Alumni Newsletter
Ministerial Preparation and Enrichment for Deacons
Media Contact: Sharon Johnson, (312) 255-1923, johnson@ipovcreative.com New Bexley Seabury Program Helps Dioceses Enhance Ministerial Preparation and Enrichment for Deacons CHICAGO, January 25, 2017—Bexley Seabury, one of 10 accredited seminaries of the Episcopal...
A reflection by Newland Smith, former Librarian at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, on his participation at Standing Rock.
That Monday morning, October 31 in response to the call issued by John Floberg, I joined five Lutheran School of Theology students and a New Testament professor at that seminary in the two-day drive to Cannon Ball ND in order to be present for the solidarity...
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...
Bexley Seabury President Ferlo to Retire in Fall 2017
CHICAGO, December 13, 2016—Bexley Seabury, one of 10 accredited seminaries of the Episcopal Church, today announced that the Rev. Dr. Roger Ferlo will conclude his term as president on schedule, in Fall 2017. Ferlo will retire after 32 years of ordained ministry and...
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...
Enough
♦ October 20, 2016 ♦ Everyone I speak to agrees on at least one thing: the political climate in the past several months has grown unusually toxic. The coarsening of public language; the revelations of predatory sexual behavior; the continuing distortion of...