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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.