Princeton, NJ, September 16, 2011–Dr. David Hogue, professor of pastoral theology and counseling at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, will give a public lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Wednesday, September 28 at 7:00 p.m. on “Brain Matters: Toward a Practical Theology of Human Relationality.”
—Porter will give the Stone Lectures on the topic “Justice as a Virtue” October 3–6 at Princeton Seminary—
Princeton, NJ, September 7, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary will begin its 200th academic year with Academic Convocation on Sunday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller Chapel.
Princeton, NJ, June 17, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary has received a grant of $27,381.70 to its William Albert and Eugenie Hummel Sullivan Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund by the William A. and Eugenie H. Sullivan Trust of The Philadelphia Foundation.
—Conference for Pastors and Musicians July 24–28— Princeton, NJ, May 25, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary’s School of Christian Vocation and Mission and Westminster Choir College of Rider University are pleased to bring the discussion of theology and music together in
—Weeklong program will be held on Princeton Seminary’s campus July 18 through 22— Princeton, NJ, June 17, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary’s School of Christian Vocation and Mission will kickoff a weeklong summer educational program titled “Perspectives on Vocation for the 21st Century” and will take place Monday, July 18 through Friday, July 22.
Princeton, NJ, May 25, 2011–The Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) at Princeton Theological Seminary announced that Dr. Sammy Alfaro, assistant professor of Christian studies at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, will receive its annual book prize for 2011.
Princeton, NJ, May 16, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary will hold commencement exercises on Saturday, May 21 at 4 00 p.m. in the Princeton University Chapel.
Princeton, NJ, April 27, 2011–Ellen Charry will give her inaugural lecture as Princeton Theological Seminary’s Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Systematic Theology on Monday, May 9 at 7:00 p.m.
—Author of Gilead to lecture April 14 on Moses and the origins of American liberalism— Princeton, NJ, March 30, 2011–Marilynne Robinson, the author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, is the recipient of Princeton Theological Seminary’s 2011 Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life.
Princeton, NJ, March 24, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary will present a handbell concert “Flashback to the ’80s! A Concert of Handbell Hits from the Past” for the Seminary and Princeton communities on Sunday, April 17, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. in Miller Chapel on the Seminary’s main campus.
Princeton, New Jersey, March 24, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary has launched “Navigating the Waters: Pathways to Embracing Diversity,” a three-to-four-year cultural proficiency and diversity competency initiative that will include all of the institution’s constituencies.
Princeton, NJ, March 22, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary’s Department of Speech Communication in Ministry will present William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice on Thursday through Saturday, April 7 through 9 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m.
—Joshua DuBois, executive director of the White House Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, will speak at conference March 10–12—
Princeton, NJ, February 21, 2011–Joshua DuBois, special assistant to President Obama and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and a World Food Prize Laureate, will be keynote speakers at Princeton Theological Seminary’s March 10–12, 2011, Institute for Faith and Public Life.
Is There an Asian American Theology? —Vietnamese Professor of Catholic Social Thought to Deliver March 14 at Princeton Seminary honoring Sang Hyun Lee—
Princeton, NJ, February 18, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary’s Sang Hyun Lee Lecture on Asian American Theology and Ministry will be held on Monday, March 14, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center on the Seminary campus.
—Service will feature hymns and responses for congregation as well as masterworks for choir—
Princeton, NJ, February 18, 2011–The combined choirs of Princeton Theological Seminary and Nassau Presbyterian Church will present a choral vespers service, “This Shining Night,” on Sunday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller Chapel on the Seminary campus.
Princeton, NJ, January 20, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary will offer a spring film festival in conjunction with its course“‘Through a Glass, Darkly’: The Biblical and Shakespearean Visions,” taught by Clifton Black, the Seminary’s Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology.
Princeton, NJ, January 13, 2011–Princeton Theological Seminary celebrates Johann Sebastian Bach with a concert featuring organist Alan Morrison, who will perform Bach’s Clavier-Übung III, a collection of Bach’s most robust settings of Lutheran chorales framed by the famous Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major.
Princeton, NJ, January 7, 2011–Dr. Friedrich Avemarie, professor of New Testament at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany, will deliver Princeton Theological Seminary’s annual Alexander Thompson Lecture on Monday, February 28, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center, followed by a reception for the lecturer in the Private Dining Room.
—Cheryl J. Sanders, pastor of the Third Street Church of God in Washington DC, will Lecture February 10—
Princeton, NJ, December 16, 2010–Dr. Cheryl J. Sanders, senior pastor of the Third Street Church of God in Washington DC and professor of Christian ethics at Howard University School of Divinity, will give Princeton Theological Seminary’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Thursday, February 10 at 7:00 p.m.
