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class="field-items"> <span class="field-item even">Serving 21st-Century Church and World</span> </span> </span> <span class="field field-name-field-short-description field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <span class="field-items"> <span class="field-item even">Providing knowledge, insight, and inspiration in a critical time of upheaval and challenge.</span> </span> </span> </span> </span> </a> </span> </span> <span class="field-item odd"> <span class="entity entity-field-collection-item field-collection-item-field-home-page-identity-images clearfix" about="/field-collection/field-home-page-identity-images/321" typeof=""> <a href="https://divinity.yale.edu/life-yds/worship-and-spiritual-life" title="Worship, Spiritual Life, and Ministry"> <span class="content"> <span class="field field-name-field-home-page-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <span class="field-items"> <span class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" 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class="content"> <span class="field field-name-field-home-page-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <span class="field-items"> <span class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://divinity.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/identity_images_480x429/public/home-page-identity-images/sterlinglibrarynave.jpg?itok=H-evHCGS" width="480" height="429" alt="" /></span> </span> </span> <span class="heading-description-wrapper"> <span class="field field-name-field-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <span class="field-items"> <span class="field-item even">A World-Class Research University</span> </span> </span> <span class="field field-name-field-short-description field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <span class="field-items"> <span class="field-item even">Access to all of Yale’s academic and cultural resources</span> </span> </span> </span> </span> </a> </span> </span> </span> </span> </div> </div> </div><div class="field-item even"> <div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-two-item-secondary-attraction-gr" about="" typeof=""> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-gold-accent-grid-item field-type-field-collection field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="entity entity-field-collection-item field-collection-item-field-gold-accent-grid-item clearfix" about="/field-collection/field-gold-accent-grid-item/1103" typeof=""> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-large-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">PARTNERS ON THE QUAD</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-short-description field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Berkeley Divinity School, the Institute of Sacred Music, and Andover Newton Seminary are important collaborators with YDS, sharing space, faculty, students, an inclusive Christian identity, and a common mission of service to church and world.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-link field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://divinity.yale.edu/about-yds/partners-quad">EXPLORE THE QUAD</a></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="entity entity-field-collection-item field-collection-item-field-gold-accent-grid-item clearfix" about="/field-collection/field-gold-accent-grid-item/1104" typeof=""> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-large-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">LEADERSHIP</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-small-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The architectural revelation on a New Haven hilltop</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-short-description field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">An essay on the significance of the Living Village</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-link field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://livingvillage.yale.edu/the-architectural-revelation-taking-shape-on-a-new-haven-hilltop/">Read more</a></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="field-item odd"> <div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-three-item-sec-attraction-grid" about="" typeof=""> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-text-callout-ref field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden blue-background"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><article about="/textcallouts/videos-promo" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" class="node node-text-callout node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-24 even clearfix blue-background" id="node-text-callout-296"> <div class="content clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Theological resources</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-description field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Through podcasts and online lectures, YDS offers a rich array of resources for faith formation, religious education, and personal and professional enrichment. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-link field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://divinity.yale.edu/continuing-education/learning-beyond-walls">Access our resources</a></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-video-callout-ref field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><article about="/videocallouts/beecher-lecture-series" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" class="node node-video-callout node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-24 odd clearfix" id="node-video-callout-306"> <div class="content clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Beecher Lecture Series</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-video field-type-video-embed-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vef/load/46d167dd6f2c6a47b29ecf2afa612f46?width=640&height=365" class="colorbox-load colorbox"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://divinity.yale.edu/sites/default/files/video_embed_field_thumbnails/youtube/wUQU3aI9r2M.jpg" alt="Beecher Lecture Series" /></a><div class="video-embed-description">Beecher Lecture Series</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-description field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">John McClure of Vanderbilt Divinity School presents the 2024 Beecher lecture series on “Renewing Preaching Through a Critical Homiletics of Genre."</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-callout-ref field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><article about="/photo-callout/alumni" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" class="node node-photo-callout node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-24 even clearfix" id="node-photo-callout-311"> <div class="content clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-photo-callout-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://divinity.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/photo_callout_389x515/public/home-page/photo-callout/alumni_01_0_crop02.png?itok=WLjQ9M-k" width="389" height="515" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field-group-div group-content-wrapper"><div class="field field-name-field-small-heading field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">How our alums serve the church and world</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-description field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="/news-media/news/leaders-church-and-world-yds-alumni-stories">Explore these alumni stories</a></p> </div></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="field-item even"> <div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-testimonial-carousel" about="" typeof=""> <div class="content"> <div class="view view-testimonial view-id-testimonial view-display-id-block view-dom-id-cce122bfd8f42e51da3dc55a5a99a235"> <div class="view-content"> <ul class="jcarousel jcarousel-view--testimonial--block jcarousel-dom-1"> <li class="jcarousel-item-1 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">'Uniquely capable'</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Versed in ethics, religiously knowledgeable, and formed in faith, our students emerge from YDS uniquely capable of fostering the positive transformations needed in our communities, country, and world.