Ministry Week

There are no classes or community events this week so students, faculty and staff can participate in Ministry Week 2025.

This year’s theme is “Restoring the Soul: From Trauma to Hope.” Check out the full schedule and program personalities at brite.edu/mw. Students, faculty and staff may register to attend free of charge at https://epay.tcu.edu/ministers_week/?t=student.

Soul Care Check-in

Earlier today, students should have received an email from Rev. Dr. Erin Edwards checking in and providing some practical ways to engage in self-care this week. Please reach out to her if you need someone to sit with, talk to, or just listen to music with. .

Brite Community Survey

Community and Spiritual Life is conducting two brief surveys of the community to assist with planning and resource allocation.

Please take a few minutes to complete the two surveys:

Food Security Survey

Programming Survey

Soul Repair Center Webinar

The Soul Repair Center offers free monthly webinars of use to religious leaders and professional caregivers supporting veterans and their families.

How We Can Understand the Range and Needs of Military Moral Injury: The Director's Retrospective Reflections

February 18, 2025

1:00 p.m. CST

Professor Nancy J. Ramsay, Director of the Soul Repair Center, will discuss key takeaways from the past five years of webinars on military moral injury hosted by the Center. She will offer reflections on the topics covered, factors in causing moral injury, and the role of chaplains in supporting recovery. Kyle Fauntleroy (Chaplain and Capt. USN ret.), Director of Development at Brite Divinity School and a member of the Center?s Advisory Board, and Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock of Volunteers of America, which has co-sponsored the webinar series, will discuss webinars that they feel were especially impactful, and Rev. Stephen Cady, President of Brite, will offer closing remarks about future directions for the Center.

Faith Advocacy Gathering

Raise Your Hand Texas is hosting an interfaith public education advocacy gathering on Tuesday, February 18 at 6:00 p.m. at Ridglea Christian Church to build community among advocates during the Texas Legislative Session, update folks on the latest in the Texas Capitol, and mobilize to support advocates and engage lawmakers around supporting public school funding.

Conversation with Shan Shaffer

On Thursday, February 20 at 4pm The Carpenter Initiative on Gender, Sexuality, and Justice is hosting a special Third Thursday Coffee Hour for "A Conversation with Shan Schaffer," an intern for “Just Texas” a branch of the Texas Freedom Network that works with faith communities on advocacy issues related to both LGBTQ+ issue, and reproductive rights. Learn more at https://justtx.org/

Black Church Studies Distinguished Lecture

On Monday, February 24 at 4:00 p.m., the Black Church Studies Program is hosting a public lecture with Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, Assistant Professor of Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Dr. Adkins-Jones will be the guest preacher/speaker in chapel and community conversation on Tuesday, February 25.

Field Education and Supervised Ministry

The Office of Field Education has several churches and non-profits interested in interviewing Brite students. Contact the Office of Field Education if you would like to be considered.