
Luke A. Powery
@lukeapowery
Dean of Duke University Chapel, Professor @Duke Divinity School.
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'A leader in clinical psychology, @DrThema speaks on "Faith, Mental Health, and Community" for Duke Chapel's 2023 William Preston Few Lecture, a public conversation with Duke Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery' youtube.com/watch?v=n1dI8bā¦

āYou are worthy. You are worthy of care. You are worthy of respect. You are worthy of safety. You are worthy of joy.ā That was the final message from Dr. Thema in her recent talk at Duke Chapel. Dean Luke A. Powery reflects on that message The Chronicle ā”ļø buff.ly/3QtUy91



Honored and humbled by receiving this book award! Thanks to the nominators and awards committee. Duke Chapel Duke Divinity School Global Black Studies at Duke Left of Black @wjkbooks


Dean Luke A. Powery says The Chronicle: 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? ā”ļø buff.ly/471EL7a


.Luke A. Powery, the dean of Duke Chapel, reminds preachers that the sermon is only one aspect of formation in the context of a church. faithandleadership.com/luke-powery-prā¦

In an interview with Public Worship and the Christian Life @cicw, Dean Luke A. Powery 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: buff.ly/47ogMyk


In his The Chronicle column on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery focuses on Kingās well-known words that, āJustice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.ā Read the column: buff.ly/3Sitieu


Dean Luke A. Powery 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 donāt miss the deacons of God in your midst." Read The Chronicle: buff.ly/49vs7yr


The first episode of our "Sounds of Faith" podcast features Howard Thurman preaching at Duke Chapel in 1979. Learn from Dean Luke A. Powery about the sacred pauses, paradoxes, and search for common ground that are characteristic of Thurman's preaching: buff.ly/3ut00kk


āRoses or chocolates may be fine as gifts for Valentineās Day this week, but a real gift you can give someone or yourself is to show through action that, āI want you to live,āā Dean Luke A. Powery says in the The Chronicle Read the column: buff.ly/3SZWOq4


In this episode of @LeftofBlack, I sat down with Luke A. Powery, the first Black Dean of Duke Chapel, to discuss his book, Becoming Human: The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race (@wjkbooks). #BlackHistoryMonth #Duke100 youtube.com/watch?v=atZUfeā¦


Check out a conversation about race and faith featuring two of Dukeās most thoughtful voices. Duke Chapel @LeftofBlack Luke A. Powery #BlackHistoryMonth #Duke100 x.com/NewBlackMan/stā¦

It can be difficult to explain suffering in the world, but there is a long tradition of responding to suffering with poetry, Dean Luke A. Powery says in his latest column for the The Chronicle. Read the column: buff.ly/49uNKyX


In a recent essay for the Virtues & Vocations forum at Notre Dameās Institute for Social Concerns, Notre Dame, Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery writes about the role of religion in higher education and in particular Dukeās historic motto āeruditio et religio.ā Read it here: buff.ly/3SYxMpO


Coming off of spring break, Dean Luke A. Powery writes about the importance of pausesāin speech and in lifeāin his latest column for the The Chronicle. āPauses in public speech make room for divine breath, the Presence in the pause,ā he says. Read: buff.ly/3Ppc0dU


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 Jesusās death. Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery gives the sermon. Holy Week and Easter schedule: buff.ly/3OW0d6v


In the The Chronicle, Dean Luke A. Powery 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: buff.ly/3xqu8xO


In Forever Duke Magazine, Dean Luke A. Powery sketches the Chapelās history as āa providential combination of people and stones, or āliving stones.āā He cites people who have given shape to the āgreat towering churchā that James B. Duke envisioned. buff.ly/3vq75CZ #Duke100
