Dr. Angelique Walker Smith delivered an inspiring and challenging address at this year’s Figel Event for Ecumenism. Her topic, “The Hope of Pan-African Peoples and the Contradiction of Visible Unity Deferred: Ubuntu as a Vision for Christian Unity” was a critique and source of hope for traditional Ecumenism. I had the joy of meeting her after the address at the…
MoreI am sad to learn that two giants in the moral and intellectual leadership of our era passed away on the same day, Sunday, December 26, 2021. Thankful for their lives and their work, I can delight in imagining what it might be like for the two of them to meet as they await their next adventure after this life.
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MoreA brief testimony from Minister Amie Carter from Mt. Gilead Full Gospel Ministries celebrating our 50th anniversary….
MoreThis event to be held at the National Cathedral will focus on the critical topic of moral injury that many are suffering in wake of the pandemic….
MoreJoin us for this event sponsored by the John Leland Center and an historic organization, The Lord’s Day Alliance, that promotes Sabbath Spirituality from an Ecological perspective. Morning event is lead by Dr. Norman Wirzba, scholar, lecturer and activist, from Duke University.
Sabbath in Everyday Life: Caring for Self and the Earth
Norman Wirzba, Duke University
with the John Leland Center at
Memorial Baptist…
I worked with this text for days, finally realizing I had to read it through my life as shaped by the forces Jennings identifies as pervading all of our theological education communities: white-masculinist supremacy and its colonial pursuits. So I bring my experience (and commitments) as a white-male Calvinist… missionary… and ecumenist as a lens to both explicate and interrogate…
More9-11 impacted countless lives and institutions throughout DC and the MIid-Atlantic. Among these were graduate theological schools that educate pastors, priests, and yes at the time imams. The Washington Theological Consortium was (and still is) a community of such schools, and the impact of 9-11 has been far reaching.
Churches, synagogues, and mosques filled up after 9-11, as people sought direction,…
MoreThe Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies
Edited by Geoffrey Wainwright, of blessed memory, and Paul McPartlan, Catholic University of America
This Oxford Handbook
Offers the most comprehensive account and assessment of the ecumenical movement
Provides a rich source of information and reflection on many aspects of ecumenism from 50 expert contributors of many nationalities and traditions
Offers a global perspective, showing how…
These Masters graduates from the John Leland Center are among the hundreds of graduates from the Consortium’s theological schools. There are many-year PhD and DMin degrees, three year MDiv degrees, two year Masters Degrees in Christian Leadership, Christian Education, and Theology, and several Diploma and Certificate programs that allow students without college education to get advanced theological studies. Some students…
MoreFrom Interim Dean Dr. Gregory Howard, Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology, on his presentation tomorrow night
The nexus between “God is on the side of the oppressed” (James Cone) and Jesus’ declaration that he “has come so that we may have life and have it to the full” cast light upon the United States Declaration of Independence’s claim of such…