Programs

On August 6, EDS presented "Claiming Our Values in a Climate of Fear", the first in a four-part online workshop series entitled Being Church: Leading and Caring for our Communities through the 2024 Election.

How do we stay in the fight for a more just future when the arc that bends toward justice is long? How do we maintain hope? On April 13, Join Dr. Kwok Pui Lan and the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas for a day-long exploration of spirituality for social justice.

As the political influence of Christian nationalist ideology has grown in recent years, so has awareness of the threat it poses to democratic and religious freedoms. On February 3, join Kelly Brown Douglas and Liz Theoharis for a day-long, online seminar on this pressing topic.

In the months of December and January, the Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd, Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas Interim President of EDS, invite their communities to read Jonathan Eig’s highly acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr., King: A Life.

In this lecture, Dr. Heyward will revisit Audre Lorde’s well-known warning, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," and examine the tools necessary for dismantling the deadly sins of white Christian nationalism that continue to batter the Spirit of Justice-Love in the church.

On October 7, 2023, Episcopal Divinity School hosted James Cone in a Global Context, a day-long online seminar exploring the impact and implications of the Rev. Dr. James Cone’s theology in the UK and across the globe.

Each semester, EDS has selected a theme and corresponding book to prompt conversations about justice issues critical for faith communities.

In 2022, EDS was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for “Religion and Racial Justice: Expanding the Moral Imaginary Through Film.” The grant funds a two-year program that brings together a cohort of scholars, faith leaders, activists, and artists of color to explore religion and racial justice through the lens of film.

Through this program, EDS offers innovative, accessible, and transformative online theological education to clergy and lay leaders across the country.

In this series of interviews with scholars, activists, and thought leaders, the Rev. Dr. Douglas explores the racialized inequities intrinsic to our nation and our collective responsibility to create a more just future.

EDS visits sites across the US, inviting participants to reflect on theology and their faith in the context of ongoing oppression.