I'd like to introduce our first speaker, Reverend Floyd Thompkins, who is the Director of the Center for Innovation in the Ministry of San Francisco's Theological Seminary . Floyd has also served as a dean and chaplain at two world-class institutions, Stanford and Princeton.He developed unique, highly-effective programs to empower underserved teenage youth and young adults in urban and rural areas, in East Palo Alto and rural south
So Nathan earned a bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theater performance from Rockford College and a master of divinity from North Park Theological Seminary . And he and his wife Kate now have a son named Foster and currently live in Rhode Island."Embracing Love" is the story behind the iconic photograph seen by millions around the world.
the book. Now the codeex was invented long before Christianity but Christians were the first people who really used study in a rabbitical seminary in Israel. And you could hear the noise of
In my school system, I thought, oh, that was white supremacy that I was wrestling with as a high schooler. So I went to seminary to study this theology-- Black liberation theology-- and be in the community Dr. Cone was in. And I show up as this white woman in New York City in a community of many African American men and women, Latino men and women, saying things
where she received her Master of Divinity degree. After graduating seminary , Annanda spent a year as a student chaplain at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Medical Center. Her services to the church and denomination include being co-moderator of the National Board of Directors for More Light Presbyterians, and an occasional blogger
And when our contract was over, he moved off to Broadway and he did some "Les Mis" revival, and he's been on Broadway ever since. And I moved into seminary . But he shared a story with me that he was sharing a dressing room with this gentleman, and his name was Dave.
of Alabama Lutheran Academy and College, which was a black high school and junior college serving the black Lutheran Churches in Alabama. I graduated from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis. And my first call-- partly because of my father's presence in Selma, where I did some of my growing
and wound up committing to him using his own money, got him exonerated within three years. And once Jim graduated from seminary a year later, he decided this was going to be his life's work. And he'd already started working on yet another case at the time.
Where going to Roscoe's and Sidetrack, and you know, Scarlet, like you just always went to those places. And then I got to seminary and that was not the case at all. But I did introduce a lot of seminarians to Boystown.
County-- Dallas was the county that Selma was county seat, Wilcox right next to it-- who cannot vote. Pastors who have graduated from college and seminary and they cannot vote. This is intolerable, unacceptable, and this has got to change quickly.
And it's like John 3:16-- what about first John 3:16? And so let's bring seminary to them.
The "Cherokee Rose Buds" was a newspaper printed at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah. It actually had a female seminary . And they taught Cherokees as well as whites.
Eventually, I was immersed into the LGBT community, and really the gay and lesbian community when I worked as a professional actor and singer. It chronicles my journey to becoming a pastor and going to seminary , and then this viral blog post that happened in 2010. And so it kind of shares my own education about the gay community and the gay rights movement and gay history.
with to sort of give me the go-ahead. I find a lot of assurance in being affirmed by the seminary in which I attend, or the conferences and congregations in which I support and preach and teach at.
Yeah. I have two cousins that became priests and another cousin that became a nun. And I was scheduled to go to the seminary . And I discovered girls and went, let me get this straight-- no girls in the priesthood?
decided that I'm going to uh leave behind my profession I've been thinking for quite some time about becoming a pastor we're going to move to Indiana and I'm going to go to the seminary in an hour and a half he had made these decisions and I said you know I'm a a person of Faith myself and I talked to God this morning and he didn't mention Indiana so I'm thinking what you should
And it's like John 3:16-- what about first John 3:16? So the whole idea was like creating a seminary in your pocket for free.
know, lived in their car and again people Rogers. And then they got us because the German Lutherans saw him and said, You know what? You're really good. Uh, Robert Lee Murray, named after Confederate General and Sentenced Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. And suddenly I get a chance to be in a larger place where suddenly a summer program, someone found a merchant Ivory and gave me the lead in a movie. And I've got now a
And I think that the gay community has been more like a church than many other churches claim to be. And so eventually, I entered seminary , where I assumed everyone had a similar experience to me. Where going to Roscoe's and Sidetrack, and you know, Scarlet, like you just always went to those places.
So Kelsey is a Long Island native currently living and learning and Philadelphia. She's just completed her second year of study at the Lutheran Theological Seminary and will be moving to Santa Monica, California, in August for a year-long internship. She describes herself as unapologetically queer, black, and Lutheran.
I'd actually met his wife Eden once, a number of years before. But Brad spends a good chunk of his year in London because he's a seminary professor at a seminary in London. And so he and I had always been passing but hadn't met.
But I went-- my mother, who recently passed-- I'd go visit her a lot. And every year, he would get an application form from the Jewish Theological Seminary to be a rabbi.
perspective so um if that's true I hope it is true I I don't think I could write or say the things I do if I had just depended upon what i' learned in seminary or learned in textbooks and I bet a lot of you would say that in your field too uh and that's what's happening now
or Hebrew. You are not going to ever see my Greek grades from that year in seminary .
Centurion, the organization I work with, who worked to free Richard, is the first innocence organization in the world. And it was started in 1980, with a man named Jim McCloskey, who happened to listen, as part of his seminary work, listen to an inmate tell him that he was actually innocent.
Church in Douglas, Georgia. And then to his right, your left, Reverend Annanda Barclay is a former theological education ministry fellow at Austin Theological Seminary , where she received her Master of Divinity degree.
And we found a spiritual home together at Congregation Hatorah here in New York City. And through my years in rabbinical school, I was very active with a group of other students who are also I would say at best semi-closeted at the seminary . We had many advocates among our peers, and some of the faculty was very supportive.
And it's like John 3:16-- what about first John 3:16? I mean, it was Francis's heart to-- the whole idea was we had these guys that are coming out of prisons and they can't afford to go to seminary .
And then I got to seminary and that was not the case at all. But I did introduce a lot of seminarians to Boystown. I will say that.