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Rev. Nancy Taylor '80 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-2 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">'Felt like I belonged'</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS was one of the places where I felt like I belonged (age, race, class, sexual orientation, etc. — all of me). And it was a GLORIOUS experience!</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Countess Cooper '23 S.T.M.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-3 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Soft place for hard questions</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS is a soft place to ask hard questions. How we need that in a world of too many jagged edges where we don’t afford each other love, kindness, and generosity.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Stan Grant, Australian journalist</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-4 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">A needed foundation</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS prepared me for leadership in the church and provided the theological, ethical, and historical foundation I needed to enter and engage the world with a sense of confidence.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Jeffrey Haggray '88 M.Div., Executive Director of the American Baptist Churches Home Mission Society</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-5 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Mind and heart</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Most of us think of YDS as a place of the mind. It is also a place of the heart.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Peter Marty '85 M.Div., Editor/Publisher, The Christian Century</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-6 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Life-changing experience</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">I would not be the scholar I am today without the faculty's mentorship, the school's amazing resources, or my classmates' input.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Daniel Gullotta '17 M.A.R.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-7 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Passionate about questions of belief and practice</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">This was a place for people like me: rooted in a tradition, ecumenically inclined, passionate about questions of religious belief and practice. I could be myself, let down my guard, and do my work with people who would become some of my closest friends. </div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Chet Duke '20 M.A.R.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-8 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Yale University</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">It transforms a class when you can go beyond a textbook to see what a book or a woodcut in the 16th century looks like.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Bruce Gordon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-9 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Valuable degree</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">I feel as though I still use my YDS degree every day.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Kathleen Murphy '95 M.A.R., faculty member at Marymount University</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-10 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Historical mission</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS remains rooted in Christian commitments but is applying those commitments to all sorts of issues in this turbulent society.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Ray Waddle, author of "This Grand Errand: A Bicentennial History of YDS"</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-11 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Ecumenical formation</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">The most formative part of my time at YDS was the ecumenical worship. I am so appreciative of Marquand Chapel.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Calvon Jones ’18 M.Div., Assistant Minister of Memorial Church of Harvard</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-12 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">All tweets lead to YDS</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">It feels like everywhere I turn, every theologian or scholar...or every publication I read keeps pointing me back to one place: @YaleDivSchool. And I'm totally onboard with that ;)</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">@PorterCTaylor on Twitter</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-13 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Transformational Leadership</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">I lean upon my YDS experience every day in my personal and professional life. The community continues to inspire and support me in important ways, and I am grateful for the indelible impact that has had on my life.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Dr. Elijah Heyward ’07 M.A.R., former COO, International African American Museum</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-14 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Inspired to lead</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">My time at Berkeley at YDS trained me to think and inspired me to lead with courage and faith.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">The Most Rev. Michael Curry ’78 M.Div., Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-15 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Lifeblood</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">It’s the students who affect me the most. I’ve written poems that emerged out of classes, and been directly motivated and challenged by perceptions of students. They’re really the lifeblood of the school.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Christian Wiman, Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-16 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Preparation for ministry</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">@YaleDivSchool brought my head, heart and hands together for ministry. Grateful.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content"> Cece Jones-Davis '05 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-17 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Faculty mentorship</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">My experience at YDS pushed me to better appreciate spiritual mentors in and out of class. Many times, I found myself blessed by faculty members who encouraged me to look beyond the boundaries of the syllabus as I sought answers to my biggest questions.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Christopher Phillips ’18 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-18 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Deepened capacity</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">The depth, breadth and quality of my education and experience at YDS have had a profound impact on the quality of my ministry, deepened my capacity to think critically and creatively, and changed my life.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Sandra Dager '82 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-19 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">The will and the grace to do it</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Of one thing I’m sure: There are people to serve, a world in pain and confusion, work to do … and my formation at YDS has given me the will and grace to do it. </div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Will Dickinson '20 M.Div., Deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-20 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">21st Century Church</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Only by encountering people in the world can we truly bring the Church into the 21st century and hope to revive it as an important and practical part of society. I am blessed that my education prepared me to live out my call in the world.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Victoria Strang ’17 M.Div.</div> </div></li> </ul> </div> </div><div class="view view-testimonial view-id-testimonial view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-a543a5dda8dd9316918e669a51186646"> <div class="view-content"> <ul class="jcarousel jcarousel-view--testimonial--block-1 jcarousel-dom-2"> <li class="jcarousel-item-1 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">'Uniquely capable'</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Versed in ethics, religiously knowledgeable, and formed in faith, our students emerge from YDS uniquely capable of fostering the positive transformations needed in our communities, country, and world.