Press Releases

After over a decade of leadership as President of Auburn Seminary, Katharine Henderson today announced her plan to transition from her role, with a successor to be named by the Board by the end [...]

Statement by the Auburn Senior Fellows Jewish tradition teaches that when a tzadeket—a righteous person—dies, an opening is created for a moral and spiritual awakening. We pray that Justice Ruth [...]

Surely God is weeping. We weep too. The image of a white police officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck is burned into our individual and collective mind’s eye now. We see it in our nightmares and [...]

NEW YORK —  This global crisis is impacting individuals and communities we love, and the global community to whom we are bound in shared humanity. Heeding the Center for Disease Control’s [...]

Dr. Tinker, a citizen of the Osage (wazhazhe) Nation, who spent an academic career both fighting for American Indian justice and challenging eurochristian students and communities to recognize [...]

As a woman, a mother and minister I know the laws on abortion in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, and around the country are not motivated by the care for children.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 28, 2019 Statement of Auburn Seminary President the Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson Auburn Seminary Condemns Anti-Semitism, Gun Violence, and White Nationalism The [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 23, 2019 STATEMENT OF AUBURN SEMINARY PRESIDENT THE REV. DR. KATHARINE RHODES HENDERSON We are sickened by the horror and death of Christian worshipers at the hands of [...]

As news continues to come out from the horrific gun violence at New Zealand mosques, we cry out ‘How long?’ How long must we wait before we put down our arms and stop the hate?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEB 26, 2019 STATEMENT OF AUBURN SEMINARY PRESIDENT THE REV. DR. KATHARINE RHODES HENDERSON “Surely God is weeping over the vote of the United Methodist Church to [...]