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The Class of 2019 ask you to help create the Katie Cannon Library Collection
https://www.givecampus.com/4upsqc…
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Former trustee Anne E. Treichler remembered
Union Presbyterian Seminary has recently learned of the passing in Naples, Florida, of Anne E. Treichler, former trustee and member of the President’s Advisory Council. She served on numerous committees at Presbyterian Woman, presbytery, seminary, and PCUSA Pension Board. Mrs. Treichler, 92, was a life-long member of Williamsburg Presbyterian Church. Her love of theology prompted her to establish the Anne…
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Wayne Boulton, last president of PSCE before federation with Union, dies
…Niebuhr. In the spring of 1966, Boulton married Vicki Marcia Rubin, having earlier caught her eye – and she, his – when his college choir performed at her high school. As just the first of their many adventures to come, they worked in Bangkok, Thailand from 1967-69 as part of the Frontier Intern Program of the Presbyterian Church, building bridges…
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Seminary Luncheon at Massanetta Bible Conference
Thirty-five alumni and friends gathered for a UPSem luncheon on Thursday, July 25, 2019 during the annual Bible Conference at Massanetta Springs, in Harrisonburg, VA. Dr. John Carroll was guest speaker at the luncheon. Carroll is the Harriet Robertson Fitts Memorial Professor of New Testament. His address focused on “Jesus and the other Abrahamic Faiths: Common Ground and Sticking Points.”…
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Free Public Lecture to be led by Director of Syngman Rhee Global Mission Center on March 25
…Center for Christian Education and Assistant Professor of World Christianity at Union Presbyterian Seminary. The 2019 Dawe Lecture will take place on March 25 from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. in Watts Chapel on the Richmond campus of Union Presbyterian Seminary. The event is free and open to the public. ### Contact: Mike Frontiero Director of Communications Union Presbyterian Seminary mfrontiero@upsem.edu…
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Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon Legacy Luncheon in Norfolk, VA
Come celebrate the life and gifts of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon on Saturday, April 27, 2019 from 11 am – 1 pm. First Presbyterian Church, 820 Colonial Ave., Norfolk, Virginia 23507. Our Keynote Speaker is Rev. Dr. Yvonne Delk- “Tell Your Own Story” . Dr. Delk is the First African American Woman to be ordained as clergy in the United…
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Former chairman of PSCE Board of Trustees Emile Dieth passes
…An ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Dieth served both church and community in a number of appointed and elected capacities, including president of the National Council of Presbyterian Men and as a member and chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia (now Union Presbyterian Seminary). Dieth leaves to cherish…
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Emeritus Professor Lamar Williamson Jr. dies
…Born on July 24, 1926, Lamar was a missionary, teacher, scholar, pastor, activist and friend who served the church and the world God so loved with a marvelous compassion and persistence. Please hold his children Ruth Simmons, Martha, Fred, and Allen Williamson in your prayers, as you give thanks for this good and faithful servant. Photo provided by April Swofford….
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Jane Towner, wife of former professor Sib Towner, dies
RICHMOND, VA (March 2, 2020) — Jane M. Towner, educator, conservation advocate, lifelong Northern Neck community leader, and wife of former Union Presbyterian Seminary Emeritus Professor of Old Testament W. Sibley “Sib” Towner, has died. She was 81. Towner is responsible for numerous environmental and historical preservation efforts near her home in Kilmarnock, Virginia. She also was a founding officer…
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James Hawley McKinnon, Jr. (1940-2018)
…throughout his community. As he did so, he gave to each of us the gift of his presence and shared with us the wondrous love of God. Jim is survived by his wife of fifty-one years, Louise Cherry McKinnon and their two sons who are also Presbyterian ministers: James, III (Trip) (M.Div.’10) and his wife Angie of Brunswick, Georgia; and…
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New book offers a fresh examination of a critical juncture in Christian history
…historical figures experienced these issues as interlocking and we miss some crucial things about the historical moment by keeping them separate,” Dr. Luckritz Marquis said. “Moreover, exploring how moments of violence are given competing narrations through nostalgia, erasure, and racialized rhetoric invites us to ask new questions about how these threads get woven in our own time.” “Death of the…
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Dorothee Tripodi called to Union Seminary faculty
…Seminary and Doctor of Ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary. After working on the staff as an adjunct professor at Union, the seminary’s board of trustees appointed her to a full-time faculty position effective July 1. “Dr. Tripodi is well known to the seminary community,” President Brian K. Blount said. “Union is indeed fortunate to now have her on the faculty…
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A Prayer for Justice in the Everyday
…since. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religious and Intercultural Studies from Eastern Mennonite University (2014), which included a full semester in the Middle East. Emily graduated from Union Presbyterian Seminary with a Master of Divinity (2020). She has also since completed a Certificate in Community Storytelling through The Hearth in Ashland, Oregon. Emily has over a decade of…
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Susan Blanchard called as first director of Baptist House of Studies at Union Seminary
…Franklin County Public Schools in Virginia. She received Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Christian Education degrees from Union Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian School of Christian Education (now Union Presbyterian Seminary). She also has a Bachelor of Science in biology from Radford University. ### Susan Pierson Blanchard headshot Contacts: Terry Maples CBF Virginia terrymaples4@gmail.com Mike Frontiero Union…
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Womanist Resources Named During the Just Talk/Talk Just Webinar
The term womanist comes from the Black idiomatic expression “you actin’ womanish” derived from Black Southern folk culture of a mother speaking to her girlchild. Alice Walker, a brilliant poet and novelist, most notably known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, defined the term, in her classic 1983 collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist…
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Deje Vu! Say It Again! by Rev. Sandra Caldwell-Williams (Dual M.Div./M.A.C.E.’06)
…mind, and spirit of the redeemed. “I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh, I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of the body, that is the church.” (Col. 1:24 NRSV). One of my sistah-friends reminded me to read it and I want to share how my spirit digested…
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Redeployed! by Rev. Dr. Audrey Todd (Dual M.Div./M.A.C.E’10)
Alarming Swift No time to prepare A menacing plague came upon us Where did it come from? Who sent it? Why? Questions, questions, questions! Are these the right questions? Is this the time for questions? Should we, the church, be asking questions? In the midst of a plague, what should we do? The Chronicler records this: At times I might…
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