Dr. Almeda Wright
Dr. Almeda Wright is Associate Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Professor Wright’s research focuses on African American religion, Womanist spirituality, adolescent spiritual development, and the intersections of religion and public life. She is currently finishing a larger project on activist-educators that outlines the radical dimensions of African American Religion and Education throughout the twentieth century.
Prior to her arrival at Yale, Dr. Wright served for four years as assistant professor of religion and youth ministry at Pfeiffer University, and before that as a visiting faculty member and teaching assistant at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. […]
Dr. Kate Ott
Dr. Kate Ott ’00 M.A.R. is a Christian social ethicist addressing the formation of moral communities with specializations in technology, sexuality, youth and young adults, pedagogy, and professional ethics. She is the author of Sex, Tech, & Faith: Christian Ethics in a Digital Age (2022), Christian Ethics for a Digital Society (2018) and Sex + Faith: Talking with Your Child from Birth to Adolescence (2013). Ott is the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and director of the Stead Center on Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL. Her writings appear in various […]
Rev. Joanne Jennings
The Rev. Joanne Browne Jennings is an accomplished scholar and counselor with a strong background in social work and service to clergy and congregations. She is currently a lecturer in clinical pastoral education for YDS and Andover Newton and a therapist in private practice. Rev. Jennings has a Master of Social Work degree (University of North Carolina), an M.Div. (Fuller Theological Seminary), a Bachelor of Law degree (Inns of Court School of Law, U.K.), and a Bachelor of Science degree (University of Toronto).
Among other accomplishments over her varied and impressive career, Rev. Jennings has developed a unique counseling practice with […]
Justin Crisp
Justin is a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies concentrating in theology at Yale University, a doctoral fellow of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and a lecturer in Anglican studies. He is a priest associate at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Dr. Vasileios Marinis
Dr. Marinis is Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture and has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale, a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the S.C. and P.C. Coleman Senior Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2015–2017 he was a Humboldt fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Professor Marinis has published on a variety of topics ranging from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs, graffiti, and Byzantine transvestite […]
Volker Leppin
As the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology, Professor Leppin’s scholarship is particularly interested in medieval and Reformation studies. He argues that the Reformation should be understood as a transformation of the the medieval world rather than a stark rupture. His work also focuses on the history of spirituality, mainly in mysticism. Educated at the University of Marburg Heidelberg University, and the Theological Academic Year in Jerusalem program, Volker Leppin received a chair in Church History at the University of Jena (Thuringia, Germany) in 2000. Ten years later, he moved to the University of Tübingen in Southern Germany, where […]
Abdul-Rehman Malik
Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award winning journalist, educator and cultural organizer. In June 2019 he was appointed Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. He also serves at the Program Coordinator at Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies, and is responsible for developing curricula and partnerships with public schools to promote better cultural, language and religious literacy about the Middle East to educators and students alike. Abdul-Rehman also serves as Director of the Muslim Leadership Lab, an innovative student leadership program being incubated at the Dwight Hall Center of Social Justice at Yale. He remains programs […]
Stephen Mark Heim
S. Mark Heim is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Andover Newton Theological School and the Boston College—Andover Newton Theological School joint doctoral program in systematic theology. He has written extensively on issues of religious pluralism, atonement, and Christian ecumenism. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Theology; The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends; Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross; and, most recently, Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection (2018). He has also […]
Jennifer A. Herdt
Jennifer A. Herdt is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University’s Divinity School. Her most recent book, Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition(link is external), was supported by a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is also the author of Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (link is external)(selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title), and of Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy(link is external), and has published widely on virtue ethics, early modern and modern moral thought, and political theology. She serves on the editorial boards of the […]
Rev. Ned Allyn Parker
In his role as Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement, Ned is responsible for Andover Newton’s relationships with alumni/ae, donors, friends, local churches, and others. Ned’s areas of responsibility include development, communications, alumni/ae affairs, and knowledge creation & dissemination.
Ned has experience with and working-knowledge of local church ministry. Ned was one of the pastors at Seattle First Baptist Church in Seattle, WA, where he was ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA.