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seminary

[sem-uh-ner-ee] / ˈsɛm əˌnɛr i /








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A grant from the Rockefeller Fund for Theological Education brought him to the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he hoped to find a venue for social activism.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Margaret Ann Shriver was born in North Carolina to a homemaker mother who later worked for the National Council of Churches and a Presbyterian minister, later the president of Union Theological Seminary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

And yet this had been a fraught process for Lau-Lavie, an Israel-born gay man who just a few years before entering New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary had been a pillar of a “God-optional” community.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2024

He was a professor at my alma mater, the Fuller Theological Seminary, though we never overlapped.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2024

On the far side of the town there was a red brick building, the stately Seminary, topped with a white cupola.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara




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