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Listening and Teaching

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

By Ryan Felder, M.Div. ’21, co-chair of the Eco-Justice Caucus. Without theological language, I find it impossible to grasp the magnitude of the ecological crisis and understand what my corresponding commitments are. In choosing to study ecotheology at Union, I was really choosing to study social ethics, education, and community development. This is because, from

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Serious Play

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

This essay by Mohammad Mia ’21 was originally published in the Union Collective Spring 2020 Issue Last semester, I sleepily made my way to a Monday evening field education class and arrived to the surprising sight of toys—tables filled with clay, crayons, coloring books, blocks, and an aptly named game, “Pie in the Face.” A

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In Church and in Theater, It’s O.K. to Just “Let Things Be Messy”

Thursday, June 18, 2020

This interview with Shannon TL Kearns, M.Div. ’09 was originally published in the Union Collective Spring 2020 Issue Why did you start the Uprising Theatre Company? I grew up doing what I affectionately call a lot of church-basement drama—a lot of really terrible theater that was focused on justice issues or on trying to win

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In Memoriam: The Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon

Saturday, September 15, 2018

This article originally appeared in the Fall 2018 Union Collective Katie Geneva Cannon, Ph.D. ’83, Unitas Distinguished Alumna ’07, Union Medalist ’16, Dies The Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, widely regarded as a founder of the Womanist movement, a formidable liberation theologian and Christian ethicist, died August 8. She was 68. The first African American

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