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Life at JST 

The scholarly, artistic and cultural diversity of the San Francisco Bay Area enriches our education experience.

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Navigate here to Office of Student Life

Creates an inclusive space of co-curricular learning focused on supporting each student and providing opportunities for growth through engagement in JST liturgy and school community life.

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JST operates conveniently located, affordable apartment buildings that are blocks from JST and walking distance to downtown Berkeley and rapid transit.  

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Navigate here to Formation At JST

Attend community Masses and lay-led liturgies, weekly dinners, community service projects, reflection sessions, and retreats. JST also offers students the opportunity to live in intentional community.

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Find information about student services, library access, student leadership, and our student-run journal, New Horizons.


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Navigate here to JST-SCU Directory

Our JST Directory includes students, staff, and faculty to help connect us all and to help us know who is a part of our JST community. To protect the privacy of our community members, you must be logged in with an SCU email address to view the directory. If there are any changes that need to be made to your information, please email Mack Griffith, Sr. Admin Assistant for Student Life and Formation, at mgriffith@scu.edu.

For a printable PDF version please email Mack Griffith. (may not reflect the most updated information until the start of the following semester)

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Navigate here to JST Career Connections

The JST Career Connections Page exists to help JST students and alumni to find career opportunities and make connections with potential employers.

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A Place for Dynamic Conversations Across Faith Traditions

The Graduate Theological Union, a consortium of theological schools and centers of study, provides our students the opportunity to cross-register at any of the member schools and access the GTU library, which houses the largest theological collection in the West.

Go to the GTU website

Take a tour around JST, the city of Berkeley, and our partner school the Graduate Theological Union. 

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Tour JST

Watch this virtual tour to see our campus and learn more about JST.

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Tour the GTU

Learn more about what it means to be a part of an ecumenical and interreligious consortium of graduate schools, just steps from U.C. Berkeley.  This virtual tour explains the partnership among the consortial schools.

At JST I have learned how to critically and prayerfully reflect on my experiences in ministry. Contextual theology does not shy away from the complexities of lived experiences; but, rather, it values the intricacies of experience and provides an interdisciplinary framework for action and reflection.