News and Events
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 »
Leadership Development Breakfast - Resourceful Enough: Leadership in Scarcity
April 17, 2012—Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012 Time: 7:30am - 9:00am. Cost: $10.00 per person, free for Vanderbilt Students. Fee includes breakfast. Most nonprofits and congregations face resource shortages: money, staff, and time. The recent economy has made matters worse. Yet most leadership resources ignore that reality. Scarcity as a condition for leadership is overlooked. READ MORE »
Vanderbilt Divinity discussion: Can a Mormon Be President?
April 17, 2012—Kathleen Flake, a religious historian who teaches and writes about the interaction between American religion and law, will speak April 24 at a Vanderbilt Divinity School Community Breakfast. Flake's talk, "Can a Mormon Be President: Test Oaths and the 2012 Presidential Election," will be from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the Divinity School's Reading Room. READ MORE »
Adam Kelchner Joins Groundbreaking Program for Seminarians and Divinity Students
April 3, 2012—Adam Kelchner, a Masters of Divinity student at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, is one of the 14 seminarians and divinity students chosen by FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) to participate in a two-week program in New York, Germany, and Poland in June 2012. He plans to "use the fellowship experience as a way to continually reflect on the pastoral role and authority to speak publicly against present manifestations of injustice and oppression." READ MORE »
Vanderbilt Divinity School Service Combines Art and Worship
April 2, 2012—Artistic meditations on the last actions of Jesus as created by Vanderbilt Divinity School students, faculty and staff will be featured April 4 at Benton Chapel. The public is invited to enjoy the blend of worship and art at a service scheduled from 10:10 to 11 a.m. In addition, the exhibit will remain on display after the service until 2 p.m. READ MORE »
Dave Perkins to Perform at the 2012 Stand Against Racism Event
April 2, 2012—The event will be held Thursday, April 12, from 11:30 to 12:30 on the 4th Floor Terrace of the Metro Office Building. Light refreshments will be served. In addition, Nashville singer-songwriter, Dave Perkins, will perform during this special program. Mr. Perkins composed the motion picture soundtrack for Deadline, the true story of the search for justice in a 20-year-old hate crime, produced and directed by Curt Hahn. READ MORE »
Vanderbilt University Divinity School Announces the 2012 Bogitsh Lectures
April 2, 2012—To be delivered by: Tony K. Stewart, Ph.D. Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 4:00 p.m. Vanderbilt Divinity School, Room 122. READ MORE »
Amy-Jill Levine: Religion and Ethics Newsweekly Interview
March 28, 2012—We all choose how to read religious texts, says Vanderbilt Divinity School New Testament and Jewish studies professor Amy-Jill Levine, co-editor of "The Jewish Annotated New Testament" (Oxford University Press, 2011) . "And what we can do is read graciously in the presence of our neighbor." READ MORE »
Divinity Library - Melissa Snarr Interview
March 28, 2012—Melissa Snarr talks about her book "All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement" READ MORE »
VDS Colloquium in Religious History
March 14, 2012—4 p.m. in the Divinity School Private Dining Room. "The Culmination and Demise of the Religious Right's 'Southern Strategy' 1979-2012" Professor Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania. READ MORE »
In the Spirit of Women's Herstory Month, please join SHADES in celebrating women's culture!!!
March 12, 2012—S.H.A.D.E.S. PRESENTS WOMANIST WEEK 2012 March 12-16, 2012. Powered by S.H.A.D.E.S. - Serving, Helping, Affirming the Divinity in Every Sista' READ MORE »
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