Yale Divinity School 2014 Convocation and Reunion


 

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Please mark your calendars and join us for some very special events during the 2014 Convocation and Reunions, October 22-24. The details are below but here are the exciting highlights.
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III ’95 M.Div. 

 Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, is our Lyman Beecher lecturer this year! His father Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., delivered the Beecher Lectures ten years ago and will also be present. Please join us for this historic event.
Rev. Dr. Dwight Andrews ’77 M.Div., ’93 M.Phil., ’93 Ph.D., will be presented with the Lux et Veritas Award at the YDS Alumni Awards Dinner and Presentation in Yale Commons on Thursday evening October 23.
Recognizing a number of 50th anniversaries taking place in the struggle for Civil Rights, we will host a panel discussion on Thursday afternoon: “YDS & Civil Rights: Reflections at 50 Years”.
We top Thursday off with a YDS Black Alumni and Students Reception, from 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. at the Afro American Cultural Center.
Below are the details.
For the complete schedule and to register please visit http://ydsconvocation.yale.edu/ or call Kira Wishart at 203-432-5359
We hope to see you there.
Connie Royster
Director of Development
Gail Briggs
Director of Alumni Relations

Tuesday, October 21
Cheney Lecture-Event: Living in Communion within Anglicanism
Marquand Chapel, 1:30 p. m.
Speaker: Victor Atta-Baffoe, ’93 S.T.M., Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast, Ghana.
Wednesday, October 22
The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Hijacked the American Dream
YDS Bookstore, 2:00 p. m.
A Reading and Book Signing featuring Rev. Marilyn Kendrix ’13 M.Div.
Beecher Lecture I: The Blue Note gospel: Preaching the Prophetic Blues in a Post- Soul World
Marquand Chapel,
4:00 p. m.
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III ’95 M.Div., Senior Pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ
Thursday, October 23
Beecher Lecture II
Marquand Chapel, 10:30 a. m.
Award Recipients Panel
Marquand Chapel, 11:45 a. m.
Award Recipients: Lux et Veritas: Dwight Andrews ’77 M.Div., ’93 M.Phil., ’93 Ph.D.
Distinction in Congregational Ministry: Stephen Bauman ’79 M.Div.
Distinction in Theological Education: Harvey Cox ’55 B.D.
Wm. Sloane Coffin ’56 Award for Peace and Justice: Ronald Sider ’63 M.A., ’67 B.D., ’69 Ph.D.
YDS & Civil Rights: Reflections at 50 Years
Marquand Chapel, 1:00 p. m.
Awards Dinner and Presentation
Yale Commons, Woolsey Hall, 500 College Street at Grove, 6:30 p. m.
YDS Black Alumni and Students Reception
Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street, 9:00 p. m. – 11:00 p.m.
Rsvp to kira.wishart@yale.edu.
Friday, October 24
Beecher Lecture III, followed by Conversation with Rev. Otis Moss III ’95 M.Div.
Marquand Chapel, 10:30 a. m.

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