Black Alumni Association Newsletter: February 2022

…to withdraw the federal troops and allow the southern states “home rule” meaning the federal government would not interfere with how states governed themselves. The end of reconstruction was the beginning of Jim Crow; the period in American history where the south created laws to disenfranchise African Americans and reinstitute a new kind of slavery. This history shows us that…

Bibliography

…of Virginia. TheCivil Rights Movement as Theological Drama. Retrieved from http://www.livedtheology.org/ University of Virginia. President’s Commission on Slavery and the University. Retrieved from http://slavery.virginia.edu/ University of Virginia. Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970. Retrieved from http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/ Warner, Kaine, Scott, Booker & Blunt Applaud Approval of Commission to Recognize 400 Years of African American History. Retrieved from https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/12/warner-kaine-scott-booker-blunt-applaud-approval-of-commission-to-recognize-400-years-of-african-american-history BACK…

Dr. Galbreath to keynote North American Association for the Catechumenate

…in turning toward God in action and behavior. As a community of worship, study and prayer we will turn our minds and hearts to appreciate the deep structures of the Lenten journey for our own ministries of baptismal formation. Registration will open in January 2017. See our website for information on a concurrent raining event for parish teams. www.catechumenate.org  …

Internship Sites

JUST PREACH /JUST ACT CSJR AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL JUSTICE PREACHING SERIES – PART 3

…Seminary is excited to invite you to the 2022 African American Social Justice Preaching Series on January 10th and 12th entitled “Just Preach/ Just Act!” These two days will feature three online events, including an evening lecture on January 10th at 7:00 pm with the Rev. Dr. William C. Turner, Jr of Durham, NC who will explore the intricacies and…

Just Preach /Just Act CSJR African American Social Justice Preaching Series – Part 1

…Seminary is excited to invite you to the 2022 African American Social Justice Preaching Series on January 10th and 12th entitled “Just Preach/ Just Act!” These two days will feature three online events, including an evening lecture on January 10th at 7:00 pm with the Rev. Dr. William C. Turner, Jr of Durham, NC who will explore the intricacies and…

JUST PREACH /JUST ACT CSJR AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL JUSTICE PREACHING SERIES – PART 2

…Seminary is excited to invite you to the 2022 African American Social Justice Preaching Series on January 10th and 12th entitled “Just Preach/ Just Act!” These two days will feature three online events, including an evening lecture on January 10th at 7:00 pm with the Rev. Dr. William C. Turner, Jr of Durham, NC who will explore the intricacies and…

American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature breakfast

Union Presbyterian Seminary’s Alumni office is pleased to host an event in connection with the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings in Denver, Colorado. We invite you to join us for breakfast and fellowship! Monday, November 19, 7:30 am to 8:45 am Colorado Convention Center (room TBA), 700 14th Street, Denver, Colorado 80202 We…

Dr. Galbreath to present at the North American Academy of Liturgy

Dr. Paul Galbreath will present a paper entitled “The Search for Earth-Inclusive Language: A Brief Survey of Three Proposals to the Revised Book of Common Worship” at the Annual Meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy in Vancouver, British Columbia. His presentation will begin at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, January 6. Dr. Galbreath is Professor of Theology at Union…

Dr. Adams to Speak on Bible and American Politics

Associate Professor of Old Testament, Dr. Samuel L. Adams, will be teaching a 3 part series on the Bible and American Politics on October 16, 23, and 30th during the Sunday school hour at Second Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia….

2017 Sprunt Lectures

…the first African American female pastor to offer the invocation at the Virginia General Assembly, the first African American to be appointed to the Accomack County Social Service Board, a former board member of the American Baptist Churches USA Ministerial Leadership Commission, a member of the former Governor of VA Commission HIV/AIDS Task Force, and past commissioner of Missions for…

Women address gender justice for African-Americans

On Martin Luther King Day, more than 50 African-American women working in diverse contexts in the community participated in a “conscientization luncheon” to discuss how gender justice concretely transforms life in the direction of non-alienating experiences for African-American women and the wider environment in which they are situated. The Richmond campus event was led by Professor of Christian Ethics Katie…

Online Course: Womanist Biblical Interpretation

…Studies. While some may argue the common history of Africans in America does not warrant a bifurcation of biblical interrogation, the nuanced evolution of African Americans in the religious academy and the unique experiences of African American women therein help explain the existence of two distinct avenues of biblical scholarship. Not unlike the theological analogues of Liberation Theology and Mujerista…

Host Site Coordinator/Stated Supply–Presbytery of Transylvania–Eastern Kentucky

The Presbytery of Transylvania is looking for a Host Site Coordinator/Stated Supply position. This person will partner with 5 of our churches in Eastern KY who do not have consistent pastoral leadership, and also welcome disaster recovery groups to the area. These 5 churches are all in communities hit HARD by a significant (and that’s an understatement) flood in July…

5 African-American students to graduate

…and strategic options. His favorite course was Themes and Problems in African American Theological Ethics. After graduation, Rev. Edloe will continue to serve as pastor of New Hope Fellowship and to teach Christian Ethics at the John Leland Theological Center. He has also written a book on the rural black church” and said, “I will be doing all I can…

BLACK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER: February 2023

…Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the University of Chicago. Concerned that there was such a dearth of written black American history, he founded the Association for the Study of Colored American Life and History in 1926 and began Black History Week which later became Black History Month. Beginning in 1928 a theme has been chosen by this organization annually for…

Strange Bedfellows: South Africa and U.S.A.

…nation has progressed in racial understanding through the Reconstruction Period then regressed through the Jim Crow Period before the advances of the Civil Rights Movement which led to greater education, employment and political and opportunities for African Americans. The nation enjoyed the election of an African American president in 2008 who served two terms. In the last decade, unfortunately, however,…

Alphonso Saville Named Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Mission

…and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. A scholar of American religion whose interests include legacies of slavery in American religion, African American Christianity, and religions and literature of the African diaspora, Saville is known for his work in local communities, especially in youth development. He will begin his work with UPSem on July 1 on the Charlotte campus. #…

Interim/Transitional Ministry Training Week 1

…prepare for the week. ********************* Online registration is open. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Once inside the registration site, located on the header bar, interested participants can view the Summary, Course Description, Agenda, Leaders, and Required Reading tabs. To begin registration, select New Registration. ********************* Note: Class size will be limited. Once capacity is reached, a waiting list will be started….

Black Alumni Association Newsletter: September 2021

…this day. We know that Jefferson, like most of his contemporaries, did not envision a nation where enslaved African Americans, or women, or Native Americans, would live with him as equals.” To put this in proper perspective, 41 of the 56 who signed this Declaration of Independence were white male slave owners. Reading this article caused me to remember the…

You are invited to join us for the 2023 Sprunt Lectures May 1-3, 2023 Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond Campus

Our 2023 Sprunt Lecturer is Dr. Keri L. Day Keri Day is an Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. She earned a B.S. in Political Science and Economics from Tennessee State University, an M.A. in Religion and Ethics from Yale University Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt…

Online Course: Proto-Womanist Thought

…Her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “A View From the Balcony: Opera Through Womanist Eyes,” traces United States history through the development of opera as a racist genre of cultural entertainment. Examining how African Americans and other marginalized minorities have been forcibly consigned to the balconies of American society, culture, and institutions while peering over symbolic balconies to locate and excavate truth,…