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 The exhibit showcases unpublished archival documents, photographs, and film held by the Badè Museum that illustrate the untold stories of local laborers, landowners, and Egyptian foremen who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…
PSR Alum Bishop Steps Into Historic Role In The Evangelical Lutheran Church
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/11/1036371531/evangelical-lutheran-church-first-transgender-bishop-megan-rohrer SAN FRANCISCO — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church’s 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada. “My call is … to…
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…
Open Letter from The Association of Theological Schools Latinx Presidents and Deans
We live in unprecedented times. There are over 3 million dead worldwide from novel coronavirus, and over a half a million of those in the United States alone. We read daily in the newspapers of new hotspots in India, Brazil and within the US. Merging with this wave of death has been a wave of…
PSR Class of 2021 Rises to the Challenges of a Transformative Year
On Sunday, May 23, 2021, PSR held its 154th Commencement, with thirty-one students graduating. Those assembled provided a range of moving reflections on the graduation theme “Never Going Back: Breaking Wide, Rising Forward.” The theme urged graduates to see the various ways in which God is continuing to do new things in an unprecedented and…
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…
PSR Statement on George Floyd Trial Verdict
As we pray for the family and friends of George Floyd, we dare to hope today after hearing the news that his murderer has been found guilty. We are grateful that our broken justice system has found a way to deliver the beginning of justice in this case—even as we are immeasurably grief-filled at the…