By Timothy Cahill ‘16 M.A.R. “Today marks the culmination of what I consider a 10-year process,” Yale Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling declared before a standing-room audience in the School’s grand Old Common Room, at a ceremony to mark the permanent affiliation of Andover Newton Seminary with YDS.
By Pressley Peters As the threat of climate change grows more urgent, Yale Divinity School is showing the world one way to confront it. Through the creation of a regenerative student housing complex, one that gives back to the environment more than it takes, YDS is daring the world to take action for a more flourishing future and demonstrating it can be done.
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three oâclock Jesus cried with a loud voice, âEli, Eli, lema sabachthani?â that is, âMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?â Matthew 27:44â46
Jesus asked a lot of questions during his relatively brief ministry on earth â 307 to be precise. Yet, THIS question ⦠his LAST question in his earthly life, was different from all the others. It wasnât meant to teach anything ⦠it wasnât offered for the benefit of those who are listening in.
Rather, as Martin Copenhaver has written, âMy God, my God, why have you forsaken meâ is an expression of isolation. It is raw and threatening, like an open wound. And, like Jesus hanging on the cross, it hangs in the air unanswered.â