Another ELCA Seminary Shrinkage Project - Gettysburg

 

Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary (General Synod) merged with the Philadelphia Seminary (General Council). Gettysburg is demolishing three seminary dormitories to make room for building the new library for the Gettysburg community.

Agreement Status - Gettysburg United Lutheran Seminary

After the meeting, Gillis responded to questions regarding the status of the agreement between the library and seminary.

A signed contract commits the seminary to vacate three 50-year-old student housing units, which will be razed to clear the way for a new library building along the Fairfield Road (Pa. Route 116). That contract expires the end of this calendar year, but the parties can extend by mutual agreement.

As a majority of seminarians now study remotely, United Lutheran’s need for less student housing mirrors than occurring at theological schools throughout the country.

 Rev. Dr. Bishop Guy Erwin and Rob Flynn (left). 

     "In 2000, after teaching church history and historical theology at the Yale Divinity School for six years, President Erwin moved to Southern California with his husband, Robert T. Flynn, a West Virginia native and Yale Divinity School alumnus, who has worked in scholarly publishing at Yale University Press, Columbia University Press and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, as well as serving two terms on the Board of Trustees of 1517 Media, the publishing house of the ELCA.

     President Erwin is the ELCA’s first gay, partnered bishop and the first openly gay male to serve in that office in the churches of the Lutheran World Federation." United Lutheran Seminary"
     In three shakes of a lamb's tail, Erwin became a pastor, a bishop, and a seminary president.

"Recently the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first openly gay bishop to oversee churches in Southern California. The move followed the church decided allowed openly gay men and lesbians to serve as clergy nearly four years ago."

Former ELCA Seminary Professor - Leading the Sheep Astray

 

 Michael Cooper-White, ELCA Autobiography

He is currently the interim president of Brite Divinity School, Disciples of Christ, one of the most radical (fastest shrinking) denominations in America. Previously he was president of Gettysburg Seminary, now merged with the Philadelphia Seminary to form United Lutheran Seminary, ELCA.

Former seminary president searches for meaning in his 'Life at the Crossroads'

By Lex McMillan For the Gettysburg Times

United Lutheran Seminary and Civil War Trust Announce Agreement to Protect Sell Historic Seminary Ridge

Presbyterian minister Theresa Latini identified as an ELCA Lutheran until they found out she sinned against the Lavender Mafia decades ago. An ELCA bishop volunteered to take over her job, and he promptly sold Gettysburg's property down the river - "to preserve it." When God hands you a gift and a heritage, you convert it to cash.

 We visited Gettysburg Seminary when we were in the area.

 Will they preserve the work of Henry Eyster Jacobs?
He graduated from Gettysburg, taught there,
and became a leader in the General Council.

United Lutheran Seminary and Civil War Trust Announce Agreement to Sell Historic Seminary Ridge:



"GETTYSBURG, Pa., May 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Lutheran Seminary today announced an agreement with the Civil War Trust to permanently preserve 18 acres of historic open space on Seminary Ridge in Gettysburg. The property, located on both sides of Seminary Ridge Road, has been a part of the Seminary since it moved to the site in 1832.

"This property is a gift from God and we are stewards of this gift. We have a deep love for the property and its unique historic and scenic character," ULS Acting President-Bishop James Dunlop said. "For generations, these qualities have inspired thousands of seminary students as well as visitors from across our nation and around the world."

Under the terms of the $3.5 million purchase agreement, the Trust will acquire an 11-acre portion of the United Lutheran Seminary property straddling Seminary Ridge Road and a conservation easement on 7 acres along Chambersburg Pike east of those two parcels.

"We feel, as stewards of this site for more than 180 years, that we have a sacred responsibility to see it is protected for future generations," Bishop Dunlop said. "We believe this land needs to be preserved for the next generations of seminarians, and others, to reflect upon, learn from, and appreciate.""

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