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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=n1dI8b


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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 Dr. Thema in her recent talk at Duke Chapel. Dean Luke A. Powery reflects on that message The Chronicle âžĄïž buff.ly/3QtUy91

“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 <a href="/drthema/">Dr. Thema</a> in her recent talk at Duke Chapel. Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> reflects on that message <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a> âžĄïž buff.ly/3QtUy91
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In a talk last month at TheoEd in Orlando, Dean Luke A. Powery 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: buff.ly/45GVbk4

In a talk last month at <a href="/TheoEd/">TheoEd</a> in Orlando, Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> 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: buff.ly/45GVbk4
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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? âžĄïž buff.ly/471EL7a

Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> says <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a>:

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? âžĄïž buff.ly/471EL7a
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.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-pr


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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 an interview with Public Worship and the Christian Life @cicw, Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> 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
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In his The Chronicle column on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery focuses on King’s well-known words that, “Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Read the column: buff.ly/3Sitieu

In his <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a> column on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Chapel Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> focuses on King’s well-known words that, “Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Read the column: buff.ly/3Sitieu
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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 don’t miss the deacons of God in your midst." Read The Chronicle: buff.ly/49vs7yr

Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> 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 <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a>: buff.ly/49vs7yr
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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 Luke A. Powery about the sacred pauses, paradoxes, and search for common ground that are characteristic of Thurman's preaching: buff.ly/3ut00kk

The first episode of our "Sounds of Faith" podcast features Howard Thurman preaching at Duke Chapel in 1979. Learn from Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> about the sacred pauses, paradoxes, and search for common ground that are characteristic of Thurman's preaching: buff.ly/3ut00kk
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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 Luke A. Powery says in the The Chronicle Read the column: buff.ly/3SZWOq4

“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 <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> says in the <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a>

Read the column: buff.ly/3SZWOq4
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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=atZUfe


In this episode of @LeftofBlack, I sat down with <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a>,  the first Black Dean of <a href="/DukeChapel/">Duke Chapel</a>, to discuss his book, Becoming Human: The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race (@wjkbooks).

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


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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 Luke A. Powery says in his latest column for the The Chronicle. Read the column: buff.ly/49uNKyX

It can be difficult to explain suffering in the world, but there is a long tradition of responding to suffering with poetry, Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> says in his latest column for the <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a>. 

Read the column: buff.ly/49uNKyX
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In a recent essay for the Virtues & Vocations forum at Notre Dame’s Institute for Social Concerns, Notre Dame, Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery writes about the role of religion in higher education and in particular Duke’s historic motto “eruditio et religio.” Read it here: buff.ly/3SYxMpO

In a recent essay for the Virtues &amp; Vocations forum at Notre Dame’s <a href="/socialconcerns/">Institute for Social Concerns, Notre Dame</a>, Chapel Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> writes about the role of religion in higher education and in particular Duke’s historic motto “eruditio et religio.” Read it here: buff.ly/3SYxMpO
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Coming off of spring break, Dean Luke A. Powery writes about the importance of pauses—in speech and in life—in his latest column for the The Chronicle. “Pauses in public speech make room for divine breath, the Presence in the pause,” he says. Read: buff.ly/3Ppc0dU

Coming off of spring break, Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> writes about the importance of pauses—in speech and in life—in his latest column for the <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a>. “Pauses in public speech make room for divine breath, the Presence in the pause,” he says. 

Read: buff.ly/3Ppc0dU
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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 Luke A. Powery gives the sermon. Holy Week and Easter schedule: buff.ly/3OW0d6v

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 <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> gives the sermon.

Holy Week and Easter schedule: buff.ly/3OW0d6v
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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 the <a href="/DukeChronicle/">The Chronicle</a>,  Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> 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
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In Forever Duke Magazine, Dean Luke A. Powery 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. buff.ly/3vq75CZ #Duke100

In <a href="/DukeAlumni/">Forever Duke</a> Magazine, Dean <a href="/LukeAPowery/">Luke A. Powery</a> 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. buff.ly/3vq75CZ

#Duke100