09/14/2025
✨ We’re back! ✨
Our Lifelong Learning program is here to inspire, inform, and connect. From thought-provoking blogs to practical workshops, we’ll be sharing resources to keep you learning at every stage of life.
This fall, we invite you to fall in love with learning again. 🍂💡
Follow along — your next opportunity to grow might be just a post away! 🌿📚
12/14/2023
Did you miss any of our Cultivating Ideas webinars this fall semester? Well, you're in luck! You can listen to all of them right now on our website. To get caught up on every thought-provoking topic, click the link: https://austinseminarydigital.org/collections/show/82
Our series resumes on February 15 with Dr. Rodney Caruthers and his session titled, "The Kingdom in Parables."
12/08/2023
Austin Seminary invites you to their annual MidWinter Lectures on January 22-24. This year’s Westervelt Lecturer, Dr. Cheryl Bear, raises awareness of Indigenous worldview, culture, and spirituality so that when the next Indigenous person is in your periphery, you will have an entirely new way of being with them. Her lecture is titled: “Indigenous Spirituality: A Way of Being and the Contextualization of the Gospel.” Click the link to sign up and share this post with someone today: www.austinseminary.edu/midwinters
12/07/2023
It is our last Cultivating Ideas webinar for the semester! Join us for Academic Dean Margaret Aymer's presentation titled: "Who Was the Ethiopian Eu**ch?" Dr. Aymer takes us through the story of the eu**ch as a story of exile, slavery, homecoming, and the witness of the early church. Take a lunch break from your Reading Week studies or year-end duties to join us today at noon! Register for this FREE event here: https://www.austinseminary.edu/lifelong-learning/upcoming/cultivating-ideas
12/05/2023
Director of Latino/a Programs Mónica Tornoé's book, Doki: The Immigrant Dog, is featured in December's issue of Austin Family Magazine. According to the review, " The book will be a beautiful way to enter into conversation with children
about the immigrant families in our Austin community and how they can be welcomed." Click here to see the magazine: https://austinfamily.com/mags/2023-12/PDF.pdf. To learn more about the book: https://www.theundocumentedstories.org/product-page/doki-the-immigrant-dog
11/29/2023
Join us on Thursday, November 30, at noon for our next episode in the Cultivating Ideas webinar series featuring Dr. Ángel Gallardo and his presentation: "Planting Seeds in Blood-Stained Soil: The Legacy of Early Baptist Missions in the Borderlands." Dr. Gallardo draws on new research to show how early baptist missions form part of a colonial legacy marked by racial violence and territorial dispossession. 👉🏽 Register for FREE here: https://www.austinseminary.edu/lifelong-learning/upcoming/cultivating-ideas
11/06/2023
Let's do lunch! Join us from noon to 1 p.m. for our latest Conversations in Wellbeing webinar. Today, Rev. Drs. Phil Helsel and Leanna Fuller discuss concrete practices and leadership skills to constructively engage differences in your church. Click the link to register before 11:30 a.m., and we'll see you there: https://www.austinseminary.edu/lifelong-learning/upcoming/conversations-in-wellbeing
11/02/2023
There's still time ⏰ to join us today, at noon, for our next Cultivating Ideas webinar with Rev. Dr. Sarah Allen and Melissa Wiginton. They will discuss “Naming What Matters in Faith and Formation,” exploring how we can create ministries that support the needs of our particular congregations and form faithful disciples.
👉🏽The webinar is free. Click the link to sign up before 11:30 a.m. We'll see you there. https://www.austinseminary.edu/lifelong-learning/upcoming/cultivating-ideas