theological education
Public theologian Yolanda Pierce named next dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School
By Adelle M. Banks — March 24, 2023
(RNS) — ‘I look forward to building on the strong foundation that Emilie Townes and others have established to form this treasured community,’ Pierce said.
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.
As Jewish movements struggle, independent rabbinical schools gain a toehold
By Yonat Shimron — April 4, 2022
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — A growing number of Jews are declaring no particular affiliation to either the Reform or Conservative movements. They prefer independent rabbinical schools.
LaKeesha Walrond, new black woman seminary president breaking ‘glass ceilings’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 27, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — The new president of New York Theological Seminary talked about her diverse student body, her concerns about child sexual abuse and her support of open-mindedness among her students.
Black seminarians take first-time religious freedom course
By Adelle M. Banks — January 10, 2019
WASHINGTON (RNS) Three dozen students from religious graduate schools at historically black colleges and universities attended a pilot course on religious freedom to learn the lessons and lingo of a field that has traditionally been predominated by white men.
Orthodox rabbi chosen to lead multifaith California theological center
By Yonat Shimron — June 28, 2018
(RNS) — Daniel Lehmann, an Orthodox rabbi and the president of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Mass., was picked to lead the Northern California consortium that includes graduate and doctoral degree offerings in Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu traditions.
First Muslim college in US buys Lutheran seminary campus in Berkeley
By Yonat Shimron — September 25, 2017
(RNS) — Berkeley's Zaytuna College will move into Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's old campus in January.
Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students
By Jesse James DeConto — May 26, 2016
(RNS) A small, but growing number of transgender students seek out divinity school precisely because it is a place where they can wrestle with questions about their place and purpose in the universe.
Missouri Synod set for fight over who should preach to Lutherans
By guest — May 24, 2016
HAMEL, Ill. — While the pool of men answering the call to enter seminary has shrunk in recent decades, some want to enforce higher standards on ministers who aren’t ordained.
In supporting Trump, evangelicals are reaping what they’ve sown (COMMENTARY)
By John Fea — May 8, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical churches and colleges have failed to educate people on how to think in a Christian way about their role as citizens.
Andover Newton to partner with Yale, shutter Mass. campus
By Yonat Shimron — May 2, 2016
(RNS) Squeezed by the economics of denominational decline, many mainline Protestant seminaries are seeking new lifelines in partnerships.
Two Lutheran seminaries will merge instead of closing, forming a new school
By Yonat Shimron — April 29, 2016
(RNS) The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg said they would be “forming one seminary” from the two existing institutions.
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