Virginia’s Alban Institute closing shop after 40 years

The Alban Institute is closing shop after 40 years as an independent consulting, educational and publishing firm catering to mainline Protestants, directors of the Herndon, Va.,-based nonprofit announced March 19. As of March 31, Alban Institute consultants will work either individually or under a new banner of “Congregational Consulting,” board chair Case Hoogendoorn said in a letter on the ministry…