Youth Ministry with Neurodiversity in Mind.

OMSC@PTS’s new digital curriculum seeks to train a new generation of OMSC global partners to better observe and share how God is at work in their particular social and cultural contexts. Enrollment by application only.

The Certificate in Youth and Theology is an eight-month, fully digital, cohort-based program where you gain expertise from Princeton Theological Seminary faculty and leaders, in addition to our extensive network of scholars and practitioners.

This certificate program is only offered by application made through the Institute for Youth Ministry. To learn more, visit iym.ptsem.edu/programs.

Join the Institute for Youth Ministry as they partner with Rē: The Regenerative School to launch a conversation about engaging young people across the USA to research and create solutions aimed at rebuilding trust and social cohesion in their communities. 

This moderated panel discussion will provide information and insights for chaplains, clergy, and religious leaders to understand how their role as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team can assist patients with medical decision-making and advance care planning.

Explore what it is to be ONE, as Jesus prayed, and to lead Christians in the Divided States of America. Learn new approaches to preaching, praying, pastoring, and leading in the divided congregations God has given us.

See how the desire for being a “good Christian” in Latinx communities merges with libertarian notions of American citizenship providing a glimpse into the near future of Latinx populations and the future of American politics. Third in the HTI 25th Anniversary Series.

Using the imagery of the Zapatista's reinterpretation of a cosmogonic myth "La Noche... la noche es nuestra," at the periphery of theological academic discourses, this presentation “apalabra” - rephrases – the present social challenges and provides suggestions to center the Hispanic theological thinking, stories and experiences to remap the theological horizon. Second in the HTI 25th Anniversary Series.

As theological education faces significant change in a time of racial, political, and public health pandemics, the complexities of the stories and perspectives of Latinx communities hold great promise as we imagine what vocation, study, and formation might look like in an uncertain future. First in the HTI 25th Anniversary Series.

Learn how seminaries in the service of liberation theologies can create programs of carceral education that intentionally mitigate the collateral consequences of incarceration. Second in the Theological Education in Prisons Series.

This presentation examines the role academic theology programs in jails and prisons may play in the work of resisting the carceral system. Hear Dr. Jennifer McBride examine the role Christian education has played historically and today to bolster the prison, while outlining four characteristics of programs that are in the service of liberation. First in the Theological Education in Prisons Series

Teaching theology in prison is a small step in reorienting incarcerated students, and those who oversee them, to expand the horizon of care to include everything and everyone. Hear Dr. Andrew Stotnicki discuss addressing this goal with a pedagogical focus utilizing the concepts of conversion and prophecy. Third in the Theological Education in Prisons Series.

Explore the theological dimensions of the generative space experienced by both teachers and students in theological education in prison. Listen as presenters Dr. Elizabeth Bounds, Dr. Sarah Farmer, and Dr. Rachelle Renee Green use biblical stories as the lens through which to name ways theological education in prison challenges not only assumptions about “prisoners,” but also assumptions about the nature and purposes of theological work. Fourth in the Theological Education in Prisons Series.

Listen to these preachers in a conversation held the day after the 2021 presidential inauguration about faithful preaching in the purple church.

Join us to examine how clergy are leading on the front lines during these challenging times in 2020. Hear the Rev. Damaris Whittaker examine this moment in ministry, and consider what it means to be “the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”

Take part in seeking how to be strong and supportive in ministry while considering our own questions and vulnerabilities. Join Dr. Victor Aloyo as he examines how to claim our fears, share our joys, and experience the depth of both our humanity and spirituality.

This lecture reflects on the tragic impact of the pandemic in Brazil and the role of religion in the devastation, particularly among the most vulnerable populations. Listen as Dr. Raimundo César Barreto Jr. highlights the role of religion in the construction of the structural injustices amplified by the pandemic, and underscores relevant religious responses which have helped build resilience and resistance amid the suffering caused by the current crisis.

Followed by a panel discussion, Dr. Peter Mena, winner of the 2020 HTI Book Prize, presented his award-winning book, Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt – Desert as Borderland, which explores descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. 

Bishop Walter Hawkins’ gospel song “Thank you, Lord” (1989) provides an opportunity for us to reflect on the ways in which our worship leadership must be both artful and just. Taking into account the current sociopolitical climate, believers and seekers need music that equips them to face structural issues in everyday life.

How ought our worship of the Creator compel responsibility to creation? Is there an integral connection between piety, preaching, and Black protest? What constitutes worship in a pandemic? This webinar will interrogate these critical questions, among others, toward consideration of prophetic worship and the contemporary crisis.

This webinar will explore the impact of preaching and worship on personal and social transformation. It also will offer perspectives for constructing a more effective public ministry of healing and justice.