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PRESIDENT'S WELCOME

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

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Rev. Dr.

Theodore T. Turman

President

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Rev. Dr. Robyn Moore

Director, Doctor of Ministry Program, 

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Barbara Pye

Vice President of Operations

and Registrar

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Rev. Dr. James Waddell

Director of Master Programs and

Associate Professor of Biblical Studies

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Jacquelyn Hines

Business and Finance Office Manager

Financial Aid Director

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Dr. Brandon Grafus

Academic Dean and Chief Academic Officer (CAO), Director of the Urban Ministry Diploma Program Associate Professor of Biblical Studies

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Dr. Elaine Belz

Business &  Finance

Office Assistant

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Greetings!

Welcome to the website of the Ecumenical Theological Seminary.  Located in the heart of Mid-town Detroit, ETS is the only accredited seminary of the Protestant tradition located within the city.  We are an independent seminary that has no denominational affiliation.  We are distinctively Christian and intentionally ecumenical, where Christians of all traditions are welcome.

 

Our location is not only geographical, but theological as well. We are committed to our calling at one of the most difficult and promising epicenters of American identity. In bringing together members of various religious communities in an ecumenical learning environment, ETS simultaneously addresses questions of spiritual nurture and social justice, traditional confession and cross-cultural innovation.

 

We are a community of scholars, ministry practitioners, staff and students who are diverse by ethnicity, race, gender, socio-economic realities and Christian tradition.​ Interfaith students have also been welcomed in prior years.

Your calling to ministry is important to us.  Our faculty members are scholar/practitioners who teach as well have practical experiences as pastors, chaplains, lay leaders and community leaders.  They are equipped to teach students who have the added benefit of their practical experience. 

I have no doubt you will find ETS a welcoming, caring and engaging learning community where people of faith comfortably converse about difficult social-economic-political justice issues and seek to address them in a transparent way.

We hope you’ll take a tour of our website and learn more about our outstanding academic programs and other offerings.  Our Urban Ministry Diploma program, for example, can be a pathway to master’s-level study without an undergraduate degree.  Please contact us if you have any questions.  We are here to serve you.

 

​Grace and Peace,

 

Rev. Dr. Theodore T. Turman

President
Ecumenical Theological Seminary

Administrative Staff
Board of Directors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Monique Marks

Board of Directors

Chair

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Freda Sampson

Board Member

President & CEO

Frederick G. Sampson Foundation

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Ronald Wagner

Board Member

Managing Principal and Chairperson, Kitch Attorneys & Counselors

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Dr. Andrew Brown Jr.

Board Member

Chairman - Board of Directors

Center for Automotive Research

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Bishop Donald Kreiss

Board Member

Bishop, Southeast Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

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Rev. Charles Christian Adams

Board Member

Presiding Pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church

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