The Pastoral Care Committee is actively engaged in both traditional and innovative methods for addressing the pastoral needs of the entire seminary community.

The Pastoral Care Committee supports the life of the seminary through a multi-leveled approach that is holistic by addressing the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of the community. This committee unites the community through common prayer requests of students, faculty, and staff that brings awareness of the concerns of the community while offering emotional support.

This committee recognizes the connection between physical wellbeing and spiritual health and encourages student-led initiatives that attend to the overall health of the entire seminary community. The Pastoral Care Committee is actively engaged in both traditional and innovative methods for addressing the pastoral needs of the entire seminary community.

Seminary Community Prayer List 

The Pastoral Care Committee distributes a prayer list to the Seminary Community. Anyone in the community may email the names and concerns of those needing prayers, and the list is updated and mailed out each Sunday evening.  The names of those on the community prayer list are included in our Morning Prayer service each day.  

Cards 

The Pastoral Care Committee has a ministry of writing notes to seminarians and families as important events happen.  The Committee also offers blank cards for the community to write notes to one another.  This simple ministry provides another opportunity for the community to show care, provide encouragement to one another, and to acknowledge celebrations such as birthdays, anniversaries, ordinations.   

Community Thanksgiving Pot-luck

Pastoral Care sponsors a community Thanksgiving dinner each year for those families who stay on the mountain.  The committee provides the turkey and gravy in Hamilton Hall Refectory.  All attending are encouraged to bring their traditional favorite dishes to share with the seminary.   

FINAL EXAM DE-STRESSORS

Final Exam time can be hard, especially for those in their first year.  Pastoral care sponsors breakfasts on the first day of final exams to help shake some nerves one feels going into a final test.  The time together after chapel is a time for students, faculty, and staff to come together to share in the waning days of the semester. 

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.

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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.

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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