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JOIN US TODAY!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 is the world’s largest gathering of scholars interested in the study of religion.
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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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By Oriana Mayorga ’22 Rev. Luther Holland Jr. ’70 is a retired United Church of Christ (UCC) pastor and freedom fighter. He was active during the civil rights movement, attending the March on Washington as a youth leader of the Jamaica, N.Y., NAACP, and he spent his 20th birthday walking across the Edmund Pettis Bridge
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By Eileen R. Campbell-Reed, Visiting Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care Long before 2020 arrived with its unprecedented changes, many Union graduates were already serving as health care, university, protest and prison chaplains. For over a decade Union has been partnering with Jewish Theological Seminary to provide excellent chaplaincy education through their Center
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Editor’s Note: Shamika’s name while at Union was Shamika Goddard. Shamika, could you share a little about growing up and your journey to Union? Well I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and I’m the oldest of four kids. My mom was a single parent growing up and I went to Stanford for
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