Join Rev. Todd Maberry and Dr. Nina Balmaceda, Consulting Faculty and Associate Director for the Center for Reconciliation (CFR) at Duke Divinity School as they talk about her life and work. Dr. Balmaceda has contributed to the legal profession in Peru and she is the current president of Peace and Hope International. She instruction Divinity students through her work with the CFR and also as a professor in and co-director of the Certificate in Faith-based Organizing, Advocacy, and Social...

Join us for our next faculty conversation between Rev. Maberry and Dr. Ron Rittgers. They cover topics such as, the value of having space to ask all your questions and what it means to be a theologian of the cross. Dr. He explores the delight in unearthing texts and engaging previous generations of Christians. And, perhaps most importantly, they answer the question: can you be cool and a Christian at the same time?

If you have just started thinking about graduate theological education, this episode will be a resource for you! "Start Here" features the three Duke Divinity School recruiters discussing basic questions like: What is graduate school? What are the degree options at Duke? What are some tips for successfully starting this process? We hope that you will enjoy this conversation and learn a little about where to start.

Rev. Todd Maberry joins one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Daniel Castelo, to discuss what it is like to join our community, what can be lost in translation, and how family can support our stories. They also face questions such as, is theological work an act of worship or a spiritual discipline? Can a siesta be the key to surviving life as a night owl? Join us for this lively conversation.

Our Dean, Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric, was recently installed at our opening convocation service by Duke University provost, Dr. Sally Kornbluth. He joins Rev. Maberry (Senior Director of Admissions, Recruitment, and Student Finance and Divcast host), to talk about his vision for Duke Divinity School in 2021. We hope you are inspired, as we have been, by the promise and hope of new leadership as we work together to continue to build the cathedral that Duke Divinity School aspires to be.

Join Rev. Maberry as he chats with '11 M.Div. graduate and current Senior Director of Cross-Sector Initiatives at Duke Divinity School, A.J. Walton. Take a listen to hear advice for seminarians, and those considering seminary, including: not apologizing for your identities, finding common spaces that provide freedom and peace, and finding a mentor. You will also hear the answer to the burning question, "can you mail Bojangles sweet tea?"

Join us for a conversation between ’06 M.Div. alumna Rev. Elizabeth Hagan and Rev. Maberry as they discuss the unexpected pathways that a life in ministry can take. Their conversation contains advice for those who dream of using their theological training to lean into the ministerial vocation of a published author, the need for community among writers, and whether study groups might be the most fun part of the seminary experience.

Rev. Maberry spends this Divcast speaking with Duke Divinity alumnus Rev. Ryan Spurrier, an elder in the United Methodist Church currently serving as Campus Minister at the Wesley Campus Ministry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Wesley is a vibrant ministry that has many students go on to seminary and is also a field education placement location for residential Master of Divinity students at Duke Divinity School.

Rev. Maberry connects with Rev. Michael Gulker in this episode of Divcast. Rev. Gulker is a '05 M.Div. alumnus and is a co-founder and current president of The Colossian Forum in Grand Rapids, M.I. Rev. Maberry and Rev. Gulker explore topics such as finding delight across difference, the important discussions that happen in seminary hallways between classes, and how conflict resolution can occur through embodied practices and worship.

On this episode we are joined by Rev. Mycal X. Brickhouse, a 2016 M.Div. grad, pastor in Cary, N.C., and also our Director of Alumni Relations at Duke Divinity School. Rev. Brickhouse and Rev. Maberry connect across many topics, but they especially answer the following questions: what is it like to serve as a bivocational pastor, what role can the church have in the public sphere, and does UNC Chapel Hill have a Divinity School? Take a listen for the answer to those questions and more.

On this episode of Divcast, aimed at those moving to the Durham community, we take a look at six different areas that you should consider about Durham when relocating here: Housing, Transportation, Culture and the Arts, Restaurants and Dining, the Triangle as a whole, and Nature. Our two staff assistants run the show this time, with Brandon Holmes hosting and Kinsley Whitworth as the guest. We hope you grow to love Durham and the Triangle as we have.

Student intern host Evelyn Archer-Taminger connects with colleagues to explore three examples of the broad range of experiences that students have in service internationally. Stephanie Hilton tells about her time in Uganda where she worked with a rural Roman Catholic parish and school. In a location on the other side of the world, we'll also hear from Kyle Tremblay, M.Div. '21, and Benjamin Crook, M.Div. '21, who lived and served at La Casa del Migrante a men’s guesthouse in Tijuana, Mexico...

