You are cordially invited to the President’s Brunch on Wednesday, October 23 at The Town and Country Club in St. Paul at 300 N Mississippi River Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55104. Check-in will begin at 11:00 AM and brunch will start at 11:30 AM and run until 1:00 PM. President Molly T. Marshall warmly invites you to join her in appreciation of your generous support for United Theological Seminary of ...
Artist and activist Ricardo Pérez Gonzalez is United’s inaugural artist-organizer-in-residence, and has served both our Leadership Center for Social Justice and the Theology and Arts program since last fall. He has also been facilitating our monthly arts and social transformation lunches. Now we want to celebrate Ricardo with an exhibit of and talk about his work. Born and raised in Mexico, Ricardo is a self-taught mixed media artist with more ...
Clergy, faith formation ministers, other congregational leaders, and the whole United community, are invited to a panel discussion including anti-racism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leaders from the ELCA, PC(USA), and UCC of Minnesota. Explore approaches to anti-racism work appropriate for diverse settings and leave inspired, with applicable resources for your congregation—no matter where you are in your anti-racism work. This is offered as a collaboration between United’s Anti-Racist Initiatives ...
In this lecture and workshop, Dr. Ry Siggelkow, Director of the Leadership Center for Social Justice, and Ricardo Pérez, the Leadership Center's artist-organizer in residence, explore what contemporary lessons we can learn from Ella Baker, the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Zapatistas for organizing today. After introducing these figures and movements, we will lift up and explore together some of their common principles and practices that might inform efforts of “organizing in the spirit of accompaniment” today.
As part of Symposium Week (October 23–25), United is hosting a public-facing event on Monday, October 23. This panel, titled “Reorienting Ourselves to the Reality of Not Yet,” will be facilitated by Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green II, United’s director of anti-racist initiatives and assistant professor of pastoral theology and social transformation. “Reorienting Ourselves to the Reality of Not Yet” is a public event that officially launches the second wave ...
A graduate of United’s Master of Divinity degree program will be able to: interpret a selected passage from a selected religious text from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives and using one or more critical methods, demonstrating understanding of the influence of their own situatedness on that interpretation; critically interpret, analyze and reflect on a selected theological text or perspective in its historical context as well as through the lens of ...
A graduate of United’s Master of Arts degree program will be able to: interpret a selected passage from a selected religious text from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives and using one or more critical methods, demonstrating understanding of the influence of their own situatedness on that interpretation; critically interpret, analyze and reflect on a selected theological text or perspective in its historical context as well as through the lens of ...
A graduate of United’s Master of Arts in Leadership degree program will be able to: interpret a selected passage from a selected religious text from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives and using one or more critical methods, demonstrating understanding of the influence of their own situatedness on that interpretation; critically interpret, analyze and reflect on a selected theological text or perspective in its historical context as well as through the ...