This is a special year at Yale. We are celebrating the 50th year of co-education at Yale College and the 150th year of women in the graduate and professional schools at Yale University. One way to celebrate is to remember and retell the story of women at Yale Divinity School, and also own our institutional failures to treat women as full equals. - Gregory E. SterlingFall 2019 | Resistance and Blessing: Women, Ministry, and YDS
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Resistance and Blessing: Women, Ministry, and YDS
Cover art image detail of "On Being American/Jazz:Ryan Cohan’s The River #5" by Ellen Priest ’77 M.Div.
This is a special year at Yale. We are celebrating the 50th year of co-education at Yale College and the 150th year of women in the graduate and professional schools at Yale University. One way to celebrate is to remember and retell the story of women at Yale Divinity School, and also own our institutional failures to treat women as full equals. - Gregory E. Sterling|
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