New Spanish-language Web Exhibit from the Badè Museum
The Badè Museum is proud to announce the debut of a Spanish-language web exhibition, “La vida diaria en una aldea antigua de Judea.” This exhibition is a companion to the museum’s “Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town” virtual exhibit. This exhibit is accessible for all ages and serves as a remote-teaching resource for classes…
Dr. Kit Evans Ford (MDiv, 2012) Receives 2022 Tom Locke Innovative Leader Award
Dr. Kit Evans Ford (MDiv, 2012) is one of the recipients of the 2022 Tom Locke Innovative Leader Award. The Award is issued by the Wesleyan Investive, an organization that specializes in spiritual leadership and social entrepreneurship. Evans-Ford is the founder of Argrow’s House of Healing and Hope, a bath and body social enterprise that employs female…
Bishop Wilbur Choy (1918-2021)
It is with deep sadness to inform that PSR alum Bishop Wilbur Choy has passed away on December 28, 2021. He was 103 years young. Wilbur Choy was a Stockton native who graduated from PSR with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1949. He would go on to become one of the leading Bishops of…
Badè Museum launches 2021-2022 lecture series: “Unsilencing the Archives”
Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at Tell en-Nasbeh (1926-1935) Join us for an exciting program of public events in 2021-2022 that draw on themes of the Badè Museum’s new virtual exhibition: “Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935).” Click here to view the exhibition opening held on September 22, 2021 to learn more about…
Badè Museum virtual exhibit launch and roundtable on Youtube
Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at Tell en-Nasbeh (1926-1935) Join us for an exciting program of public events in 2021-2022 that draw on themes of the museum’s new virtual exhibition: “Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935).” Click here to view the recorded webinar and virtual exhibition opening held on September 22, 2021. The event…
New Web Exhibit from the Badè Museum: “Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935)”
The Badè Museum is proud to announce the debut of new open-access web exhibition, “Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935).” The exhibit showcases unpublished archival documents, photographs, and film held by the Badè Museum that illustrate the untold stories of local laborers, landowners, and Egyptian foremen who contributed to the…
Bade Museum Curator featured in Biblical Archaeology Review magazine
The Fall 2021 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (47:3) features an interview with Bade Museum curator Dr. Melissa Cradic. In it, she discusses recent outreach, public programming, and social justice initiatives at the museum, including an upcoming web exhibit entitled, “Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at Tell en-Nasbeh (1926-1935).” The exhibit showcases archival documents, photographs, and…
Building a Thriving Campus Community Through Partnerships
PSR’s 154th commencement celebration and theme, “Never Going Back: Breaking Wide, Rising Forward,” beautifully captured our mission at this critical time and our excitement as we look towards the future. We have risen together to the realities of pandemic, protest, and polarization, and are filled with a new sense of hope and a renewed energy for what the future holds…
Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (DMin ’17 and MDiv ’05) Makes History as the First Openly Transgender Bishop in Any Mainstream American Denomination
The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer has made history this month as the first openly transgender bishop in any mainstream American denomination. They will lead the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Rev. Dr. Rohrer will be installed as bishop on September 11, 2021, at Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Walnut Creek. Rev. Dr. Rohrer graduated in 2005 from Pacific School of Religion…
Badè Museum Staff Win Grant to Develop Digital Archives and Exhibit
Badè Museum Staff Awarded Grant from Palestine Exploration Fund The Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology proudly announces that the Palestine Exploration Fund, a London-based society devoted to study of the Levant, has awarded its 2021 Annual Grant to Dr. Melissa Cradic (Curator) and Samuel Pfister (Collections Manager). The grant supports digital cataloging and exhibition projects…