The Rev. Cecil Williams, a 2009 Southern Methodist University distinguished alumnus award recipient, will be honored at an SMU/Perkins School of Theology chapel service Thursday. The service will be at Perkins Chapel, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Dr. Tyrone Gordon,...
The series "Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point" resumes Thursday at Southern Methodist University. Below you'll find a press release from the Dallas Holocaust Museum, co-sponsor, and below that is a schedule that SMU's Perkins School of Theology sent...
The communications folks at Southern Methodist University sent me this event alert: As part of SMU's continuing series of events celebrating Charles Darwin, we will have a lecture titled, "FROM APOCALYPSE TO ACCOMMODATION: CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO...
Marvin Sweeney, professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology, will give the Seventh Nate and Ann Levine Endowed Lecture in Jewish Studies at Southern Methodist University. The event will be on Oct. 28, and the topic is...
Southern Methodist University has sent the press release below, about a gathering of pastors there: PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED MINISTERS TO MEET AT SMU Twenty ministers from the Association of Physically Challenged Ministers will hold their annual caucus on Oct. 6-7...
This press release has just come my way: In recognition of the 70th anniversary of World War II, The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is collaborating with universities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on a series of...
Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University is one of the seminary partners in the launch of Methodist Review, an open access, peer-reviewed electronic academic journal. Here's a press release with details:...
The Daily Mustang, the newspaper of Southern Methodist University, reports on yesterday's campus appearance by Steve Rankin, a candidate for chaplain at the Dallas school. Click here. And this recent campus communication lists another of the candidates - Quincy...
The Rev. Charles Curran, who teaches theology and more at Southern Methodist University, has been honored for his book on the history of Catholic moral theology in the United States. Details below:...
Dr. Jon Levenson, a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, will give the Nate and Ann Levine Endowed Lecture in Jewish Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His topic: "The Binding of Isaac and the Crucifixion of Jesus." Details...
Temple Emanu-El, at Northwest Highway and Hillcrest, will open its annual Arts Series at 3 p.m. Sunday with "a colorful afternoon of Jewish works ... from short stories to French song." Featured performers will included faculty and students from Southern...
This will be the first Veritas Forum on the Southern Methodist University campus. Lots of campus ministries are involved. Details below:...
Southern Methodist University in Dallas is offering two noncredit religion courses. Details below:...
William Lawrence, dean of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology and a professor of American church history, writes that long before Jeremiah Wright and Rick Warren entered the spotlight surrounding Barack Obama, preachers have been causing political difficulties for...
Joerg Rieger, of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, was featured on a recent edition of the PBS program Religion & Ethics News Weekly. Here a press release from Perkins:...
William B. Lawrence, dean and professor of American church history at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, will speak Saturday evening in Richardson, in an appearance hosted by the Dallas chapter of the Institute of Interfaith Dialog. The title...
The Religious Studies Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas sends along this info about a fast-approaching event: The South Asia Research and Information Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University, is hosting...
Professor Michael Hawn of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology has been honored by the Hymn Society. A sacred music authority, Hawn writes a regular column for the United Methodist Reporter, giving the historical background of familiar hymns....
If you've been tracking the discussion about the Bush library and SMU, we may have closed a chapter: An effort by some Methodists to block the George W. Bush Presidential Center from coming to Southern Methodist University failed Wednesday, though...
The South Central Jurisdicitonal Conference of the United Methodist Church is getting underway at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. Delegates are expected to debate and possibly take votes on the Bush Library and Policy institute tomorrow, with opponents arguing...
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