Introducing: Andover Newton Seminary

Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, one of three “Partners on the Quad” dedicated to supporting and enhancing YDS’s educational mission, offers numerous opportunities to all of YDS. For those who wish for a deeper relationship with Andover Newton for the sake of faith leadership development and career enhancement, Andover Newton offers a diploma program that runs alongside the Master of Divinity Program, as well as learning opportunities open to all.

 

That diploma is not a separate degree, but rather it signals to the wider world deep commitment to ministry in faith communities and readiness to serve them. Students and other members of the YDS community who want to participate in Andover Newton’s weekly study/fellowship/worship time, Emmaus, are welcome to become Covenant Partners to Andover Newton, whether or not they participate in the diploma program. The orientation on August 22, 2018, during BTFO is intended, however, for diploma-seekers. 

 

 

Andover Seminary (formed in 1807), a freestanding seminary formed by religious scholars from the Congregationalist predecessor body of the United Church of Christ; and Newton Theological Institute (1825), a seminary of the American Baptist Churches (USA), have fascinating histories in their own rights. The two schools both separately and together educated thousands of ministers and other faith leaders. The seminary moved to New Haven to take up its current form in the summer of 2016. More information about the history of Andover Newton is available at www.andovernewton.yale.edu. 

 

Andover Newton’s president is Martin Copenhaver, and its dean is Sarah Drummond. Affiliated faculty members include Mark Heim, Gregory Mobley, Tisa Wenger, Willie Jennings, Mary Moschella, and Benjamin Valentin. Wider university Affiliate Faculty include Carolyn Roberts (History of Medicine, Afro-American Studies) and Ben Doolittle (Medical School). Andover Newton’s alumni/ae, communications, and advancement officer is Ned Parker, and Kathleen Hamilton provides administrative support.

 

Student leaders for Andover Newton are known as the Founders, and they currently include Abner Cotto-Bonilla, Haywood Perry, and Emily Bruce. A cohort of Fellows, outstanding ministers in the vicinity, support student learning through mentoring both formally and informally. On an institutional level, Andover Newton is embedded in YDS and guided in its work by a Board of Trustees, chaired by Linda Campanella, that stewards the mission of the seminary.

 

Although offices will soon move, Andover Newton is currently housed in suite S116. Come to Emmaus Thursday night, August 23; meet some good people, and learn more.