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Summer 2023 Interreligious Research Grants | Madrasa-Midrasha Program

The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has provided funding to the GTU in support of the Madrasa-Midrasha Program, a collaborative interreligious effort cosponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies and the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies. We are pleased to announce research grants for GTU students working on interreligious projects related to Judaism and/or Islam. Grants will range from $250 to $500 for individual projects and $500 to $1000 for joint projects, which are strongly encouraged. The following criteria will be applied to determine winning proposals: Student(s) must be in the...
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Dr. David Batstone Named Alum of the Year

BERKELEY, CA – September 13, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce Dr. David Batstone as the 2022 Alum of the Year. Dr. Batstone began his studies at the GTU in 1985, earning his PhD in 1989. He is the Professor Emeritus of the School of Management at the University of San Francisco (USF) and CEO of Blackstone Technologies, an innovative battery technology company using 3D printing technology to create energy-efficient and sustainable lithium-ion battery cells. Prior to his emeritus appointment at USF’s School of Management, Dr. Batstone served as Professor of...
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CIS News - September 2022

CIS News for September 2022 The Center for Islamic Studies extends a warm welcome to all new and returning students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff for the academic year 2022-2023! We are especially grateful and delighted as the GTU celebrates 60 years and the CIS celebrates its 15th year anniversary – congratulations! We look forward to collaborative programs and events this year that highlight the many wonderful achievements of our students, alums, faculty, visiting and research scholars, staff, and our community partnerships. We welcome your suggestions: mhartman@gtu.edu...
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GTU Alum Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne Elected 44th United Church of Canada Moderator—First Indigenous Woman to Lead Church

BERKELEY, CA – July 25, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to celebrate that GTU alum Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne (PhD, 2016) has been elected the United Church of Canada’s (UCC) 44th Moderator. As Moderator, Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne will serve as the United Church of Canada’s spiritual leader for the next three years.  Born in Alert Bay, British Columbia and a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, the Rev. Dr. Lansdowne is only the second Indigenous person to be elected the United Church of Canada’s Moderator, and the first Indigenous woman. She is committed to an...
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John Templeton Foundation Awards GTU’s Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Nearly Half-Million Dollar Grant to Advance Critical Research on “Virtuous Artificial Intelligence”

BERKELEY, CA – July 18, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) has awarded the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) a $445,000, three-year grant beginning in July 2022 to take forward critical research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its ethical implications. The project, titled “Virtuous AI? Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Evolution, and Virtue,” seeks to explore several core questions: How and to what extent will AI influence the evolution of human culture and virtue? Can AI assist humans in the...
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GTU Student Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship

New York, NY — Sakinah Alhabshi, a student of Graduate Theological Union, is one of thirteen seminary students chosen for the 2022 seminary program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). Now in its twelfth year of operation, FASPE provides a unique historical lens to engage graduate students in professional schools as well as early-stage practitioners in six fields (business, journalism, law, design & technology, medicine, and seminary) in an intensive course of study focused on contemporary ethical issues in their professions. The FASPE seminary...
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Congratulations to 2022 CIS Graduates

Congratulations to the Class of 2022 CIS Graduates  As-salaamu alaikum, greetings of peace.   I am delighted to present the Class of 2022 graduates in Islamic Studies: Sakinah Alhabshi (MA with Honors), thesis title, Spiritual Wellbeing and Resilience During a Prolonged Crisis: An Analysis and Integration of Contemplation-based and  Action-based Practices from an Islamic Perspective   Huzaifah Bharucha (MA), thesis title, Contradictions between Āḥād Ḥadīth and Qiyās within the Ḥanafī Madhhab   Dr. Uzma Husaini (PhD), dissertation title, The Centrality of the Link Transmission (...
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The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library at 35 Years: Celebrating, Remembering, and Preparing for the Future

Celebrating: A Name to Be Proud Of  Thirty-five years ago, a landmark event took place in North Berkeley. After decades of planning, collaboration, and construction, the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library dedication ceremony on Holy Hill celebrated the completion of a centralized library that could serve the entire Graduate Theological Union consortium, creating a physical landmark to attest to the spiritual and academic fellowship that had guided the work of the GTU since its formation in 1962.      The GTU Common Library was named the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library in 1987,...
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Dr. Deidre N. Green Named Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saints/Mormon Studies at the GTU

BERKELEY, CA – April 27, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to announce that Dr. Deidre N. Green has been named Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saints/Mormon Studies at the GTU. Dr. Green will join the faculty on July 1, 2022, and she will begin offering courses in the Fall 2022 semester. A global scholar of religion whose work incorporates the philosophy of religion, feminist theology, and activism, Dr. Green brings a fresh perspective to the interpretation of scripture and other theological sources, such as in her forthcoming volume, Latter-day Saint Perspectives on...
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Alum Publications by Date

We are always delighted to share acknowledgements and celebrations of our alums' transformative work in the world. If you are an alum and would like to provide updates, please use this form to contact us. Please email communications@gtu.edu with any questions.
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Alum Publications by Name

