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Chanequa Walker-Barnes calls care of self vital to caring for others
By Adelle M. Banks — August 15, 2023
(RNS) — In her new book, ‘Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves,’ she describes, how to live with healthy habits, wise speech and regular laughter.
Columbia Theological Seminary students object to firing of Black administrator
By Kathryn Post — June 23, 2022
(RNS) — Students say it’s the latest in a series of firings of faculty and administration of color since 2019.
Graduate Theological Union’s GTUx is launched to spiritually equip ‘nones,’ activists
By Kathryn Post — March 11, 2022
(RNS) — Their new online learning hub for interreligious activism aims to reach new audiences.
Claremont School of Theology ordered to offer land to neighboring universities
By Alejandra Molina — January 27, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — At the center of the dispute is an agreement reached in 1957, when the Claremont Colleges sold the seminary land to relocate in Claremont, a city about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.
Red Lip Theology: Candice Benbow’s love letter to Black women in the Black church
By Adelle M. Banks — January 18, 2022
(RNS) — Benbow says Black churches have tended to ‘center Black men and their truths and realities at the expense of women and girls.’
Gordon-Conwell seminary alumni and staff protest loss of Black professor
By Adelle M. Banks — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We understand that these are times of tight finances, but as Scripture says that where our treasure is, there our heart will be also,’ wrote his supporters.
Beth Moore left the SBC after the SBC left women to fend for themselves
By Karen Swallow Prior — April 5, 2021
(RNS) — The strongest objections of her critics seem to be fruits of their own sowing.
As seminaries welcome openly transgender students, church lags behind
By Kathryn Post — July 20, 2020
(RNS) — As mainline and non-denominational Christian seminaries are making strides toward becoming transgender-inclusive, transgender seminarians still encounter hurdles to ordination and finding a pulpit.
US growth of Islam creates need for religious scholars
By Jeff Karoub and Noreen Nasir — November 4, 2019
(AP) — With the difficulty some Middle Easterners are having entering the United States, some American Muslims are looking to educate homegrown imam and scholars to serve their burgeoning communities in the future.
A biblical answer to the $1 trillion problem of student debt
By F. Romall Smalls — May 2, 2018
(RNS) — Believe that the creator of the universe made us all for a much higher purpose than to languish in debt.
Jewish Reconstructionist movement adopts a new name
By Yonat Shimron — January 30, 2018
(RNS) — The smallest of the four main branches of American Judaism will be called Reconstructing Judaism.
Dallas evangelical seminary requires sex abuse awareness training
By Adelle M. Banks — September 15, 2016
(RNS) 'This is the first I know of an evangelical seminary with a free-standing requirement for graduation to participate in this kind of discrete training,' said a theological schools expert.
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.
Two Lutheran seminaries to close and reopen as new school
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 15, 2016
(RNS) The new plan comes as mainline Protestant seminaries take steps to weather financial storms caused by an average drop in enrollments of nearly 24 percent since 2005.
Add study of sexuality, ethics at U.S. seminaries (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — June 26, 2015
(RNS) Future clergy need to learn what contemporary physical, social, historical, psychological, literary, legal, biological, and racial forces say about human sexuality -- not just what their religion preaches.
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