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The Rev. Andre Cortez Gilford Jr. ’24 M.Div. is the current president of Yale Black Seminarians, a Divinity School student group of more than 30 members that has pushed for change at YDS for 55 years. As president he is keen to continue the momentum first set in motion by YBS founders in 1969. At that time, YBS advocacy played a vital role in the YDS decision to hire its first

By Ray Waddle The world is hurtling into a time of trial, an era of environmental grief and uncertainty that requires resolve and resilience, says Jason Brown '11 M.A.R., '11 M.F. To get through it, humanity will need activists, engineers, land managers, policymakers, therapists—and, he says, ecological chaplains, too.

By Ray Waddle Teresa Morgan, the inaugural McDonald Agape Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at YDS, grew up in a “very churchy” English home that was also a very academic one.

By Ray Waddle What makes someone a “genius” at justice? The Rev. Timothy Ahrens ’85 M.Div. has been pursuing that question with a genius of his own for decades, collaborating with justice advocates across the landscape, honoring them in his own life, and even getting them on the phone to pinpoint the moral X factor of what they do.

Author Ray Waddle’s interest in religious issues may have started when he was a kid growing up in the Broadmoor neighborhood in Shreveport.

By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R.

By Ray Waddle Living in Santa Fe, the Rev. Talitha Arnold ’80 M.Div. can gaze at a single desert tree on the New Mexico landscape and find lessons in church history, theology, vocation, Indigenous wisdom, and tough-minded hope for the future, sprinkled with a sense of humor.

In a Q&A, Ray Waddle, editor of YDS’s theological journal Reflections, discusses his comprehensive history of the school and its impact over the past 200 years.

Indigenous wisdom is a practice, and even a few minutes outside can make a difference

Waddle: Our constant information stream can overwhelm if we dont get a handle on it and step back