Racism and Freedmen: Robert Lewis Dabney and Benjamin Mosby Smith

Robert Lewis Dabney Robert Lewis Dabney and Benjamin Mosby Smith succeeded Professor Baxter on the Union Seminary faculty. Dabney was a Confederate officer who served as chaplain and chief of staff to General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. After the Civil War, Dabney published A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her of the South (E. J. Hale, 1867). It was one of …

Currie Family Lecture

…Clinical Pastoral Education, and pushing for a more inclusive student body. By building a campus in Charlotte, Union Presbyterian Seminary has expanded the reach of a recognized seminary with a curriculum based on the Reformed Tradition. Join us for this year’s Currie Family Lecture as Union alumnus, seminary historian, and retired PC(USA) minister William B. Sweetser Jr. considers the role …

Public lecture (virtual): “Entre el llanto y la Palabra: la pastoral de Calvino ante la enfermedad y la muerte” (Between Tears and the Word: the Pastoral Response of Calvin to Illness and Death”

Souvenirs from Switzerland: Our Exchange Year in Bern

…was both striking and curious to me. While their society appears much more secularized, they continue to measure their lives and keep time by a Christian liturgical calendar that our American social conscious and enterprising spirit has long forgotten. There the stores are closed on Sundays. Advent is commemorated daily with small rituals, caroling, and Christmas markets. You can set …

Central America Travel Seminar: The War Years

This is post 3 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 …

Central America Travel Seminar: Illiteracy, human rights, and deportation

This is post 7 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 …

Presbyterian Polity, Program, and Mission

…program and mission of the PC(USA).   Required Reading Book of Confessions, Study edition. Online version is at http://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/oga/pdf/boc2014.pdf or on course documents, Blackboard Book of Order, 2013-2015 edition. Online version is at http://www.pcusa.org/resource/book-order-2013-2015/ or on course documents, Blackboard Historic Principles, Conscience, and Church Government, adopted by 195th General Assembly (1983) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) http://www.pcusa.org/resource/historic-principles-conscience-and-church-governme/ or on course …

On-Campus Workshop: The Bible and Film

…can be generated upon request at the time of the event. Campus Housing: Housing on campus is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. You can sign up for housing, for an additional cost, when you register. ************************* To REGISTER for the event, click here. Space is limited, and a waiting list will begin once capacity is reached. Register early!   …

On-Campus Workshop: Multiple Ways of Teaching & Learning

…indicate any food preferences (gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, etc.). CEUs: .5 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for this event. Note: CEU certificates can be generated upon request at the time of the event. Campus Housing: Housing on campus is available on a first-come, first-served basis. You may sign up for housing for an additional cost when you register. ************************* The Multiple Ways …

Employment

Charlotte Campus Office and Facilities Manager Union Presbyterian Seminary is seeking candidates for the position of Office and Facilities Manager of the Charlotte Campus. This is a full-time position with Tuesday-Saturday hours on the Charlotte Campus. Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and a resumé to Vice President and Dean of Students, Lisa McLennan at lmclennan@upsem.edu. The review …

UPSem alumni luncheon at 223rd General Assembly

President Brian K. Blount and Director of Alumni Development the Rev. Dr. W. Clay Macaulay invite alumni and their family and friends to come to our alumni luncheon at the PC(USA) General Assembly in St. Louis.   Keynote speaker: Rev. Dr. Jerry L. Cannon Brother of UPsem Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics Katie Geneva Cannon Pastor of C.N. …

Transcript & Enrollment Verification Requests

…security available is used protect your credit card and personal information. Alumni/ae Transcript Requests Online through the National Student Clearinghouse Union Presbyterian Seminary uses The National Student Clearinghouse as its trusted agent for processing online transcript requests. This process is completely secure. You will pay for your transcript via credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover). The most current …

Opposition from Outside Campus

…however, were supportive. One woman wrote: “We cannot find sufficient words of thanks for the brave stand that each of you have taken in a cause we all feel to be just.” George Conn and the others received death threats and insults. Conn recalls: On one particular day when I had just received and read a particularly seething letter, Dr. …

Monumental Confederate controversy solution might be ancient history

…to think carefully about the relationship of how we use a space for memorialization and the relationship of that space to violence. Dr. Luckritz Marquis, the historian, can rapidly run through a list of times and places where the destruction and retention of memory is obvious and profound: the Armenian massacre of 1915, the defeat of Nazism in 1945, Desert …

Started UPSem 2017: Rev. Marina Luckhoo (pursuing MDiv)

…MACE) The following is part of a series of 20 profiles that represent each year that Charlotte has been enrolling students. Clinical Pastoral Resident Novant Spiritual Care Services Charlotte, North Carolina Growing up in England and the Caribbean, Marina Luckhoo now calls Charlotte, North Carolina, home with her husband and two children. Having felt called to ministry early in life, …

Alumni Spotlight: Amanda Hill called to WVU Medicine as chaplain

BY JEFF STAPLETON Amanda Hill (M.Div.’17) begins a new position at West Virginia’s largest healthcare provider as a chaplain for the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia. For the Hickory, North Carolina, native who got her undergraduate degree in horticulture at North Carolina State University the road to Union Presbyterian Seminary and …

Extending Union’s reach into East Africa

…traveled to Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mauritius. Our goal was to build relationships with schools and churches so that we might be able to welcome students from these African countries to our Richmond campus. We also talked about the possibility of our students and faculty traveling to East Africa, either to do short term courses with students in East Africa or …

Central America Travel Seminar: Buzzing over Guatemalan coffee and a volcano 🌋

This is post 11 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 …

Black Lives Matter

…its core, many white Americans still believe America was, “discovered” by men who thought that where their ships landed automatically became their possession; and the Black people they brought over from Africa in shackles and chains were inferior, stupid, and also their possession. Some still think that way. Some still hate that they lost the Civil War. Some have been …

Will Change Ever Come?

…(ACA) being declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, many black and brown people will not be able to afford health insurance. A diagnosis of COVID-19 could be labeled a pre-existing condition, thereby, making the cost of insurance even more prohibitive. The striking down of the ACA will mean the end of Medicaid expansion which has been a valuable …

Virginia Family History Day: Book Talk with Paula Owens Parker

Roots Matter: Healing History, Honoring Heritage, Renewing Hope Friday, September 15, 2017 Time: 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Place: Library of Virginia Lecture Hall, Free Join author Paula Owens Parker as she discusses her book Roots Matter, which recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma as a result of chattel slavery on the African American community. The book prunes the family tree of …

(Cancelled) Worship & Sacraments – Christian Educator Certification course

This is a hybrid course which will meet requirements for Christian educator certification in the PC(USA). The hybrid format includes at-home/online work as well as in-class time on Union Presbyterian Seminary’s Richmond campus. At-home work begins on April 20, 2020; in-class time is May 19-21, 2020. Course: Worship & Sacraments Location: Union Presbyterian Seminary, Paisley Hall, Richmond, VA 23227 Led …