New Website Launched

We hope that our newly built website is functional and informative! Bethany’s web address remains the same: www.bethanyseminary.edu.

Dan Poole

Biographical Sketch:

I was born in Indiana and grew up attending the Wabash Church of the Brethren. After serving for 18 years in congregational ministry, first at the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren as Associate Pastor and then at the

Remembering Julie M. Hostetter

The Bethany Theological Seminary community joins with many in the denomination in remembering Church of the Brethren educator Julie Mader Hostetter, who passed away November 12, 2017, in Bridgewater, Virginia.

Beginning in

Video Vault

Recordings and Previous Broadcasts

You are invited to view recent and earlier recordings of Bethany’s chapel services, convocations, and other special events on the Bethany YouTube Channel (link below). We hope that you will access this link to view services

Dr. Jeff Carter

President Attends WCC Meeting

Jeff Carter, president of Bethany Theological Seminary, is attending the World Council of Churches’ biennial meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 15-21. Carter is the Church of the Brethren representative to the WCC Central Committee, a group of 150

Recognition Received for Education That Engages

Bethany Seminary has been notified by The Center for Faith and Service at McCormick Theological Seminary that it is included in the 2015 list of Seminaries That Change the World. Twenty-six institutions were named this year, including Bethany’s partner

Popular Course Again Offered by Bethany and Brethren Academy

In 2018 Bethany Theological Seminary worked with the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership and Discipleship Ministries of the Church of the Brethren to offer a successful intensive course in urban ministry—A Place of Refuge: Ministry in the Urban Context.

New Students Begin Studies

With the start of the fall 2017 semester, eleven new students are beginning their theological studies at Bethany Seminary. Five are pursing an MDiv, three are pursuing an MA, and three are pursuing graduate certificates. In addition, two graduates

New Graduate Certificates Offered

For the first time in nearly twenty-five years, Bethany Theological Seminary is launching three additions to its academic offerings: Graduate Certificates in Biblical Interpretation, Conflict Transformation, and Theopoetics and Theological Imagination. Applications are being taken for the fall 2016

Audit Application

Criteria for audit admission include

 

  1. completion of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or higher;
  2. ability to do theological study at the graduate level as determined from the scope and