News and Headlines
"When the world comes undone:" YDS students and alumni reflect on ministering to Newtown
Newtown, Connecticut is about a 45 minute drive from the Yale Divinity School campus, heading west out of New Haven, then turning north through the Housatonic River Valley. It’s a familiar drive to many generations of YDS students and alums who have served churches along that Valley and in the village of Newtown itself. YDS grads and students were at work on December 14, when a gunman shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 young children and Read more...
Five YDS grads selected for Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal grants
Five Yale Divinity School graduates have been selected for the 2012 class of the Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program, created to support pastoral exploration and reflection. For these five YDS alumni, 2013 will be a year of rest and spiritual renewal—and perhaps passport renewal, too. Read more...
YDS student group Open Party and Chris Stedman promote dialogue between atheists, people of faith
On November 27 interfaith social justice advocate—and avowed atheist—Chris Stedman spoke at Marquand Chapel about his journey to atheism, his work as Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, and his new book,Faithiest: How an Atheist Found Common Ground With the Religious (Beacon, 2012). Stedman's address was sponsored by Open Party, a YDS student group, and is part of an ongoing interfaith discussion at YDS that is growing to include atheist, agnostic, and multi- Read more...
Martin Jean: encountering the world of faith in beauty and metaphor
In the beginning was the Word, and in the fullness of time the Word was carried along on the winds of music, poetry, metaphor, ritual, color, stone, dance, beauty—in a word, art. Such imagery is not foreign to Martin Jean, who works and performs at the junction of faith and art as the director of the Institute of Sacred Music, which is housed in the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. Read more...
