March 2025 Global Update
Travel the Globe with GMU. Read President Grudzen’s reflection on his time in Nigeria. Learn about empowering women around the world. Understand the L.C. classification. Explore GMU and PCS courses for spring.
Spring into Spirituality!
Let the light shine in your life and in your soul! Dr. Margie Schneider is offering three courses at a discount. TH580 Creation Spirituality, TH581 Eco-Art & Creation Spirituality, and TH517 Spiritual Ecology are available individually for $235 per course, half the price of the traditional tuition. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to expand your awareness of the Divine in Creation and in You!
President Grudzen’s Reflection on His Journey to Nigeria
Had I read the travel advisory from the US State Department before going to Nigeria in February of 2025, I might not have made the journey given the danger of Boko Haram still being present in that country and particularly in the region of Kaduna where there is still a presence of Boko Haram.
During my travel from Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, to Kaduna State University for a major interfaith conference, I was accompanied by four Nigerian policemen driving in front of our caravan as my security detail.
Providentially, I made this trip, and upon reflection, it fulfilled a prophetic message that came to me 24 years ago when our daughter, Corita Grudzen, MD, was beginning her medical residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York. The attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 9/11/2001 were emblematic of the tangible divide between Christianity and Islam in the modern world. At that time, I dedicated the remainder of my life to help heal the divide between these great spiritual traditions by completing my doctoral studies at Columbia University in NYC on the history of Christianity and Islam and the founding of Global Ministries University in 2001…
Spend Lent with Jesus’ Parables on Social Justice
Father Sébastien NKOA, OP, is offering a free course on “The Financial Dimensions of the Parables of Jesus” starting Wednesday, March 19 at 9 AM Pacific Time and continuing each Wednesday for the following three weeks.
From The course description:
Our world today has reached a level of financialization that has completely removed humanity from everything that is related to the economy and finance. World economic monetary and financial institutions have developed programs that have found themselves to be completely inhumane. In Africa, South America, and Asia their various programs of restructuring have proved themselves to be catastrophic and completely disconnected from human local realities. Unfortunately, the sad reality of the failure of the Wall Street system is no longer a debate…
February 2025 Global Update
View the closing of the online international conference and listen to Fr. Dan Groody’s inspiring words on the Theology of Migration. Read President Grudzen’s statement on the USAID cuts. View Bishop Bridget Mary’s interview with Italian media. Learn how to spot online scammers and spammers. Travel to Nigeria and India with President Grudzen. “Spring” into Creation Spirituality with discounted courses. Read a rave review for the Center for Celebrant Training. Give up patriarchy for Lent with Freedom Fridays!