Join Drs. Kathryn Barush and Mahjabeen Dhala in this GTUx Live conversation about the power of pilgrimage. Dr. Barush will discuss her work with The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, which is an invitation to create and experience art-infused pilgrimages in the Bay Area and beyond. It seeks to link sacred landscapes the world over […]

Dr. Ashley L. Bacchi (GTU, PhD 2015), Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions at Starr King School for the Ministry, has been awarded the fifth annual Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2020 work, Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles: Gender, Intertextuality, and Politics (Brill). Register to attend virtually […]

Each spring a remarkable person is chosen to reflect upon a sacred text for the Reading of the Sacred Texts lecture. Our speaker this year is Vanessa Zoltan. Vanessa is trained as an atheist chaplain. She is the CEO and Founder of Not Sorry Productions, which produces the podcasts Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, […]

Join us for the 2022 Surjit Singh Lecture. This year’s speaker will be Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History and Director, Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Title: "The Virgin Mary as Warrior: Marian models of women’s religious experience in colonial Latin America." Description: The historiography of women’s piety in […]

In this GTUx Live event, Dr. Rita Sherma and Dr. Devin Zuber will lead a conversation around the innate connections between humans and the natural world. Following the discussion they had in their GTUx Original, Drs. Sherma and Zuber will lead participants through an opportunity to think deeper about the sacrality of nature in different […]

Dr. Richard Payne will present the 47th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture titled, “From Ritual to Religion: The Consequences of Taking Nondualism Seriously” on November 15, 2022, at 6:00 PM PST. Register for this event on Eventbrite. Each November, the GTU faculty honors a distinguished professor who embodies the scholarly standards, teaching excellence and commitment to […]

Indigenous spirituality and their approach to peacebuilding offers pathways for cosmic harmony, beauty, and respect. It affirms the celebration of life and the continued co-existence of all creation through self-restraint, respect, ecological economics, justice, a sense of finitude and the need to share space for flourishing of the entire oikos. This is why, indigenous tradition matters, […]

The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to host Dr. Kathryn Barush, Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, for the sixth annual Borsch-Rast Lecture for her 2021 publication, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Visual Arts). Register for this event on Eventbrite. In her acclaimed book, Dr. Barush explores contemporary […]

Register for this event on Eventbrite. Tarot decks can be seen as a mirror, reflecting back insights about ourselves and even offering glimpses of the future. The illustrations and interpretations of traditional cards, however, are rooted in a white, patriarchal, heteronormative mindset; for those who do not fit this mold, this can obscure their meaning […]

This interfaith conference will feature plenary speakers Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School) and Mary Clark Moschella (Yale Divinity School) as well as a number of presentations from the GTU community speaking from their different traditions and disciplines on the place of joy in religious thought and practice. Register on Eventbrite to attend. Spotlight on These […]