McCormick Theological Seminary has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support of McCormick’s Sacred Memory Work: Preaching Wisdom for Christian Innovation (the “Sacred Memory Project.”) The program is being funded through Lilly Endowment’s Compelling Preaching Initiative. Lilly Endowment launched the Compelling Preaching Initiative in 2022 with an invitational round of grants to over […]
Despite a surge of technology over the past decades – especially during the pandemic – faith institutions have struggled to put new tools into practice and accommodate people’s changing lives. This initiative will unlock new opportunities to bring faith groups into the 21st Century. New York – Today, a group of faith and social justice […]
Marla Frederick, a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience, will become dean of Harvard Divinity School on January 1, President Claudine Gay announced Thursday. Frederick is currently the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Prior to her appointment at Emory, she […]
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2023 Black Music Symposium, ‘Lest Our Feet Stray,’ Lecture “Ultrasonic Tastemakers: A Critical Gastromusicology” given by Alisha Lola Jones “This year’s theme, ‘Lest Our Feet Stray,’ aims to invoke a spirit of remembrance of Black music genres that were integral to the survival of Black Americans during slavery, the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights Movement,” […]
anderbilt University has named Yolanda Pierce, dean of the Howard University School of Divinity and a prominent leader on the role of religion in public life, as its next dean of the Divinity School, C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, announced today.
NEWS RELEASE Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to announce that the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton has been elected by the Board of Trustees to serve as the Seminary’s eighth president, effective January 1, 2023. Dr. Walton will succeed President M. Craig Barnes, who has served as Princeton Seminary’s president since January 2013. Dr. Walton […]
1LOVE Media Celebrates Rev. Melva L. Sampson, PhD and The Pink Robe Chronicles Digital Hush Harbor for being accessioned into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Celebrating and Centering Black Women in Ministry Through Digital Black Religion, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Winston-Salem, NC –1Love Media celebrates the innovative ministry of Rev. Melva […]
A Discussion of William Augustus Jones’s God and the Ghetto for the Black Church Today Judson Press and Morehouse School of Religion present “We need a Trumpet Because a Flute Won’t Do: A Discussion of William Augustus Jones’s God and the Ghetto for the Black Church Today.” A dialogue on how the sermons of one […]
AFTER AN 11-MONTH SEARCH, THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS HISTORIC INSTITUTION TRANSFERS WITH GRACE, LOVE, AND JOY. NEW YORK, NY – Auburn Seminary is pleased to announce the appointment of the Reverend Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson as our new president. She succeeds the Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson, Auburn’s 10th president, who began stewarding this transition with Auburn’s Board of Directors in […]
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