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Nov 24

Great Organ Music at Yale: Shin-Young Lee
Dec 2

Mengfei Xu: Organ Degree Recital
Dec 3

Tithi Bhattacharya - Uncanny Histories: Ghosts, Fear, and Reason in Colonial Bengal
Dec 3

Yale Consort: Lutheran Vespers

Serving 21st-Century Church and World Providing knowledge, insight, and inspiration in a critical time of upheaval and challenge.

An Ecumenical Community Inclusively Christian, open to all denominations and perspectives

A World-Class Research University Access to all of Yale’s academic and cultural resources

PARTNERS ON THE QUAD

Berkeley Divinity School, the Institute of Sacred Music, and Andover Newton Seminary are important collaborators with YDS, sharing space, faculty, students, an inclusive Christian identity, and a common mission of service to church and world.

EXPLORE THE QUAD

LEADERSHIP

The architectural revelation on a New Haven hilltop

An essay on the significance of the Living Village

Theological resources

Through podcasts and online lectures, YDS offers a rich array of resources for faith formation, religious education, and personal and professional enrichment.

Access our resources

Beecher Lecture Series

John McClure of Vanderbilt Divinity School presents the 2024 Beecher lecture series on “Renewing Preaching Through a Critical Homiletics of Genre."

How our alums serve the church and world

Explore these alumni stories

'Uniquely capable'

Versed in ethics, religiously knowledgeable, and formed in faith, our students emerge from YDS uniquely capable of fostering the positive transformations needed in our communities, country, and world.

Rev. Nancy Taylor '80 M.Div.
'Felt like I belonged'

YDS was one of the places where I felt like I belonged (age, race, class, sexual orientation, etc. — all of me). And it was a GLORIOUS experience!

Countess Cooper '23 S.T.M.
Soft place for hard questions

YDS is a soft place to ask hard questions. How we need that in a world of too many jagged edges where we don’t afford each other love, kindness, and generosity.

Stan Grant, Australian journalist
A needed foundation

YDS prepared me for leadership in the church and provided the theological, ethical, and historical foundation I needed to enter and engage the world with a sense of confidence.

Jeffrey Haggray '88 M.Div., Executive Director of the American Baptist Churches Home Mission Society
Mind and heart

Most of us think of YDS as a place of the mind. It is also a place of the heart.

Peter Marty '85 M.Div., Editor/Publisher, The Christian Century
Life-changing experience

I would not be the scholar I am today without the faculty's mentorship, the school's amazing resources, or my classmates' input.

Daniel Gullotta '17 M.A.R.
Passionate about questions of belief and practice

This was a place for people like me: rooted in a tradition, ecumenically inclined, passionate about questions of religious belief and practice. I could be myself, let down my guard, and do my work with people who would become some of my closest friends.

Chet Duke '20 M.A.R.
Yale University

It transforms a class when you can go beyond a textbook to see what a book or a woodcut in the 16th century looks like.

Bruce Gordon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History
Valuable degree

I feel as though I still use my YDS degree every day.

Kathleen Murphy '95 M.A.R., faculty member at Marymount University
Historical mission

YDS remains rooted in Christian commitments but is applying those commitments to all sorts of issues in this turbulent society.

Ray Waddle, author of "This Grand Errand: A Bicentennial History of YDS"
Ecumenical formation

The most formative part of my time at YDS was the ecumenical worship. I am so appreciative of Marquand Chapel.

Calvon Jones ’18 M.Div., Assistant Minister of Memorial Church of Harvard
All tweets lead to YDS

It feels like everywhere I turn, every theologian or scholar...or every publication I read keeps pointing me back to one place: @YaleDivSchool. And I'm totally onboard with that ;)

@PorterCTaylor on Twitter
Transformational Leadership

I lean upon my YDS experience every day in my personal and professional life. The community continues to inspire and support me in important ways, and I am grateful for the indelible impact that has had on my life.

Dr. Elijah Heyward ’07 M.A.R., former COO, International African American Museum
Inspired to lead

My time at Berkeley at YDS trained me to think and inspired me to lead with courage and faith.

The Most Rev. Michael Curry ’78 M.Div., Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Lifeblood

It’s the students who affect me the most. I’ve written poems that emerged out of classes, and been directly motivated and challenged by perceptions of students. They’re really the lifeblood of the school.

Christian Wiman, Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature
Preparation for ministry

@YaleDivSchool brought my head, heart and hands together for ministry. Grateful.

Cece Jones-Davis '05 M.Div.
Faculty mentorship

My experience at YDS pushed me to better appreciate spiritual mentors in and out of class. Many times, I found myself blessed by faculty members who encouraged me to look beyond the boundaries of the syllabus as I sought answers to my biggest questions.

Christopher Phillips ’18 M.Div.
Deepened capacity

The depth, breadth and quality of my education and experience at YDS have had a profound impact on the quality of my ministry, deepened my capacity to think critically and creatively, and changed my life.

