What’s Next?: How the Election Impacts Queer Jews

Jay will analyze the results of the election and offer possibilities for the next few months, as well as the long term implications for our community. The discussion will focus on practical, spiritual, and ethical directions each of us might consider for the future. Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is an editor at the Ten Percent Happier…
WATCH PARTY: Just Mercy

Please join the Office of Academic Affairs and CAPSR Council for reconciliation and inclusion as we watch and discuss the film Just Mercy. We echo the sentiment of Warner Bros Studio, who stated that the film, based on the life work of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson is a resource for “those who are interested in learning…
New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia

Dr. Salim Faraji (California State University, Dominguez Hills) presents the first lecture of a new virtual event series, “New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia,” hosted by the Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley. Join us on October 29th at noon PST for his talk, “The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt.”
Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel
11th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture

Please join us for “Engendering Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality Among Church Leaders” with Rev. Dr. Traci C. West. More about this event: In this political moment, how can scholar-activist church leaders create common understandings that undermine patterns of society-wide abuse and intra-communal betrayal, and instead deepen their solidarity with one another? What are effective ways…
Black Lives Matter
June 16, 2020 Dear PSR Community: On June 19, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free. This liberation, which gave rise to the celebrate of Juneteenth, came over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed on January…
Creating Democracy: Technology & Disenfranchised Communities

We welcome you for an evening of fascinating conversation with all three of our Professors of Practice on Wednesday, February 5. This event will give you an overview of our program and a chance to meet and mingle.
Strengthening Ministry in the Aloha State – The First Chinese Church of Christ
Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, president of Pacific School of Religion (PSR), will make his bi-annual visit to Hawai`i January 20–27, 2019. All are welcome to hear this committed pastor, nationally recognized immigration leader, and sought-after speaker as he discusses important issues regarding immigration. He invites you to be part of “Strengthening Ministry in the Aloha State.” This campaign seeks to expand PSR’s ability to engage current and emerging leaders in the church in the context of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Basin.
Strengthening Ministry in the Aloha State – Kōloa Union Church
Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, president of Pacific School of Religion (PSR), will make his bi-annual visit to Hawai`i January 20–27, 2019. All are welcome to hear this committed pastor, nationally recognized immigration leader, and sought-after speaker as he discusses important issues regarding immigration. He invites you to be part of “Strengthening Ministry in the Aloha State.” This campaign seeks to expand PSR’s ability to engage current and emerging leaders in the church in the context of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Basin.
Strengthening Ministry in the Aloha State – Church of the Holy Cross
Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, president of Pacific School of Religion (PSR), will make his bi-annual visit to Hawai`i January 20–27, 2019. All are welcome to hear this committed pastor, nationally recognized immigration leader, and sought-after speaker as he discusses important issues regarding immigration. He invites you to be part of “Strengthening Ministry in the Aloha State.” This campaign seeks to expand PSR’s ability to engage current and emerging leaders in the church in the context of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Basin.
“I do not belong to myself”: Reflections on African Spirituality and Theology, with Dr. Bienvenu Mayemba
On April 6, Dr. Bienvenu Mayemba gave a lecture entitled “‘I do not belong to myself’: Reflections on African Spirituality and Theology.” Dr. Mayemba is a Jesuit priest and Theologian from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He resides in Abidjan, Ivory Coast where he is the Director of BARAZA, Chair of African Theology, the Coordinator of Academic Conferences, and Professor of Systematic Theology, African Theology and Postcolonial Theory at the Jesuit Institute of Theology and at the Catholic University of Western Africa.