in the Department of English. We asked him about the layers of his scholarly work, his involvement with Catholic initiatives at secular universities, and the themes from his latest book.
Two weeks after Pope Francis addressed leaders at the G7 summit on the promises and perils of artificial intelligence, 15 graduate students and young professionals gathered at Duke University for a seminar June 23–29 on “Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Catholic Thought.”
We sat down with for an interview with Peter Casarella, professor of theology at Duke Divinity School and longtime friend of the Lumen Christi Institute. Casarella has been involved with the Lumen Christi Institute (LCI) since its founding over twenty-five years ago. We asked him more about LCI's history, as well as where thinks institutes for Catholic thought at non-Catholic universities need to go in the future.
Near the end of a seminar on science and theology, Sr. Damien Marie Savino, a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist, was sautéing vegetables in a large saucepan as students in the seminar prepped a fish entrée and blackberry cobbler dessert. The meal they were about to serve at the Duke Catholic Center’s Falcone-Arena House would be the culmination of a week of discussion, touring, and hands-on work delving into the relationship between faith and science.
The Lumen Christi Institute has been awarded $3,648,000 from the John Templeton Foundation in support of its new three-year project that will create the first-ever national network of independent institutes of Catholic thought, located at some of the country’s top universities.
