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January 11-15 and 19-21; 10:00-1:00 pm PST synchronous session plus two hours of work in asynchronous online modality, including breaks. 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 intensive, M.Div. and M.A.S.C. students work together to
Raphael Mills Warner 2nd-year M.Div. student Student Body President Why did you decide to become a spiritual leader? It’s been a long journey to this point. I’ve always in some way felt the call to ministry. However, the major catalyst was when I did a project where I visited 52 religions in one year. At
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
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
Hilda Mason Teaching Fellowships
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