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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

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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

Fieldwork is an opportunity to put into action the theory learned in the classroom. Working in a congregation gives the student a chance to develop their unique pastoral voice while navigating complexities of a congregation’s history, culture, systems and ethos. Fieldwork placements may include: teaching a religious education class for children or adults, working with

Statement on Academic Integrity and Misconduct

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

This course is for Starr King students engaged in part-time or full-time Clinical Pastoral Education. Participate in ministry to persons in crisis and engage in individual and group reflection. Didactic sessions draw together theoretical material from theology, the behavioral sciences, and pastoral care. Students learn to integrate theological understanding and knowledge of behavioral science with

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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

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Starr King graduate Charles Byrd Blackburn (class of 1962). A Unitarian Universalist since 1957, Charles used his education first as an activist in the Civil Rights movement in the South, and most recently, at age 80, as an advocate for marriage equality as a lobbyist