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.

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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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Eilidh’s Holy Land musings

4 July 20224 July 2022

There is surely no better way to end my first year of theological study than a trip to the Holy Land, writes Eilidh Proudfoot (left at Masada looking to the…

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Donors in June

29 June 202229 September 2022

One of the regular features in the former monthly SEI Newsletter was an expression of thanks to those who had given to the various SEI Funds over the preceding month;…

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Local hero

27 June 202230 June 2022

For the past six months, Mixed Mode ordinand Ross Stirling-Young from the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane has been serving as Store Chaplain in Morrisons Supermarket, located in…

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‘On Angels and Demons’

23 June 202230 June 2022

SEI ever involves itself in the life of the local church and values participation in the life of charges across the Province. SEI is committed to support a diversity of…

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Mission to the border

20 June 202230 June 2022

Dominic Harris, a member of Christ Church Morningside, Diocese of Edinburgh, has spent the past six months completing his DipHE in Theology, Ministry and Mission at SEI. In the midst…

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SEI Journal Summer 2022 published

17 June 202230 June 2022

The SEI Journal - Vol 6.2 Summer 2022 - has been published on the SEI Journals page of the website here. The Editor writes: "The Summer number offers three articles…

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Holy Land pilgrims

16 June 202230 June 2022

Two SEI ordinands are due to visit the Holy Land over the summer. The first to travel will be Eilidh Proudfoot, Diocese of Edinburgh, who will leave on 20 June…

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Appetite for learning shown at Synod

13 June 202230 June 2022

As well as training candidates for the priesthood, diaconate and Lay Readership, SEI has a remit to facilitate learning-for-all across the Province, as those present at General Synod heard on…

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Seedcorn Grant awarded!

8 June 202230 June 2022

SEI was thrilled to learn this week that it has been awarded a Common Awards Seedcorn Grant to run a year-long research project entitled ‘Greening the curriculum; steps towards formational…

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New post: Initial Ministerial Education 4-6 Officer

6 June 20227 June 2022

Interested in helping to shape the formation of those in the second phase of Initial Ministerial Education? Under this new one-day-a week post, the successful applicant will develop and oversee…

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CEA-SEI – Our common concern for creation

2 June 202230 June 2022

On Saturday 28 May, SEI students took part in a two-hour webinar on the environment with their fellow students from Centro de Estudos Anglicanos (CEA), Porto Alegre, Brazil. This was…

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Final SEI Newsletter as we have known it

1 June 20221 June 2022

This edition focuses upon ‘endings and new beginnings’. May 6-8 saw the final Residential Weekend of the year. Saturday lunchtime’s worship took the form of a Mountain Pilgrimage up Kinnoull…

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