Earlham School of Religion

"The School of Religion, a long-time dream of some Friends, was opened on an experimental basis by Earlham College in the autumn of 1960. After a two-year period during which only the M.A. in Religion was offered, the Board of Trustees authorized the expansion of the program to include a three-year Bachelor of Divinity degree. The latter is now called either the Master of Ministry degree, a preferred nomenclature by many Quakers, or the Master of Divinity degree, preferred by some who wish the nomenclature to correspond to that of other seminaries." "As a Christian seminary in the Quaker tradition, ESR exists to educate and equip women and men for leadership in public ministry, providing a learning environment in which students can continue to discern and develop their calls to ministry."

Trustees

Accessed May 2010:

• Lavona Bane, Deborah Miller Hull, Sara Jane Kellum Ryan, Louise Beede, John W. Loose, John Scarlett, Douglas C. Bennett, Fredrick McClure, Marion Shore, Robert J. Bresler, David Matthews, Penny Sitler, Daniel Wayne Carter, Morris Mills, David Stump, Barbara Risen Gottschalk, Raymond Ontko, Brent D. Taylor, Diana Hadley, Vaughn Peebles, Catherine Melinda Tinsley, Peggy Ann Hollingsworth, Karen Lowry Reed, John G. Young

Honorary Lifetime Trustees

• C. Robert Bell, Thomas A. Gottschalk, P. Gerald Mills, Mary Birenbaum, Eugene Mills, Mark Myers, Landrum R. Bolling, Howard Mills, Gwendolyn Weaver

Advisory Board

Accessed May 2010:

• Mary Ann Downey, Brent McKinney, Sara Jane Ryan, Alice Gilbert, Betsy Meyer, Sue Settlage, David Hadley, John Norris (IN), Marty Smith, Jack Kirk, Diane Randall, Thomas Taylor, Susan Kirkpatrick, Norval Reece, Patricia Thomas, Howard Macy, Joseph Roher, Clarice Warrick, Keith Mardock

Contact

URL: http://www.esr.earlham.edu