About Pacific School of Religion

Pacific School of Religion (PSR) is a private Protestant seminary in Berkeley, California. It maintains covenantal dealings with the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church, and the Disciples of Christ, ensuring the speculative provides the indispensable requirements for candidates to endeavor ordination within these denominations. These three denominations account for approximately half of the student population of PSR. The university has then maintained close relationships later the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as new denominations. Over the years PSR has provided training for clergy from a wide range of religious traditions including Buddhists, Jews, Pagans, Pentecostals, and Roman Catholics.

Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city upon the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern be adjacent to with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580. According to datausa.io Berkeley now has nearly 120,926 people.

Berkeley is house to the oldest campus in the University of California system, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the University. It with has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is considered one of the most socially open-minded cities in the United States.