About the Seminary Project

The YA Flunder Foundation created the Seminary Project in order to move conservative seminary students along a staged continuum, from a negative or questioning position to a theologically based positive position for the moral inclusion of LGBT individuals to the tangible advocacy of this position within their conservative denominations.

By directly engaging students through various classes, symposiums, lectures, intensives and chapel homilies, those impacted begin to make systemic institutional change within their schools.

The Seminary Project aims to develop seminarians as advocates of the moral inclusion of LGBT people and provide tools to support their advocacy. The project provides the theological language (or talking points) and biblical framework for seminary students that demonstrate their knowledge of human sexuality and sexual literacy with particular emphasis on the LGBT community. As a result they are able to make strong arguments for the moral inclusion of LGBT people within their conservative denominations or local church.