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Growing Into Tomorrow . . . Today

…Discuss healthcare and housing options  Create next steps in life balance, relationships, housing, health, and finances The two-day seminar takes place on Thursday, March 8 and Friday, March 9, 2018, and is led by representatives of the PC(USA) Board of Pensions. Click here here to register. There is no cost for the event; lunches are $12 per day.  …

New grant to study diversity, equity, and inclusion in preaching and homiletics

…be useful across a wide cross-section of theological education as well as the Christian church in America,” Schade said. “For example, this grant will equip professors of preaching to either start or further their efforts to decenter whiteness and attend to the reconstruction of preaching that fully embraces diversity in all its forms.” Voelz and Schade hope to use the…

Started UPSem 2009: Rev. British Hyrams (MDiv/MACE 2016)

…structure make paying for seminary reasonable. The supportive community makes completing the program possible. Together, these three give many answering a call to ministry access.” Like others who have studied on the Charlotte campus, Hyrams values the connections made both inside and outside the classroom, connections that persist well beyond graduation. She reflects, “The individual connections and relationships I made…

Practicing Radical Acts of Kindness

…it will be too late.” Now radical acts of kindness are acts that, “are rooted in the life of Christ and that radiate into the lives of others” (Robert Schnase, p. 17). These acts are more intense in their endeavor to be hospitable and result in practices often called servant evangelism. Every act is important because they all reflect that…

Union matters! podcast: Perils of peacemaking

…in Syria, she is a 1982 graduate of the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond (now Union Presbyterian Seminary). She earned her doctorate in education at Columbia University in New York. Returning to Syria she became the director of the women’s program for the Middle East Council of Churches. She is active in ecumenical and interfaith activities and is…

Union Seminary hosts commencement in a cloud

…The graduation ceremonies, held May 16 for the Richmond campus and April 18 for the Charlotte campus, marked the first time in the school’s 208-year history that its commencement exercises were conducted online, with graduates participating and hooding themselves live via Zoom video conferencing before an unseen audience of family and friends who watched via Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube. An…

Online Workshop: Social Media Deep Dive for Churches

…demystify social media platforms and teach you how to use them most effectively in connecting with your congregation. In addition to the four 75-minute sessions, workshop participants will receive the recordings and slides from each class in case they are unable to attend. Each week, office hours are offered for one-on-one conversation. At the end of the month, participants will…

(Online Conference) Called to Justice: Seeking Change within the Classroom, Congregation, and Community

…The entire event will be hosted virtually. Registered participants will receive access to the keynote addresses. All four workshops will be hosted via Zoom, to allow for collegial engagement between workshop leaders and participants. Each workshop will have an individual meeting link, and registered participants will receive the meeting link prior to the selected workshop(s). Participants will need an electronic…

James Hawley McKinnon, Jr. (1940-2018)

…throughout his community. As he did so, he gave to each of us the gift of his presence and shared with us the wondrous love of God. Jim is survived by his wife of fifty-one years, Louise Cherry McKinnon and their two sons who are also Presbyterian ministers: James, III (Trip) (M.Div.’10) and his wife Angie of Brunswick, Georgia; and…

Black Alumni Association News | August 2023

…who gave to others. Mother Teresa began the chapter by telling the story of a man who came to her house and told her of a family with eight children who had not eaten for days. She took food to them. The children did not look sad, just pained by hunger. She said she gave rice to the mother who…

Aspiring South Korean church leaders visit UPSem

…for a two-week experience that combines continuing education and cultural immersion. In the second year of their program, participants travel to the Holy Land. Sharon Blount, center, wife of President Brian Blount, with members of the Korean Lay Leader Delegation. The finger positioning is of a heart, meaning “love.” While these elders are on the UPSem campus, they are exposed…

Toni Morrison documentary and panel discussion

In memory of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership will host a screening and panel discussion of her latest documentary, “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.” Place: Lake Chapel, Early Center Tentative Time: 4-6pm (screening), 6:00- 6:25pm (reception), 6:30-7:30pm (panel discussion) Center director Melanie C. Jones will moderate a discussion with Black filmmaker and…

UPSem Corine Lytle Cannon Colloquy

Union Presbyterian Seminary will honor Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon with a special edition of their journal Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology. In partnership with the KGC Center for Womanist Leadership, contributors to the journal will present their papers at the Corine Lytle Cannon Colloquy held Thursday, April 4, 2019, on Union’s campus in the Early Center. The reception…

Alec Powell: The Unconventional Call

…PC held degrees from Union, but he did not feel he was ready until he had tangible ministry experience. Once he decided to go to seminary, however, his mind was made up. Union was the only seminary he visited and the only school he applied to. Like many other first year students, Powell has not made any definitive post-seminary plans….

Director of Ministry for Children and Youth–Rye Presbyterian Church–Rye, NY

…salary package will be commensurate with the candidate’s educational and experience background. Housing is a possibility. The church owns a three-bedroom townhouse less than a mile from the church and a one-minute walk to the beach. See Director-of-Ministry-for-Children-and-Youth-RPC for more information. Please contact Rev. Dr. John Miller for more information or to submit a resume at jmiller@ryepc.com 914-967-0842, ex 14…

Started UPSem 2015: Rev. Gail Henderson-Belsito (MDiv 2020)

…was connected to her new denomination, the PC(USA). Her time at UPSem Charlotte provided even more than she might have initially hoped. Seminary proved to be not just a place to learn but a place to change. “I appreciated and loved the conversations in class, over lunch, and in the library, even though we should have been quiet in the…

Norris P. Moses (1926-2018): PSCE trustee & treasurer

…by his wife, Ann Watts Moses, and his sister, Carolyn Moses Eanes and her husband George A. Eanes. He is survived by his three children, Virginia Spence and her husband Michael Spence, Pamela Macaulay and her husband W. Clay Macaulay, Robert Preston Moses and his wife Mary Lil Moses, and eight grandchildren, Preston Spence, Marliana Spence Bodapati, Benjamin Spence, Alec…

APCE: Praying through Scripture Workshop

…be a tool that we could take home and use. A practical application that I was very appreciative of. These types of resources (one that I could directly adapt to ministry back home) are exactly why I attended the APCE conference. First, we read Matthew 4:1-11 which describes the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. We were asked as group…