{"id":58229,"date":"2025-05-13T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=58229"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:35:20","slug":"prof-emilie-townes-interviewed-by-uchicago-divinity-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-emilie-townes-interviewed-by-uchicago-divinity-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Emilie Townes interviewed by UChicago Divinity School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/divinity.uchicago.edu\/news\/little-education-goes-long-way-emilie-townes-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Little Education Goes a Long Way<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/pov-religious-leaders-talk-about-the-value-of-humility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><em>\u201d featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/emilie-m-townes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emilie m. townes<\/a> published on May 6, 2025 by University of Chicago Divinity School.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"521\">The bluster of early May in Hyde Park didn\u2019t dim the joy Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes, AB\u201977, AM\u201979, DMN\u201982, felt upon returning to Chicago to receive a<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu\/s\/info-alumni-awardee?name=Emilie%20Townes%2C%20AB%E2%80%9977%2C%20AM%E2%80%9979%2C%20DMin%E2%80%9982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025 University of Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"901\">\u201cHere, I learned the value of being as clear and precise and honest as possible when talking, writing, thinking, feeling, doing,\u201d Townes said in her remarks at the May 1 ceremony. \u201cAnd it is because of this skill, which began here in Cobb Hall, that I want to thank the Alumni Association for this award\u2014and the University for the education I received here that has made it so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/divinity.uchicago.edu\/news\/little-education-goes-long-way-emilie-townes-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the article \u201cA Little Education Goes a Long Way\u201d featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie m. townes published on May 6, 2025 by University of Chicago Divinity School.\u00a0 The bluster of early May in Hyde Park didn\u2019t dim the joy Rev. Dr. Emilie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,202,203],"tags":[395,423,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58231,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58229\/revisions\/58231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}