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Rev. Nancy Taylor '80 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-2 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">'Felt like I belonged'</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS was one of the places where I felt like I belonged (age, race, class, sexual orientation, etc. — all of me). And it was a GLORIOUS experience!</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Countess Cooper '23 S.T.M.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-3 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Soft place for hard questions</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS is a soft place to ask hard questions. How we need that in a world of too many jagged edges where we don’t afford each other love, kindness, and generosity.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Stan Grant, Australian journalist</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-4 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">A needed foundation</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS prepared me for leadership in the church and provided the theological, ethical, and historical foundation I needed to enter and engage the world with a sense of confidence.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Jeffrey Haggray '88 M.Div., Executive Director of the American Baptist Churches Home Mission Society</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-5 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Mind and heart</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Most of us think of YDS as a place of the mind. It is also a place of the heart.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Peter Marty '85 M.Div., Editor/Publisher, The Christian Century</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-6 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Life-changing experience</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">I would not be the scholar I am today without the faculty's mentorship, the school's amazing resources, or my classmates' input.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Daniel Gullotta '17 M.A.R.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-7 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Passionate about questions of belief and practice</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">This was a place for people like me: rooted in a tradition, ecumenically inclined, passionate about questions of religious belief and practice. I could be myself, let down my guard, and do my work with people who would become some of my closest friends. </div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Chet Duke '20 M.A.R.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-8 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Yale University</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">It transforms a class when you can go beyond a textbook to see what a book or a woodcut in the 16th century looks like.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Bruce Gordon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-9 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Valuable degree</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">I feel as though I still use my YDS degree every day.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Kathleen Murphy '95 M.A.R., faculty member at Marymount University</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-10 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Historical mission</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">YDS remains rooted in Christian commitments but is applying those commitments to all sorts of issues in this turbulent society.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Ray Waddle, author of "This Grand Errand: A Bicentennial History of YDS"</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-11 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Ecumenical formation</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">The most formative part of my time at YDS was the ecumenical worship. I am so appreciative of Marquand Chapel.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Calvon Jones ’18 M.Div., Assistant Minister of Memorial Church of Harvard</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-12 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">All tweets lead to YDS</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">It feels like everywhere I turn, every theologian or scholar...or every publication I read keeps pointing me back to one place: @YaleDivSchool. And I'm totally onboard with that ;)</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">@PorterCTaylor on Twitter</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-13 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Transformational Leadership</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">I lean upon my YDS experience every day in my personal and professional life. The community continues to inspire and support me in important ways, and I am grateful for the indelible impact that has had on my life.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Dr. Elijah Heyward ’07 M.A.R., former COO, International African American Museum</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-14 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Inspired to lead</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">My time at Berkeley at YDS trained me to think and inspired me to lead with courage and faith.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">The Most Rev. Michael Curry ’78 M.Div., Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-15 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Lifeblood</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">It’s the students who affect me the most. I’ve written poems that emerged out of classes, and been directly motivated and challenged by perceptions of students. They’re really the lifeblood of the school.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Christian Wiman, Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-16 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Preparation for ministry</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">@YaleDivSchool brought my head, heart and hands together for ministry. Grateful.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content"> Cece Jones-Davis '05 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-17 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Faculty mentorship</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">My experience at YDS pushed me to better appreciate spiritual mentors in and out of class. Many times, I found myself blessed by faculty members who encouraged me to look beyond the boundaries of the syllabus as I sought answers to my biggest questions.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Christopher Phillips ’18 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-18 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">Deepened capacity</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">The depth, breadth and quality of my education and experience at YDS have had a profound impact on the quality of my ministry, deepened my capacity to think critically and creatively, and changed my life.</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Sandra Dager '82 M.Div.</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-19 odd" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">The will and the grace to do it</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Of one thing I’m sure: There are people to serve, a world in pain and confusion, work to do … and my formation at YDS has given me the will and grace to do it. </div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-attribution"> <div class="field-content">Will Dickinson '20 M.Div., Deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia</div> </div></li> <li class="jcarousel-item-20 even" style="display: none;"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-heading"> <h3 class="field-content">21st Century Church</h3> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-quotation"> <div class="field-content">Only by encountering people in the world can we truly bring the Church into the 21st century and hope to revive it as an important and practical part of society. 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