August 5, 2025
Interview with Dr. Awes Freeman on Upcoming Screening of Ending the Silence
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August 5, 2025
Alum GIVEBACK: United Community After Graduation
A key component of United’s community is curiosity. From the classroom to the chapel, students learn to question their beliefs and deconstruct contexts to become more mindful, ethical, and creative in their work as faith leaders. And this community value of curiosity doesn’t stop when students graduate. (more…)
Driven by Rejection: Lessons from Mark 6: 1–13
This week's blog post is based on a sermon given by student Riva Tabelisma at Spirit of Hope United Methodist Church in Golden Valley, MN. (more…)
June 2, 2023
Teaching the Flag: A Judeo-Pagan, Radical Faerie Prayer for Pride.
The following prayer/liturgical reading is by local artist, educator, former United staff member, and 2020 alum Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus. It is inspired by Gilbert Baker's original rainbow flag design for Pride. As an artist-theologian, Brumberg-Kraus holds multiple religious belonging including the gay pagan movement of the Radical Faeries, Judaism, and interfaith queer/trans theologies. If this is a prayer that speaks to you or your community, the author is happy for you to use it, with attribution. (more…)
September 2, 2022
John Aeschbury: United’s 2022 Distinguished Alum
United celebrates 2022 Distinguished Alum John Aeschbury! Since his graduation in 1985, John has lived deeply into United’s missional values. He started out as Pastor and Teacher of Hale United Church of Christ in inner-city Dayton, Ohio. In the late 1980s, moved to more fully live out the call to do justice, John gathered clergy and lay leaders to talk about building a congregation-based community organization in Dayton. Soon he was the first head organizer of Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton (LEAD) in 1990. (more…)
June 24, 2021
Queer Ancestors, Holy Pride: A Community Arts Collage
On June 22, 2021, students, alumni, and friends of United got together for a special Pride arts lunch, where we created a community arts collage around the theme of queer ancestry, pride, and lgbtq+ iconography. The Following Pride flag is inspired by Daniel Quasar's Progress: Pride Flag Reboot, which brings together Gilbert Baker's original design with Tierney's inclusive Pride Flag (which incorporates black and brown strips in honor of black and other POC members of the LGBTQ community) and Seattle LGBTQ Commission's flag (which includes the pink, white and blue of the transgender flag). (more…)
June 16, 2021
Hollywood, Transgender Lives, and the Theological Response: A Panel on Disclosure (2020)
In Summer 2020, Theology and the Arts at United held a panel discussion on the Netflix documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen about the history of transgender representation in film and television. FOr Pride 2021, we have made the recording of the discussion available for viewing. (more…)