In the beginning years of the 21st Century we still find a world desperately in need of truth. Each and every day, people conduct their lives based on cultural pressures and on popular opinion, rather than the abiding truth found by studying the history of God’s providence and the life-giving guidance He has given through His prophets and through a personal relationship with us. For more than 40 years Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) has been preparing servant-leaders who through their word and deed give testimony to God’s continuous investment to build the Kingdom of Heaven on...

Prayer is sacred intimacy. Spending hours and days with God while making decisions in marriage and building familial relations is blessed and admirable. A practice of praying has been meaningful to people throughout human history. In the Biblical book of Genesis, the fourth chapter and verse 26, the words according to the King James Version reads: And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. Prayer is intimacy with the Greatest Transformer that is possible throughout all of existence. Wisdom, discipline...

This December, UTS president, Dr. Hugh Spurgin is attending two important higher education conferences. Staying current with changing expectations, mandates, and requirements for institutions of higher education is vital in order to maintain good standing, but it is also key to showing competency, reliability, and progress in an increasingly complex and diverse education environment. UTS is firmly committed to maintaining the standards required, and seeks to learn from- and adopt the best-practices of other leading institutions. Dr. Spurgin’s attendance at these two proceedings is an...

Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown campus is the former estate of Robert Livingston on the Hudson River. The Livingstons were a prominent family in the Hudson Valley in Colonial times. One, Philip Livingston was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In the summer of 1868, 9-year-old Theodore Roosevelt came to Barrytown with his family and stayed for the month of August, while the Aspinwall’s were away. Watch: History of Massena Estate at Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, NY A Brief History of the Massena Estate in Barrytown, NY The Massena estate is a...

(Authors:  Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto and Ronald D. Welch) The Doctor of Ministry degree was first approved by The American Association of Theological Schools (now ATS) in 1972, with significant growth occurring in the number and scope of these programs soon after its inception. The degree was never intended to be a super-sized MDiv program, nor was it created to be the equivalent of a theological PhD program. Rather, it was originally created in response to a strong demand for continuing education that would provide advanced skills for clergy. Four decades later, how is the...

BARRYTOWN – All of us have games, pastimes or hobbies we enjoy. Ute Delaney, Registrar at the Unification Theological Seminary for the past 20 years and a 2010 graduate, has what she affectionately refers to as her “other life.” Her “other life,” the one apart from her “lives” as a wife, mother of two boys ages 21 and 18, and working woman, is her immersion into the world of crafts, into the world of Fiber Arts. This area runs the gamut of handcrafts, including spinning, dyeing, weaving, knitting, and crocheting, with some of these dating back to the dawn of recorded history. ...

TS President, Hugh Spurgin, had declared in a speech to the Top Gun conference in Las Vegas, November 6-8, that UTS alumni were leading projects and ministries across the nation, but that few people knew about it.  Alumni may not be flaunting their affiliations, but there is no doubt they are putting UTS skills training to good use in managing God-given programs in the Washington, D.C. area. Take the weekend of Nov. 14-15, for instance. On Saturday, Nov. 14, Dr. Michael Jenkins (UTS’77 &’12), was out and about early. He and Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, who is an...

The guest speakers at the Nov. 15 Sunday service of WestRock Family Church in Tarrytown, New York were a UTS Alumni husband and wife team who both graduated from UTS in the early 80s.  Anthony Ferrantello graduated with a Masters in Religious Education in 1983. Dr. Donna Ferrantello graduated from the Divinity program in 1982. After UTS graduation, both volunteered, in 1984, to be full-time City Leaders for the CAUSA mission at State College, PA, and in Altoona, PA. When they moved to New Jersey in 1987  they continued doing CAUSA work and civic engagement.  With that...