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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 in 2019.

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 Hertogh, 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 Univ. Press.

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, 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. 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.