Jesus Christ is Lord of all creation. As a group of His followers, we affirm historic, orthodox Christian faith and practice expressed in the common confession of the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches through the ages, as evidenced in the Nicene Creed; and we worship Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God. We hold to these truths:

1. The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ;
2. The necessity and efficacy of the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the world, and the historic fact of His bodily resurrection;
3. The presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the work of regeneration;
4. The unique Divine inspiration, entire trustworthiness, and authority of the Bible;
5. The expectation of the personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As Christian scholars at Yale, we find ourselves in an environment in which the life of faith is usually divorced from the life of the mind. Often, relational and spiritual needs are ignored and the possibility of community is unexplored. The joy of learning suffers as it is divorced from the love of wisdom and the desire to bring about a just and merciful social order. The relentless quest for specialization in the academy suppresses wider questioning and learning about the created order and its functioning.

In this context, we affirm the validity of the vocation of Christian scholar as one called and commissioned by Jesus Christ. Furthermore, we affirm the need to be in community with those of like mind and heart who similarly seek to serve Christ in the academy, the church, and our society. Our mission as a fellowship focuses on the challenges and needs of those called by Christ to scholarship. At the same time we affirm the importance of active involvement in local churches, and we expect such involvement of ourselves and those who join us.

As a community of scholars who are connected with the Yale graduate and faculty community we are committed:
To promote scholarship as a Christian vocation, challenging, persuading, encouraging, and supporting one another as Christian scholars who are striving within our various disciplines to bring our thoughts, scholarship, research, teaching, and our very lives captive to the one Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 10:5);

1. To pursue the challenge of integrating the life of faith and the life of the mind, bringing a Christian perspective to bear on our academic endeavors;
2. To testify to the gospel of Jesus Christ in the world of academia, witnessing to the power of Him who has saved us;
3. To foster communities of Christian scholars not only at Yale but also in our academic disciplines, at other institutions, and in the various professions we may enter.

We ask God, in His great mercy and love, to guide us and help us.

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The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord, and Giver of Live, who proceedeth from the Father [and the Son]; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets.

And I believe one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. AMEN.