Professor Gench to Lead Seminar and Retreat for Presbytery of the Cascades

Dr. Gench will lead a lectionary seminar and retreat entitled “Preaching and Teaching John During the Lenten and Easter Seasons” for the Presbytery of the Cascades in Oregon. The retreat will be held at Menucha Retreat and Conference Center in Corbett, Oregon, on October 21-22, 2019. Dr. Frances Taylor Gench is the Herbert Worth and Annie H. Jackson Professor of …

UPSem Alumni Breakfast at AAR/SBL in San Diego, California!

Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina South Tower – First Level 333 West Harbor Drive San Diego, California 92101 ROOM LOCATION: LEUCADIA Alums are invited regardless of attending AAR/SBL 2019 REGISTER …

Rev. Mitri Raheb brings message of hope to Charlotte campus

By Gail Henderson, M.Div. student Dr. Mitri Raheb – I had only recently heard about him, about his wisdom, his perspective, his experiences, and his writing. His work and his testimony had been recommended to me less than a month before he came to speak at Union Presbyterian Seminary here in Charlotte, North Carolina. What a gift he was to …

Central America Travel Seminar: Stories of exile and oppression

This is post 8 of 12 in the series “Central America travel seminar” Our Central America travel seminar has landed! Central America Travel Seminar: Silencing Christian Justice Central America Travel Seminar: The War Years Central America Travel Seminar: The day we met Jon Sobrino Central America Travel Seminar: “Power is for the people” Central America Travel Seminar: Echoes of Womanists …

Reading Revelation through the Trials of Phillis Wheatley

…of All Things (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2001), 52. 7 Stephen Hurd, “Revelation 19:1,” released October 3, 2006, track 21 on My Destiny, Integrity Music, 2010, Apple Music. Rev. Dr. Larry L. Enis is the founding pastor of New Beginnings Church in Mechanicsville, VA. He also teaches preaching at Union Presbyterian Seminary.               …

Toxicology, cataracts, & Paul… oh, my!

…point yesterday – and that is worth every question of “has Jordan lost her mind?” How do you meet your congregants where they are? How would things change if the chaos was allowed to break in? Alumna Jordan B. Davis is transitional associate pastor at Kirk of Kildaire Presbyterian Church in Cary, North Carolina, and editor of Congregational Corner.   …

Early Thinking about Slavery: The Hoge Years

…Liberia. His act of liberation was both gracious and disturbing. The freeing of his enslaved persons did not result from an understanding of racial equality that presaged integrated racial community. While he believed in the universal kinship of all people in God, he also felt that enslaved people who had been emancipated and free blacks should not live in America …

Curso en línea “Senderos” (Online Course in Spanish)

Curso en línea “Senderos” El Leadership Institute of Union Presbyterian Seminary, en asociación con el Syngman Rhee Global Mission Center for Christian Education, están patrocinando este curso en línea. Título del curso: Apocalipsis: resiliencia, esperanza y canciones El libro del Apocalipsis es uno de los escritos más eclécticos del Segundo Testamento en la Biblia. Las complejidades, características, teologías y expresiones …

Started UPSem 2013: Martin Pruitt (MDiv 2018 / MACE 2019)

…MACE) The following is part of a series of 20 profiles that represent each year that Charlotte has been enrolling students. Director of High School and College Ministries Covenant Presbyterian Church Charlotte, North Carolina Born and reared in the Palmetto State, Martin Pruitt (MDiv 2018 / MACE 2019) lived in Anderson, South Carolina, his whole life until traveling north up …

Started UPSem 2004: Rev. Nadine Ellsworth-Moran (MDiv / MACE 2011)

…distinguishes the work of the seminary and what Ellsworth-Moran wants others to know about UPSem Charlotte. Ellsworth-Moran concludes, “The faculty and staff really do care about each student and their life. They care not only about what is happening in the classroom but what is going on once we leave campus. There is a real community on the Charlotte campus.” …

California wildfires affect Union families

…of Marina Luckoo, a student at Union’s Charlotte campus, was affected by fires that consumed the town of Paradise. Her nephew Jesiah and his family fled their home with all they could carry before it was destroyed. A GoFundMe page has been started to help them recover. Hippe said the hardest thing for communities recovering from the disaster is the …

Charlotte Campus 20th Anniversary Chapel Service

Save the date and watch this space for details!

Charlotte Campus Art Dedication and Lecture

Save the date and watch this space for details! …

Union Presbyterian Seminary Charlotte Campus Commencement

Loss, lament, and gratitude in the aftermath of Florence

…didn’t know whether to offer a lament or thanksgiving. There was reason for both. Hurricane Florence had made landfall on the North Carolina coast on Friday, September 14, and had brought death, destruction, and record-breaking flooding across Eastern Carolina. Hawkins’ inland hometown of New Bern, at the junction of the Trent and Neuse rivers, began feeling the hurricane on Wednesday …

Ghana’s Canopy Trail

Today’s Ghanaian journey started at the Kakum National Park in southern Ghana, near the coast. The park’s prominent landscape is tropical forest, accounting for 90% of its area. It is one of three places in Africa with a canopy walk through the trees. Within the park boundaries are 266 species of birds, buffalo, forest elephants, civets, Colobus monkeys, red river …

6 things about Bruce McVey’s summer break

…at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center here in Richmond. The McGuire VA provides medical care to veterans in southern and central Virginia and northern North Carolina. As a CPE student, I am part of the Chaplain Service and work as a chaplain to provide pastoral care for patients, families, and staff. RR: How does this summer’s job/activity/study …

Glenn Q. Bannerman (1927-2020): A Tribute

…was teaching was some very serious fun. By the time I met Glenn he had already retired from his illustrious career of decades teaching at PSCE. I did not have the privilege of working with him when he was a full-time professor, but I came to know him well. Know his love for the church. Know his desire that the …

Children’s Director–Brentwood Presbyterian Church–Los Angeles, CA

Brentwood Presbyterian Church, a warm and vibrant, inclusive and welcoming, Christ-centered and mission-minded, 500-member, church in the heart of Los Angeles’ Westside (strategically tucked beneath the Santa Monica Mountains, between UCLA and the Santa Monica Pier in the shadow of the Getty Museum) is in search of an exceptional individual with a mature faith to lead our very active ministry …

Katie Geneva Cannon Scholarship Fund merit scholarship available

The Katie Geneva Cannon Scholarship Fund awards a merit scholarship to an incoming degree-seeking woman of African descent enrolled in the Th.M. program (Richmond campus) or M.Div., M.A.C.E., or dual programs (Richmond and Charlotte campuses) who demonstrates strong academic achievement and shows genuine promise for womanist leadership that is dedicated to transforming the academy, the church, and the community. Scholarships …

Student calls for new normal after fatal police shooting in Charlotte

…friends, it’s often been a scary place. I’m learning that racism isn’t just the way I feel about a person – it’s black people struggling in a white America – a white America that makes me feel safe. Cone describes America in stark terms: as “a nation demonically deceived about what is good, true, and beautiful. The oppression in this …

Charlotte Graduates

…B.A., M.B.A. Louisburg College North Carolina State University Campbell University Serenitye Taylor, B.A. University of Florida William Upchurch Darren Wilson, B.S., M.B.A. St. Leo University, Norfolk Flury Wilson, B.S., M.S., Ed. S., Ed. D. Winthrop University Nova Southeastern University South Carolina State University   The list of 2021 Graduates cites the names of those anticipated to graduate at the time …