wfn.org | ELCA seminary awarded $325,000 grant

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>ELCA News Blog

>July 9, 2009  

>ELCA seminary awarded $325,000 grant

>by Carrie Draeger, ELCA News Service*

A $325,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, New York City, to the
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP), will help the
seminary continue its Asian initiative and the Asian Theological Summer
Institute.  LTSP is one of eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA).

The institute is part of LTSP's effort to promote cultural diversity in
theological scholarship.  It began in 2007 with a $75,000 grant from the
Luce Foundation to complement the Black Church Studies and Latino
Ministry programs of the seminary.  The new grant will fund the institute
for five more years.

Henry Luce, co-founder of Time Inc., established the foundation in 1936
to honor his parents, who were missionary educators in China.  The
foundation's mission is to "foster innovation and leadership in academic,
policy, religious and art communities," according to its Web site.

* Carrie L. Draeger is a senior communication major with a concentration
in journalism at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash. This summer
she is an intern with the ELCA News Service.

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