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Public Lecture with Winn Collier on Wendell Berry

Holy Ground: The Sacramental Ecclesiology of Wendell Berry’s Port William How are we to understand Wendell Berry’s withering critique of the Church’s uncritical cooperation with economic and cultural forces conspiring to “murder creation”? And why, in Berry’s fiction,...
WTS Chosen to Establish New Eugene Peterson Center

WTS Chosen to Establish New Eugene Peterson Center

Western Theological Seminary is pleased to announce it has been selected by the family of the late Rev. Eugene Peterson to establish a new “Eugene Peterson Center.”.  Eugene Peterson was a pastor, author, and translator of The Message: The Bible in Contemporary...
An Augustinian Theology of Mass Incarceration

An Augustinian Theology of Mass Incarceration

Thursday, February 27, 7:00 p.m., Mulder Chapel Lecture with Dr. Greg Lee, Wheaton College The United States incarcerates far more individuals than any nation in the world at radically disparate rates for different racial groups. In this lecture, Dr. Lee will draw on...
Dr. Kantzer Komline is honored for work on Augustine

Dr. Kantzer Komline is honored for work on Augustine

WTS is pleased to share that Dr. Han-luen Kantzer Komline has been offered a prestigious fellowship at Villanova University. The Patricia H. Imbesi Saint Augustine Fellowship is offered to “an outstanding scholar whose work has a contribution to make to the study of...
On to Glory- Rev. Wallace Stoepker

On to Glory- Rev. Wallace Stoepker

In the May 2017 edition of The Commons, we featured this column written by Western’s oldest living alumni, Rev. Wallace Stoepker (’46). Sadly, we received news that Rev. Stoepker passed away on December 13th. The full obituary which includes a wonderful tribute to his...