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Group with Sam Moku, chief is staff to mayor of Honolulu
August 19, 2022
Thursday, our Emmaus Encounters: Building Community on the Road pilot/planning group explored Hawaii’s monarchic history and political present-day. We visited Washington...
In Kamehameha’s Bishop’s Chapel with chaplain, Kahu Manu Na’aole
August 18, 2022
Today, the Emmaus Encounters: Building Community on the Road planning/pilot group learned ways in which a new generation of Hawaiians are reclaiming and restoring life-giving...
Frederick Buechner, photo by A. Blake Gardner
August 17, 2022
Frederick Buechner was arguably the foremost spiritual writer of his generation. His writing career spanned six decades, during which he wrote more than 30 books. Read the...
Emmaus Encounters group first full day
August 17, 2022
Tuesday was the first day of engagement for the Emmaus Encounter: Building Community on the Road pilot/planning group. The day included a morning at the Punahou School and an...
Emmaus Encounters: Building Community on the Road
August 12, 2022
Andover Newton Seminary and Yale Divinity School have historic partners in Hawaii, as the vibrant Congregational movement of that state began with the help of missionaries...
Prof. Norman Gottwald
August 2, 2022
Prominent Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann (in his critical essay of May 2022, The Christian Century) hailed Dr. Gottwald as “the most important and influential...
Jane Heckles
June 22, 2022
Beloved spouse, cherished sister, super Auntie, ministry leader, and the best friend you could ever have, Jane Elizabeth Heckles died on June 18, 2022 after a brief, intense...
June 3, 2022
‘The seminary is not a building, and the work we do is not confined to these walls,’ said one seminary president.
Buffalo Cred AP Photo Matt Rourke
May 17, 2022
“With my fellow citizens, I have struggled with the anger and projected grief that arises in the wake of yet another mass shooting that tear open the raw wounds of our...
Dean Sarah B. Drummond
May 16, 2022
This past weekend, a gunman opened fire on customers and staff in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. He was motivated by anti-Black racism, filled with hate, and equipped...