Tommy Ross, M.A. ’02
Friday, December 9, 2016
What do you do? I am the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Security Cooperation. I lead an office responsible for overseeing the Department’s policy and strategy relating to U.S. defense engagements with partner nation militaries and defense ministries around the world. What do you like best about what you do? I’m fortunate that my
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Tinka Harvard, M.Div. ’01
Friday, December 9, 2016
What do you do? I teach at retreats and workshops combining theology, philosophy, and the arts in an effort to inspire. I’m also a writer, and this spring for the first time I had a short story published by a literary journal. I’ve just completed my first novel and am searching for an agent and
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David Cowell, M.Div. ’94
Friday, December 9, 2016
What do you do? Arguably, bi-vocational ministry is on the leading edge of what ministry looks like now. I am deep in it. I serve as the Manager of Spiritual Care Services at Pathways Home Health and Hospice, the second largest home health and hospice agency in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am also
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Cedric H. Jaggard, M.Div. ’41
Friday, December 9, 2016
What do you do? Technically I’m retired, but am nearing the close of several years’ research for my book entitled Claiming Different Forms of the Good News: Road to a Larger Gospel; Overlooked Bible Foundations for Growing in the Faith. (I would be pleased to hear of any faculty member or other person associated with
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Evangelicals & Other Faith Leaders Urge Congress & Trump White House to Support Pro-LGBTQ Policy Agenda
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Union on the Hill” Public Forum to be Held at National Press Club Washington, D.C. – Rev. Frederick A. Davie, Executive Vice President at Union Theological Seminary, announced that the Seminary will convene a press conference with Evangelical and other faith leaders from around the country to promote a pro-LGBTQ public policy
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Dr. Gary Dorrien Wins the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Monday, December 5, 2016
New York, NY (December 4, 2016) Union Theological Seminary is proud to announce that Gary Dorrien was named the recipient of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. Dr. Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union and a
Read MoreIn Prison And Outside, He Found His ‘Iota Of Light’: A Mentor Named Fred
Friday, December 2, 2016
Robert Sanchez first met Fred Davie in 1998, in a small, windowless room at Sing Sing Prison. Sanchez was there serving 15 years on a drug conviction; Davie was a Presbyterian minister, who was teaching there in a theology master’s program. Read the full story here, and listen to Robert Sanches and Rev. Fred Davie
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Union Announces Two New Chairs
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Message from Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary. I am pleased to share two historic and joyous announcements as we approach the holidays. The Union Board has voted to name Rev. Dr. James H. Cone as the inaugural professor holding the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair, recently established through a generous $3
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
UNION ON THE HILL: EVANGELICALS AND OTHER FAITH LEADERS SUPPORT A PRO-LGBTQ POLICY AGENDA FOR WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS On Friday, December 9th at 9:30 a.m. Union Theological Seminary hosted a convening of faith leaders at the National Press Club to discuss an LGBTQ public policy agenda for the new Administration and incoming Congress. The gathering
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