By Kimberly Winston
June 10, 2022
One day in June 2015, A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div. went to work as usual as a budget analyst for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She...
By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R.
On a late September Sunday two years ago, some 45 members of the United Church of Christ gathered at the outdoor sanctuary of the Cathedral of...
A sampling of graduates reflect on their YDS experience and look ahead to what’s next in their lives and careers.
Paul Agyei Essah ‘22 M.A.R. (Hebrew Bible)
When I received...
By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R.
E. David de Leon ’21 M.Div., is co-author with Sabrina S. Chan, Linson Daniel, and La Thao of a forthcoming book, Learning Our Names: Asian...
By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R.
Lindsay Lunnum ’08 M.Div. graduated from Yale Divinity School just a few months after giving birth to her son, Seamus. Her experience as a...
In the latest episode of the Divinity School “Quadcast,” YDS Research Scholar and Lecturer Abdul-Rehman Malik discusses Ramadan, Islamophobia, and the Islamic roots of coffee...
By Kim A. Lawton
In 2018, McKenzie Flowers Fergus ’18 M.Div. was working in the Yale Medical School Library when she “stumbled upon” an article describing the suffering of...
A pair of new scholarships honor two towering figures in the history of women at Yale Divinity School—Rena Karefa-Smart ’45 B.D., the first Black woman to graduate from YDS,...
Kenneth Minkema is Executive Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at YDS. The Center supports inquiry into the life, writings,...
By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R.
This winter, mother and son Jean Wood ’64 M.A.R. and Chris Wood ’90 B.A. pledged $250,000 to support 10 new annual social justice scholarships at...
In the latest episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” distinguished Palestinian theologian Mitri Raheb discusses his scholarship on Christianity in the Holy Land and debunks Western...
By Kimberly Winston
Ten years ago, Pauline Samuel ’17 M.Div. was a parish administrator at her childhood church, St. Philip’s Episcopal/Anglican Church in Brooklyn, when its...
Dean Greg Sterling has issued an unprecedented acknowledgment of Yale Divinity School’s historical complicity in slavery and racism and has announced a series of actions to...
By Lauren Yanks ‘19 M.Div.
When he graduated from YDS and returned to his hometown in the Chicago area, Allen Reynolds ’15 M.Div. figured he would go into young adult...
Noah Humphrey ’23 M.Div. is a person who becomes more interesting with each new thing you learn about him. Among his multiple talents and roles: He published a book of poetry...
By Timothy Cahill ‘16 M.A.R.
Among its numerous and far-reaching effects, the Coronavirus pandemic compelled many to reassess the directions of their lives. This “Covid pivot...
By Dr. Moses Moore ‘77 M.Div.
The social and political activism of contemporary clergy such as the Rev. William Barber illuminates the “applied Christianity” that marked the...
By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R.
Braxton Shelley, Associate Professor of Music, Sacred Music, and Divinity, has long been fascinated by how gospel music turns musical sound into...
By Kimberly Winston
There was point, about two decades years into her career as a church pastor, when the Rev. Dr. Susan Williams Smith ’86 M.Div. was so exhausted she...
By Emily Judd ‘19 M.A.R.
White Christian nationalism in the United States is radicalizing, warns Yale Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies Philip Gorski in the latest...