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SUMMARY:2026 Commencement
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the \n64th Commencement Exercises\nof United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\nSunday\, April 26\, 2026 — 3:00 PM CT\nPlymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis \n\nGathering Onsite and Online\nCommencement will be available in a hybrid format. Whether you plan to attend onsite or online\, please sign up at the link below. Those who register to attend online will receive program and livestream links via email before the event. Those who attend onsite are invited to stay after to chat with our graduates at a reception. \n\nCommencement Speaker\nRev. Dr. Amy Butler\n \nRev. Dr. Amy Butler is the founder of Invested Faith\, a nonprofit that identifies\, resources\, and networks faith-rooted social entrepreneurs who are reimagining the work of faith communities in the world. She currently serves as Pastor of the Community Church of Honolulu\, bringing her visionary leadership to a diverse and dynamic faith community. She is the former Senior Minister of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington\, D.C. and The Riverside Church in New York City\, where she was the first woman to lead those historic congregations. She holds degrees from Baylor University\, the International Baptist Theological Seminary\, and Wesley Theological Seminary.  \nA respected preacher\, writer\, and leader in progressive faith movements\, Dr. Butler is the co-author of Holy Disruption: A Manifesto for the Future of Faith Communities (Chalice Press\, 2025) and author of a memoir\, Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith\, Doubt\, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other (The Dial Press\, 2023). Throughout her ministry\, she has been recognized for her commitment to justice\, compassion\, and building communities of radical welcome. \nFor her commencement address\, Rev. Dr. Butler will be drawing on scripture from John 21:1–14. The title of the address is “Deep Waters.” \n\nRegister
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/2026-commencement/
LOCATION:Plymouth Congregational Church\, 1919 LaSalle Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55403\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Affairs,Admissions,Commencement
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SUMMARY:2026 Susan Draper White Lecture with Dr. Ellen T. Armour
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, February 23\, 2026\, for our next Susan Draper White Lecture\, when we will welcome Dr. Ellen T. Armour as our presenter! Dr. Armour’s presentation is titled “Seeing Gender Otherwise: Theology as Visual Practice.” Festivities will begin with a reception at 5:45 PM for onsite attendees. Available onsite and online\, the lecture will commence at 6:30 PM CT. \nAmong the many issues dividing Americans these days is the conflict over how we should understand\, see\, and treat people whose gender identities break with norms. This is a conflict where religion\, gender\, and politics come together—familiar terrain for feminist theologians of all types. Central to this conflict is how we see gender (understood intersectionally\, of course). Armour draws on insights central to her two most recent books\, Signs and Wonders: Theology After Modernity (Columbia University Press\, 2016)\, and Seeing and Believing: Religion\, Digital Visual Culture\, and Social Justice (Columbia University Press\, 2023)\, as well as her long critical and constructive engagement with feminist and queer theology to diagnose and address this conflict.  \nArmour is Professor and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Her research and teaching interests include theologies and theories of gender\, race\, sexuality\, disability and visual culture as well as continental philosophy. She is the author of numerous articles and three books\, and she is also the co-editor of Bodily Citations: Religion and Judith Butler (Columbia University Press\, 2006). She has served as the Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion\, Gender\, and Sexuality since 2007. \nPublications\nHer research interests include feminist theology\, contemporary continental philosophy\, and theories of sexuality\, race\, gender\, disability\, and embodiment. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters\, she is the author of several publications: \n\nSeeing and Believing: Religion\, Digital Visual Culture\, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Columbia University Press\, 2023)\nSigns and Wonders: Theology After Modernity (Columbia University Press\, 2016)\nDeconstruction\, Feminist Theology\, and the Problem of Difference: Subverting the Race/Gender Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 1999)\n\nShe was co-editor of Bodily Citations: Judith Butler and Religion (Columbia University Press\, 2006). \nDr. Armour received her BA in Humanities from Stetson University and her MA and PhD from Vanderbilt University. \nTeaching \nShe began her teaching career at Rhodes College in Memphis in 1991. While at Rhodes\, she served as chair of the religious studies department and of several major faculty committees. She was honored to receive the Clarence Day Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (1999) and the Jameson Jones Award for Faculty Service (2005). She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in the fall of 2006 and became the Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion\, Gender\, and Sexuality in 2007. Armour has served in various leadership roles during her time at Vanderbilt and became the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the fall of 2019. \nRegister
