Seminary Speak

An Interview with The Very Rev. Cynthia Kittredge, PhD. Dean and President of Seminary of the Southwest

I'm the Dean and President of the Seminary of the Southwest. I was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church when I was 27, and it's as a priest that I understand everything I do: teaching, visioning, leadership and even my practices of creativity - they all ‘live’ under this tent of being a priest. I knew early on that I wanted to teach and to be involved in theological enterprise as part of my priesthood. After I finished my MDiv, I did doctoral work at Harvard Divinity School. It was a long, convoluted, roundabout story, but I eventually graduated with my doctorate and was called to be on the faculty at Seminary of the Southwest in 1999 to teach New Testament. I moved my family, my husband, and three children to Texas from Massachusetts. That was the beginning of an amazing journey to a community where I could use all the gifts I had and develop new ones. I knew it would take every bit of my heart, soul, and mind to be a priest in that community and a professor. I love this place.

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