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The Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice Finds a New Home at United’s Leadership Center for Social Justice

By | on 18, Feb 2025 |   social justice justice Activism Leadership Center for Social Justice Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES, February 18, 2025. Now in its third year of operation, the Leadership Center for Social Justice (the Center) at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (Un[...]

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Honoring Pride at United

By | on 01, Jun 2023 |   social justice justice lgbtq Pride

Welcome to the first day of Pride. With its roots in protest and a collective yearning for justice, Pride is a defiant, joyful resistance against the intersecting oppressions LGBTQ+ people face, and t[...]

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"A Rare and Magical Space": An Interview with Community Partner Allison Jones

By | on 18, Nov 2020 |   Arts justice Events seminary theology and the arts Academics lgbtq Deconstruction Queer

Allison Jones is a community partner and friend of United who has participated in numerous events and programming at the seminary, including Arts Lunch, Social Transformation events, and Queertopia Un[...]

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Cycles of Violence: On Breonna Taylor, the Verdict, and Sacred Protest

By | on 24, Sep 2020 |   justice ministry social transformation Voice Bible Race Women anti-racism CARJ

The following message comes from CARJ, United's Committee Advocating for Racial Justice: Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, [...]

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Statement Regarding the Expanded Travel Ban From the Academic Council of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

By | on 07, Feb 2020 |   social justice resistance justice united faculty ministry news releases social transformation Voice Politics Inclusion

The Trump administration recently added six countries to the travel ban list which, as a recent New York Times article puts it, “will virtually block immigration from Africa’s most populous nation, Ni[...]

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"Being faithful sometimes requires us to break the rules:" A Response to the Issue of LGBTQ Inclusion in the UMC.

By | on 19, Nov 2019 |   social justice Theology justice ministry social transformation Voice lgbtq Inclusion Jesus Open and Affirming

“I’d rather be excluded for who I include than included for who I exclude.” This sentence, often appearing on a church sign, shows up fairly regularly on my social media feed, a moving reminder of wha[...]

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