Programs

A meaningful conversation about faith, money, and justice. The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Mae Magill, Coordinator of Community Life at EDS, will be in conversation with President and Dean Lydia Bucklin to discuss her new book, "When Did We See You? A Lenten Exploration of Poverty and Wealth."

Offered in conjuction with the Iona Collaborative at Seminary of the Southwest, the Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Mae Magill, will teach this virtual course where participants will explore how churches of all sizes can respond to today’s social, civic, and spiritual challenges through meaningful community engagement, service, and advocacy.

Emphasizing theology as a kind of story/telling, Dr. Tyler will highlight how theopoetics provides a creative way one can think and talk about the divine.

EDS Alums and former faculty and staff who have engaged with Visions Training and/or the EDS-Cambridge Foundations for Theological Praxis course are invited to join this virtual training series to refresh your memory and consider applications of VISIONS guidelines in your current unique context.

At a moment when the hard-won gains of the Civil Rights Movement are under renewed threat, Riverside Church, in partnership with the Episcopal Divinity School, calls the city—and the nation—to remember, recommit, and rise.

Join EDS for a special community book read and virtual conversation with Dean Lydia Bucklin and one of The Episcopal Church’s leading thinkers around 21st-century ministry and mission, who we’re proud to call an EDS alum, the Rev. Canon Dr. Stephanie Spellers ’04. We’re diving into her latest book, "Church Tomorrow?"

In this six week course with Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein of Brite Divinity School, students will seek to better understand how liberation from colonial ghosts requires learning from and practicing decolonial approaches. The class will center voices, ideas, and responses that embody a decolonial response in their approach to Christian discourse.

This World AIDS Day event honored the courage, resilience, and enduring faith of queer communities shaped by the HIV/AIDS movement.

Resilience is the sacred work of rising again. These three powerful clergy come with ministries and lives shaped by immigration, injustice, and faith under pressure. Together, we learn the mindset, practices, and tools to become a people who may bend, but never break.

You're invited to join Episcopal Divinity School at Myrtle Baptist Church on Friday, November 21, 2025, for the 27th Annual Black Religious Scholars Group (BRSG) Consultation: Making It Plain: Celebrating the Imago Dei of Blackness.

Two leading voices in psychology and social justice, Dr. Fanny Brewster and Dr. Catherine Meeks, came together for a public conversation connecting Jungian theory to real-world issues, discussing how the collective shadow shapes systems of prejudice and violence.

This one-day symposium on Friday, November 7, will bring together leaders from across the global Anglican Communion and U.S.-based clergy and lay leaders curious to learn more about the possibilities and challenges of an increasingly postcolonial and polycentric Anglican Communion. The symposium is open to the general public.

Join Sarah Augustine and Sheri Hostetler, co-founders of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, for a hybrid, full day, participatory educational workshop.

In this virtual six-week course with Dr. Catherine Meeks, students are invited into a courageous journey inward and outward. Drawing on Jungian psychology, spiritual wisdom, and artistic expression, we will reflect on where our masks have protected us, where they have limited us, and how we can grow toward deeper honesty, humility, and freedom.

Dr. Anthea Butler will address the urgent question: What do we do about democracy now? She will connect the history of racism in American evangelicalism to our present democratic crisis, showing how White Christian Nationalism undermines both faith and civic life.