by Anne Chanski | Mar 3, 2020 | News
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,...
by Anne Chanski | Feb 28, 2020 | News
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...
by Anne Chanski | Feb 14, 2020 | Stories
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...
by Anne Chanski | Dec 19, 2019 | News
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...
by Anne Chanski | Dec 17, 2019 | Stories
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...