About United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (United) is an ecumenical graduate school, historically rooted in the United Church of Christ and located in St. Paul, Minnesota. The theoretical was formed in 1962 in imitation of the merger of Mission House Seminary of Plymouth, Wisconsin (the current daylight Lakeland University), and Yankton School of Theology in Yankton, South Dakota (the defunct Yankton College, now site of the Federal Prison Camp, Yankton). The seminary was located in New Brighton, Minnesota, from its 1962 commencement until 2019, when it moved to St. Paul.

Like the UCC itself, United reflects the merging of two denominational backgrounds: Mission House was connected to the Evangelical and Reformed Church, while Yankton was one of the numerous schools affiliated taking into account the Congregational Christian Churches. The UCC was formed from the incorporation of those two bodies, which took place surrounded by 1957 and 1961. Despite monster formally affiliated in the same way as the UCC, the United charter states that the school is ecumenical, independent, and multi-denominational.

United offers the following degrees: Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.), Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Arts in Leadership, and Master of Arts (MA). The educational champions social justice, the integration of arts and theology, and interfaith dialogue. United houses the Kaleo Center for Faith, Justice & Social Transformation, a United initiative, and publishes ARTS: The Arts in Religious & Theological Studies, a journal devoted to the examination of the arts and theology.

In 2004, United consecrated the Bigelow Chapel as an adjunct to the campus. Designed by Joan Soranno and John Cook of Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc., the chapel exhibits lost planes of glass, precast rock walls, and a series of translucent curving wood panels. Two uncovered towers house Deagan chimes.

Bigelow Chapel is the winner of numerous awards for its militant architecture, including the 2006 Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects, and the 2004 Honor Award from the Minnesota Society of the American Institute of Architects.

The extra occupant of United’s former campus, Global Academy, elected to keep the chapel in its indigenous state, renaming it Bigelow Hall and using it as a secular addition space.

New Brighton is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. It is a suburb of the Twin Cities. The population was 21,456 at the 2010 census.