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Honor your spiritual predecessors with a gift in their memory.
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Austin Seminary has received a grant of $999,453 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish Houses of Hope, a new program designed to serve small town and rural congregations.
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about Austin Seminary welcomes new class to campus and online
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Once a month we're opening a virtual space for you to meet with the Admissions team.
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about New grants to promote social justice research
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about Spring 2020 Windows
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Check out resources from our faculty and others to help you in these times.
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Introducing the new podcast from the Austin Seminary faculty
Featured Faculty
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Eric Wall
What have you learned about yourself as a teacher during the Covid-19 crisis? In helping prepare online worship, I’ve learned some things about technology and how difficult it can be, at times, for an online meeting platform to be expressive and poetic; but I’ve also learned fresh things about paying attention to a given medium and allowing it to reveal what it’s capable of.
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Bridgett Green
What have you learned while teaching during the Covid-19 crisis? In transitioning to digital learning, I have to transition my pedagogy to help students learn under highly stressful and chaotic conditions.
What do you look forward to once we’re back on campus? Worship in Shelton Chapel is a sacred space, so I look forward to worshipping there with the Seminary community.
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Phil Helsel
How do you recharge after a day full of online interaction? Playing Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Switch with my entire family (I tend to be Luigi).
What do you look forward to once we’re back on campus? Catching up on those invitations to conversation and engagement, sometimes lunches and coffees, that I postponed because I thought I was too busy.