Are you…

• leading a faith community that works for the good of your city and the most vulnerable?
• looking for ways of mobilizing your leadership team to love and serve in a volatile, polarizing and increasingly chaotic world?
• ready to undergo a God in whom there is no violence and explore what it means to be human in light of that, while building communities of human flourishing?

Do you want to…

• practice doing theology from below, and create cities of peace for all people?
• engage these questions with diverse leaders from cities around the world, who are hungry for a faith that works?

If so, the Street Psalms Seminary is for you.

About the Street Psalms Seminary

The Street Psalms Seminary provides ongoing formation for the Ordained, those seeking ordination, and those who want to be formed alongside our community for work in their local context. We host a variety of rhythms and formational experiences that are open to all who wish to participate. 

We function as an Order with a Seminary and a Design Studio that serves a Global Network. Our goal is to free leaders from all walks of life to love their city and seek its peace, inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Since our founding in 1999, we have done the work of formation alongside thousands of global leaders.

Unlike most seminaries that offer a wide range of courses in various disciplines, the Street Psalms Seminary has a singular focus. We exist to cultivate Incarnational Leadership for the sake of the city and the most vulnerable as modeled by Jesus. Our dream is to see cities of peace for all people where everyone belongs. Everything we do at the seminary is geared to facilitate this vision. We don’t just study the Incarnation, we undergo it, together. We accompany leaders in their efforts to apply this vision to their work and nurture the kind of community who can embody this vision in its local context. 

The conversation we are curating is rigorous, demanding and relentlessly practical. And while familiarity with Scripture and your own faith tradition is an important foundation, you don’t need to have a degree in theology to engage. The content is designed to be accessible to leaders who have enough personal and professional mileage and real life experience to draw from. Above all, this is designed for leaders who are curious about the possibility of a God in whom there is no violence, who is in rivalry with nothing, not even death, and what it means to be human in light of this.

Our campus is dispersed in cities around the world, through a diverse network of partners. The city is our classroom, parish and playground. Our apprenticeship model inducts leaders. Our framework asks questions. We are joyfully unaccredited.

Regardless of how you show up, you are welcome to participate in the workshops and other offerings at no cost  – though we encourage all participants to make a free will offering, which pays this gift forward for others and keeps our formation accessible to underserved leaders. 

What to Expect

We have a singular focus on cultivating Incarnational Leadership for the sake of the city and the most vulnerable as modeled by Jesus. Our dream is to see cities of peace for all people where everyone belongs. Everything we do at the seminary is geared to facilitate this vision. We offer one primary text, and a host of resources that support the content. 

The content can be completed in as little as a year, but the kind of conversation we have in mind gets worked out in community, over time, and always in context. And here we pause to mention what is perhaps the most important feature of our formational process. It is designed for those who are embedded within a local community where they can work out the implications of the conversation over the long haul. The seminary exists to jump start a conversation with your leadership team who will become your primary learning community. 

To provide ongoing support for contextualizing the conversation, Street Psalms hosts workshops alongside a set of rhythms and practices. These additional resources allow you to engage the broader Street Psalms community while remaining rooted in your local context. Whether you are a novitiate discerning ordination, a leader engaged in one of our fellowships, or a friend of the community wanting to be formed alongside us, we encourage you to take advantage of these resources. For example, we offer daily prayer, weekly lectionary resources and a monthly Commons service hosted by the ordained members of the community.