Student intern host, Evelyn Archer-Taminger, M.Div. '21, continues our series of stories from Field Education with an episode about how four student interns have adapted to serving in unexpected situations and in new, innovative ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Evelyn connects with her fellow students, Bria Rochelle, M.Div. '21; Kiana Hertough, M.Div. '22; Gilbert Lawrence Barney, M.Div. '22; and Shawn Klein, M.Div. '21 about their internships.

Communities of Learning consist of cohorts of residential M.Div. Field Education student interns and ministry leaders committed to connecting congregations with their communities. Divcast student intern host, Evelyn Archer-Taminger, M.Div. '21 talks with her colleagues Bailey Brislin, M.Div. '21 and Maggie Liston, M.Div./M.S.W., '22 about their experiences serving in Communities of Learning internships.

Welcome to our new student-led episode series, Engaging in the Field: Student Stories from Field Education. Intern Evelyn Archer-Taminger, M.Div. ’21 hosts and speaks with senior residential M.Div. students Kari Martin and Kyle MacDonald. Each has had a range of experiences with field education and weaves together how the placements they served in grew them in unexpected ways. Pre-enrollment discernment opportunities for incoming students may be limited or eliminated this fall due to COVID-19.

Join us for a conversation with Duke Divinity alumnus Rev. R.G. Wilson-Lyons. In his 15 years of ministry, Rev. Wilson-Lyons has gone from pastor of a house church in an under-served community, to a downtown congregation, and now is exploring what the future of ministry looks like through online storytelling. He works through what kinds of connections might be possible, during this season of COVID-19, through our shared experience of physical estrangement with digital access.

We catch up with alumna Dr. Jessica Wai-Fong Wong, who earned her M.Div. and Ph.D. from Duke. Dr. Wong serves as Assistant Professor of theology at Azusa Pacific University. She also is an ordained elder in the PCUSA. She chats with us about how a young woman from TX follows a path to an M.Div. in NC, how to pursue a doctoral degree, and if there is more to Californian cuisine than the avocado. Dr. Wong’s book, Disordered: The Holy Icon and Racial Myths is forthcoming in fall 2021 from Baylor...

Please join us for a special episode where Dean L. Gregory Jones and host Todd Maberry discuss the state of Duke Divinity School in 2021. They outline how Duke Divinity School has met and continues to meet the challenges and complexities of our present time with creativity and courage. Dean Jones shares how we have shown institutional flexibility and resilience in the midst of much change. Learn about new and emerging opportunities and also our foundational priorities, which remain the same.

A conductor, composer, and scholar of sacred music, Rev. Dr. Zebulon Highben serves as both associate professor of the practice of church music at Duke Divinity School and director of Chapel Music at Duke University Chapel. Rev. Dr. Highben gives us insights like why you shouldn't scold your acolytes for missing hymnals, how music can preach, when the rehearsal can be more satisfying than the concert, and how to find flow in church music.

Dr. Janet Martin Soskice serves as the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School. She shares a companionable conversation with Rev. Maberry as they discuss how a theologian is like a vintage of wine, the power of conversion experiences, the importance of metaphor when talking about God, and what you can find when you travel by camel.

In this episode, we were delighted to speak with Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol. She is a Duke Divinity School alumna, board of visitors member, author, and pastor at Mount Vernon Place UMC in the heart of Washington, D.C. She and Rev. Maberry have a conversation about her ministry as a pastor in an urban church, managing change in the parish, political polarization in the US, and the inside scoop on who has the best job in Washington, D.C.

Take a listen to our interview with Dr. Peter Casarella (Professor of Theology). He shares a thoughtful conversation with Rev. Maberry about how his Colombian and Italian American background informed his upbringing, how voices from marginalized and indigenous communities bring him closer to the Biblical world, ecumenicism and Christian unity, and the pleasures of el cotidiano or the everyday.

Dr. Wylin D. Wilson (Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics) is one of the faculty members who joined Duke Divinity School in 2020-2021 academic year. She joins us to tell stories including about how the highest value of an education is the ability to learn to serve others, disparities in healthcare access in rural America, reasons why it might be okay to move to Durham, NC even during a pandemic, and the gift of solitude.

We had the great privilege of a conversation with Bishop Ken Carter, Duke Divinity alumnus, Bishop of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, President of the UMC Council of Bishops, and current Bishop-in-Residence at Duke Divinity School. Bishop Carter offers wisdom about discerning your call, seeking the humanity in others in the midst of conflict, and the time he spotted Coach K doing his laundry.