Community Courses for Continuing Education

Welcome from the Associate Director

Welcome to Lifelong Learning at Vanderbilt Divinity School!

We offer faith-informed continuing education and formational programming for individuals, organizations, and religious communities. Our programs include executive education, certificates, vocational training, seminars, and parish teaching that will cultivate new skills and form deeper callings throughout all seasons of one’s vocation. Reach out with any questions; we’d love to hear from you!

Nathan Cost, Ph.D. Associate Director for Lifelong Learning
Nathan.a.cost@vanderbilt.edu;
615-343-0706

Courses

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Courses

Faith in the Headlines

Instructor: Lisa L. Thompson

$25.00

Online

This course helps those concerned with moving Christian communities towards greater risk-taking and accountability at the intersections of faith and society.

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Moral Leadership: What is It, and How Are You a Moral Leader?

Instructor: Laine Walters Young

$50.00

Online

Learners will leave the course with concrete practices for building and restoring trust, how to make their integrity known to those around them, and what courage and imagination looks like and can be applied in the everyday work of ministerial, social service, business, and nonprofit fields.

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The Religion of Carcerality and the Religion of Abolition

Instructor: Andrew Krinks

$25.00

Online

Why do we have police and prisons? What role does religion play in building police and prisons, and what role might religion play in building a world without them? This course explores the religious roots and function of carceral institutions in the United States.

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Events

1/29/25

1:00 PM Vanderbilt Divinity School Room 127 (Reading Room)

Dialogue Vanderbilt: History of Scopes Trial
2/26/25

7:00 PM Vanderbilt Divinity School Room 127 (Reading Room)

Bogitish Lecture