APCE 2023 Union Presbyterian Seminary Alumni Luncheon

Join us for a Union Presbyterian Seminary Alumni Luncheon at APCE 2023!   Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex 1 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd...

2023 Enrich Educator of the Year Award Recipient

Jenna Campbell’s passion for educational ministry began in her childhood, with formative faith experiences in her family, the church, and...

Black Religious Education and Public Ministry

This is post 4 of 4 in the series “BAA Newsletter May 2021” The Class of 2021 shares UPSem memories...

Reading Revelation through the Trials of Phillis Wheatley

This is post 3 of 4 in the series “BAA Newsletter May 2021” The Class of 2021 shares UPSem memories...

Living COVID While Black and George Floyd

This is post 2 of 4 in the series “BAA Newsletter May 2021” The Class of 2021 shares UPSem memories...

The Class of 2021 shares UPSem memories

This is post 1 of 4 in the series “BAA Newsletter May 2021” The Class of 2021 shares UPSem memories...

In Memoriam: William F. “Bill” Long (B.D.’58, D.Min.’73)

Glenn Q. Bannerman (1927-2020): A Tribute

President Brian K. Blount made the following statement on the passing of Glenn Q. Bannerman, Professor Emeritus of Recreation and...

The Word of History

By Rev. Dr. Audrey Todd (Union PSCE, M.Div., M.A.C.E ’10) Life has a toll. Life on edge. Living with hypersensitivity....

Gems for the Journey: Joy (Jesus Over You)

By Veronica Thomas (Union PSCE, M.Div.’07) “… whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, because...

Teachable Spirit

By Rev. Sandra Caldwell-Williams (Union Presbyterian Seminary, M.Div., M.A.C.E. ’06) Often during trying circumstances, I pick up pen and paper...

Black Lives Matter

By Rev. William R. Freeman, (M.Div’01) Well, here we go again. I really don’t know what made me think things...

Practicing Radical Acts of Kindness

By Rev. Dr. Helen Bessent Byrd, (Union-PSCE, M.Div’07) Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who...

Worship during Virtual Sprunt Lectures

In our time of worship during the annual Sprunt Lectures, held this year on Zoom May 5, sacred visual artist,...

S. Dean McBride Jr. (1937-2020): A Tribute

S. Dean McBride Jr. was the Cyrus H. McCormick Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at Union Presbyterian Seminary...

Congratulations to Alumna Rev. Dr. Angela Sims (Ph.D.’08), Newly Inaugurated President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

Charge to Dr. Angela Sims upon Her Inauguration as  President of Colgate-Rochester-Crozer Divinity School By Dr. Brian Blount* President Sims,...

A Litany for Black History Month

By Jabriel Malik Hasan (M.Div., ‘22) One: Source of our being, manifested in Word and Spirit, we enter ever more...

Gems for the Journey: A Gift

By Veronica Thomas (Union PSCE, M.Div.’07) For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit...

Sharing the Quiet: Strengthening Intergenerational Relationships

By Kamryn Sierra Olds and Reverend Dr. Patricia Turner-Olds (M.A.C.E., Union-PSCE ’05) Kamryn:  Granny, there are times when I imagine...

A God Given Mind

By Rev. Sandra Caldwell-Williams (Union Presbyterian Seminary, M.Div., M.A.C.E. ’06) “For God has not given us a spirit of fear,...

Experience the Joy of Giving!

By Rev. Dr. Helen Bessent Byrd, (Union-PSCE, M.Div’07) Rev. Helen Bessent Byrd, Ph.D.* “Give and it will be given to you. ...

Experience the Joy of Giving

By Rev. Dr. Helen Bessent Byrd, (Union-PSCE, M.Div’07) “Give and it will be given to you.  A good measure, pressed down,...