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Ghana Travel Seminar: Learning at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute

This is post 4 of 12 in the series “Ghana Travel Seminar 2019” Ghana Travel Seminar: Seeing the magnificence of God’s love Ghana Travel Seminar: Time for church! Ghana Travel Seminar: Elimina Slave Castle Ghana Travel Seminar: Learning at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute Ghana Travel Seminar: May Day Ghana Travel Seminar: The ties that bind Ghana Travel Seminar: Reuniting with alumni…

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Seminary Luncheon at Massanetta Bible Conference

Thirty-five alumni and friends gathered for a UPSem luncheon on Thursday, July 25, 2019 during the annual Bible Conference at Massanetta Springs, in Harrisonburg, VA. Dr. John Carroll was guest speaker at the luncheon. Carroll is the Harriet Robertson Fitts Memorial Professor of New Testament. His address focused on “Jesus and the other Abrahamic Faiths: Common Ground and Sticking Points.”…

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Worship, Ecology, and Community Revisited

This is post 4 of 5 in the series “Sharon&Brook Summer 2019” Strengthening Faith Formation Among Children Appreciation of Music Is Motivation for Gift to Watts Organ Fund Remembering James H. Smylie Worship, Ecology, and Community Revisited The Gargoyle Speaks: Unscheduled Beauty   2019 SUMMER ISSUE / GRADUATION Testing the connection between action and faith How does worship shape and…

Understanding Muslims: Dr. Zeyneb Sayilgan

This is post 6 of 9 in the series “Union matters! podcast” Expanding access to healthy food: Shalom Farms at Union Helping cops cope with traumatic violence: VALEAP Marking milestones at The Presbyterian Outlook Memory sanctions & Confederate statues The rise of Womanism: Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon Understanding Muslims: Dr. Zeyneb Sayilgan Union matters! podcast: God and the sanctuary movement…

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Joins us for lunch at APCE Feb 8

Alumni & Friends Luncheon at the APCE Conferences Friday, February 8, 2019, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Galveston Island Convention Center 5600 Seawall Boulevard Galleon II Room, First Floor Galveston, Texas 77551 You don’t have to be registered for APCE to attend the luncheon. All alums and friends are welcome. The cost to attend the luncheon is $20. Register now!…

Alt-right rally: Praying for the enemy

Members of the Union community who joined demonstrators protesting the August 12, 2017, white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, reflect on what they saw, heard, and learned amid the violent clashes. Alumnus Christopher Tweel (pictured at left with alumna Lana Heath de Martinez and Union library staff member Jay McNeal) is Associate Pastor for Christian Education at Grace Covenant Presbyterian…

Monumental Confederate controversy solution might be ancient history

BY JOE SLAY When Dr. Christine Luckritz Marquis talks church history, she speaks with the easy informality of a storyteller who loves characters and with the rigorous precision of the historian. Dr. Luckritz Marquis received her M.A. from Yale Divinity and her Ph.D. from Duke. She is now associate professor of church history at Union Presbyterian Seminary. The liberal arts…

Director of Community Engagement–Cook’s Memorial Presbyterian Church–Charlotte, NC

…part time Internship staff position. We offer: This position is a one year service internship keying in on Community Engagement and involvement. Compensation based on an 18 – 20 hour work week which includes Sunday Morning Services attendance and participation. Salary is $22,000.00 per year. Flexible, part time schedule respecting your time and prior commitments. A supportive and dynamic work…

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Union Presbyterian Seminary gives thanks for the life of the Reverend Jonyrma Singleton (M.Div.’88)

Union Presbyterian Seminary gives thanks for the life of the Reverend Jonyrma Singleton (M.Div.’88), alumna, former trustee, and dear friend of the seminary. On Friday, June 10, the Reverend Jonyrma Singleton died in Cleveland, Ohio. “With Jonyrma’s family, we give thanks for her life, for her love of the church and its ministry,” said President Brian K. Blount. “We give…

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Sprunt Lectures highlight modern urgency of Paul’s ancient letter to Romans

The Letter to the Romans gives voice to the apostle Paul’s conviction that “something has happened”—God has done something that changes things, freeing all humankind and the whole universe from potent anti-God forces and welcoming all people into God’s family. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, the 2016 Sprunt Lecturer, accented the timeliness of Paul’s message for our day in three lectures delivered…

2018 Growing Into Tomorrow

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