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Dr. Rita D. Sherma Named 2024 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that Dr. Rita D. Sherma will be recognized as the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer this November.
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2024 Commencement
We are delighted to announce that GTU 2024 Commencement Exercises will take place on Thursday, May 9 at the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library.
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Announcing This Year’s Borsch-Rast Prize Winner, Dr. Laurie Zoloth
The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that Dr. Laurie Zoloth (PhD ‘93 and Alum of the Year ‘05) has been awarded the seventh annual Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2022 publication, Second Texts & Second Opinions: Essays Toward a Jewish Bioethics (Oxford University Press).
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Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences is Awarded a $15,000 Grant by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) has been selected to participate in the Climate Science in Theological Education (CSTE) Grant Initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. The grant, in the amount of $15,000, supports CTNS in their project titled, “Science, Technology, and the Environment: Exploring Implications for Science and Religion in the Bay Area and Beyond.”
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Geografías Paralelas: Arceo • Coronado • Fernández
GTU's Center for the Arts and Religion (CARe) presents the must-see Geografías Paralelas ("Parallel Geographies"), a thought-provoking and visually stunning exploration of the multicultural and bilingual experiences of three artists who migrated to the United States as young adults from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Faith, Justice, and Community Organizing: Public Change Agent Models
This GTUx Original explores how narratives serve as methodological tools for self-reflection and moral biography, expressing religious underpinnings of identity, faith, and justice stances to foster community organizing and social reform strategies.
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