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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
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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
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SUMMARY:2024 Commencement
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the\nAnnual Commencement Exercises\nof United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities\nSunday\, April 28\, 2024 • 3:00 PM CT\nPlymouth Congregational Church\, Minneapolis\n\nCommencement Address\n \nRev. Dr. R. Mitch Randall will serve as our Commencement speaker. Rev. Dr. Randall is the chief executive officer of Good Faith Media and\, in addition to pastoring for more than 20 years in churches throughout the Great Plains\, previously served as executive director at the Baptist Center of Ethics. Rev. Dr. Randall holds an MDiv with a concentration in Biblical Languages from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth\, Texas\, and a DMin degree from George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco\, Texas. Mitch is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and has ancestors reaching back to the McIntosh and Childers clans. \nRev. Dr. Randall’s address is titled “Where the Buffalo Roam: Decolonization Sets Us Free.” \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 MJ Luna via email or phone at 651-255-6162. \n\nRegistration
URL:https://www.unitedseminary.edu/event/2024-commencement/
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