On February 2 at 7:00 PM, Max Brumberg-Kraus (’20) and Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman, the author and illustrator of Visions of Love’s Divine, will converse about the project that led to the publication. Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis will moderate.
The decision to pursue a seminary degree involves a process of reflection and discernment. Join United faculty, staff, and current students February 21 at 12:30 PM for an exclusive, interactive Zoom conversation. You’ll have the opportunity to experience Zoom as a tool for distance learning and get clear answers to all your questions about United. SCHEDULE Explore what academic program, student life, and vocational planning looks like at United; Interview current ...
The decision to pursue a seminary degree involves a process of reflection and discernment. Join United faculty, staff, and current students February 21 at 6:00 PM for an exclusive, interactive Zoom conversation. You’ll have the opportunity to experience Zoom as a tool for distance learning and get clear answers to all your questions about United. SCHEDULE Explore what academic program, student life, and vocational planning looks like at United; Interview ...
Clergy, faith formation ministers, other congregational leaders, and the whole United community, are invited to a panel discussion including anti-racism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leaders from the ELCA, PC(USA), and UCC of Minnesota. Explore approaches to anti-racism work appropriate for diverse settings and leave inspired, with applicable resources for your congregation—no matter where you are in your anti-racism work. This is offered as a collaboration between United’s Anti-Racist Initiatives ...
Every year, each Social Transformation student at United completes a project or internship that addresses a significant social issue. Join us onsite or through Zoom on April 3 at 7:00 PM to learn about this year's group of projects and the meaningful impact these students have made. This showcase will include seven brief presentations and the opportunity to ask questions and celebrate the work of these students. We will also ...
Join the Leadership Center for Social Justice and the Justice and Peace Studies program at the University of St. Thomas as we view a documentary about the life of Quaker activists Staughton and Alice Lynd. Accompanying: The Journey of Staughton and Alice Lynd is a documentary by Catherine Murphy that covers the Lynds’ remarkable partnership in social justice struggles over seven decades, including Staughton’s time as director of the SNCC ...
We are beyond excited to announce that United will host award-winning drag songwriter and singer, Flamy Grant, for one performance on April 10 at 7:00 PM.
The United Board of Trustees, faculty, and the graduating class announce our Sixty-Second Annual Commencement Exercises.
We are living through perilous and divisive times. The idea of building walls that keep “us” safe from “them” is as much a vexing spiritual and theological problem as it is a social and political one. How might faith leaders and congregations courageously and creatively engage in socially transformative action from a place of spiritual grounding and depth? How might compassionate listening and radical imagination help us forge new connections ...
Please join us for graduation and a showcase of projects completed by the 2023–2024 Leadership for Social Justice cohort. Within the nine months of this program, each student has spent time sensing and discerning what is going on in their community and their congregation. From that vantage point, they worked to build a social justice ministry project that is concrete and contextual to their community. This graduation and showcase is an ...
“Nourishing Wounds” is a night of profane holiness and sacred debauchery to celebrate the release of Visions of Divine’s Love: a Drag Theopoetic by Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus (’20) and Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman, a book of poetry that blends the world of John Waters’ Pink Flamingos and the drag queen Divine with the ecstatic visions of a medieval nun. The performance, which will take place at Saint Paul’s Black Hart, ...
Artist and activist Ricardo Pérez Gonzalez is United’s inaugural artist-organizer-in-residence, and has served both our Leadership Center for Social Justice and the Theology and Arts program since last fall. He has also been facilitating our monthly arts and social transformation lunches. Now we want to celebrate Ricardo with an exhibit of and talk about his work. Born and raised in Mexico, Ricardo is a self-taught mixed media artist with more ...