6 min read During this year’s One Union Reunion celebrations, we held a 50th Anniversary Chapel in honor of our Union alums who graduated in 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973. During the chapel service two of Union’s 50th Anniversary class alums, Sue Ellis Melrose and Douglas Grote, shared their heartfelt reflections—and we are honored to
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6 min read Union alum the Rev. Greg Horn ’91 is the Senior Pastor at The Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair, an adjunct faculty member at Union Theological Seminary and Auburn Theological Seminary’s counselor to Presbyterian students at Union. In this interview, Union and Auburn teams joined together to speak with Rev. Horn about his
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10 min read Union Alum the Rev. Dr. Derrick McQueen ’09, ’15, is the pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church, Board Chair of the Auburn Theological Seminary, and the Associate Director for the Center on African-American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice at Columbia University. In this interview, the Union and Auburn teams joined together
Read MoreGATHERING RSVP RECEPTION RSVP Members of the Union community will be at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO on November 19-22, 2022 for the 2022 Annual Meetings hosted by the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR). This annual meeting
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3 min read “We envision a world without poverty, without racism, without the destruction of the earth. This kind of common good is big, but it is completely possible,” Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis urged. “We have no real scarcity. We just have a scarcity of political will and moral consciousness to do the right thing.”
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7 min read Union Alumna Rev. Petra J. Thombs ’18 has lived a rich and inspiring life. Rev. Thombs has worked in education, served as the Executive Director of the Ramapough Lenape Community Center, and is currently the Community Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau. Rev. Petra Thombs kindly offered her time
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2 min read Alumna Karenna Gore is the founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary. Karenna formed CEE in 2015 to address the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis. Working at the intersection of faith, ethics, and ecology, she guides the Center’s public programs, educational
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Frederick Buechner, M.Div. ʼ58, Unitas Distinguished Alumnus ʼ08, Whose Ministry was his Writing, Dies at 96 His readers, he said, were his “invisible congregation.” An ordained Presbyterian minister who never pastored a church, he liked “to keep a particular ear cocked to the elusive, ambiguous presence of God.” The author of 39 books, Buechner produced
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Union is very proud of alumna, Rev. Dr. LaKeesha Walrond who serves as President of New York Theological Seminary (NYTS). In the words of Union President Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, “LaKeesha is a phenomenal leader – her brilliance, organizational smarts, and her open spirit make her the perfect leader for NYTS at this moment in
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The Rev. Virginia K. Bergfalk ’81 first attended Union Theological Seminary on a full scholarship in the late ’50s but left to marry a Union graduate and become a missionary in South Africa during Apartheid. She came back to Union 20 years later to finish her degree and launch her own ground-breaking career as a
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