August 5, 2025
Interview with Dr. Awes Freeman on Upcoming Screening of Ending the Silence
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June 1, 2020
A Letter to My Christian Family Everywhere: From Alum Yolanda Y. Williams
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The #Endgame: Taking Church to Church
The late afternoon matinee was packed full of middle and high schoolers buzzing with one obsession at the moment: Avengers: Endgame. Only ten minutes before show-time, I wandered around with my young boys looking for seats while my brother waited for the sold-out popcorn. We broke up and scattered ourselves into the front row. Popcorn was very delayed. I didn’t know it would be this crowded. Despite watching several of the Marvel movies at home, I would soon discover that there was a lot I didn’t know. Most of all, I didn’t know where I was. I didn’t know that I had just found a seat at the Church of Marvel. Popcorn arrived just in time. (more…)
September 27, 2018
Clyde Steckel to Speak on New Book: Finding the Church | A Personal Memoir
January 23, Emeritus Professor Clyde Steckel will speak at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities about his recently published book, Finding the Church / A Personal Memoir. (more…)
“Those We Have Dismissed May Hold the Very Answers We Are Seeking”: One Student’s Response to Visiting Author Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton.
Last week we published an interview with Allen Hilton, who is the author of A House United: How the Church Can Save the World and founder of House United Movement. Earlier this summer, Rev. Hilton visited United's Religion and Politics in America class taught by Dr. Silas Morgan. This current blog post, by Nathanael Welch, is the first of two responses from students taking the course. Look for the second student response next week. (more…)
June 29, 2018
Wearing the Church: On the 2018 Met Gala
There is a gap between that which expresses and that which is expressed. But there is also a point of identity between them. It is the riddle and the depth of all expression that it both reveals and hides at the same time. – Paul Tillich, “Art and Ultimate Reality,” 2. (more…)