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General Library Policies

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is committed to providing safe facilities and a well-maintained collection for our community of scholars and researchers.  The Conduct Policy enumerates the standards of behavior expected of our patrons to sustain an open and accessible academic environment.   Security Guard A security guard is available in the evenings for those wanting an escort to their cars or back to their dorms.  Please contact the guard via the Circulation Desk in the Library either in person or by calling 510-649-2500.   Theft in the library... ...is an unfortunate reality. ...
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Donate to the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

The GTU’s Flora Lamson Hewlett Library — the geographic and spiritual heart of the GTU — is one of the most comprehensive theological libraries in the country, providing service for future parish ministers, seminary educators, scholars, and community leaders. Founded in 1969 from historical original collections brought together from GTU’s member schools, the library reflects the interreligious collaboration that occurs at the GTU. Its collection has the breadth to support a full range of theological education programs as well as significant depth in many special areas of religion and...
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Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders

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Wednesday, October 3rd 2012, 12:00pm
Book Talk with Joy Ladin Hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by Starr King School for the Ministry, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion, and Women’s Studies in Religion First Floor Lounge, 2465 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley Dr. Joy Ladin is a professor of English and holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University. She received her Ph.D. at Princeton, M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Ladin was a...
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Robert Benedetto to Retire as Library Director

For immediate release, February 17, 2016 After a decade of devoted service as Director of the GTU’s Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Robert Benedetto will be retiring at the end of February. Benedetto came to the Graduate Theological Union in July of 2006, bringing with him nearly thirty years of professional experience as a librarian, church historian, and archivist. Under his leadership, the GTU library has expanded its online databases, provided wireless internet access in the library, improved its online course management system, created multiple points of access to digitized material from...
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Getting to the Bottom of Politics and Religion

  “I felt the politics of religion (in Israel) were out of our control. I wanted to get to the bottom of it.” Who is Joel Schalit (M.A., ’94)? Inquire, and you’ll get many answers. He’s an Israeli-American author, publisher, and freelance editorial consultant known for his unique views on Middle Eastern politics and U.S. culture. Based in Berlin, Germany, he has contributed to numerous news outlets, including Alternet, The Forward, France 24, and The Guardian, and he is former managing editor of Tikkun. He’s authored five books, among them a critically-acclaimed 2002...
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Religion and Literature

Students in this concentration study literature, literary theory, and religious studies, paying special attention to the intersections among these disciplines. Students are expected to demonstrate mastery of a literary genre or period (e.g. Romantic poetry, the modernist novel) and critical methodologies relevant for studying religion and literature. Resources are available for study in fields such as literary theory, philosophy and literature, poetics, the Bible and Western literature, literature and the environment, American literature, the novel, Yiddish literature, and translation studies...
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Gestures to the Divine Opening Reception

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Thursday, September 6th 2018, 5:00pm
Join us for the opening of Gestures to the Divine: Works by Hagit Cohen. There will be live music, refreshments, and a chance to talk to the artist about her work. Israeli-born artist Hagit Cohen applies the technical precision and vigor of digital photography to the shamanic rituals she incorporates into her daily life. The smallest plant seeds and pods, gathered on the East Bay trails and other traveled countries, demand hyper-focused attention and take center stage in Cohen’s minimalist prints. Strange forms loom large, casting intricate shadows, some resembling calligraphic marks, some...
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"Head of Passes" plus panel discussion at the Berkeley Rep

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Thursday, May 14th 2015, 8:00pm
The Graduate Theological Union, along with the Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, invite you to join us for a discussion following the May 14, 2015 performance of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Head of Passes, which is based in part on the Book of Job. The discussion will occur in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s cafe following the performance and include a panel of experts, including: ·         Dr. LeAnn Snow Flesher, Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament, American Baptist Seminary of the West ·         Dr. James A....
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Providing Self-Help Tools for Chinese Students

  Shaw (2nd row) with some of her students Three years ago, a spiritual director asked Mistie Shaw (M.A. ’04) where she wanted to go. Her answer was literal and unequivocal: China. So Shaw then turned her life around and got a job teaching English as a Second Language at Henan University of Science and Technology in Luoyang, a city of more than 3 million people in central China’s Henan Province. Just south of Luoyang is a world heritage site with 10,000 Buddhas carved into the hillside. And north of the city is a site containing the first Buddhist scriptures from India. Shaw describes her...
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Alumna Receives Lilly Research Grant to Study Interfaith Theology

