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Everything Old is New Again The Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt President, Starr King School for the Ministry Unitarian Universalist General Assembly June 25, 2015 Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Most of you have come today to hear me speak about UU multireligious reality. I won’t be talking about that at all, and I am
In March of 2014, members of the Starr King School for the Ministry’s Presidential Search Committee asked me to offer my confidential opinion on the three final candidates for the next president of the School. The request was within the rights and the responsibilities of the Search Committee and was in keeping with time-honored practices
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 core synchronous course, M.Div. and M.A.S.C. students work together to form a framework for counter-oppressive spiritual leadership. We will ask: how can spirituality, ministry, and religious activism respond to the
Watch Dr. Ibrahim Farajajé, Provost and Professor of Cultural and Islamic Studies, speak about his experience at Starr King. Tell me about your experience at Starr King. I was just thinking that about this time twenty years ago, I was preparing to move from Washington, DC, to the Bay Area to assume my position here
Sarah Caine 3rd Year M.Div. Student Member of Board of Trustees Why did you decide to become a religious leader? I was in the Spiritual Activist Leadership Training program through the California Legislative Ministry, now California Justice Ministry. At the graduation ceremony for the program, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker spoke about Starr King and the
Benjamin Dresner 2rd Year M.Div. Student Why did you decide to become a religious leader? For me, it was a surprise. I was a corporate accountant. I did customer service for a while and I became an office manager at the end of my corporate stint. And I thought I was heading towards nursing.
Alexis Vincent M.A.S.C. Student Expected Graduation May 2015 Why did you decide to study at Starr King? Interestingly, what brought me to the Master of Arts in Social Change program was the work that the Rev. Dr. Gabriella Lettini is doing with veterans around moral injury and the trauma that they are experiencing. This is
The following is a homily given by Arliss Ungar, Chair of the Balázs Scholars Committee, former Chair of the Board of Trustees, and author of With Vision and Courage: Starr King School for the Ministry: The History of its First Hundred Years, during Tuesday Chapel Service on May 5, 2015. Thomas Starr King was born
Kevin Mann 3rd Year M.Div. and 1st Year M.A.S.C. Student 2015-2016 Hilda Mason Teaching Fellow Why did you decide to become a religious leader? I decided to become a religious leader because I really felt that, as a queer person of color and also a person of faith (a Unitarian Universalist), I had a really
Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward Graduate of SKSM, Class of 2008 Advising and Adjunct Faculty Why did you decide to become a religious leader? I’ve never known life without religious leadership as a core, family value. My parents and grandparents modeled active, faithful lay leadership for me. My multicultural upbringing spanned multiple religious traditions, but the commitment