Our Mission

From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

Our vision is constantly to be attentive to the calling of Jesus Christ today, maintaining integrity with our past while ever listening and reaching out to a changing church and world. In pursuitofthis vision, we area mission-driven school, a hybrid institution that embodies outstanding pedagogy, research, and leadership in service to the church.Our vision is to be a community of hospitality, dynamism, learning, transformation and faithfulness.

How, as an institution with commitment to the church, financial stability, academic freedom, enormous resources and highly qualified faculty, may we respond? What is our distinctive MISSION in the first two decades of thethird millennium?

The heart of our mission remains that of theological learning and education, honoring diversity and unafraid of change, for the service of God, in this place and time, using the gifts which have been given us, to prepare women and men for leadership worldwide in congregations and in the larger church, in classrooms and in the academy, at the local level and in the public arena.

     • Curriculum: Mission as an educational endeavor
     • Governance: Mission as a collective endeavor
     • Collaborations: Mission as an interactive endeavor

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