MTS Alum Spotlight: Rev. Lisa Anderson (MDiv, ’94)

MTS Alum Spotlight: Rev. Lisa Anderson (MDiv, ’94)

Rev. Lisa Anderson Reverend Lisa Hall Anderson is a former chaplain at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and is the founding executive director of Room in the Inn-Memphis and pastor of Colonial Cumberland Presbyterian Church. After receiving her MDiv from...
MTS Alum Featured in The Commercial Appeal

MTS Alum Featured in The Commercial Appeal

A woman on a mission: What led Reverend Elaine Sanford to care for Memphis’ most vulnerable | Opinion Lynn Norment This article was originally published in The Commercial Appeal. Elaine Sanford is a woman on a mission. And she refuses to allow the COVID-19...
Alumni Spotlight: Diane Harrison

Alumni Spotlight: Diane Harrison

In 2007, Rev. Diane Harrison began planting Grace Place United Methodist Church at what is now the Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center (WTRC) near Henning, Tennessee. Grace Place remains one of only two United Methodist congregations in the world located...
Announcing the Green Couch Exchange

Announcing the Green Couch Exchange

The idea for the Green Couch Exchange, a new podcast and video series, goes all the way back to the beginnings of the Financial Leadership for Ministry (FLM)  program in 2012. We found that most students who graduate from seminary have very few classes...
MTS Celebrates the Class of 1970!

MTS Celebrates the Class of 1970!

June 7th, 2020, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the 1970 graduating class of Memphis Theological Seminary.  Rev. George Estes (M.Div, 1970) offers his reflection: The commencement service was held that Sunday at 8 p.m. in the sanctuary of the former Highland...