Tag: Spirituality

Emotional Intelligence and Spirituality with Dr. Robin Stern

Emotional Intelligence and Spirituality with Dr. Robin Stern

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Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence co-founder Dr. Robin Stern discusses the role of spirituality and religion in understanding and managing emotions, the danger of suppressing emotions like anger, and her groundbreaking work on gaslighting.

For more information and a transcript of this conversation, please see: https://divinity.yale.edu/news/emotional-intelligence-and-spirituality-dr-robin-stern

How the YDS Good Life Center Counters A Toxic Culture of Productivity

How the YDS Good Life Center Counters A Toxic Culture of Productivity

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YDS Associate Dean for Student Affairs Reverend Vicki Flippin discusses the new Good Life Center at YDS, her previous pastoral role that included sheltering people at risk of deportation, and how Malcolm X inspired her to pursue a career in ministry.

Leading a church for Black lives: Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes

Leading a church for Black lives: Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes

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Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes ’18 M.Div. and husband, Pastor Andrew Wilkes, discuss launching a Brooklyn-based church committed to Black lives and justice; their co-authored book, “Psalms for Black Lives”; and the challenges of being co-ministers and spouses.

Clergy Wellbeing: Preventing Burnout and Promoting Self-Care

Clergy Wellbeing: Preventing Burnout and Promoting Self-Care

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YDS faculty member and former Yale University chaplain Jerry Streets ’75 M.Div. discusses the results of his survey on clergy wellbeing, the importance of multi-faith ministry, and lessons learned from his long career as a pastor.

Exploring the Unitarian Universalist tradition with Tisa Wenger and Tasha Brownfield

Exploring the Unitarian Universalist tradition with Tisa Wenger and Tasha Brownfield

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This is the third and final podcast in the Fireside Chat series that the Spiritual Formation Committee has sponsored this year. In this podcast, you will hear Professor Tisa Wenger and MDiv student Tasha Brownfield interview each other about their faith stories related to the Unitarian Universalist tradition.

Exploring Muslim Identity with Abdul-Rehman Malik

Exploring Muslim Identity with Abdul-Rehman Malik

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The Spiritual Formation and the Practice of Faith Committee is continuing the practice of Fireside Chats through inviting members of the community to share their spiritual journeys. Since we cannot conduct these chats by the actual fireside in the Common Room this year, we are offering them as podcasts instead. In this episode, student Christy Stang interviews Abdul-Rehman Malik on his experience of spirituality and his Muslim faith.

YDS Fireside Chat – Exploring Jewish Identity with Jacqueline Vayntrub and Ora Weinbach

YDS Fireside Chat – Exploring Jewish Identity with Jacqueline Vayntrub and Ora Weinbach

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The Spiritual Formation and the Practice of Faith Committee is resuming the practice of Fireside Chats, whereby members of the community share a little bit about their spiritual journeys. Since we cannot conduct these chats by the actual fireside in the Common Room this year, we are offering them as podcasts instead. Listen to this first episode to hear Professor Jacqueline Vayntrub and M-Div student Ora Weinbach share stories about their Jewish identity and practice, and their experience of being Jewish at a predominantly Christian divinity school.

Ep. 18 — Anthony Weston on animals, aliens and the silence of the universe

Ep. 18 — Anthony Weston on animals, aliens and the silence of the universe

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In 1950, a physicist posed the question that has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox: given the high mathematical probability that other intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, why is there no evidence that they exist? In his blazingly original paper, “Radio Astronomy as Epistemology,” our guest, philosopher Anthony Weston, formulates a solution. What we take to be the silence of the universe, he writes, may teach us more about ourselves—and the challenges of receptivity to nonhuman minds in general—than about the prevalence of other life. The reason the universe appears to offer no evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, Weston suggests, may be that we are paying the wrong kind of attention. We speak with Dr. Weston about self-fulfilling prophesies, the limits of animal intelligence tests, and how to cultivate what he calls “receptive listening.”