Sandra Dager '82 M.Div.
The will and the grace to do it

Of one thing I’m sure: There are people to serve, a world in pain and confusion, work to do … and my formation at YDS has given me the will and grace to do it.

Will Dickinson '20 M.Div., Deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
21st Century Church

Only by encountering people in the world can we truly bring the Church into the 21st century and hope to revive it as an important and practical part of society. I am blessed that my education prepared me to live out my call in the world.

Victoria Strang ’17 M.Div.

'Uniquely capable'

Versed in ethics, religiously knowledgeable, and formed in faith, our students emerge from YDS uniquely capable of fostering the positive transformations needed in our communities, country, and world.

Rev. Nancy Taylor '80 M.Div.
'Felt like I belonged'

YDS was one of the places where I felt like I belonged (age, race, class, sexual orientation, etc. — all of me). And it was a GLORIOUS experience!

Countess Cooper '23 S.T.M.
Soft place for hard questions

YDS is a soft place to ask hard questions. How we need that in a world of too many jagged edges where we don’t afford each other love, kindness, and generosity.

Stan Grant, Australian journalist
A needed foundation

YDS prepared me for leadership in the church and provided the theological, ethical, and historical foundation I needed to enter and engage the world with a sense of confidence.

Jeffrey Haggray '88 M.Div., Executive Director of the American Baptist Churches Home Mission Society
Mind and heart

Most of us think of YDS as a place of the mind. It is also a place of the heart.

Peter Marty '85 M.Div., Editor/Publisher, The Christian Century
Life-changing experience

I would not be the scholar I am today without the faculty's mentorship, the school's amazing resources, or my classmates' input.

Daniel Gullotta '17 M.A.R.
Passionate about questions of belief and practice

This was a place for people like me: rooted in a tradition, ecumenically inclined, passionate about questions of religious belief and practice. I could be myself, let down my guard, and do my work with people who would become some of my closest friends.

Chet Duke '20 M.A.R.
Yale University

It transforms a class when you can go beyond a textbook to see what a book or a woodcut in the 16th century looks like.

Bruce Gordon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History
Valuable degree

I feel as though I still use my YDS degree every day.

Kathleen Murphy '95 M.A.R., faculty member at Marymount University
Historical mission

YDS remains rooted in Christian commitments but is applying those commitments to all sorts of issues in this turbulent society.

Ray Waddle, author of "This Grand Errand: A Bicentennial History of YDS"
Ecumenical formation

The most formative part of my time at YDS was the ecumenical worship. I am so appreciative of Marquand Chapel.

Calvon Jones ’18 M.Div., Assistant Minister of Memorial Church of Harvard
All tweets lead to YDS

It feels like everywhere I turn, every theologian or scholar...or every publication I read keeps pointing me back to one place: @YaleDivSchool. And I'm totally onboard with that ;)

@PorterCTaylor on Twitter
Transformational Leadership

I lean upon my YDS experience every day in my personal and professional life. The community continues to inspire and support me in important ways, and I am grateful for the indelible impact that has had on my life.

Dr. Elijah Heyward ’07 M.A.R., former COO, International African American Museum
Inspired to lead

My time at Berkeley at YDS trained me to think and inspired me to lead with courage and faith.

The Most Rev. Michael Curry ’78 M.Div., Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Lifeblood

It’s the students who affect me the most. I’ve written poems that emerged out of classes, and been directly motivated and challenged by perceptions of students. They’re really the lifeblood of the school.

Christian Wiman, Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature
Preparation for ministry

@YaleDivSchool brought my head, heart and hands together for ministry. Grateful.

Cece Jones-Davis '05 M.Div.
Faculty mentorship

My experience at YDS pushed me to better appreciate spiritual mentors in and out of class. Many times, I found myself blessed by faculty members who encouraged me to look beyond the boundaries of the syllabus as I sought answers to my biggest questions.

Christopher Phillips ’18 M.Div.
Deepened capacity

The depth, breadth and quality of my education and experience at YDS have had a profound impact on the quality of my ministry, deepened my capacity to think critically and creatively, and changed my life.

Sandra Dager '82 M.Div.
The will and the grace to do it

Of one thing I’m sure: There are people to serve, a world in pain and confusion, work to do … and my formation at YDS has given me the will and grace to do it.

Will Dickinson '20 M.Div., Deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
21st Century Church

Only by encountering people in the world can we truly bring the Church into the 21st century and hope to revive it as an important and practical part of society. I am blessed that my education prepared me to live out my call in the world.

Victoria Strang ’17 M.Div.

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'Uniquely capable'

'Felt like I belonged'

Soft place for hard questions

A needed foundation

Mind and heart

Life-changing experience

Passionate about questions of belief and practice

Yale University

Valuable degree

Historical mission

Ecumenical formation

All tweets lead to YDS

Transformational Leadership

Inspired to lead

Lifeblood

Preparation for ministry

Faculty mentorship

Deepened capacity

The will and the grace to do it

21st Century Church