Human Development

Rev. Dr. James McDonald, president of San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS), will lead 30 Marin County churches and organizations for the 17th annual Marin Crop Walk On Sunday, April 21, in San Rafael.  The annual walk seeks to raise awareness of hunger related issues throughout the world.

The “CROP Walk,” which stands for “Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty,” is organized by Church World Service, a well-respected international aid and development organization.  Every year, the CROP Walk is held in cities and communities around the world to raise funding and awareness to...

Community Action of Ventura County (CAVC), an organization dedicated to addressing the effects of poverty in Ventura County, CA, has selected Timothy Hockett as its new Executive Director.

Hockett holds a B.A. degree from Columbia Christian College, an M.A. equivalent from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and pursued doctoral studies at the Graduate Theological Union.

Formerly the executive director of Olympic Community Action Programs in Port Townsend, Washington, where he worked for over 22 years, he was known both for his innovation and for his fund-raising...

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On Saturday, January 14, the Black Church/Africana Religious Studies Program hosted a Womanist Symposium – “Who Do They Say I Am?” at the McGee Avenue Baptist Church in Berkeley. The Honorable Congresswoman Barbara Lee, 9th Congressional District, was the morning keynote speaker (pictured above).

“The attendance far exceeded expectations,” according to Dr. Martha Taylor, Symposium Convener. “By bridging the academy and the seminary, this first ever of its kind symposium offered an opportunity to engage womanist theology within...

It was standing room only in Easton Hall for the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies' lively November 29 conference “Formations of Orthodoxy,” which explored Orthodox Jewish cultural formations in interwar Poland and post-Holocaust America.

Nathaniel Deutsch from UC Santa Cruz discussed the surprising role of ethnographical awareness in determining Orthodox observance in interwar Poland, while David Myers from UCLA introduced the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Kiryas Joel, in upstate New York, through an analysis of the expansion of Orthodox practice to the ...

Shijung Shim is a self-proclaimed “1.5” Korean-American. Moving from Korea to Seattle with her family as a teenager, she received her middle and high school education here in the States. She remained stateside for her bachelor’s degree in psychology but returned to Korea for her masters in pastoral care and counseling. One particular GTU professor, Lewis Rambo, helped convince Shim to earn a Ph.D. here in Interdisciplinary Studies.

The area of...