Events

Speaker: Dr. Rachel S. Mikva, Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman Chair & Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, and Senior Faculty Fellow of the InterReligious Institute.

On February 23, 2020, your church is invited to participate in Seminary Sunday. Congregations use Seminary Sunday to explore the importance of theological education for their communities. Many churches us this day an opportunity to meet seminarians, inviting them to participate in worship through preaching, speaking, or Christian education. The Office for Advancement at CTS is happy to assist you in your preparations for Seminary Sunday.

The event will be held on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at the Church of the Good Shepherd (5700 S Prairie Ave, Chicago).

We will begin with a reception at 5:15PM, followed by program and lecture at 6PM.

Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, will keynote this event.

The theme is “Our Silence Won’t Save Us: Practicing Transformative Ethical Speech in the Public Square.”

This event is made possible by the Nelson Ethics Fund.

This lecture will feature Dr. Uzma Jamil sharing her work related to Muslim Studies.

A reception will be held at 5:15pm and the lecture begins at 6:00pm.

CTS is co-sponsoring and hosting this event at our building.

Deadlines as follows:

• Proposals due before midnight 1-13-19
• Notification will be by 1-31-20
• Registration/acceptance must be confirmed before 2-10-20

Check-in begins at 4:30PM on Friday, March 20. Opening Sessions begin at 5:30PM

This lecture series, named for Christian scholar and former interim CTS president, Victor Obenhaus, welcomes Zach Selby. The title of his lecture is TBD. Sponsored by the CTS PhD Program. This event will be live streamed.

This annual event brings students, faculty, scholars, activists, faith communities and individuals together to engage in religious and theological reflection, and is an expression of the seminary’s commitment to helping transform congregations from places of hostility and alienation to communities of hospitality and empowerment. The Castañeda Award is presented either to openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students or to those who actively support the LGBTQ student community at Chicago Theological Seminary.

Speaker: TBD

Chicago Theological Seminary’s 2020 Commencement will introduce a new cohort of dynamic religious scholars, activists, and community leaders. All are invited to attend the Commencement activities at 2pm on May 15 at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side. More details will be shared at a later date.