January 2026 News
Happy New Year!
Spiritual Resolutions
After you have rung in the new year and the celebrations are done, you may find yourself writing out your New Year’s resolutions. You may be thinking of your physical health, but have you added practices to support your spiritual health? What about the youth and children at your church or in your life?
We have created suggested practices to help support you and your youth spiritually throughout the year and paired each with a scripture verse. Learn more and download our two spiritual resolution lists here.
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Registration closes soon! – A Scholarly Stroll Through the Sermon on the Mount
Zoom | January 5 – February 23 | 7:30 pm Eastern | 8 SessionsThe Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton will lead us through the “Sermon on the Mount” for both academic insights and spiritual applications. This course will see it through ancient eyes first, then move it toward our 21st century, lives, churches, and world.
When Leaders Get in the Way with Rabbi Elan Babchuck
Zoom | January 21 | 12 – 2pm EasternIn partnership with Berkeley Divinity SchoolThis class is open to all—fence-sitters and co-pilots alike— who seek to remove those bottlenecks and barriers and are open to the possibility that they might, in fact, be internal to their own leadership lives.
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How Young Minds Navigate Social Interaction: From Infancy to Childhood with Dr. Youjung Choi We will explore how infants and young children make sense of the multifaceted nature of social interaction. Also, we will examine how they understand and navigate social relationships—how they initiate, maintain, and adjust them by attending to various social cues. |
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Not Too Little to Lead: The Value of Children as Leaders in our Worship with Brandy McDonald We will share the successes and challenges my church has faced in our intentional approach to ensuring children feel empowered to be active participants in the leadership of our worship services. |
Summer Study 2026
Save the date! Yale Divinity School Summer Study will take place June 1-5, 2026 online. If you have not signed up for updates on Summer Study, you can do so by entering in your email address at summerstudy.yale.edu. Click in the box on the right hand side of the page.
This year’s schedule includes the following courses and professors.
Mornings: 10:00am -12:15pm
- Framing the Gospel of Faith: Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Harry Attridge
- The Joy of Text: Reading the Bible with Liberating Lenses, Julie Faith Parker
- Johann Sebastian Bach’s Oratorios: The Life of Christ from a Composer’s Perspective, Markus Rathey
- The Hounds of Hell: Howard Thurman and Human Flourishing, Frederick J. Streets
Afternoons: 2:00-4:15pm
- Worship and Creation, on a Planet in Peril, Teresa Berger
- Faith and Reason, John Hare
- The Book of Job: The Crossroads of Faith, Greg Mobley
- Reading Poetry Devotionally: How Poems Nurture our Spiritual Lives, David Mahan
- Providence in Jonathan Edwards’s Thought and Times, Andreas Beck and Kenneth Minkema
Summer Study features a keynote lecture on Tuesday, June 2 at 7:30pm Eastern with YDS Professor Dr. Yii-Jan Lin on “American Apocalypse Now.”
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