"Suggest a Title" -- new catalog feature

We have added a new feature to our UPSem Libraries catalog.  It's a form that enables you to recommend books or media items you'd like to see us purchase.  We often hear about valuable works this way, from readers and patrons who make suggestions.

On our Library catalog, look in the upper right corner for the Suggest-a-Title link.  If you click on that link, you'll get a simple form that will go to our cataloging and acquisitions librarian, Irina Topping.

Delayed opening Friday

The Richmond campus of UPSem will open on a two-hour delay on Friday, 14 Feb 2014.  The Library will open at 10:30 am.

CLOSED THURSDAY

The Richmond campus of UPSem will be closed on Thursday, 13 February, due to an expected winter storm. 

New exhibit in the Library

Yes, it's time to think ahead to Sprunts!!  If you're an alum of UTS, Union-PSCE, PSCE or UPSem, please consider coming here for your reunion!  If you graduated in a year ending with 9 or 4, this might be your fifth, tenth, fifteenth or twentieth reunion.  It's fun for us to see our graduates return to campus and have a great time during this special annual event.

We have just installed a new exhibit at the Morton Library to help people anticipate the Sprunt Lectures, which will be presented this year by our own distinguished emeritus professor, Dean McBride.  Dr. McBride's contributions to Union Seminary have been exceptional ... those who experienced his presence as a student or a colleague will rejoice to honor him at this event, and to hear what he has to say.

Dr. McBride will be addressing the emergence of an issue that has occupied Western theological discourse since Hellenistic antiquity.  Is the God who is self-disclosed by name in Jewish and Christian scriptures identical with the anonymous, all-encompassing "One God" of Greco-Roman philosophical theology?  The title of the lecture series is "The Name Above All Others : Denominating Divine Providence and Presence in Biblical Traditions."

The preacher at this year's worship services will be Agnes Norfleet, another accomplished alum, the pastor of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.  And the former President of PSCE, Heath Rada, will be honored as 2014's Distinguished Alum.

Please enjoy the exhibit as you pass through the Library's main entrance.  And plan to join us for Sprunts in May!

Paula

Delayed opening Thursday

On Thursday, January 30th, the Richmond campus of Union Seminary will open on a two-hour delay.  The campus will be open by 10:30 am.

CLOSED WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday, January 29th, the Union Seminary campus in Richmond will be closed due to inclement weather.

New books from our creative people !

We'd like to call your attention to some exciting book news involving several members of the UPSem community.

Dave Csinos (Th.M, 2010) published a new book last year which has been selected as "Best Book About Children's Ministry for 2013" by Hearts and Minds Books.  It's called Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus  (IVP/Praxis).

Marilyn Johns (MACE, 1994), Director of Program Development in UPSem's Leadership Institute, has published Where Everybody Knows Your Name : Best Practices in the Small Church (VPS Press).

Andrew Taylor-Troutman (M.Div. 2009) has a forthcoming book, Parables of Parenthood : Interpreting the Gospels with Family (Wipf and Stock).  We'll feature this on our Library homepage as soon as we get a cover image.

It's wonderful that our alums and staff are doing so much to support congregations, children and families in their Christian life together.

Paula