—Ingrid Mattson, director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, to Deliver Lecture February 24—
Princeton, NJ, December 15, 2010–Dr. Ingrid Mattson, director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, and professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, will give the annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Thursday, February 24, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center on the Seminary campus.
Princeton, NJ, November 19, 2010–Seminarians for Peace and Justice, a student led organization at Princeton Theological Seminary, will have an alternative fair trade Christmas market Monday, December 6 through Friday, December 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily in the lobby of the Mackay Campus Center on the Seminary’s campus.
Princeton, NJ, November 16, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary will present three musical services of carols from around the world for the Seminary and Princeton communities on Wednesday, December 8 at 3:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 8:30 p.m. in Miller Chapel on the Seminary’s campus.
Princeton, NJ, November 15, 2010–Since the 1960s, international migrations have transformed into a truly global phenomenon.
—Alumnus and Air Force Chaplain Bruce Glover Reflects on War and Peace—
Princeton, NJ, November 12, 2010–“For many people, Veterans Day offers both a painful reminder of what’s most important, as well as a personal invitation,” said U.S. Air Force Chaplain, Lieutenant Colonel Bruce R. Glover, during a Veterans Day meditation at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Princeton, NJ, November 12, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary will present a holiday handbell concert for the Seminary and Princeton communities on Thursday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Chapel on the Seminary’s campus.
Princeton, NJ, November 10, 2010–Google “happiness” and more than sixty six million results pop up instantly finding that actual happiness takes much longer.
—Leah Gaskin Fitchue of Payne Theological Seminary Receives Princeton’s Distinguished Alumna Award—
Princeton, NJ, November 2, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary presented its 2010 Distinguished Alumna Award to Leah Gaskin Fitchue, the president of Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio, on October 25 during the Seminary’s annual alumni/ae reunion.
Princeton, NJ, October 26, 2010–Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity, and Fellow of Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, will give the 2010–2011 Frederick Neumann Memorial Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Monday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m.
—Celebration of Newly Re-Named and Repurposed Center of Continuing Education Panel To Explore the Role of Seminaries in a Changing World—
Princeton, NJ, October 6, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary’s School of Christian Vocation and Mission, formerly the Center of Continuing Education, today announced that on Tuesday, October 19 at 1:00 p.m., it will host its inaugural convocation in celebration of its new name and discerned call to Christian ministry.
Princeton, NJ, October 7, 2010–Renowned organist Joan Lippincott performed the inaugural concert on Princeton Theological Seminary’s Joe R. Engle Organ in February 2001, and is returning to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of the organ’s installation in Miller Chapel.
—Initiative is Ranked Top Graduate level Program Accelerating Latina o Student Success—
Princeton, NJ, October 5, 2010–Excelencia in Education, a Washington DC nonprofit, named the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) at Princeton Theological Seminary the winner of its 2010 Examples of Excelencia at the graduate level.
Princeton, NJ, September 30, 2010–The Princeton Theological Seminary’s Touring Choir provides voices in music and liturgies that help churches explore other cultures.
Princeton, NJ, September 27, 2010–Barbara K. Lundblad, the Joe R. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, will give three lectures on preaching October 18 and 19 at Princeton Theological Seminary.
—Professor of Old Testament Theology returns to Princeton Seminary to deliver annual Stone Lectures October 4–7—
Princeton, NJ, September 16, 2010–Dr. Patrick Miller, Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, will deliver the Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary beginning Monday, October 4.
Princeton, NJ, September 20, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary began its 199th academic year with Academic Convocation on Sunday, September 19 at 8:00 p.m. in Miller Chapel.
Princeton, NJ, September 17, 2010–Whether in the remembrance of 9/11, in the tragedy of war in Afghanistan and around the world, or in personal stories of rape and domestic violence, traumatic loss is part of the human experience.
Princeton, NJ, September 16, 2010–Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond, professor of theology and of biological sciences and director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences at the University of Chester in the United Kingdom, will give a public lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Wednesday, September 22 at 7:00 p.m. on “Evolutionary Biology and Theology.”
Princeton, NJ, August 9, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary’s School of Christian Vocation and Mission, formerly the Center of Continuing Education, kicked off a weeklong summer educational session today on “Theology in Service to the Church” that will run through Friday, August 13.
Princeton, NJ, August 4, 2010–Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the election of five new members of its Board of Trustees.