Celeste Kennel-Shank
Breaking the silence about suicide
“When the church couldn’t talk about suicide or mental illness, it felt like God couldn’t either.”
Faith leaders on the front lines in Charlottesville
An interfaith group of clergy gathered alongside anti-racist and anti-fascist activists countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi protesters.
Disciples of Christ elect first woman of color to lead a mainline denomination
Teresa Hord Owens, a descendant of one of Indiana’s oldest free black settlements, is general minister and president.
Pastor engages interfaith leaders to resist extremism in Nigeria
Abare Kallah is bringing together both Christians and Muslims harmed by Boko Haram.
Congo’s churches face rising violence
Members of dozens of churches are in hiding and Catholic institutions in particular have been attacked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent months.
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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....