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Message from United Faculty on Trans Day of Remembrance 2020

By | on 19, Nov 2020 |   ministry social transformation Voice Chapel Transgender Rights resources TDOR Trans Non-Binary Faculty

Transgender Day of Remembrance calls us to honor transgender and non-binary people who have needlessly lost their lives due to violence, medical neglect, and suicide. United Theological Seminary of th[...]

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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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Unexpected Healers: How the next generation of chaplains is changing the way we think about spiritual care

By | on 02, Sep 2020 |   social justice Chaplaincy ministry social transformation Vocation

Back when I was a CPE educator in a large, metropolitan hospital system, I often gave my students an interactive assignment for their first day of training. I asked them to place themselves in busy lo[...]

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Alum GIVEBACK: United Community After Graduation

By | on 09, Jul 2020 |   Alums ministry social transformation Voice Innovation

A key component of United’s community is curiosity. From the classroom to chapel, students learn to question their beliefs and deconstruct contexts to become more mindful, ethical, and creative in the[...]

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United Responds to the Killing of George Floyd: A collection of statements, reflections, and resources

By | on 01, Jun 2020 |   social justice social transformation Community resources black lives matter

Reuters/Eric Miller In the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd while he was detained by Minneapolis Police officers, and the local and global calls to address systemic violence against Black li[...]

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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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