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."