News 9 Episcopal seminary lands in Lutheran Center I
n December, the ELCA will begin renting space at the Lutheran Center in Chicago to Seabury Western Theo- logical Seminary (
www.seabury. edu), an institution of the Episcopal Church.
In 2008, Seabury sold its Evanston, Ill., property to Northwestern Univer- sity as part of a reorganization. It’s not the first space-sharing endeavor to result from Called to Common Mis- sion, the 10-year-old full communion agreement between the ELCA and Episcopal Church. Another Episcopal seminary, Bexley Hall, rents space from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. In a news release, Robert Bot- toms, interim president of Seabury and Bexley Hall, said the Lutheran Center location “will make tangi- ble our commitment to ecumenical collaboration.”
It helps that the center is located
near O’Hare Airport, he said, since Seabury “faculty, students and part- ners travel from across the Midwest and beyond.”
Donald McCoid, assistant to the
ELCA presiding bishop for ecumeni- cal and interreligious relations, said, “In recent years, we have looked at how we could deepen [our full com- munion] relationship with shared ministry, shared staffing and even shared space. Seabury’s move into the Lutheran Center is an exciting real- ization of this vision. We welcome Seabury into our offices as we begin to share our ‘home’ together and anticipate even more cooperation in the years to come.”
The Lutheran Center still has 21,000-square-feet of rental space available to nonprofit, Illinois tax- exempt organizations, said Karen Rathbun, churchwide building man- agement director.
Library goes digital The World Council of Churches began GlobeTheoLib (
www.globethics.net/ gtl), the first online digital library cov- ering theology and ecumenism. “The time has come to launch a new model of ecumenical sharing of theological resources in order to prepare world Christianity for the 21st century,” said Olav Fykse Tveit, WCC general secre- tary, in a statement. GlobeTheoLib will accept documents in any language, but user languages are currently English, French, German and Spanish.
Sexuality under review The Lutheran communion worldwide plans to address the issue of homosex- uality and the church, said Kenneth Mtata, Lutheran World Federation study secretary for Lutheran theology and practice. He told journalists at a news conference in Nairobi, Kenya: “The Lutheran church is managing [it] very carefully in different parts of the globe so that an appropriate response can be found. … We think there cannot be short cuts for this pro- cess. A lot of listening to each other is required. The church is located in different contexts in the world, so we need to look at other cultural issues that come into play.”
Scroll through scrolls
Sing out The Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival, held for 30 years, surveyed
more than 2,500 alumni, thanks to a grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. The study asked how their experience with LSM affected their musical activi- ties in college and in the last year, their religious experiences during and since attending LSM, and the social impact of their participation. Here, Catherine Rodland (facing the camera), LSM organ faculty member, gathers with summer participants. The 2012 LSM is June 24- July 22 at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
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Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls that have been stored for decades in a climate-controlled exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem are now available in digital form. A website developed by the Israel Museum and Google allows online visitors to examine the scrolls in minute detail with the help of a magnifying feature (
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il). Dating from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D., the scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in 11 caves near the Dead Sea. The region’s arid environment helped ensure their survival.
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