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Celebrating Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell: Our 2025 Distinguished Graduate Award Winner!
We are thrilled and incredibly proud to announce that Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, Class of 2020, has been selected as our 2025 Distinguished Graduate Award Winner! The entire Saint Paul community celebrates this well-deserved recognition of Ben’s extraordinary ministry and his profound impact on the world. Meet Ben: Changemaker, Leader, Saint Paul Alum Ben Boswell…
Read MoreShahan to Assist with SPST Community Engagement in Oklahoma
Saint Paul School of Theology is pleased to announce the appointment of Rev. Adam Shahan ’16, Senior Pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, as the new coordinator for External Relations in the Oklahoma Region. In this part-time capacity, Rev. Shahan will play a vital part in representing Saint Paul within the community.…
Read MoreDeparture of Rev. Dr. Tiffany Nagel Monroe ’12
Dear Seminary Community, With a blend of emotions, we announce that our esteemed alumna, Rev. Dr. Tiffany Nagel Monroe ’12, is transitioning from her role as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Campus and Associate Director of Contextual Field Education at Saint Paul School of Theology. Dr. Nagel Monroe will embark on a new ministry…
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path·find·er /ˈpaTHˌfīndər/ Noun. A person who goes ahead and discovers or shows others a path or way. The definition is simple enough, but the work is complex. Pathfinding requires listening, connecting, and discerning skills and is not a job one does but instead is a gift one has. Rev. Shannon Hancock’s title is Director of…
Read MoreRev. Dr. Lois V. Glory-Neal Receives Distinguished Graduate Award
Saint Paul School of Theology is pleased to announce that Rev. Dr. Lois V. Glory-Neal is the winner of the 2020 Distinguished Graduate Award. Born in the Cherokee Nation, Rev. Dr. Glory-Neal was the first Native American woman to be received into full connection as an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. She became…
Read MoreChaplaincy in the Time of COVID-19
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and other health care facilities have become the front lines, and we have honored and celebrated our health care workers serving our nation’s most vulnerable populations. For the church, the role of chaplain has also been elevated, particularly as most buildings have been shuttered in favor of social-distanced worship and…
Read MoreWhat Is There to Prevent Me? by alumna Rev. Colleen Riley
What is there to prevent me? One’s narrative identity Acts Ch., 8:27-37 Ethiopian Eunuch Recently I read about a concept called narrative identity as it was described by Dan McAdams, Personality Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. McAdam’s premise is that we use autobiographical narrative to find meaning using our own lived history. …
Read MoreAlum Rev. Dr. Lois Glory-Neal: A Story of Boldness
by Alumni Director Dr. Melissa Pearce As I sat across from Rev. Dr. Lois Glory-Neal listening to her story, her earrings caught my eye. They were stunning Native American hand-beaded artistry in the shape of a cross. The colors were vibrant orange, red, yellow, and blue, and the chevron pattern sharp. Each bead had been…
Read MoreSolidarity In Practice by alum Rev. Dr. Nagel Monroe
Our lives have changed. Changed by pandemic, changed by death, changed by necessity, changed by social distancing. We will not be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic. We simply cannot be. We will have lived through a global trauma and we will have done it communally. We will have stretched ourselves beyond our routines, our…
Read MoreThe Miracle of Jesus’ Resurrection by alum Rev. Speece
“When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll…
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