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This week, we continue to share share stories from the students who attended the 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change that was held on January 29 through February 2, 2014. Our final reflection is by VDS alumnua Darria Hudson. (Read the first post … Read More

This week, we continue to share share stories from the students who attended the 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change that was held on January 29 through February 2, 2014. Our third reflection is by VDS alumnua Alex Salfer-Hobbs. (Read the first blog post … Read More

This week, we continue to share share stories from the students who attended the 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change that was held on January 29 through February 2, 2014. Our second reflection is by Asher Kolieboi, MDiv3. (Read the first blog post… Read More

The 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change took Houston, Texas, by storm on January 29 through February 2, 2014. Nearly 4,000 people from all over the country attended the five-day program that featured over 390 workshops, training sessions, meetings, and events. In addition, there were four unbelievably spectacular… Read More

Last Wednesday, we began to reflect back on the Fall 2013 semester here at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. As promised, we continue the trip down memory lane with highlights from this semester. Brian C, Shakiya C and Marcell S are ready to check people in for VDS Community Breakfast… Read More

The 2013-2014 school year is almost at an end and in true Vanderbilt University Divinity School fashion we want to reflect back on what a great year it was. This week we share highlights from the Fall semester. Next week, we share memorable moments from Spring semester. 8-23-2013- Divinity… Read More

This Holy Week I find myself remembering Eastertides past that I spent in pastoral service among the Yup’ik eskimo people on Alaska’s Bering Seacoast. Having been a Jesuit (lay) Volunteer fresh out of college (1981-82) in the village of Emmonak (mouth of the Yukon River, then population of 650), I… Read More

Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Black Ministers Retreat in Johnson City, Tennessee. The Black Ministers Retreat offers an opportunity for participants to engage in conversations on a wide range of topics ranging from community and social action to issues of… Read More

by Julia Nusbaum, MTS2 I have always found healing in words. While growing up and feeling sad or lonely, I would find a book and become absorbed in the words. Stories made me feel whole again— the words made worlds come alive inside of me. I… Read More

When I first decided that I would like to contribute to the Divinity School’s blog, I immediately gravitated toward retelling my VDS journey, while also fighting the academic urge to explicate my identifiers: Hyper-Calvinist and Mystic-Heretic. Now, however, I feel moved to… Read More