We seek a world in which everyone can take hold of a life worthy of our humanity.

Our purpose is to help people envision and pursue lives worthy of our humanity, through discerning, articulating, and commending visions of flourishing in light of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and fostering truth-seeking conversations among the contending visions in our world today.

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The Team
A photo of Miroslav Volf, Founder & Director.

Miroslav Volf

Founder & Director, Yale Center for Faith & Culture

Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology

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Karin Fransen

Karin Fransen

Senior Administrative Assistant

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Julie Davis

Julie Davis

Development Coordinator

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Liz Burkemper

Liz Burkemper

Administrative Assistant

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Ryan McAnnally-Linz

Ryan McAnnally-Linz

Associate Director

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Matthew Croasmun

Matthew Croasmun

Associate Research Scholar

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Drew Collins

Drew Collins

Associate Research Scholar

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Evan Rosa

Evan Rosa

Assistant Director for Public Engagement

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Connie Steel

Connie Steel

Humanities Education Evaluator

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Macie Bridge

Macie Bridge

Communications Assistant

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Kaylen Yun

Kaylen Yun

Communications Assistant

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Violet Kimble

Violet Kimble

Development Research Assistant

The Board
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William R. Cross

William R. Cross

Author, YCFC Advisory Board Chair

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Marjie Calvert

Marjie Calvert

Advisory Board Member

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Warner Depuy

Warner Depuy

Attorney and Entrepreneur

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Laura Giles

Laura Giles

Professor, Seton Hall University

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Walter Giles

Walter Giles

Portfolio Manager, Cannell & Co.

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Julie Johnson

Julie Johnson

Executive Leadership Coach

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Louis Kim

Louis Kim

Vice President, Hewlett-Packard

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Patty Love

Patty Love

Advisory Board Member

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Skip Masback (M.Div. '94)

Skip Masback (M.Div. '94)

Advisory Board Member

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Peter Meringolo

Peter Meringolo

Attorney

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Jill Otto

Jill Otto

Partner, Corporate Executives and Financial Principals Group, Merrill Lynch

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Landon Saunders

Landon Saunders

President, Heartbeat, Inc.

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Fred Sievert (MAR '11)

Fred Sievert (MAR '11)

Retired President, New York Life Insurance Company

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Beth Stephenson

Beth Stephenson

Chair, Opportunity Transformation Investments, Inc.

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Scott Stephenson

Scott Stephenson

Chairman, President, and CEO, Verisk Analytics

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Gregory Sterling

Gregory Sterling

Dean, Yale Divinity School

Vision

We seek a world in which deep reflection on flourishing life is central to education, spiritual formation, and public discourse so that every person can wrestle with life’s most important questions and take hold of a life worthy of our humanity.

virtues & Values

We aspire to these virtues and values in our personal lives; we hope our work exemplifies them; and we seek to instill them among all of our audiences.

virtues

  • Love of God, and therefore, love of the world and love of knowledge
  • Love of interlocutors, especially opponents
  • Hope beyond understanding
  • Courage: a readiness to suffer for love’s sake
  • Gratitude and humility: “What do you have that you did not receive?”
  • Firmness with a soft touch: neither rigidity or frivolity
  • Faithfulness: living, dynamic, and improvisational

Values

  • Theological education
  • Formation of the whole person
  • Principled pluralism, truth-seeking public discourse
  • Pedagogical excellence and experimentation
  • Justice & the global common good
  • Embrace of the other: the neighbor, the stranger, the enemy
  • Between persons, porous boundaries and flexible identities
  • Forgiveness & reconciliation

initiatives

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Life Worth Living

Reviving dialogue with a diversity of world faiths and wisdom traditions to ask life's most important question: What is the shape of flourishing life?

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Christ & Flourishing

What it means to be human and how to flourish are hotly contested in our world. We believe that Jesus Christ is the key to human flourishing, and that his life and work can revitalize and transform Christian higher education, the church, and through them, the world.

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legacy projects

From 2003 to 2018, the Yale Center for Faith & Culture has pursued our purpose along a variety of completed initiatives, always dedicated to building bridges of religious, political, and cultural discourse, fostering truth-seeking conversations, and impacting change in individual and community life. Browse our archive of legacy projects below.

Theology of Joy & the Good Life

Building a transformative movement driven by a Christian articulation of the joy that attends the flourishing human life.

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Faith & Globalization

Exploring the profound impact of religious faith in a world where political, economic and social spheres are increasingly interconnected.

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Ethics & Spirituality in the Workplace

Encouraging business leaders to incorporate faith-based virtues into their work and promoting efforts to align business practice with authentic human flourishing and the global common good.

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A Common Word

Loving our Muslim neighbors by affirming our common call to love God and neighbor.

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Sarah Smith Memorial Conference

Fostering moral leadership in all spheres of life.

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