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SUMMARY:The Enneagram: An Invitation to Explore with Ahshua Bolton
DESCRIPTION:The Enneagram\, long established as a useful and transformative tool for understanding self and others\, offers a lifetime of discovery. Uniquely organized into Nine Personality Types\, the Enneagram promotes three principles: \n\nThe first Enneagram principle is to understand ourselves\, by Personality Type\, as divine beings. By studying and employing The Enneagram of Personality—along with personal inner work—we learn to recognize our brilliance and our shadows. The invitation is to integrate both of these wonderful aspects of our essential selves. \nThe second principle is to understand others by their personality traits\, characteristics\, and behaviors as we learn about all Nine Personality Types. Understanding the brilliance and shadows of all Nine Personality Types—realizing we are all more alike than different—promotes compassion for each other.\nThe third principle is to use the understanding we gain to improve how we interface with others in the world by compassionately seeking harmony and learning methods by which we can reasonably discuss discord when it arises. The Enneagram is a tool that facilitates this universal journey. While we journey\, we are constantly informed more about ourselves.\n\nUsed in self-care and self-knowledge\, interpersonal relationships\, pastoral care\, spiritual counseling\, businesses\, not-for-profit organizations\, prisons\, churches\, and many more areas of life\, The Enneagram facilitates depth\, understanding\, and love for our neighbor. This session will be useful to those who are new to the Enneagram and for those already exposed to it but interested in diving a little deeper. \nKnowing one’s Enneagram Type before the presentation is not a requirement. However\, knowing one’s Type in advance may positively impact the presentation experience. Participants are invited to search online for Enneagram tests. There are free tests available\, or\, for $10\, one may take a highly recommended test by The Narrative Enneagram. \nThis session will be led by Ahshua Bolton\, MBA\, CPA\, who has been a student of The Enneagram since 1992. He has since taught countless Enneagram workshops and classes\, facilitated small groups of learning and group activities\, both secular and in faith communities\, and taught in prisons around the country\, including San Quentin in the Bay Area of California. Ahshua obtained his certifications to teach and coach The Enneagram from Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition in Menlo Park\, California (now The Narrative Enneagram in Boulder\, Colorado). Using the Enneagram\, his passion lies in sharing the positive impact self-knowledge and self-understanding can have on people’s lives. \nRegister Below
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/the-enneagram-explore-with-ahshua-bolton/
LOCATION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\, 767 Eustis St.\, Suite 140\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposium Week
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SUMMARY:Susan Draper White Lecture: “Battle for the Minds\, Revisited” with Rev. Molly T. Marshall\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:United is very pleased to announce that our 34th annual Susan Draper White Lecture will take place on February 24\, 2025\, and feature Rev. Molly T. Marshall\, PhD\, United’s esteemed and beloved president. President Marshall’s lecture is titled “Battle for the Minds\, Revisited.” \nThirty years ago\, writer and producer Steve Lipscomb created his first documentary\, Battle for the Minds\, about the Southern Baptist Convention’s conservative shift and how that was affecting women pastors. Prominently featured in the film was a progressive\, feminist professor of Christian theology\, and experienced pastor\, at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville\, Kentucky: Dr. Molly T. Marshall.  \nThis year’s lecture will feature Rev. Dr. Marshall’s reflections on that pivotal episode in her professional and theological life and how the experience shaped the theologian and leader she has become\, as United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities’ president. The evening will include a screening of the documentary along with Rev. Dr. Marshall’s remarks and reflections. \nDr. Marshall writes: \nIf you attend the Susan Draper White Lecture\, you will witness a story of resilience. The documentary chronicles what happens to a woman who challenges the power structures that deem women unfit to exercise spiritual leadership. Although filmed nearly 30 years ago\, it remains a cautionary tale about the crushing power of patriarchy—all too resilient itself as recent days attest. Indeed\, misogyny is hurtling forward. \nIt is not just my story\, but the story of countless women whom the Church has silenced\, marginalized\, and castigated. While there have been many breakthroughs for women in ecclesiastical circles\, contempt and abuse stalk their presence\, claiming their leadership to be invalid and contrary to theological tradition. \nOn the larger social landscape of politics\, law\, commerce\, and education\, the pernicious oppression of women—especially women of color—continues. Naming this reality and concrete resistance remains urgent. \nIt will be an evening of reflection and thoughtful conversation about what is at stake when patriarchy prevails. \nThis special event will begin at 7:00 PM and conclude by 9:15 PM. It will take place on United’s campus and will be available via live streaming. To learn more\, please contact Jen Buck (jbuck@unitedseminary.edu). \nREGISTRATION
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/2025-susan-draper-white-lecture/
LOCATION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\, 767 Eustis St.\, Suite 140\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
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SUMMARY:Organizing in the Spirit of Accompaniment | 2023 Symposium Week
DESCRIPTION:As part of Symposium Week (October 23–25)\, United is hosting a public-facing event on Tuesday\, October 24. In this lecture and workshop\, Dr. Ry Siggelkow\, Director of the Leadership Center for Social Justice\, and Ricardo Pérez\, artist-organizer of the same\, will explore what contemporary organizing lessons we can learn from prominent Black civil and human rights activist Ella Baker\, the work of the 1960s’ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)\, and the Mexican Zapatistas (also known as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation). After introducing these figures and movements\, they will lift up and elucidate some of the common principles and practices that might inform efforts related to “organizing in the spirit of accompaniment” today. \n\n  \n\n \n\n\nFacilitators\nDr. Ry Siggelkow\nRy O. Siggelkow\, Ph.D.\, (he/him/his) is the director of the Leadership Center for Social Justice. He earned his PhD in Theology and Ethics from Princeton Theological Seminary and previously served as the director of Initiatives in Faith & Praxis at the University of St. Thomas where he taught courses at the intersection of race\, class\, and gender with a focus on migration\, the abolition of borders\, and theologies of liberation. An ordained Mennonite minister and former pastor of Faith Mennonite Church (Minneapolis)\, Ry has been actively involved in grassroots community organizing for several years alongside Spanish-speaking undocumented people. He is co-founder of Pueblos de Lucha y Esperanza (Peoples of Struggle and Hope)\, a faith-based\, women-centered\, and immigrant-led organization that seeks to build power in the community so that all people have a place to belong\, a place to stay\, and a place to grow. \nRicardo Pérez\nBorn and raised in Mexico\, Ricardo (he/him/his) is a self-taught mixed media artist with more than 15 years of creative experience who now lives in the Twin Cities. Partial to watercolor and ink\, Ricardo has recently created murals to reflect a spirit of collaboration with marginalized communities and lift up those whose voices need to be heard. In August of 2022\, Ricardo was announced as The Leadership Center for Social Justice’s new artist-organizer in residence.
