Interdisciplinary

GTU doctoral students Daekyung Jung, Therese Bjørnaas, and Henry Kuo (l-r) traveled to Kobe, Japan, to present at the 5th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion, and Philosophy (ACERP) held March 31 - April 3, 2016. ACERP is a project of the International Academic Forum (IAFOR), founded in 2009 by scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America who were concerned by the parochial shape that academic reflections have taken, as well as the rigid disciplinary boundaries they often occupy. ACERP’s presenters and attendees come largely from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, as well as...

By Suzanne Miller

from Currents Spring 2015

Since earning her doctorate in Religion and Society/Ethics from Graduate Theological Union, Dr. Suzanne Holland, the GTU’s 2014 Alumna of the Year, has become a nationally and internationally recognized bioethicist. Her research focuses on the intersection between religion, ethics, medicine, and new genetic technologies, with an emphasis on issues of justice and feminist bioethics. She continues to reap the benefits of her time at the GTU. “I think the GTU, for...

When Ron Sider, a prominent evangelical voice for social justice, steps down from his post as president of Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) in June 2013, GTU alumnus F. Albert "Al" Tizon will share the reins. Tizon (Ph.D. '05) will serve as co-president of the organization with Paul Alexander, a graduate of Baylor, in a "consensus model," according to a post on the organization's website. Currently Tizon serves as Director of Holistic Ministry Programs at ESA.

He is the author of Transformation After Lausanne: Radical Evangelical Mission in Global-Local Perspective (...

May 10, 2012 - Graduate Theological Union announced Pacific School of Religion Professor Boyung Lee as the 2012 recipient of its Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award during its May Commencement ceremony.

The selection committee said in its announcement that Lee "embodies in an exemplary way the values of 'interreligious sensitivity and commitment,' 'interdisciplinary approach and content in teaching,' 'sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity,' and 'creative and effective classroom pedagogical methods and performance.'

In response to accepting the award,...

Izak Lattu, a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies, denounces changes by the Indonesian government which oppress practioners of indigenous religion.

"Although indigenous faiths such as Sunda Wiwitan, Kejawen and other forms of traditional beliefs represent local ways of addressing the Ultimate Reality, they nonetheless encounter discrimination on a political basis....

"Having been suppressed, the Sunda Wiwitan community is now longing for freedom of religious expression. Unfortunately, neither the national government nor the local government of Bandung have dealt...

Izak Lattu, doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies, explains how the actions of one Indonesian politician marks the exception to the general principle of religious tolerance in the country for which it is revered.

"It has been years of agony for GKI Taman Yasmin Protestant church congregation members as Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto has defied a Supreme Court decision to allow them to attend Sunday mass in their place of worship.

Budiarto’s bureaucratic move reflects the failure of not only law enforcement in the city, but also of the country’s civil justice system....