Minkema, who leads research on the Divinity School’s history, and now is a member of the Yale and Slavery Working Group, also spoke about the strong presence of colonizationists — those who believed ...

Yale Divinity School’s mission statement states that while the school is “traditionally and primarily Christian in character,” it “welcomes people of all faiths and no faiths.” Yet non-Christian ...

NEW HAVEN — The Rev. Herron Gaston calls himself a people person, the perfect qualification for his job of recruiting an increasingly diverse student body to Yale Divinity School, including ...

YDS Dean Greg Sterling first met the Beachums in April 2023 when the couple attended a concert by the Clark Sisters gospel group organized by the Interdisciplinary Program in Music and the Black ...

Yale Divinity School is haunted. Like all other white theological academic spaces, there is an ever-present ghostly specter that looms over the Quad, that dwells in the chapel, and sits in our ...

An architectural rendering of the new environmentally sustainable "living building" residence hall the Yale Divinity School will break ground for on Oct, 11, 2023.

Why I moved: I knew that Vanderbilt Divinity School was looking for a dean, and one of the search-committee members asked if I would be interested. My first response was, “Absolutely not; too ...

Corrections and clarifications: A prior version of this article misspelled the name of Yale Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling. The Jewish New Year arrived this fall with an unusual milestone: The ...

Clarence Thomas graduated from Yale Law School six years before me in 1974. His Yale JD degree (Juris Doctor) was still warm in 1980 when I tore up my M.Div. degree, or Master of Divinity. Tearing ...

The Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy is raising up the next generation of Christian leaders focused on social justice. It's led by Rev. William Barber, after retirement from his ...

Louie is one of a number of people drawn to divinity programs at Ivy and alt-Ivy universities such as Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, Duke, and the University of Chicago for reasons that have little to ...