March 30, 2011 - Kristin Johnston Largen (Ph.D. ’02), Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (PA), has received a prestigious 2011-2012 Lilly Theological Research Grant for Seeking God among our Neighbors: Toward an Interfaith Systematic Theology. Largen's book, which she will research in fall 2011, falls under the general heading of Systematic Theology, but is developed more specifically from an interreligious perspective. It treats three core theological loci—God, creation, and humanity—explicating them from a Christian perspective, with one...
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Helping to Design Sustainable Communities

Doug Herst Imagine a green West Berkeley community with space for living, artist studios, manufacturing, startup businesses, a public garden, gym, and artisan foods. This is Doug Herst’s vision, and a project he is deeply involved in creating. “One of my values,” he says, “is taking good things, such as the many wonderful things Berkeley has to offer, and designing a way to bring them together to make them great.” Herst takes design seriously — he is a pioneer of indirect lighting systems for schools and offices, and holder of more than 20 utility patents and fifty design patents in the U.S....
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Most complex pages on the website are built using a set of building blocks called paragraphs.  A paragraph can be a block of text content, a full width image or a slideshow, teaser boxes with links and buttons that point to other pages, etc.  Pages are built out of these building blocks, which keeps the sections separate and reorganizable, as well as making sure that all content is well-structured and looks good on every page. The following are examples of each type of paragraph, to give you a sense of the what you can do and how.
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Passion Led Us Here: Women's Studies in Religion Mentoring Night

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Wednesday, November 13th 2019, 5:00pm
Passion Led Us Here: Mentoring Night  Join Students, Staff, and Faculty for an Evening of Food and Facilitated Conversations. All are welcome, regardless of gender identity or expression. Facilitated discussions will consider topics such as addressing sexism, work/school/life balance, financial wellness - participants can choose which conversations to take part in. Also, come to learn about the Women’s Studies in Religion (WSR) Certificate Program and ways to be involved in WSR programming this year.  Date: Wednesday, Nov 13 from 5-7pm.  Location: GTU Dinner Board Room (2400 Ridge Road,...
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Jewish and Queer Raised: A Retreat for the Next Generation

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Saturday, November 2nd 2019, 9:00am
The CLGS Jewish Roundtable is hosting the first-ever gathering for adults who were raised in Jewish and queer families and communities.  Over forty young adults ranging in age from eighteen to late thirties will attend the weekend retreat, 2-3 November 2019 on the Pacific School of Religion campus in Berkeley, California. “I feel that having a single lesbian rabbi mother was very stable compared to so many of my friends with two straight parents and tons of drama,” says Raffi Greenberg, a union organizer in his twenties who has registered for the conference. “My mom was a wonderful role...
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Library

The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library in Berkeley, together with our branch library at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, offer a rich array of programs, services, and resources to support the study and research needs of the more than 20 member schools, academic centers, and affiliates that comprise the GTU.
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Library Workshops

Workshops are free and open to all. Most workshops will have a guide, so if you can't make it, you can still review some of the materials on your own.  Questions? Contact us on chat, visit, email library@gtu.edu, or call 510-649-2501
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"Get to Know the GTU" Webinar

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Thursday, February 21st 2019, 11:00am
One of the best ways to get a sense of whether the GTU is right for you is to hear directly from our current students about their experiences. We’ve set up a special webinar for Thursday, February 21, at 11:00 am (PST) to give you a unique opportunity to do exactly that. In just 20 minutes, you’ll hear three current students--Myoung-ho Sin, Laura Dunn, and Matthew Hartman--chat about their GTU experiences and their fields of study, and then you’ll have an opportunity to ask questions. Take this opportunity to hear from the people who REALLY know what it’s like to be a student at the GTU—and...
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"Get to Know the GTU" with Our Latest Webinar

On February 21, 2019, the GTU hosted a twenty-minute webinar in which three current students--Matthew Hartman, Laura Dunn, and Myoung-Ho Sin--joined Assistant Director of Admissions Kelly Colwell to share briefly about their GTU experiences and their fields of study. Watch or listen to the recording below and hear from the people who REALLY know what it’s like to study at the GTU! (You can also view our first admissions webinar from January 2019, in which we offered more information about our MA program, including helpful tips and tricks about navigating the admissions process and funding...
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Women Preachers & Leaders: The Roman Catholic Tradition that Gets Overlooked

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Wednesday, October 10th 2012, 10:30am
WSR Cafe Series: Dr. Darleen Pryds Denniston Commons, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley Dr. Darleen Pryds is professor of Spirituality and History at the Franciscan School of Theology.  She is a lay preacher and preaches regularly at an ecumenical range of parishes around the Bay Area, as well as a scholar of the history of lay preaching in the Catholic tradition. Women of the Streets: Early Franciscan Women and their Mendicant Vocation looks at the lives of four lay Franciscan women and asks why their stories of leadership and faith are underrepresented in...
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