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February 2, 2021
Winter 1971: What was going on at Berkeley Divinity School 50 years ago?  One year after the Berkeley Board had declared in 1970 that, due to its unsustainable financial...
January 13, 2021
The nation is in shock. Tyranny, corruption, and violence stalk the halls where justice and wisdom had seemed to be at home. The highest virtues are cast aside in a scramble...
December 18, 2020
“a complete justification of one’s spiritual life.” December 18 is not only Dean Cathy George’s birthday but this year it’s also her last day with Berkeley students. She...
December 10, 2020
Kirk Smith ’79 will be Berkeley’s bishop-in-residence for the spring term, succeeding Steven Charleston, who has been working with Berkeley students this fall. “In residence...
November 12, 2020
It is a scenario familiar to any priest preparing for morning prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, whether Rite I or Rite II, provides the order of worship, but the components...
November 12, 2020
The keynote speaker for Yale Divinity School’s Convocation was our own Presiding Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry, ‘78. On Thursday, October 15, Curry spoke on “Love is...
November 11, 2020
Like some (but, I hope, unlike most of you!), I stayed up way too late last night, trying desperately to squeak one ounce of certainty out of the American election. I got...