We are always delighted to share acknowledgements and celebrations of our alums' transformative work in the world. If you are an alum and would like to provide updates, please use this form to contact us. Please email communications@gtu.edu with any questions.
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Faculty Publications by Date

Below is a list of faculty publications, organized by publication date.   2025 Karen Lebacqz with Matthew J. Gaudet, Eight Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics (Fortress Press, 2025).   2022 Christopher Ocker (GTU/SFTS), The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces (Cambridge University Press, 2022). 2020 Kathryn Barush (GTU/JST), Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Christopher Ocker (GTU/SFTS), Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and...
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Faculty Publications by Name

 Below is a list of faculty publications, arranged alphabetically by last name.   Jerome Baggett (GTU/JST), The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture (NYU Press, 2019). Kathryn Barush (GTU/JST), Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020); Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850 (Routledge, 2016). Purushottama Bilimoria (GTU/CDS), History of Indian Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies, 2018); Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems (Routledge India, 2015); Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia (D.K....
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Student Grants

Each year the Madrasa-Midrasha Program offers summer research grants for students working on interreligious projects related to Judaism and Islam, funded through generous support by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Grants typically range from $250 to $500 for individual projects and $500 to $1000 for joint projects. Student(s) must be in the GTU MA or PhD degree program focusing on Jewish Studies and/or Islamic Studies and/or have registered for a course with the GTU's Center for Islamic Studies, Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, or Interreligious Chaplaincy Program during the...
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Assistant Professor of LDS/Mormon Studies Presentations

You are invited to presentations from the three finalists for the LDS/Mormon Studies assistant professor position. Dr. Elisa Eastwood Pulido  "Global Indigenous Mormonism: The Religious Activism of Margarito Bautista, 1878-1961" Wednesday, March 2 | 4:00-6:00 pm (PST) | Online Zoom ID https://gtu.zoom.us/j/98825351865 Dr. Janiece Johnson  "Becoming a People of the Books: Early Latter-day Saints and New Scripture" Tuesday, March 8 | 4:00–6:00 pm (PST) | Online Zoom ID: https://gtu.zoom.us/j/99873108569 Dr. Deidre Nicole Green "Reconciling with Finitude" Wednesday, March 9 | 4:00–6:...
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Summer 2022 Interreligious Research Grants | Madrasa-Midrasha Program

The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has provided funding to the GTU in support of the Madrasa-Midrasha Program, a collaborative interreligious effort cosponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies and the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies. We are pleased to announce research grants for GTU students working on interreligious projects related to Judaism and/or Islam. Grants will range from $250 to $500 for individual projects and $500 to $1000 for joint projects, which are strongly encouraged. The following criteria will be applied to determine winning proposals: Student(s) must be in the...
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Dr. Susan S. Phillips leaves Executive Director’s position at New College Berkeley, Dr. Timothy Tseng and Mr. Craig Wong named new Co-Executive Directors

BERKELEY, CA – February 2, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to celebrate the 27-year leadership of New College Berkeley (NCB) Executive Director, Dr. Susan S. Phillips, who left the position at the end of last year. New College Berkeley’s commitment to promoting the integration of scholarly Christian faith with everyday life is central to Dr. Phillips’s sense of call as a sociologist, spiritual director, and professor of sociology and Christian spirituality. New College Berkeley has been an affiliate of the GTU since 1992. Dr. Phillips has led NCB since 1994, staying...
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GTU Trustee Dale Walker Pledges $100k to GTUx

BERKELEY, CA–February 1, 2022–The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to announce that GTU Board of Trustees member Dale Walker has pledged $100,000 toward GTUx over the next four years. This substantial pledge will be used for developing, administering, marketing, and growing the GTUx platform and its user base. The first installment of this pledge was made in November of last year.  This gift allows GTUx, a free, donation-based platform, to expand its content offerings in critical areas of study—such as justice and public life, environmental care, eco spirituality, and politics and...
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GTU Remembers Dr. John Endres, S.J.

BERKELEY, CA – January 31, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union mourns the passing of Dr. John Endres, S.J., Professor Emeritus of Sacred Scripture at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, where he taught since 1982. A passionate advocate for ecumenical instruction, Endres taught courses in Psalms, Wisdom, and Deuterocanonical Books, Intertestamental Literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Fr. Endres received his PhD from Vanderbilt University (1982), his MDiv from Weston School of Theology (1977), and his AB from College of the Holy Cross (’68). His professional...
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Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Celebrates Dr. Robert Russell’s 40-Years of Leadership, Welcomes Dr. Braden Molhoek as New Director

BERKELEY, CA – January 18, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to celebrate 40 years of visionary leadership from Dr. Robert Russell, who recently announced his retirement as Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS). Dr. Russell will conclude his tenure on June 30, 2022.  “Over the past 40 years, Dr. Russell has paved the way for scholars around the world working at the intersection of science and theology. By establishing CTNS and growing it into what it is today, Dr. Russell leaves a living legacy...
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