As a graduate center for Quaker leadership and scholarship, the Earlham School of Religion exists to educate and equip men and women for leadership in public ministry. Within this Quaker Christian community, students can continue to discern their call to ministry and find challenges and support as they make new spiritual discoveries. ESR is an intellectual and caring community where personal concerns and issues can be considered in the Light of Christ. Students will find a commitment to Quaker understanding of the Christian faith as they work with faculty and staff to make the Gospel come alive. While the ESR experience speaks to the whole person, it also nurtures individual and corporate spiritual gifts of all members of the community.
Opportunities abound to help develop ministries of hope and healing to a complex and hurting world.
Moreover, in this context, ESR seeks to be a center of spiritual renewal and transformation for the Society of Friends and other Christian groups. As ESR produces transformed and transforming leadership for the Religious Society of Friends, the 1961-96 graduates from all theological persuasions and geographical locations of Friends are now vitally involved in fruitful ministry. Future leaders are invited to join ESR's educational adventure to better serve the Society of Friends and the wider Christian community.