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Forming people for ministry

The Scottish Episcopal Institute forms those preparing for a variety of authorised ministries in the Scottish Episcopal Church, lay and ordained, shaping vibrant missional ministers for today’s world.

The Scottish Episcopal Institute welcomes you

The Scottish Episcopal Institute supports ordinands, students for lay ministries, and those engaged in deepening their Christian faith in our churches. It does this through programmes of formation and learning that aim to encourage baptised people to respond to the call of God in their lives. No two students are…Continue reading “The Scottish Episcopal Institute welcomes you”

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The SEI offers a number of resources for students and the wider Scottish Episcopal Church. Publications The Scottish Episcopal Institute…

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SEI is a school for ministry, not a divinity school (though students are taught by excellent academic specialists in every…

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The Scottish Episcopal Institute trains candidates for ordained ministry as priests (incumbent and assistant), vocational deacons and Lay Readers. SEI…

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SEI Journal Winter 2022 is published

21 December 202221 December 2022
The SEI Journal – Vol 6.4 Winter 2022 – has been published on the SEI Journals page of the website here. The Editor writes: Whilst this number has the Bible…
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‘These mountains are what my Beloved is to me’

21 December 202218 December 2023
The Revd Dr Richard Tiplady’s recently published Grove Book is well travelled, having been up to the summit of Gulvain (Gaor Bheinn) near Kinlocheil recently. But this is not the…
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Dreaming of a sabbatical?

19 December 202222 January 2023
In case you missed it on the first time of advertising, we draw your attention to the fact that applications are invited by the Alastair Haggart Bursary Fund Committee for…
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‘And a highway will be there’

16 December 202230 October 2024
Anam Cara, the Small Group responsible for worship at our recent Residential at St Mary’s Kinnoull, led the SEI community gently along the Advent pathway last weekend, weaving silence, song,…
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Green Advent

12 December 202230 October 2024
Second year ordinand Helen Randall (Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney) is the SEI Student Chapter Eco Congregation Scotland rep. for 2022-23. Helen is actively involved, along with fellow Year Group…
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Copy-editor sought for SEI Journal

5 December 20221 December 2022
The Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal is seeking a new copy-editor, due to the retirement of its present copy-editor in December 2022, to begin work in Spring 2023. The Journal is…
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Advent Devotional with a difference

2 December 202230 October 2024
In October the Revd Liz Crumlish began serving as the IME2 Officer for the Scottish Episcopal Church, accompanying those in their first three years of public ministry on their journey…
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Staff in print

1 December 20221 December 2022
Hot on the heels of the Revd Dr Richard Tiplady’s Grove Book come other published offerings by SEI core staff. The Revd Dr Michael Hull, Director of Studies and Tutor…
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Donors in November

30 November 202230 November 2022
Once again the SEITraining Fund has benefitted from receiving deputising fees which would otherwise have been paid to the Revd Sally Gorton, Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. We thank Sally…
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Anniversary reflections

28 November 202225 November 2022
This Wednesday, Saint Andrew’s Day, marks the first anniversary of the signing of the Saint Andrew Declaration. It thus seems an appropriate time to reflect upon how SEI has committed…
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Greening The Church?

21 November 202217 November 2022
One outcome of SEI’s work on ‘Greening The Curriculum’ will be, we hope, that our students are helped to think about how they will be engaged in the ‘Greening of…
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Rest, refreshment and reflection

17 November 202217 November 2022
The core SEI staff – Linda Harrison, Michael Hull, Richard Tiplady and Anne Tomlinson – enjoyed an ‘Awayday’ earlier this week. Having said that, such a title might be challenged…

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Upcoming events

Eleventh Annual SEI Lecture
The Eleventh Annual SEI Lecture will be offered by the Rev Dr Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh, Director of Contextual Formation, on Thursday 29 October 2026, at 5pm, in Glasgow.

The ten previous SEI Lectures may be found here.

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