Collecting Stories from Black UU Women

Rev. Qiyamah Rahman

MDiv '08
When she read "Black Pioneers in a White Denomination" in the late '90s, Rev. Qiyamah Rahman expected someone would write about Black UU clergy women's stories. But it didn't happen. So she took it into her own hands.
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Statement From Black Presidents and Deans, Schools and Departments of Theology and Religion

Dr. Pamela Lightsey, Co-Author

VP of Academic and Student Affairs
Dr. Lightsey co-wrote this statement, and President Ortega and Dr. Mark Hicks also signed.
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Lamentation: Prayer inspired by Ahmaud Aubrey, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd

Antonia Bell-Delgado

MDiv
Antonia, one of our current MDiv students, shared a prayer for this difficult time.
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Resourcing Our Mutual Survival

Dr. Elías Ortega

President
Dr. Ortega invites us to sit still for a while with the grief of racial injustice. "The grief of these times is not experienced equally by all, but it is ours to sit with. Honestly, today, this is the only place from where I can speak—from a space of grieving."
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Rev. Dr. Bill Schulz's New Book

Dmin '75, DD '87
Rev. Dr. Bill Schulz and his colleague Sushma Raman, both with decades of experience promoting human rights, argue in their new book that rights hardly imaginable today will come into being as the world changes around us.
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Presentation of President Emeritus

MLTS

At the 175th Commencement on May 17, 2020, Rev. Dr. Lee Barker was presented as President Emeritus of Meadville Lombard Theological School.
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Evolving Strategies for Promoting Faith-Conscious Communities Online

Fahs Collaborative

The Fahs Collaborative has shared guidelines you can use for facilitating discussion about complicated and competing emotions, thoughts, assumptions, theologies, and/or experiences during the pandemic.
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Responding to the Call in These Times

Dr. Elías Ortega

President
President Ortega's message to our students and alums, who are ministering to their communities during this time of great uncertainty.
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In Living Animation

Rev. Dr. Bill Schulz

Affiliated Faculty
Rev. Dr. Bill Schulz delivered his final sermon at January Ingathering, reflecting on the animating themes of his life upon his retirement from ministry.
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The Story Behind Our New Brand

Tomo Hillbo

Director of Communications
In January 2018, Meadville Lombard unveiled its new logo with the launch of the new website. We rebranded the school, based not on a marketing strategy, but on listening and learning, and on our deep desire and intention to dismantle white supremacy culture.
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Ministry at the End of the World (or) What Future Is This?

Dr. Elías Ortega

President
Dr. Ortega delivered this sermon during the Ingathering Worship Service in late August.
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This Big White Box

Eli Snider

MDiv
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is an integral part of MDiv students' learning. Here is a reflection from one of our second-year students on his CPE experience.
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Kindling the Spirit

Rev. Connie Simon

MDiv '18
A wise reflection from Rev. Connie Simon, MDiv ‘18, that helps us “see and encourage the light that shines from the soul of each of us.”
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A Brief History of Our School

Dr. Nicole Kirk

Read "A Brief History of Meadville Theological School of Lombard College" by Dr. Nicole Kirk, our Rev. Dr. J. Frank and Alice Schulman Professor of Unitarian Universalist History.
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Ministry of Language

Alex Kapitan

When we launched our new website, we contacted Alex Kapitan, the Radical Copyeditor extraordinaire, to do intentional copyediting of all of our contents. Here in this interview, Alex talks about the work ze was called to do.
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COVID-19 Information

Find the latest announcements and updates of Meadville Lombard's response to COVID-19 pandemic. This page also contains information related to the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (CARES Act).

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Announcement from the Fahs Team

Beloved Conversations: Virtual

Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race and Ethnicity will be reimagined in a virtual space! It will be available in Fall 2020.

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