Over the past three months the Alumni Relations department at the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) has held a series of video conferences with alumni/ae from various states located in the Midwest and Eastern parts of the country. The states that have so far participated in these conferences are: Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The next online conference is set for Thursday, April 27 and alumni from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will be invited to join us. The purpose of these conferences...

The second in the UTS guest speaker series for the Spring 2017 semester took place on March 29. This time, our guests were the pioneer and a partner of “The Mongol House Project,” Naran Badushov, founder and president of the Tulip Foundation, and Peter van Geldern, professor of mass communications at the University of Bridgeport and founder of the UnFOLD Creative Agency. Photo: (center) Mr. Naran Badushov, founder and president of the Tulip Foundation, posing with attendees on March 29, 2017. Naran is a Kalmyk Mongol whose passion to preserve the cultural heritage and identity of his...

“This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”-Robert Kennedy In the coming weeks many colleges, alumni and various organizations across the country will participate in Global Days of Service 2017 activities. While many of these groups will stick to the traditional one day of service, others have taken it a step further and organized activities of three days, while others are planning a...

This week is Spring Break for UTS students and faculty. However, behind the scenes, the work continues. There is steady progress being made in the areas of Alumni Relations, Development and Communications. The website is very active and more and more people are finding, and following, UTS on social media.  Focusing on recruitment and marketing, the UTS brand continues to strengthen. Improvements to UTS’ website (www.uts.edu) and its content are being made continuously. This is where the News articles are published weekly and then distributed via email; like this article...

“Finding balance in an unbalanced world” Over the years since his graduation from UTS in 1989, Bruce Daniel Biddle has created a life that achieves what so many strive for – balance. On his journey he has successfully managed to interweave a variety of ministries that have allowed him to utilize his unique talents, skills and training developed at UTS as well as at other academic institutions.  A native of Los Angeles, his father’s work moved the family to Ohio, where Bruce was raised along with two other brothers. After joining the Unification Church in 1975, he finished...

UTS administrators often attend Association of Theological Schools (ATS) events. Experience shows that it is important for UTS to stay current with the conversations which are part of the theological landscape in North America. UTS has affiliate status with ATS. UTS introduced distance education in the late 1990s. Since 2011, UTS has offered a large number of online courses, both for graduate credits and continuing education units. Now UTS is ready to go to the next level. The goal is to offer online degree programs worldwide. Robin James Graham, UTS Director of Advancement and...

The UTS Commencement for the Class of 2017 will be held on Saturday, May 27, 2017. The Commencement Exercises begin at 2:00 pm in the chapel. A reception will follow at 4:00 pm on the lawn. 

It takes a combination of rare qualities to be a chaplain. One must have a belief in God, but outwardly express no religious preference; be able to comfort the non-believer as well as the believer; answer questions about grief, loss and suffering without really having the answer as to why it is their child that is suffering and not someone else’s; be able to hear what someone is saying and not just listen to the words; have the ability to discern what are precisely the right words to speak at just the right time; and, finally, know exactly when to sit quietly, saying nothing, while...

This week UTS News is launching “Ministry in Many Forms” a new series which captures UTS alumni in their unique expressions of faith, love and service. Dr. Tyler Hendricks (UTS’78) in an article published this week said, “UTS has been a seed bed for global outreach since 1975, graduating leaders throughout the world to serve in all levels of leadership, student organizations, interfaith peacebuilding, service learning, outdoor and fishing ministries, evangelism, education, world missions, doctoral studies and more.” This is so true. It is with great pride that we salute the many...