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Making Our Mission Real

From corporate ethics to criminal justice and the rights of the formerly incarcerated; from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality to war, Auburn is here to help you address today's most pressing issues.

Instead of breaking us apart, our religious traditions may hold the key to our reconnection as they speak to the aching gap between what is and what could be. Holding to such visions gives people the strength to be prophetic, resist the mainstream, overcome obstacles, and move beyond the tragic reality of the moment.

  • Women's Equality 2010
    On the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution women's vital role in global economic recovery must not be over-looked.
    8:29 AM Aug 27th from Lisa Anderson | Read More
  • Trouble the Waters. Heal the World.
    I have vivid memories of being in civil rights marches with my father, a Presbyterian seminary professor in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1960s. My parents and I were moving along in a crowd of mostly Black faces. Pressed within that sea of sweaty adult bodies, I felt small and different, a stranger, and self-consciously white, but I also sensed that I was part of something large, something significant. Because our marching was punctuated by praying and singing hymns, faith became intimately connected to justice, to movement, doing something with others to make a difference.
    4:13 AM Apr 18th from administrator | Read More
  • The Time Is Now
    The Women's Funding Network accelerates women's leadership and invests in solving critical social issues
    10:33 AM Jun 7th from administrator | Read More


We have nearly 200 years of experience preparing religious leaders for the real world, from our founding in 1818 in upstate New York to a global presence today. In its early years, Auburn participated in the great social challenges of its time: the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, reforms that uplifted the poor, and prisoners’ rights.

In the last two decades, much of Auburn’s work has focused on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of religion and public life in the context of the growing religious diversity in America. We are now a center for religious leadership that celebrates difference, shares abundance, and promotes hope, working for a future that is better than today.