Trying to decide your next steps in pursuing your calling to make the world a more just and equitable place for all?

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social classrooms are places where students are prepared for the practicalities of careers working for justice through courses like, “Professional Ethics for Chaplaincy and Ministry” taught by Prof. Linda Golding.

Thinking about going to seminary to pursue your calling for peacemaking and justice? Watch this video to discover @UnionSeminary’s Master of Divinity program—designed for those interested in social justice, chaplaincy, ministry, and beyond.

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social classrooms are places where students are trained in meaning-making and intentional grounding practices, through courses like, “Creating Rituals and Community: The Work of Mourning the Earth” taught by Rev. Dr. Claudio Carvalhaes.

As classes begin for another academic year at @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social, we are proud of our world-class faculty. Like Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien, a profound theological ethicist and champion of the religious left.

“Faith communities have an obligation to call out how we’ve missed the mark on caring for the environment and then to provide direction and inspiration on how we can correct our ways,” stated @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s Sr. Exec. VP for Public Theology and Civic Engagement Rev. Fred Davie.

Join @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s CEE director, Karenna Gore on Wednesday, September, 24th at 8:30 AM EST, at the Climate Week NYC event Beyond COP 30: Leadership for a New Era, where she will be one of the speakers. Learn more and register here: luma.com/afgsj2uz

Join @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s TIDEL director, Dr. Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes on Friday, September, 19th at 10 AM at Columbia, where she will be a panelist for a conversation on AI & Education.

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social classrooms are places where students are equipped to lead with clarity and peace through complex and difficult moments, through courses like, “Trauma and Grace” taught by Union President Rev. Dr. @SereneJones.Bsky.Social

Here at @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social we are proud of our vibrant Episcopal community that makes up our Episcopal and Anglican Studies program. Learn more about Union’s EAS program in the story written last All Saints Day here: utsnyc.edu/blog/2024/11...

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social classrooms are places where ideas flourish, and students are equipped to do the ongoing work of peace and justice, through courses like, “LatinX Religious Activism in the Twentieth Century” with Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

As we start a new academic year, @Unionseminary is proud to continue to add to our legacy of being on the forefront of the movements of justice and reconciliation and reaffirm our commitment to interreligious engagement.

“This crisis is about who we are as human beings, how we manage to make collective decisions, and what we deeply care about. In a way, it is about knowing the difference between right and wrong and understanding what that means for our behavior,”

“We have become very comfortable as a nation, dehumanizing each other…There is something in that that needs to be addressed spiritually, both within ourselves and within our political discourse,”

It was all smiles at Union’s 189th Convocation yesterday! What a joy it was to kick off another transformative year of reimagining the work of peace and justice. Revisit this powerful service here: www.youtube.com/live/4-gk4-i...

Today is @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s 189th Convocation, which marks the beginning of another transformative academic year at Union. We cannot wait to gather together and celebrate!

Today in the first chapel of the year, President Serene Jones reflected on @unionseminary.bsky.social ’s sacred and evolving community: a space rooted in tradition, yet open to transformation and interreligious encounter.

We cannot wait for @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s 189th Convocation tomorrow, where we will welcome our new students and celebrate the beginning of the new academic year! Here are some highlights from Union’s 188th Convocation on September 4th, 2024!

Happy Labor Day from @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social!

Our halls will soon be filled with the energy of reconnection and new beginnings. We can't wait to welcome students, faculty, and staff back to campus as @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social's fall semester kicks off September 2nd! Learn more about Union’s community here: utsnyc.edu/life/

Social needs every generation’s voice. That was the takeaway from the event hosted by @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s Encore Transition Program last winter.

“Never before in history has there been an attempt to do what we are trying to do here in the United States. Which is to create a multicultural, multiracial democracy…So what we need are small actions that are ritualized, to remind us all that it is possible to do something,”

We cannot wait for @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s 189th Convocation on September 3rd, where we will welcome our new students and celebrate the beginning of the new academic year! Here are some highlights from Union’s 188th Convocation on September 4th, 2024!

We cannot wait for @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s 189th Convocation on September 3rd, where we will welcome our new students and celebrate the beginning of the new academic year! Here are some highlights from Union’s 188th Convocation on September 4th, 2024!

Join @UnionSeminaryBsky.Social on September 19 at 2 PM for Histories of Incarceration — a timely webinar exploring how carceral systems, past and present, shape our world today. Hear from scholars with new books on incarceration across diverse contexts — ancient to modern, near to far.

Last week, we welcomed our Doctor of Ministry students to campus for this Fall’s in-person residency. We loved connecting and hearing how @UnionSeminary students are leading the charge of justice and peacemaking in their own ministries all across the country!

