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This year’s Black History Month at Southwest was filled with joy, dancing, reflection, and community. Nine events were spread across
5pm: Worship in Christ Chapel, featuring Rev. Dr. James Wesley Dennis, III, preaching, and a guest gospel choir, Praise Team
Most services and lectures will be live-streamed, please click here to view the live-streams. Black History Month Opening Worship Thursday,
Last summer, the Rev. Valerie Mayo arrived at Seminary of the Southwest as the inaugural Director of Beloved Community Initiatives
Weeks Center In support of the 2023 Black History Month theme, “Black Resistance,” join us for our 2023 BHM Keynote
Christ Chapel Join the Southwest community for this celebration of Black Saints, with Preacher, the Very Rev. Kim L. Coleman.
Black History Month Kickoff Dinner and Keynote with the Very Rev. Kim Coleman Friday, February 3, 2023 | 6:00pm Weeks
Thursday, February 3 Black History Month Service of Evening Prayer 5:30 p.m. | Zoom The service will feature worship leader
The Black History Month planning committee recently announced the that the keynote speaker for Black History Month at Seminary of
A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest, this year’s Black History Month starts with a celebration worship service. Thursday,
A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest, this year’s Black History Month events focus on the theme “Our Legacy
February is Black History Month, and Seminary of the Southwest celebrated by “Tracing Our Roots,” honoring the legacy of African
The Booher Library on the campus of Seminary of the Southwest has several resources available to students, faculty, and staff,
On February 11th, before a crowded Knapp Auditorium, the Rev. Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Ph.D., delivered the 2020 keynote address for Black
A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest, this year’s Black History Month events focus on the theme “Tracing
A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest, this year’s Black History Month continues with a keynote lecture.
As is tradition, the Seminary of the Southwest community came together over the month of February for several celebratory and
A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest, this year’s Black History Month events focus on the theme “400
Black History Month 2018: Where do we go from here? Each February, Seminary of the Southwest pauses to reflect on
‘The events of Black History Month have led us further into the mystery of baptism.’ In what has quickly become
Pastor Larry Terrell Crudup, assistant pastor of Sweet Home Baptist Church in Round Rock will preach in Christ Chapel. Featuring
Black History Month Events at Seminary of the Southwest Southwest Community Discussion on the Netflix Original “13th” Friday, February 3rd – 7:00pm
“Moving Forward: Race in the New Millennium” Week 1 – Opening keynote and discussion with Heidi J. Kim, Missioner for Racial Reconciliation,
Last week the African American Presidents and Deans of Theological Schools in the United States posted “An Open Letter to Presidents and Deans of Theological Schools in the United States” in the Huffington Post. In it they wrote,
We invite our colleagues—presidents, deans and leaders of all divinity and theological schools—to arise from the embers of silence and speak up and speak out as the prophet of old, ‘let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream’ (Amos 5:24). We encourage you to endorse this statement by responding in your own particular context to our theological call to action with curricular programs, public forums, teach-ins, calls to your congressional leaders, writing op-ed pieces, and more.
In the well-known biblical passage quoted above, Amos reminded the people of Israel, and reminds us, that there is no status that places one above the demands of justice. Amos challenged Israel’s belief that divine election allowed them an assurance of divine favor over against their sinful, pagan neighbors who were going to feel God’s wrath on the “day of the Lord.”
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander was the focus of a community-wide conversation on February 2, 2015, the first event in the seminary's observance of Black History Month.
The events during Black History Month at Southwest celebrated the leadership of and gifts from African Americans in our community and beyond.
A reception and show featuring local artists Chesiel Johns, John Langmore, Arline Polite, Naomi Richard, Jannifer Gleaspies Williams and Larry Williams kicked off the series. Guests were treated to conversation with the artists and the beautiful music provided by violinist Ms. Robin Burwell from the Austin Symphony.
James 2:1-9 Who Is My Neighbor?
“But I was her slave and I suppose she did not recognize me as her neighbor.”
Let us pray. O Holy One, may only your words be spoken, may only your words be heard. Amen.
You are invited to attend the events that Seminary of the Southwest will host during Black History Month.
A celebration Eucharist with guest musicians and alumna Freda Marie Brown preaching will wrap up the seminary’s Black History Month
Seminary of the Southwest welcomes Heidi J. Kim, Missioner for Racial Reconciliation, The Episcopal Church, for the opening keynote and discussion for
Black History Month: February 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander will be the focus of a community-wide conversation on February 2, 2015, the first event in the seminary's observance of Black History Month.
Mrs. Ora Houston is a member of St. James Episcopal Church, Austin, serves on the Black History Month planning committee at Seminary of the Southwest, and is president of the Myra McDaniel Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians.
WOW! Can you really believe that 50 years ago the federal government had to enact laws to give equal rights to people who were born in the United States of America? These are the same rights that another group of Americans have had since the signing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Sadly, others were denied those basic rights because of their ancestry – until 50 years ago.
In preparation for celebrating Black History Month in February and 50 years of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Seminary of the Southwest showed a live webcast, "Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America," presented by The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mississippi . Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori delivered the keynote address and Ray Suarez moderated the event.
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, Dr. Donyelle McCray visited Southwest as the Payne lecturer. Dr. McCray is the Associate Professor
2024 Black History Month Keynote Address by Dr. Renita Weems Knapp Auditorium Please join us for the BHM Keynote Address
Seminary of the Southwest’s counseling program was recently announced as a recipient of the Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ) Outstanding
On March 6, 2023, at the midday Eucharist and assembly, the Faculty of Seminary of the Southwest presented the Very
POSITION: Director of Beloved Community Initiatives DEPARTMENT: Instruction SUPERVISOR: Dean and President FLSA STATUS: Exempt – Administrative DATE of DRAFT:
The Board of Trustees of Seminary of the Southwest hosted the 2021 Payne Lecture with Civil Rights Era icon Ruby Sales. Sales –
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 | 6:00 p.m. CST | Virtual Co-Presented by St. James’ Episcopal Church The Board of Trustees
Find full-length services below. To find links to individual sermons, click here. April 10, 2024 Wednesday Chapel April 9, 2024
Dear Members of the Seminary Community, Grace and peace to you in mid-summer. I hope you are able to find
As this Lenten season begins, instead of fretting over what my Lenten discipline might be, I find myself ruminating over and over again – wilderness. Translated from the Greek ἔρημος, meaning “desert” or “desolate place,” wilderness conjures images of longing, death, and exhaustion. I wonder about the wilderness the Hebrews pass through in their […]
The Seminary of the Southwest Black History Month planning committee invites you to a special community screening of James
A binky balanced on a retaining wall. A mitten fastened to a fence post. A hairband hooked on a cedar
Dr. Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of world religions and world church at the University of Notre Dame and author and
A few weeks ago, I sat on my living room couch on a Saturday afternoon reading Reconciling All Things: A
Rev. Freda Marie Brown preached this sermon at our community Eucharist celebrating Black History Month. The gospel was read by
111Black History Month: February 2015 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander will
On May 25, Minneapolis resident George Floyd, in handcuffs, was pinned facedown on the ground by a white police officer
In late April, Southwest put out the call for the global Southwest community to send messages of support to seminarians
On my first trip to the southwest with the woman who would become my wife, I took in the arid
Psalm 61, 62, 112, 115 • Zephaniah 3:14-20 • Luke 1:1-25 Luke 1 asks us to suspend reality and embrace
Dr. Scott Bader-Saye, Academic Dean and Helen and the Everett H. Jones Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology at
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