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VDS Founder's Medalist 2025
"My VDS coursework has both affirmed my call to ordained ministry and expanded my evolving commitments to interreligious community building. My classes in Wesleyan theology, United Methodist mission and polity, and Jewish Studies were particularly transformative, and I am confident that I can now be a leader in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue because of my life-changing experience at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
I will continue seeking ordination in The United Methodist Church though the Order of Elder and have accepted a job as the Program Coordinator for Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm thrilled to begin this meaningful work at the intersection of education and religion, and I hope to continue a ministry that recognizes and proclaims all people as being made in the image of God!"
- Thornton Taylor Muncher, M.Div.'25 and Founder's Medalist for the Divinity School
Academy for Nonviolence Spring 2025
The James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University announces the Academy for Nonviolence certificate program in Transformative Nonviolence.
Are you ready to engage in a process that will deepen your commitment to nonviolence and a world filled with justice, courage, spiritual wisdom, and communal care?
Join us on this path by enrolling in the Transformative Nonviolence certificate program.
This six-session program is open to the public. Classes will take place each Wednesday evening, May 14th-June 18th at Vanderbilt Divinity School from 5 pm- 6:30 pm.
Certificate Program Fee: $300 (Completion of all sessions to receive certificate)
Individual Session Fee: $50 (per course)