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/symposium-week-organizing-in-the-spirit-of-accompaniment/
LOCATION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\, 767 Eustis St.\, Suite 140\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reorienting Ourselves to the Reality of Not Yet | 2023 Symposium Week
DESCRIPTION: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. \n“Reorienting Ourselves to the Reality of Not Yet” is a public event that officially launches the second wave of United’s Anti-Racist initiatives\, which includes a focus on student formation and public engagement. This evening features a curated panel conversation that highlights the unique contributions of two scholars-activists who are engaging in the work of anti-racism through comedy and the Arts\, and who will engage each other in a way that offers a unique angle of vision into the nurture of white supremacy and the possibilities for life in its wake. \nThe panel and public conversation will be preceded by an original production that presents United’s vision for this work\, explains the unique approach we are taking\, and features the voices of faculty speaking to their commitment and creative engagements with anti-racism in their teaching and scholarship. This public panel conversation officially launches United’s second wave of Anti-Racist Initiatives\, kicking off a programmatic reorientation focused on student formation and a series of public panel conversations that creatively disrupt white supremacy and collectively envision life in its wake. \nKeep reading to learn more about our panelists! \n\n\n \n\nPanelists\nDr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan\nDr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan is an associate professor at Santa Clara University. She specializes in African American literature and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries and is interested in the ways that literature\, mass media\, popular culture\, and humor shape identity formation. In particular\, her research and teaching reflect her interests in African American satire and comedy\, the arts as activism\, and the continuing influence of history on contemporary articulations of Black selfhood. As a professor at Santa Clara University\, she teaches courses in the Department of English and the Department of Ethnic Studies. Danielle has written a variety of both scholarly and popular articles and has been interviewed on topics as varied as Black Lives Matter\, race and The Twilight Zone\, Black sisterhood in sitcoms\, the satiric reappropriation of negative tropes\, laughter as revolution\, race and sexuality on the Broadway stage\, and Beyoncé. Her book\, Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century (published Fall 2020 by University of Illinois Press as a part of the New Black Studies Series)\, addresses the contemporary role of African American satire as a critical realm for social justice. She is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of African American Humor Studies (Oxford University Press) with Dr. Brittney Michelle Edmonds in addition to working on her second monograph. \nDr. Green writes\, “Danielle’s engagement with comedy and satire as a form of social justice makes her the perfect conversation partner for this event\, particularly because comedy is a centerpiece to the design of Anti-Racist Initiatives at United. Her book Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century has received public acclaim and will also be an important part of our conversation.” Click here to learn more about Dr. Morgan’s work. > \nTerresa Moses\nTerresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown communities through art and design. As a designer and illustrator\, her work focuses primarily on race\, identity\, and social justice. She advocates for positive change in her community using creativity as tools of community activism and organizing like her solo intersectional exhibition\, Umbra\, and her community distro project\, Stop Killing Black People. Terresa is the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt\, a social justice-based design studio. She is also an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design. As a community engaged scholar\, her design research interests include; Project Naptural\, which creates spaces to educate\, connect\, and empower Black women about their natural hair and self-identity\, and Racism Untaught\, a curriculum model that reveals ‘racialized’ design and helps students\, educators\, and organizations create anti-racist concepts through the design research process. She has multiple publications including two books set to publish in October 2023 through MIT Press\, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness. \nDr. Green writes\, “Terresa’s focus on embodying anti-racism through art is brilliant and will be featured\, but it is her attention to design—how white supremacy lives in the details and/of design—that I want to invite her to unpack for the public to hear and engage. She also has a forthcoming book entitled\, Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design\, is set to release October 3rd and will be a focus of the conversation.” Click here to learn more about Terresa’s work. > \nDr. Gary F. Green II\nRev. Dr. Gary F. Green II is United’s assistant professor of pastoral theology and social transformation and director of anti-racist initiatives at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He earned his PhD from Brite Divinity School\, where he focused on issues related to young African American men through the lens of public pastoral theology. His dissertation\, “Playing the Game: Unmarking ‘Beast’ from the Bodies of Young Black Men\,” is a project that seeks to humanize young black men by allowing their voices to challenge stereotypical scripts that cast them as “beasts” for public consumption. His broader research interests involve raising consciousness to issues of race\, masculinity\, and power\, particularly when these issues are uniquely disclosed in spaces that are often overlooked by the Church and the Academy. Gary is committed to highlighting neglected sources in his research as a way to prioritize the revolutionary potential of voices that have gone unheard. His ultimate goal is to contribute to theological perspectives that can more adequately undergird sociopolitical redress for oppression in marginalized populations in the United States. Click here to learn more about Dr. Green. >
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/symposium-week-reorienting-ourselves/
LOCATION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\, 767 Eustis St.\, Suite 140\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
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