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/2026-susan-draper-white-lecture-with-dr-ellen-t-armour/
LOCATION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\, 767 Eustis St.\, Suite 140\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Affairs,Susan Draper White Lecture
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SUMMARY:2025 Commencement
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the\n63rd Commencement Exercises\nof United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\nSunday\, April 27\, 2025 • 3:00 PM CT\nPlymouth Congregational Church\, Minneapolis\n\nCommencement Address\nSource: Union Theological Seminary \nRev. John J. Thatamanil\, PhD—Professor of Theology & World Religions and Director of the Insight Project: Theology & Natural World at Union Theological Seminary—will serve as our 63rd Commencement speaker. Rev. Dr. Thatamanil teaches a wide variety of courses in the areas of comparative theology\, theologies of religious diversity\, Hindu-Christian dialogue\, the theology of Paul Tillich\, the theory of religion\, process theology\, and eco-theology. He is committed to the work of comparative theology—a theology that learns from and with a variety of traditions. A central question that drives his work is\, “How can Christian communities come to see religious diversity as a promise rather than as a problem?” He is also committed to Dzogchen meditation and includes time for meditation in virtually all of his courses at Union. \nHis first book is an exercise in constructive comparative theology. The Immanent Divine: God\, Creation\, and the Human Predicament. An East-West Conversation (Fortress Press\, 2006) provides the foundation for a nondualist Christian theology worked out through a conversation between Paul Tillich and Sankara\, the master teacher of the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta. \nCircling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity (Fordham University Press\, 2020)\, Professor Thatamanil’s second book\, takes up the recent and extensive literature on the Western construction/invention of the category “religion” with the following questions in mind: If “religion” is a relatively recent invention of the modern West\, then is the category applicable to non-Western cultures and traditions? Can we really divide the world up into a set of discrete world religions? Does it still make sense to ask if the world’s “religions” are paths up the same mountain or paths up different mountains? How should theologies of religious diversity be reconfigured in light of these new questions and challenges? \nA third book\, provisionally titled Desiring Truth: Comparative Theology and the Quest for Interreligious Wisdom\, is in the works. This book begins by interrogating our troubling post-truth moment: just how did we get here? Taking up an argument made by the late Foucault\, Thatamanil argues that the answer partly lies in the modern commitment to separating desiring from knowing in the name of objectivity. By contrast\, Buddhist and Hindu traditions insist that without rectifying our desires\, there is no possibility of coming to the right knowing and genuine wisdom. Thatamanil turns to comparative theology as a resource for addressing a contemporary context rife with misinformation\, conspiracy theories\, and “alternative facts.” \nProfessor Thatamanil is a past president of the North American Paul Tillich Society (NAPTS) and the founding (and current) Chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Theological Education Committee. He is a frequent preacher and lecturer in churches\, colleges\, and universities\, both nationally and internationally. He also co-edits (with Dr. Loye Ashton) the “Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions” book series for Fordham University Press. He blogs regularly for a variety of online publications and has published editorials in The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. \nGathering\nCommencement will be available in a hybrid format. Whether you intend to participate onsite or online\, please sign up at the link below. Those who register to attend online will receive program and livestream links via email before the event. Those who attend onsite are invited to stay after to chat with our graduates at a reception. \nQuestions? Contact Jen Bingen Buck via email or phone at 651-255-6162. \n\nRegistration
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/2025-commencement/
LOCATION:Plymouth Congregational Church\, 1919 LaSalle Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55403\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Affairs,Commencement
