FASPE Clergy & Religious Leaders Program 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: January 4, 2026

Applications are open for the FASPE Clergy & Religious Leaders Program 2026. FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in skilled ethics and moral management. FASPE is neither a Holocaust research course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to problem Fellows to critically study constructs, present developments and points that increase moral issues of their professions in modern settings during which they work.

FASPE Clergy Fellows study the motivations and conduct of German and worldwide clergy in enabling and supporting Nazi insurance policies. FASPE then attracts on these historic examples to assist Fellows grasp their position and accountability as people with affect of their communities and to cause them to determine and confront the moral points presently dealing with clergy of all faiths.

Each yr, FASPE Clergy awards fellowships to 13 to 16 people pursuing, or current graduates of, graduate-stage spiritual coaching at divinity colleges, seminaries, chaplaincy applications or different associated establishments. Fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, the place they go to key websites of Nazi historical past and take part in day by day seminars led by specialised school. The program {couples} the facility of place with tutorial rigor and plenty of casual alternatives for artistic alternate.

Cost

• FASPE Fellowships are totally funded in order that monetary means doesn’t have an effect on participation.

Eligibility

• FASPE Clergy & Religious Leaders candidates should both be enrolled in graduate faculty making ready for work as a non secular chief on the time of application or they should be working as a non secular chief with a related graduate diploma acquired May 2019 or after. Those making use of as college students could also be learning at a seminary, divinity faculty, rabbinical faculty, Muslim chaplaincy program or different graduate program associated to non secular OR theological coaching.
• FASPE seeks candidates engaged in or making ready for sensible or vocational service. Applicants don’t should be ordained or planning to pursue ordination/smicha/formal recognition from their custom to be eligible. Applicants from all religion traditions are inspired.
• FASPE seeks Clergy Fellows with numerous pursuits and backgrounds, together with these pursuing careers as spiritual leaders of congregations, as chaplains, at universities, hospitals, prisons, firms, within the armed companies, and in different settings.
• FASPE seeks Fellows at a formative stage of their skilled lives, who’re open-minded and self-reflective, exhibit management capabilities, and possess the potential of getting affect of their fields. FASPE selects its Fellows on the idea of their tutorial background, private {and professional} experiences, capability for management, and talent to contribute to the Fellowship program and the alumni neighborhood. FASPE values and seeks to create inclusive environments, and welcomes candidates of all spiritual, political, and socioeconomic backgrounds in addition to gender identities. FASPE seeks Fellows who’re all in favour of partaking in discussions with their co-Fellows and college, and who’ve the mental and emotional maturity to debate troublesome and controversial points responsibly and respectfully in small group settings. All purposes are welcome and reviewed. 

Application

The 2026 FASPE Fellowship application is now open by means of Sunday, January 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST.

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For extra info, go to FASPE Clergy & Religious Leaders Program.