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November 08, 2018

GTU Mourns with PLTS and CLU after Thousand Oaks Shooting

GTU Communications

The GTU extends its prayers, support, and sympathy to the students, faculty, and staff at GTU member school Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, and to the wider community at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, after last night’s violent attack that occurred just a few miles from Cal Lutheran’s campus.

March 27, 2018

Teaching and Religion: Keys to an Equitable and Ecological Future

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

From the Spring 2018 Issue of SKYLIGHT

How can we transform our pedagogies and draw on religious wisdom to respond to the perils of climate change and climate colonialism? Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda reflects on this critical question in this article adapted from her Excellence in Teaching Senior Faculty Lecture.  

January 29, 2018

GTU Presidential Search Accepting Applications through March 1, 2018

GTU Communications

The GTU is actively engaged in a search for the school’s next president and will continue to accept applications from interested candidates through March 1, 2018. We are seeking an innovative and collaborative leader whose compelling vision can inspire and unite this dynamic interreligious institution. The presidential search committee is encouraging the entire GTU community to invite qualified candidates to apply for this position.

May 14, 2015

GTU Celebrates Commencement 2015 (includes Video)

On May 7, forty-four graduates were honored at the GTU's 2015 commencement ceremony at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Chapel of the Cross in Berkeley, California. (See video.) Twenty-four graduates received the Master of Arts degree, three the Master of Arts with a concentration in Biblical Languages, and seventeen the Doctor of Philosophy degree.  Each of these students completed their programs in Fall 2014 or Spring 2015.  

Sr. Marianne Farsina CSC, Associate Professor of Catholic...

May 08, 2014

PLTS Student Chosen for Summer Ethics Program at Auschwitz

Erin Armstrong, a second-year Master of Divinity student at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, is one of twelve seminary and divinity students chosen to participate in a summer program sponsored by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). Armstrong will participate in a two-week program designed for future clergy that includes travel to New York, Poland, and Germany.

FASPE, now in its fifth year of operation, is a unique international program that explores the history of the Holocaust as a way to engage graduate students from four specific fields (...

December 03, 2013

PLTS alumna Bloomquist appointed as seminary's Dean following CLU merger approval

California Lutheran University (CLU) has appointed a former director for the Lutheran World Federation to oversee Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) after it becomes part of the university on Jan. 1.

The Rev. Karen L. Bloomquist of Bellingham, Wash., will start Jan. 6 as the dean and chief administrative officer of PLTS. She will replace Phyllis Anderson, who is retiring as the seminary’s president.

Bloomquist is an alumna of PLTS, having earned a master’s in divinity from the seminary, and the recipient of the 1992 Distinguished Alumna Award. She has a bachelor’s...

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