Dr. James Donahue is the seventh president of the Graduate Theological Union, and the first GTU alumnus to serve in this position. Prior to the GTU, Dr. Donahue served as professor of theology and ethics, dean of students and vice president of student affairs at Georgetown University for fifteen years. He has also held faculty and administrative positions at Boston College and Santa Clara University.

Dr. Donahue has been committed to the public role of ethics and theology throughout his career. He has led the GTU to be the preeminent model for theological and religious education in an increasingly interfaith and religiously diverse world. He holds a B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union.

Dr. Donahue's primary research and teaching interests include ethics and religion in public life, organizational and professional ethics, and issues of moral and religious identity for individuals and institutions. He is the co-author of Ethics across the Curriculum: A Practice-Based Approach (Lexington Books, 2003) and the co-editor of Religion, Ethics and the Common Good (Twenty-Third Publications, 1996). He is currently writing The Construction of Identity in an Interreligious World.

PLTS and First United Lutheran Church of San Francisco are pleased to invite all interested persons to the dedication of the 1886 Woodberry & Harris Organ at the PLTS Chapel of the Cross.  

The concert will take place on 

 Saturday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m. 

on the seminary campus at 2770 Marin Avenue in Berkeley. 

 Musicians Orion Pitts of First United and Jeffrey Johnson of PLTS will be the featured performers, and the true star will be the marvelous organ. First United is presenting the organ to PLTS in memory/honor of the late Professor Robert Smith. 

(photo: the Woodberry & Harris organ and the Jeff Johnson who will be playing it on November 3rd)

VOTE on Sunday, November 25, 2012.

As a membership organization, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is unique to the financial services world in many ways. Members choose who will represent them on the national board of directors governing the organization as well as choose their local chapter leadership board. 

Thrivent Financial supports our Community Meal with funding every year and has just awarded our campus ministry a $500 grant to match our parking fundraising during football games.