58th Blandy Lecture & Alumni Convocation

About this event

Please join the community of Seminary of the Southwest for the 58th Annual Blandy Lecture and Alumni Convocation on Thursday, November 19, 2026 .

RSVP to Blandy here.

Seminary of the Southwest is proud to announce Anthony Baker, PhD, Clinton S. Quin Professor of Systematic Theology, and Gena St. David, PhD, Director of the Loise Henderson Wessendorff Center for Counseling and Spirituality and Professor of Counselor Education, as the keynote speakers for this year’s Blandy Lecture. Learn more about the speakers here.

This year’s lecture, “The Future of an Inclusion: Charting New Pathways for the Integration of Mental Health and Theology,” will bring together two of Southwest’s leading voices to explore the intersections of faith, psychology, neuroscience, and healing.

Two distinguished Southwest alumni will help lead this year’s Blandy Lecture and Alumni Convocation Eucharist! The Rt. Rev. Angela M. Cortiñas ’10, Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of West Texas, will preach, and the Rev. James Pevehouse ’12, Rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Beaumont, Texas, will preside.

The Alumni Association of Seminary of the Southwest is pleased to announce the Rev. Robert Pace, PhD (MDiv ‘12) , Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, Texas is this year’s Hal Brook Perry Award recipient and Will Boesl (MSF ‘20) , Director of Ministry Formation at Ascension in Austin, Texas, is this year’s Dave Scheider Award recipient. Both awards will be presented during this year’s Blandy Lecture and Alumni Convocation.

The event is presented free of charge this year. Below is an overview of the day’s events:

• 8:00am: Registration opens, breakfast and coffee served

• 10:00am: Preaching presentation by Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson, John E. Hines Assistant Professor of Preaching

• 11:45am: Alumni Eucharist in Christ Chapel with the presentation of the Hal Brook Perry Alumni Award

• 12:45pm: Lunch with the Southwest Community

• 2:00pm: Southwest Bookstore open house with coffee and dessert in Trinity Crossing

• 5:00pm: Evening Prayer on the Kittredge Motte

• 5:30pm: Reception “Dinner by the Bite”

• 6:30pm: Blandy Lecture, with the presentation of the Dave Scheider Alumni Award

RSVP to Blandy here.