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Zoom Classroom Best Practices

As classrooms and faith communities move to online events, courses, and gatherings, we know there's a big learning curve for presenters and participants. At United, Zoom technology is built in to our instructional model. Over the years, we've learned some best practices for online presentations that we want to share with you as you make the shift from in-person gatherings and teaching. (more…)

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…)

The Verdict Is In! Spiritual Leaders Need To Be Entrepreneurial.

Some call it social innovation, redemptive entrepreneurship, missional innovation, spiritual entrepreneurship – pick your #hashtag, – but it is no longer a niche. It’s a full-blown, interfaith movement. Many spiritual leaders complain that they did not learn how to revitalize dying churches or start new ones when they were in seminary, because it was not part of the curriculum. Well at United you can gain those skills through the efforts of the Department of Student Formation, Vocation, Experience and the Arts. We are developing offering, opportunities, 1:1 conversation, community visits, shadowing and coaching to students who feel called to explore entrepreneurial concepts and practices in their upcoming or current ministries. What are some of the characteristics entrepreneurial spiritual leaders possess and develop? (more…)

New Campus Location

United Theological Seminary is relocating to Saint Anthony Park, the St. Paul neighborhood at the intersection of the Towerside Innovation District and Creative Enterprise Zone. Starting in January 2019, classes will meet at 767 N. Eustis St., St. Paul, Minnesota. (more…)