Our Name

At the foot of the Mount of Olives is the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus went with his closest friends to set right what had gone so wrong in an early garden, Eden. It was here Jesus prayed just after His Commencement address to His disciples and before His arrest. Jesus’ trust in His Father and His acceptance of God’s will is the model for Christian living—radical obedience. The richness of “Christ-in-you” is possible because of Jesus’ prayer on the Mount of Olives, His death and resurrection.

RICHMONT is a reminder of Jesus’ prayer from the Mount of Olives and the richness that is now available because of the great mystery revealed, Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col. 1:26-27).

RICHMONT is a reminder of the PSI Chalice, our symbol of the integration of psychology and theology and the gift of Christ-within.

RICHMONT also connotes special geographic significance as a reference to the rolling mountains that connect the two cities of our institution, Atlanta and Chattanooga.