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 […]
Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas is taking initial steps towards his planned retirement in December 2025. As part of this transition, Dr. Thomas will be passing the baton of leadership for the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric to his chosen successor, Rev. Dr. Courtney Buggs, and will remain involved by advising […]
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 […]
October 25, 2021 (Atlanta, GA) – The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) will host a 3-day celebration and presidential installation ceremony for President Matthew Wesley Williams,’04 starting on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. “ITC 2.0,” is a strategic process of institutional innovation that seeks to optimize infrastructure and enhance our capacity to prepare prophetic problem solvers who “practice […]
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 […]
New, full-time applicants to our masters degree programs will be eligible for a limited number of “50/50” scholarships – scholarships that cover 50% of tuition and 50% of the cost of a residence hall room.
In particular, the story of how three Black churches in Philadelphia endured events similar to those afflicting society today can give both solace and hope.
The Gift of Black Theological Education & Black Church Collaborative continues a series of free Zoom events on Tuesday, Feb. 16, with Dr. Alton B. Pollard III, president of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, speaking on “The Cries of Our People: A Social Justice History of the Black Church.”
