Join us for this annual homecoming tradition! Seminary of the Southwest and the Southwest Alumni Association are honored to welcome Ray Suarez as the featured speaker for the 2018 Blandy Lectures and Alumni Convocation and Homecoming. On the heels of the 2018 midterm elections, award winning journalist and host Suarez will be our featured speaker […]

  Every year in November, students from Seminary of the Southwest face students from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in a friendly game of flag football known as the Polity Bowl. Join us on Saturday, November 10, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (1112 W. 31st St.) this year as the mighty ThuriBulls of Southwest hope to […]

The Monday Connection Welcomes Charles Duke Monday, January 14, 2019  |  11:15 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Weeks Campus Center Seminary of the Southwest  |  501 E. 32nd St., Austin, TX 78705 Astronaut Charles Duke is the son of the late Charles M. and Willie Waters Duke, Sr., of Lancaster, South Carolina. He married Dorothy Meade Claiborne, daughter […]

  A February tradition at Seminary of the Southwest, this year's Black History Month events focus on the theme "400 Years Later: The Enduring Legacy of Slavery in America." You are invited to join us as we honor the legacy of African Americans in the U.S. and confront the future of race in the country […]

2019 Payne Lecture featuring Bishop Claude Payne with A Celebration of the Ministry of Bishop Dena Harrison   A special night of remembrances, reflections, and special guests   Tuesday, February 5, 2019  |  6:30 p.m. Knapp Auditorium, Seminary of the Southwest 501 E. 32nd St. Austin, TX 78705 Festive reception in the Weeks Center to […]

Submissions to the 2019 Soul by Southwest: A Journal of Words and Images will be accepted through February 10. We publish poetry, short fiction, essays, photographs, and other works of visual art that surprise, delight, question, and reveal. This year, we also seek submissions that inspire readers to act – to resist cynicism and persist […]