The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary, to Speak at Round Hill Community Church

Union Theological Seminary in NYC will be the site of an historic conversation among Buddhist scholars and Christian theologians from around the world.  It is also the site of an ongoing lecture series among leading economists and theologians.  In April, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will be lecturing.

The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is president of Union Seminary, and will be sure to discuss these movements in her talk at Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Rd.  There will be a reception from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., followed by the talk at 7:30 p.m.

The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is the 16th president of the historic Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. The first woman to head the 174-year-old non-denominational seminary, Jones came to Union after seventeen years at Yale University, where she was the Titus Street Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, and chair of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She was co-principal investigator on the "Women, Religion, and Globalization Grant" for the Henry T. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs at Yale. Dr. Jones is a prolific and popular scholar in the fields of theology, religion, globalization, and gender studies.

In addition to publishing five books, and 37 articles and book chapters since 1991, she has delivered a long list of professional papers and public lectures across the United States and around the world. She holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma, Yale Divinity School and Yale University. Jones is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ.

For more information, contact Round Hill Community Church at (203) 869-1091.