News and Events
Rev. Joe E. Pennel Jr. - Negative campaigning may garner votes, but it polarizes nation
July 31, 2012—Negative campaigning presents a strong and vibrant challenge to the religious community. It dares us to find ways to speak the truth in love and to speak it in a way that rises above the negativity of this generation. READ MORE »
Divinity Library: Interview with Diane Sasson posted
July 24, 2012—Diane Sasson speaks about her new book, "Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality". Diane will be doing a reading of her new book at the Green Hills Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 6:00 pm. READ MORE »
Mormons' love-hate relationship with America
July 23, 2012—Many of those Latter-day Saints pushing American exceptionalism "forget the Book of Mormon is a tale of woe about America, full of warnings," says American religion scholar Kathleen Flake, who teaches at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. READ MORE »
The Mormon Lens on American History
July 23, 2012—Kathleen Flake, an associate professor of religious history at Vanderbilt University, argued that 19th-century Mormon plural marriage -- while certainly not a happy experience for all women -- was part of a broader ritual system that conveyed a reciprocal "priestly authority" on both men and women. READ MORE »
Memphis Urban Ministries Transform Vandy Students
July 23, 2012—Hartmann was one of three Vanderbilt Divinity School students who spent the past eight weeks serving as interns for several urban ministries in Memphis. READ MORE »
June 2012 Issue of the e-Spire Newsletter Now Available Online
June 20, 2012—Congratulations to the Class of 2012 We welcomed 100 new VDS and GDR alumni/ae into the Vanderbilt family during Commencement on May 11. READ MORE »
Jack Forstman, Vanderbilt Divinity dean, emeritus, dies
June 20, 2012—Jack Forstman, who built significant community and national support for the Vanderbilt Divinity School while serving as a beloved mentor and leader to many generations of students and faculty, passed away June 17. READ MORE »
New leadership for Vanderbilt Divinity model program
June 14, 2012—A professor of pastoral care and counseling who studies the confluence of theology and psychology in people's lives is the new director of Vanderbilt University Divinity School's Program in Theology and Practice. READ MORE »
C. Melissa Snarr: Nashville Churches are Embracing LGBT Congregants
June 14, 2012—Many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have a very difficult time finding a faith community that accepts them, but the fact that they have any choices at all is an improvement, writes C. Melissa Snarr, associate dean for academic affairs at the Divinity School and associate professor of ethics and society. READ MORE »
May 2012 Issue of the e-Spire Newsletter Now Available Online
May 15, 2012—A heavy yet hopeful heart -- Drawing from Romans 8:38-39, Patricia Shropshire, second-year master's of divinity candidate, preached at the final Community Worship of Black History Month on behalf of GABLE, our LGBTQI student, faculty and staff group. READ MORE »
Vanderbilt Divinity School Announces Dean Search
May 14, 2012—Vanderbilt University invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the Divinity School. The new Dean will lead an outstanding and dedicated faculty within a world-class university that is well recognized for its excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service activities. READ MORE »
Vanderbilt Divinity Professor Kathleen Flake Interviewed by Religion Dispatches Magazine
May 4, 2012—Mitt Romney and the Ghost of Anti-Mormonism - If there is one book every politics or religion reporter in America should read right now to get ready for the 2012 general election, it is The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle by Kathleen Flake. READ MORE »
How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently
May 4, 2012—Meet Amy-Jill Levine at a talk and book signing, Sunday May 13, 7:00PM at the Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY. Free and Open to the Public. READ MORE »
New Divinity Faculty Interviews Posted
May 1, 2012—William Franke talks about his forthcoming book Dante and the Sense of Transgression: "The Trespass of the Sign". Bonnie Miller-McLemore talks about the book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (which she edited and to which she contributed the introduction). READ MORE »
Draw the Circle Wide: Honest Conversations on and with LGBTQ Folk in Religious Communities
April 17, 2012—Scarritt-Bennett Center - April 20-21, 2012. $20 for the weekend / $15 for students with ID (includes Saturday lunch). Draw the Circle Wide welcomes you to engage in open and honest conversation about and with LGBTQ people in religious communities. READ MORE »
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