Union Theological Seminary News

The Empire State Pride Agenda today released a list of 700 clergy and lay leaders from across New York state who are in support of the legislature passing a marriage equality bill.

Mercersburg Academy faculty member James Brinson has been named the academy's fourth carillonneur.

After 56 years of service at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute, the Rev. Dr. John Rymer will retire at the end of the fall quarter.

World Council of Churches - Feature Contact: + 41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org For immediate release - 05/11/2009 14:15:09 >THE BERLIN WALL FELL IN MANY PLACES >By Stephen Brown The political and social shock waves caused by weeks of pro-democracy protests in East Germany and then the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, ...

Debra Haffner had no choice. She had to go into the ministry. The local resident spent a dozen years as CEO of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States .

Published Tuesday 27 October 2009 07:41pm EST. Following President Obama's recent declaration of the H1N1 virus epidemic as a national emergency, it is important to take another look at how the University has prepared to mitigate a possible outbreak of the virus on the Morningside campus.

University institutes and departments have new digs in Knox Hall, a building that remains classically Gothic on the outside but modern and sustainable on the inside.

Cornel West GS a 80, the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, has crammed his office with books.

Five decades ago, Paul F. Knitter , then a novice studying to become a Roman Catholic priest, would be in the seminary chapel at 5:30 every morning, trying to stay awake and spend time in meditation before Mass.

If you are like me, you have followed the bloodshed over Sudan's Darfur region for six years now, only to reach a dead end in terms of hope for halting the killing.

Carlton "Cobbie" Palm, an international peacemaker from the Philippines, will be a guest speaker at Somerset Presbyterian Church on Sunday.

Grace Fellowship Church in Shrewsbury moves into a newly renovated space at the former Kmart property on the hill in Shrewsbury Township this month.

Austin C. Lovelace at his desk in his Denver home where he does all of his composing.

Emerging media will have a dramatic and disorienting effect on the church every bit as profound as the impact of the printing press in the 15th century, the President of Union Theological Seminary told the National Council of Churches Communications Commission this week.

The Rev. Richard Eugene "Gene" Hager, a Presbyterian minister and former Army chaplain who once directed the Pine Castle Center for mentally challenged adults, died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday.

The Rev. Pat Slomanski is the new pastor of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church between Benson and Coats.

Curt and Sue Forbes of Morris announce the engagement of their daughter, Danette Elizabeth, to Eric Edward Colclasure of Kempton, Ill.

University of Montana assistant professor Dan Spencer says the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's recent decision to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy will ease homophobia.

The Rev. Mary E. McNamara has begun her term as the seventh president of UCC-related United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, an ecumenical Protestant seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota.

Lisa J.M. Poirier, daughter of Louis and Claire Giuliani of Fitchburg, has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.