Student News

Finding Common Ground Between Buddhism and Christianity

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:27:00 GMT

Union Alumnus Peter Herman, ’11, writes about Union Theological Seminary’s 2013 Buddhist-Christian Conference in The Huffington Post. Read More>>

The Queer Community Has to Stop Being Transphobic: Realizing My Cisgender Privilege

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:43:00 GMT

First-year M.Div. student Todd Clayton writes for the Huffington Post about transphobia and the road towards trans* safety and inclusion in the LGBTQ community. Read More>>

Gay Will Never Be the New Black

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:12:00 GMT

First-year M.Div. student Todd Clayton discusses what he learned from reading James Baldwin. Read More>>

Why Marriage Equality Isn't Enough

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:16:00 GMT

First-year M.Div. student Todd Clayton writes for the Huffington Post about the history of marriage equality and segregation. Read More>>

Jeff Grant '12, '13 Appointed Associate Minister

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:32:00 GMT

Congratulations to current student Jeff Grant for his dual appointment at First Baptist Church of Bridgeport, Connecticut! Jeff will serve as the church's Associate Minister for Community Outreach and Development, and its Director of Prison Ministries.

The Spiritually Urgent Response to Our Ecological Crisis

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:54:00 GMT

Current M.Div. student Chris Fici writes for the Huffington Post: "After three months at Union, I am coming to understand that to seek a better world means to be deeply concerned with the very health of the planet that we live on, and to be deeply concerned with the shape and burden of the civilization we have placed on the ground we walk, the air we breathe and the water that we drink." Read More>>

Why I Haven't Dropped Out of Seminary

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:17:00 GMT

First-year M.Div. student Todd Clayton writes for the Huffington Post about discovering that there's more to seminary than meets the eye. Read More>>

A Hindu at Union Theological Seminary

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:43:00 GMT

Entering M.A. student Chris Fici writes for the Huffington Post about being a Hindu and a Christian: "I come to Union from a different space than most, having spent the last five years living as a monk in the bhakti-yoga tradition of the Vedic/Hindu tradition of India. While my monastic life came to a voluntary end earlier this year, I still identify and practice as a bhakti-yogi, and transcending all contradiction that may appear to be on the surface, Union is the perfect place for me to understand the true definition of yoga and the true life of a yogi in the world today. I was raised as a Catholic, and still identify as a Christian as well, and this sense of 'double belonging' is something that can be uniquely nourished and shaped here at Union." Read More>>

Jeff Grant '12, '13 Selected for The Nantucket Project

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:57:00 GMT

Current student Jeff Grant has been selected to take part in the 2012 Fellows Program of The Nantucket Project. Read More>>

Congratulations to Rosalind Gnatt, 2nd year Union Theological Seminary M. Div. student!

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:29:00 GMT

Rosalind will be teaching and lecturing this week at the Theological Institute, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.

Hosanna!

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:31:00 GMT

Current M.Div. student John Allen writes about the political meanings of Jesus's procession to Jerusalem. Read More>>

Afro-Cuban Music at Union

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:33:00 GMT

Current M.A. student Felipe Luciano presents Afro-Cuban music at James Memorial Chapel. Watch the Video>>

Voices of Slavery Caught out of Time

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:37:00 GMT

Union student Karenna Gore Schiff provides a compelling analysis of the Slave Narrative Project Read her article in The New York Times. Read More>>