Mission
Discerning Gospel faithfulness together in the San Francisco Bay Area
We help the Church discern and contextualize the way of Christ, cultivating theological imagination and spiritual friendship for our time, across culture, tradition and generation. New College Berkeley (NCB) creates educational and spiritual “third spaces” for vital conversation and relationship-building through workshops, classes, retreats, listening circles, art, and writing.
New College Berkeley is an affiliate center of distinction at the Graduate Theological Union and a member of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers.
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New College Berkeley (NCB) was founded in 1979 by Dr. David Gill and Rev. Dr. Earl Palmer as a Center for Advanced Christian Studies to provide students and working professionals with courses and conferences to “think Christianly” in their vocational lives. In 1994 (“NCB 2.0”), Dr. Susan Phillips introduced a needed emphasis on spiritual formation for cultivating souls centered in God. Today, under the leadership of Executive Director Dr. Craig Wong, “NCB 3.0” builds on these two pillars to connect the Body - across culture, tradition and generation - to pursue truth, cultivate spiritual friendship, and discern what it means to live faithfully at a significant cultural inflection point for nation and world.