Faculty
No teaching assistants and no adjunct-only courses in the core curriculum. The person who wrote the commentary on your desk will mark your exegesis paper.
Office hours are posted on each professor's door and kept.
The faculty
Write to any of them. They answer their own email, usually within a day.
President and Professor of New Testament
Dr. Kwon Ladd has taught Greek at Kingsbury since 2003 and became president in 2019. She still teaches Greek I every autumn, and is known for refusing to let anyone leave the room confused about the aorist.
Listen
Public lectures, Wednesday chapel and the occasional seminar, recorded in the chapel and the reading room.
Annual public lectureThe Fess Avenue LecturesNow playing
Dr. Anand KurianNov 2025Lecture
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What we teach from
Kingsbury is an ecumenical Protestant school. Faculty affirm these articles; students are not required to, only to engage them honestly.
The Old and New Testaments are the word of God written, to be read in their own languages, in their own settings, and in the company of the church.
2 Timothy 3:16
We confess one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as the ancient creeds of Nicaea and Chalcedon set out.
Matthew 28:19
Jesus Christ, truly God and truly human, died for sinners and rose bodily on the third day.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4
The church is the people of God gathered around word and sacrament, and every local congregation, however small, deserves a pastor who has been taught well.
Ephesians 4:11–12
Careful study is a form of love for God and neighbor. We expect rigour, and we expect it to make you kinder.
Mark 12:30
The Fess Avenue Lecture is on Thursday 5 November at 7 PM, free and open to everyone.
Design notes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 13.87:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 15.44:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.58:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 7.45:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.9:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 6.01:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 13.87:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.45:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.9:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.82:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.08:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.9:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.7:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.68:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.85:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 9.22:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.9:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.0:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.85:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.41:1 | AA |
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