Registration is Open for Our Summer Programs
We are very excited to announce that registration for Summer Study and our newest program, the YDS Learn, Lead, Inspire Summit 2023 are now open! Both programs occur in June for a week of study with Yale faculty and higher education leaders from across the country. More information can be found below.
Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month. Celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring the different resources we have available, which include:
- Tending the Sacred Selves of Adolescent Girls: Hard Stories of Race, Class and Gender with Dr. Evelyn Parker
- Talking About Gender and Sexuality With Youth with Dr. Kate Ott
- Youth Bible Study on Women in the Bible
- Adult Bible Study on Women in the Bible
From the YMI Director: Ash Wednesday
When I was a chaplain serving in a hospital, my favorite day all year was Ash Wednesday. Previously, I’ll admit that Ash Wednesday never really meant that much to me. But all of that changed at the hospital.
See YMI Director Jill Old’s message on Ash Wednesday.
Learning Beyond the Walls – New YDS Introductory Course
We are thrilled to offer a new YDS introductory course on the Foundations of Christian Worship with Professor Teresa Berger. This course focuses on theological and historical approaches to the study of Christian worship, with attention paid to cultural context as well as contemporary issues. Guest lecturers include Andrew B. McGowan, Dean and President of Berkeley Divinity School, and Dr. Glen Segger. Recordings of this course are available for free and can be watched at any time. Go to Foundations of Christian Worship.
2023 Upcoming Events and Offerings
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Don’t Miss Out On This In-Person Event! – Tending the Adolescent Soul: Offering Hope in an Age of Despair with Mark Yaconelli Register at: Tending the Adolescent Soul |
Internal Welcome and External Witness: LGBTQ Youth Ministry with Deacon Ross Murray Register at: Internal Welcome and External Witness If you’re interested in how your kids can benefit from an inclusive, welcoming summer camp, please click here: thenamingproject.org/summer-camp |
YDS Summer Study 2023
This renowned program of study returns online June 5-9, 2023. Classes meet daily, are small to allow for maximum engagement, and feature YDS faculty teaching topics in the Bible, theology, or religion. This year’s schedule includes courses on topics of Faith and Reason, Bible Through Art and Artifact, music history, the poetry of T.S. Elliot, Jonathan Edwards sermons, the ethics of love, the Book of Exodus, and the Red (and Blue) Letter Bible.
Summer Study includes a keynote lecture on Tuesday, June 6 with YDS Professor Dr. Donyelle McCray on Pauli Murray’s spirituality and preaching.
Participants receive a YDS Certificate of Completion at the end of the course week. For more information and to register, go to summerstudy.yale.edu.
YDS Learn, Lead, Inspire Summit 2023
“The Other”: Defining, Defending, Problematizing
Join us on the beautiful Sterling Divinity Quadrangle in New Haven for a week-long educational summit, June 26-30, 2023. This year’s topic will be the intended and unintended consequence of categorizing “otherness,” whether it be around race, gender, ethnicity, ability, or other lines of difference. Participants will have an opportunity to spend a week thinking intensively with peers and friends about this important and timely topic, all the while being guided by faculty from Yale, with opportunities for small group intensive discussions and personally tailored experiences, preparing them to better engage with their communities, their congregations, and their faith.
During this immersive 5-day program, participants will come to campus to live, learn, and work together, utilizing the resources of Yale and the wider New Haven community. We will explore the topic through biblical, theological, ethical, and pastoral lenses in a supportive learning environment that includes Yale faculty and higher education leaders from across the country, including Clifton Granby, Laura Nasrallah, Almeda Wright, Tisa Wenger, and Molly Zahn.
For more information and to register, go to YDS Learn, Lead, Inspire Summit
Bishop Vicentia Kgabe of Lesotho to join The Leader’s Way faculty this summer at Berkeley Divinity School
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale has embarked on a major new Leadership Initiative for Episcopal clergy. The Leader’s Way is a hybrid learning immersion to transform clergy and lay leaders. Beginning with six days on the Yale campus in June 2023 and continuing with seven months of online learning, the Leader’s Way will create an incubator for innovation in ministry. The Right Rev’d Dr. Vicentia Rofiloe Kgabe is the Bishop of Lesotho. She served for seven years as the Rector and Principal of the Transfiguration Theological College based in Grahamstown/Makhanda, the only residential seminary and training center in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. She is a scholar with several degrees including a PhD in Practical Theology, University of Pretoria and a Post Graduate Diploma in Enterprise Management, Rhodes University Business School. Kgabe is a research fellow in the Desmond Tutu Center for Religion and Social Justice.
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