K. Gordon Neufeld

On Memorial Day weekend, I returned for the first time in years to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) in Barrytown, New York. I travelled there with my family to attend the 39th convocation ceremony, as well as an alumni conference which followed. Though I am no . . . . Continue Reading »

The Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), founded in 1975 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, lies nestled in a quiet corner of upstate New York near the town of Barrytown. An impressive two-story brick structure”a central chapel with two dormitory wings”it sits at the hub of a 250-acre . . . . Continue Reading »

Recently I witnessed a spectacle unlike anything I have seen in twenty years: a mass wedding celebrated by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. On April 27, 2002, in the ballroom of a large hotel on the fringe of America’s capital, I watched as Moon formalized the wedding vows of-or so he claims-some . . . . Continue Reading »