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The Berkeley at Yale Community
The Berkeley Divinity School experience includes the privilege of being a member of several communities at once. In the first instance, Berkeley students are part of Yale University, and are able to share in its extraordinarily rich artistic, intellectual, and social life. Many students take dance or other classes at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, or attend the weekly current-events discussions at the World Fellows Program, or become part of various political or arts organizations on campus.
Students are also part of the smaller community of the Divinity School, where the sense of a common theologial project shared by persons from many denominational and social backgrounds makes for a vibrant community atmosphere. On a daily basis, there is opportunity for conversation over morning coffee, or in the context of a book signing, or a reception for a guest lecturer. Many students participate in a musical group, whether the student-led a cappela men's and women's ensembles, or the chapel gospel choir, or the semi-professional choirs of the Institute of Sacred Music. Indeed, visitors to campus often comment on how distinctive the vibrancy of Yale Divinity School's community life is.
Then, in the third instance, Berkeley students are also a part of the Episcopal community that shares frequent social and special events that bind the school together into a shared community life. Berkeley Center becomes a place where students not only have breakfast together every morning, but also a place where they encounter a great variety of guests and visitors to the school over formal dinners, at seasonal parties and receptions, and in regular quiet days.
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A complete calendar of events for the Berkeley Divinity School.
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Keep in touch with fellow BDS students and grads.
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Click here to find the latest worship times for St. Luke's Chapel and the Marquand Chapel.
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Click through and visit life at the Berkeley Divinity School today. Also see some historic photos from years past.
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"The Berkeley community added focus to YDS (Yale Divinity School)...a smaller, worshipping community-life as well as a helpful theological framework on which to build my developing sense of ministry and life."
Eric Jeuland '07
"A successful career in executive and management positions with national media, non-profit, and marketing organizations had prepared me, I assumed, to resist change ... It's impossible to engage in the BDS/YDS (Berkeley Divinity School/Yale Divinity School) community without being truly transformed. Daily worship, internships, CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education), class assignments, "coffee hour" discussions, and hallway debates have all contributed to a reexamination of the assumptions I had prior to attending BDS."
Will Mebane '06 |
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