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Former students welcome President Blount to Taiwan

By Mike Frontiero Director of Communications Union Presbyterian Seminary President Brian K. Blount lectured in Taiwan at the Taiwan Theological College and Seminary. While he was more than 8,000 miles from home, many familiar faces greeted him. Dr. Blount taught Cultural Hermeneutics with the help of several translators, including Union Ph.D. alum Hung-Chaun Lai and some former students of Blount’s…

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Class of 2018 profiles: Bruce McVey faces down challenges to reach the pulpit

…came about because of a tragic accident. While working in Dallas, McVey was rear-ended by somebody texting and driving at 80 miles an hour. He ended up breaking his back and, during his recovery, the CEO of the company he worked for said they were going to close his division. That led to him asking friends on social media what…

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Appreciation of Music Is Motivation for Gift to Watts Organ Fund

…goes back many years. “I knew Union from my Presbyterian beginnings,” he explains. Dr. Trevathan has fond childhood memories of visits from Seminary faculty, who preached in his parents’ church in the town of Fountain—in Pitt County, North Carolina, some 18 miles from his home in Greenville. “My parents supplied the fried chicken dinner,” he says. “I wanted to make…

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Loss, lament, and gratitude in the aftermath of Florence

…and its interminable rains through the rest of the week. “It was so slow moving,” Hawkins said, “…two miles per hour…and it just kind of sat on top of us,” with the winds, the endless rain, and the fast-rising rivers. Evacuation was mandatory and remained in force through the following Friday. There would be no service on Sunday, Sept 16….

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California wildfires affect Union families

BY EMMA NORTH Richmond student Douglas Hippe is busy studying for his mid-term finals but his mind is on the tragic wildfires burning 2,800 miles away in Malibu, California, where he lived before enrolling at Union Presbyterian Seminary. “It is very sad for me because I love California and feel very attached to the state,” Hippe said. Douglas Hippe While…

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Colleen Earp: Camping, conservation, and chickens

…muddy wetlands. With her new home in Richmond only a few miles down the road from Union she could not deny that seminary was something she had been thinking about for a while. “I needed the theological vocabulary to explain the connection between the environmental work that was so important to me and my faith,” Earp said. At Union, she…

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Black Lives Matter!

February 5, 2019

BY WILLIAM R. FREEMAN (M.Div.‘01) WOW! Here we go again. On Thursday, November 22, 2018, Thanksgiving Day, we received a report of another police killing of a Black man. This time a young twenty-one year old, at a mall in Hoover, Alabama – ten miles from Birmingham. His name: Emantic Fitzgerald “EJ” Bradford, Jr. At first, the police put out…

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Strengthening Faith Formation Among Children

…development (along the lines of milestones like height and weight that might be captured in a doctor’s office). “This could be a set of standards that capture what faith looks like at different ages and the observable behaviors we’d like to see, say, in a six-year-old. “This research is ‘very experimental,” says Yust. “It’s a new world, and we’re asking…

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The Gargoyle Speaks: Unscheduled Beauty

…a baptismal robe, came silently down the steps we had just taken. We acknowledged one another with smiles and nods. No words were exchanged. The group quickly formed a circle where the stream emerged from the entrance of the stone tunnel. One of its number then produced and read from a hand-sized book with an Ethiopian Cross embossed on its…

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Director of Faith Formation–River Road Presbyterian Church–Richmond, VA

March 1, 2024

…Faith Formation Ministry with the overall vision of the church. • Review, develop, and recommend curriculum and programs. • Oversee Faith Formation Sunday and Wednesday programs for children and adults. • Teach and lead Sunday School classes and other educational programs upon request (adult book studies, seasonal devotionals). • Coordinate special programs including Milestone classes, special resources for Advent, Lent,…

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President Brian Blount statement on passing of Katherine Johnson

February 24, 2020

…knew of her abilities, but even more importantly, knew that her kindness, generosity, and humility were as mammoth as her talents. Most people will remember her legacy as the NASA human computer whose formulas plotted course and trajectory for some of the most famous early space flights, a recipient of both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Medal…

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“I am a Witness.”

November 8, 2022

…in his own personal journey as he began his professional career. After spending five years in an architectural program at Vanderbilt University, Wade began his career working for L. Miles Sheffer Architectural Firm in Atlanta, Georgia. While there, he was assigned to work on renovations in several sections of the city, including the West End, one of the oldest neighborhoods…

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Garden Variety

June 2, 2023

…area where 33% of the population lives more than a mile from a grocery store or supermarket. I live in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem, and my closest grocery store is exactly one mile from my apartment; the second-closest grocery store is two miles away. The population of Forsyth County is 382,590, and knowing that roughly 33% of that population…