NEW YORK – It wasn’t long ago that first-year Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) student, Emmanuel Ndupu (MDiv candidate), was at home in Lagos, Nigeria pondering what God had in store for his future. He had already used his degree in physics from Redeemer’s University to secure a job with a plastics manufacturer in his hometown. He was working as a salesman for the company, filling orders and trying to get new ones. The problem was that he knew his future lay elsewhere, but he didn’t know where – or how he was going to get there. Emmanuel knew this, just like he knew...

“And I will make you fishers of men”: The watery odyssey of Chuck Frumin  Frumin family reunion in Kona, Hawaii. From left: Katsunori Kuwahara, Corinna (Frumin) Kuwahara, Chuck Frumin, Mayumi Frumin, Kanoa Frumin, Yonji Kim, Joshua Frumin. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and finally to the palm-lined shores of paradise, Chuck Frumin, UTS class of ’80, has spent a good part of his life on the water.  A native of California, Frumin was born in Whittier, but grew up a stone’s throw from the pounding waves of Carlsbad, CA where he often surfed. After graduating from the...

The third and last of the semester’s Guest Lecture series was held on Wednesday, April 26 at the 4W43rd Street campus of the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) in Manhattan.  Dr. Taj Hamad (UTS’86), Director of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) Office of United Nations Relations and the Chairman of WANGO (World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations), spoke to a roomful of students and guests about the purpose, value and recent proliferation of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) in the world today. Photo: Dr. Taj Hamad (UTS’86) speaking at UTS in...

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...