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We need to have the interfaith community support us.” On March 8, 2017, in commemoration of International Women’s Day, Starr King School for the Ministry invited community civic leaders to present a symposium on the “Comfort Women”, one of the key issues in the global struggle for women’s rights. One of the greatest atrocities committed
Monday-Friday; August 10-14 and August 17-21, 2020 Time: 9:00am-11:00am Pacific Standard Time- Synchronous online. Plus 2 hours of asynchronous online discussion and exercises a day. Educating to “Create Just and Sustainable Communities that Counter Oppressions” (“ECO”) is a core goal of Starr King’s M.Div. and M.A.S.C. degree programs. In this required two week core intensive,
There’s still time to apply to join Starr King’s Fall 2017 Entering Class! Study for the ministry, progressive religious leadership, or sacred social change to transform your life and the world. Our next Application Deadline is April 1 and our Final Deadline is May 1. Fill out our Prospective Student Form and contact our Admissions
Our warmest congratulations to Adjunct Faculty member Rev. Tera Little, who was unanimously called as the settled minister of Throop Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, CA on March 19, 2017. “We’ve had a wonderful last five years together, and I see the call as an affirmation of our work so far, not a culmination. They are
Starr King School for the Ministry is pleased to recognize a recent accomplishment by Student Body Secretary, Nancy Reid-McKee. Last week Nancy was selected by the Unitarian Universalist Association to receive the 2016 White Memorial Scholarship. This annual award supports Unitarian Universalist Ministerial students from throughout the Western Regional District who show great potential for the ministry. “I was
On Friday, April 14, 2017, Starr King students, graduates, faculty, staff, community members, and the mayor of Berkeley gathered in celebration and prayer for the opening of the Qal’bu Maryam Women’s Mosque, Northern California’s first women-led mosque and the second in the United States. Unlike the first, which was founded in 2015 in a Los Angeles interfaith
Dear Ones— We are all well aware of our dire national situation—we talk about it, and as a minister I have been preaching about it in venues all over the country. People across the political spectrum consider the election a major disruption to all that they know and have experienced. For some of us the
Aaron Eaves 3rd-year M.Div. student Why did you decide to become a spiritual leader? It has definitely been a long winding journey that arguably started when I was a child, but I can definitely say that the latest leg of this journey began in 2008. I had a spiritual experience following the death of my
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Em Kianka 2nd-year M.Div. student Why did you decide to become a religious leader? I knew I wanted to become a minister since I was a teenager. It was actually my mother’s recommendation–she told me I would be a good minister when I was sixteen. Since I was a teenager, and it was my mother’s