Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a United student looks like? From 12:00 to 4:30 PM CT on February 6, we're hosting our first-ever Seminarian for a Day experience on campus in St. Paul! This is an opportunity to help you discern if seminary is the next step for you.
What is alive in your favorite textile objects? Whose lives have they witnessed? For our first Theology and the Arts Lunch (bring your own) of 2025, join local fiber artist and zine-maker Allison Keirstead Jones onsite or online for a discussion about her anthology project, Social Fabric: The Lives of Our Beloved Textiles. You are invited to bring a special textile object from your life to present as part of ...
United is very pleased to announce that our 34th annual Susan Draper White Lecture will take place on February 24, 2025, and feature Rev. Molly T. Marshall, PhD, United’s esteemed and beloved president. President Marshall’s lecture is titled “Battle for the Minds, Revisited.” Thirty years ago, writer and producer Steve Lipscomb created his first documentary, Battle for the Minds, about the Southern Baptist Convention’s conservative shift and how that was ...
The Enneagram, long established as a useful and transformative tool for understanding self and others, offers a lifetime of discovery. Uniquely organized into Nine Personality Types, the Enneagram promotes three principles: The first Enneagram principle is to understand ourselves, by Personality Type, as divine beings. By studying and employing The Enneagram of Personality—along with personal inner work—we learn to recognize our brilliance and our shadows. The invitation is to integrate both of these wonderful aspects of our essential selves. ...
Join us for the launch of Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture, a new collection of wide-ranging essays published by Westminster John Knox. The book explores key issues animating trans-biblical interpretation from a variety of angles and emphases. Contributors, who represent a range of gender identities, answer the question—“What makes a biblical reading trans, or a trans reading biblical?”—in diverse and exciting ways. They also promote ...
When artistic alums Doug Abbott (’10) and Sheryl Schwyhart (’20) first met at the lunch table at United ten years ago, neither could have foreseen how a friendship would be forged around theology, art, and personal struggle. It is fitting that in this time of Lent, a period of reflection and seeking to “see differently,” they would collaborate to bring an exhibition out of persistence and faith. Join us onsite ...
Sponsored by the Twin Cities Repair Community for Makoce Ikikcupi (Dakota Land Recovery), Sarah Augustine will present a lecture, “Embodying Solidarity with Indigenous People by Becoming Kin,” on Friday evening, April 4, 7:00–8:30 PM at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. This hybrid talk is open to the public at no charge; doors open at 6:15 PM. Sarah is the executive director of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine ...
Please join us for the Arts Praxis showcase event on Saturday, April 26, 2025, from 1:00–3:00 PM CT in United’s chapel and online. The Arts Praxis exhibit, titled “Nexus,” will be on display in the United gallery. The artists will each briefly present their work, and they include Leah Eichmiller, Tyrone Fowlkes, Tierany Lyons, Megan Maki, Emily McKown, Walken Schweigert, and Amy Zucker Morgenstern. Light refreshments will be provided. Please ...
The United Board of Trustees, faculty, and the graduating class announce our Sixty-Third Annual Commencement Exercises.
Join United faculty, staff, and current students for an interactive Zoom conversation on Wednesday, April 30, starting at 6:00 PM.
You are invited to a United Methodist (UMC) gathering at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, happening onsite and online. This is an auspicious opportunity to gather in community, participate in worship, honor three of United’s UMC elders, and share lunch. Our preacher for worship will be Rev. Gloria Roach Thomas (’98), featured in United's Fall 2024 Issue of VOICES. During lunch, we will ...
The Leadership Center for Social Justice at United invites you to join us onsite or online on Thursday, May 22, to celebrate the graduation of the Center’s 2024-2025 Cohort and experience a showcase of members’ completed projects.
