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Recent Encounters with Theaster Gates’ Black Vessel for a Saint: Viewing the Sacred through Locked Steel Doors

By | on 05, Jul 2023 |   theology and the arts Public Theology

Black Vessel for a Saint sits on the southwest end of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with an air of incongruous monumentality. A 20-foot-tall cylinder of coal-black bricks, the Vessel rests on a rai[...]

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2023 Graduate Stephani Pescitelli and the Power of YES, AND...

By | on 04, Jul 2023 |   Arts Unitarian Universalism VOICES

Stephani Pescitelli, who graduated April 30, 2023 with an MDiv in Theology and the Arts, admits that United wasn’t even on her radar when she first felt called to seminary. She intended to enroll in a[...]

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Statement by United on the Supreme Court’s Recent Rulings

By | on 30, Jun 2023 |   news releases Activism lgbtq statement Politics Community Transgender Rights Beliefs Inclusion Open and Affirming Public Policy Public Theology

United aims to be a beloved community committed to intersectional justice, creativity, and curiosity. Our values, grounded in six decades of transformative education, put many of us in sharp disagreem[...]

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Alum Marjorie Grevious (’18) Promotes Spiritual Wellness through Yoga Ministry | VOICES

By | on 21, Jun 2023 |   Alums VOICES

Yoga and church were childhood pillars for 2018 alum Marjorie D. Grevious. She estimates that she started doing yoga alongside her mother at age three, and that the practice of yoga ran “parallel to m[...]

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Bridgette Weber Finds the through Lines—Food and Transformation—at United

By | on 09, Jun 2023 |   Community Environment

At United, a supportive community of beloved students and faculty, is an integral part of the educational journey for future faith and justice leaders. Since coming to seminary and charting a path tow[...]

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Mizpah Church Offers United a Legacy Scholarship Fund | VOICES

By | on 06, Jun 2023 |   Alums UCC Community Relationships VOICES

Rev. Rebecca Lemenager (’01) was only seven when she knew she wanted to be a minister. All she needed was fertile soil in which to nurture that calling. Mizpah United Church of Christ (Mizpah), her ho[...]

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