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Signature Lectures (audio)

  Can Religion Meet the Challenge of Human Evolution? Robert Bellah, Elliot Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UC Berkeley Twentieth Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture, February 28, 2012Listen to the lectureListen to the Q&A Transcript What Does Scholarship Have to Do with Activism? Reflections on 15 Years in the Trenches Mary Ann Tolbert (PSR), George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical StudiesJudith Berling (GTU)—respondentDistinguished Faculty Lecture, November 8, 2011Listen to the lecture The Modern-Day Abolitionist Movement: What Smart Activists are...
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Multimedia

Every year, the GTU hosts more than one hundred public events including lectures, conferences, presentations, panel discussions, and artistic performances. The videos below offer just a sampling of recent events. To see more, subscribe to the GTU's YouTube channel--or review our events calendar and join us in person!   Visit Moodle for audio and video related to specific courses.
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Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship

The Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship of the Graduate Theological Union has as its purpose the encouragement of the writing and publication of theological scholarship by GTU graduates and current faculty. The endowment for the Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship comes from the sale of Trinity Press International, a venture dedicated to the publication of scholarly and often interdisciplinary theological studies. The prize and lectureship honor the joint example and collaboration of Frederick Houk Borsch (1935-2017) and Harold W. Rast (1933-2004). Hal Rast, after years as a senior...
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Other Lectures

August 23, 2010 Ethics and Religious Institutions of Higher Education: Beginning the Journey James A. Donahue, Ph.D. President and Professor of Ethics Graduate Theological Union Inaugural Convocation of Zaytuna College, Berkeley, CA May 11, 2006 Taking a Long ... a Very Long View Louis Weil Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics Church Divinity School of the Pacific GTU 2006 commencement address by Louis Weil, GTU core doctoral faculty member and Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at Church Divinity School of the Pacific...
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Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture

The Graduate Theological Union has long been a leading center for ecumenical theological education and for interreligious dialogue and understanding. The annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture builds on this tradition by fostering interreligious and cross-cultural communication and understanding, without compromising the integrity and essential telos of a religion or a culture. This endowed lectureship brings to the GTU a distinguished scholar/church leader to address religion and culture from a cross-cultural perspective. About Surjit Singh...
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Distinguished Faculty Lectures

Each November, the GTU faculty honors a distinguished professor who embodies the scholarly standards, teaching excellence, and commitment to ecumenism that define the GTU. Nominations are considered annually by the Council of Deans, who then select the year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.
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Recent Faculty and Alumni Publications

Purchase books from our a-store and help support GTU.   Books Written or Edited by GTU Faculty 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 (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2020); Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850 (Routledge, 2016). Purushottama ...
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2016 GTU Graduates

On May 12, fifty-seven graduates were honored at the GTU's 2016 Commencement Ceremony at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Chapel of the Cross in Berkeley, California. Graduates are listed below by degree and include their thesis title, area of study or school of affiliation, committee members, and thesis abstract; language specialization is noted for MABL graduates in lieu of thesis information.   Master of Arts Ineda P. Adesanya The Necessity of Spiritual Care for American Protestant Clergy: Living and Serving via the Fruits of God’s Grace San Francisco Theological Seminary R...
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