What Is Seminary of the Street?
Seminary of the Street
is a school for the training of love warriors working toward the transformation of their communities by embodying God’s
love in the world.
Students cultivate the resilience, the unsentimental awareness of oppressive
systems, the skills, and the deep and sustaining relationships to respond to injustice with steadfast love and creativity.
Exposed to theological concepts that challenge conventional ways of living, they are encouraged to cultivate an alternative
way of being rooted in nonmarket practices like love, generosity, tenderness, and wonder, a way of being so compelling that
it challenges the legitimacy of dominant social systems.
Breaking News!
- We continue to be active in organizing for justice for Oscar Grant's family
and for an end to police brutality. Click here for an article about our analysis of the situation and here for details on what we've been doing.
- We're starting a new "Alternatives
to Gentrification" series in September. Click here for details.
- Rev. Lynice Pinkard has joined Seminary of the Street as Director of Spiritual
Community. Lynice has dedicated her life to fostering solidarity by teasing out the interconnectedness of forms of suffering
and injustice. Interested in the intersections between spiritual healing and organizing, Rev. Pinkard has worked extensively
with families of victims of gun violence and other forms of trauma, with gay and lesbian people of color, and with people
living with HIV/AIDS. She will be helping us build an intercultural community committed to healing from and resistance to
systems of domination and oppression-something she calls "empire affective disorder"--in West Oakland
