Mitchell Landsberg in the Los Angeles Times, June 9, www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-claremont-20100609,0,4360922.story
Calling multi-faith expansion the next step, the Theology School will offer training for Muslims and Jews in a program that strains its historic ties to the Methodist Church.
In a bow to the growing diversity of America’s religious landscape, the Claremont School of Theology, a Christian institution with long ties to the Methodist Church, will add clerical training for Muslims and Jews to its curriculum this autumn, to become, in a sense, the first truly multi-faith American seminary. This ends centuries of tradition in which seminaries have hewn not just to single faiths but often to single denominations within those faiths. Eventually, Claremont hopes to add clerical programs for Buddhists and Hindus.