Celeste Kennel-Shank
Prolific ecumenical storyteller and poet dies at age 60
“Stories are food,” Brian Doyle said. Without them, talk is “all sales pitches and lies.”
Episcopal Divinity School to join Union seminary in New York
EDS students will earn Union degrees, and EDS appointed Kelly Brown Douglas as dean.
Indonesian Christian leader jailed under blasphemy law
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an Indonesian Protestant whose popularity as a politician in the world’s largest Muslim nation appeared to be a sign of interreligious tolerance, was convicted of blasphe...
Duke Divinity professor disciplined amid diversity training complaint
Duke Divinity School has taken disciplinary action against a professor who wrote in an email to all faculty that a racial equity training event they had been encouraged to attend was “definitively ...
Princeton Seminary cancels award to Tim Keller, but not his lecture
It all began with a 19th-century Dutch theologian....
Muslim cleric to lead national association of chaplains in higher ed
An imam, Adeel Zeb, will lead the National Association of College and University Chaplains.
...Episcopal Divinity pursues affiliating with Union in New York
Episcopal Divinity School is planning to move to New York City.
...Frank Yamada to lead ATS after Daniel Aleshire retires
Frank M. Yamada, president of McCormick Theological Seminary, will be the next executive director of the Association of Theological Schools.
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Forming priests among the people
Chicago's Episcopal seminary goes all in on field education
New $14 million fund supports historic congregations
The National Fund for Sacred Places aims to help churches raise funds, restore their buildings, and find new community partnerships.
U.S. Lutheran seminary returns rare manuscript to Greek Orthodox Church
It was an “act of ecumenism” and a true gift—since the giver could not receive anything of equal value in return.
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Barney Zeitz, stained-glass artist, helps German church honor sanctuary's Jewish history
Barney Zeitz, 65, an artist on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, doesn’t know where in Europe his ancestors lived....
Faith-based groups, others put pressure on UN for its role in Haiti cholera deaths
Every family in Joseph Dade Guiwil’s community has been harmed by the cholera epidemic in Haiti, the worst outbreak in recent history.
...Washington National Cathedral to install new dean
Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Randolph Marshall Hollerith recalls visiting the Washington National Cathedral as it was being built, especially watching the stone carvers work....
Chicago sisters continue legacy of St. Teresa of Kolkata
As indicated by her new name, St. Teresa of Kolkata, canonized September 4 in Rome, Mother Teresa is most closely associated with India....
Indigenous people blocking oil pipeline doing 'spirit work'
Hundreds of people from dozens of indigenous nations across North America have flocked to river banks near Cannonball, North Dakota, to block an oil pipeline that they see as threatening a reservat...
Cultivating ministers: Farminary students get their hands dirty
Princeton Theological Seminary's farm grows food. But this isn't the main point.
American Bible Society looks back, ahead
As the American Bible Society marks its 200th anniversary, and after a series of leadership changes and a recent move to Philadelphia, its leaders are looking to the nation’s past in planning for ...
Matthew Kukah bridges Muslim-Christian divide in Nigeria
(The Christian Science Monitor) When Matthew Kukah first arrived as the new bishop of the Sokoto Diocese in northern Nigeria’s Muslim ...