North Park Theological Seminary offers academic and formational events throughout the year, providing students with access to prominent scholarship, relevant conversations, and a full community experience. Many of our events are also broadcast online and open to the public, providing resources to our alumni, as well as the church and academic communities beyond our campus.
Upcoming Events
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NPTS 2024-2025 Academic Calendar
Political and Hospitable: You Are What You Love
12:00 –1:30 p.m. | March 5 | Virtual
Our fall panel addressed a faithful ecclesial response to the rise of Christian nationalism. Our spring webinar will expand on this theme with a conversation about the global rise of nationalism and antidotes in Christian worship practices. Panelists Dr. Melba Padilla Maggay and Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes will consider how we are formed through worship and liturgy, exploring how our shared practices offer tools to habituate us in Christian hospitality to “others.” Register to attend.
Past Events
2025 Symposium: Hospitality & Immigration
Join us in person or online, February 14-15, 2025, for our 2025 Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture.
How can Christian communities today live out the biblical call to extend hospitality to all people, including the immigrant? Join us for this timely dialogue among Bible scholars, theologians, and ministry practitioners, with extended opportunities for participant engagement.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Registration begins on November 1. More information on the presenters can be found here.
Public Theology Political and Hospitable: Engaging Neighbors
How can churches embody true neighborly love in this current political moment in our nation? We discussed mutual hospitality in immigration policy and how to challenge white Christian nationalism in church. Dr. Sophia Magallanes-Tsang, assistant professor of Old Testament at North Park Theological Seminary, and Dr. Drew J. Strait, associate professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, led our conversation. View the conversation here.
2024 Carl G. Westerdahl Lecture
You can view the 2024 Carl G. Westerdahl Lecture, Transaction or Transformation: Racial Interests and the Gospel, presented by Dr. Glenn Bracey, assistant professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University, here.
Reading Scripture, Being Church, and Telling Our Story as Intercultural Communities: A Faculty Colloquy
Join us on February 15 at 4:30pm in celebrating the installation of three endowed faculty chairs whose scholarly work exemplifies our seminary’s vocation to bring the best of the academy to the mission of the church: in multi-racial congregations, intercultural readings of Scripture, and building purposeful narratives. Then return on February 16 at 9:00am to get a taste of how your North Park Seminary faculty together seek to discern the past in order to move forward in our complex world, training leaders in the art of telling visionary truth so they can inspire purposeful action—for God’s glory and neighbor’s good. Click here for full details and schedules for both days of events and to register.
Humility as a Prophetic Practice: A Public Theology Series
How can Christians embody Jesus’ humility in our current cultural, political, religious, and institutional climates? Our 2023–2024 public theology series focuses on Christian humility in conversation with Dean Dennis Edwards’ forthcoming book, Humility Illuminated, and in response to the Christ hymn of Philippians 2.
- Shepherding, Reconciling, and Ministering: Humility in Pastoral Practice October 25, 2023
What is humility, and why is it necessary for pastoral practice? Leaders in congregational ministry, conflict transformation, and accessibility advocacy will discuss this misunderstood virtue, in concept and in concrete ministry practice. View the recording here.
NPTS would like to thank Lilly Endowment, Inc. for their generous support of the Public Theology Lecture Series since 2021. To view recording of past lectures presented in the Public Theology series, please visit our Public Theology Archives page.
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Nyvall News & Notes
Nyvall News & Notes is a publication of North Park Theological Seminary that connects current students, alumni and friends of the Seminary with the happenings of our community. Our goal is not only to distribute necessary information, but to provide a window into the life of North Park Theological Seminary. Visit the Nyvall News & Notes site to read the current issue and browse past updates.
Symposium
The Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture features prominent international scholars and provides a forum for interdisciplinary theology from a biblical perspective. Learn more.
Lectureships
We are proud to welcome a number of guests each year who offer scholarship on a variety of theological topics. Learn more.
Graduation
North Park Theological Seminary’s commencement service is a special day each spring, and we invite you to join us to celebrate with our students. Graduating students should also review this information for important details about planning for graduation, commencement day, and beyond. Learn more.