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Yale Divinity School has initiated an endowed scholarship fund in honor of the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., the prominent anti-war and civil rights activist who was university chaplain from 1958-75.
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More than 200 colleagues, former students and friends of Margaret Farley gathered at Yale Divinity School April 15-16, 2005 for a conference in honor of Farley's life and three decades of work in the theological trenches as a professor of Christian ethics at YDS.
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Last summer Prof. Kristen Leslie led a team of six YDS students during a practicum at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. Now, the Divinity team's observations have prompted a national debate about religious culture at the Academy. > Go to Story |
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 Adela Yarbro Collins (pictured left), the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, delivered the presidential address at the April 22 meeting of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature in Newton, MA. Entitled Apocalypticism and New Testament Theology, her talk concluded with, “Theological warrants should never be used to justify historical claims....Theological interpretations that avoid contradicting the results of historical study, however, are likely to be more persuasive than those that do.”
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Places are still available for persons enrolling in Summer Term 2005 at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. It is recommended that persons who have not registered by May 25 make e-mail or telephone contact before mailing in an application form. > Go to Website |
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Dean Harold Attridge has given a number of talks over the past year on Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. On April 20, CNN aired a four-minute interview with the Dean. The video clip and transcript of the interview are now available on the YDS web site.
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 The Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, a 1984 graduate of YDS, has been endorsed by the General Board of the Christian Church to serve as general minister and president of the 770,000-member denomination.
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The Very Rev. Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, visited the campus on April 20 as a guest lecturer and preacher at Berkeley Divinity School's community Eucharist.
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American lyric tenor James Taylor has been appointed Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Voice at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music.
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Annual gifts to the Yale Divinity School Annual Fund are directed to the School's most valuable asset—the students. In 2004-05 YDS was able to provide partial scholarships to 60 students, and the goal for 2005-06 is 65 students.
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Notes from the Quad, May 2005
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