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    2025 Application Now Open

    The 2025 Application is now available! GTU offers diverse academic programs and non-degree courses of study to fit your educational goals. From our PhD and MA programs to our certificates, we have a program to fit your academic project. 

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    GTU Alum Sr. Martha Ann Kirk Uses Art to Empower At-Risk Youth

    Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, ThD, is a professor emerita of Religious Studies and of the Arts at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. In a recent conversation with GTU, she spoke about her work founding the Artistic Bridges project, the importance of utilizing art as a tool for healing and developing compassion, and how her GTU education prepared her for a career of service.

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    The SAGE Classroom, an Innovative Form of Education, Opens this Fall

    Lanier Graham has donated hundreds of sacred art pieces to the Graduate Theological Union from his own personal collection and from the teaching collection of The Institute for Aesthetic Development, a charity he has headed for fifty years. Housed on the third floor of the Flora Lamson Hewlett Building, the heart of the GTU Collection will soon be displayed in a remarkable space called the Sacred Art Gallery and Education Classroom (“SAGE Classroom”).

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    Islamic Law Scholar Dr. Ahmed Khater Appointed to Full-Time Faculty Position

    The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to share that Dr. Ahmed Khater has moved from his role as an adjunct professor to a full-time teaching position in the Center for Islamic Studies.

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    Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Religion, and Applied Ethics

    This GTUx Original will explore some of the ethical and theological implications of AI.

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The GTU is the most comprehensive center for the graduate study of religion in North America, bringing together scholars of the world’s great religions and wisdom traditions. Discover the more than twenty schools, centers, and affiliates that form this one-of-a-kind union.

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The GTU supports intensive scholarly inquiry and deep personal engagement with religious tradition and practice. Students pursue their interests within a diverse community composed of many smaller communities, in an atmosphere of multi-religious freedom, curiosity, respect, and dialogue.

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Religion Engages the World

Whether your studies involve interreligious topics or in-depth inquiry within a particular tradition, the GTU offers exceptional opportunities for critical and creative scholarship. Through four interdisciplinary departments and more than thirty specific concentrations, our master’s and doctoral programs invite innovative study of religion in a twenty-first century context.

Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Mina Yi

How can modern art create moments of spiritual encounter by deepening our engagement with the material world around us?

Mina Yi, a third-year GTU doctoral student, explores this question through the lens of modernist abstract landscape art. She investigates how artistic and aesthetic experience...

Doug Adams Gallery
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam

Join the BJRT for an online event that advocates for the centrality of feminist theology and social justice in academia, and celebrates the historically constant leading role of women upon the intellectual and material fronts of liberation. 

Online Event
5:15pm

Mothering: An Interreligious Conversation on the Maternal

9:00am to 5:00pm