On April 14, Dr. Michael Mickler, UTS Vice-President and Professor of Church History, presented on the topic, “No Stranger to Litigation: Court Cases Involving the Unification Church/Family Federation in the United States.” His presentation was the fourth in the Seminary’s current “Faculty Roundtable” series. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this roundtable was virtual rather than in-person. Nevertheless, some forty zoom participants joined in the lively session. Dr. Mickler pointed out that the Seminary’s sponsoring church has passed through two phases of litigation. The first,...

Dear Members of the UTS Community, Warmest greetings in this challenging time. I hope that you and your families are safe and well. This moment in the history of our nation and in the providence of God, Our Heavenly Parent, invites us to reflect and grapple with the most basic questions regarding the relationship between God and humanity. U.S. President John F. Kennedy closed his inaugural address of January 20, 1961 with these words: “With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His...

Unification Theological Seminary will offer its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) beginning on April 6, 2020. Entitled “Unification Thought in Context,” the course will be taught by Dr. Claude Perrottet, an expert in Unification Thought. Dr. Perrottet translated An Introduction to the Thought of Sun Myung Moon: Unification Thought and V.O.C. Theory from Korean to English. While completing his doctorate at the University of Laval in Quebec, Dr. Perrottet completed the translation of a number of Theologian Paul Tillich’s essays from the original German to English. Dr. Perrottet is...

On March 9, 2020, Dr. Ki Hoon Kim, Family Federation Regional Chairman for North American, as well as International Vice President of the Family Federation, joined Reverend Demian Dunkley, President of Family Federation USA, UTS Board of Trustee Members, and UTS Faculty and Administration in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Unification Theological Seminary’s 43rd Street campus that marked the opening of a new exhibit. It invites interested parties to learn more about the role that UTS has played in Unification History. Ms. Christina Lange, Assistant to UTS President Thomas Ward, as well as...

Dr. Noda says Frankl’s Moral Autonomy defines one’s meaning and happiness  Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy, which uses a multidimensional approach to diagnose and treat mental illnesses, may provide a sparkling hope for a society which has increasingly become hostile and confused. In a recent forum, Dr. Keisuke Noda, UTS professor and dean for Academic Affairs, said that the Franklian Logotherapy’s multidimensional lens looks at people’s ‘existential vacuum’ or state of meaninglessness as the cause of neurosis, addiction, depression, and violence. Noda presented his study titled...

Dr. Frank Kaufmann, a long-time member of the UTS Faculty, an early UTS graduate, and also President of the Professors World Peace Academy USA oversaw the coordination of American scholars who attended the Summit 2020 Conference which took place in Seoul, Korea from February 3-6, 2020. The Summit marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who, together with Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who among their multitude of achievements, founded the Unification Theological Seminary in 1975 as one of their many initiatives to further interfaith dialogue and introduce...

From February 3 through 7, a Conference and Exhibits took place marking the Centenary anniversary of UTS Founder the late Dr. Sun Myung Moon and the seventy-birthday of his spouse and UTS Co-Founder Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon. The program brought together 2,700 religious, political, business, and academic leaders including current Heads of State and Government, Nobel Laureates, and some of the world’s most successful business entrepreneurs. Dr. Thomas J. Ward, UTS President and Professor, as well as Dr. Andrew Wilson, Professor of Scriptural Studies, and Dr. Drissa Kone, Assistant Professor of...

UTS Academic Dean Keisuke Noda organized a special seminar on faculty publishing on January 24, 2020. It drew the participation of both full-time faculty and one recent graduate. The featured speaker at the program was Dr. Jack Seymour, Professor Emeritus of Religious Education at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Seymour served for eleven year as Executive Editor of the Journal of Religious Education and he also served as one of the editors of the Religious Education Association’s Book Series on “Horizons in Religious Education.” Dr. Seymour encouraged...

In January 2020 Unification Theological Seminary was accepted as a member of the Theta Alpha Kappa (TAK) national honor society for students of Religious Studies. It is the only national honor society dedicated to recognizing academic excellence in baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate students and in scholars in the fields of Religious Studies and Theology. Theta Alpha Kappa website points out that it is “a related scholarly organization of the American Academy of Religion, an affiliated program of the Society of Biblical Literature and is a member of the Association of College Honor...