Western Seminary is an evangelical, non-denominational theological seminary with campuses in Portland, Oregon, as well as in San Jose and Sacramento in California. The seminary offers Master’s Degrees in Divinity, Counseling, Intercultural Studies, and Theology along with Doctoral Programs in Ministry and Missiology. Western Seminary provides alternative learning options for students through the Center for Lifelong Learning, the seminary’s distance education program. Western Seminary is dedicated to the motif "Gospel-Centered Transformation". As a seminary there is an intentionality in regards to centering all learning and experience-in and out of the classroom-on the gospel. Faculty and students are asked to think about the meaning and implications of the gospel in relation to each class and subject. Though Western Seminary students come from a large number of Christian denominations and non-denominational churches, the faculty teaches a conservative and evangelical Christian doctrine, with a progressive philosophy of ministry in and alongside the Church.