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Through a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Graduate Theological Union is able to provide rapid support for community-based responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. The grant of $150,000 is intended to enable the GTU to partner with local faith-based and related organizations assisting communities most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This initiative offers written reflections and videos from scholars, spiritual leaders, and cultural critics from across the GTU, exploring the meaning and challenges of spiritual care, ethics, and leadership in today's era. 

From 2015 to 2019, the GTU engaged in the Interreligious Education & Pedagogy Project (IEPP), a four-year effort exploring the current state of interreligious education in seminaries and theological schools. Launched at a time when the GTU PhD program was being revised to be more expressly interreligious, IEPP hosted a series of ongoing conversations among Jewish, Muslim, and Christian scholars and leaders in this emerging field.

As part of the project, which was funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the GTU’s Judith Berling authored an extensive report mapping “The Current State...

The Black Church is but one expression of the broader phenomenon of African American Religion, which encompasses West Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America and North America.

The GTU vibrantly represents the intersection of Asian and Asian American cultures and faith traditions with an unparalleled concentration of Asian, Asian-American, and Oceanic faculty and students.