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…of history and hope. The top picture is the Chapel at the Divine Providence hospital in San Salvador where Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while serving communion on March 24, 1980. The picture below is a chapel built near the spot where the bodies of three nuns and one lay person we’re found on Dec. 2, 1980 near Santiago Nonualco. …
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…in modern history. We are indeed living in very dangerous times. The police are traumatized by it too. They have a hard time asking for emotional help because, among cops, that’s been seen as a weakness. The Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program (VALEAP) is working to change all that by giving officers the support they desperately need. In our Union …
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…attuned to their own wonders and wonderment that surrounds the scripture. I was inspired by this workshop because it showed how we ought to present scripture — not only to children but also to the church at large, as something that is exciting, builds anticipation, and that encourages inquiry. Jessie Partridge is a M.A.C.E. student at Union Presbyterian Seminary. …
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Union Presbyterian Seminary has published a book of public prayers by Professor Emeritus of Biblical Interpretation Wayne Sibley Towner, who taught at Union for more than two decades. Towner’s prayers were always delivered from the heart, revealing his deeper sensitivities and commitments. Yet they were also works of theopoetical craftsmanship — carefully designed to focus minds and imaginations in lifting …
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by Gregg Brekke | Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE – Although the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina are now quiet following protests in response to the September 20 shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott by police, area Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastors say the historic and deep-seated sentiment that fostered unrest after this killing remains. “Charlotte is a southern city,” says …
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by Emily Enders Odom | Presbyterian News Service Over two mornings at the 2016 ARMSS/POAMN conference—a national event jointly sponsored by the Association of Retired Ministers, Their Spouses or Survivors (ARMSS) and the Presbyterian Older Adult Ministries Network (POAMN)—the Rev. Dr. John T. Carroll shared his wisdom in a comprehensive, two-part keynote address with broad implications for his audience …
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…am daily learning what it means to serve Christ in this complex world, to work for justice, and to share God’s love because of the examples the folks of this church provide. For some time leading up to the rally, I had been in prayer and conversation regarding my engagement, but it was a conversation with Ken Henry, my colleague, …
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BY MICHELLE WALKER I had the opportunity to travel to Jordan and Israel with the seminary’s May term Middle East travel seminar. It was both amazing and overwhelming, awe-inspiring and frustrating, invigorating and exhausting to walk in this very special land! Drs. Sam Adams and Carson Brisson led 15 of us participants. Our journey began in Jordan. Although some people …
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…Some of the greatest losses I have experienced have been in autumn, a season that I look forward to after the long hot Carolina summers. The loss of a child, a parent, a mentor, a friend are indeed painful and sometimes traumatizing, yet, the colors that I love which have brought me such joy in autumn, are there to console …
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…for the earliest followers of Jesus. Certainly, this was the case with an infant child, born in Bethlehem into a misunderstood and maligned faith, on the run, a refugee in the care of his parents from his homeland, where the ruling power sought to kill him. The concern before us is not one of partisan politics, but of emulating the …
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…Hebrew learner at Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan. She was terrified and tried to put it off as long as possible. Classes with a great professor there eventually changed her feelings so much that she later became a teaching assistant to Union Associate Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages E. Carson Brisson. “Learning Hebrew opened my eyes to the complexity …
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President Emeritus T. Hartley Hall IV (M.Div.’57) died August 18 in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Hall served as the fifth president of Union Presbyterian Seminary (then Union Theological Seminary) from 1981-1994. LEARN MORE …
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…learn more about the nine new programs funded by the campaign and to inaugurate the Hal Todd Library Without Walls system. After Christmas, UPSem will host more gatherings in cities such as Greenville, Durham, and Raleigh, North Carolina; Saratoga and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida; and Roanoke, Tidewater, Northern Neck, Virginia. Learn more about the we are ONE campaign and give today! …
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By Veronica Thomas (Union PSCE, M.Div.’07) For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7 NSRV). In his book entitled Fear, John Rathbone Oliver quotes a learned doctor who had under his observation and care a patient who was suddenly possessed with fear, and …
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…plotting to kill him because of his preaching against idolatry. The “horsemen”, symbolized the rulers of Jerusalem, whose hatred and blood-thirst would be far worse than the people of Anathoth, “The land of peace” in which he thought himself secure, was his own village. The “thickets of Jordan” represented the wild fury that he would have to face in the …
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by Gregg Brekke | Presbyterian News Service While there may no longer be a standard path for those who enter seminary, Lucy Crain’s journey has taken her to places few will ever see. The second year student at Union Presbyterian Seminary’s satellite campus in Charlotte, North Carolina says until recently she never anticipated she’d be studying for ministry. …
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…to measure their lives by a liturgical calendar our American social conscious and enterprising spirit have long forgotten. Stores are closed on Sundays. Advent is celebrated daily with small gifts, caroling, and Christmas markets. You can set your watch (or just leave it at home) to the ringing of church bells. While I’m sure their church leaders are calling for …
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The Rev. Dr. Edwin Witte Stock passed away peacefully due to heart failure on November 2, 2019. Stock graduated from Union Theological Seminary (now Union Presbyterian Seminary) with a Master of Divinity degree in 1962. Stock retired as Senior Pastor for First Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, after serving from 1988-2002. Because of his love for the seminary, he …
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This is post 5 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 By Professor Carson Brisson This issue of Gargoyle is dedicated to the …
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This is post 3 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 Historical Consciousness By Stanley H. Skreslet (D.Min.‘80), F.S. Royster Professor of Christian …
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…oldest and largest public housing community and were forced to live in a car. The mother later died and the children relocated. This story made Brannon’s internship at Bon Air Presbyterian Church formative to her seminary experience, and marked the beginning of her involvement with Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities (RISC). She recalls an appreciation for the church’s focus …
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…goods – bananas, hats, eggs, toilet paper, and more. For most daily necessities, it seems one can simply lean out their car window or walk down the street and find exactly what they need. Observing this, we have been able to learn so much about Ghanaian culture just from driving and walking around. However, set back from the main thoroughfares …
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