Read a June 9, 2010, IslamToday article about Claremont School of Theology’s decision to add clerical training for Muslims and Jews, making the Methodist-affiliated institution  “the first truly multi-faith American seminary.”

Read a Dec. 12, 2010, Huffington Post blog item about a desire for Islamic seminaries in the United States and about non-Muslim seminaries reaching out to Muslims.

Read an April 23, 2010, article in Christianity Today about the growth of church enrollment due to convenience brought by the internet.

Paul Robert Sauer is associate editor of the journal Lutheran Forum in Delhi, N.Y., which covers both the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denominations. In the summer 2009 issue, he called for closing one of the LCMS’ two seminaries because they had grown too similar to each other, and because of a decline in […]

Bruce C. Birch is emeritus dean and emeritus professor of biblical theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He is co-editor of  C(H)AOS Theory: Reflections of Chief Academic Officers in Theological Education (2011).

Ronald Edward Peters is president of the Interdenominational Theological Center, a consortium of black seminaries in Atlanta.

The Rev. Allison St. Louis is director of field education and “The Second Three Years,” a mentoring program for graduates of Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, an Episcopal seminary.

John Senior is an assistant professor of the practice of religion and society at Wake Forest Divinity School in Winston-Salem, N.C. Theological education is among his areas of expertise.

Don Sweeting is president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Fla. He wrote an essay on theological education in which he stated he thinks seminary education is more important than ever.