Wake Forest University has obtained a grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to assist the Wake Forest University School of Divinity set up new certificates and diploma applications in theological education.
The undertaking is funded by way of Lilly Endowment’s Pathways for Tomorrow initiative. It is a three-phase initiative designed to assist theological faculties throughout the United States and Canada as they prioritize and reply to essentially the most urgent challenges they face as they put together pastoral leaders for Christian congregations, each now and into the long run.
Wake Forest University School of Divinity’s undertaking proposal, “Plans for a Future and a Hope”: Shaping Agents of Justice, Reconciliation, and Compassion, and Architects of Equity, Hope, and Healing, goals to create future academic pathways for non secular professionals and others in a range of fields that might profit from a fuller consciousness of how non secular commitments and communities affect public considerations resembling well being fairness. One focused space of curiosity is well being care.
“Today more than ever, our world needs thoughtful, sober, and well-informed religious professionals to respond to the injustices and trauma of our society,” says Dean Walton. “We are overjoyed to be part of this extraordinary initiative to reimagine theological education. Lilly Endowment Inc.’s commitment to shaping subsequent generations of women and men to serve the church is unrivaled.”
