The Interim President and Dean of Seabury Western Seminary, Robert Bottoms, is asking questions about how we need to change our formation model and the resources that support it as we move into a new century of the Episcopal Church’s life in America.
An excellent conversation about the future of seminary and graduate level theological education has broken out in the comment trail of our item about the recent layoffs at the Seminary of the Southwest, including comments from Marshall Scott, Michael Russell, seminarian Jim White and Elizabeth Butler of Seabury Western.
Twelve staff positions will be cut as the Seminary of the Southwest attempts to trim $1 million from its operating budget. A source close to those in the restructuring effort said no faculty members are losing their jobs, and the curriculum would not be affected.
After four years at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, dean and president Gary Hall has resigned to take pulpit duties at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills,
The General Theological Seminary has a riddle for you: When is a $29 million lease a liability?
When it is listed according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).
The mainstream media has an ongoing fascination with Jim McGreevey, the former governor of New Jersey who resigned his office after acknowledging that he had cheated on his wife with a man and then enrolled in an Episcopal seminary. It is, one must admit, a difficult story to ignore, but it is also proving to be a difficult story for the press to get right.
An overnight fire in Waukesha County leaves nothing but a pile of rubble behind at a historic building according to reports from 620WTMJ News. Nobody
The Board of Trustees of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) has voted to cut tuition from $16,500 to $12,500 for the Masters of Divinity and Master
A group called The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing issued a report along with the Union Theological Seminary of New York calling on North American Theological Seminaries to offer more courses and programs to help prepare ministers, rabbis, priests, and other religious professionals to address issues of sexuality better than they now do.
The immediate future of General Seminary is not imperiled. Decisive action, however, is not simply called for but demanded. At our May board meeting, the trustees of GTS committed to a three-year plan to address the challenges the Seminary now faces.
– Dean Ward B. Ewing