Luke A. Powery

Dean of Duke University Chapel, Professor @Duke Divinity School.

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In @DukeAlumni Magazine, Dean @LukeAPowery sketches the Chapel’s history as “a providential combination of people and stones, or ‘living stones.’” He cites people who have given shape to the “great towering church” that James B. Duke envisioned. https://t.co/XLh69A3dIX

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In the @DukeChronicle, Dean @LukeAPowery says teaching that has a lasting impact often goes beyond words into music, demonstration, and action. "Anyone can be a teacher by teaching with their life," he say

Read the column: https://t.co/O3doTK6suZ

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Our Tenebrae service tomorrow (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. includes a progressive dimming of the lights within the Chapel until the congregation sits in darkness to remember Jesus’s death. Chapel Dean @LukeAPowery gives the sermon.

Holy Week and Easter schedule: https://t.co/Wg6ScCMa37

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Coming off of spring break, Dean @LukeAPowery writes about the importance of pauses—in speech and in life—in his latest column for the @DukeChronicle. “Pauses in public speech make room for divine breath, the Presence in the pause,” he says.

Read: https://t.co/HbLAvcvsoC

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In a recent essay for the Virtues & Vocations forum at Notre Dame’s @socialconcerns, Chapel Dean @LukeAPowery writes about the role of religion in higher education and in particular Duke’s historic motto “eruditio et religio.” Read it here: https://t.co/vFfDa3IJkG

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It can be difficult to explain suffering in the world, but there is a long tradition of responding to suffering with poetry, Dean @LukeAPowery says in his latest column for the @DukeChronicle.

Read the column: https://t.co/s7lM8ZBxWO

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@ScholarsatDuke @thesilvalab @DukeTrinity Congratulations!

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Check out a conversation about race and faith featuring two of Duke’s most thoughtful voices.

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In this episode of @LeftofBlack, I sat down with @LukeAPowery, the first Black Dean of @DukeChapel, to discuss his book, Becoming Human: The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race (@wjkbooks).

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“Roses or chocolates may be fine as gifts for Valentine’s Day this week, but a real gift you can give someone or yourself is to show through action that, ‘I want you to live,’” Dean @LukeAPowery says in the @DukeChronicle

Read the column: https://t.co/u3XqV12MyK

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The first episode of our "Sounds of Faith" podcast features Howard Thurman preaching at Duke Chapel in 1979. Learn from Dean @LukeAPowery about the sacred pauses, paradoxes, and search for common ground that are characteristic of Thurman's preaching: https://t.co/qEiVkxAmZN

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Dean @LukeAPowery remembers times he and others have been unexpectedly assisted by strangers. "You might be experiencing tough times, your own wilderness," he writes. "But I hope you don’t miss the deacons of God in your midst."

Read @DukeChronicle: https://t.co/YWhl5ziH1E

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In his @DukeChronicle column on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Chapel Dean @LukeAPowery focuses on King’s well-known words that, “Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Read the column: https://t.co/v3QxEbM9Gn

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In an interview with Public Worship and the Christian Life @cicw, Dean @LukeAPowery discusses how he got the idea for his recent book "Living the Questions of the Bible" and its implications for a Christian spirituality that embraces questions. Listen: https://t.co/XfkvQvMVjh

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.@LukeAPowery, the dean of @DukeChapel, reminds preachers that the sermon is only one aspect of formation in the context of a church. https://t.co/B2vcehjp9K

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Dean @LukeAPowery says @DukeChronicle:

In this fall season of nostalgia and memory, I want to ask you: Who do you remember and who do you forget? And in this time in the world of strife and broken bodies, I want to ask you: Will you remember with me? ➡️ https://t.co/krsqlrBzJn

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“Grateful, grateful, grateful, gratefulness is flowing from my heart.” 🎶🎶

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Dean @LukeAPowery’s book "Becoming Human" has been named the 2023 Book of the Year by the Religious Communication Association @ReligiousCommu1. Dean Powery will speak in a panel discussion about the book at RCA’s conference on Nov. 15 in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/P4DTCA5Hxw

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Honored and humbled by receiving this book award! Thanks to the nominators and awards committee. @DukeChapel @DukeDivinity @DukeAAAS @LeftOfBlack @wjkbooks

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2023 @ReligiousCommu1 award winners!!
Congratulations to @LukeAPowery @soniahazard @DorjiWangchuk and all who won!!

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In a talk last month at @TheoEd in Orlando, Dean @LukeAPowery spoke about "An Ethics of Dust."

"We hear in Genesis that we have at least two things in common—we have God's breath in us and we are from the dust of the ground," he said.

WATCH: https://t.co/IpRNi3Ap76

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“You are worthy. You are worthy of care. You are worthy of respect. You are worthy of safety. You are worthy of joy.” That was the final message from @drthema in her recent talk at Duke Chapel. Dean @LukeAPowery reflects on that message @DukeChronicle ➡️ https://t.co/oHGMIlC0YB