From the President
Pres. Jackson, Seabury Western, ’04 Preaches on “Day 1”
The Rev. Dr. Micah T. J. Jackson, President of Bexley Seabury Seminary and Seabury Western Class of 2004, preached the 3rd Sunday of Easter on the Podcast “Day 1”, the voice of historic Protestant denominations. Jackson proclaimed in his sermon that “Jesus’ disciples...
BSSF and the COVID-19 virus
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PRESIDENT MICAH T.J. JACKSON Friends,I have, like all of you, been concerned about the rise of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States and around the world, and have been wondering what might be an appropriate response...
We have a vision
We have a vision and I want to share it with you. When Bishops Benjamin Whipple, James Lloyd Breck, and Philander Chase founded Bexley Hall and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, they knew that the future of the Church was on the frontier, where faithful...
OUR STUDENTS, OUR TREASURE
A Message from Acting President Therese DeLisio September 26, 2017 A small brown wooden case with hinged top, leather straps, brass corners, and a leather carrying handle sits on an end table in my office. It looks like an old miniature piece of luggage, but the trim...
The View Beyond the Walls
A message from Acting President Therese DeLisio Bexley Seabury Seminary sees itself as a Seminary Beyond Walls. This self-characterization, in part, refers to our low-residency/high-context model of theological education that allows people from around the country to...
Christ Will Come Again
By The Rev. Roger Ferlo Given at St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church, Chicago Easter III, April 30, 2017 It’s relatively easy to celebrate redemption on Easter Day. But it’s harder and harder to sustain the Easter spirit as Sunday passes into Sunday. It’s especially...
The Crowd at the Foot of the Cross
Sermon preached at Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago Good Friday 2017 Roger Ferlo This year at this Good Friday service, we are introducing a new practice to complement our much more ancient one. The ancient practice will be familiar if you have come to...
Widening the Circle
A few weeks ago Dean Terry DeLisio and I had the privilege of visiting the Newberry Library in Chicago to view the Bexley Hall Rare Book Collection, which had just arrived from Columbus. Although I knew what the inventory looked like on paper, it was a moving...
Discovering Something Rich and Strange
As I write I am preparing to lead the pre-Lenten clergy retreat for the Diocese of Massachusetts. Their new bishop the Rt. Rev. Alan Gates, is a former Bexley Hall and Bexley Seabury board member, and a thoughtful and informed supporter of seminary education in a time...
Pray for Justice. Act for Justice.
Message from President Ferlo I am writing this message on Martin Luther King Day, just four days before the next presidential inauguration. The juxtaposition of these two events underscores the deep racial and economic divisions that have haunted our national polity...
A Christmas message from our Presiding Bishop
In a time of anxiety and uncertainty, a Child was born who would change all our lives, offering radical hope in a world gone mad. In this our own time of anxiety,the Savior born in Bethlehem offers that same radical hope for us: God is with us, come what may. A...
Standing Up
♦ November 22, 2016 ♦ Our Lady of Ferguson icon written by Mark Dukes, commissioned by Mark Bozzuti-Jones, Trinity Church Wall Street “What I’m trying to cultivate is not blind optimism but what the philosopher Jonathan Lear calls radical hope. ‘What makes this...