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Now Accepting Applications for The Collaborative for Faith Leadership
Thursday, March 15, 2018

The VISION program engages early/mid-career faith leaders in a two-year collaborative program designed to support new ministries and build clergy relationships across denominations and religious traditions.​ Union will launch The Collaborative for Faith Leadership in the Fall of 2019… And you are invited to apply! The cohort meets monthly during the academic term to collaborate and dialogue with

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New York Times: Retirees Find Renewed Purpose Through the ‘Encore Transition Program’
Thursday, March 30, 2017

In January 2017, Union launched the Encore Transition Program, a semester-long curriculum designed for retirees and non-traditional students eager to make a change for the better in their lives, and in the world. Recent Encore graduate, Onita Estes-Hicks, 80, spoke with the New York Times’ Helen Stapinski, about how the program has given her the opportunity to contemplate

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President Jones Interviewed on ‘Emerging Religious Left’
Monday, March 27, 2017

‘Religious Left’ Emerging As U.S. Political Force in Trump Era Backlash against many of U.S. President Trump’s policies have given rise to the so-called ‘Religious Left’ – a movement aiming to take back the country, and Christianity, from conservatives they say misconstrue the scriptures.   Reuters TV Segment Full Article by Scott Malone

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In 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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Interfaith Appeal for Justice at Standing Rock
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

President Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 November 11, 2016 Dear Mr. President, As faith leaders from across the nation, we write to you with a sense of urgency regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the opposition to it led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We believe that you are

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Prominent Scholar-Activist Trades Law for the Seminary
Thursday, September 22, 2016

A Prominent Scholar-Activist Trades Law for the Seminary By Alexander C. Kafka When Michelle Alexander’s white Lutheran mother, Sandra, and black Methodist father, John, wanted to get married in Chicago in 1965, neither of their churches wanted to perform the service. A Methodist pastor did reluctantly preside over the ceremony. Still, Sandra felt betrayed. “She

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