“The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies at Yale University is pleased to announce that Nessette Falu will be joining LGBT Studies for the 2013-2014 academic year as the next Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellow. The Fellowship is supported by the Sarah Pettit Fund, which was established in 2003 as a permanent endowment to [...]
Continue Reading →Two bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon, killing at least two and injuring hundreds. “Times of tragedy are opportunities for us in the faith community to express our love and also work for nonviolent love in the world,” said Peter Hetzel, a theology professor at New York Theological Seminary.
Continue Reading →New York Times best-selling author Jim Wallis thinks our life together can be better. In his latest book, On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good [...]
Continue Reading →Titled Riff, the Beloved Community, David Gonzalez talks with Peter Heltzel about his new book, Resurrection City. Click on the link to read: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/a-theologian-who-found-inspiration-in-a-jazz-club/
Continue Reading →The beginning of the year is always a good time to stop and take stock of where one is in life. It’s also often a time when we are invited to renew the various covenants we have made in our lives. John Wesley introduced a special service of Covenant Renewal among his followers in the [...]
Continue Reading →NYTS President Dale Irvin asked me to share the following thoughts on the tragedy at Newtown, Connecticut.
On Thursday night, December 13, my family and I traveled about an hour south of our home in West Hartford, Connecticut to the Newtown, Connecticut Town Hall to see a production of Dickens’ Christmas Carol in which our [...]
Continue Reading →On Sunday December 16, 2012, at 3:00 p.m., the Rev. Dr. Alfred Correa, a chaplain who works with youth in the state prison system, will be ordained pastor of the The Reformed Church of Huguenot Park, where he has served for nearly four years.
Rev. Correa developed the first Youth Chaplaincy Certification Program in the [...]
Continue Reading →On February 7, 2012, NYTS and CSPUR will be hosting their monthly Religion and Peacemaking Seminar Series leading up to their main conference, titled “Nurturing Peace in Contexts of Global Violence: A Conference for Theological Educators and Religious Leaders”
In February’s Seminar, we have invited David Little, who is T. J. Dermot Dunphy [...]
Continue Reading →On November 27, from 4:30 – 6:00pm in the Chapel of the Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive, Cornel West was in dialogue with Peter Heltzel on his new book, Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation. NYTS hosted the event along with the NYTS Micah Institute. Here is the video of this momentous discussion.
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