Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership

The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary recognizes the significance of centering Black women’s scholarship as viable sources and resources for theological education. The Center serves as a site of participatory learning for scholars, students, clergy, laity, and community leaders.   Contact Information: Union Presbyterian Seminary 3401 Brook Road Richmond, VA 23227…

Alphonso Saville Named Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Mission

…and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. A scholar of American religion whose interests include legacies of slavery in American religion, African American Christianity, and religions and literature of the African diaspora, Saville is known for his work in local communities, especially in youth development. He will begin his work with UPSem on July 1 on the Charlotte campus. #…

April 4 forum will address legacy of Dr. Katie Cannon and womanist ethics

…April 4, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the seminary’s Lake Chapel, 1106 Westwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 23227. Presenters at the Corine Lytle Cannon Colloquy will include Dr. Emilie M. Townes, Dr. Valerie Elverton Dixon, Dr. Charlene Jin Lee, Dr. Peter J. Paris, Dr. Angela D. Sims, Rev. Andrew Taylor-Troutman, and Dr. Linda E. Thomas. For more information, 19-UPS-018 Colloquy FINAL…

Former trustee, businessman Bruce C. Gottwald Jr. dies

RICHMOND, Va. (October 22, 2019) – Bruce C. Gottwald Jr., former trustee of Union Presbyterian Seminary, businessman, and scion of a prominent Richmond family, has died. He was 61. Gottwald was one of three people killed Sunday in a head-on automobile crash in Reno County, Kansas, according to local news reports. He served on the seminary’s board of trustees from…

Lakisha Lockhart called to Union Seminary as Christian education professor

…Seminary,” President and Professor of New Testament Brian K. Blount said. “I expect Dr. Lockhart to have an immediate, creative, and inspirational impact in her teaching, her advising, her research, and her writing.” Lockhart’s research interests are in the areas of religious education; practical, liberation, and Womanist theologies; ethics and society; multiple intelligences; embodied faith and pedagogies; theological aesthetics’ theopoetics;…

Emeritus Professor Lamar Williamson Jr. dies

RICHMOND, VA (July 11, 2020) – Rev. Dr. Lamar Williamson Jr, Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary, died peacefully today at Highland Farms in Black Mountain, North Carolina, according to a statement from the Presbytery of Western North Carolina. He was 93. Revelation 14:13 (NRSV) And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are…

Academics

Our graduate degree programs place emphasis on deep theological study, inventive learning and real world experiences that prepare students for faith leadership in ordained pastoral, educational and community ministries….

  SEE THE SCHEDULE   SIGN ME UP   GROUP REGISTRATION   CONTACTS Registration Information Sheridan Taylor 804-278-4221 Union Presbyterian Seminary Rev. Mairi Renwick 804-291-8314 Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Dr. Melissa Fallen 804- 204-1208 Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University Dr. Deborah Martin 804-257-5674…

Budgeting 101

…is only a guideline, but it may help you re-evaluate how you divide your available income. An annual budgeting excel worksheet can be downloaded here. This will be useful if you’re interested in understanding all your sources of income and available resources for financing your time in seminary. This worksheet will also help you determine the amount of financial need…

Vocational Planning

…sign up contact either schang@upsem.edu or dtripodi@upsem.edu MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES POSTINGS We provide a website for current ministry opportunities. Other job posting websites include: PC (USA) Church Leadership Connection ChurchStaffing.com MinistryJobs.com Idealist (non-profit jobs) YouthPastor.com PREPARATION FOR PCUSA SENIOR ORDINATION EXAMS The Supervised Ministry and Vocational Planning Office organizes review sessions for the Biblical Exegesis, Church Polity, Theology and Worship &…

Alerts

Dear Charlotte students, You should have received a message regarding the weather through our alert system. If you didn’t receive a message either by email, voicemail, or text, or would like to change your contact information, please let us know asap! Union Presbyterian Seminary at Charlotte will be open December 9, 2017. However, the following classes have been canceled due…

Union awarded grant to show how pipe organs can lead community

…purchasing a new pipe organ for Watts Chapel is to show our students that a modern, well-designed pipe organ remains a powerfully vital instrument of the church,” said seminary music director Doug Brown. Installation of the new organ is expected to begin in August of 2022. ###   High-resolution image. Credit to Union Presbyterian Seminary. Contact: Mike Frontiero Union Presbyterian…

Wilmer Terry Young, former trustee, dies

RICHMOND, VA (February 15, 2021) – Wilmer Terry Young, 90, passed away February 3, 2021, in Vero Beach, Florida. He formerly served on the boards of Union Theological Seminary (1986-1997) and Union-Presbyterian School of Christian Education (1997), now Union Presbyterian Seminary. OBITUARY…

New book offers a fresh examination of a critical juncture in Christian history

RICHMOND, VA (March 4, 2022) – Union Presbyterian Seminary Associate Professor of Church History Christine Luckritz Marquis has authored a new book that offers a fresh examination of a critical juncture in Christian history and brings into dialogue narrative strands that have largely been separated in the scholarly tradition. ”The book is designed to reunite two parallel scholarly narratives because…

Susan Hickok, first Charlotte campus employee, former associate VP, dies

…Born June 25, 1950, in Charlotte, Susan was the daughter of Dwight Gilmer and Louise Cress Grubbs. Susan was a graduate of Harding High School, where she met her husband Alan, beginning a beautiful partnership that would last over 50 years. She earned a BA in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later a degree…

Voelz book offers lessons in reaching people dealing with reproductive loss and adoption

…Atlanta, Georgia. He has over a decade of ministry experience in various contexts. A graduate of Vanderbilt University’s Graduate Department of Religion with the Ph.D. in Homiletics and Liturgics, Voelz brings expertise and scholarly interest in contextual homiletics, contemporary homiletic theory, preaching and youth, pastoral identity, preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement, and contemporary liturgical theology. Richard W. Voelz high-resolution image…

Richmond Admissions

The Richmond campus is a traditional, diverse, residential seminary in a historic setting amidst a thriving city where history and modernity meet. It occupies a 56-acre campus in historic Ginter Park in Richmond’s Northside, with classroom buildings, a mix of student housing options, landscaped grounds, and one of the finest theological libraries in the United States. The campus is on…