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Learn more at our newly published impact report.
Exciting addition to the YDS faculty! Acclaimed poet-theologian Pšdraig œ Tuama joining us this summer as Professor in the Practice of Spirituality.
Read Dean Greg Sterling's announcement to the YDS community. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2025-12
Interview in The Dartmouth student newspaper with the Rev. Andi Lloyd '22 M.Div., who has returned to her undergraduate alma mater to serve as Co-Pastor of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College. https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/
"This is a mycelial movement of transformation—a tectonic shift from 'power-over' to 'power-with' bursting beneath the cracks of crumbling institutions."
Insight from Sam King '22 M.A.R. of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology in his new piece "Reimagining the Law of the Jungle." https://
Announcing our Sorensen Lecture for 2026! Our speaker is the distinguished scholar Gary Dorrien of Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University.
Join us for the lecture on Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 p.m in Niebuhr Hall at YDS. https://vimeo.com/yaledivinityschool
"Smallwood’s signature synthesis of the Black gospel tradition and a host of musical influences, especially classical traditions, made his pen one of the most distinct in musical history.”
—Braxton Shelley, George Washington Williams Professor of Divinity and Music, commenting in Christianity Today on the death of gospel music giant Richard Smallwood