Some events at EDS have been recorded and are available for viewing. Click on the links below to watch the webcasts.

May 20, 2010, Commencement Ceremony
Dr. Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy at The John F. Kennedy School of Government, lecturer

May 19, 2010, Commencement Eucharist
The Rev. Dr. Richard McCall, preacher

May 6, 2010 Kellogg Lecture Series
Lecture #1: Preaching Across Divides in the Midst of Controversy
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad
Lecture #2: Preaching Particularly in the Midst of Pluralism
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad

October 23, 2009, The Installation of Katherine Hancock Ragsdale
*Please note that there are audio issues for the first five minutes of this webcast, and with the music throughout. The installation is at 17 minutes and Katherine shares at 23 minutes*

2009 Kellogg Lecture Series (there are three lectures in this series)
Title: Religion's Lost Gift: Non Dual Consciousness
Fr. Richard Rohr, lecturer
*There is some audio distortion in the first two lectures*
May 14, 2009, Lecture 1: The Contemplative Mind as Non Dual Consciousness; an overview of the history, teaching, nature, and widespread loss of the wisdom tradition.
May 14, 2009, Lecture 2: The Paradoxical Nature of Reality and “Unsaying"; the apophatic tradition became a sidebar in the West instead of a balancing and deepening of the kataphatic or "saying" tradition.
May 15, 2009, Lecture 3: The Social and Political Losses; some of the social and cultural blindnesses that have resulted from "religion not doing its job,” and how we can offer a non dual approach to the issues of justice and politics.

May 7, 2009, Alumni/ae Days Eucharist
Jean Steele '68, lecturer
Jean shares reflections of her 40 year history with Episcopal Divinity School.

February 18, 2009, The Absalom Jones Lecture
The Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, lecturer
Dr. Gafney is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Hebrew Scripture at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her approach to teaching the Hebrew Scriptures includes emphasizing archaeology, comparative ancient Near Eastern literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. She is also an associate priest at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia. (Absalom Jones was the first rector at St. Thomas Church, the first African American Episcopal Church in the United States.) Gafney's lecture is entitled The Legacy of Absalom Jones in a Post-Colonial, Neo-Imperial World.

November 13, 2008, The Joanna Dewey Lecture in Feminist Biblical Studies
Dr. Renita J. Weems, lecturer
Dr. Weems, a noted scholar, minister and author is a nationally-renowned theologian and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Noted for her contributions to theologies of gender and race, she delivers a lecture entitled Baking Cakes to the Queen of Heaven: God, Godesses, and Growing Up Black and Female in America.

November 13, 2008, The Carter Heyward Scholars Lecture
The Rev. Dr. Marvin Ellison, lecturer
Dr. Ellison, the William S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine, is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He lectures widely on ethics relating to human sexuality, health care reform, and economic justice. He delivers a lecture, entitled Is Marriage a Must or a Bust? Enlarging the Justice Agenda.

September 25, 2008, Lambeth Review: Reflections from the 2008 Lambeth Conference
Panel members included:
The Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas, EDS Faculty
The Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen, Maine
The Rt. Rev. Gayle Harris, Massachusetts
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Ely, Vermont
Your congregation, deanery, or diocese can engage in the same Indaba discussion groups as the Bishops used at Lambeth 2008. Order the study guide God's Mission, Your Call: Bringing Lambeth Home now: $25 for hardcopy and $5 for the pdf. Includes permission to copy as needed for one congregation or one study group. Make checks payable to Episcopal Divinity School and mail to EDSConnect 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Contact Liz Magill at lmagill@eds.edu or 617.682.1581 with questions.

2008 Kellogg Lecture Series (there are three lectures in this series) 
The Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, lecturer
May 1, 2008, Lecture 1: Horrors; why creating human beings in a world like this looks like a bad idea.(There is some distortion and loss of audio in the last 25 minutes of this lecture.)
May 1, 2008, Lecture 2: Christ; what if God?s primary purpose in creation is to be God-with-us in this world.
May 2, 2008, Lecture 3: Holiness; should we rebel? What if God and not the world as we know it is the basic condition of our existence?