What’s the future? And is it all artificial?
Rev. Anna Robbins, Ph.D., and her team at Acadia Divinity College are considering the future and how theological schools can engage – not embrace – AI.
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Spring 2025
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Articles
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What’s the future? And is it all artificial?
Rev. Anna Robbins, Ph.D., and her team at Acadia Divinity College are considering the future and how theological schools can engage – not embrace – AI.
Artificial intelligence is found throughout society and now, thanks to things like ChatGPT and Gemini, it’s more accessible than ever. What does that mean for theological schools? Anna Robbins is glad you asked
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The future of theological education
The field is facing a landscape of challenges and new opportunities. ATS Executive Director Frank Yamada and In Trust Center President Amy Kardash got together for a conversation about the current state of the field – and the future.
The leaders of ATS and the In Trust Center continue the state of theological education in 2025 and break down the issues in the field.
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The new town square
How online collaboration and shared administrative services are creating efficiencies – and new opportunities – for an eclectic group of New York seminaries and schools.
Union Theological School and several others in New York are forging a new way forward thanks to a Lilly Endowment Pathways for Tomorrow grant.
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Smarter questions
The how and why of discernment
The questions we fail to ask are the ones that will get us into trouble, writes In Trust Center President Amy Kardash.
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On Your Mind | Letters to the Editor
Your thoughts about strategy, adaptive leadership, and student needs.
I appreciated Heather Grennan Gary’s recent article on shared governance and the perspectives provided (“Shared Governance is Smooth Like Jazz,” Autumn 2024).
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A heart to break through
With a new grant, Fuller Youth Institute launches a movement to bring young people back to faith and home to Church.
With the help of a Lilly Endowment Inc. grant, Fuller Theological Seminary is trying to reach a new generation of student.
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Podcast picks | From our ears to yours
From our ears to yours: The best springtime podcast picks
These podcasts provide a basket full of podcasts just right for the season.
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Present Moment | A posture of possibility
How to energize a public square moment
We need theological education more than ever because of the context students find themselves in, writes Andrea White.
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More like a relay race than a marathon
A new report from Auburn Studies considers why leadership is turning over so fast, as well as how leaders and institutions can succeed
A revived Auburn Studies considers the issue of leadership turnover and how schools can consider that for the future.
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All People Considered: Balcony Time
Leadership Education’s Reflective Leadership program provides grants for structured reflection
Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School has plans to grants to leaders to provide the time and space to reflect and discern.
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Future Promise | Expanding the table
How to respond to a changing landscape
There’s hope for theological education, but there is a need for recalibration, writes John Huh.
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Planting seeds of generosity
How boards can cultivate givers and help people share the joy of their school’s mission
Twenty-five years ago, Rebekah Burch Basinger and the late Thomas Jeavons research by the Association of Theological Schools shows what study authors call a “misalignment” between student training in schools and what churches and workplaces need.
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The Census | Time to Meet?
Governing boards and advisory bodies need the time to do the work, but do they have it?
Data from the In Trust Center’s Governance Initiative shows how often boards meet to try to accomplish the work.
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Remark(able) | For Board Reflections
A place and space for AI in God’s mission
The Rev. Tay Moss considers the role of artificial intelligence. What do you think?
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Leadership | Boards and Libraries
A chief librarian advocates for greater board engagement.
The author of a book on running a theological library and a librarian, Kris Veldheer knows the value of the library to a school and wants others to know that as well.
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Relics | To make our joy complete
Thirty years on, the painstaking artistry of the Saint John’s Bible still inspires awe and reverence
The Saint John’s Bible, the first of its type in 500 years, stands its own test of time.
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Books & Films | Wise men, fools, and other stories
From theology to good stories well told, these are books and movies to put on your list this spring
A new look at some saints, an American theologian reconsidered, and some movies to watch.
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Perspective | From the ashes, a coming joy
The season of Lent can provide space to consider new growth
The ashes of the Lenten season provide a remembrance of both the bad and the good.
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The Sign | Scattering the seeds of hope
In uncertain times, the blessing of agriculture reminds us to look ahead
Matt Hufman considers a farmer’s adage: Plant seeds and pray.
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Music | Round Midnight
The practice of spiritual rest, embedded in jazz music
When Covid brought the world to a halt in 2020, Julian Davis Reid experienced one of his own.
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