Change Happens Now Podcast: Season 5, Episode 4, Leadership and Faith as Art

Season Five of the Ignite Institute’s Change Happens Now Podcast: Leaders discovering their voice, their sustaining spirituality, and their purposeful change in their work!
Biblically Rooted Call for Reproductive Justice at Recent CLGS Lavender Lunch

An intersectional, faith-based, and sometimes provocative counterpoint to the dominant Conservative Christian view of reproductive justice.
This I Believe: Diana Becton

Diana Becton (MTS, 2015), a member of PSR’s Alumnx Council, shares her thoughts on criminal justice reform in this month’s “This I Believe”
Change Happens Now Podcast: Season 5, Episode 3, Untold Stories of Latinx Leaders

Season Five of the Ignite Institute’s Change Happens Now Podcast: Leaders discovering their voice, their sustaining spirituality, and their purposeful change in their work! Episode #3 Untold Stories of Latinx Leaders On this episode, we sat down with Dr. Peter Rios, author, leadership consultant, professor at the Pacific School of Religion, and Ignite’s Academic Director,…
PSR Alumnx Bishop A. Yvette Flunder Presented Key to the City of Oakland, CA

On October 20th, PSR Alumnx, Bishop Yvette A. Flunder (MA ’97) was given a key to the City of Oakland, CA as part of the city’s first Love Life Day which honors, “those who are uplifting love and helping prevent violence in our communities.”
PSR Community Grieves the Loss of MDiv Student Isamaeli (Eli) Mata’afa

The entire Pacific School of Religion community grieves deeply for the sudden and tragic death of Isamaeli (Eli) Mata’afa. We hold his family, church, and the entire Bay Area Samoan and Tuvaluan community in prayer.
Why National Coming Out Day Matters, by Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw

In the time of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws, Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw explains why now is the time to be especially vocal about queerness and to let young people know that their identities are valid, and that their lives have value.
PSR Receives $5M Grant From Lilly Endowment Inc. To Build Innovative Educational Ecosystem

Delivered through an online platform currently in pilot under the brand name The Ignite Collective, PSR’s educational ecosystem will be funded through the third and final phase of Lilly Endowment’s Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative.
Progressive Voices of Faith: Reproductive Rights

This month we asked PSR alumnx, faculty, and students about their views on reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Pacific School of Religion’s Ignite Institute Launches Ignite Collective Membership

The Ignite Collective, an innovative online learning and community platform for emerging leaders seeking spiritually-rooted transformation, launches with two membership options.