Professor Charles E. Brown announces retirement

RICHMOND, Va. (April 24, 2018) – The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Brown, who has served as a teacher and mentor to decades of students, will retire from the faculty of Union Presbyterian Seminary on June 30, 2018. This May term is his final teaching term.

In 1987, Brown joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary of Virginia (now Union Presbyterian Seminary).  At the time of his appointment, he was serving as pastor and head of staff at First Presbyterian Church in Greenville, Mississippi. With degrees from Southwestern at Memphis (now, Rhodes College), The Divinity School of Vanderbilt University, and Princeton Theological Seminary, he arrived on campus with vast experience as a pastor, chaplain, and counselor, and had served as an adjunct faculty member at New York Theological Seminary and Columbia Theological Seminary.

His course, “Working with Groups in the Church,” was one of the first courses he taught at Union. With this course, and others he has offered, his many years of service in pastoral ministry have been a rich resource for his teaching ministry.

“Dr. Brown’s pastoral activities as a faculty member have underscored his identity as a pastoral theologian, to the benefit of the students he has taught in a variety of classes,” Academic Dean Kenneth J. McFayden said. “Please join me in celebrating his many contributions to our seminary, the students he has taught, and the church he has served over the course of his ministry.”

Brown’s students honored him at a private celebration in Richmond Hall.

Dr. Brown helped Union groundskeeper Mike Hughes mow the Quad in 2016.

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Contacts:

Mike Frontiero
Director of Communications
Union Presbyterian Seminary
mfrontiero@upsem.edu