Enhance Your Urban Ministry
Designed to enhance the practice of ministry in urban multicultural settings
BST’s newly revised Competency Based Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program puts the student in the driver’s seat. Doctoral students, working with expert faculty mentors, will customize their programs to gain credit for life experience while developing a variety of pedagogical methods to achieve mastery of core required competencies. Through BST’s DMin program students will have access to the rich academic resources of the Graduate Theological Union and UC Berkeley.
Mentors and Partners
Each student in the newly revised Competency Based Doctor of Ministry program will journey alongside a thematic cohort with several DMin students and three mentors
A student’s mentor team can be geographically centered or spread across the globe. The remote realities of the new normal in our world create numerous possibilities.
From Anyplace At Any Time
Each student will select one of the seven themes to emphasize and build his/her mentor team accordingly
Culturally Responsive Themes
Achieving Mastery
Students will be required to demonstrate achievement of learning outcomes through a variety of assigned tasks that have been customized to their experience and ministry context.
One of the Most Interculturally Diverse Seminaries in the Country
Since our founding 150 years ago, the core values of soul freedom, service leadership, social justice, public witness, religious liberty, and the centrality of the Word (written and spoken) still guide and sustain BST to this day. These Jesus-centered values, rooted in our inclusive inter-cultural heritage, have made BST an attractive school for students of many faith and denominational affiliations.
Here you will truly enter a spiritual “world-house” of teaching and learning, with a world-class faculty and students from every habitable continent on earth.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Two five-day core intensives—orientation & updates on Bible and Theology
- Small cohort-based thematic mentor sessions
Year 2
- One five-day intensive on “Writing the Dissertation"
- Small cohort-based writing workshops
Year 3
- Fine tuning the dissertation (cohort mentor meetings as needed)
- Oral Defense
- Graduation
Qualifications
- Master of Divinity or equivalent from accredited seminary or university
Contact Us
(510) 841-1905
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Berkeley, CA 94704
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Seven Cohort Themes
These seven thematic categories address some of the most significant social and cultural shifts experienced by congregations and other faith-based organizations in the West. Each theme is supported by a team of faculty mentors.
Racism/Prison Renewal/Reparations
This theme will address the following topics of concern to historically Black and Latino congregations: racism, reparations, police violence, prison, returning citizens, recidivism, ICE detention, and deportation.
Dr. Aidsand Wright-Riggins, Dr. Ronald Burris
Greening the Church/Urban Gardens
BST partners with Green the Church, a national African American environmental advocacy ministry, to engage with churches in Bay Area communities on environmental and food security concerns.
Dr. Ambrose Carroll, Dr. James Brenneman
Pastoral Care for Immigrant Churches
The Bay Area is also known for its immigrant populations. We work with numerous immigrant churches that focus on assisting their congregants in settling into their new home.
Dr. Marie Onwubuariri, Dr. LeAnn Snow Flesher
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Preaching Social Justice
Our congregations are concerned about and relate to nearly every social justice issue raised today. We work with select congregations for whom the tradition of preaching is vital for educating and motivating for social justice.
Dr. Jacqueline Thompson, Dr. Sangyil Park
Spiritual Formation (Korean Language)
In our work with the Korean community we have become aware of the heightened interest in Spirituality and Spiritual Formation. We will address this thematic emphasis in the Korean language.
Dr. Daesop Yi, Dr. Sangyil Park
Ministerial Training for Latinx Churches
Leaders of the Latino churches in the Bay Area are theologically untrained and the congregants, many of them immigrants, have low levels of education. In addition to our BA-Equivalency program in Spanish, we help congregations to thrive in ministerial and congregation-wide education, also in Spanish.
Dr. Pedro Pablo Morataya, Dr. LeAnn Snow Flesher
Womanist/Feminist Gospel
Students enrolled in this theme will be equipped to engage in robust interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of issues facing communities of faith as they are shaped by gender, class, race, and other social forces.
Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble, Dr. Jennifer Davidson
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
My theological training at Berkeley School of Theology helped set a moral framework around economic and racial justice that will ensure no worker, family or community is left behind.
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MINISTER CHERRI MURPHY
DMin Candidate and Faith Rooted Organizer, Economic Justice for Black Oakland
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Graduate Theological Union • 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709
510-826-4488 • admissions@gtu.edu
Graduate Theological Union
2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709
510-826-4488 • admissions@gtu.edu
Graduate Theological Union • 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709
510-826-4488 • admissions@gtu.edu
Graduate Theological Union
2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709
510-826-4488 • admissions@gtu.edu
Contact Us
(510) 841-1905
admissions@bst.edu
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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
The Berkeley School of Theology is a small community that trains men and women to become locally-grounded and globally-minded Christian leaders. It is a great privilege to be a part of this community.
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DR. SANGYIL PARK
Associate Professor of Preaching and Director of DMin Program
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Transform Your Urban Ministry With Our New Culturally Responsive DMin
A flexible distance learning program focused on the issues that are important to you
Financial aid is available
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
The Berkeley School of Theology is a small community that trains men and women to become locally-grounded and globally-minded Christian leaders. It is a great privilege to be a part of this community.
“
DR. SANGYIL PARK
Associate Professor of Preaching and Director of DMin Program
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A flexible distance learning program focused on the issues that are important to you
Competency-Based Education
Competency-based education provides opportunity for individuals to move at their own pace, and also quickly through portions of the academic programs for which they already have considerable background and experience.
especially attractive to bi-vocational ministers and lay leaders
Especially attractive to bi-vocational ministers and lay leaders
Use a variety of means for evidencing competency in designated areas
Opportunity for students to save time and money
Form meaningful relationships with mentors that contribute to skill development and ministerial formation
Transform Your Urban Ministry With Our New Culturally Responsive DMin
A flexible distance learning program that puts you in the driver's seat
Participate from anyplace at any time
Get Credit for Your Life Experience With Our Competency-Based DMin
A flexible distance learning program where you get credit for your life experience
Announcing Our New Cultural Responsive Doctor of Ministry
A flexible distance learning program where you get credit for your life experience
Get Credit for Your Life Experience With Our Competency-Based DMin
A flexible distance learning program that puts you in the driver's seat