Programs

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.

Rev. Dr. Dwight Radcliff, pastor and Director of the Pannell Center for Black Church Studies, drew on his dual perspective as scholar and practitioner to highlight how the Black church has historically resisted white supremacy. This conversation was an EDS Colloquia with Dr. Jemar Tisby.

This course, taught by Dr. Kwok Pui Lan and Bishop Ian T. Douglas, will introduce the demographical shift in the Anglican Communion and the implications for Anglican identity, history, and theology and invite students to consider how being part of a postcolonial, global family of churches informs their ministry.

A vital conversation on The Episcopal Church’s work to confront its complicity in the Native American boarding school system

A groundbreaking investigation exposes a shocking cover-up of cultural genocide perpetrated by the church and government, and illuminates the enduring love, beauty and courage of an Indigenous community. Join EDS for a conversation with the directors, followed by a screening of the documentary.

Robert P. Jones, author of White Too Long and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) will explore how survey data and historical analysis reveal the deep entanglement between white Christianity and American racism. This conversation is an EDS Colloquia with Dr. Jemar Tisby.

This course, taught by Dr. Jemar Tisby, explored the historical and contemporary influence of White Christian Nationalism in the United States and examined how the Black Christian tradition has resisted racial and theological distortions of Christianity.