From Presbyterian Church USA, national news service:
Eden Theological Seminary, a seminary in St. Louis affiliated with the United Church of Christ, has received a $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help the seminary create large-scale collaborations that will push the envelope of innovation in preparing tomorrow’s ministers, pastors, and leaders in the progressive Christian movement.
The grant is being funded through Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative. This initiative is designed to help theological schools across the United States and Canada as they prioritize and respond to the most pressing challenges they face as they prepare pastoral leaders for Christian congregations both now and into the future. The grant to Eden is one of 45 that Lilly Endowment made in the competitive round of the Pathways initiative. Together with Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Eastern Mennonite Seminary , Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, was also awarded a recent Lilly Foundation Inc. grant.
Read the full article at pcusa.org.
