San Francisco Theological Seminary and Church Divinity School of the Pacific are celebrating new institutional relationships that promise to offer increased opportunities for their students and the wider GTU.
The journey that led GTU Alumnus of the Year Gregory E. Sterling to become Dean of Yale Divinity School began with a question: Where can I do the most good with my life?
As an interreligious team leading the GTU’s women’s studies in religion seminar, Mahjabeen Dhala and Sheryl Johnson illustrate what solidarity across difference can look like.
President Daniel Lehmann notes in his letter in this Spring 2019 edition of Skylight that, "By its very nature, the GTU generates the kind of creative and compassionate conversations found at the heart of a truly transformative education."
Congratulations to GTU doctoral candidate Jennifer Fernandez (Theology and Ethics) who has been selected to receive a Hispanic Theological Initiative/Lilly Fellowship for 2019-2020.
The GTU stands with people of peace everywhere in expressing our outrage and sadness at the horrific mass murder that took place during Friday prayer at two mosques in New Zealand. GTU President Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann stated, “The scourge of white supremacist terrorism and religious intolerance must be combatted with all of our resources. We pray for the victims and their families, and stand in solemn solidarity with all in the Muslim community."
Thanks to the San Francisco Chronicle for the excellent write-up about “Technicians of the Sacred,” the exhibition of photographs by Blaine Ellis currently on display in the GTU’s Flora Lamson Hewlett Library. We are happy to share the link to reporter Sam Whiting’s “In Berkeley show, photographer captures sacred sites in natural light.”
The GTU is partnering with John Wiley & Sons to begin overseeing publication of the journal Teaching Theology & Religion in 2020. Dr. Kyle Schiefelbein-Guererro of the GTU has been selected as the publication's new editor.
CARe and UC Berkeley's Cal Performances have established a new partnership to promote greater appreciation of the performing arts, beginning with enhanced programming supporting the March 3 performance of Akram Khan's XENOS.