All Saints provides spiritual learning rooted in scripture and the Episcopal faith, offering a holistic education that combines academic excellence with spiritual development. We foster critical thinking, character growth, and a strong sense of community in a welcoming and inclusive environment. At All Saints, we believe faith should be nourished, not forced. We gently guide students in developing strong values by integrating spiritual growth into their day-to-day activities.
The Episcopal Church is known for being a respectful and inclusive community, and All Saints was founded on this tradition. Regular opportunities for reflection, prayer, and worship help students cultivate a deep and personal spiritual life. Our faculty and staff serve as mentors, supporting students as they navigate their beliefs and values during these formative years.
All Christian communities, even the most ecumenical and diverse of Episcopal schools, are upheld by the basic principles of the Baptismal Covenant. As expressed in The Book of Common Prayer, this Covenant maintains that individuals and institutions are called by God to adopt certain fundamental disciplines and dispositions in order to fully embrace their basic identities. As embodiments of the Christian faith, Episcopal schools are created to be communities that honor, celebrate, and worship God as the center of life. They are created to be models of God’s love and grace. They are created to serve God in Christ in all persons, regardless of origin, background, ability, or religion. They are created to “strive for justice and peace among all people and [to] respect the dignity of every human being.” These principles are the basis on which identity and vocation are to be defined in Episcopal schools.
Episcopal schools have been established, however, not solely as communities for Christians, like a parish church, but as ecumenical and diverse ministries of educational and human formation for people of all faiths and backgrounds. Episcopal schools are populated by a rich variety of human beings, from increasingly diverse religious, cultural, and economic backgrounds. In fact, the intentional pluralism of most Episcopal schools is a hallmark of their missions. It is also a distinguishing characteristic of these schools that they seek to integrate religious and spiritual formation into the overall curriculum and life of each school community. Episcopal schools are clear, yet graceful, about how they articulate and express their basic identities, especially in their religious curricula and traditions. They invite all who attend and work in them—Episcopalians and non-Episcopalians, Christians and non-Christians, people of no faith tradition—both to seek clarity about their own beliefs and religions and to honor those traditions more fully and faithfully in their own lives. Above all, Episcopal schools exist not merely to educate, but to demonstrate and proclaim the unique worth and beauty of all human beings as creations of a loving, empowering God.
Worship
Is our commitment to religious life and formation in the Episcopal tradition of welcoming people of all faith traditions.
Study
that is meaningful, academically substantive, and age-appropriate; and in teaching the Chrsitian tradition, fosters dialogue with other faith traditions.
Community
in which reflection, prayer, and matters of the spirit are honored and cultivated and the physical, mental and emotional health of all are supported and nurtured.
Unity
which is the integration of the ideals and concepts of equity and justice, the embracing of diversity, and the inclusion of community service.
All Saints School Prayer
Almighty God, fountain of all wisdom and source of all truth; pour your blessings upon All Saints Episcopal School. Enlighten by your Holy Spirit those who teach and those who learn, that we may worship You and serve You from generation to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
