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  • READ THIS BOOK: January 2017

    READ THIS BOOK: January 2017

    Professor Joerg Rieger Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our January recommendation is offered by Joerg Rieger, Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Distinguished Professor of Theology. Professor Rieger recommends Transcending… Read More

    Jan. 8, 2017

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare… Read More

    Jan. 5, 2017

  • Advent 2016

    Advent 2016

    Editor’s note: This post was originally published in December 2015 and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. The long quiet has settled in the halls of the Divinity School. Students depart to visit family and friends across town and around the world. Faculty retreat to cozier spaces to grade… Read More

    Dec. 19, 2016

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: Jeanie Rice-Cranford

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: Jeanie Rice-Cranford

    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

    Dec. 13, 2016

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: Kitty Taylor, MTS’10

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: Kitty Taylor, MTS’10

    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

    Nov. 8, 2016

  • READ THIS BOOK: November 2016

    READ THIS BOOK: November 2016

    Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our October recommendation is offered by Juan Floyd-Thomas, Associate Professor of African American Religious History.  Professor Floyd-Thomas recommends “The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel”… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2016

  • The Danger of American Civil Religion

    The Danger of American Civil Religion

    The 2016 presidential election carries with it the enormous gravity of deciding not only who will be the next President of the United States—and, by extension, the leader of the free world—but also of determining if this culturally-constructed public theology that is manifested in the legacy of American Civil Religion (ACR) will undergo… Read More

    Nov. 1, 2016

  • A Reflection on Seven Years in the Divinity Library Exhibit Programs

    A Reflection on Seven Years in the Divinity Library Exhibit Programs

    By Charlotte Lew, Exhibit Preparator and Collections Assistant The renovation of the Divinity Library in 2006 set the stage for the exhibit programs. At the completion of the renovation, the addition of six exhibit cases spotlighted the library’s potential as a suitable location where art and theological education are… Read More

    Oct. 19, 2016

  • READ THIS BOOK: October 2016

    READ THIS BOOK: October 2016

    Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our October recommendation is offered by Laurel C.Schneider, Professor of Religious Studies, Religion and Culture.  Professor Schneider recommends “Green Grass, Running Water ” by Thomas King. Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water is a… Read More

    Oct. 9, 2016

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: Julia Nusbaum, MTS’14

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: Julia Nusbaum, MTS’14

    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

    Oct. 4, 2016