Donor Spotlight: Carolyn Fure-Slocum (MDiv, MA ’91)
In this Donor Spotlight, meet Carolyn Fure-Slocum whose journey from student to college chaplain is a testament to the transformative power of PSR’s education and community.
Change Happens Now Podcast: Season 7, Episode 2: Navigating Christian Ethics in a Complex World
Host Mo King sits down with esteemed scholars Dr. Traci West and PSR Professor Dr. Lisa Asedillo to explore how to transform faith into tangible action and illuminate the path toward ethical living and social justice in today’s world.
Dr. Lisa Asedillo Awarded PSR’s 2024 Faculty Excellence Award
Join the entire Pacific School of Religion (PSR) community in congratulating Dr. Lisa Asedillo for being awarded this year’s Faculty Excellence Award!
PSR Welcomes Rev. Dr. Kristin Stoneking to our Faculty
Join us in welcoming scholar, pastor, educator and innovator, Rev. Dr. Kristin Stoneking into the PSR community where she will serve as Associate Professor of United Methodist Studies and Leadership and Academic Director of PSR’s Congregational Renewal Cohorts Program.
Dying to the Sins of Hiding — a Sermon by Micah Melody Taberner
Read PSR MDiv student Micah Melody Taberner’s powerful sermon celebrating Trans Day of Visibility, “Because the systemic sin of hiding denies people their full God-given agency and humanity, the antidote is healthy pride through self-acceptance and self-love, and allowing our true selves to be seen and embraced by others.”
PSR’s CLGS Welcomes Rabbi Yoel Kahn as Interim Coordinator of the Jewish Roundtable!
PSR’s Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) is proud to welcome Rabbi Yoel Kahn as Interim Coordinator of the CLGS Jewish Roundtable.
Progressive Voices of Faith: Empathy Across the Political Divide
This month we asked PSR’s faculty, students, staff, alumnx, and board how they practice empathy for those in their community who hold political views they see as materially harmful.
Details for PSR’s Unafraid Symposium: An Annual Celebration of Academic Excellence
Learn more about the projects and people that will be featured in The Unafraid Symposium: An Annual Celebration of Academic Excellence at PSR on April 3rd
Deconstructing Lent: a Sermon by Bernard Schlager
Bernie Schlager, PSR faculty and the executive director of CLGS, shares a sermon on deconstructing Lent: More than being called to undertake penance, self-denial, fasting, and face our temptations in life, our spiritual traditions call upon us to do the work of justice- making.
Change Happens Now Podcast: Season 7, Episode 1: Faith, Trust, and Meaning Making in Community
In this season’s premiere, host Mo King sits down with spiritual leaders Rev. Adriene Thorne (MDiv ’08) PSR alumnx, and Senior Minister of the historic Riverside Church in NYC, and PSR’s President Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy.