Berkeley Divinity School at Yale

Berkeley Divinity School: Our Mission

2008 Berkeley Grads Revive an Old Tradition

Alfred Tisdale Appointed Director of Anglican Studies and Formation

Internships

Berkeley students have ample opportunity for internships in a wide variety of church, school, prison, and other ministry settings. In and around New Haven are parishes representing every variety of the Episcopal tradition, from inner-city Anglo-Catholic, to traditional low-church, to evangelical, to large suburban "corporate size" churches. Other internship opportunities include serving as sacristan at Berkeley, or teaching in a secondary school, or serving as a hospital chaplain. Some students even elect to do field work in New York City, in order to experience the intensity of urban church life there. Students may also choose to do summer internships, either locally or elsewhere in the Episcopal Church or wider Anglican Communion.

At least one unit of "Supervised Ministry" (field placement) is required for the MDiv degree: either Clinical Pastoral Education, or an internship. Many dioceses require both, and in addition most students choose to do two full years of internship experience. More information is available through the Office of Supervised Ministry.

"The academic study has been held together for me by the rhythm of the Daily Office in St. Luke's Chapel."

Ann Bonner-Stewart '06

"I have received several study and travel grants that have allowed me to explore religious and political life in the Holy Land, the medieval churches and music of Germany, chaplaincy to a mission in the Dominican Republic, and a summer in Panama receiving parish ministry training as well as facilitating their Diocese's establishment of a prison ministry program."

Whitney Zimmerman '07