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November 18, 2020

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“A Rare and Magical Space”: An Interview with Community Partner Allison Jones

Allison Jones is a community partner and friend of United who has participated in numerous events and programming at the seminary, including Arts Lunch, Social Transformation events, and Queertopia United. She is a long time musician and emerging artist with a passion for social justice, education, and public health. She currently works in the education department at JustUs Health in Saint Paul. I sat down with Allison Jones last Friday Nov. 13 to interview her about her experience being a community partner with United. (more…)

October 31, 2020

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Queer Theofuturism: A Community Coloring Book for LGBT History Month

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October 2, 2020

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What Do You See?: A 2020 Online Art Gallery from the United Community

What do you see? What do you hope for your community? For United? The world? What images, words, gestures, sounds might capture your prayers and petitions? Where are you already finding beauty? These are some of the questions that the artworks below respond to. They include glimpses of natural beauty, invoke community and connection, create moments of rest and restoration; they bless the work that still needs to be done. With the world and our country and communities in tumult, wrestling with multiple pandemics, natural disasters, and social injustices, the need for hope and prophetic vision is greater than ever. At United we believe that the arts are uniquely powerful and transformative in visioning a better world and bringing it to be. (more…)

September 3, 2019

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Celebrating Storytellers Melvin and Rose Smith

I met Melvin Smith in the late 90’s while attending a multi-week workshop. As we talked, Melvin described the work that he and his wife Rose were creating and their desire to share it with the broader community. I had recently taken on the role of director of United’s religion and the arts program and I was eager to know more. (more…)

April 12, 2019

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Healing the World, Remembering Joy: An Interview with Andrea Sorum

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January 10, 2019

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United Presents: The Theology of Prince Journal!

Vernell Garrett, Prince Rogers Nelson's Parade, ToP Open Submissions (Visual Art) Winner, 2018 (more…)

December 25, 2018

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Mary’s Particularity: Encountering a 17th Century Drawing of a Chinese Madonna.

The following post was originally written as a response for the fall 2018 course at United, TR271: Theological Interpretation of the Arts. (more…)

December 20, 2018

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United at the Parliament of the World’s Religions: The Tree of Transformation

Early this November, Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde (Director of Interreligious Chaplaincy and Assistant Professor of Pastoral and Spiritual Care and Counseling), Jessi LeClear Vachta (Associate Director of Admissions) and a group of current students attended the 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions in Toronto, Ontario. There, they held a panel, "Making Interreligious Chaplaincy Education Meaningfully Inclusive." The following is a reflection by Kimi Graff, who is working on an MDiv in Interreligious Chaplaincy. (more…)

November 29, 2018

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ADVENTure TIME: Theology and the Arts Students Write Litany for the UCC Board of Pensions

This summer, Dr. Cindi Beth Johnson, Director of The Intersection, Wilson Yates Center for Theology and the Arts, was asked to work with a group of students in the Theology and the Arts concentration to write a litany for the United Church of Christ’s National Board of Pensions. The request was to gather a group of students to study the lectionary texts and write a liturgy that would be available to all of the churches of the UCC as part of a bulletin insert during the liturgical seasons of Advent and Christmas. Here is an excerpt for the first week of advent: (more…)