NEW HAVEN, Conn. — President M. Craig Barnes of Princeton Theological Seminary and Executive Director Thomas J. Hastings of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC), a renowned research institute ...

Even before the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to in-person events, membership in religious congregations had fallen to new lows. The number of Americans affiliated with a church, synagogue or mosque ...

CHICAGO, June 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- North Park Theological Seminary's (NPTS) Lauren Thurston MDiv '23 has been awarded a clergy-related Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics ...

Fifteen seminaries have committed to meeting five sexual misconduct policy benchmarks developed by a group of laypeople, seminary leaders and bishops. Developed by a seminary study group assembled by ...

Policy benchmarks developed from a study of sexual harassment and misconduct at seminaries and religious houses of formation in the United States are being promoted as a way to stem the abuses that ...

Philosophy does not teach its students the Bible. It does not teach one how to minister to a congregation. It does not teach one how to distribute the sacraments. Despite this, seminarians are ...

It’s not that Harper Auston doesn’t want to attend her 6:15 a.m. Latter-day Saint seminary class. Her friends are there, and the Denver 15-year-old likes starting her day learning about Jesus. “But ...