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    READ THIS BOOK – MAY 2015

    Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our March recommendation is offered by Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs.           Prayers of a Literary Theologian A Prayer Journal… Read More

    May. 17, 2015

  • Creating Change 2015 – Sarah Connette

    Creating Change 2015 – Sarah Connette

    The 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change made its home in downtown Denver, Colorado, February 4-8 2015.   We had nearly 4,000 people from all over the country attend our five-day program that featured over 390 workshops, training sessions, meetings and events, and four unbelievably spectacular plenary sessions. Read More

    May. 13, 2015

  • Ministering to a Yup’ik Eskimo Community at Eastertime

    Ministering to a Yup’ik Eskimo Community at Eastertime

    by Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Mallory Chair of Catholic Studies View from the church porch looking northwest toward the Bering Sea Back in 2000, while making the annual eight-day silent retreat required of us Jesuits, I found myself moved to offer pastoral service, as my schedule might allow, to… Read More

    May. 10, 2015

  • Creating Change 2015 – Sara Green

    Creating Change 2015 – Sara Green

    The 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change made its home in downtown Denver, Colorado, February 4-8 2015.   We had nearly 4,000 people from all over the country attend our five-day program that featured over 390 workshops, training sessions, meetings and events, and four unbelieveably spectacular plenary sessions. Read More

    May. 6, 2015

  • READ THIS BOOK Roundup April 2015

    READ THIS BOOK Roundup April 2015

    Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Here is a roundup of the faculty and their recommendations from the 2014 – 2015 academic year.              … Read More

    Apr. 12, 2015

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: Jane Ellen Nickell

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: Jane Ellen Nickell

    Our monthly Alumni/ae Tuesday Guest Post series on the VDS Voices blog highlights posts written by VDS and GDR alumni/ae. Hear firsthand about their important work in the community, collaborations with other alumni/ae and faculty, and much more. Be sure to also check out the Divinity School Instagram feed every Tuesday… Read More

    Apr. 7, 2015

  • Three Questions with Daniel Siedell

    Three Questions with Daniel Siedell

    Daniel A. Siedell is an art historian, critic, and author of God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. Mr. Siedell will deliver a special lecture, “Thinking Theologically about Modern & Contemporary Art”,  at Vanderbilt Divinity School on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. For our readers to become acquainted with Mr. Siedell,… Read More

    Apr. 1, 2015

  • Carpenter Stands with Dr. Harris and American Baptist College

    Carpenter Stands with Dr. Harris and American Baptist College

    by Lyndsey Godwin, Assistant Director, Carpenter Program Religion, Gender, and Sexuality The Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt Divinity School expresses its support of and admiration for Dr. Forrest Harris, our colleague and President of American Baptist College. Dr. Harris’s decision to invite Bishop Yvette Flunder,… Read More

    Mar. 25, 2015

  • My Chonga Manifesto

    My Chonga Manifesto

    by Priscila Dorcas Mojica, MDiv3 While at VDS I, like many of us, have been forced to think critically about myself within my context.  Amidst this I reclaimed this racialized slur that I had been called before but never really understood why I tried hard to distance myself that said… Read More

    Mar. 18, 2015

  • READ THIS BOOK – March 2015

    READ THIS BOOK – March 2015

    Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our March recommendation is offered by Evon Flesberg, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Counseling.     This Month’s Book:  Alone Together:  Why… Read More

    Mar. 15, 2015