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This is not hyperbole: Seabury's DMin program transforms lives, strengthens ministries, and leads students to ask, "Why didn't I do this earlier?"

Seabury's community organizing course always gets high marks from students in the seminary's DMin in Congregational Development track. Stephen Applegate, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Granville, Ohio, says the reason is simple.

"This is one of the best courses in the entire sequence," said Applegate.

Leaders from across the church learned that it takes two to tango during a one-week leadership program offered by Seabury Western Theological Seminary in partnership with the Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management at Northwestern University.



 

Manuel Padilla doesn't care much for titles, even though he is listed as the deployment officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan. The outward manifestations of ordained ministry are not what matter to him.

Anyone who remembers Robert Preston’s portrayal of con man Harold Hill in The Music Man can be forgiven for casting a wary eye at the Rev. Randolph Charles. He may be a priest, but something about the phrase “Music Story Method” suggests we’ve got trouble, right here in River City.

Susan Harlow, Seabury Western Seminary’s director of congregational development, understands congregational life from the ground up—or at least from the floor boards.

What does Seabury's DMin program mean to you personally? We explored that question with the Rt. Rev. Diane Jardine Bruce, suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles.