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Starr King School for the Ministry is proud to announce that Jessica Cloud will be serving as our new Vice President of Advancement. Jessica Cloud is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and has fifteen years of fundraising experience with an emphasis in annual fund solicitation—beginning in 2000 when she worked as a student caller with

Shannon Eizenga 2nd Year M.Div. Student Member of Board of Trustees Why did you decide to become a religious leader? It has been a gradual unfolding… My path has been quite circuitous and winding. And of course looking back I can see how all of the points lined up. But certainly in my undergraduate years

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

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

This asynchronous online course will locate the roots of Unitarian Universalist Prophetic Witness in nineteenth century social justice concerns: abolition, education, prison reform, utopian communities, suffrage, temperance, humane treatment of animals, civil disobedience, and poverty. We will also explore the nineteenth Unitarian and Universalist influence on Biblical Criticism, literature, philosophy, music, and art. Our course

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