EditorialElijah Drake, a seminary student at Asbury Theological Seminary, in a chapel on the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Ky., on Feb. 17, 2023. (Jesse Barber/The New York Times)
EditorialPope Benedict XVI embraces a young girl during a ceremony in which he blessed dozens of disabled children at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., on April 19, 2008. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialA Chinese Torah in the collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary studied by Professor Menahem Schmelzer, rear, in New York on Feb. 9, 1973. (Edward Hausner/The New York Times)
EditorialIranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends the conference of the Anniversary of Seminary-University Unity, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of - 18 Dec 2022
EditorialDemands outlined by seminary students and young clergy during a prayer vigil against police brutality at New York’s City Hall, on April 20, 2000. (Ruby Washington/The New York Times)
EditorialLinda Thomas, the granddaughter of John Samuel Thomas Jr., at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., March 31, 2021. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)