“Theological Education Rebounds, But Fewer Students Enroll”
Read a Sept. 11, 2012, Insights into Religion article on the state of theological education.
Category: Poverty & welfare
“Student-Loan Debt and the Future of Seminaries”
Read an Aug. 23, 2012, column in The Wall Street Journal about the debt problem for seminary students and what congregations and schools can do differently to address it. Russell D. Moore, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is the author.
“Clergy Launch Campaign For Student Loan Forgiveness, Aim To Qualify For ‘Public Service’ Rule”
Read a Feb. 8, 2012, Huffington Post article about clergy launching a campaign for federal student loan forgiveness based on a 2007 law aimed at graduates who go into public service.
“Freeing Up Graduates”
Read a Nov. 4, 2011, story from Inside Higher Ed about Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary’s plan to eliminate tuition for master’s degree students to reduce their debt burden.
“The Retreat of Liberation Theology”
Read a critique of liberation theology in a 1994 article by Edward A. Lynch of Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., from the website CatholicCulture.org.
“Pope Francis’ election stirs up Argentine ‘dirty war’ allegations; biographer calls it unfair”
Read a March 14, 2013, Associated Press article in which Francis’ biographer labels as unfair the Dirty War allegations stirred up in the wake of the conclave.
“Pope Francis and the long shadow of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War'”
Read a March 14, 2013, Religion News Service story about Francis and the shadow cast by the Dirty War.
“Vatican: anti-clerical campaign against pope”
Read a March 15, 2013, Associated Press story about the Vatican denouncing critics of Francis’ record during the Dirty War.
“Nobel prize winner says Pope not connected to Argentine dictatorship”
Read a March 15, 2013, Catholic News Agency article in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel says Francis had no ties to the Argentine dictatorship of 1976-83.