Going global with online courses: A new era has begun at UTS We encourage all UTS alumni and supporters, to spread the news about UTS-Online and the first courses that UTS is launching in October 2017.  Let potential students know they can benefit from UTS education wherever they may live or work.  With UTS’s online education program students worldwide have access to our expert faculty. Online learning allows you to fit graduate-level study into your own schedule—no matter where you reside.  Earn credit toward a graduate degree, or simply take courses as a non-degree...

BARRYTOWN – The busy summer of activity on the campus of the Barrytown Conference Center in upstate New York continued unabated on Monday, July 31, with more to come. A production crew, on the campus from July 10-28 shooting an independent film (see related story) had no sooner moved out when the Empire State Riders (ESR) came in for a one-night stay. On Tuesday, August 1, Generation Peace Academy (GPA) began a week-long “leaders training” workshop at Barrytown, which will end just about the time the XIII Blessed Cultural and Sports Festival rolls in on Wednesday, August 9 for a...

The following is a transcript of Dr. Andrew Wilson’s presentation given at the forum on “Interfaith Dialogue in these troubled times”. The event was held at the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City on Monday, July 31st. Dr. Andrew Wilson is Professor of Scriptural Studies at UTS.Wilson is the author of World Scriptures: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts, which is a compilation of the major texts and themes espoused by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Bahai, and Confucianism. I am sure all of you are here because you are interfaith....

The worldwide Unification movement needs trailblazers who can apply the Unification worldview and teachings of the True Parents in their own cultural context, who can affirm unchanging values and ideals and who can apply them in our troubled world. UTS is prepared to serve that need and has built an online education platform that will allow students throughout the world, including North America, to access graduate-level courses remotely through the Internet. Online learning allows you to fit graduate-level study into your own schedule—wherever you are. Are you interested in...

NEW YORK CITY – In the celebrated Oak Room, a multi-media classroom for graduate studies at the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), interfaith inched up into a more profound and pragmatic meaning during a forum on “Interfaith Dialogue in these troubled times” on Monday, July 31st.  The speakers, representing academia, community service, and church ministry articulated how interfaith, both in reason and action, could provide the platform for peace in this era of local and global divide and chaos.  Photo: Rev Michael Elam, representing church ministry, addresses the...

MINNEAPOLIS – On a trip back to Minnesota to visit my family, I was able to meet alumni of the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) on Thursday evening, July 20th, at the home of Gordon and Mary Jane Anderson in White Bear Lake, a St. Paul suburb. We had a home-cooked meal, a tour of the garden where the fresh vegetables we ate were grown, an old-fashioned game of horseshoes, and a walk down memory lane. Vetoing my idea of “getting together for pizza,” Gordon (UTS’78) and Mary Jane (UTS’79) invited Jim Bard (UTS’90) and me for a meal at their home. We had salad with ingredients...

The Blessed Culture and Sports Festival (BCSF) is a 5-day culture and sports event that was started in 2006 and has taken place every year since. This will be the 8th year in a row that BCSF is being held at Barrytown, NY, also home to the UTS Main Campus. The first trophy-awarded golf tournament of the Blessed Culture and Sports Festival (BCSF) will be held at the Red Hook Golf Course on Saturday, August 12, at 1 PM. All UTS alumni and friends are welcome to join. Test your golf skills against the best in our community of all ages (min. age entering high school as a...

For UTS student Marivir Montebon, a native of the Philippines who came to the United States ten years ago and became a naturalized citizen in 2015, getting to the U.S. was  an instinctive case of “blooming where you are planted,” as she aptly puts it. In an age filled with an endless cacophony pouring forth every day from all aspects of the media, it’s refreshing to find someone who believes that news should not only be a force that produces, as she puts it, “positive energy,” but is also a vehicle to “encourage people to continue doing good things.”  Mother, writer,...

NEW YORK – Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, co-founder of the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) and leader of the worldwide Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) came to Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday, July 15, 2017 addressing a near-capacity crowd. Several thousand attendees from around the world were also watching a live stream of the event, promoted as “A Festival of Inspiration, Praise and Worship” and calling people to come together to discuss America’s responsibility in front of heaven. For UTS alumni gathered in the arena the interfaith...