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The General Theological Seminary held its 190th Commencement on May 16, 2012. Fifty-four women and men received degrees, diplomas, or certificates conferred by the Seminary’s Associate Dean, the Rev. Dr. Patrick Malloy. The Seminary’s honorary doctorate was conferred on the Most Rev. Martín Barahona, Bishop of El Salvador; David Booth Beers, Esq., Chancellor to the Presiding Bishop; the Rev. Canon Carl Gerdau, distinguished church leader; and the Rev. Dr. Richard Pfaff, Professor Emeritus at the University of …
On Monday, June 11, at 1 p.m., GTS Digital Formation will host its next hour-long webinar, in partnership with the seminary’s Center for Christian Spirituality, on the topic of Skype and Spiritual Direction. This free webinar, with guest presenter Lindsay Boyer, will explore the use of the video conferencing tool Skype for spiritual direction and pastoral ministry. To register for the webinar, open to all, click here.
Boyer, who earned her S.T.M. …
Katherine Shaner, Assistant Professor of New Testament and a Lutheran pastor, has been appointed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of American to a four-year term on the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches. In 2012-15, the Commission will candidly look at social and ecclesial issues that are challenging Christianity in the United States and seek to address the question, “How can the Church speak an authentic word of hope to itself even as …
The May 2012 edition of General Seminary’s monthly email newsletter, GTS Update, was sent out last week. Click to view.
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The Chapel of the Good Shepherd and the beautiful garden-like campus of The General Theological Seminary will be the scene of the Seminary’s 190th Commencement Exercises beginning at 11 a.m. on May 16. Faculty members in colorful academic regalia will be joined by friends, trustees, and students of the historic institution for the majestic ceremonies, which are preceded by joyous pealing of chimes from the Chapel’s bell tower. Fifty-four women and men will receive degrees, …
Prof. J. Robert Wright’s new book, A Companion to Bede, has been enthusiastically praised in a review published in the May 6, 2012 issue of The Living Church. The review commends Fr. Wright’s book as ”a gracious and thoughtful guide to the occasionally perplexed modern reader.”
Fr. Wright’s Companion to Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People ”follows the Ecclesiastial History chapter by chapter, explaining along the way Bede’s sources, terminology, theology, predispositions, …
The General Theological Seminary is offering Summer 2012 courses open to anyone seeking to pursue learning or enhance a ministry. Courses explore topics in Christian spirituality, ministries of spiritual guidance, and Anglican church history. Students may come in June, July or August. Courses will be held in a variety of intensive-study formats, and many are open to auditors.
Click to Register for Summers at General
June 2012:
Topics in Spirituality
& Anglican Church …
The Spring 2012 GTS News Quarterly will be arriving in mailboxes very soon. You can see it now by downloading the PDF below. This edition includes:
A Message from the Associate Dean
Via Social Media – Catching up with the recently announced Digital Formation program at GTS
Report of Gifts
News & Notes
Upcoming Events
and More
Download GTS News Quarterly Spring 12
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Help boost our scholarship funding! Our Trustees will donate $80,000 if we can raise $100,000 during May 2012! The number of applicants at GTS is steadily rising. Many are truly excellent candidates who while not wealthy, may not qualify for significant aid. We want to be sure we attract the most talented seminarians regardless of their resources.
Members of our Alumni Executive Committee have already stepped up with their own gifts to get those May scholarship contributions to …
Close to 100 students, staff, and faculty members of General Seminary were joined in Seabury Auditorium by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori for a town-hall-style meeting on the evening of May 2. “This is a wonderful opportunity, not only to hear from the Presiding Bishop about what is facing the Church and the Communion,” Associate Dean Patrick Malloy wrote to the Seminary community earlier in the day, “but also to show her the vigor of …
GTS is most grateful to each one of our individual, parish, and institutional donors for their generosity in support of our mission. The Seminary is truly proud of our philanthropic support during the Fiscal Year 2010-2011. You helped us raise an all-time high in support of our Annual Fund. The attached report has been constructed with great care but should an error or omission be found kindly notify the Seminary’s Office of Institutional Advancement.
To download a …
Celebrating the Sacred and Earthly Gifts of
Water, Oil, Bread, and Wine
A Contemplative Eucharist in Honor of Earth Day
Saturday, April 21, 1pm to 5pm
General Seminary’s Seabury Auditorium
To register, click here.
A Contemplative Eucharist is a worship service that offers you time, spaciousness and leisure to savor the mysteries. Held on the weekend of International Earth Day, this experience will invite you to reconnect with Mother Earth, and God in Christ, …
On Friday, April 20 at 1 p.m., GTS Digital Formation will host an hour-long webinar which will explore some of the best mobile Apps for use in ministry, church leadership, and spirituality. During the webinar, participants are incouraged to tweet questions to @digiformation #webinarQ (as well as through the Webinar’s chat feature). We will address them during the final 15 minutes of the session.
For a list of all upcoming webinars and to register, …
The community of The General Theological Seminary (GTS) was saddened to learn of the death on April 5 of one of its longest serving Deans, the Very Rev. James Corner Fenhagen. Dean Fenhagen’s tenure, from 1978 to 1992, encompassed a major renovation of the Seminary’s library, the establishment of a program for Hispanic and Latino seminarians, and a flourishing of the Seminary’s ministries in Jewish-Christian relations and Christian spirituality. His own writings, in such works …
General Seminary will hold a commemorative prayer service to mark Yom HaShoah (the day of remembrance of the Holocaust) on April 18th. This observance, only one of four official days added to the Jewish calendar in 2000 years, was instituted by the Israeli parliament in 1951. General Seminary observed this occasion yearly in an interfaith service from 1988 through 2007.
The service for 2012, designed by GTS students with input from Jewish clergy, will hopefully …
