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Students Respond to the Killing of George Floyd

By | on 28, May 2020 |   news ministry students Academics Voice Civil Rights anti-racism minnesota

In response to the violent killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, MN, students in Professor Eleazar Fernandez's Public Theology for Social Transformation class worked together to w[...]

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Restraint in the Anthropocene

By | on 13, May 2020 |   social justice ministry social transformation Voice Unitarian Universalism Environment Ecology Coronavirus Pandemic Anthropocene

One of the unexpected effects of this terrible pandemic is that global pollution levels have dropped significantly. In China, after two months of near shut-down, carbon emissions have decreased by an [...]

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Compassionate, Creative and Ethical Leaders - Stories from United during a Time of Pandemic

By | on 06, Apr 2020 |   Alums pastoral care ministry Voice Coronavirus Pandemic

United students and alums don’t take a class that explicitly prepares them for leading in days like today. Yet we have seen them step into this precarious and unprecedented time in compassionate, crea[...]

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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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'Live out your faith and values in your own life and in ministry:' 2019 Distinguished Alum Meg Riley

By | on 17, Dec 2019 |   social justice Alums ministry social transformation Voice Community UUA

United celebrates 2019 distinguished alum Meg Riley. Meg has focused her ministry around world peace and justice for over 25 years. She has inspired and mentored many church leaders in this community [...]

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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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