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Bloomington, Indiana
Kingsbury
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Sit in on a class
Kingsbury
HomeDegreesFacultyLibraryCost & aidVisit a classApply

615 S Fess Ave, Bloomington, IN 47401

(555) 014-5150

admissions@example.org

Sit in on a class

Degrees

Study the Bible in the languages it was written in

Every degree here includes at least one biblical language, close reading of texts, and a supervised placement. Most can be taken entirely in the evenings.

Row of students at computers

Programs

Compare the degrees

Credit hours, length and who each program is for. Every program accepts part-time students.

Pastor reading in a wooden church pew

78 credits · 3 to 5 years

Master of Divinity

The ordination degree. Greek and Hebrew, systematic theology, church history, preaching, pastoral care, and a supervised year in a congregation.

Requirements
Smiling young woman student carrying books outdoors

48 credits · 2 years

MA in Biblical Studies

Languages, exegesis and a 20,000-word thesis supervised by one professor.

Requirements
Young man comforting an elderly man in bed

54 credits · 2 years, hybrid

MA in Chaplaincy

Theology, ethics and care, with one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education in a hospital.

Requirements
Bright modern library with open shelves and stairs

27 credits · 1 year

Master of Theology

Advanced research in one field for MDiv graduates, with a thesis of publishable length.

Requirements
Bearded clergyman in black holding an open book in a church

8 courses · 18 months of Saturdays

Certificate in Pastoral Ministry

For bivocational and lay pastors. No bachelor's degree required. Credits transfer into the MDiv.

Requirements

Fall 2026 timetable

This term's evening courses

All courses meet 6:00 to 9:00 PM in Fess Hall unless noted. Live online seats are available for every course marked ◆.

CourseMonTueWedThuSat
GRK 501 Greek I ◆Room 126:00–9:00····
HEB 610 Reading IsaiahRoom 12·6:00–9:00···
HIS 520 The Church to 1500 ◆Chapel basement··6:00–9:00··
PRE 540 Preaching the GospelsChapel···6:00–9:00·
CHP 600 Care at the Bedside ◆Room 4·6:00–9:00···
CPM 104 Leading a Small ChurchFess Hall····9:00–3:30, Oct 17
  • Languages
  • History
  • Practice
  • Chaplaincy
  • Certificate

Questions

What applicants ask first

Do I need to know Greek or Hebrew already?

No. Greek I and Hebrew I start from the alphabet. About half our MDiv students had never seen either.

Can I do the whole MDiv in the evenings?

Yes. Every required course is offered in the evening at least once every two years, and we publish the rotation so you can plan five years ahead.

Is Kingsbury accredited?

Yes, by a recognised theological accrediting body, and our degrees are accepted for ordination by most mainline and evangelical denominations in Indiana.

I don't have a bachelor's degree.

The Certificate in Pastoral Ministry does not require one, and up to 24 of its credits can later count toward an MDiv under our bivocational pathway.

Sit in on Greek I or Preaching the Gospels

Any evening this term, with supper beforehand if you come on a Thursday.

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A small school of theology in a limestone building on Fess Avenue, teaching pastors, chaplains and lay leaders since 1891.

  • Home
  • Degrees
  • Faculty
  • Library
  • Cost & aid
  • Visit a class
  • Apply
  • 615 S Fess Ave, Bloomington, IN 47401
  • (555) 014-5150
  • admissions@example.org
  • Admissions Mon–Fri 8:30 AM – 5 PM
  • Hollister Reading Room until 10 PM on class nights

Kingsbury

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Design notes

Why Kingsbury looks the way it does

Kingsbury is a small, old seminary that has quietly rebuilt itself around students who already work: bivocational pastors, hospital nurses, youth workers. The site needs to feel like a serious academic institution while making it obvious that you can study here at night, at a cost you can see before you call.

Built for
Working adults in southern Indiana considering theological study, most of them already serving a congregation, plus donors and alumni.
Navigation
Centred masthead. The name sits centred like a printed masthead; pages run underneath. Signals heritage and calm.
Pages
Home, Degrees, Faculty, Library, Cost & aid, Visit a class, Apply
Hero
a short action form as the hero: the one thing most visitors came to do (request a ride, ask for help, register a child) can be done before they scroll, with reassurance beside it. Variants: a = headline, reassurance and a photo on the left with the form as a raised card on the right; b = a tall photo carrying the headline, with the form and reassurance on a plain panel beside it; c = headline beside a photo, then the form laid out as one horizontal booking bar; an editorial collage: three photographs placed off-grid and overlapping, with a large headline laid across them like a magazine cover, a small caption and a single quiet link. Variants: a = headline on the left breaking into a cascade of photos on the right; b = three photos in a staggered row with the headline running across all of them; c = headline at top left over a large photo, with two smaller photos pinned to its corners

Typography

Prata is a high-contrast Didone, the letterform of the title pages in the school's 1890s library and of the names cut into Indiana limestone lintels. It has one weight, so hierarchy comes from size and space instead of bold. Crimson Pro carries the reading at 19px, and Alegreya Sans SC sets the labels in true small capitals, like catalog cards.

Color

The background is the warm gray of Indiana limestone, which is what the building is made of. The brown is calf leather from the bindings in the reading room, and the blue comes from marbled endpapers. In the dark theme the leather turns to a lamp-lit tan on a near-black that keeps a little warmth, like the reading room after the overhead lights go off.

Layout and navigation

A centred masthead with the name set large, the way a college letterhead does it, and the page links on their own row beneath. It signals institution without fuss. The single button in the bar is 'Sit in on a class', because most applicants decide in a classroom, not on a website.

The hero

An editorial collage: the reading room large, with two smaller photographs pinned to its corners and the school's three-part charge set over them. It leads with books and people reading because that is the actual experience of studying here, and the line tells a working pastor exactly what the school is for.

Calls to action

We avoided 'Apply now' as the first ask. 'Sit in on a class' is low-risk and true to how people choose seminaries; 'Start an application' follows once they are ready. 'See what it costs' appears early and often because cost is the first thing working adults ask, and hiding it costs trust.

Photography

Libraries, desks, open Bibles and faculty portraits, all in warm natural light. Students are shown as the adults they are, not as eighteen-year-olds on a lawn. We used no stock graduation caps.

Accessibility

Body text is 19px with a 1.55 line height and a 64-character measure, and every color pair passes WCAG AA in both themes. The library hours show a written open-or-closed status as well as a coloured dot, and course timetables are real tables with headers for screen readers.

Type system

  • DisplayPrataPrata is a Didone with heavy hairline contrast and teardrop terminals, the face of nineteenth-century title pages and the carved names over Indiana limestone doorways.
  • TextCrimson ProCrimson Pro is a book face in the Garamond tradition, set a size larger than usual so course descriptions read like the page of a good commentary rather than a brochure.
  • AccentAlegreya Sans SCAlegreya Sans SC gives true small capitals for labels, room numbers and course codes, the way a library catalog card sets them.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa13.87:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa15.44:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.58:1AA
LinksAa7.45:1AAA
Button textAa8.9:1AAA
Accent label textAa6.01:1AA
Text on dark bandsAa13.87:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.45:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa8.9:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.82:1AA

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa15.08:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa13.9:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.7:1AA
LinksAa8.68:1AAA
Button textAa8.85:1AAA
Accent label textAa9.22:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa15.9:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa8.0:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa8.85:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.41:1AA

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