SAVE THE DATE: Figel Event February 13, 2025 on Council of Nicaea
The 2025 Figel Address on Ecumenical Dialogue will address the topic “The Council of Nicaea and Our Common Life of Prayer: Orthodox and Anglican Perspectives.”…
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Anglican and Catholic Bishops on Journey for Christian Unity
Georgetownhosted talks and a presentation of Anglican and Catholic Bishops who have been blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope to pair up and travel with their message of Christian unity. A video of the panel is now available from the Berkeley Center at Georgetown.
International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission, held at Georgetown, September 30 -…
Wonderful Sermon Slam Features Excellent Student Preachers
Five outstanding preachers faced off at the 2024 Sermon Slam held at Wesley Theological Seminary on April 6, 2024….
MoreDr. Angelique Walker Smith gives powerful Figel Lecture Feb. 3
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…
MoreE.O. Wilson and Archbishop Tutu meet at the Heavenly Gates
I 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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MoreForming Ecumenical Leaders – A Brief Testimony
A brief testimony from Minister Amie Carter from Mt. Gilead Full Gospel Ministries celebrating our 50th anniversary….
MoreReview of Jennings’ “After Whiteness” by a white-male-Calvinist…missionary…
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 and Theological Education in Washington DC
9-11 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,…
MoreNew Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies, ed. Paul McPartlan
The 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…
Congratulations Graduates!!
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…
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