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Join us online for Commencement 2013
Join us on the YDS LiveStream channel to watch Commencement exercises on Sunday May 19th and Monday May 20th. The first live broadcast starts Sunday, May 19th, 4:00pm EST. Read more...

New course responds to growing student inquiry: "How do you do social justice work?"

“There isn’t a part of life that justice doesn’t touch.” Gracie Killman ‘13 M.Div. has long recognized the complex interplay between issues of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and other sites of injustice. Now, thanks to a pilot course at YDS, Killman and her 15 classmates see the myriad possibilities for students who feel called to justice-making in their academic and professional lives. “There are justice opportunities in any vocation; it's just a matter Read more...

Linn Tonstad: unmasking the tyranny of exclusion

Feminist theology, queer theology, the “dead white Germans” of European classic theology—Linn Tonstad lectures on them all. And they all contribute to her vital personal theological focus: the endeavor to examine and dispute modes of power that devalue people and the Christian gospel. Assistant professor of theology at YDS since 2012, Tonstad has grappled with the dynamics of power, dissent, and Christian conscience since childhood. Read more...

16 reasons to celebrate: new titles by YDS faculty
“How do you write a book?” an undergraduate student once asked Margaret Olin, a senior research fellow at the University. Olin responded: “Well. It’s always written.” On Monday April 8, the YDS community gathered in the Common Room for the annual Faculty Book Party, an event that celebrated 16 new publications of our professors’ “always written” works. Read more...