Seek and serve Christ in all persons.

This committee plans, coordinates, and executes service events through which members of the seminary community can witness to and live out their call to proclaim the Good News and to share their resources of time, money, and talent with persons in need. Projects are in response to local, national, and international communities. Some of our work includes:

Christmas on the Mountain

The School of Theology collects donations and toys for underprivileged children on the Cumberland Plateau.

Kiva Loans

Working with Kiva.org, the committee lends money to women entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia.

Taste of Africa

Each year the committee sponsors a lunch consisting of African food. Donations go to seminaries in Africa to purchase books and bicycles for seminary students.

Good Samaritan Ministries, Community Action Coalition

Collections of food are given to local food pantries in the spring and seminarians volunteer to sort and distribute the food.

Tutu Desks

Raising awareness around global educational needs, the committee collects donations and purchases Tutu desks for schools in Africa. 

Live Together In Unity

Commitment to Diversity

What does it mean to be the University of the South? The answer to that question changes from one generation to the next and from one individual to the next. Being “of the South” means that we are both the beneficiaries and the critics of a rich tradition. While we are deeply invested in this region, we also engage with other communities, locally and globally. Diversity and variety—of the South and of the world—inform and underpin our institution, and all our community’s citizens must confront this question on some level.

Read Our Commitment to Diversity
Inclusive Language Policy

Language matters. It shapes our sense of reality and is therefore crucial for our understanding of God and others. Through language we forge and maintain our relationships with God and one another.

Read Our Policy
The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South is a six-year initiative investigating the university’s historical entanglements with slavery and slavery’s legacies. Our Project’s name memorializes the late Professor of History, Houston Bryan Roberson, who was the first tenured African American faculty member at Sewanee and the first to make African American history and culture the focus of their teaching and scholarship.

About the Project