Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may have been treated like a celebrity when he visited campus last weekend, but to Elis, he will soon become a fixture on campus — and not just this fall. When the University announced in March that Blair would teach a seminar in the fall semester on faith and globalization, officials suggested Blair would be on campus only for...
Rev. Ian Oliver will serve next year as pastor of the University Church and senior associate chaplain for Protestant life after his appointment by the University earlier this month. Traditionally, the role of pastor of the University Church has fallen under the job description of University chaplain. But Sharon Kugler, who was appointed as Yale's seventh University...
Dozens of experts on Indian religion came to Yale from every corner of the globe over the weekend to discuss a large body of religious artifacts the academic community has had access to for 200 years but has ignored — until now. From Friday to Sunday, about 50 professors, archaeologists, textual experts and collectors gathered in Luce Hall to participate in moderated...
Try to make your mind go completely blank. Too difficult? That’s not surprising, at least according to Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. “If you can’t achieve this tabula rasa state after a few seconds, then it’s no use persisting: the longer and harder one tries, the more stubbornly cluttered the mind becomes,” she...
Yale’s seventh annual “Islamic Awareness Week” kicked off Monday with talks by two individuals who have witnessed firsthand the perniciousness of anti-Islamic prejudice. Riz Khan, reporter for the Arabic news network Al Jazeera, spoke about misperceptions of Muslims in the media. James Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who was illegally detained for...
At 8:15 on Tuesday morning, three parishioners sat after mass in the pews at Saint Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Ave. One man stood and headed toward the door. On his way out, the man — wearing jeans, work boots and a black leather jacket — gave an amiable pat to the serpentine marble sarcophagus of Father Michael McGivney. “Father McGivney’s legacy was reaching...
Following a call from both Muslims and Christians for increased contact and dialogue between the religions, Yale will host an unprecedented conference in July — designed to bring together up to 300 Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious leaders in hopes of fostering peace and bettering relationships among them. The conference, “Loving God and Neighbor in Word and...
After an eventful decade at 10 Downing Street, former British prime minister Tony Blair is surely entitled to a quiet retirement — and not one filled with transatlantic commutes to, say, New Haven. But he apparently sees things differently. In addition to serving as an envoy in the Middle East, starting his own foundation and serving as a consultant to two financial...
Over 300 people from across the country gathered at the Yale Divinity School over the weekend for the “Renewing Hope: Pathways for Religious Environmentalism” conference, which sought to forge connections between religion and ecology and to inspire student environmental activism. The inspiration for the conference, which ran from Thursday night to Sunday and was...
Students have had enough of hate speech for one year, members of the Yale Multifaith Council believe. So the group is out to prove it by uniting student voices through a postering campaign set to begin Friday. Responding to yet another appearance of controversial anonymous markings on campus discovered early Saturday morning — a swastika and an SS insignia formed with...
Donning “I heart Sharon” buttons, several dozen students were among about 150 members of the Yale community at Battell Chapel Sunday to celebrate the installation of University Chaplain Sharon Kugler. Kugler, Yale’s first female chaplain, will also be the first chaplain called upon to serve those of all faiths, said University Vice President and Secretary Linda...
Members of the Yale community practice many faith traditions. But proselytizing by members of one Korean church have left some students feeling a bit disturbed. Representatives of the World Mission Society Church of God — a religious group based in Korea that has been labeled a cult by Korean political leaders and ex-members — have been approaching students on campus...
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