Union Now

Union Now, the new magazine for alumni/ae and friends of the Seminary, is published twice a year by the Communications Office. The magazine features stories from the work, studies and vision of Union Theological Seminary's current faculty, students and administration. You will also find reports from the Board of Trustees, the Alumni/ae Council, and Institutional Advancement, as well as Alumni/ae Class Notes.

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Union Podcasts

Begun in September 2005, Union Theological Seminary's podcast program has grown to include addresses from special events, guest lecturers, award-winning sermons, and selected faculty presentations. In 2009, Union expanded the podcast program to include both audio and video podcasts as well as offer select semester-long courses.

Podcasts include lectures by Peter Singer, Cornel West, Wynton Marsalis, Jeffrey Sachs, Marcus Borg, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, veteran journalist and best selling author Chris Hedges, Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer of Partners In Health, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, best-selling author and scholar Elaine Pagels, journalist Bill Moyers, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Union's own professors Barbara Lundblad, Hal Taussig, Alvan Johnson, Larry Rasmussen, Gary Dorrien, John McGuckin, Paul Knitter, Joseph Hough, David Carr and more.

Union's podcasts are free and easy to download to watch or listen and can be subscribed to on iTunes. Hear them now.

Union:inDialogue

Union:inDialogue is an ever-growing community of blogs sponsored by Union Theological Seminary, featuring online conversations between several members of the Union community. This is not only an opportunity for each of us to be a fly on the wall to conversations between current Union scholars, but also a means for us to take part in the dialogue, through suggested readings, posted media, and especially the comment feature that invites everyone to participate in the dialogue.

Submissions
We invite you to join the conversation. Step into as many of the current discussions as you like. And if you are a Union writer that doesn’t see your personal interests or fields represented, contact the Communications Office about starting a dialogue of your own.

Facebook & Twitter

Since Union Theological Seminary introduced its Facebook and Twitter feeds in July 2009, followers have increased steadily. Today nearly 800 students, faculty, alumni/ae and friends of Union follow our daily posts, and contribute with comments and postings of their own.

Additionally Facebook Events pages have been utilized, not only to encourage attendance at Union events, but to begin the dialogue between reunion classmates, symposia presenters and attendees, faculty and students, before the actual day of the event.

If you already have a Facebook or Twitter account, becoming a "fan" or "follower" is easy to do, and puts Union in your regular stream of news on these sites.

The Union Voice

During the 2009–2010 school year, under the leadership of student Drew Hendrickson, Union’s student newspaper saw something of a rebirth, not only in name but also in productivity. What has been The Union Call in recent years, was renamed The Union Voice, and students were invited to submit material on topics ranging from immersion trips to refectory food service. An impressive four issues were produced during the course of the year, containing in-depth articles and reports of significant quality and interest, such as Race Debate; Grading System Examined; Haiti, Pat Robertson and the Super Bowl; Vagina Monologues; Poverty Scholars Weekend; Rally for Immigration Reform; Being Positive about HIV; and Heretics Football News.

Submissions
Submit articles, photos or poetry to theunionvoice@gmail.com. The Voice is also looking for new members for the editorial team.

myCommunity

The myCommunity for Union's internal community, is e-mailed each Friday during the periods when classes are in session (September through December and February through May) with links to the online version. Updated regularly throughout the week, myCommunity allows the Union community to keep track of what's happening on campus and in the surrounding area. Visit myCommunity online.

Submissions
E-mail submissions are taken through the Communications Office. No attachments, no formatting, and no all caps, please. Paste the submission into the e-mail message. Include the "who? what? where? when?" along with a clear indication of the sponsoring office or caucus, a contact person. If this is an outside event please include a link to the announcement on your institution's Web site.

Deadline
The deadline is Wednesday at Noon for the Bulletin that will be distributed that Friday.

The Union Seminary Quarterly Review (USQR)

Union Seminary Quarterly Review was founded in 1939 as a platform for inspired and socially-engaged religious thought. Prominent contributors in the early days of the review included Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Neibuhr, Paul Tillich, and Martin Buber. As a continuation of the intellectual rigor and creative voice that characterized our rich history, USQR has expanded its vision to embrace a multicultural outlook in theology and an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religion. Reflecting this new perspective, it has featured articles and book reviews by established and emergent biblical scholars, historians, ethicists, theologians, and other academic, church and social commentators. Although editorially independent of Union Theological Seminary, USQR continues to be managed by doctoral students of Union, with support and participation from faculty and administration. Learn more at www.utsnyc.edu/usqr.