Dean Sterling's reflections on Newtown
Dean Gregory Sterling's address to the Yale Divinity community at the Newtown tragedy remembrance gathering held in Marquand Chapel
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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.
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"This great cloud of witnesses"
Alumni Board President, Jeffrey Oak '85 M.Div., '96 Ph.D. shares some of his reflections about what it means to be alumni of YDS.
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-religious voices.>Go to story
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. >Go to story
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FEATURED EVENTS
February is Black History Month
Allan Boesak, activist and theologian to give lecture
South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak will give a public lecture entitled, "Reconciliation, Justice, and the Spirit of Ubuntu" on Tuesday, February 5 at 5:30 pm in Marquand Chapel. Boesak was a key leader in South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and is currently a visiting professor at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. Reception immediately following in the Common Room. >More information
Read with us: Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander will lecture at YDS on February 25 on her acclaimed book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindess as part of an ongoing discussion at YDS about race and inclusion. All current students and faculty members have received a copy of Alexander’s book. The lecture will be webcast live with an online discussion, so alumni and friends of YDS are encouraged to obtain their own copy and read along with us. Look for more details about how you can participate in coming weeks! >Event details
Convocation & Reunions 2013
Save the Date —October 23-25, 2013
Historic Beecher lectures, faculty talks, timely panels, and much more. Classes celebrating reunions include:
1953 — 60th
1958 — 55th
1963 — 50th
1967, 1968, and 1969 Cluster Reunion
1982, 1983, 1984 Cluster Reunion
1988 — 25th
2002, 2003, 2004 Cluster Reunion
2009 — 2013 Recent Grads
If you would like to be involved in planning your class reunion, please e-mail kira.wishart@yale.edu
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More Faculty on the Road 
Christian Wiman, one of the most significant names in contemporary poetry, has been appointed to the faculty of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as Senior Lecturer in Religion and Literature. He has previously taught at Stanford, Northwestern, and the Prague School of Economics, and for the last decade has served as editor of Poetry, the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. In 2007, the New York Times described his editorship as one of “enthusiastic adventurousness, publishing a wide range of poetic styles, turbo-charging the back of the book with essays…and reviews engaged in debate both lively and dead serious.” Wiman is the author, translator, or editor of seven books. His most recent book of poems, Every Riven Thing (FSG, 2010), was named one of the ten best poetry books of the year by the New Yorkerand by the National Post in Canada. The first five-year term of Wiman’s joint appointment with Yale Divinity School begins July 1, 2013. >
“Showing People Jesus” is both the title of an upcoming Berkeley Divinity School symposium and part of the answer to a provocative question: what is the heart of Episcopal identity and the church’s mission in today’s fast-changing culture? Scholar and Episcopal priest Dwight Zscheile will lead an exploration of this topic at BDS’s annual Leadership Symposium on June 3-4 in partnership with the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. Centered on his book PEOPLE of the WAY: Renewing Episcopal Identity, the symposium will help church leaders re-envision what it means to be an Episcopalian today and show them how to build new relationships in their local communities. This annual symposium, part of BDS’s commitment to continuing education, is sponsored by the Wesley-Royce Leadership Initiative. Watch for a mailing from BDS for further details, including registration information, or check the YDS summer term website: 
