Spring 2023 | Cover Photo and Introductory Note

The future of God? To believers, that’s a misnomer, of course—eternal God is not bound by past, present, or future. But the phrase implies several other questions that linger and loom: What divine images should we affirm or recover in an age of upheaval? What kind of God is worth believing in? What about our future with God? In this year of Yale Divinity School’s bicentennial, the writers in the Spring 2023 Reflections take up these foundational questions with gusto. A period of institutional distrust is an opportunity to raise up new experiences of the living God, one contributor declares. Other writers find divine images of renewal whether in the biblical text or on the dance floor, or they see an invitation to connect with God in the very anguish of questions about God. “We are given hope and courage that God will hear our questions and will continually invite us back to belief, back to love, and back to God,” writes the Rev. Katie McNeal ’15 M.Div., ’16 S.T.M.

Cover photo by Marek Piwnicki/Unsplash