Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller seminary senior director fired for refusal to sign non-LGBTQ affirming statement
By Kathryn Post — February 2, 2024
(RNS) — Her termination comes as the evangelical, multidenominational seminary is re-visiting its approach to human sexuality.
Fuller Theological Seminary names first Black president
By Yonat Shimron — September 13, 2022
(RNS) — David Emmanuel Goatley, an associate dean at Duke Divinity School, will replace Mark Labberton, who announced he was stepping down from the Pasadena, California, seminary last year.
Are today’s seminarians tomorrow’s corporate leaders?
By Kathryn Post — February 10, 2022
(RNS) — Several seminaries have begun to answer America's need for ethical and social leadership in the workplace.
Mark Labberton hopes his successor at Fuller will be a woman or a person of color
By Alejandra Molina — October 28, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — 'I think in this next chapter the president should certainly be, I hope, at least a full generation younger and different from me than we've had in the past — in either race or gender,' said Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Theological Seminary.
Students expelled over same-sex marriages sue Fuller for discrimination
By Emily McFarlan Miller and Alejandra Molina — January 10, 2020
(RNS) — In an amended complaint filed this week, two former students allege Fuller Theological Seminary violated anti-discrimination laws when it expelled them after learning they were married to people of the same sex.
Richard Mouw: Despite Trumpism, I’m not quitting evangelicalism
By Richard Mouw — December 13, 2016
(RNS) Anti-Trump evangelicals claim they are giving up on the movement. Richard Mouw, an influential theologian and author, explains why he's not.
Seminaries start Black Lives Matter courses
By Adelle M. Banks — December 7, 2016
(RNS) As more African-Americans are killed at the hands of police, seminaries have begun to engage with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Fuller Theological Seminary students want a sanctuary campus
By Kirkland An — November 23, 2016
(RNS) In a letter to the president, students, faculty and alumni petitioned for the school to refuse to comply with immigration officials if they come to deport undocumented members of the Fuller community.
Bono and Eugene Peterson talk Psalms, Christian art in new video
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 29, 2016
(RNS) "Why I'm suspicious of Christians is because of this lack of realism," Bono says in the video.
Mormons and evangelicals: Answering the hardball questions about our faith
By Jana Riess — May 22, 2015
The Mormon-evangelical dialogue group, led by BYU's Robert Millet and Fuller Theological Seminary's Richard Mouw, handles the tough questions between two religions that have often been at odds.
Mormons and evangelicals, again. Sigh.
By Jana Riess — March 9, 2015
I just experienced a sad and ugly reminder of how far Mormons and evangelicals have to go in understanding each other.
Humanists want a military chaplain to call their own
By Kimberly Winston — July 22, 2013
(RNS) The Humanist Society -- like all organizations that represent nonbelievers -- is not among the Department of Defense’s list of approximately 200 groups allowed to endorse chaplains. They want to change that.
Fuller Seminary names preaching prof Mark Labberton next president
By Adelle M. Banks — March 14, 2013
(RNS) With one foot in the church and the other in the academy, the Rev. Mark Labberton says he’s ready for his new role as president of Fuller Theological Seminary, the world’s largest multidenominational seminary.
Religious leaders ask HHS to broaden birth control exemption
By David Gibson — June 12, 2012
(RNS) A coalition of nearly 150 religious leaders, led by conservative Protestants, have petitioned the Obama administration to broaden the exemption that allows churches and some religious organizations to avoid the controversial policy mandating that all health care insurers provide free contraception coverage. By David Gibson.
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