Womanist theology is a way of understanding God and the world that focuses on the experiences and views of Black women, according to Trinity's website, including the intersectionality of race, class ...

More than 30 Jewish and Lutheran scholars and theologians will meet here March 6 for the first theological consultation between the two faiths, it was announced by the American Jewish Committee and ...

The Rev. Albert “Pete” Pero Jr., who became the first African-American professor at a U.S. Lutheran seminary when he joined the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago faculty in 1975, according to ...

WACONIA, MINN. - A new theological institute is making it easier for laypeople to engage deeply with the teachings of the Lutheran Church. The Lutheran Institute of Theology (LIT), founded by Rev.

Martin E. Marty was an ordained Lutheran pastor, seminary professor and highly influential voice on religion who through more than 60 books and thousands of lectures, sermons and commencement ...

In 1960 — two years before the start of the Second Vatican Council — Pope John XXIII established 10 preparatory commissions to lay the foundation of what would become a landmark event opening up the ...

Attempts to make life brighter in a World War II prison camp served Mary Hinderlie well later in life when she became program director of Holden Village, a Christian retreat center in Washington state ...

Theologians who helped guide and advise the five working groups that were the engine of the San Diego diocese's Oct. 29-30 synod on marriage and family universally praised the pioneering effort and ...