PSR Announces 2023 Student Awards!
Each year, Pacific School of Religion honors student excellence in building community, preaching, and ethics – see this year’s winners and learn more about the awards.
Change Happens Now Podcast: Season 6, Episode 1, Changing the World in Quiet Ways
In the season 6 premiere, new host Mo King talks with award-winning writer, editor, and heart-centered nonprofit/social enterprise professional, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun.
Trouble in Paradise: A Reflection on the Effects of Climate Change in the Pacific Island Nations
This Asian American Pacific Island Heritage Month, Master of Divinity student Najon Saina Tuiolemotu reflects on the ways climate change is threatening the existence of her Pacific Island Nation home.
PSR Community Gathers to Dedicate the Isamaeli (Eli) Mata’afa Community Garden
As part of our weekly chapel service PSR students, faculty, and staff came together with Eli Mata’afa’s family and church community to celebrate the dedication of the Isamaeli (Eli) Mata’afa Community Garden.
PSR Faculty Rev. Dr. Dorsey Odell Blake Named 2023 GTU Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
Prof. Blake will give the 48th annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture titled, “Howard Thurman: Seeking, Queering, and Transcending” on Tuesday, November 7th at 5 pm PT
Progressive Voices of Faith: Creating a World Where All Can Thrive
This month we asked the PSR community about how their vocational and spiritual goals connect with PSR’s mission: to prepare a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive.
PSR Students Launch New Garden to Build Community and Honor the Life of Eli Mata’afa
A community garden that began as a project in Fall 2022’s Spiritual Formation for Leadership class is now coming to fruition as a physical garden.
Meet PSR’s 2023 Distinguished Alumnx!
Learn more about the work and ministries of these five remarkable individuals who are emblematic of PSR’s mission to create a world where all can thrive!
Alumnx Feature: Bishop Karen P. Oliveto
A profile of PSR Alumnx Bishop Karen P. Oliveto the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church (UMC).
PSR Community Mourns the Loss of Paula Leslie, Wife of PSR Professor, Rev. Robert Leslie
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Paula Leslie on March 11th, 2023. Paula was the surviving spouse of Rev. Robert C. Leslie, professor of pastoral psychology and counseling at PSR from 1954-82. She is survived by her children, William (Bill) Allen Leslie of Berkeley CA, and Rev. Heather Leslie Hammer…