Rev. Ian Oliver, Pastor of the University Church and Senior Associate Chaplain for Protestant Life
Ian Oliver has served as Pastor of the University Church in Yale since 2008. He also liaises between Yale and the many Christian student ministries on campus. He is an instructor in interfaith community building at the Yale Divinity School. and a Fellow at Berkeley College. Previously, he was University Chaplain at Bucknell University, and Associate Chaplain at the Kodaikanal International School in South India. Ian is a native of El Paso, Texas. He studied at Amherst College and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He was ordained to the ministry in the United Church of Christ at Wellington Avenue UCC in Chicago in 1990. His most recent publications on chaplaincy are a sermon “Dispatches from the Front Lines” in the Yale Divinity School magazine “Reflections” an essay “Real Security in Perilous Times” also in Reflections and an essay “In Coffin’s Pulpit: Re-envisioning Protestant Religious Culture” in College and University Chaplaincy in the 21st Century (Lucy Forster-Smith, ed., SkyLight Paths, 2013). His peculiar interests of the moment are: Protestant identity in secular America, the nature of the secular in higher education and the changing landscape of young adult religious identity.