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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:Picard Lecture on Environmental Theology and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Join us October 28 for the Picard Lecture on Environmental Theology and Ethics at United or online. Dr. Kiara Jorgenson\, associate professor of Religion and Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College\, is this year’s speaker. Kiara\, whose lecture is titled “Hope through Tears\,” is a theologian who earned degrees from St. Olaf College (BA\, Religion & Women’s Studies)\, Denver Seminary (MDiv) and Luther Seminary (PhD\, Theology). Her research interests include: Protestant ecotheologies\, vocation\, ecofeminisms\, agrarian studies\, ecological resistance movements\, childhood studies\, and the theology of motherwork. At St. Olaf College\, she teaches religion courses on ecotheologies\, place-based spiritualities\, and a smattering of environmental humanities offerings such as Biophilia\, Theo-Ethics of Climate Change\, and Culture of Nature. \nKiara recently published Ecology of Vocation: Recasting Calling in a New Planetary Era (Fortress/Lexington\, 2020) and an edited volume\, Ecotheology: A Christian Conversation (Eerdmans\, 2020). She has also published articles in journals on interdisciplinary topics ranging from Jürgen Moltmann’s ecological ethics to the vocation of children to Indigenous influence on Christian watershed liturgies.  \nAfter she speaks\, Dr. Munjed M. Murad\, United’s program director for Eco-Justice and assistant professor of World Religions and Intercultural Studies supported by the Johnson-Fry Endowment\, and Dr. Timothy R. Eberhart—the Robert and Marilyn Degler McClean Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and Practice at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Director of the Center for Ecological Regeneration—will offer brief responses to Kiara’s lecture. \nFree parking is available in either the North or South lot adjacent to the CASE building in St. Paul. \nAbout the Picard Lecture\nThe Picard Lectures on Environmental Theology and Ethics are supported by an endowment made possible through the generosity of United alum\, Rev. Frank Picard (’02)\, and members of the Picard family. The purpose of the lectureship is to explore questions and issues concerning the state of the creation from theological and ethical perspectives. The lectureship seeks to raise questions such as the relation between our spiritual life and the state of the natural world\, and the response of religious leadership to the decline of the planet. In establishing the endowment the Picard family especially wishes to remember the deep appreciation for God’s creation they shared with the late David and Roland Picard.
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/2024-picard-lecture-on-environmental-theology-and-ethics/
LOCATION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\, 767 Eustis St.\, Suite 140\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Picard Lecture on Environmental Theology and Ethics
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture with Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien
DESCRIPTION:United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in St. Paul are jointly sponsoring a lecture by the highly esteemed American theologian and ethicist Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien. The free event will take place at 6:30 PM on September 25\, in the main church at St. John’s and be live-streamed on St. John’s YouTube channel. \nDorrien\, the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University\, will base his lecture around two of his recent publications: Anglican Identities: Logos Idealism\, Imperial Whiteness\, Commonweal Ecumenism and the autobiographical Over from Union Road: My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life. Both books have a 2024 publication date. \nIn Anglican Identities\, Dorrien offers a comprehensive historical examination of Anglicanism\, encompassing the faith’s longstanding proclivity toward ecumenicalism and idealist approaches. He also argues that the religion’s aspirational ecumenical vision is directly antithetical to English Anglican’s entanglement with colonialism and white supremacy.  \nOver from Union Road\, on sale September 30\, is a rich memoir that describes Dorrien’s unlikely journey from being an academically inattentive high school athlete to becoming a renowned social ethicist\, theologian\, and intellectual historian. The book also covers Dorrien’s participation in the civil rights movement and other social and cultural upheavals during his lengthy career.  \nDorrien will also participate in United’s Fall Convocation on September 26 as he joins us to celebrate the installation of his former student\, Dr. Demian Wheeler\, into the new Sophia Chair in Religious and Theological Studies. The Lecture at St. John’s and United’s Fall Convocation are completely free to attend! \nView the venue address and information below.
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/guest-lecture-with-rev-dr-gary-dorrien/
LOCATION:St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church\, 60 Kent St N\, St. Paul\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Affairs,Admissions
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