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Responses to the Recent Mass Shootings

Dr. Elías Ortega & Dr. Pamela Lightsey

Faculty
Read two messages reflecting the recent series of mass shootings and the current state of this country, addressed to our students and alums.
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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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Our New President

President Search Team

President Search Team is delighted to introduce the new President of Meadville Lombard, Dr. Elías Ortega-Aponte
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175th Anniversary

We are celebrating our 175th anniversary. Browse through this section for anniversary reflections, stories of notable alums, photo album, and information about the gala.
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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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Jussie Smollett, Believing the Victim, and Deep National Wounds

Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey

Faculty
Dr. Lightsey reflects on America's deep wounds of racism in this essay originally published in Newsweek Magazine.
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The Drum Major Instinct: MLK Service

ML Students

A group of students put together and delivered a powerful service in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during January Intensives.
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Getting Proud

Mariela Perez-Simons

MDiv
At 2019 January Ingathering, Mariela gave this passionate sermon about her experience of becoming nobody as a political refugee from Cuba, and then decades later finding herself again during her ministerial training.
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Dr. Lightsey Protests on the Border

Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey

Faculty
Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey helped organize and participated in a protest and teach-in event, El Grito de la Frontera/The Cry From the Border, in El Paso, Texas.
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American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World

Dr. Mike Hogue

Faculty
Dr. Hogue's new book is his response to these increasingly uncertain times, calls for building democratic communities of responsibility, resistance, and resilience.
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Red Bubble Letters

Rev. Misha Sanders

MDiv '18
Misha shared her memory of a profound lesson she learned in Kindergarten Sunday School class.
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Empowering Refugees: Teen Motherhood Project

Gur Milandou Mouanga

MALS
For a project during his community site internship, one of our students who lives in South Africa developed a program to support refugee teen mothers.
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Blessed at PrideFest

Kimberlee Tomczak Carlson

MDiv
At PrideFest in Milwaukee, ML Community members were among the clergy who set up a Blessing Booth, knowing many who identify as LGBTQ carry spiritual wounds from their past.
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Is Your Love Political?

Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey

Faculty
Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey delivered a rousing sermon at Spring Intensives Opening Worship, March 19, 2018. This is a must-read.
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