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Amazing Sermon Slam last weekend!
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We had an amazing Sermon Slam with 7 preachers from a variety of WTC schools at VTS last Saturday. The “best in” categories are noted in the photo above!
The in-person…
MoreConsortium Marks 50th Anniversary with a Symposium on ‘Educating Religious Leaders to Engage in Public Life’
The virtual public event features four scholars from diverse Christian traditions. It will draw together theology and ministry leaders, faculty, and students to explore the question “Should theological schools prepare pastors, priests, and other religious leaders to serve only their religious communities or also the wider public?” …
MoreNew Book on Clergy Education and Public Life by Dr. Golemon
We are pleased to announce a new book by Oxford University Press, Clergy Education in America: Religious Leadership and American Public Life, by Dr. Larry Golemon, Executive Director of the Consortium. It explores how the early seminary traditions of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities prepared leadership for religious and public life. In short, the liberal arts pedagogies in these schools…
MoreIIIT Webinar on Anthropomorphism in Abrahamic Faiths
COVID-19 updates and Fall Plans for WTC schools (Aug 20, 2020)
An update of news we have from various WTC schools about their classes and services in response to the current COVID-19 health crisis….
MoreIs the Eucharist the Key to Ecumenical Unity?
See the video of the remarkable Figel address given by the recipient of the Consortium’s Ecumenism Award, Msgr. Paul McPartlan. He makes the case for the Eucharist as the key to recent and future dialogues around Christian unity. If the Eucharist is at the heart of the Church, and if various churches and ecclesial communities can affirm its central meaning…
MoreTelling the Mother Emanuel Story on Film, May 14 in D.C.
The mass shooting at Mother Emanuel Church was a major wake-up call in 2015 to the rise of home-grown terrorism among white supremacists in the U.S.
There is a remarkable film made about the church’s struggle, the forces of local racism, and the people’s strength. It is called “Emanuel” and screens in D.C. on Tuesday May 14, at the Museum of…
MoreFaculty Tour of MOTB Friday March 22
RSVP Here for Tour and note if staying for Lunch!
Metro to Federal Center SW (Blue Line) or
Find Discount Reserved parking Link Here …
Healthy Boundaries Success: Ecumenism and Sexual Ethics
Students from six Consortium Schools gathered to engage the sexual misconduct crisis with ecumenical force. Msgr. Stephen Rossetti and Dr. Kate Ott offered engaging training, exercises, and discussion to equip students to be proactive in building healthy ministries and churches. What was unique about this form of training? a) personal self-awareness around attraction, relationships and healthy sexuality as part of…
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