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“What a beautiful responsibility it is to have to think about how to care for people and how to care for community,” stated the Very Reverend Winnie Varghese ‘99, Union Trustee and 12th Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in her recent feature in RNS.
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Our featured guest is Dr. Philip Butler, Associate Professor of Theology and Black Post-Human Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology. This conversation will be moderated by TIDEL’s Director of Programs, Dr. Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes.Learn more and RSVP here: utsnyc.edu/blog/event/t...
TIDEL Speaker Series - The Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence (2025-10-30)
Join us for a timely conversation on the ethical sustainability of artificial intelligence. While AI promises innovation, it is also deeply harmful to our environment demanding vast amounts of energy…
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Join Union on October 30, at 5pm EST for a timely virtual conversation on the ethical sustainability of AI. Attendees will be invited to think critically and faithfully about how theology, innovation, and communal responsibility can guide decision-making around AI for the good of all.
“Instead of only saying what religious liberty shouldn’t be, we started asking what it should look like—religious liberty to do what, and for whom?” stated @UnionSeminary partner and LRRP Director Elizabeth (Liz) Platt.
@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social are excited to welcome Dr. Jordan Loewen-Colón and Renaldo M. Pearson, ACNP to Union as new mentors at the Technology, Innovation and Digital Engagement Lab (TIDEL) led by Director, Dr. Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes.

Read the full story here: utsnyc.edu/blog/2025/10...
Together, they’ll explore how business insights can shape the future of higher education through justice-centered innovation.

Hosted by Dr. Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes, Director of Union’s TIDEL, we will examine how to build humane, data-informed systems that advance access, equity, and student success.
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Join us at @unionseminary.bsky.social for an EdTech Week Networking Mixer & Fireside Chat featuring Union Board Chair Cliff Hudson (former CEO, SONIC) and Union Trustee Craig Miller (former CIO, Planet Fitness).
This month! @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social alum Ibrahim Sambo Lawan will be presenting a lecture titled, “Divine Geopolitics and U.S. Immigration: Biblical Metaphors Shaping Inclusion and Exclusion” at the Center for Public Theology and Migration’s Graduate Student Conference on October 17th!
Join @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social online on October 20 at 6:00 PM for a conversation with Union faculty members teaching courses in the Master of Arts in Social Justice program. Members of the admissions and student support teams will also join to answer additional questions about the program.
How can these laws play together for the healing of a planet brutally attacked?

This class aims to help students to critically learn about their own religious backgrounds, to wrestle with the ways we engage our traditions, and find ways to live in closer relation with the earth now.
In this class, we will take the trajectories of the Christian churches following three historic laws: the law of Belief, Prayer, and Ethics. However, given that climate disasters are already upon us, we must add one more fundamentally necessary law: Nature.
4th Annual Mama Leo Lecture Series (2025-10-18)
Union Theological Seminary, in partnership with Dr. Samuel Cruz, Associate Professor of Religion and Society, is establishing The Mama Leo Latinx Lecture Series to honor the Puerto Rican spiritual…
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All are invited to join @UnionSeminary starting on October 28th for Learning with the Laws of Belief, Prayer, Ethics, and Nature taught by Claudio Carvalhaes do our belief systems and spiritual practices come from?
ICE is abducting people from church parking lots & shooting pastors while praying. Church pews are empty as people stay home in fear. And yet, Pres. Trump continues to proclaim his commitment to religious liberty.
This isn’t just a lecture—it’s a space where we honor the faith of thsoe who worked for liberation in the barrios of New York City and beyond.

Join us on October 18 as we celebrate and continue the spirit of Mama Leo — a movement-maker who embodied the gospel for the oppressed and forgotten.
Four years ago, @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social, in partnership with Dr. Samuel Cruz, Associate Professor of Religion and Society, launched The Mama Leo Latinx Lecture Series—a living tribute to the legendary Puerto Rican spiritual leader, Rev. Leoncia Rosado Rousseau, lovingly known as Mama Leo.
A long-time student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Brooke is the Co-Founder of Courage of Care and Co-Editor of The Arrow Journal, bringing deep experience at the intersection of contemplative practice, justice, and community building.