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Higher education
fromRNS
6 days ago

As seminaries shuttered, Union grew. For Serene Jones, controversy was the price of survival.

Union Theological Seminary stabilized and grew enrollment during Serene Jones’s 18-year presidency through campus renovation, expanded interreligious programming, and increased student intake.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Office for Students faces judicial review over public funding for bible colleges

It's a case of the regulator not doing its job properly. These colleges don't appear consistent with the OfS requirements on academic freedom and freedom of expression, so they shouldn't have been registered in the first place. The lack of transparency is striking. If institutions are built around enforcing a confessional worldview rather than academic freedom, then they shouldn't be registered by the OfS or receiving public funds.
Higher education
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 months ago

I'm a gay Black southern man who never felt safe in church. Here's why I still became a pastor. - LGBTQ Nation

A same-gender-loving Black cisgender man reluctantly embraced pastoral calling while grappling with exclusion, doubt, and faith, informing pastoral care and faith deconstruction work.
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