“If we want to do the work before us, and do it well, we need to have spiritual grounding every day,” stated @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social Sr. Exec. VP for Public Theology and Civic Engagement, Rev. Frederick Davie at “Spirituality in a Time of Unrest” on July 30, 2025.

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social has long been at the forefront of justice movements in our country and beyond, shaping thought through scholarship, and taking action by standing up for our most vulnerable siblings.

From chapel services to guest lectures, community meals to student caucus events—Fall Semester at @UnionSeminary kicks off September 2nd and promises a semester full of opportunities to gather, reflect, and reimagine the work of peace and justice.

As we near the start of another semester at @UnionSeminary.Bsky.social , we look forward to seeing the ways in which future and current social justice leaders will come together at Union to continue the work of justice and peace. Just like last spring, when Union hosted the Second Look Symposium...

“So much of what we love, cherish, and admire about the people in our traditions is their willingness to sacrifice…So we need to think about what we are willing to risk to do the right thing because it is the right thing,”

We cannot wait for @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s 189th Convocation on September 3rd, where we will welcome our new students and celebrate the beginning of the new academic year! Here are some highlights from Union’s 188th Convocation on September 4th, 2024!

Tomorrow is the application deadline for @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social 's Encore Transition Program Fall Cohort!

“A diverse, multiracial, interfaith coalition would be politically unstoppable. So the work of coming together, of bridge building, of coalition building, in this moment, is a politically essential exercise and a spiritually essential one as well,”

The images from Gaza — starving children, devastated families — reveal not just a humanitarian emergency, but a moral crisis. At Union Theological Seminary, we reaffirm: every life is sacred. Every death is a rupture in the body of God.

The countdown is on! We’re looking forward to classrooms coming alive with new ideas, bold questions, and the spirit of peace and justice-centered learning as @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s fall semester begins September 2nd. Learn more about Union’s programs here: utsnyc.edu/academics/de...

As we approach the start of another transformative academic year at @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social, we are so excited for the impactful events that happen on our campus every day.

“This is what we need to do: awaken from our apathy, from our social conditioning, from the idea that it's perfectly normal to leave things as they are,” stated Karenna Gore, Director of @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social’s Center For Earth Ethics in Cop30 Amazonia on our climate emergency.

“People are looking for religious leaders showing up with the strength of our tradition in what we are willing to renounce, risk, and show with our bodies,” stated @UnionSeminar.Bsky.Social faculty member, Rev. Greg Snyder at “Spirituality in a Time of Unrest” on July 30, 2025.

As we approach the start of another transformative academic year @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social , welcoming another class of exceptional Master of Arts in Social Justice students, let’s look back on the story of the program’s very first amazing graduates: Rhonda Brown, Sarah Raynor, and Dom Chatterjee.

We cannot wait for @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s 189th Convocation on September 3rd, where we will welcome our new students and celebrate the beginning of the new academic year! Here are some highlights from Union’s 188th Convocation on September 4th, 2024!

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s Encore Transition Program Fall Cohort application deadline has been extended to August 15th!

“The place where there is no humanity, is exactly the place where God calls us to be the most human,” stated The Beacon Director Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum at @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s event “Spirituality in a Time of Unrest” on July 30, 2025.

Did you miss @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social ’s impactful event “Spirituality in a Time of Unrest”, or just want to revisit the powerful conversation? Watch the recording available now!

Join us tomorrow! In a time of deep political division, social unrest, and spiritual fatigue, how can faith leaders and communities remain grounded, courageous, and connected? Join @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social on July 30th at 12:00 PM for “Spirituality in a Time of Unrest"...

President @SereneJones.Bsky.Social to Step Down After 18 Years of Transformative Leadership at @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.

Every Monday, faith leaders and community members gather at Columbus Circle to stand in solidarity and bear moral witness for democracy. Each vigil, held from 5:30 to 6:00 PM on the southwest corner of Central Park at Columbus Circle, is hosted by a different faith community or interfaith coalition

In a time of deep political division, social unrest, and spiritual fatigue, how can faith leaders and communities remain grounded, courageous, and connected? Join @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social on July 30th at 12:00 PM for “Spirituality in a Time of Unrest"...

@LawRightsReligion.Bsky.Social (LRRP)—the pre-eminent legal-strategy center reclaiming religious liberty for all—will make Union Theological Seminary (Union) its new institutional home this summer, capping eleven years of path-breaking work at Columbia Law School.

“We are not sure what Bible President Trump is reading. But it bears no resemblance to the sacred text we have studied and loved for our entire lives.”