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By Kimberly Winston
They are questions every good Sunday school teacher knows to expect: Why does the New Testament include four gospels, telling the story of Jesus’s life four different ways? What was each author trying to persuade us of and did he succeed?
Those questions are central to the work of Michal Beth Dinkler, Associate Professor of New Testament and ancient Christianity at Yale Divinity School. This summer, Dinkler will be the one tackling those questions when she teaches The Danger of a Single Christian Story as part of the YDS Summer Study program.
“Every retelling of a story is an attempt to persuade in some way,” Dinkler said in a recent interview. “And these four gospels show us the importance of context, for the person who is telling the story and for the people to whom they’re telling it. Coming to any biblical text and trying to force it into one kind of capital ’T’ truth is an unimaginative way of understanding God’s work in the world. The New
By Kimberly Winston
Closed campuses, canceled seminars, delayed guest lectures, and postponed special events the pandemic has scuttled higher education plans by the thousands. But sometimes, those cast-off plans have led to new, even stronger strategies and dramatic new beginnings.
That’s the case with the Divinity School’s Center for Continuing Education, which was a toddling six months old when the coronavirus caused international shutdowns in March 2020.
The new Center’s main goal was to reach beyond the walls of the school and into the New Haven-area community with offerings of on-campus lectures, courses of study, and singular events all for free and mostly in person.
Change 4 Hope Teen Summit Goes Virtual to Address Youth Facing Trauma, Depression and Stress During COVID-19 Crisis
Change 4 Hope volunteers at the I Am Teen Summit in February 2020. The students are now virtual and international.
Fashion designer, polo star and I Am Teen Summit supporter Miguel Wilson with Deetra Poindexter.
Founder of the I Am Teen Summit Deetra Poindexter.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES, February 7, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ While the COVID19 pandemic has forced many events to be canceled or postponed, Deetra Poindexter of Change 4 Hope is preparing to take her annual teen summit virtual and is already seeing a substantial increase in numbers and international registrants for the February 20, 2021 event.